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If you have a question about this list, please contact: Albert Kang. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 34 upcoming talks and 3684 talks in the archive: show all (slow!). Babraham Distinguished Seminar - Lipid switches in cell physiology: From nutrient signals to diseaseThe talk will be 45 minutes followed by networking tea, coffee & cake. Prof Volker Haucke; Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP). Petersfield Lecture Theatre, Babraham Research Campus. Thursday 28 March 2024, 13:00-14:30 Cutting back malaria: CRISPR-based approaches for antimalarial target discoveryProfessor Marcus Lee - Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee. Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 20 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Screening Approaches for the Identification of Covalent Peptide InhibitorsScott Lovell, University of Bath. Monday 18 March 2024, 12:30-13:30 Misinformation: Will it get better or worse and what can we do about it?Mevan Babakar, Google . https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09. Friday 15 March 2024, 12:00-13:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Folding a Protein: Nature’s OrigamiProf Sheena Radford. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:00-19:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Bayesian behavioural-change epidemic models: is your population alarmed?”This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vceqsqDwtHNLalYuBk7GmojclSXN5wIcE Rob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Private Data Analysis over Large PopulationsProfessor Graham Cormode - Research Scientist, Facebook and professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick. Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 13 March 2024, 15:05-15:55 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Using Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data to Investigate the Causal Effect of Salvage Therapy after Prostatectomy"This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclceGorT0qE9YE3YCcRSFhCPPH_6ZNFPgh Dimitris Rizopoulos, Professor of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. Tuesday 12 March 2024, 12:00-13:00 Mechanisms underlying colour pattern variation within and between species of cichlid fishesEmilia Santos, Department of Zoology. in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online. Monday 11 March 2024, 14:30-15:30 How the Cultural Revolution still shapes ChinaMs Tania Branigan. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Controlling the cell cyclePaul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-14:00 Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative AnswersAlexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig . Friday 08 March 2024, 12:00-13:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Mathematical modelling to develop insights into cancer evolutionDr Weini Huang. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00 Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNAHost - Charlotte Houldcroft Professor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Uncertainty Quantification in the Digital Medicine Era"This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsduitrTotGNZxFmtFPPAx6Jh2LZfCYbV3 Marcos Matabuena, Harvard University . MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Distribution Shifts in Human-Centered Representation LearningDr Ali Etemad - Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Canada. Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 06 March 2024, 15:05-15:55 Expanding BioID: the nuclear pore complex of trypanosomesDr Susanne Kramer - Universität Wüerzburg - Germany.. Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society How Religion Evolved and Why It EnduresProf Robin Dunbar. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:30 Holly Lovegrove: Mitosis in Motion: Cell division during collective cell migration; Leo Otsuki: Puzzling out tissue regeneration.Holly Lovegrove, University of Manchester and Leo Otsuki, Elly Tanaka lab, IMP, Vienna . Monday 04 March 2024, 14:30-15:30 Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cellsProfessor Nick Lane, University College London. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series The development and evolution of the mammalian jaw jointNeil Anthwal, Kings College London. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 01 March 2024, 13:00-14:00 LLMs: Everything’s Different and Nothing Has ChangedEmma Strubell, CMU. Friday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:00 Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.Host - Erik Clark Professor Shelby Blythe from Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, USA . Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology A Data-Free, Universal Prior Distribution for Syntactic StructuresDr Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 28 February 2024, 15:05-15:55 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Cell fate transitions and the secret life of histonesDr Maria Christophorou. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30 CRISPy Chickens-screening fate transitions from caudal epiblast to neural tube-Ashley Libby; Coupling mitochondrial energy metabolism to branching morphogenesis in the developing avian lung-Bezia Lemma.Ashley Libby, Briscoe lab,The Francis Crick Institute; and Bezia Lemma, Nelson lab, Princeton University. Monday 26 February 2024, 14:30-15:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Cell size - A new hallmark of aging?Jette Lengefeld, University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institute. Monday 26 February 2024, 12:30-13:30 Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in ArtProfessor Frances Spalding. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransductionAlessandro Mongera, University College London. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 Integrating Combinatorial Solvers and Neural ModelsPasquale Minervi, University of Edinburgh. https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09. Friday 23 February 2024, 12:00-13:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Mapping DNA replication stress in cancer cells and parasites with long-read sequencing and AIDr Michael Boemo. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 22 February 2024, 16:00-17:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Making Large Language Models Safe: A Case Study of Llama2Pushkar Mishra - Lead AI Research Engineer, Meta and Computer Science Part 1B Supervisor, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 21 February 2024, 15:05-15:55 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Statistical modelling for state-of-the-art gene editing experiments"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdOmqqzsuE9HyOT32ptW3DZiTCmkZT-3X#/registration Magdalena Strauss, European Bioinformatics Institute . MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Antibodies and their peptide mimics as pharmaceutical drugsSir Gregory Winter. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 19 February 2024, 18:00-19:30 Insights into the mechanism of hind limb initiation in Xenopus laevisJohn Young, Department of Biology, Simmons University. Monday 19 February 2024, 14:30-15:30 The Exoplanet RevolutionProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource LanguagesPriyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind. Friday 16 February 2024, 12:00-13:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Modelling Blood Cell Development across Molecular and Tissue ScalesBertie Gottgens, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Deciphering Developmental DisordersMatthew Hurles, Sanger Institute. Thursday 15 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Graph Neural Networks for skillful weather forecastingDr Ferran Alet - Research Scientist, Google DeepMind. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 14 February 2024, 15:05-15:55 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYocuCvpjotHNQoiEBwivER-WSnaKd-IlFw Ida Scheel, University of Oslo. Tuesday 13 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society What’s in a Face? How Facial Expressions Influence Decision-MakingDr Danielle Shore . Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:30 Temporal patterning during development and tumorigenesisThis seminar will be host at PDN and we will be streaming it on zoom as well, for details please check our email or website. Cedric Maurange, IBDM, Marseille,France. Monday 12 February 2024, 14:30-15:30 A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisisDr Iain McGilchrist. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Drosophila AP patterning: networks, dynamics, evolution, and robustnessErik Clark, Department of Genetics. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 09 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 Employing Psycholinguistics to Understand Decoding in Probabilistic Language GeneratorsClara Meister, ETH Zurich. https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09. Friday 09 February 2024, 12:00-13:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Horizonal gene transfer in transmissible cancersProf. Elizabeth Murchison. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00 When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticityHost - Steve Russell Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology The Compilation Game: Unifying AI, Hardware Design, Quantum, Climate Modelling, and VerificationDr Tobias Grosser - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 07 February 2024, 15:05-15:55 What is still so fascinating about the trypanosome coat?Prof Markus Engstler - Universität Wüerzburg - Germany. Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial InfectionsProfessor Sir Tom Blundell. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:30 Echinoderm embryos to model epithelial morphogenesis: from cell biology to evo-devoVanessa Barone, Hopkins Marine Station, Biology Department, Stanford University. Monday 05 February 2024, 14:30-15:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Functional studies of genetic variation using precision genome editingDr Francisco J Sanchez-Rivera, Koch Institute at MIT. Monday 05 February 2024, 12:30-13:30 Are Revolutions Justified?Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series TBAHansong Ma, University of Birmingham. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 02 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 This talk is cancelled - Modeling Cognitive Complexity in NLPLisa Beinborn, VU Amsterdam. https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.. Friday 02 February 2024, 12:00-13:00 Epigenetic InheritanceHost - Ritwick Sawarkar Dr Nicola Iovino from Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg. Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 Reassessing red blood cell invasion in malaria parasitesPlease note 16:00 start time for this seminar Dr Robert Moon - LSHTM. Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Semiparametric posterior corrections"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-quqjkiHtRsIwSM3Sec0QFfHrtRftXa Andrew Yiu, University of Oxford. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society [CANCELLED] Birds of a Feather: the Deep History of Dinosaur SkinProf Paul Barrett. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:30 *CANCELLED*: Cortical microtubules shape cell walls to support a wide range of functionsSorry due to some unforeseen circumstances, this talk is cancelled and will be reschedulled in next term hopefully. EE (Eva) Deinum, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research. in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online. Monday 29 January 2024, 14:30-15:30 The Genetic RevolutionsProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30 Revisiting the Optimality of Word LengthsTiago Pimentel. https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09. Friday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:00 The Mechanics of Cancer Cell DivisionHost - Ben Steventon Dr Helen Matthews from School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Quantum computing via the lens of additive combinatoricsDr Tom Gur - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 24 January 2024, 15:05-15:55 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Causal machine learning for biomarker subgroup discovery in randomised trials".This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rf-qppzwsEtEisA_2ZCkA3KoJ3d53uW1P Paul Newcombe, GlaxoSmithKline. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in DrosophilaHost - Felipe Karam Teixeira Professor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:00-14:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Of Odour Plumes and Synchrotrons: Structure and Function of Neural CircuitsAndreas Schaefer. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 22 January 2024, 18:00-19:30 From microscopy images to mechanical models of tissues and backHervé Turlier, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, College de France. Monday 22 January 2024, 14:30-15:30 On the Disappointment of RevolutionsProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30 Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based PruningJulius Cheng (University of Cambridge). Friday 19 January 2024, 12:00-13:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Mapping stromal heterogeneity and immunosuppression in breast cancerPlease note change of time to 11.30-12.30 Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou. Thursday 14 December 2023, 11:30-12:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Hyper-Localization and Predictive Modeling of Rapid Lung Function Decline in Cystic Fibrosis"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOyurDkjHdO0RzdaqWctUrYMks1YPvY1 Rhonda Szczesniak and Emrah Gecili, both from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 Investigating host-parasite interactions in malaria to improve diagnostics and treatmentsProf Aubrey Cunnington - Imperial College London. Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineagesHost - Zach Baker Professor Daniel Falush from Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Wednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Unravelling the mechanisms and decision-making logic of biological systems"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtdOisrTosGNIMVJIXmGuq2X_so_tpo7s6 Giorgos Minas, St Andrew's University. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series New models to study human embryo implantation and early developmentDr. Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 01 December 2023, 13:00-14:00 Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLPSeraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere). Friday 01 December 2023, 12:00-13:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology A brief introduction to causal inferenceDr Apinan Hasthanasombat - Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 29 November 2023, 15:05-15:55 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes QuantizedSir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30 Multicellular and extracellular matrix dynamics underlying skin morphogenesis.Dr. Hironobu Fujiwara, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Kobe, Japan. Monday 27 November 2023, 14:30-15:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Exploring cell heterogeneity in health and disease using single-cell proteomics and transcriptomicsErwin Schoof, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Monday 27 November 2023, 12:30-13:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series TBCDr. Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 24 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 Efficiency by ConstructionFermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge). Friday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:00 Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural developmentHost - Ben Steventon Professor Nancy Papolopulu, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Cross-lingual transfer learning with multilingual masked language modelsProfessor Mamoru Komachi - Research Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 22 November 2023, 15:05-15:55 CANCELLED: Unravelling the whipworm niche at the host intestinal epitheliaUnfortunately, this seminar had to be cancelled. There will be a new date for it soon. Dr Maria Duque-Correa - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute - UoC. Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learningDr Brendan Swain. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "A new frequentist implementation of the Daniels and Hughes bivariate meta-analysis model for surrogate outcomes"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcuuurzIuGtEUj6y8h6vKpM1Krt5hj60L Dan Jackson, AstraZeneca. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Short CutsProf Ian Fleming. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:30 How Cell and Tissue Geometry Influences MorphogenesisDr. Yohanns Bellaiche, Institut Curie . Monday 20 November 2023, 14:30-15:30 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Seminar CancelledSeminar Cancelled - to be rescheduled in 2024 Karen Vousden. Monday 20 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 The evolution of organs and cell types.Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira from The Francis Crick Institute, London . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science Wheeler Lecture 2023: Beyond functional programming: a taste of VerseProfessor Simon Peyton Jones - Honorary Distinguished Fellow of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory. Wednesday 15 November 2023, 15:00-16:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Harnessing Extra Randomness: Replicability, Flexibility and Causality"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAofuihqzgvHNyG24AgAAytgHlr1nmpetpx Richard Guo, Stas Lab, University of Cambridge. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technologyDr Lyn Evans CBE, CERN. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:30 Turning biological morphology into numbersDr. Virginie Uhlmann, EMBL. Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium+online. Monday 13 November 2023, 14:30-15:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Circuit basis of learning and decision-makingDr. Marta Zlatic, MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 10 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language ProcessingNafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield). Friday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:00 Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something newHost - Charlotte Houldcroft Dr Lucy van Dorp from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Coherence Attacks and Defenses in 2.5D Integrated SystemsProfessor Paul Gratz - Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University. Visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge . Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 08 November 2023, 15:05-15:55 Drosophila axis extension is robust to an orthogonal pull by invaginating mesoderm-Dr. Claire Lye; Decoding cell fates in the shoot apical meristem through single-nuclei transcriptomics-Dr. Sebastian Moreno.Dr. Sebastian Moreno, Sainsbury Laboratory and Dr. Claire Lye, PDN. Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium+online. Tuesday 07 November 2023, 14:30-15:30 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological BoundariesDr Tamar Makin. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:30 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer First in human evaluation of CDK9 inhibition with KB-0742 in solid tumorsPlease note this seminar is on a Monday Richard Cutler PhD, Kronos Bio, Inc.. Monday 06 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 Avoiding AI's "Moore's Law": Why we are building a ladder to the moonSara Hooker (Cohere For AI). https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09. Friday 03 November 2023, 15:00-16:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Zebrafish trunk neural crest: an in vivo model to understand cell migration under physiological mechanical stressDr. Elena Scarpa, Department of Phhysiology, Development and Neuroscience. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 03 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Pathfinding for 10k agentsDr Keisuke Okumura - Visiting scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 01 November 2023, 15:05-15:55 Genome editing of red cell precursors and Plasmodium falciparum to study host-parasite interactions in malariaProf Alex Rowe (University of Edinburgh). Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Degron peptides: Cancer mutation hotspots and tools for synthetic biologyThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Andrew Wood; University of Edinburgh. Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Tuesday 31 October 2023, 13:30-14:30 Coordinated alternative splicing in development, featuring Transformer2b and ciliary tissues.-Dr. Charlotte Softley.Dr. Holliday Lovegrove, Univ of Manchester & Dr. Charlotte Softley, University Clinic Freiburg. Monday 30 October 2023, 14:30-15:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransductionDr. Alessandro Mongera, University College London. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 27 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech SynthesisGleb Mazovetskiy (Google). Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology An invitation to univalent foundations of mathematicsDr Jon Sterling - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 25 October 2023, 15:05-15:55 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Dynamic survival analysis: modelling the hazard function via ordinary differential equations"This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlce-spjIqHdQ4PYgBuSHSUSDRmLBAJQ5n Dr F. Javier Rubio, University College London. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegenerationProf David Rubinsztein. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:30 Mitotic rewiring on evolutionary timescalesDr. Gautam Dey, EMBL. Monday 23 October 2023, 14:30-15:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute TBCFernando Santini, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Monday 23 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Collaborative Pretraining on Evolving Pretraining and Small Manageable TasksLeshem Choshen (IBM AI research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem). https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09#success. Friday 20 October 2023, 12:00-13:00 Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolutionHost - Erik Clark Professor Yolanda Schaerli from Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Custom low-cost "robotics" and AI: Plant-parasitic nematode phenotyping, at scaleDr Sebastian Eves-van den Akker. Department of Plant Sciences - University of Cambridge. Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 18 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cold temperature delays aging and proteostasis collapseThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Prof David Vilchez Guerrero; CECAD, University Hospital of Cologne. Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Tuesday 17 October 2023, 13:30-14:30 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.Sir Peter Ratcliffe. Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00-19:30 Dr. Natasha Shylo-Morphological changes and two Nodal paralogs drive left-right asymmetry in the squamate veiled chameleon; Dr. Nicole Edwards-Discovering the developmental basis of trachea-esophageal birth defects: evidence for endosomeopathies.Dr. Natasha Shylo, Stowers Institute for Medical Research & Dr. Nicole Edwards, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Monday 16 October 2023, 14:30-15:30 Organismal Proteostasis: Collapse in Aging and Rejuvenation ApproachesThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Prof Rick Morimoto; Northwestern University . Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Monday 16 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Physical patterning of the cytosol in giant cellsProf. Amy Gladfelter, Duke University. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 13 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology How can we make trustworthy AI?Professor Mateja Jamnik - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 11 October 2023, 15:05-15:55 Evading ageing: Mitochondrial and proteostatic adaptations in oocytesThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Elvan Böke; Centre for Genomic Regulation. Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Tuesday 10 October 2023, 13:30-14:30 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular DiscoveryProf Adam Nelson. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:30 Role of mechano-gated ion channels in epithelial tissue morphogenesisProf. Jorg Grosshans, Philipps University Marburg, Germany. Monday 09 October 2023, 14:30-15:30 Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind). Computer Laboratory, room SS03. Friday 06 October 2023, 12:00-13:00 Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptationHost - John Welch Professor Michael Whitlock from Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 The Burden of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Nigeria, Control Efforts and the Need for Research CollaborationProfessor Olaoluwa Pheabian Akinwale - Nigerian Institute of Medical Research. Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Some advances and applications of robust gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdOypqTwrH9LeiEEIL8dXxO_IpOC8lVMS Sam Livingstone, University College London. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 03 October 2023, 15:00-16:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer How cilia signalPlease note this seminar is on a Monday Jeremy Reiter, UCSF. Monday 02 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Updates and opportunities offered by whole genome sequencing on the Cambridge Biomedical Research CampusPlease note this seminar is on a Monday Serena Nik-Zainal, Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge. Monday 18 September 2023, 13:00-14:00 Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of fliesHost - Erik Clark Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott from the Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Wednesday 13 September 2023, 14:00-15:00 Regrow with the flow: Mechanosensation in the regenerating zebrafish spinal cordThis seminar will take place in the Queen Edith Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Samuel Crossman; The Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University . Monday 11 September 2023, 13:30-14:30 Culturing Change: A Journey to Māori Equity in Biomedical ResearchThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Georgia Carson; Malaghan Institute of Medical Research. King's Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Tuesday 15 August 2023, 13:30-14:30 Science publishing and publishing in ScienceThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Stella Hurtley; Science Magazine . King's Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Wednesday 05 July 2023, 13:30-14:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPasesPau Castel, NYU School of Medicine. Tuesday 04 July 2023, 14:00-15:00 Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPasesThis seminar will take place in the Queen Edith's Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Pau Castel; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine. Queen Edith's Room, Babraham Research Campus. Monday 03 July 2023, 14:30-15:30 Epigenome Function: from molecular mechanisms to intergenerational inheritanceThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Jamie Hackett; EMBL. King's Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Tuesday 27 June 2023, 13:30-14:30 Liquid–liquid phase separation in autophagyThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Hong Zhang; Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. King's Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Wednesday 21 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 Activation-induced proteome re-modelling in B cells and the role of mTORC1This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Andy Howden; University of Dundee. Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Tuesday 20 June 2023, 13:30-14:30 Connecting spaces and scales in embryoshttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Jesse Veenvliet. Monday 19 June 2023, 14:30-15:30 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Title to be confirmed**Seminar cancelled** to be rescheduled in 2024 Nikolaus Rajewsky. Thursday 15 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular levelProf. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University). Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 Establishing a structure-function relationship between biomolecular condensates and protein degradationThis seminar will take place in the Queen Edith Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Janet Kumita; Dept of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge . Queen Edith's Room, Babraham Research Campus. Tuesday 13 June 2023, 13:30-14:30 Cued or cueless? Mechanisms that shape mesoderm and enable cell ingressionhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Sevan Hopyan . Monday 12 June 2023, 14:30-15:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3BDr. Courtney Hanna, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosience. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 09 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language InferenceMarie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University). Friday 09 June 2023, 12:00-13:00 LGBTQ+ in Academia: Challenges and ProspectsThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Prof Ewan St John Smith; Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge. King's Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Friday 09 June 2023, 09:30-10:30 Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South AsiansHost - Richard Durbin Dr Hilary Martin from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the timeDr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University). Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian analysis of diffusion-driven multi-type epidemic models with application to COVID-19'This will be an online seminar. To register to attend, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocO6qrTsiH9V3mlmvd_EOYT1sTBOKOmUZ Dr Lampros Bouranis, Athens University of Economics and Business. Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 Opening doors and boosting energy: cellular programs that enable macrophage tissue infiltration.https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Daria Siekhaus, ISTA, Vienna Austria. Monday 05 June 2023, 14:30-15:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Molecular mechanisms of oocyte specification in female germline cystsDr. Dmitry Nashchekin, Gurdon Institute . Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 02 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLPDustin Wright (University of Copenhagen). Friday 02 June 2023, 12:00-13:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Privacy in mobility measurementsProfessor Jörg Ott - Technische Universität München. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 31 May 2023, 15:05-15:55 Evolution and Development Seminar Series Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological noveltiesDr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona). Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Progenitor niches in the developing pancreas: regulation of cell fate and beyondProf. Francesca Spagnoli, Kings College London. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 26 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 Interpretable Multi-hop Question AnsweringZhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge). Friday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Bayes in the age of intelligent machinesProfessor Tom Griffiths - Princeton University. Wednesday 24 May 2023, 15:05-15:55 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Modelling the response to vaccine in non-human primates to define SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection'This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-usqDovGdf1TbAtYgsGCRJmoz0Hmbfi Mélanie Prague, Inria, University of Bordeaux. Tuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 Are plant cells balloons? A biomechanical perspective on plant cell growth.https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Yuchen Long . Monday 22 May 2023, 14:30-15:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute OpenFold: Lessons learned and insights gained from rebuilding and retraining AlphaFold2.On Zoom Only Mohammed AlQuarishi, Columbia University. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94647233365?pwd=SGlubDdCL2ZSTWJvNHNjV0NiWHM5dz09. Monday 22 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Temporal development and maturation of CSF-producing choroid plexus organoidsDr. Laura Pellegrini, Kings College London/ MRC LMB. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 19 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in AmharicSeid Muhie Yimam (HCDS, University of Hamburg). Friday 19 May 2023, 12:00-13:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Seminar cancelled**Seminar cancelled** to be rescheduled in 2024 Polly Fordyce, Stanford University. Thursday 18 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 Three proteins walk into a "var"…Dr Jessica Bryant (Institut Pasteur, Paris) . Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 17 May 2023, 16:00-17:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural developmentDr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London). Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 Computational and Systems Biology CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposiummultiple. Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Wednesday 17 May 2023, 09:45-17:15 Selection Events in Germinal CentresThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Oliver Bannard; The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Tuesday 16 May 2023, 13:30-14:30 You shall not pass! How ectoderm patterning modulates lateral mesendoderm migration in the early zebrafish gastrula.https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Stefania Tavano, ISTA Vienna, Austria . Monday 15 May 2023, 14:30-15:30 STOMATA DIVISION ORIENTATION: INTERPLAY BETWEEN GEOMETRY, GROWTH, AND MECHANICAL STRESShttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Leo Serra The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, United Kingdom . Monday 15 May 2023, 14:30-15:30 Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language ModelsVered Shwartz (University of British Columbia). Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Sticky proteins and moving genomes: a single-molecule perspective of pluripotent cell differentiationSpeaker to be confirmed. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 12 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaksHost - Henrik Salje Professor Philippe Lemey from Clinical and Epidemiological Virology Rega Institute, K.U. Leuven . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 Accounting for Carbon Emissions - Flows, scopes and dataThis seminar will take place in the Petersfield Lecture Theatre please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Katarina McCartney; University of Cambridge . Petersfield Lecture Theatre, Babraham Research Campus. Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00 The role of small non-coding RNAs in Strongyloides parasitismDr Vicky Hunt (University of Bath). Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 10 May 2023, 16:00-17:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Learning the topology of complex systems from their dynamicsProfessor Ginestra Bianconi - Queen Mary University of London. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:05-15:55 Evolution and Development Seminar Series Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian developmentDr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London). Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 Is Resolution the End of Inflammation? Nope! There is more, lots more….This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Professor Derek Gilroy; University College London . Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Tuesday 09 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 How do autophagosomes form and grow?This seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Alex van Vliet; MRC LMB. Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Friday 05 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Decision making without genes?Prof Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory For Molecular Cell Bology UCL. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 05 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Small Cell Lung Cancer from biology to biomarkersCaroline Dive, CRUK Manchester Institute. Thursday 04 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 The deafening silence of Plasmodium falciparum asymptomatic infectionsDr Antoine Claessens (Université Montpellier, France). Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 03 May 2023, 16:00-17:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology From the GUI to ChatGPT: a historical sketch of HCI research agendas and their applicability todayProfessor Richard Harper - Lancaster University. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 03 May 2023, 15:05-15:55 Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language InferenceJoe Stacey (Imperial College London). Friday 28 April 2023, 12:00-13:00 Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancerHost - Cahir O'Kane Professor Serena Nik-Zainal from Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge. Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 Genome-wide functional profiling and its application to decoding mitotic regulation in trypanosomesDr Bill Wickstead (University on Nottingham) . Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 26 April 2023, 16:00-17:00 Genetic features controlling the specific expression of developmental genesThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Alvaro Rada-Iglesias; Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria. Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:30-14:30 Evolution and Development Seminar Series The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiationDr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen). Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:00 Patterning and folding of intestinal villi by active mesenchymal dewettingTyler Huycke (UCSF). Monday 24 April 2023, 14:30-15:30 Modelling active morphogenesis of patterned epitheliahttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Diana Khoromskaia (Crick Institute, London). Monday 24 April 2023, 14:30-15:30 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Stressing out our immune system in chronic infection and cancerSusan Kaech. Thursday 20 April 2023, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Experiments with Incomplete Covariate and Outcome Data'Prof Fan Li, Duke University . Tuesday 18 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 The Tock Tick of SenescenceThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Prof Cleo Bishop; Barts and The London Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. Tuesday 18 April 2023, 13:30-14:30 CANCELLED Early infection response of the first-trimester placenta at single cell resolutionThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details Dr Roser Vento-Tormo (Wellcome Sanger Institute). Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 05 April 2023, 16:00-17:00 Regulation of DNA repair by monoubiquitin signalsThis webinar will take place in the Queen Edith Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Professor Helen Walden; University of Glasgow. Queen Edith's Room; Babraham Research Campus. Thursday 30 March 2023, 11:00-12:00 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancersJason Sheltzer, Yale School of Medicine. Monday 27 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer A DNA methylation atlas of normal human cell typesTommy Kaplan, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Thursday 23 March 2023, 13:00-14:00 Maintaining diversity while maximising affinity - IL-21 and the balancing act of B cell selectionThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Isaak Quast; Monash University . Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Wednesday 22 March 2023, 14:30-15:30 AMPK phosphorylation of FNIP1 dictates the kinetics of lysosome and mitochondrial biogenesisThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Nazma Malik; Salk Institute . Kings Hedges Room, Babraham Research Campus. Friday 17 March 2023, 13:30-14:30 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology TALK CANCELLED: Explicit Weakening (A Functional Pearl)Professor Philip Wadler - Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 15 March 2023, 15:05-15:55 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Finding Target-Disease-Drug evidences from Literature and supporting curators. Please note: the details of this talk have changedOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Matthew Jeffryes and Santosh Tirunagari, EMBL-EBI. Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society An Old Story: What happens to tissues when we ageProf. Melinda Duer. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:30 Connecting spaces and scales in embryoshttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Jesse Veenvliet . Monday 13 March 2023, 14:30-15:30 Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at playProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Form and function during early heart developmentRichard Tyser, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 10 March 2023, 13:00-14:00 Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource LanguagesAsmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR). Friday 10 March 2023, 12:00-13:00 SchistoTrack: A community-based, prospective cohort in rural Uganda to examine causes of periportal fibrosis associated with hepatic schistosomiasisThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details Dr Goylette Chami. Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Thursday 09 March 2023, 16:00-17:00 Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term HealthHost - Charlotte Houldcroft Dr Trevor Lawley from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-14:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Discovering the gene networks that regulate hungerOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Katherine Lawler, Research Associate Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital. Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfishDr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer). Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Methods for Bayesian optimal design of experiments, with application in biological science’This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrd-uoqjMiGN3f68WQc7zJQ7LmM4sZa2rx Prof Dave Woods, University of Southampton. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Life and death of cells a mystery solved through biomechanicshttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) . Monday 06 March 2023, 14:30-15:30 Mechanics and patterning combine to orient cell divisions in a planar polarised epitheliumhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Guy Blanchard, PDN, University of Cambridge. Monday 06 March 2023, 14:30-15:30 The Self-Imposed Isolation of North KoreaProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Tumor initiation through aberrant differentiationWalid Khaled, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 03 March 2023, 13:00-14:00 An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not EnoughFabio Tollon (Bielefeld University). Friday 03 March 2023, 12:00-13:00 Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genomeHost - Erik Clark Dr Mounia Lagha from Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France . Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom. Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Epigenetic memoirs of a parasiteThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details. Dr Richard Bartfai (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands) . Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 01 March 2023, 16:00-17:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Backdoors in Machine Learning ModelsDr Ilia Shumailov - Christ Church, University of Oxford. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 01 March 2023, 15:05-15:55 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Computational Biology in Drug DiscoveryOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Philippe Sanseau, GSK Senior Fellow, Head In Silico Target Biology, Computational Biology, Genomic Sciences. Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series The developmental origin of colour patterns in birdsDr Marie Manceau (College De France). Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Going small to tackle big challenges – using microalgae to develop sustainable solutionsProf. Alison Smith. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:30 On the specification of leaf dorsiventralityhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Agata Burian (University of Silesia in Katowice) . Monday 27 February 2023, 14:30-15:30 Are we alone in the Universe?Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Encoding and decoding morphogen gradientsJean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute, London. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 24 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 Modular and Compositional Transfer LearningJonas Pfeiffer (Google Research). Friday 24 February 2023, 12:00-13:00 Mechanism of neural differentiationHost – Lara Busby Professor Kate Storey from School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom. Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Collective T cell behaviour in health and diseaseThis seminar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Audrey Gerard; Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford . Thursday 23 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Tumor genomes shed light into somatic mutational processes and cancer vulnerabilitiesNuria Lopez-Bigas. Thursday 23 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Data Science and Machine Learning in ContextDr. Alfred Z. Spector Visiting Scholar, MIT EECS. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 22 February 2023, 15:05-15:55 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Seeing the UnseenOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Jordan P. Skittrall, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Virology and Honorary Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Medical Virology, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology. Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian Covariance Structure Modelling of Clinical Trial Data'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpf-uvrDMiGtLpMKemoVfOPmiD91Ju0-Xq Stef Baas, University of Twente. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Chemical Biology in Antibiotic and Anticancer Drug DiscoveryThomas Lanyon-Hogg. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 20 February 2023, 18:00-19:30 Building and Breaking the Neural Tubehttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Clare Buckley (PDN, University of Cambridge) . Monday 20 February 2023, 14:30-15:30 Isolation and Trapping using Optical TweezersProfessor Philip Jones, University College London. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series New tricks for Rac and Rho, even after 30 yearsDenise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara, US. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 17 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 Narrative Summarization from Multiple ViewsPinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind). Friday 17 February 2023, 12:00-13:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Memorial Event for Alexander 'Sandy' FraserVarious. Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 15 February 2023, 16:00-18:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Mapping DNA replication stress in parasites and cancer cells with long-read sequencing and AIOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Dr. Michael A. Boemo, Research Group Leader, Department of Pathology. Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series The origins of land plant complexity: interpreting development in the DevonianDr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh). Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 15 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'From Data to Decisions: Causal Inference Motivated by Policy Questions'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwodOytqjItGNL_he9tZXSxmdT7KTWWQRgF Prof Mats Stensrud, EPFL. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and the Reign of the MammalsProf. Steve Brusatte. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:30 Cephalo-pelvic integration in hybrid mouse models and implications for human obstructed labourhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Eva Zaffarini (McCaig Institute, University of Calgary). Monday 13 February 2023, 14:30-15:30 Junctional Remodelling in Vascular Morphogenesishttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Maria Paraskevi Kotini (Biozentrum, Basel Switzerland). Monday 13 February 2023, 14:30-15:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Mammalian Synthetic Biology – Biomolecular Circuits as MedicineXiaojing Gao, Stanford University. Monday 13 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Antarctica:Isolated ContinentProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Heterotypic Amyloid Interactions and their Impact on Amyloid AssemblyThis webinar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Prof Frederic Rousseau; VIB SWITCH Laboratory, KU Leuven. Friday 10 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 Humoral immunity in the lung; spatiotemporal regulation of resident memory B cell responses to infection with influenza virusThis webinar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Tal Arnon; Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford. Thursday 09 February 2023, 13:30-14:30 Can small RNAs help address the big issues in helminth parasite control?This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details. Dr Paul McVeigh (Queen's University, Belfast). Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 08 February 2023, 16:00-17:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Research in the Goldman group: pandemic-scale phylogenetics, and optimizing new sequencing technologiesOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Nick Goldman and Nicola De Maio, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute. Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society From cells to continents: Understanding how bacteria evolve and transmitDr. Josephine Bryant. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 06 February 2023, 18:00-19:30 The Closeting of SecretsProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error CorrectionShiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge). Computer Laboratory, Room FW09. Friday 03 February 2023, 12:00-13:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Does computational biology explain Fibonacci numbers in plants?Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest Jonathan Swinton. Wednesday 01 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plantsDr Laura Moody (University of Oxford). Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Phases of research for statistical methods’This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtd--hrzItHtTIezm0p763Lsc95VI0Q254 Dr Tim Morris, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 31 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Using ‘omics to generate new insights into insulin-regulate glucose transport and insulin resistance & Don't drown your cells – considering oxygen tension in cell cultureThis webinar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Daniel Fazakerley; Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge. Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:30-14:30 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Space: The Final Front-queerDr. Alfredo Carpineti. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:30 Mechano-chemical feedbacks in plant regenerationKalika Prasad (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India). Monday 30 January 2023, 14:30-15:30 The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in AustraliaDr Amy Nethery, Deakin University. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30 SARS-CoV-2 VariantsThis webinar will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Prof Ravindra Gupta; University of Cambridge . Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Friday 27 January 2023, 13:30-14:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Human fetal cortex tissue models to understand human brain development and injuryKatie Long, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 27 January 2023, 13:15-14:00 GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLPDieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS). Friday 27 January 2023, 12:00-13:00 Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolutionHost - Hansong Ma Professor Heidi McBride from McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal, Quebec . Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Title to be confirmedhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Kyogo Kawaguchi . Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:30-15:30 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosisOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Ben Schreiber, Image Analysis Team, Dept of Pathology. Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Detecting National, Regional and Global Changes in Terror Activity'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf-iqrjoiGd3egbADJAIx6u477THr4Et9 Dr Sam Tickle, University of Bristol. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 24 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 RNA cap regulation in cell function and fate decisionsThis webinar will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Prof Vicky Cowling; Beatson Institute . Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Tuesday 24 January 2023, 13:00-14:00 Evolution of Morphogenesis: the case of cephalic furrowPavel Tomancak (MPI CBG, Dresden, Germany & CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic). Monday 23 January 2023, 14:30-15:30 On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and PearlsProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Influence of antidepressants on craniofacial developmentMarcia Gaete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 20 January 2023, 13:15-14:00 Exploring and Controlling Social Values in Large Language Models through Role-PlayingPaul Röttger (Oxford University). Friday 20 January 2023, 12:00-13:00 Uncovering the role of regulatory T cells in tissue regenerationThis webinar will take place online via Zoom. No registration required Dr Ye Zheng; Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivityOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology. Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different speciesHost - Richard Durbin Professor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 12 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Statistical approaches for differential analyses on transcriptomics data"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfuivpj0jEta0t6wA4iKlz8YOaojvNwdt Dr Simone Tiberi, Universita di Bologna. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 10 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omicsDan Landau, New York Genome Center | Weill Cornell Medicine. Monday 09 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Double soft-thresholded model for multi-group scalar on vector-valued image regression'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucOmvrj4pHd3vnOm5ReIZ1wmXR9x-xC1z Prof Arkaprava Roy, University of Florida. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Friday 16 December 2022, 14:00-15:00 Schistosoma-gut microbiome interactions: Implications for the pathophysiology of the infection (and more?)This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details Alba Cortéz Carbonell (Universitat de València, Spain) . Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 14 December 2022, 16:00-17:00 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not AutomatedCynthia Rudin, Duke University. Zoom. Monday 12 December 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Title to be confirmed**This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023** Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit. Thursday 08 December 2022, 13:00-14:00 Targeting mitochondrial nucleotide metabolism in cancerThis webinar will take place in the Kings Hedges Room please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Tom MacVicar; CRUK Beatson Institute . Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:00-14:00 Tuning of genome expression and energy metabolism during cellular proliferation, quiescence and ageingThis webinar will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Prof Jürg Bähler; University College London. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Tuesday 06 December 2022, 13:00-14:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Epigenetic resetting during human germline developmentWolfram Gruhn, Gurdon Institute. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 02 December 2022, 13:15-14:00 Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipelineKris Cao (DeepMind). Friday 02 December 2022, 12:00-13:00 Defining genetic and environmental determinants of malaria transmissionThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details Prof Matthew Marti. University of Glasgow.. Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:00-17:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Using Everyday Routines as a Resource for Understanding Behaviors and Making RecommendationsProfessor Anind Dey - Dean and Professor of the Information School at the University of Washington. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 30 November 2022, 15:30-16:20 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Motile behaviour and evolution of bacteria in antibiotic landscapesMeetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest Nuno Miguel Oliveira, DPhil, BBSRC Discovery Fellow & Teaching Bye-Fellow in Zoology (Christ's College). Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolutionProf Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna). Wednesday 30 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 Early mammalian development and its regulationThis will take place in the Queen Edith's Room, please contact seminars@babraham.ac.uk to request site access Dr Vincent Pasque; KU Leuven. Queen Edith's Room; Babraham Research Campus. Tuesday 29 November 2022, 13:30-14:30 Dynamics and mechanics of cell shape changes during cellular state changesEwa Paluch, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. . Monday 28 November 2022, 14:30-15:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic CancerKamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre. Zoom. Monday 28 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegansHost – Ritwick Sawarkar Dr Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Formalised Mathematics: Obstacles and AchievementsProfessor Lawrence Paulson - Department of Computer Science and Technology. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 23 November 2022, 15:05-15:55 Evolution and Development Seminar Series Origin and early evolution of vertebrateshybrid Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol). Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Using Electronic Health Records for Scientific Research: Promises and Perils”This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctduyqrjgsEtYxJkz-fTWdzMmjL7qFrnAC Professor Bhramar Mukherjee, John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Sustainable seafood for human healthDr David Willer. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 21 November 2022, 18:00-19:30 Understanding how flowering plants build communication devices on their petalsLucie Riglet, Sainsbury's Laboratory, Cambridge University. Monday 21 November 2022, 14:30-15:30 Branching morphogenesis of the lung: tales of the sculptor and the sculptureKatharine Goodwin (Princeton, MRC LMB) . Monday 21 November 2022, 14:30-15:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Fit for this world - cellular properties are set during critical periods of developmentMatthias Landgraf, Department of Zoology. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 18 November 2022, 13:15-14:00 Towards Trustworthy Natural Language ProcessingJasmijn Bastings (Google Brain). Friday 18 November 2022, 12:00-13:00 Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2Host – Henrik Salje Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel. Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer This seminar has been cancelled - we apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you**This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023** Louis Chesler, ICR. Thursday 17 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Financing Forests: A Credible Approach towards Halting Tropical DeforestationProfessor Anil Madhavapeddy - Department of Computer Science and Technology. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:05-15:55 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Knowledge Graphs for Precision OncologyMeetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest Krishna C Bulusu Director, Early Data Science Oncology Data Science, Oncology R&D AstraZeneca. Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animalshybrid Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge). Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "The HealthGap study: Using linked administrative data to understand cardiovascular health of Indigenous people living in Victoria, Australia"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpc-qtqD4iHtMcJUj5fiD4uVwRqMWP4XkI Dr Karen Lamb, University of Melbourne. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 15 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Nanoscale Engineering of Plasmonic Materials for Biosensing and BioimagingProf Fang Xie. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 14 November 2022, 18:00-19:30 Single-cell phenomics reveals behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpinning migratory activity during mouse anterior patterningShankar Srinivas, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford . Monday 14 November 2022, 14:30-15:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in DrosophilaFelipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 11 November 2022, 13:15-14:00 Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMTBryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam). Friday 11 November 2022, 12:00-13:00 Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspectiveHost – Bianca De Sanctis Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Derivative-Based Neural Modelling of Cumulative Distribution Functions for Survival Analysis"This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdu6gpjgrHd1yp38Mi3xQxgCg_5BOQThO Prof Christopher Yau, University of Oxford . Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Taming your inner parasite: novel tools to study cryptosporidiosisThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details. Dr Adam Sateriale (Francis Crick Institute). Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 09 November 2022, 16:00-17:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology CANCELLED: Turning the metaverse from myth to realityHerman Narula - CEO of Improbable. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 09 November 2022, 15:05-15:55 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator. Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine.. Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator. Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine.. Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contacthybrid Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford). Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Bioelectronic tools to study the gut-brain axisProf Roisin Owens. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 07 November 2022, 18:00-19:30 Computational Models of the Development of the Central Nervous SystemDagmar Iber, ETH Zurich (Computational Biology) . Monday 07 November 2022, 14:30-15:30 NLP for Science: Advances and ChallengesTom Hope (Allen Institute for AI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Monday 07 November 2022, 11:00-12:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Spatio-temporal control of microtubule mechanics during epithelial morphogenesisMaja Matis, University of Muenster, Germany. Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 04 November 2022, 13:15-14:00 Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop ExtrusionHost - Marco Geymonat Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London. Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles DeterminationOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Michele Vendruscolo, Co-Director, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Making all pairwise comparisons in multi-arm clinical trials without control treatment"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlc-Grrj0vHNCSqPPY92EKkTJG5Xjm5yhY Dr Thomas Burnett, University of Bath. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Reimagining Museum Collecting & Collections in Natural History: A Decolonial PerspectiveMs Miranda Lowe. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30 Submerged by 4-way junctions: how the early embryo of the brown alga Saccharina e-copesBénédicte Charrier . Monday 31 October 2022, 14:30-15:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Timescales in development: the tempo across and within speciesTeresa Rayon, Babraham Institute. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 28 October 2022, 13:15-14:00 Efficient Structured Prediction on Long TextsMrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich). Friday 28 October 2022, 12:00-13:00 Evidence for pervasive transcription in trypanosomesThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details Dr Antonio Estevez (Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina 'López-Neyra’, IPBLN-CSIC, Granada, Spain). Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 26 October 2022, 16:00-17:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Buffering genetic variation in populationsOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology Unit. Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie?Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna). Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Controlling the cell cycle: A new modelSir Paul Nurse. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 24 October 2022, 18:00-19:30 Cell extrusion—an exciting start to the end of lifeJody Rosenblatt, King's College London. Monday 24 October 2022, 14:30-15:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute TALK POSTPONEDFrancesca Buffa. Monday 24 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from textLuca Benedetto (University of Cambridge). FW09. Friday 21 October 2022, 12:00-13:00 Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates?Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira Dr Sandra Duharcourt, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite de Paris. Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Blood-stage malaria vaccine development: the impact of vaccine platform and timing of booster dosingThis talk will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Dr Carolyn Nielsen; University of Oxford. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Developing an artificial heartDr Mark Goldberg - Camp Lowell Cardiology. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 19 October 2022, 15:05-15:55 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 A semantics knowledge commons for climate changeOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Peter Murray-Rust, Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU Seminar: "Variable Selection and Prioritization in Bayesian Machine Learning Methods"This will be a free virtual seminar. To register, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc--rrT8qGNMFApbQ8304Icj6vW4CDcFo Lorin Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University . Tuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Why We Aren't Just Great ApesProf Robin Dunbar. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 17 October 2022, 18:00-19:30 Multi-organ FGF crosstalk orchestrates the construction of the water conserving cryptonephridial complex in a beetleRobin Beaven, University of Edinburgh. Monday 17 October 2022, 14:30-15:30 How tissues orchestrate growth and morphogenesis – lessons from the vertebrate retinahttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Mauricio Rocha Martins (Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal) . Monday 17 October 2022, 14:30-15:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Biofabrication and material interfaces for life science applicationsYan Yan Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 14 October 2022, 13:15-14:00 Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA BreaksHost - Lin Wang Professor David Liu, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA. Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Proteotoxic stress, p53 and cell competition: mechanisms and impact on tissue colonisationThis talk will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Prof Eugenia Piddini; University of Bristol. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Thursday 13 October 2022, 13:30-14:30 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Probing the rate limitation of a cancer driver mutationHans-Reimer Rodewald, DKFZ. Thursday 13 October 2022, 13:00-14:00 Mathematical modelling in the neglected topical disease elimination eraThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details Dr Martin Walker. (Royal Veterinary College and Imperial College London). Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology.. Wednesday 12 October 2022, 16:00-17:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Would you trust a cybercriminal?Dr Alice Hutchings - Department of Computer Science and Technology. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 12 October 2022, 15:05-15:55 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 An introduction to counts-of-counts dataMeetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest Simon Tavaré PhD Herbert and Florence Irving Director Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics & Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences Columbia University. Wednesday 12 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida)Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen). Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Climate Change and Planet Earth: A View from the PolesProf Michael Meredith. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Monday 10 October 2022, 18:00-19:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Adherens junctions, mechanotransduction and intra-epithelial communicationAlpha Yap, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 07 October 2022, 13:15-14:00 The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)Martyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University). Friday 07 October 2022, 12:00-13:00 Simple solutions to complex problems: from cell cycle regulation to anti-cancer treatmentsThis talk will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Dr Adrian Saurin; University of Dundee. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Wednesday 05 October 2022, 13:30-14:30 BYOB – Organising Appropriate Gatherings in the Lymph NodeThis talk will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Dr Ed Roberts; CRUK Beatson Institute. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Friday 30 September 2022, 13:00-14:00 Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?Host - Frank Jiggins Professor Michael Turelli, from Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, CA . Thursday 29 September 2022, 14:00-15:00 Towards a quantitative understanding of long-range transcriptional regulationThis talk will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Dr Luca Giorgetti; Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Tuesday 27 September 2022, 13:30-14:30 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer This seminar has been cancelled - we apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you**This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023** Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC Berlin. Thursday 15 September 2022, 13:00-14:00 Deciphering gene expression regulation in health and disease using integrative omics approachesThis talk will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Prof Michiel Vermeulen; Radboud University . Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Wednesday 14 September 2022, 13:30-14:30 FUS overexpression leads to cytoskeletal, organelle and cellular homeostasis perturbationsThis talk will take place online via Zoom & Queen Edith Room Prof Gabriele Kaminski Schierle; University of Cambridge. Online via zoom & Queen Edith Room. Tuesday 06 September 2022, 13:00-14:00 The B cell receptor and beyond: specialized functions of the BCR in the intestineThis talk will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Dr Carla Nowosad; NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Wednesday 31 August 2022, 13:30-14:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and prediction"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcuipqTMuGtP_pIJrVQDLQGbP3ndqAh-N David Balding, Honorary Professor of Statistical Genetics at UCL Genetics Institute and University of Melbourne. Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP. Monday 22 August 2022, 15:30-16:30 Targeting altered immune-crosstalk in tissues to enhance immunityThis talk will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Prof Arne Akbar; UCL Division of Biosciences. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Thursday 28 July 2022, 13:00-14:00 Protein Kinase Regulation by the HSP90 Molecular Chaperone SystemThis talk will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Professor Laurence Pearl; University of Sussex. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Wednesday 20 July 2022, 13:30-14:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Challenges in risk prediction using routinely collected health data"This will be a free online seminar. To register, click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdOupqDspHtK1D30gXlBykdbIvLV8DMdH Dr Elizabeth Williamson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . Thursday 14 July 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Mitochondria and Cancer - lessons learned dissecting cellular and molecular interactions**Please note this seminar will take place at 12 noon** Marica Haigis, Harvard Medical School. Thursday 14 July 2022, 12:00-13:00 Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity PredictionMartin Fajčík ( Brno University of Technology ). Tuesday 12 July 2022, 14:00-15:00 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Combining multi-omics and biological knowledge to extract disease mechanismsPlease contact Ciara for further details Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, Director of the Institute of Computational Biomedicine and Group Leader at the EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU). Monday 11 July 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Design and Inference for Enrichment Trials with a Continuous Biomarker"This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to attend virtually, please register for free here - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErduCprzwiEtQhPshDBMXcqhwlvdZtp_IP Prof William Rosenberger, George Mason University. Seminar Room 12, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 0SP. Tuesday 05 July 2022, 14:00-15:00 This Is My Life, surviving academia as a Black woman in BritainThis webinar will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Tomi Akingbade;University of Cambridge and the Founder of the Black Women in Science Network. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Friday 24 June 2022, 13:30-14:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Deciphering Shared Intratumor Transcriptional Heterogeneity of Human TumorsValentina Boeva, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Monday 20 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architecturesChristina Lioma (University of Copenhagen). Friday 17 June 2022, 12:00-13:00 Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira Professor Aurelio Teleman, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg. Thursday 16 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 Finding a needle in a haystack: Genome-wide analyses of anthelmintic resistance in helminths of livestockThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details Dr Roz Laing (University of Glasgow). Department of Pathology Lecture Theatre. Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Optimising the discovery and development of gene silencing drugs with genetics and genomics”This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudeGqrDgpH9w6XLGADT0ZoJB-ARc5EdD0 Dan Swerdlow, Silence Therapeutics . Tuesday 14 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 4D reconstruction of developmental trajectorieshttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Giovanni Dalmasso (EMBL Barcelona, Sharpe Lab) . Monday 13 June 2022, 14:30-15:30 Exploring variation in neural crest development among East African cichlid fisheshttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Aleksandra Marconi (Zoology Department, Santos lab) . Monday 13 June 2022, 14:30-15:30 (Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and PhrenologyZeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University). Monday 13 June 2022, 12:00-13:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell LevelAna Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge. Friday 10 June 2022, 13:15-14:00 An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spamAlberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna). Friday 10 June 2022, 12:00-13:00 “Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.Host : Cahir O'Kane Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences. Part II room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerabilityHost - Cahir O’Kane Professor Michael Coleman from Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus . Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Computational Inverse Design of Deployable StructuresProfessor Mark Pauly - Geometric Computing Laboratory, EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 08 June 2022, 15:05-15:55 CANCELLED!!!!!! Cell invasion: a casualty of dysregulated cell extrusionhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Jody Rosenblatt, Randall’s Division for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London.. Monday 06 June 2022, 14:30-15:30 Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model PredictionsYanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University). Wednesday 01 June 2022, 17:00-18:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Balanced Allocations: The Power of Choice versus NoiseDr Thomas Sauerwald - Department of Computer Science and Technology. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 01 June 2022, 15:05-15:55 Organoids – how can they shed light on immune-mediated development and disease?https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Geraldine Jowett (Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) . Monday 30 May 2022, 14:30-15:30 Differentiation of the extra-embryonic endoderm is required for development of the pluripotent epiblasthttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Antonia Weberling (PDN, Cambridge) . Monday 30 May 2022, 14:30-15:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in DrosophilaFelipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Friday 27 May 2022, 13:15-14:00 How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?Host - Ben Steventon Professor Simone Reber, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology AI Hardware and Real-World AIAndrew Fitzgibbon - Distinguished Engineer, Graphcore. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 25 May 2022, 15:05-15:55 Functional dissection of the genomic enhancer landscapes controlling pleiotropic gene expression and mammalian heart developmentThis webinar will take place online via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Dr Marco Osterwalder; Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Wednesday 25 May 2022, 13:30-14:30 Evolution and Development Seminar Series Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humansOn Zoom only, ask organisers for link Dr Dorit Hockman. Zoom. Wednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 Drivers of cnidarian morphogenesishttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Aissam Ikmi (EMBL, Heidelberg). Monday 23 May 2022, 14:30-15:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute The Genomic Evolution of CancerDavid Wedge, University of Manchester. Monday 23 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Neurogenic transcription factors in development and cancerRoberta Azzarelli Wellcome, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute University of Cambridge. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 20 May 2022, 13:15-14:00 Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big SurHost: Frank Jiggins Professor William Sullivan, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Virtual Seminar: “Group Testing in Structured and Dynamic Networks”This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85960970204?pwd=dnVyWUFTSkM1bjJkWGMvc0ViLzA2Zz09 Batuhan Arasli, University of Maryland. Thursday 19 May 2022, 15:00-16:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Cell Plasticity and Lineage Commitment in Liver Tumorigenesis**Please note this seminar will take place in person only** Lars Zender, University Hospital Tuebingen. Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 Language (In)Equality in Parsing and Machine Translation: Data Size is Only One Term in the EquationArianna Bisazza (University of Groningen). Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 Genome-led vaccine target discovery for parasitic infectionsThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details Professor Gavin Wright (University of York). Marjory Stephenson Seminar Room, Hopkins Building, Dept of Biochemistry. Wednesday 18 May 2022, 16:00-17:00 The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science CANCELLED: Wheeler Lecture 2022David Silver, Principal Research Scientist at DeepMind. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory. Wednesday 18 May 2022, 15:15-16:45 Evolution and Development Seminar Series One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowersHybrid, ask organisers for link Dr Edwige Moyroud. Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 Computational and Systems Biology CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2022Various. Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:00-17:00 A biophysical hypothesis for the initiation of spontaneous ALSThis webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required. Dr Liam Holt; Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University. Tuesday 17 May 2022, 15:00-16:00 Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language UnderstandingLili Mou (University of Alberta). Tuesday 17 May 2022, 12:00-13:00 Multicellular coordination in contexthttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Takashi Hiiragi, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands . Monday 16 May 2022, 14:30-15:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Dynamic buffering of extracellular chemokine to enable robust adaptation during directed tissue migrationMie Wong, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 13 May 2022, 13:15-14:00 A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell divisionHost - Marco Geymonat Dr Fernando Monje Casas, Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER), Seville. Thursday 12 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systemsHybrid, ask organisers for link Prof Gaspar Jékely. Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Optimal design of First in Human trials via dynamic programming”This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to participate virtually, please register using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvf-qgrTwrHNMDOZ_UZNN7h-wCbi90t9bA Dr Lizzi Pitt, University of Bath. Seminar Room 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital. Tuesday 10 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 My Life in Science Seminar: Determination in life, science and cellsHYBRID: Via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Professor Kathy Niakan; Francis Crick Institute . Tuesday 10 May 2022, 13:30-14:30 Cell-type-specific behaviour underlies cellular growth variability in plantshttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Daniel Kierzkowski Montreal University . Monday 09 May 2022, 14:30-15:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Cells in gels: identification of Plakoglobin as an evolutionary conserved mechanosensitive regulator of naïve pluripotencyTimo Kohler, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 06 May 2022, 13:15-14:00 Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of BehaviorAlon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University). Friday 06 May 2022, 12:00-13:00 The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genesHost - Carol Edwards Professor Jason Wolf, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath. Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Taming your intestinal parasite - building the tools to study CryptosporidiumCanceled Dr Adam Sateriale (Francis Crick Institute). Thomas Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Biochemistry (Sanger). Wednesday 04 May 2022, 16:00-17:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Safe and accurate satellite navigation with non-Gaussian modelsDr Ian Sheret - Polymath Insight Limited. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 04 May 2022, 15:05-15:55 Evolution and Development Seminar Series Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomicsHybrid, ask organisers for link Dr Jordi Solana. Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brainSumru Bayin, Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge. Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 29 April 2022, 13:15-14:00 Interactive and decomposed approaches for NLP: the case of multi-text summarizationIdo Dagan (Bar-Ilan University). Friday 29 April 2022, 12:00-13:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Title to be confirmed**Please note this seminar has been cancelled and rescheduled to 16 March 2023** Fatima Metcha-Grigoriou, Institut Curie. Thursday 28 April 2022, 13:00-14:00 Hunting the Silent Killer: Investigating Chagas disease in a murine modelThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details Dr Martin Taylor. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Marjory Stephenson Seminar Room, Hopkins Building, Dept of Biochemistry. Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:00-17:00 Evolution and Development Seminar Series Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinodermsHybrid, ask organisers for link Prof Paola Oliveri. Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology. Wednesday 27 April 2022, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Sparse Hamiltonian Flows (or: Bayesian Coresets Without all the Fuss)"This will be a virtual seminar. FREE registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-2vpz4qHNxdJ4Cm4hyLEn4BVOG5YcIt Prof Trevor Campbell, The University of British Columbia . Tuesday 26 April 2022, 14:00-15:00 Composite morphogenesis: how can a tissue fold and extend at the same timehttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09 Matteo Rauzi (IBV, Nice). Monday 25 April 2022, 14:30-15:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Drug response and tolerance in normal and cancer cellsKlaas Mulder, Molecular Developmental Biology, Radboud University. Monday 25 April 2022, 14:00-15:00 Phosphorylation-mediated signalling – a new era?This webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required Professor Claire Eyers; Department of Biochemistry & Systems Biology, University of Liverpool. Friday 22 April 2022, 13:30-14:30 Earth Day 2022 - How to save our planet: Developing win-win solutionsThis webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required Prof. Mark Maslin; Dept of Geography, University College London . Friday 22 April 2022, 11:00-12:00 Mitophagy: what, where, when and whyHYBRID: Via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Dr Ian Ganley; University of Dundee. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room. Wednesday 20 April 2022, 13:30-14:30 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Deciphering the regulation and regulatory function of oncogenic transcription factors using time-resolved functional genetics**Please note this seminar will take place on a Friday** Johannes Zuber, IMP, Vienna BioCentre. Friday 01 April 2022, 13:00-14:00 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Causality, Perturbations, Gene Regulation, and Drug RepurposingCaroline Uhler, Co-Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Zoom. Monday 28 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 Exploring PhoSfomes: from basic biology to drug discoveryHYRBID: Via Zoom & Kings Hedges Room Prof Patrick Eyers; Head of Biochemistry and Systems Biology Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology University of Liverpool. Online via zoom & Kings Hedges Room . Friday 25 March 2022, 12:00-13:00 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Cellular mechanisms of embryonic development and embryo-maternal interactions during implantationIvan Bedzhov, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany. Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 18 March 2022, 13:15-14:00 Multilingual Autoregressive Entity LinkingNicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface). Friday 18 March 2022, 12:00-13:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer Title to be confirmed**This seminar has been postponed and will be rescheduled early next year** Karen Vousden, The Crick Institute. Thursday 17 March 2022, 13:00-14:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Controlling Drug Transport With Pharmaceutical NanotechnologyProfessor Ijeoma F. Uchegbu | UCL School of Pharmacy. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Tuesday 15 March 2022, 18:00-19:30 The Political Economy of Conservation and Food SecurityProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Mechanisms of organismal stress resistance in C. elegansRebecca Taylor, Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 11 March 2022, 13:15-14:00 Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborateNate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace). Friday 11 March 2022, 12:00-14:00 Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesisHost - Chaitanya Dingare Dr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris. Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Graph Neural Networks through the lens of algebraic topology, differential geometry, and PDEsProfessor Michael Bronstein - Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 09 March 2022, 15:05-15:55 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Atmosphere-ocean interactions: Global-scale impacts on tropospheric chemistryProfessor Lucy Carpenter. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Tuesday 08 March 2022, 18:00-19:30 IWD 2022 - Bias in Science: an inspirational talk on bias mitigationThis webinar will take place online via Zoom. No registration required Dr Claartje Vinkenburg. Tuesday 08 March 2022, 15:00-16:00 Getting into shape: new insights into morphological patterning from the Drosophila wingJoin the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series Natalie Dye (POL Dresden) . Monday 07 March 2022, 14:30-15:30 Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the PastProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Coordinating cell fate decisions and tissue shape changes during mammalian developmentMarta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 04 March 2022, 13:15-14:00 Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosisCaroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge). Friday 04 March 2022, 12:00-13:00 Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using DrosophilaHost - Chaitanya Dingare Dr Susumu Hirabayashi, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London. Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 From tagging to transcription activation in trypanosomesThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details Dr Jack Sunter. Thomas Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Biochemistry (Sanger). Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Intelligent Systems of the People, by the People, for the PeopleXiaofan (Fred) Jiang - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Columbia University. Wednesday 02 March 2022, 15:05-15:55 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agentsOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Elizabeth Murchison. Wednesday 02 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 Telling membranes where to go - the macroautophagy machinery in phagocytosis and viral envelope acquisitionThis webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required Professor Christian Münz, Viral Immunobiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland. Wednesday 02 March 2022, 13:30-14:30 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Photosynthesis on an electrodeDr Jenny Zhang . Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Tuesday 01 March 2022, 18:00-19:30 The fossil origins of eukaryotic morphogenesis: exploring the beginnings of complex multicellularity in the HolozoaJoin the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series Paul K. Strother (Boston College) . Monday 28 February 2022, 14:30-15:30 Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute Accelerating drug discovery with the power of microscopy & AIAnne E Carpenter, PhD, Senior Director of the Imaging Platform, Institute Scientist, Broad Institute . https://zoom.us/j/94056313546?pwd=N1dYVFR1b0FwNmk0eGlxeDd1OVY1QT09 . Monday 28 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 Food and Cultural HistoryDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Dynamics of starvation-induced and selective autophagy in mammalian cellsNicholas Ktistakis, Babraham Institute. Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 25 February 2022, 13:15-14:00 Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural GeneratorsShashi Narayan (Google Research). Friday 25 February 2022, 12:00-13:00 Asymmetric cell division and germline immortalityHosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang Professor Yukiko Yamashita, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA. Thursday 24 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology AI x MathematicsDr Alex Davies - DeepMind and Dr Petar Veličković - DeepMind / University of Cambridge. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 23 February 2022, 15:05-15:55 Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms of cell diversification - lessons from C. elegansThis webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required Dr Luisa Cochella; Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. Wednesday 23 February 2022, 15:00-16:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Mining for meaning in electronic health records; deep semantic normalisation for precision medicine and discovery.Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Paul Schofield. Wednesday 23 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 Mechanisms generating robustness in plant organ size and shapeJoin the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series Adrienne Roeder . Monday 21 February 2022, 14:30-15:30 Food as ExpressionMr Alex Rushmer, Chef. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series In vivo exploration of biomolecular condensates in early Drosophila developmentTim Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 18 February 2022, 13:15-14:00 [POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge BasesSebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL). Friday 18 February 2022, 12:00-13:00 Using scRNAseq to understand malaria parasite development and evolutionThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person - no booking required - or via zoom. See abstract for details Dr Virginia Howick . Dixon Greaves Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 16 February 2022, 16:00-17:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Seeing the unseen: informatic approaches to find, characterise and drug conserved regions of nucleic acid in RNA virusesOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Jordan Skittrall (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge). Wednesday 16 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Lessons for Tuberculosis Pathogenesis and Treatment from the ZebrafishProfessor Lalita Ramakrishnan | FRS FMedSci . Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Tuesday 15 February 2022, 18:00-19:30 Understanding the role of the extracellular matrix: from elasticity to viscoelasticityJoin the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series Alberto Elosegui-Artola (Francis Crick Institute & King’s College London, London, UK) . Monday 14 February 2022, 14:30-15:30 X-rays and Food SafetyDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Signalling dynamics of neutrophil migration at sites of tissue damageMilka Sarris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 11 February 2022, 13:15-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU Seminar: "A flexible sensitivity analysis for sample selection bias"This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-seminar-dr-matt-tudball-tickets-251838374357 Matt Tudball, University of Bristol. Thursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 Constructing 4D molecular roadmaps of cell fate decisionsThis webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required Dr Effie Apostolou; Associate Professor of Molecular Biology in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College. Wednesday 09 February 2022, 15:00-16:00 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Drug Discovery in the era of large-scale genetics and genomics dataOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Philippe Sanseau (Glaxo SmithKline). Wednesday 09 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Protein Nutrition, Healthy Ageing and Climate Change: How Do We Combine The Three?Dr. Oliver Witard | University College London. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Tuesday 08 February 2022, 18:00-19:30 Adhesion-regulated junction slippage controls cell intercalation dynamics in an Apposed-Cortex Adhesion ModelJoin the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series Alexander Nestor-Bergmann (PDN, University of Cambridge). Monday 07 February 2022, 14:30-15:30 Breaking the barrier: CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids model pathogen and drug entry to the brainJoin the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series Laura Pellegrini (LMB, Cambridge). Monday 07 February 2022, 14:30-15:30 Food, Power and SocietyMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Developmental Biology Seminar Series Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sortingKevin Chalut, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. Biffen Theater and Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link. Friday 04 February 2022, 13:15-14:00 When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle that shapes the lexiconGemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Friday 04 February 2022, 12:00-13:00 Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.Host: Elves Duarte Dr Johannes Köster, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Duisburg-Essen. Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:30-14:30 Multidisciplinary approaches to understanding Schistosoma mansoni hotspots in UgandaThis is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details Dr Poppy Lamberton (University of Glasgow). Thomas Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Biochemistry (Sanger). Wednesday 02 February 2022, 16:00-17:00 Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology Improving Quality of Experience for Video Users in Cellular NetworksProfessor Cormac J. Sreenan - Professor of Computer Science at University College Cork. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Wednesday 02 February 2022, 15:05-15:55 Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24 Machine learning with biomedical ontologies: applications in precision healthOur intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator Robert Hoehndorf. Wednesday 02 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 Colour within the lines – a personal perspective of navigating academia as a black womanThis webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required Dr Ane Ogbe; Postdoctoral Scientist, University of Oxford. Wednesday 02 February 2022, 13:30-14:30 SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society Structural Bio in the 21st CenturySir Prof. Richard Henderson FRS | 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Tuesday 01 February 2022, 18:00-19:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU Seminar: "Using Variational Bayes for fast inference in large longitudinal datasets”This will be a free virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-virtual-seminar-dr-david-hughes-tickets-242962345917 Dr David Hughes, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool. Tuesday 01 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 Emergence of a left-right symmetric body plan during embryonic developmentJoin the mailing list for the zoom link https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-morphogenesis-series Sundar Naganathan (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) . Monday 31 January 2022, 14:30-15:30 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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