History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

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

chair: Dr Christopher O'Loughlin

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax on sugar-sweetened beverages

Nicholas Stacey, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science & SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Epigenetics in ageing and dementia

chair: Prof John O'Brien

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Gene Therapy in Duchenne Cardiomyopathy

Dr Frederica Montanaro, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The impact of uncertainty on trade agreements between the UK and EU

Oliver Exton, Department of Economics.

Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB..

Monday 03 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974

Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

PHG Foundation

Creating policy impact International lessons from science and health

Speaker to be confirmed.

McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:30-19:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Predicting addiction: myth or reality?

chair: Dr Karen Ersche

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

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

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Mood Instability: a possible transdiagnostic construct in psychopathology?

chair: Prof Jesus Perez

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

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

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

Early Science and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Applications of geospatial data and methods in environmental epidemiology

S.M. Labib, Department of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), University of Manchester..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics.

The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Early Science and Medicine

Affect and empiricism in the early modern Arctic

Anne Goldgar (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Using next generation sequencing to delineate novel chamber-specific molecular mechanisms in different aetiologies of human heart failure

Dr Louise Robinson, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Maastrict .

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

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

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders

chair: Prof Peter Jones

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Paediatric Genomics - what have we learnt so far?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Brian H. Y. Chung, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong University.

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

Friday 13 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Primary Care

Rethinking Medicine

Annual GP Lecture organised by Cambridge General Practice Education Group. PLEASE BOOK

Dr Martin Marshall Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Improvement Science London and Chair-elect of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge CB2 0SP, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 17 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days

chair: Dr Muzaffer Kaser

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Translational approaches with human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

Thomas Eschenhagen, University Medical Centre Hamburg.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality

chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

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

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

TBC A novel mechanosensor in the endothelium that regulates the site-specific distribution of atherosclerosis

Prof Ellie Tzima, Oxford.

School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre Two.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jessica Bird, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

Allègre Hadida, Judge Business School.

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 19:15-21:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Minimal clinically important differences: a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine

Professor Glyn Lewis, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The common link between schizophrenia and diabetes

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, consultant psychiatrist and associate lecturer, Clozapine Clinic Cambridge and University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 18 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

Rod Jones, Department of Chemistry.

MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 19:15-21:30