Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit Special Seminars

The brain control of appetite: Can an old dog teach us new tricks?

User Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs.

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?

CANCELLED

User Anna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity).

House Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-sir-david-spiegelhalter-frs-obe-tickets-188164062777

User Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Computational models of compulsivity - State learning and control in OCD and gambling disorder

User Dr Frederike Petzschner, Brown University.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

Transdiagnostic approaches to understanding neurodevelopment

User Dr Duncan Astle, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit.

Early Science and Medicine

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

User Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Aortic disease in Marfan syndrome: new molecular drivers and therapeutic targets

User Juan Miguel Redondo.

House Zoom Webinar Link to be released 2 days before talk from webmaster@cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

New paradigms for the negative symptoms

User Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Building brain and body together in bio-inspired robots

User Dr Fumiya Iida, Department of Engineering.

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil

User Ryan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Primary Care

Universal NHS healthcare: has the pandemic changed the promise?

CCHSR Annual Lecture 2021

User Charlotte Augst, Chief Executive, National Voices .

House Online panel format.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China

User Dror Weil (Faculty of History).

House Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Actionable analytics: harnessing electronic health record data to improve mental healthcare outcomes

User Dr Rashmi Patel, King's College London.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

My Life in Science Webinar: Gut feelings

This webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required.

User Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga; Imperial College London.

House Online via zoom.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

Mechanisms to medicines in neurodegeneration

User Professor Giovanna Mallucci, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Focusing the disability gaze: perspectives for history of medicine and technology

User Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

The Ca2+-gated Cl- channel TMEM16A is a crucial amplifier of capillary pericyte contraction in the normal and ischemic brain.

User Dr Paolo Tammaro, Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Oxford.

House Zoom Webinar Link to be released 2 days before talk from webmaster@cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

How local and global metacognition shape mental health

User Dr Stephen Fleming, University College London.

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Thursday 02 December 2021, 12:30-13:30

Using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts: opportunities and challenges

User Dr Katie Harron, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

House Online.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

Early Science and Medicine

Lovesickness (ʿishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200–1520)

User Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University).

House Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

This webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required

User Prof. Naama Barkai; Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

House Online via zoom.

Wednesday 08 December 2021, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Hakwan Lau, University of Californa, Los Angeles.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 09 December 2021, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Charles Conway, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Thursday 16 December 2021, 12:30-13:30

House Babraham Research Campus - Petersfield Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

This seminar will be onsite at the Babraham Campus. If you would like to attend, please contact us to arrange site access.

User Professor Andy Clark; Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 12:00-13:00

Dr Sara Baker - Title TBC

User Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

This webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required

User Dr Luisa Cochella; Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.

House Online via zoom.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 15:00-16:00

Dr Mirjana Bozic - Title TBC

User Dr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Dr Michael Hastings - Title TBC

User Dr Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Dissecting the neural circuits underlying prefrontal regulation of reward and threat responsivity in a primate

User Professor Angela Roberts, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Thomas Eschenhagen, Director, Dept of Experimental Pharmacology & Toxicology, University Medical Center Hamburg.

House tbc Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Dr Yaara Erez - Title TBC

User Dr Yaara Erez, MRV Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Dr Petra Vértes - Title TBC

User Dr Petra Vértes, Department of Psychiatry.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Professor Jeff Dalley - Title TBC

User Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry.

Tuesday 26 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Professor Allan Herbison - Title TBC

User Professor Allan Herbison, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Professor Sir Simon Baron Cohen - Title TBC

User Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry.