Genetics Seminar

A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomes

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Eric Miska

Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Rapid microbial evolution across the parasite-mutualist continuum

Host: Frank Jiggins

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

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, emissions and enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: David Summers and John Welch

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover

Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Michael Imbeault

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

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Richard Durbin

Professor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00