Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Jiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Deciphering the molecular basis of cell-surface immune signaling

Cyril Zipfel, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Rhett Harrison, CIFOR.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Kenneth Sporne Lecture: Uncovering the drivers of complexity in vascular plants, new insights from fossils and genes

Sandy Hetherington, University of Edinburgh.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Controlling copying before copyright: a tale of three Britannias

Email events@emma.cam.ac.uk for the zoom link

Isabella Alexander, UTS Sydney.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 18:30-19:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

FF Blackman Memorial Lecture in Plant Physiology

Alex Costa, University of Milan, Italy.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Convergent evolution of CO2-fixing liquid-liquid phase separation

Luke Mackinder, University of York.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sleeping giant – opening access to the untapped scientific data held in the Cambridge University Herbarium

Dr Anne Dubéarnès, Cambridge University Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

Professor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Lines endowed with lawful force’: the maps and drawings of the Wide Streets Commissioners, Dublin, 1758–1849.

Email events@emma.cam.ac.uk for the zoom link

John Montague, American University of Sharjah.

Via Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mining the medicinal plant treasures of a biodiversity hotspot using biotechnological tools

Professor Nokwanda Makunga, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chasing the ghost behind germination and starvation: the unidentified hormone ‘KL’

Dr Thomas Irving, Cereal Symbiosis Group, Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences..

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

RR-Myb related transcription factors, novel regulators of chloroplast biogenesis

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A symplastic, not a simplistic, path: new insights into the role and structural properties of the plasmodesmata cell wall

Dr Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, University of Leeds.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling

Dr Lee Cackett, Plant Physiology and Symbiosis Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Beyond Campus: Industry Expert Seminar - Enhancing the sustainability of the food system through SEEDesignTM

Dr Mike Nuccio, Senior Director of AI at Inari, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

TLWD scaffold proteins sustain circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis

Dr Eva Herrero Serrano, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Role of Mechanics in Coordination of Cell Behaviour in Plants

Professor Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Rubisco activity and the response of crop leaf photosynthesis to shade

Dr Samuel Taylor, University of Lancaster.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Immunity activation and execution in plants: a biochemical perspective

Professor Jane Parker, Max Planck Institute, Germany.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Circadian regulation of sunflower development

Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery

Professor Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University London and Royal Botanic Garden Kews, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Maps that made history: the map collections of Leiden University Library

For Zoom link, send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk

Martijn Storms, Leiden University Libraries.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unraveling the molecular evolution of betalain-producing enzymes to boost their industrial application

Dr Alejandra Guerrero Rubio, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Freshwater salinization: From Ecology & Evolution to Real-World Solutions

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Dr Rick Relyea, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Considering B vitamin metabolism in plants, and for food and nutritional security

Professor Teresa Fitzpatrick, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Birds on a tree: Progress and challenges of whole-genome phylogenomics

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Josefin Stiller, University of Copenhagen.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unravelling the molecular mechanism of petal spot initiation in sexually deceptive South African daisy Gorteria diffusa.

Dr Udhaya Ponraj, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Modern views on the diversity, functional disparity, and structure of Cambrian ecosystems

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Karma Nanglu, Harvard University.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development

Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

CANCELLED.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Remapping and place naming in 'Beautiful Dachau'

Please register for the talk at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/remapping-and-place-naming-in-beautiful-dachau-by-alan-marcus-on-zoom-tickets-532066434027

Alan Marcus, University of Aberdeen.

Via Zoom.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of reproductive isolation: insights from swordtail fish

Molly Schumer, Stanford.

online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of reproductive isolation: insights from swordtail fish

Molly Schumer, Stanford.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Bumblebees' floral preferences are shaped by rapid valuation of sensory nectar properties

Dr Fei Peng, Visiting Researcher, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of a sexually selected syndrome in Mediterranean wall lizards

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Dr Nathalie Feiner, Lund University.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular insights into abiotic and biotic factors shaping diatom ecophysiology and signalling

Dr Katherine Helliwell, University of Exeter, UK.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Is it the weather or the neighbours? The role of the physical and biotic environment in determining biodiversity distributions.

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Regan Early, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil microbiomes and one Health

Professor Marcel van der Heijden, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Online only.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Seeing through the noise: how fish use visual information to navigate in challenging conditions

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Cait Newport, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Alternative meristems: mapping the expression landscape of transcription factor in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

Dr Facundo Romani, Haseloff Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Heads and shoulders: progress on the origin of the modern vertebrate body plan

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Dr Martin D Brazeau, Imperial College London.

Main Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mexican Waves: The Adaptive Value of Collective Behaviour

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Jens Krause, IGB Berlin.

Main Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

Professor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Olfactory cues in a changing world

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Jorg Hardege, University of Hull.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

Professor Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett

For Zoom link, send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk

Stephen Leach, University of Keele.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:30-18:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The hidden depths of avian genomes

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Alex Suh, UEA.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The molecular basis of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

Dr Roman Kellenberger, Evolution and Development, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

Dr Edith Forestier, Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution and assembly of a complex weapon system

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Christine W Miller, University of Florida.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing Parasite-Resistant Systems in Tomatoes to Control Infestations of Cuscuta campestris

Dr Min-Yao Jhu, Sustainable Crop Nutrition Group, Crop Science Centre.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial Communities in an Ever-Changing World

Hybrid talk - email for a zoom link

Alex Dumbrell, University of Essex.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tree islands enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in oil palm landscapes

Clara Zemp.

Zoom only - contact organiser for link.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A climate risk analysis for Earth's forests in the 21st century

Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

Dr. Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Evolution & Development Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The dynamics of predators in a novel world

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Robert Fletcher, University of Florida.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Protein import into chloroplasts and its regulation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system

R. Paul Jarvis, Section of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford .

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Environment-neuroendocrine interactions regulating larval settlement in the marine worm Platynereis

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Elizabeth Williams, University of Exeter.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Exploring the origin of multicellularity in real time: what we've learned from 5,000 generations of laboratory evolution

Online talk - email organisers for a zoom link

William Ratcliff, Georgia Tech.

Venue to be confirmed.

Saturday 08 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Cross-regulation Between Hormone Response Pathways

Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis

Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Small RNA-directed Reprogramming of Gene Expression During Host-bacteria Interactions

Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Belowground Microbial Community Responses to Climate Change: Resistance, Resilience, and Alternative States

Professor Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Root System Architecture Traits Supporting High Yielding Winter Wheat

Eric Ober.

Online.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: NSP2 and the Regulation of the Symbiotically Permissive State

Darius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Stomatal evolution and using knowledge of stomatal function to breed more resilient crops

Professor Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol .

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

Guy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

Online.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

Professor Santiago F. Elena, Instituto de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemas.

Online.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

The idea of the Indigenous map: examples from the RGS-IBG collections

Joy Slappnig, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 03 May 2022, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genotypic variation in maize influences rates of soil organic matter mineralisation and gross nitrification

Dr Lumbani Mwafulirwa, Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Characterising the epistatic relationship between signalling pathways for AM symbiosis in rice

Raffy Hull, PhD student, Paszkowski group, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Revealing the “box” code: the spatial and temporal regulation of plant-parasitic nematode pathogenicity

Clement Pellegrin, Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellow, Crop Science Centre.

Online.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Combining multi-scale phenotyping, AI-powered analysis with genetic mapping studies to connect lab-based plant research with in-field crop improvement

Ji Zhou, Head of Data Science, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Pre-breeding, food security and net zero: so much to do, so little time and money

Phil Howell, Head of Cereals Pre-Breeding, NIAB .

Online.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Improving the mycorrhizal symbiosis in spring barley – lab and field studies

Dr Tom Thirkell, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, CSC.

Online.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

DNA methylation changes at major animal evolutionary transition

Alexandre de Mendoza Soler.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

Dr Kostya Kanyuka, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, NIAB.

Online.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

An ancient DNA perspective on the Ice Age megafauna

Pete Heintzman (The Arctic University of Norway).

Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

Professor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking oceanic sharks’ ups and downs in a changing world

David Sims (Marine Biological Association).

Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Who Cares About Hornworts?

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

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution, ecology, and genetics of live-bearing and egg-laying reproduction

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mechano-eco-evo of the Common Dandelion: What the Notorious Weed Tells Us About Plant Dispersal Strategies

Dr Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London.

Online.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Differentiation, Communication, and Collective Behavior in Ant Societies

Daniel Kronauer (The Rockefeller University).

Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Dr Indu Santhanagopalan, Physiological Ecology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Liquid Brains: searching the cognition space

Ricard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis

Dr Pallavi Singh, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences .

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Using experimental evolution to tackle questions in speciation research

Isobel Eyres (University of Sheffield).

Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Entangled Lives: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

Dr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Impacts and mitigation of anthropogenic noise

Sophie Nedelec (University of Exeter).

Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Uncovering Mechanisms of Cell-type-specific Gene Expression in Rice

Dr Leonie Luginbuehl, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Birdwatching on a cosmic scale: The avian fossil record and the origin of modern bird diversity

Daniel Field (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution

Dr Martha Munoz, Yale.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 14 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids

Dr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Phylodynamic tools for quantitative palaeobiology

Rachel Warnock, Geozentrum Nordbayern.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

Dr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The functional consequences of extinction and the evolution of gigantism

Catalina Pimiento, Swansea University.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Decoupling Photoprotective Roles of Carotenoids in the PSII Light Harvesting Complexes for Improved Plant Growth

Dr Julia Walter, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

At the limits of China: frontiers, borders, and political geography in early modern Sino-Western cartographic exchanges

Florin-Stefan Morar, City University of Hong Kong.

Via Zoom.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Quantitative studies of rapid evolutionary adaptation

Dmitri Petrov, Stanford University.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions

Professor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Y haplotype diversity and male phenotypes

Judith Mank, University of British Columbia.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers

Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Is telomere length a useful biomarker in ecology and evolution?

Dan Nussey, University of Edinburgh.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants

Dr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genomic and developmental drivers of color pattern diversification

Claudius Kratochwil, University of Helsinki.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

Dr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The honeybee waggle dance: evolutionary marvel but modern-day relic?

Elli Leadbeater, Royal Holloway University of London.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

Professor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Distribution and ecology of albatrosses and petrels; underlying drivers and implications for conservation

Richard Phillips, British Antarctic Survey.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link).

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Distribution and ecology of albatrosses and petrels; underlying drivers and implications for conservation

Richard Philips, British Antarctic Survey.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Cancelled - Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

Chris Lambing, Henderson group.

Online.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications

Prof Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

Online.

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

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Nicholas Norton Nicols and his maps of Mindanao

Please send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk for Zoom link

Peter Geldart, Philippine Map Collectors Society.

Via Zoom.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

Kumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

Online.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cross-Kingdom RNAi and extracellular vesicle-mediated small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens

Prof Hailing Jin, UCR Riverside.

Online.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Postponed - Protecting the Environment

Postponed for now. Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Nature’s information networks: from collective behavior to ecosystem dynamics

Andrew Hein - University of California.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Hein - University of California.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis

Note the time change to 3pm.

Krishna Niyogi, Berkeley.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Multiple determinants maintain diversity in nature

Swanne Gordon - Washington University.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum

Now at 3pm

John Ferguson, Kromdijk group.

Online.

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

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography

Please send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk for Zoom link

Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge).

via zoom .

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Biotic Diversification in Southeast Asia and the Indonesian Archipelago in the Era of NGS

Frank Rheindt - National University of Singapore.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil fungi for us

NOTE TIME CHANGE

Maarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The links between sensory and motor systems: from cells to organisms

Natasha Mhatre - University of Western Ontario.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences

Dr Sharon Walker, Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Problem solving in slime molds

Audrey Dussutour - Universite Paul Sabatier.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A thorny question: tinkering to evolve a novel mode of plant stem cell arrest

Vivian Irish, Yale University.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Extreme Weapons: A Natural History

Doug Emlen - University of Montana.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses

Dr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The mind of the bee

Lars Chittka - Queen Mary University of London.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions

Frank C. Schroeder, Cornell University.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genome duplication, gene dosage, and evolution

Aoife McLysaght - University of Dublin.

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

CambPlants Hub

Celebrating the FAO International Year of Plant Health: A forward looking perspective on tackling the grand challenges in plant health to transform agriculture sustainably.

Dr Richard Harrison - Director of Cambridge Crop Research, NIAB..

Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres

Matthew Naish, Henderson Group.

Online.

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

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

The Straits of Malacca-A Cartographic Journey using Nautical Sea Charts

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF SPEAKER AND TITLE

Julian Candiah (Kuala Lumpur).

via zoom .

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How a year-round breeding tropical songbird copes with seasonal aridity

Chima Nwaogu (Fitzpatrick Inst).

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing in Root Cell Type Development

Prof Siobhan Brady, UC Davis.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations

Josh Firth (Oxford).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Translation research in plant breeding, can we finish the job!

Abdel Bendahmane, UMR Université Paris Sud .

Online.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bird migration: evolutionary genetics of migratory behaviour

Miriam Liedvogel (Max Planck).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Defying Mendel’s laws: epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum

Claudia Dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Convergent Evolution of a Social Symbiosis

Joe Parker (Caltech).

Online (ask organizers for link).

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The late, great bilaterians: hunting down the first animals in the fossil record

Graham Budd (Uppsala).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolutionary legacies on ecosystem function and implications for global change: new insights from spectral biology

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota.

Online.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Do fish have necks? How fish use the axial muscles and skeleton to power suction feeding

Ariel Camp (Liverpool).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A bipartite transcription factor module controls bundle sheath preferential expression in Arabidopsis

Patrick Dickinson, Hibberd group.

Online.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Replaying the tape of life: how predictable is evolution?

Katie Peichel (Bern).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bird migration: evolutionary genetics of migratory behaviour

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Sunday 11 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light harvesting complexes in oxygenic photosynthesis

Dr Julia Walter, Kromdijk group.

Online.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Deciphering control of centromeric recombination in Arabidopsis

Joiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

Online.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the species barrier to allow hybridization of C3 and C4 cereals

Greg Reeves, Hibberd group.

Online.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice

An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group.

Online.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering the Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA): Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and its Nutrient Regulation in Barley

Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Secret Soviet maps of Cambridge and the world

John Davies (sovietmaps.com) & Alex Kent (Canterbury Christ Church University).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences

Annette Fayet (Oxford).

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

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

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography

Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge).

To be confirmed: Emmanuel College or via Zoom.

Sunday 23 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cancelled: Understanding drivers and consequences of plant diversity across temporal and spatial scales in an era of rapid global change

This talk is cancelled

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants.

Phyllis Lee (University of Stirling).

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat

Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of plasticity for life cycle regulation in seasonal environments

Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University).

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

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the cell biology of invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

It's about time: The evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms during infections

Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth

Richard Smith, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A deeper take on our sexual nature: Importance of cellular sex and underlying mechanisms

Bruno Hudry (Institute de Biologie Valrose).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development

Tina Schreier, Hibberd group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Origins and extinctions of early vertebrates: a story of ecology, phylogeny, and the fossil record

Rob Sansom (University of Manchester).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The roots of change: global change and mycorrhizal symbiosis through the Phanerozoic

Katie Field, University of Leeds.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Ode to the masalai: New Guinea as a crucible for evolution in plants and insects

Simon Segar (Harper Adams University).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Conserved defences underpin host responses to oomycete infection in liverworts

Philip Carella, SLCU.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering NLR immune receptors to combat rice blast disease

Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION: The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations

Josh Firth (Oxford).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Post Doc invited speaker

Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Geologist William Smith (1769-1839) and his struggles to both earn a living, and finance his scientific and cartographic projects to 1820

Hugh Torrens (University of Keele).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking trade in underground symbioses

Toby Kiers (VU Amsterdam).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Causes and consequences of social evolution in spiders

Trine Bilde (Aarhus University).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Tales of growth and buckling: Micro-pattern formation on petal surface cells

Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Linking patterns and processes across scales: a case study with Andean hummingbirds

Catherine Graham (Swiss Federal Institute WSL).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mechanisms conferring seasonal flowering responses in annual and perennial plants

Post Doc invited speaker

George Coupland, Max Plank Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why do organisms age? Beyond energy trade-offs

Alexei Maklakov (University of East Anglia).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular convergence in the evolution of betalains

Hester Sheehan, Brockington group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Phenotypic plasticity and the evolution of eusociality: How does the queen control reproduction in her workers?

Elizabeth Duncan (Leeds University).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

21st Century Crop Science Wo(man)

Alison Bentley, NIAB.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How coordinated behaviour is achieved through selection, synchrony and sex

James Herbert-Read (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The evolution of reproductive isolation: multiple hybrid zones in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

Boris Delahaie, Glover group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Escaping Mendel’s laws: Epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum.

Claudia dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Dynamics in forest microclimates provide new insights into biodiversity responses to climate change

Florian Zellweger, Coomes group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function

Caroline Gutjahr, Technical University of Munich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CO2 Sensing in Plants and New Insights into Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction

Julian Schroeder, UCSD.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Out-of-term seminar

Alexandra K. Schnell (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual time; out-of-term seminar

Cosima Porteus (University of Exeter).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Antarctic snow algae blooms – analysing community function from microscopes to satellites

Matt Davey, Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial evolution in the human gut

Pauline Scanlan (University College Cork).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The origins of Neotropical mega-diversity

Alexandre Antonelli, Kew.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild

Susan Johnston (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

Paul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Linking all the things: towards a biodiversity knowledge graph

Roderick Page (University of Glasgow).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Rethinking mechanisms of stomatal response to temperature, drought and VPD

Mike Blatt, Glasgow.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why do females fight?

Eleanor Bath (University of Oxford).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Targeted grafts as a tool to enhance tomato preservation

Sara Lopez-Gomollon, Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Speciation, horizontal transfer and the evolutionary genomics of bdelloid rotifers

Tim Barraclough (Imperial College London).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adjusting the valves: fate and flexibility in stomatal development

Dominique Bergmann, Stanford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Through a glass darkly - interpreting animal behaviour with the aid of machines

Alex Jordan (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sychronized cells as a model for the diel regulation of Rubisco-EPYC1 interactions in the Chlamydomonas CCM

Indu Santhanagopalan, Griffiths lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

High-throughput synchrotron X-ray imaging of extant and fossil insects

Thomas van de Kamp (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From start to finish: Emerging functions of the N-end rule pathway of proteolysis in plants

Dan Gibbs, Birmingham.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Pleiotropy, chance and predictability in the genetic paths of evolution

Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo (Institute Jacques Monod).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

REC8-cohesin and chromatin state orchestrate Arabidopsis meiotic recombination

Andy Tock, Henderson Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Alarm calls and interspecific eavesdropping

Robert Magrath (Australian National University).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Apologies, due to flight cancellation this talk will be rescheduled

Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University .

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution on the wing

Owen McMillan, STRI.

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How do betalains evolved? Consequences of a de-regulated enzyme in Caryophyllales

Samuel Lopez, Brockington group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sexual conflict in ecological context

Jen Perry (University of Oxford).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Kris Verheyen, University of Ghent.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The tension between generality and diversity: what makes biology so cool

Hanna Kokko (University of Zurich).

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

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

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

Zoology Graduate Student's Invited Speaker

Kevin Laland (University of St. Andrews).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

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

Giles Oldroyd, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of ant social chromosomes and bumblebee diversity

Yannick Wurm (Queen Mary University of London).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Reprogramming roots for fungal symbiosis

Leonie Luginbuehl, Hibberd group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Epigenetics and social insects

Eamonn Mallon (University of Leicester).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Timing and pattern of tooth eruption – Investigation of their evolution in wild and domestic mammals

Madeleine Geiger (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What genes made us human, and how much did they cost?

James Sikela, UC Denver.

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

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

THE CHEMICAL WARFARE BETWEEN PLANTS AND INSECTS: From pathway discovery to functional diversification of toxins

Professor Søren Bak , University of Copenhagen.

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

Friday 13 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing and Funding a Global System for the Conservation of Crop Diversity in Genebanks

Luigi Guarino, Crop Trust.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A Ser/Thr receptor-like kinase, Ark1, is required to maintain arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice

Ronelle Roth, Paszkowski Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of color vision in Heliconius butterflies.

PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT VENUE

Adriana Briscoe (University of California at Irvine).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Metabolic Clusters – From Genetics to Genomics

Third "Enid MacRobbie Women in Science" lecture

Anne Osbourne, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sexual selection and trait investment in a dynamic world

PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT VENUE

Christine Miller (University of Florida).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multiple macroevolutionary routes to becoming a biodiversity hotspot

Javier Igea, Tanentzap Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Illuminating the start of complex life: Spatial analysis of Ediacaran ecosystems

Dr Emily Mitchell, Earth Sciences (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Explosive seed dispersal

Angela Hay, Max Planck.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Fuxianhuiids and their exceptional contribution to the early evolution of Cambrian euarthropods

Javier Ortega Hernandez (Dept of Zoology, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

The cardinal points and the structure of geographical knowledge in the early twelfth century

Eric Wolever, University of York.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neuroethology of a striking crustacean, the mantis shrimp

Dr Kate Feller, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unlocking the secrets of medicinal crops: from artemisinin to morphine, why are plants still better than bugs at making these drugs?

Ian Graham, University of York.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

On the origin of human sociality: Ape minds and the evolution of Homo sapiens

Christopher Krupenye (University of St. Andrews).

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

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

(Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape

Special Seminar

Joe Ecker, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological studies.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Canceled

Jennifer Perry (University of Oxford).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Protein targeting within the chloroplast: a cell-biological view of starch biosynthesis

Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELED DUE TO USS PENSIONS STRIKE.

Yannick Wurm (Queen Mary University of London).

Canceled - apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Michael Alexander Gage and the mapping of Liverpool, 1828–1836

Paul Laxton, formerly University of Liverpool.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELED DUE TO USS PENSIONS STRIKE.

Helen Leggett (University of Cambridge).

Canceled - apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tropics

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Cognition in the wild: foraging hummingbirds and building nests

Sue Healy (University of St. Andrews).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phylogenetic hypothesis of the Oleeae tribe (Oleaceae)
 Diversification and molecular evolution patterns in plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA

Loubab Zedane, Brockington Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Benefits of social relationships in carrion crows

Claudia Wascher (Anglia Ruskin University).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants Plant host-pathogen coevolution and exploring local adaptation of an Arabidopsis thaliana complex Resistance gene locus

Jane Parker, MPI Cologne.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution in island colonising birds: silvereyes of the south Pacific

Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From vesicles to responsive artificial tissues

Emma Talbot, Haseloff Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Paleogenomics beyond humans

Michi Hofreiter (University of Pottsdam).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neural circuitry of a polycystin-mediated hydrodynamic startle response in Platynereis: from genes to ecology

Gáspár Jékely (University of Exeter).

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

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Using the auxin-inducible degron in yeast to understand the spliceosome cycle

Gonzalo Mendoza, Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Towards understanding of photoacclimation in algal photosynthesis – regulation via redox and Ca2+

Michael Hippler, University of Munster.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Increasing Crop Productivity Sustainably by Bioengineering Improved Photosynthetic Efficiency

Stephen Long, University of Illinois.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Growing old yet staying young: do bats hold the secret of extended longevity?

Emma Teeling (University College Dublin).

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

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of a suppressor of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis in rice

Jeongmin Choi, Paszkowski Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

In Everest’s footsteps: surveying the legacies of the Great Trigonometrical Survey in India

Keith Lilley, Queen's Universiety Belfast.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Parental Care

Chris Cunningham (Swansea University).

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

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant intracellular immune receptors; diversity, deployment and dissection

Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Lab, Norwich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neurophysiology in the field: What can it tell us about the ecology of acoustic communication?

Heinrich Römer (University of Graz).

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

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Not just a pretty flower- an ancestral function for LEAFY in shoot development of non-seed vascular plants

Andrew Plackett, Hibberd Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Can social networks explain why females cheat?

Julia Schroeder (Imperial College London).

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

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing the global land resource

Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

When males lose their fathers genome: the why and how of a remarkable reproductive system

Laura Ross (University of Edinburgh).

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

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sustainable bioenergy and biofuels from microalgae: a systems biology perspective

Maria Huete Ortega, Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Adaptive radiations and species(?) diversity

Per Lundberg (Lund University).

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

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Highlighting industry collaborations in Plant Sciences

This is a CAMBPLANTS Industrial Talk

CINTRIN.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Rapid host and pathogen co-evolution following a severe emerging infectious outbreak

Camille Bonneaud (University of Exeter).

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

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The surprising evolution of TTG1-WDR proteins

Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

You are what you eat? Gut bacteria and mating preferences in Drosophila

Zenobia Lewis (University of Liverpool).

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

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Complex Homology and the Neuromolecular Evolution of Social Behavior

NOTE SPECIAL TIME

Hans Hoffmann (University of Texas at Austin).

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

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Big Data Meets Geo-Computation: Combining Research Reproducibility and Processing Efficiency in High-performance Computing

PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME, AND LOCATION

Giuseppe Amatulli (Yale University).

Rayleigh room, Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE.

Friday 08 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bringing Partula up to date: from Captain Cook to the 2017 search for lost snails.

Dr. Justin Gerlach.

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

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Group living – causes and consequences: lessons from the biology of social spiders

Prof Leticia Aviles (University of British Columbia).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A synthetic biology approach to harness the regulatory potential of miRNAs in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Francisco J. Navarro, Baulcombe group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Towards a General Theory of Lorenz Ordering Applied to Ecological Domiance and Earth Observation Systems of Forest Ecosystems

Ruben Valbuena, Coomes group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CambPlants Industrial Talks

This is a CPPS sponsored seminar

Dr Vitor Verdelo Viera, A4F and Professor Alison Smith, Plant Sciences.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evaluating ex-situ conservation of threatened plants in the botanic garden network

Ross Mounce, Brockington group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Changing trends in mapping estates in the Welsh border counties during the eighteenth century

Dr Bob Silvester, formerly Clywd-Powys Archaeological Trust.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 17:30-19:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Salicylic acid and its binding proteins at the crossroads of plant and human health

Dan Klessig, Cornell University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Importance of Fluctuations in Light on Plant Photosynthetic Acclimation

Silvere Vialet-Chabrand, Griffiths group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 April 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Endoplasmic reticulum hosts the activities of plant microRNAs

Xuemei Chen, UC Riverside.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Using synthetic biology in algae for the production of designer lipids

Katrin Geisler, Smith Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 March 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Abundant phased siRNAs in plant reproductive organs

Blake Meyers, Donald Danforth Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neural basis of mating behaviour

Carolina Rezaval (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mathematical modelling of the citrus disease Huanglongbing

Andrew Craig, Gilligan Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

From collective animal behaviour to collective motion of football teams

David Sumpter (Uppsala University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Physiology and Development From a Cut Flower Supplier Perspective

CambPlants Industrial Talk

MM Flowers and Beverley Glover.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Global questions about parenting and movement ecology in the world’s biggest tern

David Craig (Willamette University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The role of forests in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from boreal freshwater ecosystems

Erik Szkokan-Emilson, Tanentzap Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

From curiosity to treasure: Mr Selden's map of China

David Helliwell, Bodleian Library Oxford.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Eco-evolutionary dynamics

Andrés López-Sepulcre (IEES CNRS Paris).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Dynamic regulation of gibberellin gradients influencing plant growth patterning

Alexander Jones, SLCU.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Parasites, Immune Function, and Human Life Histories

Aaron Blackwell (University of California, Santa Barbara).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Inter-group tolerance in humans and other primates

Anne Pisor (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Department of Biological Anthropology Lecture Theatre (Room 41) Pembroke Street.

Monday 13 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Is achieving no net loss of a globally rare species achievable for a mining project in the Caucasus global biodiversity hotspot possible?

Pete Carey, Tanner Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetic evolution of humans and closely related species

Aida Andres (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Climate Change and Nature Conservation

Brian Eversham, CEO, BCN Wildlife Trust.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The Behavioural Ecology of Mosquitoes

Lauren Cator (Imperial College London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The role of Chrisanthemum virus B p12 in the regulation of plant transcription and supression of RNA silencing.

Nina Lukhovitskaya, Carr Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Information gaps in ecology and conservation

Tatsuya Amano (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk / Department of Zoology University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The global movement of plant pests and pathogens: implications for food security

Sarah Gurr, University of Exeter.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Conservation ecology of West African's montane forest habitats - primary seed dispersers and their substitutes.

Hazel Chapman (University of Canterbury).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 17 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Gene silencing in plant development and disease resistance: lessons from tomato

Zhengming Wang, Baulcombe Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 January 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light sensing in the Ocean: new perspectives from the study of the diatom photoreceptors

Angela Falciatore, CNRS Paris.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Exploiting natural variation to identify genes that impact nutritional seed traits

Sabrina Gonzalez-Jorge, Henderson Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Dispersal evolution

Jean Clobert (Station d’Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS Moulis).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering Meiosis and Recombination to Unlock Genetic Diversity

CambPlants Industrial Talk

Giacomo Bastianelli, Meiogenix and Ian Henderson.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Ink, Paper, Brass and Glass: Marine Charts and Charting in the Nineteenth Century

Megan Barford, National Maritime Museum.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolutionary ecology of innovativeness and personality in the wild

John Quinn (Cork).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Seed size and its rate of evolution correlate with species diversification across angiosperms

Javier Igea, Tanentzap Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolutionary ecology and conservation of freshwater fishes

Stephanie Carlson (Berkeley).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phytoplankton membrane transport: The big physiological and evolutionary secrets of small cells

Colin Brownlee, Marine Biological Association .

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of the sexual genome

Alison Wright (UCL).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Biotechnological Exploitation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Doris Gangl, Smith group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Host-parasite coevolution

Kayla King (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Correct behaviour: how plant cells respond appropriately to different symbiotic partners

Martin Parniske, University of Munich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Oral transfer of chemical cues, growth proteins and hormones: crowdsourcing development in social insects

Adria Le Boeuf, University of Lausanne.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Examining the molecular basis of speciation through flavonoid-tinted glasses

Hester Sheehan, Brockington Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of butterfly brains

Stephen Montgomery (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Resolving Conflicts: The Genetic Control of Plant Morphogenesis

Enrico Coen FRS, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Non-genetic inheritance in mice

Rahia Mashoodh (University of Cambridge).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A global perspective on conflict and cooperation in animal mating systems

Simon Griffith, Macquarie University, Sydney.

First Floor Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 21 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Meta-(DNA)barcoding & the ecology of coral-reef fish

Moshe Kiflawi (Ben Gurion University, Israel).

Large Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolutionary and demographic genetics of polymorphic sexual systems in plants

Spencer Barrett FRS, University of Toronto.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic examination of heterosis in tomato

Sebastian Müller, David Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

In vivo analysis of calcium dynamics in Arabidopsis: tools and applications

Alex Costa, University of Milan.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology

Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Plant Molecular Biology.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Perturbation Analysis of LEAFY in the Floral Transition Network of Arabidopsis thaliana

Gitanjali Yadav, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) New Delhi India.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Alexander Ogg (1811-65): surveyor, farmer and gold prospector, Aberdeenshire and New Zealand

Dr Douglas Lockhart (formerly University of Keele).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 17:30-19:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Pave the road to land: evolution of water-conducting cells in land plants

Bo Xu, Sam Brockington Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The maize leaf – from development to environmental response

Sarah Hake, Director USDA Gene Expression Center.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A three-dimensional approach to community turnover: Pleistocene extinctions, abrupt climate change, and (dis)equilibrium dynamics

Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Incorporating uncertainty into the optimal development of disease control measures

Ciara Dangerfield, Chris Gilligan Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A sting in the tail: evolutionary consequences of chemical anti-predator defence in animals

Kevin Arbuckle, University of Liverpool.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Effects of fluctuating light on photosynthesis and stomatal behaviour: impacts on carbon gain and water use efficiency

Tracy Lawson, Director of Plant Phenomics, University of Essex.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genome packaging: is that enough to explain the caste plasticity in social insects?

Solenn Patalano, Babraham Institute Cambridge .

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Integrating phylogenetics, ecology and evo-devo to understand the origin of plant species: the role of spur length evolution in speciation of the genus Linaria

Mario Fernandez-Mazuecos, Beverley Glover Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 13:00-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Prof Boris Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Prof Boris Kaus, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Plans of London buildings drawn c.1450-1720

Dorian Gerhold (London).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Zebra stripes: testing old stories with new data

Tim Caro, UC Davis.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Symmetry Matters in Gynoecium Development

This is a CPPS Seminar

Lars Ostergaard, Head of Crop Genetics, JIC.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Does colour and colour change matter for thermoregulation in animals?

Devi Stuart-Fox, University of Melbourne.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A bird's-eye view of forest ecosystems

Tommaso Jucker, David Coomes Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 13:00-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Fault friction and behaviour

Dr Alex Copley, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Far from the deafening crowd: the effects of noise pollution on songbirds

John Swaddle, University of Exeter and College of William & Mary.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Big data, local data and global change

Philip Grime, University of Sheffield.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Dr Tim Greenfield, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The Causes and Consequences of Selection at the Gametic Level in Animals

Simone Immler, Uppsala University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Inter-organellar interactions - known unknowns in metabolic engineering of membrane-spanning pathways in plants

Payam Mehrshahi, Alison Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What chickens and dogs can teach us about genetics and epigenetics of domesticated behaviour

Per Jensen, Linköping University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Development and evolution of land plant rooting systems

Liam Dolan, University of Oxford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

You, tree, and me make me me: biotic environments and the expression of genetic variation

Darren Rebar, Zoology Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Two Things Evolution Can Tell Us About Metabolic Engineering

Steven Burgess, Julian Hibberd Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Microbes play a central role in a plant's solutions to ecological problems

Ian Baldwin, Max Planck Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Competition and conjugation: the tale of antibiotic resistance spreading in three colours

Pakpoom Subsoontorn, Jim Haseloff Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Discovery of methylation loci and analyses of differential methylation in Dicer-like mutants of Arabidopsis

Thomas Hardcastle, David Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetics and genomics of lifespan in the short-lived African turquoise killifish

Dario Riccardo Valenzano, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenotyping is an F-word: crop research in Fields, on Farms, with Farmers

This is a CPPS Seminar

Roger Sylvester-Bradley, ADAS.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The Himalaya, the Hadean, In-between, and Beyond

Prof Alex Webb, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

The map that would save Europe: the tariff walls map and the politics of cartographic display between the wars

Professor Michael Heffernan and Ben Thorpe (University of Nottingham).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Artificial selection reveals the costs and benefits of large brain size

Alexander Kotrschal, Stockholm University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How social interactions shape the genome.

Jenny Tung, Duke University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A pioneering imaging approach to arbuscule development in rice

Ronelle Roth, Uta Paszkowski Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Precursors and properties of small earthquakes in California

Dr Jessica Hawthorne, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The valence of experience: learning and the directionality of preferences

Machteld Verzijden, Aarhus University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The biodiversity value of degraded tropical forests

David Edwards, University of Sheffield.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The relation between waves and structure: How to explore, exploit, exhume

Prof Tarje Nissen-Meyer, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Adaptive immunity of wild songbirds; how to handle pathogens and maximize fitness.

Helena Westerdahl, Lund University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genetic factors controlling meiotic crossover: Lessons from natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Piotr Ziolkowski, Ian Henderson Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A global view of volcano deformation

Dr Juliet Biggs, University of Bristol.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Behavioral flexibility is not predicted by innovation or brain size in great-tailed grackles, New Caledonian crows, and Western scrub jays

Corina Logan, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica’s climate history

Jane Francis, Director, British Antarctic Survey.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mixed rheology shear zones and the spectrum of fault slip styles

Dr Ake Fagereng, University of Cardiff.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genomics of Recent, Rapid Evolution: Examining the Role of Behavioural Flexibility

Nathan Bailey, University of St Andrews.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How our Botanic Gardens Work (and how they can work for you)

Dr Sam Brockington, Cambridge University Botanic Garden Curator.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Isotopic constraints on atmospheric loss and climate change on Mars

Prof Itay Halevy, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of visual pigments in New and Old World warblers: from genes to function

Natasha Bloch, UCL.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

RNA viruses: comparative genomics and gene expression mechanisms

Andrew Firth, Dept of Pathology.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Late stages of continental rifting in Afar, Ethiopia - magnetotellurics in a multi-disciplinary study

Prof Kathy Whaler, University of Edinburgh.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Clever frogs? Behavioural flexibility and strategic planning during parental care in a poison frog

Eva Ringler, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Learning from Students to Shape Plant Sciences Teaching for the 21st Century

Katherine Hubbard, Teaching Officer.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Earthquake precursors linked to high compressibility fluids at oceanic fracture zones

Prof Louis Geli, Ifremer.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat

Kirsten Bomblies, Harvard University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Periodic Crustal Deformation and Seismicity

Prof Roland Burgmann, UC Berkeley.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 23 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulation of PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR7 by photosynthetically derived sugars in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Alexander Frank, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 July 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Role of phytic acid in plant defence responses

Jacquelyne Poon, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 July 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Nick Talbot, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 July 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Wedge evolution, surface processes and dynamics of deep-seated structures in the Zagros foreland basin

Dr Mortaza Pirouz, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Monday 29 June 2015, 11:30-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Algal-bacterial consortia: towards the commercialisation of microalgae for industrial biotechnology

Christian Ridley, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 June 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Beta oxidation in signalling and development. What plants can teach us about yeast and animals

Alison Baker, University of Leeds.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Effects of sugarcane on the Cerrado biodiversity: land use change, habitat loss and greenhouse gas emissions

Jessica Fonseca Da Silva, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome is compressible

Surge Biswas, 1st yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Long-distance wound signals in Arabidopsis leaves

Edward Farmer, University of Lausanne.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Compaction around a spherical inclusion in partially molten rock

Dr Laura Alisic, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A vitamin B12 dependent mutualism between a microalga Lobomonas rostrata and a rhizobium – Mesorhizobium loti

Vaibhav Bhardwaj, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Optimize nutrients dynamic in litters to enhance yields and sustainability of traditional cocoa agroforests in a climate change context in Southern Bahia, Brazil

Lauranne Gateau, 1st yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mantle transition zone structure beneath Europe from P-to-s conversions

Dr Sanne Cottaar, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Where the bee flies: and why it matters

Juliet Osborne, University of Exeter.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A seismic image for the base of an oceanic plate from high resolution, shot-generated, seismic reflection waves

Prof Tim Stern, Victoria University of Wellington.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular insights into the evolutionary history of plants in Antarctica

Elise Biersma, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Biodiversity conservation within a REDD+ framework: case of victoria-anepahan ranges in Palawan Islands, Philippines

Minerva (Jojo) Singh, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The Earth’s core - not just a homogeneous ball of pure iron

Prof Lidunka Vočadlo, University College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding plant root developmental plasticity using cell type-specific genomics

Miriam Gifford, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

What lies beneath? Interactions between Antarctica and the solid Earth

Dr Pippa Whitehouse, Durham University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Maps and seafarers in the English Channel (eighteenth century)

Dr Renaud Morieux, Faculty of History & Jesus College.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 17:30-19:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Improving the pollination of the field bean (Vicia faba L.)

Emily Bailes, 3rd yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Juheon Lee, 3rd yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 14:30-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Patrick Dickinson, 3rd yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 14:00-14:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Paramutation in tomato

Quentin Gouil, 3rd yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 12:00-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering riboswitches to enable rational control of transgene expression

Christopher Finch, 1st yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 11:30-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of effectors from Rhizophagus irregularis and their role in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis establishment.

Clement Quan, 1st yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 11:00-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A forward genetic screen for Arabidopsis gene(s) that control meiotic recombination

Divyashree Nageswaran, 1st yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 10:00-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Risk of long-distance airborne spread of infectious plant diseases

Marcel Meyer, 1st yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 09:30-10:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Alexander Blackwell, 1st yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 15:00-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular genetics of autistic: the arbuscular mycorrhizal mutant of maize

Darius Riahy, 1st yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:30-15:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Discovery of genetic elements determining the C4 photosynthetic phenotype using introgression lines from C3-C4 hybrids

Gregory Reeves, 1st yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:00-14:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Fifty shapes of maize

Rozi Vofely, 1st yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 12:00-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

~ From Carrots to Sticks ~ Conserving threatened avifauna with ecosystem management and market-based instruments

Alexandra Bell, 1st yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 11:30-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding morphogenesis and wall mechanics in brown algae

Marina Linardic, 1st yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 11:00-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mobilizing terrestrial primary production into aquatic food webs

Chloe Orland, 1st year grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 10:00-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolution of plant breeding systems: Male form and function in the nightshade family.

Gwendolyn Davis, 1st yr grad.

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 09:30-10:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Rate- (and state-) dependent brittle deformation in crustal rocks

Dr Nicolas Brantut, University College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The role of dynamic topography in closing the mid-Pliocene ice volume budget

Jacqueline Austermann, Harvard University.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multiple mechanisms limit meiotic crossovers

Raphael Mercier, Versailles INRA.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A microgeodynamic approach in detecting partial melting in the Earth's mantle

Dr Sash Hier-Majumder, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The mechanism by which calcium affects the circadian clock

Carmen Marti (Webb Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An integrated structural biology approach to flower development

Francois Parcy, Grenoble.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the O3-induced Ca2+ signalling pathway in Arabidopsis

Katie Wilkins (Davies Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The nature and properties of fracture damage surrounding faults

Dr Daniel Faulkner, University of Liverpool.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Balancing selection in Müllerian mimicry: causes and consequences

Dr Violaine Llaurens, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité .

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing Innovation: an oxymoron?

CPPS Seminar

David Lawrence, Syngenta.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Large earthquakes in stable continental plate interiors: the need for a new paradigm

Dr Eric Calais, ENS Paris.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:15-17:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Social Learning Strategies & Cumulative Culture

Dr Rachel Kendal, University of Durham.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Decreasing the oxygenase activity of Rubisco: a synthetic biology approach

Marek Szecowka (Hibberd Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Looking inside moons using gravity and topography

Dr Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the Polar oceans

Lt Cdr Dr John Ash, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Does swimming behind get you ahead?: The energetic benefits of moving in fish schools

Dr Shaun Killen, University of Glasgow.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Under pressure: Environmental stressors alter relationships between physiology and behaviour in fishes

Dr Shaun Killen, University of Glasgow.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Can genomics impact forestry?

Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University of London.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Magmatism on the terrestrial planets

Dr Chloe Michaut, IPGP.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

From species to individuals, a survey of variation in the immune function of birds.

Dr Kevin Matson, University of Groningen.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolution of the miRNA-mediated RNA silencing pathway: the plant that wanted to be an animal

Adrian Valli (Baulcombe Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Death of a dynamo: a time-series record of magnetic activity on the pallasite parent body

Dr Richard Harrison, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Sinead English, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The adaptive use of information within and across generations

Dr Sinead English, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Evolution of Imprinted Gene Expression in Cultivated Rice

Daniel ZIlberman, Berkeley.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

From mapping to temporal monitoring: Exploring the characteristics of fault creep with SAR Interferometry

Dr Romain Jolivet, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of social behaviour in wild populations: European badgers & Seychelles warblers

Dr Hannah Dugdale, University of Sheffield.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Carbon fluxes and biodiversity in Mediterranean landscapes – modelling with airborne lidar

Will Simonson (Coomes Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Observations of Stress on Faults

Dr Emily Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Cooperation under the bark: Understanding sociality and symbioses in ambrosia beetles

Dr Peter Biedermann, Max Planck Research Group Insect Symbiosis.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Future Directions of Rothamsted Research

Achim Dobermann, Rothamstead.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Fluid dynamics of core-mantle differentiation

Dr Renaud Deguen, University of Lyon.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The diversification of birds

Dr Gavin Thomas, University of Sheffield.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 20 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Inhospitable: early signalling events during cereal symbiosis

Enrico Gobbato (Paszkowski Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetic, neuronal and experiential influences on olfactory perception in mice

Dr Darren Logan ( Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 13 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Early events in Arabidopsis bud activation

Maddie Seale, Sainsbury Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 December 2014, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A physiological basis to agronomic development

Celestin Ukozehasi, Griffiths Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 December 2014, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Potential effects of transposable element activation throughout tomato development

Alex Canto Pastor, Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 12:00-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Grip, Slip, petals and pollinators

Jonathan Pattrick, Glover Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 11:30-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Using metagenomics to identify emerging viral pathogens, and RNA silencing to combat them

Luke Braidwood, Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 11:00-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identifying microRNAs conditioning strong plant anti-aphid resistance

Deusa Abreu, Carr Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 10:00-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigation of natural modifiers of meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana

Catherine Griffin, Henderson Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 09:30-10:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Study and characterization of MET1 homologues in Arabidopsis thaliana

Christophe Buser, Sainsbury Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 09:00-09:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH DAY

Various.

TBC.

Thursday 11 December 2014, 09:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Population genetics of host-parasite coevolution

Professor Dieter Ebert, Universität Basel.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 09 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mixtures or Alternation? Assessing Fungicide Anti-Resistance Strategies

James Elderfield, Cunniffe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating heat shock signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

David Schoepfer, Sainsbury Laboratory.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 13:00-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Colony personalities and the importance of behavioral variance for insect societies

Prof. Dr. Susanne Foitzik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz .

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sustainable Farming - making it happen. The Science, delivery and pitfalls of Integrated Farm Management

CPPS Seminar

Caroline Drummond MBE. LEAF Chief Executive.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A new paradigm for the geodynamo: a gentle introduction

Prof Andy Jackson, ETH Zurich.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Early-modern maps in mirror image

Professor Paul Harvey, University of Durham.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 17:30-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Behavioural Ecology meets Chemical Ecology: The role of chemical communication in mate choice and family life

Dr Sandra Steiger, University of Ulm.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Dealing with Sudden Oak Death in the UK

Matt Castle, Gilligan Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The dynamics of marine ice sheet

Prof Grae Worster, University of Cambridge, DAMTP.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Of ducks and men – ecology and evolution of influenza A virus in waterfowl

Dr Jonas Waldenström - Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Elucidating stress signalling response pathways in Arabidopsis and crops

Marc Knight, Durham University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Molten Earth: Silicate Melt in the Deep Interior

Prof Lars Stixrude, UCL.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Variation in the anti-predator defences of aposematic organisms

Dr Bibiana Rojas Zuluaga, University of Jyvaskyla.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Scum of the Earth?

Matt Davey, Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Linking geodynamics and seismic observations in the lowermost mantle

Dr James Wookey, University of Bristol.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Competition, cooperation and the evolution of weapons

Dr John Fitzpatrick, University of Manchester.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chromatin and antisense transcript dynamics in seasonal timing

Enid MacRobbie Woman in Science Lecture

Caroline Dean, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Traveltime dispersion in an isotropic elastic mantle derived from a geodynamic model

Dr Bernhard Schuberth, LMU Munich.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How does a bird know what nest to build?

Dr Sue Healy, University of St Andrews.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Roles of splicing in plant reproductive development

Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 13:00-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Dr Eric Debayle, ENS Lyon.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Cultured Birds? Social networks, personality and social learning in parids.

Dr Lucy Aplin, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mapping Gene Regulatory Networks in Arabidopsis and Tomato Roots

Siobahn Brady, UC Davis.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Applications of adjoint methods to modelling post-glacial sea level

David Al-Attar, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The Assembly of Coevolving Interactions

Prof. John N Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Teaching: Inspiration, Innovation and Investigation

Katharine Hubbard, Teaching Associate.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Genetic Architecture of Natural Ionomic Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

David Salt, University of Aberdeen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Dynamic topography, true polar wander and their potential role in the onset of northern hemisphere glaciations

Dr Bernhard Steinberger, GFZ Potsdam.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Global seismic tomography based on 3D wave simulations and adjoint methods

Dr Ebru Bozdag, University of Nice.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Terrane stations: intra-oceanic subduction assembled Cordilleran North America

Dr Karin Sigloch, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Estimates of elastic thickness from GOCE data

Prof Dan McKenzie, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of behavior through niche construction: architect crabs, cultured monkeys, and gossipy humans

Mark Laidre (Dartmouth College).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Monday 19 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mantle Dynamics, Isostasy, and Surface Topography

Prof Peter Molnar.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Friday 16 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Core-mantle differentiation in planetesimals and planetary embryos

Prof Yanick Ricard, ENS-Lyon.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Flow and flexure in the Earth’s crust

Dr Jerome Neufeld, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Land surveying in the post-Roman West

John Blair, The Queen's College, Oxford.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 17:30-19:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Full-waveform inversion: high-resolution, high-fidelity, seismic properties from 3D field data

Prof Mike Warner, Imperial College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What Biologists can learn from bats

Egbert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical research Institute.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Wheat breeding for sustainable productivity, an oxymoron waiting to happen?

This is a CPPS seminar - note the time change

Richard Summers (RAGT).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

From Individuals to Populations: Decision-making, Social Networks, and Population Processes in wild songbirds

Damien Farine - Oxford University, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 18 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Message ends: How alternative polyadenylation of mRNAs affects plant gene expression and development

Gordon Simpson (James Hutton Institute, Dundee).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Ongoing deglaciation in Iceland: the impact on volcanic activity

Dr Andy Hooper, University of Leeds.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The wandering Irish badger – contrasts with the GB stereotype

Nicola Marples, Trinity College, Dublin.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 11 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sympatric speciation on islands

This is a Sporne seminar. Venue = Sainsbury Lab

Vincent Savolainen (Imperial College, London).

Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Recording P waves everywhere in the oceans

Prof Guust Nolet, University of Nice.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What and where is the information on animal vocalisations?

Arik Kershenbaum (NIMBS Tennessee).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 12:00-13:00