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Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz).
Tuesday 17 March 2026, 15:00-16:30
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The birth of scientific anti-racism
⚠️ Please note earlier time
Genetics Seminar
Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast
⚠️ Host - Marco Geymonat
Genetics Seminar
Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics
⚠️ Host - Charlotte Houldcroft
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China
Genetics Seminar
CANCELLED - Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation
⚠️ Host - Aylwyn Scally
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genetics, infrastructure and historicity in the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain
Genetics Seminar
Small RNAs in Epigenetic Inheritance: a lesson from worms
⚠️ Host - Ritwick Sawarkar
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore
Genetics Seminar
Molecular bases of Shigella virulence and host immune response
⚠️ Host – Kate Baker
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How TV made 'The Naked Ape'
Genetics Seminar
21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology
⚠️ Host - Aylwyn Scally
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia
Genetics Seminar
Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development
⚠️ Host - Ben Steventon
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Genetics Seminar
Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI
⚠️ Host - Michael Boemo
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Swinging into crip time: teenage limb loss and art making in 1960s London
Genetics Seminar
CANCELLED - News from the Palaeolithic: ancient genomes and Neandertal-human interactions
⚠️ Host – Alex Cagan
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Scientific perception, interpretation and prediction of the weather in late medieval England
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
London EvoDevo meeting
Genetics Seminar
How the double helix was really discovered, and what Rosalind Franklin thought about it
⚠️ Host – Frank Jiggins
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history
⚠️ CANCELLED
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
AIDS and the Naz Project: British Asian AIDS activism in the nineties
Genetics Seminar
What can butterfly hybrid zones tell us about the genomic architecture of species barriers?
⚠️ Host – Richard Durbin
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Life without HOX
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Dynamic Interplay: Coordinating stem cell fate and states through niche interactions
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Control of cell fate specification and physiological maturation in the human brain by the lipid phosphatase OCRL
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The global health focus on early life: origin stories
Genetics Seminar
Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS
⚠️ Host - Cahir O'Kane
Genetics Seminar
Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale
⚠️ Host – Richard Durbin
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Our first choices: decoding cellular signals during developmental transitions
Genetics Seminar
Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA
⚠️ Host - Charlotte Houldcroft
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference
Genetics Seminar
Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.
⚠️ Host - Erik Clark
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine
Genetics Seminar
When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity
⚠️ Host - Steve Russell
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present
Genetics Seminar
Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila
⚠️ Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira
Genetics Seminar
An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineages
⚠️ Host - Zach Baker
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: Coordination of cell states and tissue architecture by mechanical forces
Genetics Seminar
Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development
⚠️ Host - Ben Steventon
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
Genetics Seminar
Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new
⚠️ Host - Charlotte Houldcroft
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain
Genetics Seminar
Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolution
⚠️ Host - Erik Clark
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China
Genetics Seminar
Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation
⚠️ Host - John Welch
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Synthetic ex utero embryogenesis: from naive pluripotent stem cells to human and mouse bona fide embryo-models
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level
Genetics Seminar
Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians
⚠️ Host - Richard Durbin
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Human brain chimeroids as avatars to study inter-individual variation in brain development and disease
⚠️ To receive the link please email communications@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development
Genetics Seminar
Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks
⚠️ Host - Henrik Salje
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
⚠️ CANCELLED
Genetics Seminar
Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancer
⚠️ Host - Cahir O'Kane
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signaling dynamics in the epithelium
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signalling dynamics in the epithelium
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Being a Good Neighbour: Cell Cycle, Metabolism and Cell Fate in the Drosophila Testis.
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960
Genetics Seminar
Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome
⚠️ Host - Erik Clark
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Physics of morphogenesis
⚠️ To join online, please email events@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The origins of land plant complexity: interpreting development in the Devonian
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Taking it up a Notch, building the body plan
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India
Genetics Seminar
Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans
⚠️ Host – Ritwick Sawarkar
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
You get a methylation, and you get a methylation, everybody gets a methylation
⚠️ Host: GIPA, Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association
Genetics Seminar
Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2
⚠️ Host – Henrik Salje
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals
⚠️ hybrid
Genetics Seminar
Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective
⚠️ Host – Bianca De Sanctis
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact
⚠️ hybrid
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century
Genetics Seminar
Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion
⚠️ Host - Marco Geymonat
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: Embryonic and adult neural stem cells- what underlies their difference
⚠️ Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova and Sumru Bayin
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s
Genetics Seminar
Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates?
⚠️ Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira
Genetics Seminar
Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks
⚠️ Host - Lin Wang
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'
Genetics Seminar
Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?
⚠️ Host - Frank Jiggins
Genetics Seminar
Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.
⚠️ Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira
Genetics Seminar Series
“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.
⚠️ Host : Cahir O'Kane
Genetics Seminar
Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability
⚠️ Host - Cahir O’Kane
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Decoding transcriptional regulation
⚠️ Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova & Julie Ahringer
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans
⚠️ On Zoom only, ask organisers for link
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers
⚠️ Hybrid, ask organisers for link
Genetics Seminar
A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell division
⚠️ Host - Marco Geymonat
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems
⚠️ Hybrid, ask organisers for link
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Hematopoietic Malignancies
⚠️ Hosted by: Andrea Brand & John Gurdon
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomics
⚠️ Hybrid, ask organisers for link
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms
⚠️ Hybrid, ask organisers for link
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
⚠️ Hosted by: Daniel St Johnston & Andrea Brand
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010
⚠️ Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday
Genetics Seminar
Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila
⚠️ Host - Chaitanya Dingare
Genetics Seminar
Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality
⚠️ Hosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
⚠️ Hosted by: David Fernandez-Antoran & Emma Rawlins
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences
⚠️ CANCELLED
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i
Genetics Seminar
Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.
⚠️ Host: Elves Duarte
Genetics Seminar
Investigating the evolution and development of body plans and body parts in arthropods
⚠️ Host - Steve Russell
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair
⚠️ Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Engineering epithelial organoid development
⚠️ Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)
Genetics Seminar
Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cells
⚠️ Host: Cahir O'Kane
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: Signalling pathways regulating cell fate allocation in the early mouse embryo
⚠️ Hosted by: Azim Surani & Julie Ahringer
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?
⚠️ CANCELLED
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)
Genetics Seminar
Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair
⚠️ Host: Hansong Ma
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain
Genetics Seminar
Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism.
⚠️ Host: John Welch
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Symmetry breaking in gastruloids development
⚠️ Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Jenny Gallop
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Dicer dependent tRNA derived small RNAs promote nascent RNA silencing
⚠️ Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance
⚠️ Hosted by: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Using Fruit Flies to Understand Tissue Regeneration
⚠️ Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)
Genetics Seminar
Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure
⚠️ Host – Richard Durbin
Genetics Seminar
The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease
⚠️ Host: Cahir O'Kane
Genetics Seminar
Genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and phase-separation
⚠️ Host: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs
⚠️ Hosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940
Genetics Seminar
PP2A-B55 inhibitors Arpp19 and ENSA define the cell cycle program by controlling the temporal pattern of protein phosphorylation
⚠️ Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover
Early Science and Medicine
Birth, fate, and Roman futures
Genetics Seminar
This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later this year.
⚠️ Host: Hansong Ma
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s
Genetics Seminar
Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression
⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening
Genetics Seminar
Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.
⚠️ Host: Ben Steventon
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Renaissance eugenics
Genetics Seminar
Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges
⚠️ Host: John Welch
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century
Genetics Seminar
From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomes
⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Gender and generation in premodern Europe
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Mechanistic basis of epigenetic switching and memory
⚠️ Hosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)
Genetics Seminar
Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.
⚠️ Host: Ben Steventon
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: How CST protects telomeres and double-strand breaks
⚠️ Hosted by: Steve Jackson & Hansong Ma
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Firing up the genome
⚠️ Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Model-based explanation of cellular response
⚠️ Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)
Genetics Seminar
Chromosomal evolution in Nematodes, and other adventures on the Tree of Life
⚠️ Host: Richard Durbin
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
⚠️ Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The role of FoxN3 in the development of the chondrocranium and associated head muscles in the African Clawed-frog, Xenopus laevis
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
⚠️ Hosted by: John Gurdon & Fengzhu Xiong
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing [CANCELLED]
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain
⚠️ CANCELLED
Genetics Seminar
This talk has been cancelled
Genetics Seminar
Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation
⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain
Genetics Seminar
Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.
⚠️ Host: Michael Imbeault
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
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Robustness and scaling in early development: the “distal pinning” mechanism
⚠️ Hosted by: Ben Simons
Genetics Seminar
The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops
⚠️ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Cell competition during development and disease
⚠️ Hosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS)
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Stem Cells: It’s All About the Neighborhood
⚠️ Hosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins
Genetics Seminar
How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer
⚠️ Host: Hansong Ma
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China
Genetics Seminar
A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomes
⚠️ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
TBC
Genetics Seminar
The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity
⚠️ Host: Richard Durbin
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Mechanistic insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery and DNA repair
⚠️ Hosted by: Philip Zegerman
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
TBC
Genetics Seminar
Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out
⚠️ Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Epigenetic memory over geological timescales
⚠️ Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Human Regulator of TElomere Length Helicase 1 (RTEL1) couples nuclear envelope stability and functions to genome replication
⚠️ Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Steve Jackson
Genetics Seminar
What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time?
⚠️ Host: Richard Durbin
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913
Genetics Seminar
Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain
⚠️ Host: Michael Imbeault
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Spatio-temporal dynamics of cell fate specification and differentiation in the zebrafish embryo
⚠️ Hosted by: John Gurdon & Philip Zegerman
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Transposable elements as catalysts of cellular innovation
⚠️ Hosted by: Azim Surani & Hansong Ma
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
From development to deep time: the macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration in living and extinct tetrapods
Genetics Seminar
A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects
⚠️ Host: Berta Verd
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
TBC
Genetics Seminar
Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells?
⚠️ Host: Ben Steventon
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: The blastocyst and its stem cells; from mouse to human relevance
⚠️ Hosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins
Genetics Seminar
Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization
⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field
Genetics Seminar
Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques
⚠️ Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Chemical regulation of functional RNAs
⚠️ Special Seminar hosted by: Tony Kouzarides, Eric Miska & Cambridge RNA Club
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains - approaching the next level of detail
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Anatomy museum on the move
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s
Genetics Seminar
Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution
⚠️ Host: Chris Illingworth
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Towards in vivo structural biology: solving protein structures using deep mutagenesis
⚠️ Hosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer
Genetics Seminar
Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast
⚠️ Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
⚠️ CANCELLED
Genetics Seminar
Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa
⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Generating human kidney tissue from pluripotent stem cells
⚠️ Hosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute
Genetics Seminar
Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development
⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s
Genetics Seminar
Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense
⚠️ Host: Felipe Karam Teixeira
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959
Genetics Seminar
How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubules
⚠️ Host: Cahir O’Kane
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Determinants of embryo polarity in the evolution of flies
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Role of H3K27me3-mediated genomic imprinting in development and somatic cell nuclear transfer reprogramming
⚠️ Hosted by: Azim Surani
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Regulators of Muscle Stem Cell Fate and Function
⚠️ Hosted by: John Gurdon & Meritxell Huch
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Regulatory principles in human development and evolution
⚠️ Hosted by: Julie Ahringer & Emma Rawlins
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Life in the dark: can deep sea fishes see colours?
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Gene re-usages constrained the evolvability of the animal body plan?
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Epigenetics: One Genome, Multiple Phenotypes
⚠️ Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides & Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Modified small RNA regulate chromosome dosage and segregation
⚠️ Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides
Genetics Seminar
Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer
⚠️ Host: Alexis Braun
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Mechanics and Evolution of Cell Sheet Folding – Embryonic Inversion in the micro-alga Volvox
Genetics Seminar
Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch
⚠️ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Dorsal closure in dipterans: epithelial rupture, contraction and seaming in embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
On the function of PRDM15, a member of the PRDM family of transcriptional regulators, in development and lymphomagenesis
⚠️ Hosted by: Meritxell Huch
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The cellular phase of Alzheimer’s Disease
⚠️ Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Smart light sheet microscopes for you and me
⚠️ Hosted by: Alex Sossick & Emma Rawlins
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences
⚠️ CANCELLED
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing: Biology, Technology and Ethics
⚠️ Hosted by: Eric Miska & Steve Jackson
Genetics Seminar
Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture
⚠️ Host: Michaela Frye
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
⚠️ CANCELLED
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Modularity, criticality and evolvability of a developmental GRN
Genetics Seminar
Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescales
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East
Genetics Seminar
Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development
⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez Arias
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Regulation of progenitor cells in adult lung and in lung cancer
⚠️ Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Azim Surani
Genetics Seminar
Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems
⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The role of choanocytes in the sponge stem cell system and their suggested homology with choanoflagellates
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Immune evasion and metastasis in colorectal cancer
⚠️ Hosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Neuropeptidergic signalling in the anterior nervous system of Platynereis larvae and evolution of neurosecretory brain centers
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Imaging cancer invasion and pluripotency
⚠️ Hosted by: Jenny Gallop & Steve Jackson
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Growth coordination in Drosophila
⚠️ Hosted by: Hansong Ma & Andrea Brand
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Probing human brain evolution in a dish
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Robustness and dynamics of natural direct reprogramming
⚠️ Hosted by: Emma Rawlins & Julie Ahringer
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
RNA Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Disease
⚠️ Hosted by: Jenny Gallop & Rick Livesey
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
MicroCT from zoology to pathology
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Molecular mechanisms of biomineralisation in sponges and molluscs and their relevance to the Cambrian explosion
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices
Genetics Seminar
An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science Communication
⚠️ Host: Sudhakaran Prabakaran
Genetics Seminar
Capturing human axial progenitors in vitro
⚠️ Hosts: Alfonso Martinez-Arias & Shlomit Edri
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Taxon-restricted genes at the origin of morphological novelty and ecological opportunity in water-striders
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Are RNA granules liquid organelles? Regulation of P granule dynamics by intrinsically-disordered proteins
⚠️ Hosts: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska
Genetics Seminar
The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa.
⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585–86
Genetics Seminar
Formation and disease relevance of axonal endoplasmic reticulum, a "neuron within a neuron”.
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: Epigenetic regulation by histone acetylation
⚠️ Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides & Eric Miska
Genetics Seminar
Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function
⚠️ Host: Chris Illingworth
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Protecting Immortality: Germ line Development in Drosophila
⚠️ Hosts: Daniel St Johnston & Julie Ahringer
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Liver Regeneration in the Damaged Liver
⚠️ Hosted by: Meritxell Huch
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of limb and fin regeneration
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Time and space in insect segmentation
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal skeleton
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
A solid state conceptualization of information transfer from gene to message to protein
⚠️ Hosts: John Gurdon & Meritxell Huch
Genetics Seminar
Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast
⚠️ Host: Marco Geymonat
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Multi-scale models of organogenesis: Limb bud development
⚠️ Hosts: Eugenia Piddini & Emma Rawlins
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Embracing Complexity: A Fly-to-Bedside Approach to Cancer Therapies
⚠️ Hosts: Eugenia Piddini & Steve Jackson
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Shared developmental rules predict patterns of size evolution in vertebrate segmented structures
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Amphioxus provides unexpected insight into evolutionary processes
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905–1940s
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Regulatory evolution and the diversification of pigmentation patterns in Drosophila
Genetics Seminar
Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genome
⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Sex differences in organ size and plasticity
⚠️ Hosts: Phil Zegerman & Andrea Brand
Genetics Seminar
Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteria
⚠️ Host: Chris Illingworth
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The evolutionary and embryonic origins of the gnathostome axial skeleton
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genomics and the industrialisation of medical tests, 1980–2000
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Lizards, skulls and reptile communities
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
How the breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage offers clues to mammalian evolution
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Multispecies settlement in Palestine: the problem of infertility and the wonders of urine
Genetics Seminar
Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrier
⚠️ Host: John Welch
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Gene regulatory complexity in chordate neural patterning
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Picturing the unusual: medical photography as an 'experimental system'
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Measuring and Modeling the Dynamics of Developmental Decisions in Single Cells
⚠️ Hosts: Rick Livesey & Ben Simons
Genetics Seminar
Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass.
⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Cell biological mechanisms regulating vertebrate neurogenesis
⚠️ Hosts: Daniel St Johnston & Rick Livesey
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Expression of segment polarity genes in brachiopods supports a non-segmental ancestral role of engrailed for bilaterians
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Imaging Cancer Invasion and Therapy Failure
⚠️ Hosts: Eugenia Piddini & Tony Kouzarides
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The life of forms: biology and modernist sculpture
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: Cell polarity in lymphocytes
⚠️ Hosts: Daniel St Johnston & Phil Zegerman
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evo-devo in cartilaginous fishes - teeth, scales and the cartilaginous skeleton of the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Mobile elements, polydactyl proteins and the making of human-specific transcriptional networks
⚠️ Hosts: Eric Miska & Azim Surani
Genetics Seminar
Using experimental evolution to understand adaptation from standing genetic variation.
⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 – Evolution of digit number through modification of embryonic Sonic hedgehog signalling
Genetics Seminar
Directing and shaping the inside-out axis of the vertebrate brain
⚠️ Host: Ben Steventon
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Bringing together family planning and parasite control: Cold War collaborations between Japan and South Korea
Genetics Seminar
Towards a complete view of the genetics of gene expression variation in yeast
⚠️ Host: Chris Illingworth
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The evolution of embryonic form: a genetic and cellular analysis of arthropod development
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The Colindale typers: bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Maternal effects in Speckled Wood butterflies: an eco-evo-devo approach
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Reading and Writing Genomes in 3D: The CTCF code and how to hack it
⚠️ Hosts: Tony Kouzarides & Julie Ahringer
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Flies, bees, aphids and frogs: what can this menagerie tell us about the evolution of developmental processes?
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Progress and future prospects of resolving the animal tree of life in the era of genomics
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of the Animal Face: from Principles to Mechanisms
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Understanding and manipulating cell fate
⚠️ Hosts: Emma Rawlins & Azim Surani
Genetics Seminar
Beyond the reference genome: inference using prior knowledge of the diversity of a species.
⚠️ Host: Chris Illingworth
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes
Genetics Seminar
Genome diversity and evolution of DNA methylation genome in the human genome.
⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
TCF/Lef regulates the Gsx ParaHox gene in central nervous development in chordates.
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Principles of skin regeneration, repair and cancer by live imaging
⚠️ Hosts: Ben Simons & Eugenia Piddini
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The Evolution of Developmental Regulation in Spiders and Flies: Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Genome regulation by Polycomb proteins, between epigenetic inheritance and dynamic gene regulation
⚠️ Hosts: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of animal body axes: insights from the oral-aboral axis of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The seed you need: generation, reproduction and female orgasm in medieval Islamic medicine
Genetics Seminar
Role of neuromesodermal progenitors in axial elongation.
⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Genetics Seminar
Checkpoint and non-checkpoint functions of Drosophila Mad1 and RZZ.
⚠️ Host: Yuu Kimata
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
FANcy nucleases that cut chromosome instability and disease
⚠️ Hosts: Steve Jackson & Phil Zegerman
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Comparative Analyses of Neuromesodermal Progenitor Dynamics in vivo
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the 20th century
Genetics Seminar
Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a continuous spectrum of differentiation in haematopoietic cells.
⚠️ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Three phases of Wnt signaling define three phases of axis development in the hemichordate S. kowalevskii
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880–1950
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Gene regulation from a distance
⚠️ Hosts: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The relationships between chromosome structure and gene activity during X inactivation
⚠️ Hosts: John Gurdon & Azim Surani
Genetics Seminar
Genomics approaches for the investigation of gene regulation.
⚠️ Host: Steve Russell
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Endodermal contribution to orofacial structures in non-teleost fishes: How ancient is the pre-oral gut?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Interracial relationships and the 'brown baby' problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain
Genetics Seminar
Breaking the silence: defense and counter-defense in antiviral RNA silencing pathways of insects.
⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
After the end of disease: looking past the epidemic narrative
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Coordinating growth and tissue organization during development
⚠️ Hosts: Eugenia Piddini & Emma Rawlins
Genetics Seminar
Transcriptional regulation and downstream program of Hox and Cdx genes during axial development in the mouse embryo.
⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of eye development in Astyanax blind cavefish
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The logic and origins of Eukaryotic cell organisation: Inside-out or Outside-in?
⚠️ Hosts: Jon Pines & Jenny Gallop
Genetics Seminar
Intra-tumour heterogeneity and genomic rearrangements in solid cancers.
⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Highly coloured': race, ethnicity and the NHS
Genetics Seminar
Into the void: bridging the gap between risk genes and psychiatric phenotypes.
⚠️ Host: Cahir O' Kane
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
New insights into aneuploidy in mammalian oocytes
⚠️ Hosts: Phil Zegerman & Meri Huch
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The molecular basis of developmental buffering: a key to understanding the interface between environment and evolution?
Genetics Seminar
Inhibitory activities of short linear motifs underlie Hox interactome specificity in vivo.
⚠️ Hosts: Steve Russell and Boris Adryan
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Imaging heart development and function in zebrafish
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: Stem cells in lung maintenance and repair
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Exploring the genetic toolkit for pattern formation and diversification in butterfly wings
Genetics Seminar
Single-cell dynamics of the proliferation-quiescence decision.
⚠️ Host: Viji Draviam
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Stem cells in the brain: Glial Identity and Niches
Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars
An integrated structural biology approach to flower development
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Regulatory Programme and Evolution Underlying the Development of Echinoderm Skelton
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Raising the shield: How cell migration changes got the turtle its shell (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME)
Genetics Seminar
Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again.
⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The curious incident of the seal in the pond
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950s–1970s
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Malthus and the South Sea
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The atomic structure of the APC/C: implications for understanding regulation and mechanism of protein ubiquitination
Genetics Seminar
How dynein and its co-factors at the kinetochore ensure chromosome segregation fidelity.
⚠️ Host: Viji Draviam
Genetics Seminar
Beyond cancer genetics: dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in leukaemia.
⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine
Genetics Seminar
Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response.
⚠️ Host: Yuu Kimata
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Biological insights into mutagenesis through modern sequencing technologies
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The earliest deuterostomes, or something else entirely?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The development and evolution of vertebrate oxygen-sensing cells
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Transcriptional regulation during developmental transitions: a view from 3D
Genetics Seminar
Using zebrafish models to identify novel alleles affecting human behaviour- a proof of principle study using smoking as an example.
⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Operation ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
A Protein phosphatase 1/protein phosphatase 2A relay controls mitotic progression
Genetics Seminar
COMT: from single nucleotide polymorphism to whole brain function.
⚠️ Host: Boris Adyran
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Bdelloid rotifers: unveiling the mystery of an evolutionary scandal
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Evolution of Cell-Cell Adhesion, and New Insight into Mechanisms in Animals
Genetics Seminar
Large scale genomic analyses of complex traits in human populations.
⚠️ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
How does an alga become a parasite?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in Britain, 1860–1960
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America
Genetics Seminar
Regulation of Notch signalling by the endosomal pathway.
⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big data
Genetics Seminar
Organisation and Regulation of DNA supercoiling domains in Mammalian Chromatin.
⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Morphogenesis and Molecular Regulation of Colour Patterning in Natural Populations
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Microtubules need actin's help in large oocytes, to collect chromosomes and to break the nuclear envelope
Genetics Seminar
C. elegans development: getting the seams right and living a balanced life.
⚠️ Host: Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Self-organization of genetic oscillators during mouse mesoderm development
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Deep Time and Modern Brains
⚠️ Please contact the organiser, Liria Masuda-Nakagawa (lm546) if you would like to meet Professor Strausfeld after the seminar.
Genetics Seminar
The impact of viral IκB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions.
⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Amphioxus: A laboratory surrogate of the ancestral chordate giving insights into vertebrate head origins
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements
⚠️ This talk is kindly sponsored by eLife Sciences
Genetics Seminar
Shaping and reshaping regulatory loops in Drosophila morphogen signaling.
⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Developmental Constraints? Why blind cavefish still have eye at embryonic stage
Genetics Seminar
Molecular mechanisms of Mediator complex recruitment by transcription factors.
⚠️ Hosts: Boris Adryan and Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Using barcoding to understand British Collembola (Springtails)
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment
Genetics Seminar
Computational insights into stem cell differentiation using dynamic hybrid modelling.
⚠️ Host: Steve Russell
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Generating neuronal diversity: stochastic or deterministic choices
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Floral quartets link flower development and evolution
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Origins and consequences of (epi)genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives
Genetics Seminar
Targets of T cell responses against malaria liver infection: immunology meets experimental genetics.
⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan
Genetics Seminar
A Drosophila resource to study human pathology.
⚠️ Host: Sarah Bray, PDN (sjb32@cam.ac.uk)
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The evolution of branching patterns in plants
Genetics Seminar
Molecular insights into the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of bat rabies.
⚠️ Hosts: John Welch and Ben Longdon
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Integration in Morphological Structures: how it affects evolution and how it evolves
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Making similar embryos with divergent genomes
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spiritual genetics: hereditary sin and religious genealogy in early modern England
Genetics Seminar
Vaccinia virus has evolved the Bcl-2 family of proteins to thwart the host innate immune system.
⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Mechanisms of centriole assembly
Genetics Seminar
Checks and Balances in Drosophila Muscle and Heart Differentiation Programs.
⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Cracking the code of crocodile skin
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: Cell shape and morphogenesis: sub cellular and supra-cellular mechanisms
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging 'Making Sex'
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The multiple inventions of transgenic mice
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Stem cell dynamics during development, homeostasis and cancer
Genetics Seminar
Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of accurate chromosome segregation.
⚠️ Host: Viji Draviam
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The endocrine organs of Drosophila as new model to study extreme evolutionary divergence and epithelial to mesenchymal transitions during development
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit fly
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
RNA regulation during development and evolution
Genetics Seminar
Widespread translation of small Open Reading Frames from coding regions, UTRs and non-coding RNAs.
⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Growth and size regulation in development and disease
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Deciphering the onychophoran ‘segmentation gene cascade’: inferences about the evolution of segmentation
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The birth of gender: transforming sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The 'premature arrival of the future': temporalities of cloning in 1970s life sciences and culture
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Self-regulatory mechanism of multicellular systems: tissue self-organization and scaling
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Developmental Modularity, and Evolvability of the Head Skeleton
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Mechanisms of cellular programming and reprogramming
Genetics Seminar
How does the kinetochore orchestrate a functional checkpoint signal?
⚠️ Host: Viji Draviam
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Reinventing infectious disease: antibiotic resistance and drug development at the Bayer Company, 1940–1980
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Probing the molecular and cellular basis of developmental morphogenesis
Genetics Seminar
Sibling Rivalry and Stress Tolerance: the Single-Cell Biology of Mycobacteria.
⚠️ Host: Viji Draviam
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in Drosophila
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Amphioxus: an unusual model gives insight into chordate development and regeneration
Genetics Seminar
The evolutionary dynamics of unusual reproductive systems.
⚠️ Hosts: Eli Vieira Araujo Jnr and John Welch
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: stories from electric fish, scorpions and mice
Genetics Seminar
Tracking transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens with high-throughput genomics.
⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Spatial and temporal regulation of the DNA damage response
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The developmental, genetic, and adaptive bases of morphological evolution: the case of water-walking insects
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Mechanisms of Wnt signal transduction
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Developmental plasticity and life history evolution in amphibians
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Controlling gene expression fluctuations during development
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum as a model to study the ancestral mechanisms of bilaterian metazoan development
⚠️ Note unusual day and time
Genetics Seminar
How to maintain a stable genome: A Passenger Perspective.
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of gastrulation in flies
Genetics Seminar
Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Fate
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Hydra, a model for deciphering the principles of stem cells and regeneration
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Immune regulation of vertebrate regeneration
Genetics Seminar
Cell specification in the mouse blastocyst inner cell mass: interplay between Nanog, Gata6 and the Fgf signalling pathway.
Genetics Seminar
The mitotic checkpoint - a structural perspective.
Genetics Seminar
Quantification and modeling of spindle positioning and size regulation in the C. elegans embryo
Genetics Seminar
Hox Control of a Drosophila Feeding Circuit.
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: Reprogramming and cellular dominance
Genetics Seminar
Perspectives on Next Generation DNA Sequencing.
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Integrative evolutionary biology: a need for interdisciplinary studies of development, ecology and population genetics
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of body axes in Eumetazoa: what can we learn from Cnidaria?
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Unlocking the secrets of scarless wound healing and appendage regeneration
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects
Genetics Seminar
Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression during Development.
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Gene punctuation in eukaryotes: roles of R-loops, gene loops and co-transcriptional cleavage in controlling transcription
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Control of segmentation clock period and segment number in the zebrafish
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Shedding light on lunar rhythms
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: Lipoproteins and signaling lipids in the Hedgehog pathway
Genetics Seminar
PTEN phosphatase-independent maintenance of apical membrane integrity during colorectal glandular morphogenesis.
Genetics Seminar Series
Provisional Title - A Life in Science : from academia to industry to political decision making and back
Genetics Seminar
A life in science: from academia to industry and back.
Genetics Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Genetics Seminar
Phase-shifted gene-activity oscillations during embryo development - a real-time imaging approach.
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Covert communication in insects
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution
⚠️ note unusual location
Genetics Seminar Series
Rapid evolution of mammalian genomes and transcriptomes
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Gap Gene System
⚠️ note unusual location
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci
⚠️ note unusual location
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Fitting pieces and further puzzles - What 'nobody' can tell about the evolution of arthropod neurogenesis
Genetics Seminar Series
Evolutionary dynamics and adaptive benefits of emergency and modular rearrangements of protein domains
Genetics Seminar Series
“New Insights into the Mechanisms and Selectivity of Protein Degradation by the Proteasome Pathway”
Genetics Seminar Series
Cancer, Development & Adult Tissue Maintenance
Genetics Seminar Series
Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit fly
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of the molecular basis of thermotolerance, focussing on the embryos of an invasive marine invertebrate
⚠️ note unusual time
Genetics Seminar Series
“Target site recognition of Hox transcription factors by means of rapid, “trial-and-error” interactions with chromatin.”
Genetics Seminar Series
Forks and Factories: Coordination and control of mammalian DNA replication
Genetics Seminar Series
Genome-wide RNAi and HCS Microscopy approaches to dissect membrane traffic pathways
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research
Genetics Seminar Series
“The mosquito immune response against malaria parasites”
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Genome evolution as seen from each of its genes: what "phylomes" can tell us about newly-sequenced species
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Dosage compensation: An intertwined world of RNA and chromatin remodeling
Genetics Seminar Series
The development and structure of the insect cuticle
⚠️ If you wish to talk to the speaker please contact the Host, Boris Adryan on b.adryan@gen.cam.ac.uk
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Morphological and molecular evolution of the arthropod nervous system: new insights from studies on the waterflea Daphnia magna
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century
⚠️ CANCELLED
Genetics Seminar Series
The sperms’ hidden cargo; a distinctive epigenetic signature for the egg?
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Dynamics of Dpp signaling and proliferation control
Genetics Seminar Series
Molecular regulation of Wallerian axonal degeneration
Genetics Seminar Series
Exploring the origin of leaves
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The Drosophila segmentation paradigm: A product of molecular co-option and the blind clock breaker?
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Genetics Seminar Series
The family of mitochondrial transport proteins
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The gap junction protein Innexin7 is required for cellularization of the Tribolium blastoderm
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
British 'sexology' and the uses of the past
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Multiscale dynamics in zebrafish gastrulation
Genetics Seminar Series
Exploring epistasis maps of cellular processes
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Genomic encoding of shape in ascidian embryos
Genetics Seminar Series
Mechanisms and regulation of DNA recombination during meiosis
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Axial homologies re-examined: a common ground plan at the base of Eumetazoa
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution and development of morphology among populations and between species of Drosophila
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Rethinking generation in the late 18th century: the concept of 'reproduction'
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Stem cells, cell-cell interactions, and homeostasis in the Drosophila intestine
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Guidance mechanisms in collective cell migration
Genetics Seminar Series
Changes in cell and tissue architecture in early stages of colorectal cancer
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head
Genetics Seminar Series
The shape of things to come: from small G-proteins to cell polarity, cell-shape dynamics and cell-cell signalling
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development
⚠️ (note unusual location)
Genetics Seminar Series
Post-transcriptional regulation of human mitochondrial gene expression
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900–45
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The genetics of cell competition and synthetic species
Genetics Seminar Series
A genome-wide screen for developmental regulators of airway maturation regulators in Drosophila
Genetics Seminar Series
Integration of RNA- and ChIP-sequencing reveals two major gene expression levels in metazoa
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Reproductive organ development in the mouse
Genetics Seminar Series
A Drosophila Model for the role of ApoE in Alzheimer’s Disease
Genetics Seminar Series
Transthyretin and Alzheimer's amyloid beta peptide - do two wrongs make a right?
Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Toward a Psychology of Atheism: Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Imitation, Participation, and the Transformation of Identity in Paul's Practical Theology
Genetics Seminar Series
''Deciphering Mechanisms of Endoderm Development and Disease''
Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Sacred values, sacred terror: Motivation and religious terrorism
⚠️ Note irregular date and venue
Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations across Cultures and Development
Genetics Seminar Series
''How SUMO talks to ubiquitin''
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The developmental biology toolbox in basic and translational studies
Genetics Seminar Series
''How Cells Defend Their Cytosol Against Bacterial Invasion''
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Aurora B kinase regulates chromosome architecture and chromosome segregation
Genetics Seminar Series
Many ways to make ends meet: orchestration of DNA double-strand break repair processes by the NHEJ pathway
Genetics Seminar Series
Transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Modeling malignant growth in Drosophila
Genetics Seminar Series
Gene Regulatory Networks for Vertebrate Mesoderm Specification
Genetics Seminar Series
Comparative logical models of signalling networks in normal and transformed hepatocytes
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Reprogramming the code of life
Genetics Seminar Series
Genetic approaches to metabolic disease
Genetics Seminar Series
Embryo environment restricts the developmental plasticity of epiblast precursors
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Race and population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920s–1960s
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Cancer as developmental disease: chance and necessity in networks dynamics during somatic evolution of cancer cells
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Moving stem cell discoveries into translation
Genetics Seminar Series
Integrating complex genomic datasets and high-throughput cancer cell line screens: linking drug response to molecular signatures
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: The genetics and cell biology of mammalian Hedgehog signaling
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Evolution of Cerebral Cortical Development
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
TBA
Genetics Seminar Series
The 4-dimensional E.coli chromosome: how a temporal programme can be encoded in a 2D genetic map.
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spermatic animalcules and concepts of life around 1800
Genetics Seminar Series
Mind the Gap (phase): kinase signalling cascades in mitotic control in fission yeast.
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Diagnosing child sexual abuse in early modern England
Genetics Seminar Series
Post-translational regulation of division versus differentiation in the embryonic nervous system.
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Human disease in a dish: modelling premature aging and neurological disorders using induced pluripotent stem cells
Genetics Seminar Series
Rab protein evolution and the history of the eukaryotic endomembrane system
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Does epigenetic gene regulation extend beyond histone modifications?
Genetics Seminar Series
Stars and sequences - Genomics as a public science
Genetics Seminar Series
Single cell genomics reveals chromosome instability in human cleavage stage embryogenesis
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Using switchable genetically engineered mice to model cancer therapies
Genetics Seminar Series
Silencing chromosomes with Xist in embryonic and adult stem cells.
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The mechanism of mRNA transport and localized translation in Drosophila oocytes and neurons
Genetics Seminar Series
'The UK Ladybird Survey: A model citizen science project'
Fitzwilliam Museum
Work in Progress: Nick Turvey
Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Scientific study of forgiveness: Status
Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Psychological essentialism and the concept of the soul
Genetics Seminar Series
"Epithelial morphogenesis: the role of polarity and adhesion during Drosophila tracheal system development"
Genetics Seminar Series
"Genetic analysis of organelle-specific unfolded protein responses".
Fitzwilliam Museum
Objects of History: with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum
Genetics Seminar Series
"Small RNA and epigenetics in plants"
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: Remodeling the nucleus through development
Genetics Seminar Series
"Finding the middle ground: achieving a perfect metaphase plate"
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Cell cycle machinery in mouse development and in cancer
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
TBA
Lady Margaret Lectures
Hearing God: an anthropological look at American evangelical Christianity
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution.
Genetics Seminar Series
' The mechanics of tissue morphogenesis '
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Spirituality, religiousness, and schizophrenia
Genetics Seminar Series
"Genetics of common obesity - what have we learned from genome-wide association studies?"
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Mitotic entry following a DNA damage-induced arrest
Genetics Seminar Series
"Stem Cells in Mammalian epidermis"
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Towards Tree-to-Tree Translation
Genetics Seminar Series
"Insights into the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington's disease"
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The evolution of determinism: an evolutionary history of mechanisms underlying insect wing patterning
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Feedback control of mitosis
Genetics Seminar Series
"Organising microtubule organisers (and some new proteomics tools)
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
VHL tumor suppressor mechanisms: from maintenance of the primary cilium to promotion of error-free mitosis
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution
Genetics Seminar Series
R.A. Fisher Exhibition
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb
Genetics Seminar Series
Cell-Cell Communication during Fertilization in Arabidopsis: a Surprising Link to Disease Resistance
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Fingers, fins and faces: the role of fossils in documenting the assembly of modern bodyplans
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Improving paper-and-pencil measures of God representations
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Systematics, homology and speciation in time and space.
Genetics Seminar Series
"Cell fate specification and tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila mesoderm"
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Religion and the emergence of differentiated cognition
Genetics Seminar Series
"Modelling human neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila"
Genetics Seminar Series
Initiation of Centrosome separation in G2 phase requires concerted actio of Plk1, Aurora A kinase and Eg5, but occurs independently of Cdk1
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Researching fundamentalism and xenophobia: A religious schema approach
⚠️ Coffee and tea from 4:15pm.
Genetics Seminar Series
"Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early Drosophila embryos"
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms
Genetics Seminar Series
"Systems Genetics of complex Traits in Drosophila"
⚠️ Note unusual time - Seminar will be held at 16:00pm
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Multi-view Learning of Speech Feature Spaces
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Bayesian Learning Approaches for Speech Recognition
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Factors Affecting ASR Model Self-Training
Genetics Seminar Series
"Chromatin control in development and disease"
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
“Colour vision in flies”
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Religion and self-regulation
⚠️ Joint seminar of SDP and PRRG.
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
How to create a religion: What does it really take to explain (and therefore understand) a religious ritual act?
⚠️ Coffee in PPSIS Tea Room from 4.15pm
Genetics Seminar Series
"Watching transcription in living cells"
Science meets Faith
Two ways of arriving at the truth
Genetics Seminar Series
Integrated analysis of memory phase dynamic in Drosophila
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Jesus in your heart: Why personal relationships with God can increase both cardiovascular health and coalitional aggression
Genetics Seminar Series
Tales from Irish genetics: from Milesius to Niall of the Nine Hostages.
Genetics Seminar Series
"Evolution of embryonic pluripotency and the early lineages of the mammalian blastocyst".
Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience
What is Consciousness For?
Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience
In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits
Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience
Identifying the Network of Selectively Vulnerable Neurons Associated With Symptom Onset in Alzheimer¹s Disease.
Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience
Gambling and the Brain
Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience
Glutamate, Spikes, and White Matter Disease
Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience
Soft Matters – Neuromechanics in Development and Disorders
Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience
What Can Worm Brains Tell Us About Big Brains?
Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience
Visceral Neurons in Drosophila: What the Fly's Rear End Can Tell Us About the Brain
Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience
Processing and Storage Within Neurons
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Pregnancy, pathology and public morals: making antenatal care in early twentieth-century Edinburgh
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
C. elegans in an evolutionary context: natural populations and vulva development variations
Science meets Faith
How I wonder...?
Genetics Seminar Series
How does centralspindlin form microtubule bundles and accumulate on them during cytokinesis.
Genetics Seminar Series
"Phospho-dependent Activation and Silencing of the Spindle Checkpoint"
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Strange bedfellows: Psychologists in missionary care
⚠️ Tea and coffee from 4.00pm.
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
DNA replication and cancer: lessons from budding yeast
Genetics Seminar Series
"Systems biology of genetic interactions in yeast"
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The diseased convict and the Australian voyage: medical knowledge, penal reform and colonisation
Genetics Seminar Series
"Molecular mechanisms of microtubule associated protein tau and alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disease"
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The Anne McLaren Lecture: Gene regulatory networks during development: Is there a code ?
Science meets Faith
Science meets the Indian traditions
Genetics Seminar Series
The interplay of Notch with Shh and Wnt signalling in mesoderm development.
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Womb with a view: transforming obstetric ultrasound into a consumer experience
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
A religious Stroop effect? Searching for attentional biases in religious cognition
⚠️ Tea and coffee from 4.00pm.
Genetics Seminar Series
Building bridges between genes, brains and language.
⚠️ http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1512
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genetically ethnic? Medicine, heredity and immigration in post-war Britain
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
(cancelled due to speaker's illness) Role of polarized cell divisions in morphogenesis and neurogenesis in the zebrafish neural tube
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis
Genetics Seminar Series
Gene-lifestyle interaction in type 2 diabetes
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Gynaecological fragments in a pragmatic archbishop's handbook: the Old English 'Formation of the Foetus' in context
Genetics Seminar Series
"Function of SRF and Mef2 transcription factors homologues during development of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum".
Science meets Faith
What should we learn from Richard Dawkins?
Science meets Faith
The inevitable evolution of humans
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Investigating stem cell differentiation and positional signaling in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues
Genetics Seminar Series
Lost connections: a tale of wandering centrosomes.
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Irreligious experiences: Preliminary empirical findings
⚠️ Tea and coffee available from 4.15pm
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Using Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) to study the evolution of flower development
Genetics Seminar Series
"Mechanisms of synaptic communication: Vesicle traffic and Neuronal disease"
⚠️ http://www.vib.be/Research/EN/Research+Departments/Department+of+Molecular+and+Developmental+Genetics/Patrik+Verstreken
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Mexican blind cavefish as a model system for micro evolutionary research
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark
Genetics Seminar Series
"DNA repair in archaea: insights into mechanisms of homologous recombination"
⚠️ www.nottingham.ac.uk/genetics/people/allers/index.php
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
The natural foundations of reincarnation beliefs
⚠️ Tea and coffee available from 4.15pm
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Conserved regulatory networks in vertebrate development
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Der neue Trend – no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945–1975
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
The asymmetric dance of the microtubules at the end of mitosis
Science meets Faith
IMMUNITY AND AUTOIMMUNITY – A NECESSARY BALANCING ACT
Genetics Seminar Series
'Intimate Encounters and Dangerous Liaisons: Spatial Organization of Transcription in the Mammalian Nucleus'
⚠️ www.babraham.ac.uk/pjl_pages/osborne/osborne.html
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Cultural psychology of religion
Genetics Seminar Series
"Engineering Self-Orgonization and electical signaling in Bacteria using standardized Genetic Parts"
⚠️ www.gen.cam.ac.uk/About/iGEM2008-Genetics.htm
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Implicit theism in self-reported atheists
Genetics Seminar Series
"Transcriptional Silencing and lineage commitment in Pluripotent cells"
⚠️ www.cscr.cam.ac.uk/research/bhendrich.html
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Analysis of signal transduction pathways involved in cancer and control of blood pressure
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
A tractable hybrid DDN-POMDP approach to affective dialogue modeling for probabilistic frame-based dialogue systems
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Do ghosts get itchy? A cross-cultural study of folk dualistic reasoning
Genetics Seminar Series
"Worms on Prozac: A genetic dissection of neuronal signalling pathways"
⚠️ www.ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/research-groups/nurrish.htm
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Origins and organization of synapse complexity
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects
Genetics Seminar Series
"Tensegrity, Self Organizing Attractors and Developmental Control"
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Error Approximation and Minimum Bayes Risk Acoustic Model Estimation
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
A Comparison of VTLN and Gender-Dependent Models
Genetics Seminar Series
“TGF-beta/Dpp signalling in epithelial morphogenesis and cell death”
Science meets Faith
QUESTION TIME
Genetics Seminar Series
"Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability".
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera)
⚠️ Note changed location and time!!!
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Extended HVS Parser
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The genetic loci underlying phenotypic evolution in animals and plants: from single case studies to general principles
⚠️ Note changed location!
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Spoken Dialogue Systems for Space and Lunar Exploration
Genetics Seminar Series
“Switching and Interlocking: a computational look at genome regulation”
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Understanding the evolution of developmental mechanisms: the role of non-coding RNAs in Hox gene regulation
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Vocal Tract Transfer Function Estimation Using Factor Analyzed Trajectory Hidden Markov Model
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evo-devo in the tropics
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability
⚠️ Please note location and time!
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Recent work on POMDP-based dialog systems at AT&T
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Inducing Meaning from Text
Genetics Seminar Series
“A cellular perspective on sensory-organ regeneration in the zebrafish”
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis
Genetics Seminar Series
“Love at First Light”
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
Genetics Seminar Series
"The love and hate affaire between Wingless and Notch in Drosophila wing development"
Fitzwilliam Museum
A Beautiful Line
Genetics Seminar Series
Natural selection at SNP and Copy Number Variation in the human genome
Fitzwilliam Museum
Art in Context: Two portraits by Bartel Beham
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
A new view on arthropod limb evolution
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Uncertainty and Learning in Spoken Human-Computer Dialogue
Genetics Seminar Series
'Cell fate decisions and establishment of pluripotency'
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture
⚠️ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Building asymmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits
Genetics Seminar Series
tba
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Ecdysozoan phylogeny and the origins of crustacean complexity: new data from the Cambrian fossil record
Genetics Seminar Series
Genetic Dissection of the Homeostatic Signaling: Systems that Stabilize Neural Function
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages
Gurdon Institute Seminar Series
Breaking Abbe's barrier: diffraction-unlimited resolution in far-field optical microscopy
Genetics Seminar Series
What drives recombination hotspots in humans?
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Recapitulating ancestral mammalian incisor dentitions through disruption of NF-kB and Wnt signalling in the mouse
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Biotrash: medical garbage in India
Genetics Seminar Series
Genome Instability and Cancer: lessons from analysis of Bloom's syndrome
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Transgenic and transgenomic strategies for studying the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution: prospects and pitfalls
Genetics Seminar Series
Genomic imprinting: a model for the epigenetic control of genome function
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story
Genetics Seminar Series
The role of miRNAs and piRNAs in C.elegans development
Genetics Seminar Series
Genetic studies in Drosophila identify a novel pathologic mechanism for Parkinson disease.
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The centipede tree: an evolutionary framework for segmentation studies
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm
Genetics Seminar Series
Small open reading frames: new, abundant, important
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The Great Divide: Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran transition
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate
Genetics Seminar Series
Toxin-antitoxin pairs in biotechnology and therapy
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox
Genetics Seminar Series
Genetic variation in Salmonella Typhi
Genetics Seminar Series
Mechanism of epidermal maintenance of mice and men
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull
Genetics Seminar Series
Alternative splicing in the human transcriptome: Functional and structural influence on proteins
⚠️ ECTOPIC SEMINAR
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Expression and function of spider Wnt genes
⚠️ Please note unusual time!
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Multidimensional Dialogue Management and Dialogue Act Recognition using Bayesian Networks
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders
⚠️ Please note location and time!
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra
⚠️ Please note location and time!
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Can Robots Learn Language the Way Children Do?
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways
⚠️ Please note different location!
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms
⚠️ Please note different location!
Genetics Seminar Series
Getting more from your markers; statistical cleaning of genetic data
Genetics Seminar Series
Glial cell differentiation and function in Drosophila
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Gene Networks and Natural Selection
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Gilding the Lily: The Evolution and Development of Specialized Petal Cell Types
Genetics Seminar Series
Growth regulation of ribosome biogenesis in yeast: what's inside the black box?
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Sex Determination in Musca domestica, a Prime Example of Evolutionary Plasticity in Development
Genetics Seminar Series
The antigenic and genetic evolution of influenza viruses
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)
Genetics Seminar Series
Can systems biology be useful, an ascidian perspective
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Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Embryos and Ancestors
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives
Genetics Seminar Series
The regulatory origin of repeated evolution of Drosophila pigmentation patterns
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
‘The dog days’: rabies in England, 1830–1860
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Neanderthal Genomics
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Genetics Seminar Series
Exploring the causes of regulatory variation in humans
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The Amphioxus Model in Evo-Devo/Neofunctionalization of Retinoic Acid Receptors in Vertebrates
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Why write a history of both red and green biotech? The controversies over DES in post-war France and the United States
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Queer feet: tracing the normal and the pathological in nineteenth-century movement studies
Genetics Seminar Series
Size and Shape in Drosophila wing morphogenesis
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Tweaking the Hinge and Caps: Testing a Model of the Organization of the Gnathostome Skull
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Interpreting Multimodal Communication Scenes
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The H-bomb, fishermen and an unusual infection: the Bikini incident and the rise of a new medicine in Cold War Japan
Genetics Seminar Series
Interactions between Polymorphic Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors and Polymorphic MHC class I ligands
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Tracheoesophageal Speech Repair
Genetics Seminar Series
Speciation and genomic diversity of Drosophila species: based on microarray and genome analyses
⚠️ ** Ectopic Seminar **
Genetics Seminar Series
Speciation and genomic diversity of Drosophila species: based on microarray and genome analyses
⚠️ ** Ectopic Seminar **
Genetics Seminar Series
Sexual selection and sexual conflict
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Nature, nurture or neither? Some Hippocratic generations of difference
Genetics Seminar Series
Distinct roles for Tcf/Lef genes in mediating tissue-specific Wnt/beta-catenin signalling in Xenopus mesoderm development.
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
From standardization to welfare: the origins of the '3 Rs' approach to managing laboratory animals
Genetics Seminar Series
Vertebrate Limb Patterning and Morphogenesis
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars
Use of Linguistic Information and Reordering Strategies for Ngram- based Statistical Machine Translation
Genetics Seminar Series
Wiring the worm: global functional and genetic networks for a multicellular animal
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'It's all in the blood': thoroughbred racehorse reproduction
Genetics Seminar Series
*** POSTPONED *** - Exploring the causes of regulatory variation in humans
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual
Genetics Seminar Series
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