Life Sciences

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

The science of fate, and a science communication Q&A

User Dr Hannah Critchlow (Magdalene College).

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

How do macrophages respond to danger?

Host: Naomi McGovern, nm390@cam.ac.uk; Tea and coffee will be available at 12.15

User Dr Gloria Lopez-Castejon, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Life in a Zero-Sum Game: How implicit game theories can shape social and economic realities

User Patricia Andrews Fearon.

House Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Tumour structure and nomenclature

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

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Molecular convergence in the evolution of betalains

User Hester Sheehan, Brockington group.

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

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

A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks

User Andrew Saxe (U. of Oxford, Dept of Experimental Psychology) .

Thursday 24 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

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

The Last Dog? Wolves in the Highlands of Ethiopia and elsewhere

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Kevin Hand.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Risk factors for temporary tracheostomy tube placement in dogs undergoing BOAS surgery

User Guy Beynon, Junior Clinical Training Scholar, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 25 October 2019, 08:45-10:00

Evaluation of serum C-reactive protein in 26 dogs with Meningoencephalomyelitis of Unknown Origin

User Natalia Giannakopoulou, Junior Clinical Training Scholar, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

House Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 25 October 2019, 08:45-10:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language Explanations

User Oana Camburu, University of Oxford.

Friday 25 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epigenetic remodelling enables adult liver regeneration and organoid formation

User Luigi Aloia The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

How we remember and how we forget

User Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York.

Friday 25 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Constructing temporal latent spaces: Representation learning for clustering and imputation on time series

User Vincent Fortuin, ETH Zurich.

House Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Monday 28 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

What is the best way to teach imaging analysis?

User Matthew Brett, University of Birmingham.

Monday 28 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Consciousness

User Tristan Bekinschtein.

Monday 28 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

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

Synapse specific homeostatic responses to sensory deprivation

User Tara Keck, Division of Biosciences, University College London.

Monday 28 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Opthalmology

User Dr. Pearce Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital.

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

Monday 28 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Human Regulator of TElomere Length Helicase 1 (RTEL1) couples nuclear envelope stability and functions to genome replication

Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Steve Jackson

User Arturo Londoño-Vallejo, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

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

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

Why do organisms age? Beyond energy trade-offs

User Alexei Maklakov (University of East Anglia).

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

British Antarctic Survey

Investigation of fine-scale englacial structure using phase-sensitive and polarimetric radar sounding

If external to BAS, please contact seminar organizer to gain access to the building

User Tom Jordan, University of Bristol .

House British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

User Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

User Professor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

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

The Early Start Denver Model in autistic preschoolers: a treatment trial

User Dr Ofer Golan, Associate Professor, Autism Research Lab, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University .

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

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

Reinforcement learning in disease and disorder

User Bronagh McCoy (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

CD8 T cell surveillance of lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Jens Stein, University of Fribourg.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

User Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

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

House Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Epigenetic memory over geological timescales

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

User Hiten Madhani, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 10:30-11:30

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

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

User Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

POSTPONED - Role of Inflammation in Depression: exciting therapeutic opportunity or fake news?

chair: Dr Valerie Voon

User Dr Golam Khandaker, Lead, Inflammation and Psychiatry Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 31 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Forcing tumor initiation and progression

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

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Mechanisms conferring seasonal flowering responses in annual and perennial plants

Post Doc invited speaker

User George Coupland, Max Plank Institute.

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

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

The anatomo-functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision making

User Birte Forstmann (U. of Amsterdam).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

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

Tasty Crafty Aliens - Making the best of a bad situation...

User Abigail Stancliffe-Vaughan.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 01 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

User Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium .

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

User Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

User Professor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

Friday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

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

Mechanisms of forgetting

User Michael Anderson.

Monday 04 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

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

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

User Catherine Graham (Swiss Federal Institute WSL).

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title

User Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

User Professor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

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

Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments

User Dr Bianca De Haan (Brunel University London).

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Understanding hepatic macrophage heterogeneity and function in NAFLD

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

User Professor Charlotte Scott, University of Ghent.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

The mutations that drive cancer

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

User Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Categorical Data Analysis

User Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Longitudinal trajectories of Alzheimer's ATN biomarkers in nondemented elderly adults

chair: Prof John Suckling

User Dr Meng-Shan Tan, Quindao University & visiting fellow, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

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

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

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User tbc.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The amazing world of the GnRH neuron

User Allan Herbison, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

User Georgina Harris (University of Cambridge).

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

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

Tracing the evolution of contagious cancers in the Tasmanian devil

User Maximmillian Stammnitz, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

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

Cancer Screening and Prevention: Lessons Learned

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

User Professor Mette Kalager, University of Oslo.

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

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

"CAPs in the niche" A new in vivo labelling system reveals parenchymal cells in the lung metastatic niche with stem cell features

User Luigi Ombrato The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

User Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Friday 08 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

An Introduction to Linear Mixed Effects (LME) models

User Delia Fuhrmann, Roni Tibon & Alex Quent, MRC CBU.

Monday 11 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

User Professor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Causes and consequences of social evolution in spiders

User Trine Bilde (Aarhus University).

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL SEMINAR

User Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood

User Lochlann Jain (Stanford University).

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

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

User Professor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

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

The value of student projects in autism research: Findings from studies of disordered eating, gender identity, and career choice

User Dr Gareth Richards, School of Psychology, Newcastle University.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 10:30-11:30

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

A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

User Dr Denes Szucs (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

HLA-E Revisited

Host: John Trowsdale (Jt233@cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Andrew McMichael, Oxford University.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Genetics of Axonal Mitochondrial Biology

User Gaynor Smith, Cardiff University.

House Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Intracellular trafficking of mitochondria and neuronal ageing

User Alessio Vagnoni, IoPPN, King's College London.

House Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

User Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit.

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

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

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Living with a million-year long infection

User George Kassiotis, Frances Crick Institute.

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Video games in psychiatry: "a vicarious experience with a dazing, almost anaesthetic, effect on the mind"?

chair: Dr Graham Murray

User Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

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

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

Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out

Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

User Dr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London.

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

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

Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligence

User Anna-Lena Schubert (U. of Heidelberg).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Activin signaling and the regulation of Drosophila metabolism, body size and appendage scaling

User Michael O'Connor, University of Minnesota.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

NO TALK

User .

House (no venue).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Expression, Purification and Screening of Antimicrobial Peptides from Hermetia illucens

User Leila Fahmy.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 15 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

Title to be confirmed

User Andrea Mosca.

Friday 15 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dendritic Cell Migration at Various Scales

User Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Friday 15 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight

User Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Bertrand Thirion, Neurospin, INRIA.

Monday 18 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Emotion and memory

User Deborah Talmi.

Monday 18 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

House Main Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

In search of the molecules of memory - ANNUAL LECTURE

User Roger Nicholl, California Institute of Technology.

Monday 18 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

Tracking trade in underground symbioses

User Toby Kiers (VU Amsterdam).

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

Early Science and Medicine

Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London

User Elaine Leong (University College London).

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Is Obesity a Choice?

User Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

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

When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory

User Dr Athena Akrami (University College London).

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Immune cell recognition on a nanoscale.

Host: Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Daniel Davis, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

User Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer- NB 9am start time

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

User Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 09:00-10:00

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

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

User Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The neuropsychiatry of social knowledge and moral motivation

chair: Dr Hisham Ziauddeen

User Dr Roland Zahn, Reader in the Neurocognitive Bases of Mood Disorders, King's College London.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Judith Campisi, The Buck Institute for Research on Ageing .

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

Post Doc invited speaker

User Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute.

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

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

Minimal and Ancestral Genomes

Host: Richard Durbin

User Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA .

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work

User Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour).

Thursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Folding and assembly of newly synthesized proteins revealed by ribosome profiling

User Bernd Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University and German Cancer Research Center.

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

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation

User Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

The short Arctic summer

User Robert Burton.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Rapid Identification of Bacteria and AMR Directly from Clinical Samples Using Mass Spectrometry

User Daniel Buhl.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 22 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

Snipping out the stress: Variations in surgical technique for adrenalectomy with caudal vena cava venotomy in 19 dogs

User Rebekah Knight.

Friday 22 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

User Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo

User Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

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

Functional MRI: physics and physiology

User Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell.

Monday 25 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

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

Circuit dynamics of a memory representation in the hippocampus and beyond

User David Dupret, Oxford Neuroscience.

Monday 25 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

Mechanistic insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery and DNA repair

Hosted by: Philip Zegerman & Eric Miska

User Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

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

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

The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations

User Josh Firth (Oxford).

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

User Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

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

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Mathematics vs Dementia

User Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

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

Can the face predict the brain? The association between facial morphology and autism spectrum disorder

User Dr Diana Tan, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia.

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

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

Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths

User Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Meticulous and Multifaceted: How herpes viruses fine tune the innate immune response.

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

User Professor Melanie Brinkman, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why

User Joseph Marks.

House Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Pegine Walrad, York Biomedical Research Institute.

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

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

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

User Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

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

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

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

User Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Antiviral Immunity against dengue and Zika viruses in Aedes mosquitoes

User João Trindade Marques, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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

Thursday 28 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre.

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

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

The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London .

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

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

Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain

User Anthony Wagner (Stanford University).

Thursday 28 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

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

Members' enthusiasms

User Short talks by several CNHS members.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Friday 29 November 2019, 08:45-10:00

Dr Nick Steel - Title TBC

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

User Dr Nick Steel, University of East Anglia.

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

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epithelial cell plasticity during tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis

User Kyra Campbell Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield.

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

User Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Friday 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Rogier Kievit, MRC CBU.

Monday 02 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

How to give good talks

User Tom Manly.

Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

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

The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale

User Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto, Marseille, France.

Monday 02 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia

User Dror Weil (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

User Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

User Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

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

User Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Power analysis

User Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Food for health - food for thought

chair: Dr Graham Murray

User Professor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge..

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

User Philip Carella, SLCU.

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

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical maps

User Guillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

User Members' Event.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Host factors that shape influenza evolution.

User Wendy Barclay.

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

Friday 06 December 2019, 00:00-00:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

REF2021 Open Access Workshop

User Bea Gini (University of Cambridge).

Friday 06 December 2019, 08:45-10:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors

User Gaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

Blood is thicker than water

User Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

Monday 09 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

Takes two to Tango: the tale of ApiAP2 transcription factors and the regulation of crucial cell cycle functions in the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii

User Dr Mathieu Gissot, Institut Pasteur de Lille.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Exploring the role of the tumour microenvironment: what do other cells do?

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

User Dr Jacqui Shields - MRC Cancer Unit.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Motherhood and madness: bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis

chair: Dr Nikolett Kabacs

User Professor Ian Jones, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Systemic anticancer therapy

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

User Dr Gary Doherty (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Thursday 09 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

User Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

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

Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

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

User Simon Segar (Harper Adams University).

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The use of mobile games to assess cognitive function of elderly with and without cognitive impairment

chair: Prof Barbara J. Sahakian

User Dr Bruno Bonnechère, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel .

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

User Katie Field, University of Leeds.

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

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding

User Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:15-17:15

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Predicting anthrax suitability in Uganda using ecological niche modelling

User Valentina Ndolo.

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Friday 17 January 2020, 08:45-10:00

Prof. Stephen Baker - Title TBC

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

User Professor Stephen Baker, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Jona Sassenhagen, Goethe-University Frankfurt.

Monday 20 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

TBC

User Rob Sansom (University of Manchester).

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

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 23 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Blogs, social media and gamification: how elves and humans can close the gap between research and practice.

chair: Dr Christopher O'Loughlin

User André Tomlin, Minervation Ltd, coordinator of the Mental Elf blog website.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Post Doc invited speaker

User Zach Lippman, Cold Spring Harbor.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Hansong Ma

User Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

User Steve Harridge, King's College London.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

User George Carnell.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 24 January 2020, 08:45-10:00

Pioneering genetic therapies for Huntington's disease and its relevance for neurodegeneration

User Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Cell competition during development and disease

Hosted by: The Gurdon PhD Society

User Eduardo Moreno, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

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

User Bruno Hudry (Institute de Biologie Valrose).

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

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

User Dr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Isabelle Tardieux, Université Grenoble.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Epigenetics in ageing and dementia

chair: Prof John O'Brien

User Dr Leonidas Chouliaras, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User Richard Smith, John Innes Centre.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Marta Correia, MRC CBU.

Monday 03 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Fengzhu Xiong & Ben Simons

User Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

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

User Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

User Sohrab Shah, MSKCC.

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

Clinical Treatment and Cancer Stem Cell Biology in Malignant Glioma

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 06 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Predicting addiction: myth or reality?

chair: Dr Karen Ersche

User Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Eric Miska

User Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

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

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency

User Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

User Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

The evolution of plasticity for life cycle regulation in seasonal environments

User Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University).

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Identification of a novel protein complex essential for erythrocyte invasion by human-infective malaria parasites

User Dr Ellen Knuepfer, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Mood Instability: a possible transdiagnostic construct in psychopathology?

chair: Prof Jesus Perez

User Professor Matthew Broome, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

User Tina Schreier, Hibberd group.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

User Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Olaf Dimigen, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Monday 17 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants.

User Phyllis Lee (University of Stirling).

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Wiktor Olszowy, CHUV Lausanne.

Monday 24 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences

User Annette Fayet (Oxford).

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Understanding the mechanism of chromosome segregation: lessons from diversity

User Dr Bungo Akiyoshi, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

The promise of early intervention: testing a video-feedback intervention (ViPP) to prevent mental health problems in childhood in a randomised trial

chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

User Professor Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

User Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

User Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Bigging up behaviour on coral reefs

User Sally Keith (Lancaster University).

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

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

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

User Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 05 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems

User Dr Melissa Black, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

User Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris .

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User Kerry Franklin, Bristol.

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

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User David Norris, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University.

Monday 09 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

User Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

From magnets to stigma: multiple approaches to tackle the challenges of cutaneous leishmaniasis

User Dr Helen Price, Centre for Applied Entomology & Parasitology, Keele University.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

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

User Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders

chair: Prof Peter Jones

User Professor Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of York.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

User Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group.

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

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

3D Genomics in development and disease

User Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days

User Dr Kirstie Anderson, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 19 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User E. John Wherry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

The microenvironment in the myeloid malignancies

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

User Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 26 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality

chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

User Professor Simon Gilbody, Director of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group, University of York.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression

chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

User Professor Jonathan Roiser, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Fengzhu Xiong

User Andrew McMahon, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, USA.

Friday 03 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Metallic metabolism in Toxoplasma gondii

User Dr Clare Harding, Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow.

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Universite Paris Saclay.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Jim Norman, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: David Summers and John Welch

User Dr Trevor Lawley, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Thursday 23 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

User An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowski group.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Kate Storey, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

User Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Zoonotic Disease Transmission Risks in Displaced Populations

User Dorien Braam (University of Cambridge).

Friday 01 May 2020, 08:45-10:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Rafael Romero-Garcia, BCNI, University of Cambridge.

Monday 04 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

User John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

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

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cholinergic regulation of immunity to gastrointestinal nematode parasites

User Prof Murray Selkirk, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar

User Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover

User Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

User Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Sciences PostDoc talk

User Joiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Michael Imbeault

User Dr Kim Judge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

User Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Tim Gilberger, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg.

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

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Elizabeth Marion Jaffee MD, John Hopkins Medicine.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska

User Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Marica Haigis, Harvard Medical School.

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

Thursday 25 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Carolyn Bertozzi, Stanford University.

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

Thursday 17 September 2020, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Clare Isacke, The Institute of Cancer Research.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Wendy Bickmore, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute of Science.