Life Sciences

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Thursday 16 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Intrinsic Neural Timescales - Do they shape the brain's mind?

User Prof Georg Northoff. Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit, The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Thursday 16 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Grand Rounds - Soft tissue

User Layla Thompson, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Friday 17 April 2026, 08:45-10:00

BSU Seminar: "Response Adaptivity Across Clinical Trials In Portfolios of Biomedical Innovations"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/PFg8_enkTfaTtqpGnzYpbg

User Zaile Li, INSEAD.

House Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Wednesday 22 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Scattering Plenty: the people who made the modern countryside

Note unusual day - Wednesday - and start time - 7.45pm

User Jim Dixon, former CEO of the Peak District National Park.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Wednesday 22 April 2026, 19:45-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Decoding genomic chaos - a pancancer compendium of chromosomal instability

User Professor Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

House Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 23 April 2026, 09:30-10:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

A novel hereditary encephalopathy in four related Labrador Retrievers associated with a missense variant in the ALDH5A1 gene’

User Georgina Harris and Ellen Schofield, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 24 April 2026, 08:45-10:00

Title to be confirmed

User Anya Patel, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 24 April 2026, 08:45-10:00

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

LMB Seminar - Mechanisms of mRNA packaging and export

User Clemens Plaschka, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna.

Monday 27 April 2026, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

 Life, death, and the discovery of PDAR: the Pol II Degradation-dependent Apoptotic Response

User Mike Lee PhD, Associate Professor Department of Systems Biology, UMass Chan Medical School.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Monday 27 April 2026, 12:30-13:30

CSAR lecture: In a post-Ozempic world, have we cured obesity?

User Professor Giles S.H. Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 April 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Geometry and Generalization: The case of Grokking

Please contact the organiser if you'd like to attend the talk online.

User Matthieu Tehenan, Department of Computer Sciences and Technology.

House S3.05, Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Tuesday 28 April 2026, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Shelley McKeown Jones (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

From lab to clinic: an introduction to translational research

User Dr James Jones; Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology .

House Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Fun experiments you can only do with frogs

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Rebecca Heald, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Coming soon

User Prof Michelle Girvan, Department of Physics, University of Maryland.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

House in person at Gurdon Institute.

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

User Ròża Przanowska (Postdoc, UVirginia), Zhipeng Lu (PI, USC).

House Online (Zoom).

Thursday 30 April 2026, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

User Katja Roeper and Nadine Muschalik.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 16:00-17:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Oncology

User tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 08 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95122962995?pwd=dG75ztaqH0oR5SMRb80IXw88rEDmQo.1.

César Milstein Lecture - Title TBC

User Edith Heard, Director General of EMBL and Collège de France.

Monday 11 May 2026, 11:00-12:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Task performance predicts the substitution of feedforward by feedback drive in visual cortex

User Andreas Keller, University of Basel.

House Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 11 May 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Decarbonizing road freight (TBC)

User Professor David Cebon, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 11 May 2026, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Sakshi Ghai (London School of Economics).

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of treatment for non-small cell lung cancer

User Dr Huiqi Yang and Dr Nicola Thompson, Cambridge University Hopitals Trust.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 09:30-10:30

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

Seminars in Cancer

User Francisco X. Real, CNIO, Madrid.

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Tissue-scale communication in cancer development

Hosts – Heather Machado, Elena Scarpa and Ben Steventon

User Professor Richard White from Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Coming soon

User Prof Manlio De Domenico. Department of Physics, University of Padua.

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Thursday 14 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

JCTS Presentations

User tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 15 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

TBC

User Mohsen Mosleh, University of Oxford.

Friday 15 May 2026, 12:00-13:30

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95988394961?pwd=aaFWaBpqCJ5drab6eos7mkUvhn9Nfj.1.

John Kendrew Lecture - Title TBC

User Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Monday 18 May 2026, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

User Luke Gilbert, PhD, Associate Professor of Urology, University of California, San Francisco.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Monday 18 May 2026, 12:30-13:30

The role of radiation in cancer care: a spotlight on cancers of the oesophagus, head and neck

User Dr Gill Barnett; Dept of Oncology; Dr Christopher Jones, Dept of Oncology and Cambridge University Hospitals .

House Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 21 May 2026, 09:30-10:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS Presentations

User tbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Friday 22 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 27 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Jens Madsen (London School of Economics).

Wednesday 27 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

House Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

User Miguel Aracena Velazquez (PhD student, UYork), Pedro Madrigal (Project Leader, EMBL EBI).

Thursday 28 May 2026, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Beyond Net Zero: Can We Repair The Climate?

User Dr. Luke Haworth, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 01 June 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Using Light for Cancer Detection

User Dr Danielle Harper; Dept of Oncology and Early Cancer Institute .

House Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 04 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond

User Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh.

Friday 05 June 2026, 16:30-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond

User Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh.

Friday 05 June 2026, 16:30-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond

User Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh.

Friday 05 June 2026, 16:30-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Leor Zmigrod.

Wednesday 10 June 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Early cancer clinical trials

User Dr Simon Pacey, Cambridge University Hospitals, Dept of Oncology.

House Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 11 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Coming soon

User Prof Claus Hilgetag. Institute of Computational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg.

House Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Thursday 11 June 2026, 15:00-16:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

From Plate to Brain: Global Diet, Cognitive Function and Neuroimaging in Diverse Populations

User Professor Sonia Anand.

Thursday 11 June 2026, 15:00-16:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Equine

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 12 June 2026, 08:45-10:00

CSAR lecture: 46&: Development of a probiotic that supports the natural removal of forever chemicals from the body

User Professor Kiran Patil, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 15 June 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic cancer - the clinical challenge; Why the microenvironment matters during pancreatic cancer progression and treatment

User Dr Kiran Purusothaman, CUH and Dept of Oncology; Dr Wenlong Li, Biffi Lab, CRUK Cammbridge Institute.

House Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 18 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

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

Seminars in Cancer

User Tyler Jacks, PhD, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Thursday 18 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Clonal haematopoiesis, early detection and pre-leukemia to leukemia development

User Prof Elisa Laurenti, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Dept of Haematology.

House Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 25 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

House Perham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

User Nida Ali (Postdoc, UCambridge, UK), TBD (Novogene, Sponsor).

Thursday 25 June 2026, 16:30-18:30

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94514662338?pwd=QFmpzVDjmvrrMmV476z2wynx6r2aoA.1.

Max Perutz Lecture - Title TBC

User Reinhard Lührmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

Monday 29 June 2026, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy and Neurosurgery for the oncologist

User Dr Raj Jena and Mr Adel Helmy; Cambridge University Hospitals; Departments of Oncology/ Clinical Nuroscience.

House Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 02 July 2026, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House in person at Gurdon Institute.

Wednesday 08 July 2026, 16:00-17:30