Featured lists

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

The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771–1832

User Patrick Anthony (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Monday 18 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Synchrony and synaptic signaling in the cerebellar circuit

This talk is conducted on Zoom only

User Indira Raman, Dept Neurobiology, Northwestern Univ, Evanston IL.

House Online via zoom.

Monday 18 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

The Productivity Puzzle

User Professor Diane Coyle, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge.

House Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 18 October 2021, 19:30-21:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

The honeybee waggle dance: evolutionary marvel but modern-day relic?

User Elli Leadbeater, Royal Holloway University of London.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

AION: Probing fundamental physics with atom interferometry

User Dr Tiffany Harte (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

In vitro bioelectronic models of the gut-brain axis

User Professor Róisín Owens, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800

User Sara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The Amazing World of RNA

User Professor Eric Miska.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The impact of sea-ice drift and ocean circulation on dispersal of toothfish eggs and juveniles in the Ross Gyre and Amundsen Sea

Please contact the organizer for meeting link

User Erik Behrens, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

House Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 09:00-10:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Unconventional superconductivity and quadrupolar-density- wave phases in the locally noncentrosymmetric compound CeRh2As2

User Dr. Manuel Brando, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden/Germany.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:15-12:15

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom: Meeting ID: 929 3874 2761 Passcode: 803269.

Nucleation in first order phase transitions starting from the top

User Dr Eduardo Sanz, University Complutense of Madrid.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Saying “No” Is Harder Than We Think: Implications for Compliance and Consent

User Dr Vanessa Bohns (Cornell).

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

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 21 October 2021, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Can we develop cost-effective interventions for youth mental health? Lessons from Kenya

User Tom Osborn, Shamiri Institute.

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Thursday 21 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Investigating the fundamental circuit pathology in schizophrenia using computational modelling of brain imaging data

User Dr Rick Adams.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Water flows in carbon nanochannels: from quantum friction to carbon memories

User Lyderic Bocquet, Ecole Normale Superieure.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Neural dynamics of working memory

User Tim Buschman (Princeton University).

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines

User David Sheppard, Bristol University.

House The Theatre, Peterhouse.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Rausing Lecture

The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User María M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

House https://forms.gle/2qkANTNhuZvReZ6AA.

The Physics of Can and Can't

User Professor Chiara Marletto.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

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User Dr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

A finger on the pulse of regeneration

User Mekayla Storer, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanically Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators

User Dr Morgan Barnes, CUED.

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Friday 22 October 2021, 14:00-14:30

Crack dynamics simulations in wood and other heterogeneous materials

User Dr Jenny Carlsson, CUED.

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Friday 22 October 2021, 14:30-15:00

Active and Partially-Supervised Learning

User Dr Nikolaos Dervilis, Sheffield University.

Friday 22 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Searches for new interactions within the SMEFT framework at the LHC

User Luca Mantani (DAMTP).

Friday 22 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and liking

User Richard Holton (University of Cambridge).

Friday 22 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

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

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

User Charlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

Monday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

A full-tensor approach for parameterising oceanic eddy tracer transport

User Michael Haigh, Imperial College London.

Monday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control

User Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

Monday 25 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

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

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-v-hill-lecture-professor-wolfram-schultz-tickets-181588946427

User Professor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience .

Monday 25 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

Genomic and developmental drivers of color pattern diversification

User Claudius Kratochwil, University of Helsinki.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Discovering partonic rescattering in light nucleus collisions

User Aleksas Mazeliauskas (CERN).

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)

User Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna).

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Who Cares about the History of Science?

User Professor Hasok Chang.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Social distancing in colloidal crystals ... with a twist

User Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti, University of Birmingham.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre.

Synthetic Lectins – The Host-Guest Chemistry of Carbohydrates in Water

User Professor Anthony P Davis, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Bigger Picture Talks at CEB with Henning Schwabe from BASF: The Green Transition as Process Systems Challenge

User Henning Schwabe BASF.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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 28 October 2021, 09:30-10:30

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

User Maree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 28 October 2021, 10:00-11:00

Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk

User Andrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Thursday 28 October 2021, 15:30-17:00

Morphophonological issues in the development of Huave language revitalisation materials

User Dr. Yuni Kim (University of Essex).

House Online: Zoom talk.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Wnt gradients: how they form and their role in tissue morphogenesis

User Ian McGough, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Harnessing helpful heterogeneity in healing at the humeral head: the mechanics of the rotator cuff and its surgical repair

User Dr Guy M Genin, Co-Director, NSF Science and Technology for Engineering MechanoBiolody, Washington State University in St Louis.

House Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 29 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vulnerable Road-User Detection and Tracking

User Yan Ke, Vehicles Group.

Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

TBA - Bernhard Mistlberger

User Bernhard Mistlberger (SLAC).

Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

TBC

User TBC.

Friday 29 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

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

Remarks on Joachim Jungius's work method in botany: Ficus indica in his letters, notes, garden and Isagoge Phytoscopica

User Niklaas Görsch (University of Lübeck).

Monday 01 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Modelling stratified turbulence in the ocean interior

User Sam Lewin, DAMTP.

Monday 01 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Using the marmoset prefontal cortex to understand psychiatric symptoms: schizophrenia and hippocampal-prefrontal circuitry

User Dr Hannah Clarke - BCNI ( Departmn).

Monday 01 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Pye Story: The history of one of Cambridge’s iconic technology companies.

User Dr. Bob Bates, The Pye Foundation.

House Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 01 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

Is telomere length a useful biomarker in ecology and evolution?

User Dan Nussey, University of Edinburgh.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

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.

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

House https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

BSM physics with b-quarks

User John Anders (University of Bern).

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

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

User Anna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity).

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Could we treat mental health disorders by disrupting maladaptive memories?

User Dr Amy Milton.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

Sensors CDT seminars

The Importance of Usability Studies in Product Development

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/industry-lecture-danny-godfrey-co-founder-of-eg-technology-tickets-180107074107

User Danny Godfrey Co-founder of EG Technology.

House Zoom link - Register on Eventbrite for zoom link.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Edina Rosta, UCL.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

High-frequency fluctuations in Antarctic Bottom Water transport driven by Southern Ocean winds

User Andrew Stewart ( UCLA).

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 15:30-16:30

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre.

The power of chemoselectivty: Next generation bioconjugates for extra- and intracellular targeting

User Prof. Christian Hackenburger, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

From the possibility to the certainty of a supermassive black hole

User Professor Andrea Ghez (University of California, Los Angeles).

House Online by Zoom.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

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

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Communicating 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.

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

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

The mutations that drive cancer

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 04 November 2021, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Frederike Petzschner, Brown University.

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

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms

User Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Linda Douw.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold

McConnell Lecture

User Gloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich).

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective

User Yixin Wang.

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86187336902?pwd=eUtxZGsvandXQ1dXKzJkWXdlTFpqQT09.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Mechanisms of Aging

User Anne Brunet, Stanford University.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

User Dr Steve Boreham.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Zooming into the sarcomere: from single molecules to molecular forces

User Frank Schnorrer, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille.

Friday 05 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Bioprinting with Microgel Materials

User Professor Marcy Zenobi-Wong, Head of Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich.

House Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 05 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Enhancing Reduced-order Models Using Insights from Nonlinear Modal Interactions

User Dr Tom Hill, University of Bristol.

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

TBA - Stefania Gori

User Stefania Gori (University of California, Santa Cruz).

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour

User Dominik Bach (University College London).

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

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

The biological age of plant virus research: studying viruses through other organisms in 1920s and 1930s Britain

User João Joaquim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 08 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Fingers and Fractures: Instabilities in Viscoplastic Fluid Films

User Thomasina Ball, U. Warwick.

Monday 08 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity

User Nathalie Rochefort, Centre for discovery, Brain Sciences, Edinburgh.

Monday 08 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

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

Urban tunneling - the challenges of creating underground space in historic cities

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-giulia-viggiani-infrastructure-geotechnics-tickets-188169037657

User Professor Giulia Viggiani, Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics, Department of Engineering.

Monday 08 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

House Online (ask organizers for link).

Y haplotype diversity and male phenotypes

User Judith Mank, University of British Columbia.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

FASER: Commissioning of a not-so-large LHC experiment in search for new physics in far corner

User Dr Claire Antel (University of Geneva).

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

Dr Duncan Astle - Title TBC

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

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).

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Hunting for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider

User Dr Sarah Williams .

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

First Year PhD Report

User Max Niroomand, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 14:30-15:00

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

First Year PhD Report

User Honghao Yu, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 15:00-15:30

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre.

Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar

User Dr Avene Colgan and Dr. Stephen Walsh, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

User Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 09:30-10:30

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

House Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

New understanding of liquid thermodynamics, viscosity and its lower bounds

User Kostya Trachenko ( Queen Mary, University of London).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought

User Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Charlatans and the making of research: the undisciplining and redisciplining of experimental philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe

User Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Thursday 11 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

To be confirmed

User Prof. Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam).

House Online: Zoom talk.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

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User Gwenda Kyd, Author.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Towards a cellular and molecular understanding of mammalian anterior patterning

User Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford.

Friday 12 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Active light-driven microfluidic components made of soft smart materials

User Dr Klaudia Dradrach, CUED.

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Friday 12 November 2021, 14:00-14:30

Energy absorption of foams with non-linear variation in cross-sectional area under stationary impact BD

User Dr Sri Datta Rapaka, CUED.

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Friday 12 November 2021, 14:30-15:00

Stethoscope Acoustics

User Max Nussbaumer, Acoustics Group.

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

TBA - Peter Stangl

User Peter Stangl (University of Bern).

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policies

User Lucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) .

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:15-17:30

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

The frog and the vine: indigenous knowledge, biomedical innovation, and biopiracy in Latin America

User Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (Exeter University).

Monday 15 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Unmixing the Ocean: Double Diffusion and Turbulence in Polar Oceans

User Leo Middleton, DAMTP.

Monday 15 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (ask organizers for link).

Quantitative studies of rapid evolutionary adaptation

User Dmitri Petrov, Stanford University.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Dr Fumiya Iida - Title TBC

User Dr Fumiya Iida, Department of Engineering.

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

House https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Neutrino Oscillation: The Long and the Short of It

User Steve Dennis (University of Cambridge).

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

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

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

Title to be confirmed

User Robbie Mallet (University College London).

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

First Year PhD Report

User Nicy, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 14:30-15:00

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

First Year PhD Report

User Christopher Haggard, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 15:00-15:30

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Systematic anti-cancer therapy

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

User Dr Gary Doherty, CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Post-encoding persistence of encoding states strengthens individual memories, reorganizes those experiences based on shared features and biases the fate of new memories

User Lila Davachi (Columbia University).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Marinka Zitnik.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Physical computations are idealisations

User Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis

User Fiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

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User April Bagwill.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Asymmetric nuclear division in neural stem cells generates sibling nuclei that differ in size, envelope composition, and chromatin organization

User Chantal Roubinet, Postdoctoral Fellow Buzz Baum Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 19 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Learning based multiscale modeling

User Dr Burigede Liu, CUED.

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Friday 19 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Predicting Nonlinear Vibration Response Under Combined Harmonic and Random Excitation

Please note room change for this week.

User John Hickey, CUED .

House JDB Teaching room, CUED.

Friday 19 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

TBA - Andreas Vogt

User Andreas Vogt (Liverpool University).

Friday 19 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Time perception as accumulation of salient events

User Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex).

Friday 19 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

User Marieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

Monday 22 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Professor Sadaf Farooqi - title to be confirmed

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-by-professor-sadaf-farooqi-tickets-188170812967

User Professor Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Department of Medicine.

Monday 22 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

House Online (ask organizers for link).

The functional consequences of extinction and the evolution of gigantism

User Catalina Pimiento, Swansea University.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

TBA

User Maeve Madigan (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

User Dror Weil (Faculty of History).

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

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Nick Blunt, Riverlane.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Darren Dixon, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Stimulating the brain with sound: low intensity ultrasound for neuromodulation

User Chris Butler (Imperial College London/University of Oxford).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

User Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Thursday 25 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

To be confirmed

User Prof. Haley de Korne (University of Oslo).

House Online: Zoom talk.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

The launch of the online NatHistFest

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

User CNHS Members.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting

User Kevin Chalut, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 26 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Forward and inverse homogenization of cellular metamaterials

User Prof Dennis Kochman, ETH Zürich.

House Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Potter Room (B1.19).

D to K semileptonic decays on the lattice

User Bipasha Chakraborty (DAMTP).

Friday 26 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

TBC

User Sam Brockie .

Friday 26 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

What does magic tell us about free will?

User Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London).

Friday 26 November 2021, 16:15-17:30

Tender curiosities: natural history and gendered knowledge-craft at country houses, counting houses, and Royal African Company factories

Online only

User Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa).

Monday 29 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Submesoscale in the Texas-Louisiana shelf and its implications on the biogeochemistry

User Jinliang Liu, DAMTP.

Monday 29 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology but also online (ask organizers for link)..

Phylodynamic tools for quantitative palaeobiology

User Rachel Warnock, Geozentrum Nordbayern.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Professor Giovanna Mallucci - Title TBC

User Professor Giovanna Mallucci, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

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

House https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Colliders and cosmic origin stories

User Jesse Liu (University of Cambridge).

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

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

User Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

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

Representation of basal melting in idealised coupled ice sheet ocean models

User Chen Zhao (University of Tasmania).

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 10:00-11:00

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Céline Merlet, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier .

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 14:30-15:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Cognition in (social) context: A social-interactionist approach to emergent phenomena

User Dr Alin Coman (Princeton).

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 16:00-17:30

How local and global metacognition shape mental health

User Dr Stephen Fleming, University College London.

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

House Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Title to be confirmed

User Flore Kunst, MPQ Munich.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

New models of human hearing via machine learning

User Josh McDermott (MIT).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

User Valerie Sydnor.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 15:00-16:00

What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex

User Riccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

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User Ellie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Thursday 02 December 2021, 19:30-20:45

Week 9

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House TBC - JDB Seminar room, CUED or Online - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

Friday 03 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations

User Peter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology).

Friday 03 December 2021, 16:15-18:00

House https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Rare decays of B mesons to purely-muonic final states

User Ifan Williams (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

User Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University).

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

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

Title to be confirmed

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

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

House Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

How do signals from the body shape our actions (and our inactions)? Plus, a discussion on how we can green neuroscience

User Charlotte Rae (University of Sussex).

Thursday 09 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian

User Speaker to be confirmed.

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Thursday 09 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Variability of the Undercurrent in the Amundsen Sea inferred from satellite altimetry

User Oana Dragomir (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

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

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

Dr Sara Baker - Title TBC

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

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

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Bin Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Title to be confirmed

User Laura Messio, LPTMC Paris.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

User Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Food and Climate Change

User Professor Sarah Bridle, University of Manchester.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics

User Dr. Sam Stranks, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology / Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge..

House Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 24 January 2022, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Quantifying and reducing uncertainty in projections of sea level rise from ice sheets

User Isabel Nias (University of Liverpool).

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

User Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Professor Eric Lauga

User Professor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

Monday 31 January 2022, 18:00-19:00

Dr Mirjana Bozic - Title TBC

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

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

Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools

User Wendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Food, Power and Society

User Ms Sarah Mukherjee, Journalist.

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Dr Michael Hastings - Title TBC

User Dr Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

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

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

X-Ray Inspection of Food

User Mr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

User Professor Angela Roberts, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

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

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Giulia Galli, University of Chicago.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Title to be confirmed

User Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Food as Expression

User Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Professor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC

User Professor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology .

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 18:00-19:00

Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesity

User Marcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Professor Kevin Brindle - title to be Confirmed

User Professor Kevin M. Brindle FMedSci FRS Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre.

Monday 28 February 2022, 18:00-19:00

Dr Yaara Erez - Title TBC

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

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

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Halim Kusumaatmaja, Durham University.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Title to be confirmed

User Ronny Thomale, University of Würzburg.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Archaeology and the History of Food

User Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Dr Petra Vértes - Title TBC

User Dr Petra Vértes, Department of Psychiatry.

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

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Andela Šarić, UCL.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 14:30-15:30

Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafish

User Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 14:30-15:30

Development of interneurons in visual cortex

User Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cochlear implants for deafness: how cochlear anatomy interacts with implant function

User Manohar Bance, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 07 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Global Views of Mammalian Development

User Jay Shendure, University of Washington.

Thursday 21 April 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

Title tbc

User Elisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona.

Thursday 05 May 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.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 16:00-17:00