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Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Aneuploidy and its impact on human embryo development

User Marta Shahbazi.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are Airborne Ultrafine Particles the Next Frontier in Air Pollution Research?

User Professor Roy Harrison.

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

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song

User Richard Morrison, The Times.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 13 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Illuminating mechanisms of PGC migration in the early mouse embryo

User Kate McDole (LMB).

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 13 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast

Host - Marco Geymonat

User Dr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier.

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Resolving the Ediacaran enigma: Unravelling the fossil record of early animal evolution

User Professor Alex Liu.

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

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Palestinian Song in Transition: The Interplay of Tradition and Innovation, 1936-1948

User Professor Issa Boulos, University of Chicago.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 06 March 2026, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Inter-Organ Communication and Metabolic Regulation in Drosophila

User Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Professor Katrina Lythgoe from Department of Biology, University of Oxford.

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From Glycogen to Ubiquitin and back again

User Sir Philip Cohen.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Songs of the Stars: unravelling stellar music with asteroseismology

User Professor Conny Aerts, KU Leuven.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

To divide or differentiate, that is the question

User Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Reading your DNA

User Sir Shankar Balasubramanian.

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

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900

User Dr Carola Darwin, Royal College of Music.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electrons to Empires: A First-principles View on Science, Technology, and Politics in a Materials World

User Professor Nicola Marzari.

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

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Song in the Ancient World: Echoes of Religion and Resistance

User Dr Matthew Gordley, Carlow University.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 13 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Lineage architecture of the human and avian spinal cord revealed by single cell genomic barcoding

User Giulia Boezio, Francis Crick Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 13 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Where do we stand on the origin of eukaryotic cells?

Host – Antoine Hocher

User Dr Tom Williams from Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol.

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Adventures in Molecular recognition: from one happy accident to another

User Professor Jeremy Sanders.

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

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Songs We Grow By

User Dr Ibrahim Baltagi, Lebanese American University.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 06 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding bivalency: Mechanisms of poising at developmental gene promoters

User Philipp Voigt, Babraham Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The death of consumerism and how we build a more sustainable future

User Professor Mark Miodownik.

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

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Throat-Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place

User Dr Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 30 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Genomes

User Patrick Cai, University of Manchester.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

CANCELLED - Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation

Host - Aylwyn Scally

User Dr James DiFrisco from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Building molecules that mimic biological function

User Professor Jonathan Clayden.

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

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Notes and noises in nature: not a swan song?

User Professor Hans Slabbekoorn, Leiden University.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

How personalised is your immune system?

Host - Lin Wang

User Professor Aleksandra Walczak from Laboratoire de physique, l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

House G12 Large Lecture Theatre in Department of Plant Sciences and Zoom.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Modelling self-organisation: Beyond Turing

User Jeremy Green.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 05 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Imaging the virosphere: protein architecture for virus assembly and host cell entry

User Professor Peter Rosenthal.

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

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 18:00-19:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Heads or tails? Decoding the regulatory logic of body plan patterning

User Vicki Metzis, Imperial College London.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

It's a Wonderful Life: the bizarre animals that live in the worlds coldest ocean and their extreme adaptations

User Professor Lloyd Peck.

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

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Small RNAs in Epigenetic Inheritance: a lesson from worms

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

User Dr Germano Cecere from Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From deep time biogeomorphology to geo-evolutionary feedbacks

User Professor Neil Davies.

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

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nonsense Mediated Decay in Early Embryonic Development

User Claire Senner, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 14 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding life - from genomes to organisms - using AI

User Professor Ewan Birney.

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

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 19:00-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Uncovering how the genome directs development

User Julie Ahringer.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Molecular bases of Shigella virulence and host immune response

Host – Kate Baker

User Professor Benoit Marteyn from Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), University of Strasbourg.

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

21-cm Cosmology: First Stars and Beyond

User Professor Anastasia Fialkov.

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

Tuesday 04 November 2025, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A novel RASopathy caused by hyperactive Wnt signalling

User Dr. Ian Mcgough, Babraham Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 31 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

C-H Amination for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry: Reaction Development and Validation of Nitrene Intermediacy

User Professor Sukbok Chang.

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

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regeneration at your fingertips

User Mekayla Storer (University of Cambridge).

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Machine learning force fields shows extreme generalisation

User Professor Gabor Csanyi.

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

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Simplifying Synthesis with Radical Cross-Coupling

User Professor Phil S. Baran.

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

Thursday 09 October 2025, 15:00-16:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin remodelling and cell fate plasticity during neuronal maturation

User Tony Southall.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch Signal

User Sarah Bray.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 23 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Motility and matrix remodelling coupling drive early avian morphogenesis

User Lakshmi Balasubramaniam.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 16 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coordination of Protrusions in Migrating Immune Cells

User Michael Sixt.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 02 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Echoes of the Embryo: A stem cell model of human gastrulation and post-gastrulation lineage emergence

User Jitesh Neupane.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 25 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

User Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown

User Prof Maria Ubiali.

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

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

User Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Black Holes & spin-offs

User Prof Katherine Blundell.

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

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

User Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation

User Stanley Strawbridge - Centre for Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology

Host - Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Rebecca Sear from Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

User Prof Thanh Nguyen.

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

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

User Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human intestinal epithelial organoids – translational tools to investigate epigenetic regulation in health, development and disease

User Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley

User Dr Josh Smalley.

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

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

User Sandi Toksvig OBE.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Strengthening control over stress: novel brain mechanisms and opportunities for intervention

User Prof Jeffrey W. Dalley.

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

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

User Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University .

House Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution on Islands: insights from silvereyes of the southwest Pacific

User Prof Sonya Clegg.

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

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

User Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 07 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Warnings Unheeded: 25 Years of Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension

User John Wallingford - The University of Texas at Austin.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour

Host - Erik Clark

User Dr Justin Crocker from EMBL Heidelberg .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nucleic-Acid based therapeutics: how to use mechanistic information to ensure "safe-by-design"

User Prof Anne Willis.

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

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home

User Maya Youssef.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 31 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?

Host - Kate Baker

User Dr John Lees from EMBL – EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys

User Prof Brian Cantor.

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

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bits with Soul

User Professor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Investigating the role of sugar metabolism in controlling fate specification during gastrulation

User Chaitanya Dingare - Department of Genetics.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare

Host - Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, Vice Principal for Health, Queen Mary University of London and Director of the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre.

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How is limb size controlled during development and repair? New approaches for an old question

User Alberto Rosello-Diez - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

With a Little Help from My Friends: New Ways of Seeing Electrochemistry

User Prof Patrick Unwin.

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

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms regulating trophoblast development in the human placenta

User Norah Fogarty - King's College London.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 29 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI

Host - Michael Boemo

User Dr Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool from DeepMind, London .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Order, Disorder, Flexibility, Function

User Prof Andrew Goodwin.

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

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanical pre-patterning as a general mechanism in early morphogenesis

User Fengzhu Xiong - Gurdon Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 22 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

CANCELLED - News from the Palaeolithic: ancient genomes and Neandertal-human interactions

Host – Alex Cagan

User Dr Mateja Hajdinjak from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

House CANCELLED.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Viruses: Elegance in Their Simplicity, or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein?

User Dr Alexander Borodavka.

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

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Understanding actomyosin contractility and force propagation within the zebrafish neural tube: an optogenetic approach

User Clare Buckley - University of Manchester.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 15 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Programmed DNA elimination in insects

Host – John Welch

User Dr Laura Ross from Institute of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine

User Dr George Malliaras.

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

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

London EvoDevo meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Queen Mary University of London (Math Building Lecture Theatre).

Friday 08 November 2024, 13:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

How the double helix was really discovered, and what Rosalind Franklin thought about it

Host – Frank Jiggins

User Professor Matthew Cobb from University of Manchester .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The rise of life on land: new insights from exceptionally preserved fossils

User Dr Sandy Hetherington.

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

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle

User Prof Tina Potter.

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

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial evolution in the lung

Host – Kate Baker

User Dr Josie Bryant from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

House Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Lessons for human TB and its treatment from the tiny transparent zebrafish larva

User Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan.

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

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Ageing and age-associated mutations in human haematopoietic stem cells

User Elisa Laurenti - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 18 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Host - Frank Jiggins

User Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

E. coli and the Game of Clones

Host – Kate Baker

User Professor Jukka Corander from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and University of Oslo.

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 18 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

User Dr Omer Bayraktar.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

User Omer Bayraktar, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Folding a Protein: Nature’s Origami

User Prof Sheena Radford.

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

Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

User Ms Tania Branigan.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Controlling the cell cycle

User Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Professor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

User Prof Robin Dunbar.

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

Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The development and evolution of the mammalian jaw joint

User Neil Anthwal, Kings College London.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 01 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Shelby Blythe from Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, USA .

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cell fate transitions and the secret life of histones

User Dr Maria Christophorou.

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

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

User Professor Frances Spalding.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

User Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Antibodies and their peptide mimics as pharmaceutical drugs

User Sir Gregory Winter.

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

Monday 19 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

User Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What’s in a Face? How Facial Expressions Influence Decision-Making

User Dr Danielle Shore .

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

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

User Dr Iain McGilchrist.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Drosophila AP patterning: networks, dynamics, evolution, and robustness

User Erik Clark, Department of Genetics.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 09 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity

Host - Steve Russell

User Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial Infections

User Professor Sir Tom Blundell.

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

Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

User Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Host - Zach Baker

User Professor Daniel Falush from Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Wednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

New models to study human embryo implantation and early development

User Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 01 December 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

User Sir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Monday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBC

User Dr. Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Nancy Papolopulu, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learning

User Dr Brendan Swain.

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

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Short Cuts

User Prof Ian Fleming.

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

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of organs and cell types.

Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli

User Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira from The Francis Crick Institute, London .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technology

User Dr Lyn Evans CBE, CERN.

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

Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Circuit basis of learning and decision-making

User Dr. Marta Zlatic, MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 10 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Dr Lucy van Dorp from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological Boundaries

User Dr Tamar Makin.

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

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Zebrafish trunk neural crest: an in vivo model to understand cell migration under physiological mechanical stress

User Dr. Elena Scarpa, Department of Phhysiology, Development and Neuroscience.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 03 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

User Dr. Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration

User Prof David Rubinsztein.

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

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolution

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Yolanda Schaerli from Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.

User Sir Peter Ratcliffe.

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

Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Physical patterning of the cytosol in giant cells

User Prof. Amy Gladfelter, Duke University.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 13 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery

User Prof Adam Nelson.

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

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation

Host - John Welch

User Professor Michael Whitlock from Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott from the Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Wednesday 13 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level

User Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3B

User Dr. Courtney Hanna, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosience.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 09 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians

Host - Richard Durbin

User Dr Hilary Martin from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

User Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

House Online.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular mechanisms of oocyte specification in female germline cysts

User Dr. Dmitry Nashchekin, Gurdon Institute .

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 02 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

User Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

House Online.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Progenitor niches in the developing pancreas: regulation of cell fate and beyond

User Prof. Francesca Spagnoli, Kings College London.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 26 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Temporal development and maturation of CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids

User Dr. Laura Pellegrini, Kings College London/ MRC LMB.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 19 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

User Dr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Sticky proteins and moving genomes: a single-molecule perspective of pluripotent cell differentiation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 12 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks

Host - Henrik Salje

User Professor Philippe Lemey from Clinical and Epidemiological Virology Rega Institute, K.U. Leuven .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development

User Dr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decision making without genes?

User Prof Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory For Molecular Cell Bology UCL.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 05 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancer

Host - Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Serena Nik-Zainal from Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

User Dr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen).

House Online.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An Old Story: What happens to tissues when we age

User Prof. Melinda Duer.

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

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

User Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Form and function during early heart development

User Richard Tyser, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 10 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Dr Trevor Lawley from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire.

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish

User Dr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

User Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Tumor initiation through aberrant differentiation

User Walid Khaled, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 03 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome

Host - Erik Clark

User Dr Mounia Lagha from Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France .

House Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

User Dr Marie Manceau (College De France).

House Online.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Going small to tackle big challenges – using microalgae to develop sustainable solutions

User Prof. Alison Smith.

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

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

User Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Encoding and decoding morphogen gradients

User Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute, London.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Mechanism of neural differentiation

Host – Lara Busby

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

House Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Chemical Biology in Antibiotic and Anticancer Drug Discovery

User Thomas Lanyon-Hogg.

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

Monday 20 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

User Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

New tricks for Rac and Rho, even after 30 years

User Denise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara, US.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 17 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origins of land plant complexity: interpreting development in the Devonian

User Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and the Reign of the Mammals

User Prof. Steve Brusatte.

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

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

User Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From cells to continents: Understanding how bacteria evolve and transmit

User Dr. Josephine Bryant.

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

Monday 06 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

User Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants

User Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Space: The Final Front-queer

User Dr. Alfredo Carpineti.

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

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

User Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human fetal cortex tissue models to understand human brain development and injury

User Katie Long, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution

Host - Hansong Ma

User Professor Heidi McBride from McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal, Quebec .

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

User Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Influence of antidepressants on craniofacial development

User Marcia Gaete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

House Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

Host - Richard Durbin

User Professor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA .

House Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 12 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic resetting during human germline development

User Wolfram Gruhn, Gurdon Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 02 December 2022, 13:15-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution

User Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

House Online.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans

Host – Ritwick Sawarkar

User Dr Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

User Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sustainable seafood for human health

User Dr David Willer.

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

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Fit for this world - cellular properties are set during critical periods of development

User Matthias Landgraf, Department of Zoology.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 18 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2

Host – Henrik Salje

User Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

House Zoom meeting.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

User Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nanoscale Engineering of Plasmonic Materials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

User Prof Fang Xie.

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

Monday 14 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective

Host – Bianca De Sanctis

User Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

hybrid

User Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bioelectronic tools to study the gut-brain axis

User Prof Roisin Owens.

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

Monday 07 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Spatio-temporal control of microtubule mechanics during epithelial morphogenesis

User Maja Matis, University of Muenster, Germany.

House Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 04 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion

Host - Marco Geymonat

User Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

House Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Reimagining Museum Collecting & Collections in Natural History: A Decolonial Perspective

User Ms Miranda Lowe.

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

Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Timescales in development: the tempo across and within species

User Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie?

User Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

House Online.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling the cell cycle: A new model

User Sir Paul Nurse.

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

Monday 24 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates?

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Dr Sandra Duharcourt, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite de Paris.

House Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why We Aren't Just Great Apes

User Prof Robin Dunbar.

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

Monday 17 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Biofabrication and material interfaces for life science applications

User Yan Yan Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 14 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks

Host - Lin Wang

User Professor David Liu, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida)

User Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

House Online.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Climate Change and Planet Earth: A View from the Poles

User Prof Michael Meredith.

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

Monday 10 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Adherens junctions, mechanotransduction and intra-epithelial communication

User Alpha Yap, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?

Host - Frank Jiggins

User Professor Michael Turelli, from Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, CA .

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Professor Aurelio Teleman, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell Level

User Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Friday 10 June 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.

Host : Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability

Host - Cahir O’Kane

User Professor Michael Coleman from Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus .

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Friday 27 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Simone Reber, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

User Dr Dorit Hockman.

House Zoom.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Neurogenic transcription factors in development and cancer

User Roberta Azzarelli Wellcome, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor William Sullivan, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Dr Edwige Moyroud.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dynamic buffering of extracellular chemokine to enable robust adaptation during directed tissue migration

User Mie Wong, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 13 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell division

Host - Marco Geymonat

User Dr Fernando Monje Casas, Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER), Seville.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Prof Gaspar Jékely.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cells in gels: identification of Plakoglobin as an evolutionary conserved mechanosensitive regulator of naïve pluripotency

User Timo Kohler, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes

Host - Carol Edwards

User Professor Jason Wolf, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomics

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Dr Jordi Solana.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain

User Sumru Bayin, Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 29 April 2022, 13:15-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

User Prof Paola Oliveri.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cellular mechanisms of embryonic development and embryo-maternal interactions during implantation

User Ivan Bedzhov, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany.

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 18 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling Drug Transport With Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

User Professor Ijeoma F. Uchegbu | UCL School of Pharmacy.

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

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of organismal stress resistance in C. elegans

User Rebecca Taylor, Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

User Dr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Atmosphere-ocean interactions: Global-scale impacts on tropospheric chemistry

User Professor Lucy Carpenter.

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

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

User Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coordinating cell fate decisions and tissue shape changes during mammalian development

User Marta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 04 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

User Dr Susumu Hirabayashi, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London.

House Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Photosynthesis on an electrode

User Dr Jenny Zhang .

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

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

User Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dynamics of starvation-induced and selective autophagy in mammalian cells

User Nicholas Ktistakis, Babraham Institute.

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 25 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality

Hosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang

User Professor Yukiko Yamashita, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

User Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

In vivo exploration of biomolecular condensates in early Drosophila development

User Tim Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 18 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Lessons for Tuberculosis Pathogenesis and Treatment from the Zebrafish

User Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan | FRS FMedSci .

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

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

User Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Signalling dynamics of neutrophil migration at sites of tissue damage

User Milka Sarris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Protein Nutrition, Healthy Ageing and Climate Change: How Do We Combine The Three?

User Dr. Oliver Witard | University College London.

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

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

User Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting

User Kevin Chalut, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

House Biffen Theater and Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 04 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.

Host: Elves Duarte

User Dr Johannes Köster, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Duisburg-Essen.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:30-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Bio in the 21st Century

User Sir Prof. Richard Henderson FRS | 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

User Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Genetics Seminar

Investigating the evolution and development of body plans and body parts in arthropods

Host - Steve Russell

User Professor Alistair McGregor, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

User Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Genetics Seminar

Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology.

House TBC.

Monday 06 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Birdwatching through Geological Time: A Paleontological Perspective on Avian Evolution

User Dr Daniel Field.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Energy and Matter at the Origin of Life

User Professor Nick Lane.

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

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cells

Host: Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.

House Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

To COVID-19 Detection: How physics can be used to create novel tests for viruses

User Professor Ulrich Keyser .

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

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Towards a cellular and molecular understanding of mammalian anterior patterning

User Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Hunting for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider

User Dr Sarah Williams .

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Zooming into the sarcomere: from single molecules to molecular forces

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Could we treat mental health disorders by disrupting maladaptive memories?

User Dr Amy Milton.

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

User Ian McGough, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Who Cares about the History of Science?

User Professor Hasok Chang.

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A finger on the pulse of regeneration

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Physics of Can and Can't

User Professor Chiara Marletto.

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial condensates under stress

Host: Rosana Collepardo

User Professor Stephanie Weber, McGill University, Montreal.

House Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Amazing World of RNA

User Professor Eric Miska.

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

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building the human lungs: lessons from organoids

User Dr Emma Rawlins (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Genetics Seminar

Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair

Host: Hansong Ma

User Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 13:30-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Exoplanet Revolution

User Professor Didier Queloz | 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism.

Host: John Welch

User Professor Tatiana Giraud, Departement Genetique et Ecologie Evolutives, Université Paris-Saclay.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 07 October 2021, 13:30-14:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genetic and developmental basis of morphological variation in cichlid fishes

User Emília Santos, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

CANCELLED: Replication control during the cell cycle and development

User Philip Zegerman, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

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

Friday 04 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function

User Snezhana Oliferenko, The Francis Crick Institute.

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Friday 28 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure

Host – Richard Durbin

User Dr Karen Miga from Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

From Signals to Chromatin: Germ layer specification in mouse

User Sebastian Arnold, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.

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

Friday 21 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human hypothalamic neurons for studying obesity and its relevance to neurodegeneration

User Florian Merkle, WT-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 14 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease

User Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

House Online.

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Gut induced vascular plasticity drives stem cell adaptation during intestinal regeneration

User Julia Cordero, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow.

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

Friday 12 March 2021, 13:15-13:55

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

User Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cancer evolution, immune evasion and metastasis

User Professor Charles Swanton FRCP FMedSci FAACR FRS.

House Google Meets.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

User Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

House Online.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Continued development: the plasticity of adult organs

User Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London.

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

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later this year.

Host: Hansong Ma

User Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Challenges in the development of therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

User Professor Dame Kay Davies.

House Google Meets.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

User Ms Rose George, Journalist.

House Online.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Understanding the structure-function relationships in asymmetric stem cell division

User Mayu Inaba, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut.

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

Friday 26 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Observing the light of the distant Universe

User Professor Licia Verde.

House Google Meets.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

User Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

House Online.

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Antagonistic effects of ionising radiation in cell competition

User David Fernandez-Antoran, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 19 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Patricia Wittkopp, Biological Science Building, University of Michigan.

House Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Technologies for scalably modeling and simulating whole cells

User Professor Jonathan Karr.

House Google Meets.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

PechaKucha - SciSoc Edition!

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Google Meets.

Saturday 13 February 2021, 19:00-22:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

User Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

House Online.

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Fluorogenetic Interrogation of Chromatin Position Effects

User Iva Tchasovnikarova, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 12 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Elly Tanaka, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:30-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Advances in Breast Cancer: From Molecular Science to Patients in the Clinic

User Prof Anees Chagpar, Prof Carlos Caldas.

House Google Meets.

Saturday 06 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

User Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

House Online.

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of membrane protein biogenesis

User Ramanujan S. Hegde, MRC Labortory of Molecular Biology.

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

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

User Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

House Online.

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges

Host: John Welch

User Dr Sally Otto, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ripples from the dark side of the universe

User Professor Sir James Hough OBE FRS FRSE FInstP (Hon), University of Glasgow.

House Google Meets.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

User Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

House Online.

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids

Host: Hansong Ma

User Dr Robert Johnston, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

House Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tips and Tricks for Inventing the Future

Last talk of term

User Mr David A. Homfray CEng CPhys FInstP FRAS FBIS, Former Head of Engineering Realisation Group at the UK Atomic Energy Authority/Culham Centre for Fusion Energy .

House Google Meets.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Misinformation in the Digital Age: A Panel

Please note this panel is on a Monday.

User Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, Dr Jon Roozenbeek, Professor Sander van der Linden.

House Google Meets.

Monday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Enhancers get ERKed around by chromatin remodellers during lineage commitment

User Brian Hendrich, MRC Stem Cell Institute, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 27 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomes

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Combustion Transition: tackling climate change at its source

In collaboration with CUSPE and CUSISS

User Mr Simon Spooner, ATKINS Infrastructure. Principal Scientist, UK Water Management. Technical Director, China Infrastructure. Honorary Professor, Nottingham University UK and Ningbo, China..

House Google Meets.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.

Host: Marco Geymonat

User Professor Angelika Amon, MIT, Department of Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA .

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why is sleep good for you?

User Professor William Wisden FMedSci, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London.

House Google Meets.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Timothy Saunders, Mechanobiology, Institute, National University of Singapore.

House Zoom meeting.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 09:00-10:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ice cores and interglacials

User Professor Eric Wolff FRS, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Google Meets.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

User Professor Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley .

House Google Meets.

Tuesday 29 September 2020, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems

User Professor Ed Boyden, MIT.

House Google Meets.

Tuesday 04 August 2020, 15:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Chromosomal evolution in Nematodes, and other adventures on the Tree of Life

Host: Richard Durbin

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

House Zoom meeting.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Studies in Natural Product Synthesis

User Professor Phil Baran, Scripps Research.

House Google Meets.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

User Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

COVID-19: the cause, the disease and the response

Canceled

User Professor Geoffrey L Smith FRS. Head, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

User Professor Clare Baker, Professor of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

User Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing [CANCELLED]

User Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations

User Professor Lorna Dawson, CBE, BSC, PhD, FRSE, FRSA, F.I.Soil.Sci., ChSci Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. AB15 8QH, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

User Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

User Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

User Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

This talk has been cancelled

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

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

User Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

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

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The mechanical regulation of brain development

User Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

User Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells

User Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Michael Imbeault

User Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Physics Meets Biology: How Cells Control Their shape and Why It Matters

User Professor Ewa Paluch: Professor of Anatomy, Chair of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis

User Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function

User Justin Crocker, EMBL.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

User Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Genetics Seminar

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Genetics Seminar

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

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

User Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

User Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

CANCELLED: Epithelial cell plasticity during tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis

User Kyra Campbell Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mathematics vs Dementia

User Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo

User Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Minimal and Ancestral Genomes

Host: Richard Durbin

User Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An evening with Lynn Rothschild

User Professor Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Centre, Stanford University, Brown University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

User Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Is Obesity a Choice?

User Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dendritic Cell Migration at Various Scales

User Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil Institut Curie, Paris, France.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out

Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

User Dr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

User Professor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

"CAPs in the niche" A new in vivo labelling system reveals parenchymal cells in the lung metastatic niche with stem cell features

User Luigi Ombrato The Francis Crick Institute, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

User Professor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

User Professor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

User Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development

User Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

User Professor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic remodelling enables adult liver regeneration and organoid formation

User Luigi Aloia The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanical scaling in blood platelets

User François Nédélec Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 18 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time?

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Dressed to Kill: What do Infectious Disease Agents Have in their Wardrobes?

User Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain

Host: Michael Imbeault

User Professor Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution

User Professor Anthony Graham, King's College London.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How To - An Evening with Randall Monroe

User Randall Munroe.

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Tuesday 08 October 2019, 19:00-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

User Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 01 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Timing of the first lineage segregation in the early mouse embryo

User Meng Zhu, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

User Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Study of pioneer factor concentration, chromatin binding kinetics & cell-to-cell variability during genomeawakening

User Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Linking physical gut remodelling to stem cell divisions in Drosophila

User Golnar Kolahgar, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 17 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From development to deep time: the macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration in living and extinct tetrapods

User Prof Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Stem cell dynamics define clone fixation and spread in human colonic epithelium

User Doug Winton, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects

Host: Berta Verd

User Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

User Prof Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cyclin B1 and the spindle assembly check point: A 15 year odyssey

User Jonathon Pines, The Institute of Cancer Research, University of London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells?

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Marino Zerial from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

User Professor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life

User Professor Mike Cates.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

User Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics

User Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

User Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

User Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

User Dr Anne Corcoran.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mitochondria Tansfer: a 25 Year Project

User Professor Alison Murdoch.

House The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

User Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary

User Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic inheritance in mammals

Host: Sam Lewis

User Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

User Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?

User Professor Danny Dorling.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

User Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate

User Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains - approaching the next level of detail

User Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are we on the Road to Collapse?

User Dr Luke Kemp.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

User Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Using phosphoproteomics to study context-specific signalling

User Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations

User Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Language and Artificial Intelligence

User Professor Ann Copestake.

House The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

User Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

RNA methylation as a new epigenetic mark in cancer

User Isaia Barbieri, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nuclear fusion technology

User Colin Walters.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

User Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Gastruloids: a pluripotent stem cell-based model of early mammalian development

User Naomi Moris, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila

User Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: the Shape of Things to Come

User Professor Sheila Rowan.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

User Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines

Host: Jane Charlesworth

User Dr Louise Johnson from School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

User Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

User Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

User Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer

User Axel Behrens.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Academic Internships event!

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Saturday 24 November 2018, 13:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: what have we learnt?

User Petra Hajkova, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

User Dr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Non coding RNA and normal botany

User David Baulcombe.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Escape from pluripotency

User Austin Smith, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Dr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis

User Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Polarized endosome dynamics during asymmetric cell division

User Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Particle Physics & CERN

User Professor Daniela Bortoletto.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Rejuvenation biotechnology: why age may soon cease to mean aging

User Aubrey de Grey.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Saturday 03 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Time to wake up: Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Reactivation

User Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity

User Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Influenza pandemics: past and future

User Wendy Barclay.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Constructing the mammalian embryo in vitro: from single stem cells to gastrulation

User Berna Sozen, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense

Host: Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Dr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

User Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Using Drosophila to understand mitochondrial biology and mechanisms of neurodegeneration

User Alex Whitworth, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 19 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

The Genetic Basis of Clinal Adaptation

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Thomas Flatt from Department of Biology, University of Fribourg .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Drug discovery with machine learning: Towards a new way of thinking about molecules

User Alpha Lee.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms controlling homeostasis in mammalian epidermis

User Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 12 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubules

Host: Cahir O’Kane

User Professor Andreas Prokop from Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

CRISPR based gene drive approaches for population control of malaria mosquitoes

User Andrea Crisanti.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry

User Dr Frank Hirth, King's College London.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Determinants of embryo polarity in the evolution of flies

User Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott, University of Chicago.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Monday 17 September 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building and Breaking Epithelial tubes: an Optogenetic approach

User Clare Buckley, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 June 2018, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Life in the dark: can deep sea fishes see colours?

User Zuzana Musilova (Charles University, Prague).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hedgehog signalling in immune cells

User Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Signals regulating cell fates and cell movements in the vertebrate embryo

User Sergei Sokol, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene re-usages constrained the evolvability of the animal body plan?

User Naoki Irie (University of Tokyo).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Self-organization and patterning of sensory organs in Drosophila

User François Schweisguth, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 11 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer

Host: Alexis Braun

User Professor David Glover, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Tracing the Transitions from Pluripotency to Germ Cell Fate with CRISPR Screening

User Ufuk Günesdogan, University of Göttingen, Germany.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 04 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Regulatory RNA

Host: Martyna Popis

User Professor Eric Miska from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mechanics and Evolution of Cell Sheet Folding – Embryonic Inversion in the micro-alga Volvox

User Stephanie Höhn (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Sarah Bray from Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dorsal closure in dipterans: epithelial rupture, contraction and seaming in embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita

User Juan Fraire-Zamora (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Microsoft: Quantum Computing

User Anita Ramanan, Microsoft.

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 18:30-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Improving on Nature: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Animal Enhancement

User Dr Sarah Chan, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

House Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

User Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Organoid systems to study the maternal-fetal dialogue of early pregnancy

User Margherita Turco, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 March 2018, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Beginning of Our Universe and what we don't know about Physics

User Professor João Magueijo, Imperical College London.

House Wolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution

User Jordi Solana (Oxford Brookes University).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

User Dr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The genetic framework of germline stem cell development

User Karam Teixeira, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 March 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture

Host: Michaela Frye

User Dr Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Human Brain Development Modelled in a Dish

User Dr Madeline Lancaster, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

User Ms Kavita Puri, BBC.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A unifying theory of branching morphogenesis

User Edouard Hannezo, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Eukaryotic cell division and its origins

Host: Alexis Braun

User Professor Buzz Baum, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Modularity, criticality and evolvability of a developmental GRN

User Berta Verd (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Synthesising Molecular Function: Shape Matters

User Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Bristol.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

User Professor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Primary liver tumor organoids: a new pre-clinical model for drug sensitivity analysis

User Laura Broutier, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescales

User Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Paracelsus' Chickens - Strange Tales from the History of Chemistry

User Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

User Mr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Modulating developmental signals allows establishment of cultures of expanded potential stem cells

User Liu Pentao, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development

Host: Alfonso Martinez Arias

User Dr Patrick Mueller, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration

User Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Particulars of Particulates: Granular Research on Dunes and Avalanches

User Dr Nathalia Vriend, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

User Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell polarity remodelling by the RASSF protein family

User Nic Tapon, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Light, Sleep & Circadian Rhythms-Biology to Therapeutics

User Professor Russell Foster, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford.

House Wolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Andreas Wagner, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The role of choanocytes in the sponge stem cell system and their suggested homology with choanoflagellates

User Shunsuke Sogabe (University of St Andrews).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

User Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesis

Host: Eric Miska

User Dr Déborah Bourc'his, Institut Curie, Paris .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neuropeptidergic signalling in the anterior nervous system of Platynereis larvae and evolution of neurosecretory brain centers

User Gaspar Jekely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

It's Not All About The Science

User Dr Anna Barnes, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

User Mr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

User Hernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

User Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Open Data and the Future of Science

User Professor Dame Sally Davies.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of filopodia regulation

User Jenny Gallop, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Providing Science Advice to the Government

User Sir Mark Walport.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

User Brian Metscher (University of Vienna).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Molecular mechanisms of biomineralisation in sponges and molluscs and their relevance to the Cambrian explosion

User Daniel Jackson (University of Göttingen).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch signal

User Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 17 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Living in the Cold

User Professor Llyod Peck.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar

An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science Communication

Host: Sudhakaran Prabakaran

User Dr Nancy R. Gough.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Monday 13 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cartilage by 3D bioprinting of iPS cells

User Stina Simonsson, Institute of Biomedicine, Göteborg (Sweden).

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Capturing human axial progenitors in vitro

Hosts: Alfonso Martinez-Arias & Shlomit Edri

User Dr Anestis Tsakiridis, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Taxon-restricted genes at the origin of morphological novelty and ecological opportunity in water-striders

User Emilia Santos (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Exponents of Change: From Artificial Intellegence to Web Science

User Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Detecting death and damage: understanding macrophage migration in Drosophila

User Will Wood, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Dr Kirsten Bomblies, John Innes Centre, Norwich .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Pedagogical and Real Science - the Physics Case

User Professor Malcolm Longair.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building a young brain on Old shoulders: A story on the most primitive ventricular brain

User Elia Benito-Gutiérrez, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bugs, Bites and Parasites

User Professor Janet Hemingway.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates

User Andrew Gillis, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Formation and disease relevance of axonal endoplasmic reticulum, a "neuron within a neuron”.

User Dr Cahir O’Kane, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Perovskite Solar Cells - New Opportunities and Challenges

User Dr Olga Malinkiewicz.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell polarity and local condensation of biomolecular condensates

User Anthony A. Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (Germany).

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 13 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array

User Michael Bok (University of Bristol).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Origin of the Laws of Nature

User Professor Peter Atkins.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Professor Ashleigh Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

User Associate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Time and space in insect segmentation

User Erik Clark (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A battle for mitochondrial DNA transmission

User Hansong Ma, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 June 2017, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Ascl1 control of neural stem cell homeostasis in the developing and adult brain

User Noelia Urban, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 June 2017, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal skeleton

User Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Assembly of embryonic and extra-embryonic stem cells to mimic embryogenesis in vitro

User Sarah Harrison, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Bridging Crumb-mediated polarity and Hippo-mediated growth by Spectrin-bound PP2A

User Graham Thomas, Center for Celluar Dynamics, PennState.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting the functional heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells

User Elisa Laurenti, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 12 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Variable epigenetic silencing of the repeat genome: implications for non-genetic inheritance

User Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 05 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast

Host: Marco Geymonat

User Dr. Gislene Pereira, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum

User Dr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

The genetic analysis of population-scale data

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Gil McVean, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies

User Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shared developmental rules predict patterns of size evolution in vertebrate segmented structures

User Kathryn Kavanagh (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus provides unexpected insight into evolutionary processes

User Ildiko Somorjai (University of St Andrews).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can Future Energy Needs be met Sustainably?

User Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reporting from Extreme Environments

User Lyse Doucet, BBC.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human embryogenesis and the first trimester intrauterine environment

User Graham Burton, Centre for Trophoblast Research, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 March 2017, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulatory evolution and the diversification of pigmentation patterns in Drosophila

User Nicolas Gompel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

User Professor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcription as a driver of epigenetic transitions during oocyte development

User Gavin Kelsey, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 March 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genome

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Peter Keightley, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The path to delivering nuclear fusion power

User Dr Fulvio Militello.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

User Professor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Highlights from the “Deciphering the Mechanisms of Developmental Disorders (DMDD) consortium” – novel insights into gene function during embryogenesis

User Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteria

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Dr Isabel Gordo, Evolutionary Biology Group, Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary and embryonic origins of the gnathostome axial skeleton

User Kate Criswell (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Towards earlier diagnosis for cancer of the oesophagus

User Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

User Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Exploring the mechanisms of haematopoietic lineage progression at the single-cell level

User Ana Cvejic, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 17 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

User Roz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pluripotency at the multicellular level

User Marta Shahbazi, PDN, University of Cambridge .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

User Johannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Decoding transcriptional regulation.

Host: Alexis Braun

User Dr Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage offers clues to mammalian evolution

User Neal Anthwal (King's College London).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why scientists should also be revolutionaries

User Professor David Nutt.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

User Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in brain development and cancer

User Eugene Makeyev, Dept. of Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Non-coding solutions to developmental challenges

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Donal O’Carroll, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

User Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrier

Host: John Welch

User Dr Nicolas Galtier, University of Montpellier .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene regulatory complexity in chordate neural patterning

User Sebastian Shimeld (University of Oxford).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Science of Climate Change

User Professor Joanna Haigh.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

User Dr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world

User Professor Sir Michael Marmot.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 17 January 2017, 20:00-21:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coping with a stressful start in life

User Alex Gould The Francis Crick Institute, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 December 2016, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Our cosmic origins: everything from nothing

User Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Lung Stem Cell Niche in Health and Disease

User Joo-Hyeon Lee Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 November 2016, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Stem cell control in the Drosophila gut

Host: Alexis Braun

User Professor Bruce Edgar, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - 103 years of Crystallography: what has it taught us and where will lead us?

User Professor Elspeth Garman, Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford University.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

"Why is the intestinal epithelia particularly susceptible to transformation by oncogenic APC mutations?"

User Marc de la Roche, Biochemistry department, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 18 November 2016, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Engineering challenges in creating underground space

User Professor Lord Robert Mair, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression of segment polarity genes in brachiopods supports a non-segmental ancestral role of engrailed for bilaterians

User Bruno Vellutini (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Domain architecture in the Drosophila genome

User Rob White PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 11 November 2016, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Opossums, Catastrophes, and Homeostasis

User Professor Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK: ATP-sensitive potassium channels and neonatal diabetes – from molecule to new therapy and beyond.

User Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, Professor of Physiology at Oxford University.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 04 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

"Shaping cell contacts during tissue morphogenesis"

User Pierre-Francois Lenne, IBDM, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, France.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 04 November 2016, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Defining transcription units across the human genome.

Host: Michaela Frye

User Professor Nick Proudfoot, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in cartilaginous fishes - teeth, scales and the cartilaginous skeleton of the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula

User Mélanie Debiais-Thibaud (University of Montpellier).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Black holes and revelations

User Dr Christopher Berry, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Co-author of recent gravitational waves paper.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

"Patterns and logic of actomyosin planar polarisation during Drosophila axis extension"

User Benedicte Sanson, PDN department, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 October 2016, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Using experimental evolution to understand adaptation from standing genetic variation.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Christian Schlotterer, Institute of Population Genetics of Vetmeduni Vienna .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 – Evolution of digit number through modification of embryonic Sonic hedgehog signalling

User Megan Davey (University of Edinburgh).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - The Black dog: why don't we care?

User Professor Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental Health at the LSHTM.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 20:00-21:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

“Shaping Cells and Tissues: from Embryonic Development to Synthetic Biology”

User Stefano de Renzis, EMBL, Heidelberg.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 October 2016, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Directing and shaping the inside-out axis of the vertebrate brain

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Jon Clarke, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - The Roadmap to Applications of Graphene, Layered Materials and Hybrid systems

User Professor Andrea Ferrari, Head of the Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy group.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 20:00-21:30

Genetics Seminar

Towards a complete view of the genetics of gene expression variation in yeast

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Professor Frank Albert, University of Minnesota .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of embryonic form: a genetic and cellular analysis of arthropod development

User Matt Benton (University of Cologne).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When Antarctica was green: fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history

User Prof. Jane Francis, Director of the British Antarctic Survey.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 20:00-21:30

Genetics Seminar

Neural mechanisms of behavioral switches

Host: Liria Masuda-Nakagawa

User Dr. Arantza Barrios, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Maternal effects in Speckled Wood butterflies: an eco-evo-devo approach

User Casper Breuker (Oxford-Brookes University).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Flies, bees, aphids and frogs: what can this menagerie tell us about the evolution of developmental processes?

User Elizabeth Duncan (University of Leeds).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell fate imbalance in the Oesophageal Epithelium: mutant cell competition

User Maria Alcolea Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 June 2016, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Balancing forces during mitosis: from molecular motors up to tissue mechanics

User Sarah Woolner, Faculty of life sciences, University of Manchester.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 May 2016, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building integrin adhesions in development and evolution

User Nick Brown Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 20 May 2016, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Progress and future prospects of resolving the animal tree of life in the era of genomics

User Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard).

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting mammalian 3D genome architecture with Capture Hi-C

User Stefan Schoenfelder (Fraser lab) Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 13 May 2016, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of the Animal Face: from Principles to Mechanisms

User Arkhat Abzhanov (Imperial College London).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Division versus differentiation in development and disease

User Anna Philpott, Dept. of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/ MRC Research Centre, Cambridge .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 May 2016, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Beyond the reference genome: inference using prior knowledge of the diversity of a species.

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Dr Zamin Iqbal, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes

User Christopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Genome diversity and evolution of DNA methylation genome in the human genome.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Tomas Marques-Bonet, Institut Biologia Evolutiva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/CSIC), Barcelona.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TCF/Lef regulates the Gsx ParaHox gene in central nervous development in chordates.

User Myles Garstang, University of St Andrews.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Regulation in Spiders and Flies: Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts

User Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes University).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game Theory of Conflict

User Dr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pair-rule patterning in Drosophila: how does it work, and what does it tell us about short-germ segmentation

User Erik Clark (Akam lab) Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 04 March 2016, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Gene and Genome Regulation in Early Fruit Fly Neurogenesis.

Host: Steve Russell

User Dr. Robert Zinzen, Max-Delbruck-Center Berlin.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dr Philipp Holliger

User Dr Philipp Holliger.

House LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games Animals Play

User Professor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Live imaging and genetic analyses of transformed cell extrusion from the zebrafish embryonic epithelium

User Masazumi Tada Dep. of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 February 2016, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of animal body axes: insights from the oral-aboral axis of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

User Chiara Sinigaglia.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Professor Steve Jones - "Nature, Nurture, or Nietzsche, what genetics can (and cannot) tell us about oursleves"

User Professor Steve Jones.

House LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games for the Brain

User Professor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Period and pattern in the embryo

User Andrew Oates The Francis Crick Institute, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 19 February 2016, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Role of neuromesodermal progenitors in axial elongation.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Val Wilson, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Genetic Instability and Cancer Suppression

User Professor Ashok Venkitaraman.

House LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

"Losing the New Great Game"

User Dr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Two for the price of one: twinning – the ultimate regeneration

User Claudio Stern, Dep. of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 12 February 2016, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Checkpoint and non-checkpoint functions of Drosophila Mad1 and RZZ.

Host: Yuu Kimata

User Professor Roger Karess, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Diderot.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games in Sports

User Sir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 05 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Using outbred genetics to explore Drosophilia development

User Ewan Birney, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 05 February 2016, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative Analyses of Neuromesodermal Progenitor Dynamics in vivo

User Ben Steventon (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc Talk: Sir David Spiegelhalter

User David Spiegelhalter (Statistical Laboratory).

House LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

User Professor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TF-mediated epigenetic memory in ES cells

User Pablo Navarro, Institut Pasteur Dep. of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Paris, France.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 29 January 2016, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a continuous spectrum of differentiation in haematopoietic cells.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Dr Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Three phases of Wnt signaling define three phases of axis development in the hemichordate S. kowalevskii

User Jens Fritzenwanker (Stanford University).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dame Julia Slingo

User Dame Julia Slingo.

House LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game of Crime and Punishment

User Mrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Roles and mechanisms of the drivers of reprogramming

User Jose Silva, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 January 2016, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

An experimental assay of the genotype to phenotype connection.

Host: John Welch

User Dr Fyodor Kondrashov, Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dame Athene Donald - "Physics of the Everyday"

User Professor Dame Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory).

House LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

User Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Comparative analyses of neuromesodermal progenitor dynamics in vivo

User Ben Steventon, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 November 2015, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

More is different: Many-body physics with ultracold atoms.

User Dr Ulrich Schneider.

House LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building a Platform for Cell Division

User Paul Conduit, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 20 November 2015, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Genomics approaches for the investigation of gene regulation.

Host: Steve Russell

User Dr Jim Hughes, Hughes Genome Biology Group, Oxford .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Endodermal contribution to orofacial structures in non-teleost fishes: How ancient is the pre-oral gut?

User Martin Minařík (Charles University, Prague).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr David Bainbridge - 'Curvology: the origins and power of female body shape"

User Dr David Bainbridge.

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The origin of Metazoa, a genomics and cell biology approach…or why things are never ever so simple

User Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, CSIC-UPF and Univeristy of Barcelona.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 13 November 2015, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Breaking the silence: defense and counter-defense in antiviral RNA silencing pathways of insects.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Ronald van Rij, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Ewan Birney - 'Big Data for Basic Research'

User Dr Ewan Birney.

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Monday 09 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The 6th element of DNA: Identification of methyl deoxyadenosines in higher eukaryotes

User Magdalena Koziol (Gurdon lab), Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 November 2015, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

User Dr Hugh Lewis.

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

User Dr Hugh Lewis.

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

User Dr Hugh Lewis.

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cerebral organoids: human brain development modelled in a dish

User Madeline Lancaster, MRC LMB, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 30 October 2015, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

GMOs: beginnings, advancements, new opportunities and public perceptions.

User Professor Sir David Baulcombe and Professor Jerzy Paszkowski.

House Sainsbury Laboratory Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 18:30-00:00

Genetics Seminar

Transcriptional regulation and downstream program of Hox and Cdx genes during axial development in the mouse embryo.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Dr Jacqueline Deschamps, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of eye development in Astyanax blind cavefish

User Hélène Hinaux .

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Professor Jeremy Baumberg: Where is my nanobot?

User Professor Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge).

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 19:00-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Dr Benoit Sorre, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape

User Christen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência).

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

On growth and form: gastrulation and axis formation by stem cells in the Amniote embryo

User Octavian Voiculescu, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 May 2015, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates

User Andrew Gillis (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Navigating through tissue mazes: how leukocytes find their way to functional destinations

User Milka Sarris, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 May 2015, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

New dimensions of antiviral immunity in insects.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Maria Carla Saleh, Institut Pasteur, Paris .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Trafficking and regulation of Wnt proteins in developing epithelia

User Jean-Paul Vincent, The Francis Crick Institute - NIMR, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 May 2015, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Biogenesis and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs).

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Sebastian Kadener, University of Jerusalem.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Exploring the genetic toolkit for pattern formation and diversification in butterfly wings

User Arnaud Martin (UC Berkley).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Monday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cellular strategies for airway epithelial maintenance

User Emma Rawlins, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 April 2015, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Single-cell dynamics of the proliferation-quiescence decision.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Sabrina Spencer, Meyer Lab, Stanford University Medical Center.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An integrated structural biology approach to flower development

User Francois Parcy, Grenoble.

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulatory Programme and Evolution Underlying the Development of Echinoderm Skelton

User Paola Oliveri.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Raising the shield: How cell migration changes got the turtle its shell (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME)

User Scott Gilbert.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prostacyclin and nitric oxide in vascular biology

User Sir Salvador Moncada.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

User Dr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Mike Brockhurst, Department of Biology, University of York .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The curious incident of the seal in the pond

User Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Grand challenges facing scientists and Nature

User Dr Philip Campbell.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

User Dr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Programming and reprogramming to the trophoblast lineage

User Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Causes and Consequences of New Mutations.

Host: Cahir O'Kane

User Dr Matthew Hurles, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Defects in materials and how to describe them

User Sir John Ball, University of Oxford.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

User Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcriptional networks in the developing Xenopus embryo

User Jim Smith, MRC National Institute for Medical Research London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 20 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

How dynein and its co-factors at the kinetochore ensure chromosome segregation fidelity.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Reto Gassmann, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Portugal .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Towards the Evolutionary Genesis Engine

User Prof Lee Cronin.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of Climate Science

User Professor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The collective cell biology of organ formation

User Darren Gilmour, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 13 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Beyond cancer genetics: dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in leukaemia.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Professor Chi Wai Eric So, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, Department of Haematological Medicine, King's College London .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Computation, Technology and the New Era of STEM

User Conrad Wolfram.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Genetics Seminar

Single cell transcriptomics.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Dr Steve Harvey, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Monday 09 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

User Professor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Capturing pluripotency form early mammalian embryos

User Jenny Nichols, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response.

Host: Yuu Kimata

User Dr. Adrian Saurin, Division of Cancer Research, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

User Vahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The antibody revolution

User Sir Greg Winter.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Development of Galaxies

User Professor Richard Ellis, Caltech.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 30 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genome-wide loss-of-function screening using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

User Kosuke Yusa Wellcome, Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 30 January 2015, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Imaging gene activity in living cells.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Jonathan Chubb, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The earliest deuterostomes, or something else entirely?

User Simon Conway Morris (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Protein folding, misfolding, disease and cancer

User Sir Alan Fersht.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

User Dr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell-based modelling of epithelial morphogenesis: towards an integrative approach

User Alexander Fletcher, Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 January 2015, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

UK Government Policy on Science and Technology Post-2015

User Andrew Miller.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 20:00-21:15

Genetics Seminar

Asymmetry in Drosophila neuroblasts: centrosomes & mRNA.

Host: Yuu Kimata

User Dr Jens Januschke, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The development and evolution of vertebrate oxygen-sensing cells

User Dorit Hockman (University of Oxford).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Copper with Light – the Prospects for Photonic-Enabled-Electronics

User Prof Ian White, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 20 January 2015, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reprogramming Animal Development

User Professor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Polarization of ciliated node cells along the anterior-posterior axis by graded expression of Wnts and their inhibitors

User Hiroshi Hamada, Osaka University, Japan.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 January 2015, 13:15-13:55

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

User Dr Caroline Brennan, The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of London .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hedgehog signalling and cell polarity in killer lymphocytes

User Gillian Griffiths, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 05 December 2014, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cells

User Prof Austin Smith, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Single molecule studies of mRNA localisation and motor activation

User Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 November 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

COMT: from single nucleotide polymorphism to whole brain function.

Host: Boris Adyran

User Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Bdelloid rotifers: unveiling the mystery of an evolutionary scandal

User Chiara Boschetti (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Reducing Genetic Abnormalities in Embryos

User Lord Robert Winston.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Order out of chaos - how does membrane traffic help organise the cell?

User Sean Munro, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 November 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Large scale genomic analyses of complex traits in human populations.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Dr Nicole Soranzo, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How does an alga become a parasite?

User Ellen Nisbet (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Working for a Healthier Tomorrow

User Dame Carol Black, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Unreliable organizers: Canalization and robustness in C. elegans vulva development

User Jeroen van Zon, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 14 November 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

The memory of retinal stem cells?

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Jochen Wittbrodt, COS Heidelberg, Heidelberg University.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Scientific Challenges for Fusion Power

User Prof Steve Cowley, Imperial College London.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 10 November 2014, 19:00-20:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A blueprint for cell fate: Network biology applied to stem cell engineering

User Samantha Morris (George Daley lab), Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 07 November 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of Notch signalling by the endosomal pathway.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Dr. Thomas Klein, Institute of Genetics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Generating the Fuel of Life

User Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The Zebrafish Mutation Project

User Derek Stemple, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 October 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Understanding mechanisms of long-range gene regulation.

Host: Boris Adyran

User Dr Greg Elgar, Systems Biology, MRC NIMR, London .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Bridging cell-cell contact and cell fate in the early mouse embryo

User Chuen Yan Leung (Zernicka-Goetz lab), PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 October 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Organisation and Regulation of DNA supercoiling domains in Mammalian Chromatin.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Professor Nick Gilbert, MRC Human Genetics Unit, The University of Edinburgh.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Morphogenesis and Molecular Regulation of Colour Patterning in Natural Populations

User Marie Manceau (Collège de France).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Building Brains

User Prof Steve Furber, University of Manchester.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 20:00-21:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Science of Invisibility

User Sir John Pendry, Imperial College London.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 20:00-21:15

Genetics Seminar

C. elegans development: getting the seams right and living a balanced life.

Host: Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti

User Professor Alison Woollard, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How to Win a Nobel Prize: The Secret of Cell Division

User Sir Tim Hunt, Cancer Research UK.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 20:00-21:15

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.

User Professor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona).

House Part II room, Department of Genetics. Please use the entrance by the Part II room and tea room underneath the external fire escape. Main entrance is not connected to Part II room due to refurbishment..

Friday 12 September 2014, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

The impact of viral IκB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Professor Giuseppe Gargiulo from Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, University of Bologna .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus: A laboratory surrogate of the ancestral chordate giving insights into vertebrate head origins

User Elia Benito Gutierrez (EMBL).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Good night and good luck: the role of sleep in dementia

User Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 30 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms controlling primary germ layers specification in human

User Ludovic Vallier, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

(At least) 3 ways to publish a pigeon genome.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Tom Gilbert from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements

This talk is kindly sponsored by eLife Sciences

User Hannah Long (University of Oxford).

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A bistable transcriptional switch modulated by signalling drives the choice between embryonic and extraembryonic cell fate

User Christian Schroeter, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Shaping and reshaping regulatory loops in Drosophila morphogen signaling.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr. Giorgos Pyrowolakis from BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies & Institute for Biology, University of Freiburg.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental Constraints? Why blind cavefish still have eye at embryonic stage

User Yoshiyuki Yamamoto (University College London).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Going round in circles: development of the zebrafish vestibular system

User Tanya Whitfield, MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Molecular mechanisms of Mediator complex recruitment by transcription factors.

Hosts: Boris Adryan and Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Alexis Verger from Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Université de Lille .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Using barcoding to understand British Collembola (Springtails)

User Peter Shaw (University of Roehampton).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Liver and pancreas Stem/progenitor cells and organoid cultures

User Meritxell Huch, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

From stripes to blood flow: cell fates of the lateral plate.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Professor Christian Mosimann from the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences (IMLS), University of Zürich.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment

User John Colbourne (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Getting in Shape: in vivo and in silico studies of tissue mechanics in growth control

User Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 April 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Computational insights into stem cell differentiation using dynamic hybrid modelling.

Host: Steve Russell

User Dr Ben Hall from Microsoft Research, Cambridge .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila

User Benjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Captured Thoughts: The Collaborations of an Artist and a Scientist

User Prof Nicky Clayton & Clive Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 14 March 2014, 20:00-21:15

Genetics Seminar

Origin and evolution of novel microRNAs.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Antonio Marco, University of Essex.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Floral quartets link flower development and evolution

User Günter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Quantum Games with Spins Alight

User Dr Mete Atatüre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 11 March 2014, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Metaphor

User Dr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 March 2014, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Arc stress: a novel mechanism for epithelial bending

User Jeremy Green, Department of Craniofacial Development, King’s College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 07 March 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Targets of T cell responses against malaria liver infection: immunology meets experimental genetics.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Julius Hafalla, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Immunology and Infection.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

A Drosophila resource to study human pathology.

Host: Sarah Bray, PDN (sjb32@cam.ac.uk)

User Dr Shinya Yamamoto, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 15:00-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of branching patterns in plants

User Jill Harrison (University of Cambridge).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Engineering flies.

Host: Cahir O'Kane (c.okane@gen.cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Hugo J Bellen, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stability and Complexity in Financial Ecosystems

User Lord Robert May, University of Oxford.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 20:00-21:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Development and Repair of Neurons

User Prof Roger Keynes, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

House Seminar Room, Institute of Criminology.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Economic Collapse

User Professor Ian Morris, Stanford University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The role of pituitary stem cells in homeostasis and tumour formation

User Cynthia Andoniadou, Department of Craniofacial Development, King’s College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 February 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Molecular insights into the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of bat rabies.

Hosts: John Welch and Ben Longdon

User Dr Daniel Streicker, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Integration in Morphological Structures: how it affects evolution and how it evolves

User Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurons Feel the Force

User Dr Kristian Franze, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Human Plague

User Professor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular mechanisms of Wnt signalling

User Mariann Bienz, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 February 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Studying the invasive migration of Drosophila immune cells.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Professor Daria Siekhaus, IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria).

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Making similar embryos with divergent genomes

User Patrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The sweet smell of E. coli division

User Dr David Summers, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues, Populations & Survival

User Professor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Extrinsic forces and cell shape changes in gastrulation

User Bénédicte Sanson, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 14 February 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Vaccinia virus has evolved the Bcl-2 family of proteins to thwart the host innate immune system.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Stephen Graham, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Protecting the planet for our children and other species

User Peter Davidson.

House Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 10 February 2014, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Nature of Plagues

User Professor Angela McLean, University of Oxford.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors

User Clare Baker, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 07 February 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Checks and Balances in Drosophila Muscle and Heart Differentiation Programs.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Dr Mike Taylor, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why did it take medicine 3,000 years to become effective?

User Dr Allan Chapman, University of Oxford.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 04 February 2014, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Silicon Plagues

User Mikko H Hypponen, CRO F-Secure & columnist.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 31 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Axis specification in Drosophila: mRNA transport and translational control

User Timothy Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 January 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Deconstructing Greatwall Kinase.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Helfrid Hochegger, University of Sussex .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cracking the code of crocodile skin

User Michel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Grasses bite back! The role of silicon-based defences in the interactions between plants and herbivores

User Prof Sue Hartley, University of York.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2014, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & History

User Professor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

CANCELLED: Getting in Shape: in vivo and in silico studies of tissue mechanics in growth control

User Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 January 2014, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance.

Host: Ian Furner

User Professor Jurek Paszkowski, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Exploring the History of Mars by Robot: Curiosity's Adventures in Gale Crater

User Prof Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Medicine

User Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of accurate chromosome segregation.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr. A. Jeyaprakash Arulanandam, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 16 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Synthetic Biology: New Technologies and Sustainable Solutions

User Dr Jim Haseloff, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 14 January 2014, 20:00-21:15

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

User James Castelli-Gair Hombría (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Seville).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Subglacial Lake Ellsworth

User Prof Martin Siegert, University of Edinburgh.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular alchemy: How to make one cell type into another

User David Tosh, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 29 November 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Immune-metabolic interaction in Drosophila.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Marc Dionne from the Peter Gorer Dept of Immunobiology, King's College London .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 28 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

RNA regulation during development and evolution

User Claudio Alonso (University of Sussex).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Healing the body with new materials

User Prof Molly Stevens, Imperial College London.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 November 2013, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The sins of your maternal grandparents: Transgenerational epigenetic effects of folate metabolism on development

User Erica Watson, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 November 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Widespread translation of small Open Reading Frames from coding regions, UTRs and non-coding RNAs.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Juan Pablo Couso, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 21 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes

User Gáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Life and the Earth: Interlocking Histories

User Prof Aubrey Manning, University of Edinburgh.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 19 November 2013, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Patterning ensembles of mouse ES cells: the embryo redux

User Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 November 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Motors, rulers and clocks in chromosome segregation.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Helder Maiato from Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deciphering the onychophoran ‘segmentation gene cascade’: inferences about the evolution of segmentation

User Ralf Janssen (Uppsala University).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Headache of Hypoxia

User Prof Hugh Montgomery, University College London.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Drosophila p53, growth control and metabolism

User Marco Milan, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 November 2013, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why is Chemistry Difficult?

User Dr Jonathan Goodman, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nuclear actin and nuclear actin-binding protein as new players in embryonic development and reprogramming

User Kei Miyamoto, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 November 2013, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental Modularity, and Evolvability of the Head Skeleton

User Charles Kimmel (University of Oregon).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are Normal People Sane?

User Sir Robin Murray, King's College London.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 29 October 2013, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chiefs call in the Reserves: Differentiated Troy+ Chief cells act as ‘Reserve’ stem cells to generate all lineages of the stomach epithelium

User Bon-Kyoung Koo, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 October 2013, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Super-resolution Microscopy

User Dr Eric Rees, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 20:00-21:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From Mars to the Multiverse

User Lord Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 20:00-21:15

Genetics Seminar

How does the kinetochore orchestrate a functional checkpoint signal?

Host: Viji Draviam

User Professor Jakob Nilsson from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 10 October 2013, 14:30-15:30

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

TBD & Rab8, a regulator of synapse growth in Frontotemporal Dementia?

User Sue Jones (PDN) & Sean Sweeney (University of York).

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, New MRC-LMB (Addenbrooke's site).

Tuesday 16 July 2013, 18:00-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing the molecular and cellular basis of developmental morphogenesis

User Tassos Pavlopoulos, Max Planck Institute at Dresden.

House Part II Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 27 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Feedback control of the anaphase-telophase transition.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Helder Maiato, Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

Title to be confirmed

User Christian Lohmann, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, New MRC-LMB (Addenbrooke's site).

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Sibling Rivalry and Stress Tolerance: the Single-Cell Biology of Mycobacteria.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Bree Aldridge, Tufts University, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Boston .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in Drosophila

User Christen Mirth, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal.

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Self-organization of pluripotent cells to establish the mouse embryo

User Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors

User Melinda Modrell, University of Cambridge, UK.

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A genomic survey of the machineries that control & link cell shape, microtubules & cell cycle progression

User Rafael Carazo Salas, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic regulation of tissue growth in Drosophila.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Anne Kathrin Classen, LMU Munich .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus: an unusual model gives insight into chordate development and regeneration

User Ildiko Somorjai, University of St Andrews, UK.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Organ morphogenesis: Cell movement and communication in liver development

User Elke Ober, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 17 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

The evolutionary dynamics of unusual reproductive systems.

Hosts: Eli Vieira Araujo Jnr and John Welch

User Dr Laura Ross from the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford ..

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: stories from electric fish, scorpions and mice

User Harold Zakon, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

"GABA-A receptor membrane dynamics and the tuning of inhibitory transmission" & "Connectivity in a motor circuit: interplay of developmental plasticity and opportune wiring?"

User Josef Kittler (UCL) & Jan Felix Evers (COS Heidelberg).

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, New MRC-LMB (Addenbrooke's site).

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nutrient sensing in the central brain of Drosophila larvae controls feeding behavior

User Pierre Léopold, Institute of Biology Valrose, University of Nice, France.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Tracking transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens with high-throughput genomics.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A fine balance: Self-renewal and differentiation of single stem cells amidst tumour heterogeneity

User David Kent, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Energy and Life

User Prof Sir John Ernest Walker.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regulation of neural and intestinal stem cell differentiation

User Axel Behrens, CR-UK London Research Institute, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 April 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Sequence-based discovery of transcriptional targets.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Stein Aerts, Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven University.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"Curing Incurable Cancer"

User James Watson.

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Tuesday 23 April 2013, 20:00-21:15

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

CANCELLED!

Talk will be given at the next session

User Josef Kittler, University College London.

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, New MRC-LMB (Addenbrooke's site).

Monday 15 April 2013, 18:00-19:30

Genetics Seminar

Tips at the Edge: Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics at the Cell Cortex.

User Professor Dr Anna Akhmanova from Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrech University .

House Biffen Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How curiosity turned into Science?

User Dr Philip Ball.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 20:00-21:15

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

Title to be confirmed

User Juan Burrone, King's College London.

House Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

User Professor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar

Molecular mechanisms that mediate the adaptation to hypoxia in Drosophila.

User Professor Pablo Wappner from Instituto Leloir, Argentina .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental, genetic, and adaptive bases of morphological evolution: the case of water-walking insects

User Abderrahman Khila, Lyon, France.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What’s special about the human brain

User Prof. Colin Blakemore.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

User Professor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin organisation in embryonic stem cells

User Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 March 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Linking the mitotic spindle to the plasma membrane during cytokinesis.

User Dr. Mark Petronczki from Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental plasticity and life history evolution in amphibians

User Ivan Gomez-Mestre, Seville, Spain.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

POSTPONED: Energy and Life

User Prof. Sir John Ernest Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit & Nobel Prize Laureate.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

User Dr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Using bacterial pathogens to explore immunity and development in the nematode C. elegans

User Jonathan Hodgkin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 February 2013, 13:15-13:55

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

User Hiroki Oda, Osaka, Japan.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Genetics Seminar

How to maintain a stable genome: A Passenger Perspective.

User Dr Susanne Lens from University Medical Centre Utrecht.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of gastrulation in flies

User Steffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ornamentation, Attraction and Sexual Behaviour

User Dr Gayle Brewer.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

User Professor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coping with life changing events: Stem cells, regeneration, and plasticity

User Robin Lovell-Badge, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 February 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Fate

User Professor Margaret Buckingham from Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Unexpected Side of Entropy

User Prof. Daan Frenkel.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

"The presynaptic side of synapse formation" & TBC

User Christine Holt (PDN) & Greg Jefferis (MRC-LMB).

House Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

User Professor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cytoplasmic streaming in the female germline and stem cell fate in the male germline of Drosophila

User Isabel Palacios, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 February 2013, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Hydra, a model for deciphering the principles of stem cells and regeneration

User Brigitte Galliot, Geneva, Switzerland.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Our shared destinies within the planet’s boundaries

User Prof. Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

User Robert J Sawyer, Author.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcriptional Control of Cell Fate Choice in Blood Stem Cells

User Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 February 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Cell specification in the mouse blastocyst inner cell mass: interplay between Nanog, Gata6 and the Fgf signalling pathway.

User Dr Claire Chazaud from Laboratoire GReD, France .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

The mitotic checkpoint - a structural perspective.

User Dr. Victor Bolanos Garcia, Oxford Brookes University, UK .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:45-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Quantification and modeling of spindle positioning and size regulation in the C. elegans embryo

User Dr. Akatsuki Kimura, National Institute of Genetics, Japan .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:00-16:45

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Incomprehensible Comprehensibility of the Universe

User Prof. Rev. Michal Heller, Templeton Prize Laureate.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

User Ms Bridget Kendall, BBC.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Spindle orientation and cell division in Drosophila epithelial cells

User Dan Bergstrahl, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 January 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Hox Control of a Drosophila Feeding Circuit.

User Professor Dr Ingrid Lohmann from The Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

User Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting the role of stem cells in tissue development and maturation

User Kim Jensen, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 18 January 2013, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Perspectives on Next Generation DNA Sequencing.

User Dr Harold Swerdlow from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 10 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

Seeing what the brain sees: functional imaging in the zebrafish retina

User Martin Meyer, King's College London.

House Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 08 January 2013, 18:00-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Integrative evolutionary biology: a need for interdisciplinary studies of development, ecology and population genetics

User Ralf J. Sommer, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

"Dynamics of AMPAR assembly: from formation to channel function" & TBC

User Ingo Greger (MRC-LMB) & Ole Paulsen (PDN).

House Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 18:00-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of body axes in Eumetazoa: what can we learn from Cnidaria?

User Grigory Genikhovich, University of Vienna, Austria.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects

User Siegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Time to grow up?

User Prof. David Nutt.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Functional nuclear organization of the genome: from cell populations to single cell analyses

User Peter Fraser, Babraham Institute.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression during Development.

User Dr Barbara Jennings from the Transcriptional Regulation Group, UCL Cancer Institute .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak

User Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plastic Electronics

User Prof. Sir Richard Friend.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch signal

User Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Systems-based, quantitative analyses of genomic function and variation.

User Dr Bart Deplancke from EPFL Lausanne .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Control of segmentation clock period and segment number in the zebrafish

User Christian Schroeter, University of Cambridge, UK.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Does Time Exist?

User Dr Julian Barbour.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 20:00-21:15

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

Determinants of broadband signaling at a central synapse

User Angus Silver, University College London.

House Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 18:00-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How variable clones build an invariant retina

User Benjamin Simons, Cavendish Laboratory/ Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model.

User Dr Pavel Tomancak from MPI for Cell Biology, Dresden .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shedding light on lunar rhythms

User Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The role of Dicer and miRNAs in regulating neural stem cell multipotency

User Therese Andersson, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge..

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar

PTEN phosphatase-independent maintenance of apical membrane integrity during colorectal glandular morphogenesis.

User Professor F. C. Campbell from the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling Cell Division

User Sir Richard 'Tim' Hunt.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissection of the cellular and molecular hierarchy of the bronchioalveolar epithelium in homeostasis and disease

User Juan-Jose Ventura, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 October 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Provisional Title - A Life in Science : from academia to industry to political decision making and back

User Sr Peter Williams CBE FREng FRS (The Royal Society).

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

A life in science: from academia to industry and back.

User Sir Peter Williams from The Royal Society .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Science of Art

User Dr Spike Bucklow.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Balancing cell potency and specification in stem cells and in the early embryo

User Veronique Azuara, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 19 October 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Alexander Aulehla - EMBL Heidelberg.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Phase-shifted gene-activity oscillations during embryo development - a real-time imaging approach.

User Dr Alexander Aulehla from EMBL Heidelberg .

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Molecules of Murder

User Dr John Emsley.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Deciphering gene regulatory circuitry underlying early steps of neural crest development

User Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 12 October 2012, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can Nurture Influence Nature?

User Prof. Sir David Baulcombe.

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 20:00-21:15

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

"Synaptic transfer of visual information in the retina" & "Molecules that sense taste, force, and temperature in neurons"

User Leon Lagnado (MRC-LMB) & William Schafer (MRC-LMB).

House Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"Science, Computation and the Future"

User Stephen Wolfram.

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

Thursday 14 June 2012, 20:00-21:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution

User Enrique Martinez-Perez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 18 May 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics and adaptive benefits of emergency and modular rearrangements of protein domains

User Prof. Erich Bornberg-Bauer PhD, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity School of Biol.Sciences, University of Muenster.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

“New Insights into the Mechanisms and Selectivity of Protein Degradation by the Proteasome Pathway”

User Alfred Lewis Goldberg - Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School ( guest of St Johns College).

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 10:30-12:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Cancer, Development & Adult Tissue Maintenance

User Prof. Nicholas Hastie MRC HGU and the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Monday 14 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms regulating epidermal stem cell fate

User Michaela Frye, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 11 May 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit fly

User Scott Waddell Ph.D Professor of Neurobiology, University of Oxford.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of the molecular basis of thermotolerance, focussing on the embryos of an invasive marine invertebrate

note unusual time

User Seb Shimeld, University of Oxford, UK.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecules of touch and taste sensation

User William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 04 May 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

“Target site recognition of Hox transcription factors by means of rapid, “trial-and-error” interactions with chromatin.”

User Dimitros Papdopoulos, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Humour in Science

User Dr Len Fisher.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Interactions between stem cells and their niche in mammalian epidermis

User Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 April 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Forks and Factories: Coordination and control of mammalian DNA replication

User Dr Catherine Green, Department of Zoology.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Roles of ADAM family metalloproteases in cardiovascular development

User Atsuko Sehara-Fujisawa, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 20 April 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Genome-wide RNAi and HCS Microscopy approaches to dissect membrane traffic pathways

User Professor Jez Simpson, University College Dublin.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research

User Diethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"Stem Cell Bioprocessing: The Role of Chemical Engineering"

User Prof Matalaris, Imperial College London.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Monday 12 March 2012, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

User Professor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

“The mosquito immune response against malaria parasites”

User Dr George K Christophides, Imperial College, London.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genome evolution as seen from each of its genes: what "phylomes" can tell us about newly-sequenced species

User Toni Gabaldon, CRG, Barcelona.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

" Towards a Science of Cultural Evolution"

User Alex Mesoudi.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Artificial Life

User Professor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The roles of the interaction between the APC/C and the centrosome in the cell cycle and development in Drosophila

User Yuu Kimata, Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 March 2012, 13:15-13:55

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

User Bernard Moussian, University of Tubingen.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Morphological and molecular evolution of the arthropod nervous system: new insights from studies on the waterflea Daphnia magna

User Angelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary, University of London.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"The natural and enhanced mathematical brain"

User Dr Roi Cohen Kadoch.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 19:00-20:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

User Professor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mapping Morphogenesis

User Richard Adams, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

The sperms’ hidden cargo; a distinctive epigenetic signature for the egg?

User Dr David Miller, University of Leeds.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development

User Mandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

“Modelling aspects of tumour growth and progression”

User Prof Philip Maini.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

User Dr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A histone marks embryonic differentiation and acts as an epigenetic barrier to reprogramming

User Vincent Pasque (Gurdon lab), Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Molecular regulation of Wallerian axonal degeneration

User Dr Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

“Astrophysicist - Speaker of the Parliament”

User Prof Ene Ergma.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

User Dr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nanoscale Tools for the Silencing of Genes in the Brain

User Kostas Kostarelos, The School of Pharmacy, University of London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring the origin of leaves

User Dr Jill Harrison, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Drosophila segmentation paradigm: A product of molecular co-option and the blind clock breaker?

User Andrew Peel, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

“Fingerprints of the Early Universe”

User Hiranya Peiris.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

User Professor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

SHiPSCs, Naïve Human Pluripotent Stem Cells?

User Pentao Liu, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

The family of mitochondrial transport proteins

User Edmund R.S. Kunji - The Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The gap junction protein Innexin7 is required for cellularization of the Tribolium blastoderm

User Maurijn van der Zee, University of Leiden.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"Biologically-Inspired Massively-Parallel Computing"

User Prof Steve Furber.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

User Dr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Embryonic enigmas: geminin regulation and function in stem cells

User Ron Laskey, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 January 2012, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"Proton Therapy: Particle physics fights cancer"

User Prof Roger Barlow.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

User Professor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring epistasis maps of cellular processes

User Professor Michael Boutros, DKFZ Heidelberg.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates

User Stefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Everything from nothing: how our universe was made

User Prof Carlos Frenk.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Heart development and ageing

User Thomas Brand, Heart Science Centre, Imperial College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 November 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Mechanisms and regulation of DNA recombination during meiosis

User Matthew Neale - MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Axial homologies re-examined: a common ground plan at the base of Eumetazoa

User Heather Marlow, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Large Hadron Collider: answering Gauguin's questions about the Universe

User Prof John Ellis.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Anterior-posterior axis specification in the mammalian embryo

User Tristan Rodriguez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 18 November 2011, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of morphology among populations and between species of Drosophila

User Alistair McGregor, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The limits of science

User Prof Peter Atkins.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

What does smooth muscle development tell us about vascular disease susceptibility?

User Christine Cheung, Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 11 November 2011, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica

User Evelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Multiple Sclerosis Genetics - light at the end of the tunnel

User Prof Stephen Sawcer.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regulation of neuronal growth in a developing motor system – a Drosophila dendrite perspective

User Matthias Landgraf, Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 04 November 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Changes in cell and tissue architecture in early stages of colorectal cancer

User Professor Inke Näthke - Dundee Cancer Centre, University of Dundee.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head

User Gregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Defeating Ageing with Regenerative Medicine

User Professor Aubrey de Grey.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A fly's-eye view of epithelial polarity

User Franck Pichaud, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 October 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

The shape of things to come: from small G-proteins to cell polarity, cell-shape dynamics and cell-cell signalling

User Veronica Grieneisen (The John Innes Centre, Norwich).

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development

(note unusual location)

User Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Understanding cell shape: reconstituting actin polymerisation at the membrane-cytosol interface

User Jenny Gallop, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 October 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Post-transcriptional regulation of human mitochondrial gene expression

User Michal Minczuk - MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The commercialization of university research

User Prof William Graham Richards.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions)..

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Taking shape: morphogenesis of Drosophila renal tubules

User Helen Skaer, Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 14 October 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

A genome-wide screen for developmental regulators of airway maturation regulators in Drosophila

User Professor Christos Samakovlis - The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Darkness visible: the search for the missing mass of the universe

User Prof Subir Sarkar.

House The Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre at the Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 20:00-21:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Integration of RNA- and ChIP-sequencing reveals two major gene expression levels in metazoa

User Daniel Hebenstreit - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

A Drosophila Model for the role of ApoE in Alzheimer’s Disease

User Paul Hopkins, King’s College London.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 05 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Transthyretin and Alzheimer's amyloid beta peptide - do two wrongs make a right?

User Joel Buxbaum, MD PhD, Scripps Research Institute.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 28 June 2011, 11:00-12:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Map3k4 and Sry in mammalian sex determination

User Andy Greenfield, MRC Harwell.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 June 2011, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Actin + oocyte: Old love - new affairs

User Melina Schuh, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 June 2011, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coincidence, cause & consequence: How can we know in developmental gene regulation?

User Boris Adryan, Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 May 2011, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genomics and development of the myriapod Strigamia maritima: an outgroup for comparison with insects and crustaceans

User Michael Akam, Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 20 May 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

''Deciphering Mechanisms of Endoderm Development and Disease''

User Dr Heiko Lickert - Institute of Stem Cell Research, German Research Centre for Enviromental Health, Munich.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cilia in development and disease

User Dominic Norris, MRC Harwell.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 13 May 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

''How SUMO talks to ubiquitin''

User Professor Ron Hay - Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

'Infection and autoimmunity: there may be some advantages to co-habitation'

User Prof Anne Cooke.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting mRNA localisation mechanisms during Drosophila development

User Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 May 2011, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From Einstein to the Large Hadron Collider

User Prof Jeff Forshaw.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 20:00-21:15

Genetics Seminar Series

''How Cells Defend Their Cytosol Against Bacterial Invasion''

User Dr Felix Randow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

'Sophisticated Small Satellites from Surrey'

User Dr Stuart Eves.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

User Dr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Exploring the origin of leaves

User Jill Harrison Plant, Sciences University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 11 March 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Many ways to make ends meet: orchestration of DNA double-strand break repair processes by the NHEJ pathway

User Prof. Aidan Doherty - Genome Damage & Stability Centre, University of Sussex..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

[CANCELLED] From Genomes to Health

User Sir Mark Walport.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

User Professor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The Planar Cell Polarity pathway in lung development and disease

User Charlotte Dean, MRC Harwell.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 04 March 2011, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Coalition’s Vision for Science and Technology

User David Willetts, MP.

House Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 18:30-19:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

User Dr Elizabeith Murchison - Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Is it possible to break the World Land speed record again?

User Andrew Green.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

User Professor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Morphogenesis of the adult abdominal epidermis of Drosophila: A matter of constriction and migration

User Marcus Bischoff, Zoology University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 February 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Gene Regulatory Networks for Vertebrate Mesoderm Specification

User Dr Matt Loose, School of Biology, University of Nottingham.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Magnetricity and Magnetic Monopoles

User Prof Steven Bramwell.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

User Professor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Different flavours of myosin function drive tubulogenesis in the fly embryo

User Katja Röper, PDN University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 18 February 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Comparative logical models of signalling networks in normal and transformed hepatocytes

User Dr Julio Saez-Rodriguez - Group Leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). joint appointment at EMBL-Heidelberg, Genome Biology Unit, Cambridge..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When ideas have sex: the collective brain

User Dr Matt Ridley.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Sound of Beauty

User Dr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcriptional control of stem cell fate: keeping cells in the zone

User Brian Hendrich, Centre for Stem Cell Research University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 11 February 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic approaches to metabolic disease

User Dr Ines Barroso - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Twistors and Quantum Non-Locality

User Sir Roger Penrose.

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

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Quantum Beauty

User Professor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The complex life of small RNAs

User Eric Miska, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 04 February 2011, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Embryo environment restricts the developmental plasticity of epiblast precursors

User Dr Berenika Plusa - University of Manchester..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Paul Dirac and the Religion of Mathematical Beauty

User Graham Farmelo.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & The Grotesque

User Jose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid).

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Control of tissue growth by the Hippo signalling pathway in Drosophila

User Nic Tapon, LRI Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 January 2011, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"The End of the Line": How Overfishing Is Changing the World And What We Eat

User Charles Clover.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Truth

User Professor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Integrating complex genomic datasets and high-throughput cancer cell line screens: linking drug response to molecular signatures

User Dr Ultan McDermott - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 14:30-15:30

Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine

Some missing lincRNAs in Chromatin, Cancer and Stem Cells

Host: Tony Kouzarides, Gurdon Institute

User John L. Rinn, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Broad Institute, United States of America.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 09 December 2010, 11:30-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Devilish decline: infectious cancer and the Tasmanian devil

User Dr Elizabeth Murchison.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Your inner frog - Can clues from evolution unlock the molecular development of the cerebellum?

User Richard Wingate, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 November 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

The 4-dimensional E.coli chromosome: how a temporal programme can be encoded in a 2D genetic map.

User Dr Andrew Travers - Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, Paris..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Volcanic eruptions: causes and consequences

User Prof David Pyle.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regulation of chromatin organization and epigenetic modifications in embryonic stem cells

User Anton Wutz, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 19 November 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Mind the Gap (phase): kinase signalling cascades in mitotic control in fission yeast.

User Prof. Iain Hagan - Paterson Institute, Manchester.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Snake and Lobster - A Feast for MICCAI

User Prof Guang-Zhong Yang.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The regulation of skeletal muscle development by signaling molecules and microRNAs

User Andrea Münsterberg, Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 12 November 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Post-translational regulation of division versus differentiation in the embryonic nervous system.

User Dr Anna Philpott - Hutchinson, MRC Cambridge..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Verification of Quantum Mechanics

User Dr Elham Kashefi.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coordinated regulation of cell divisions, migration and differentiation in the developing mouse brain

User Francois Guillemot, Division of Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Medical Research.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 05 November 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Rab protein evolution and the history of the eukaryotic endomembrane system

User Prof. Mark Field - Dept of Pathology, Cambridge..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hox targets in Drosophila

User Rob White, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 29 October 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Stars and sequences - Genomics as a public science

User Dr Simone Roedder, Institute of Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld, Germany.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neonatal diabetes: From Gene to Therapy

User Prof Fran Ashcroft.

House The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Friday 22 October 2010, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Tracking cell and cytoskeletal behaviour to understand tissue morphogenesis in fish and fly embryos

User Guy Blanchard, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 October 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Single cell genomics reveals chromosome instability in human cleavage stage embryogenesis

User Dr Thierry Voet - Centre for Human Genetics, Leuven..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Modelling early human cell fate decisions using pluripotent stem cells

User Roger Pedersen, The Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 October 2010, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

And now for something completely different – when engineers did maths and mathematicians talked to God

User Dr Piers Bursill-Hall.

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

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 20:00-21:15

Genetics Seminar Series

Silencing chromosomes with Xist in embryonic and adult stem cells.

User Dr Anton Wutz - Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 07 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

'The UK Ladybird Survey: A model citizen science project'

User Dr Remy Ware.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 July 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Epithelial morphogenesis: the role of polarity and adhesion during Drosophila tracheal system development"

User Dr Marta Llimargas.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell wars: competition through growth factor signalling

User Eugenia Piddini, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 04 June 2010, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Region-specific regulation of neurogenesis by mir-9

User Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 May 2010, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Control of tissue size and shape in Drosophila

User Barry Thompson, LRI Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 May 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Genetic analysis of organelle-specific unfolded protein responses".

User Prof. David Ron.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: the repair connection

User Petra Hajkova, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre Imperial College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 14 May 2010, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic mechanisms in mammalian neurogenesis

User Rick Livesey, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 07 May 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Small RNA and epigenetics in plants"

User Prof. Sir David Baulcombe.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Len Fisher - Equations for Everyday Life

User Len Fisher.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting the role of signalling inhibition during the induction of pluripotency

User Jose Silva, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 30 April 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Finding the middle ground: achieving a perfect metaphase plate"

User Prof. Patrick Meraldi.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates

User Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Synchrotron light: from Einstein's theories into a brilliant future

User Prof Gerhard Materlik.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 27 April 2010, 20:00-21:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Fine-tuning BMP signaling during cell fate specification

User Kristi Wharton, Brown University.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 April 2010, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sir David Baulcombe - Of Maize and Men

User Sir David Baulcombe.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 09 March 2010, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change

User Professor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coupling organelle capacity to the cell's needs

User David Ron, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 05 March 2010, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution.

User Sebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford..

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Oil And Gas Industry: The Next 30 Years

User Mr Henry Edmundson - Schlumberger.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 02 March 2010, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Natural Catastrophes

User Professor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Lung epithelial progenitor cells in development and repair

User Emma Rawlins, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 February 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

' The mechanics of tissue morphogenesis '

User Dr Thomas Lecuit - Developmental Biology Institute, Marseilles..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof Andrew Lever - Getting Intimate With HIV

User Prof Andrew Lever.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 23 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk, Security and Terrorism

User Professor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Shaping and patterning the embryo: Gastrulation in higher vertebrates

User Octavian Voiculescu, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 19 February 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Genetics of common obesity - what have we learned from genome-wide association studies?"

User Dr Ruth Loos - MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 14:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof Kevin Warwick - Cyborg Experiments

User Prof Kevin Warick, Professor for Cybernetics at the University of Reading.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 16 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Humanities

User Professor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The development of brain asymmetry - from genes to circuits

User Steve Wilson, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 12 February 2010, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa

User Barry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Logic of Foraging

Followed by a wine reception

User Dr. Daniel Lunn.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 09 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance

User Professor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The role of Gata3 in the emergence of hematopoietic stem cells - a link between the hematopoietic and sympathetic nervous system

User Katrin Ottersbach, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 05 February 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Stem Cells in Mammalian epidermis"

User Prof. Fiona Watt - Wellcome Trust for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 14:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof Nicola Clayton - Do Animals Make Shopping Lists?

User Professor Nicola Clayton ( Department of Experimental Psychology).

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

Tuesday 02 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty

User Professor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic signatures of stem-cell identity - CANCELLED

User Veronique Azuara, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 29 January 2010, 00:00-00:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Insights into the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington's disease"

User Prof. Gillian Bates - King's College London School of Medicine.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of determinism: an evolutionary history of mechanisms underlying insect wing patterning

User Robert Ray, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Lord Robert Winston (Free Entry)

User Lord Robert Winston.

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

Tuesday 26 January 2010, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Science and the Media

User Dr Ben Goldacre, The Guardian.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

What are the cells in the developing vertebrate retina doing?

User Bill Harris, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 January 2010, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Organising microtubule organisers (and some new proteomics tools)

User Dr Ken Sawin, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 14:30-16:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty

User Professor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

gc399's list

Large Intergenic Non-Coding RNAs: From Discovery to Mechanism

Host: Prof. Tony Kouzarides

User Dr. John L. Rinn, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, The Broad Institute.

House Tea Room, The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 17 December 2009, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution

User David Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

R.A. Fisher Exhibition

User Prof. AWF Edwards.

House Library, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 08 December 2009, 09:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb

User Dorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof. David Colquhoun - Science in an Age of Endarkenment

User Prof David Colquhoun.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular control of axon pathfinding in the visual system

User Robert Hindges, MRC Neurobiology Unit, King's College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 November 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Cell-Cell Communication during Fertilization in Arabidopsis: a Surprising Link to Disease Resistance

User Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus - Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fingers, fins and faces: the role of fossils in documenting the assembly of modern bodyplans

User Matt Friedman, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof. Anthony Hollander - Claudia's Tracha and other Stem Cell Stories

User Prof. Anthony Hollander.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Establishing and manipulating pluripotency in the early embryo

User Jenny Nichols, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 20 November 2009, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof. Rupert Sheldrake - Morphic Resonance, Collective Momory, and the Habits of Nature

User Prof. Rupert Sheldrake.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Developmental programming of the placenta

User Abby Fowden, PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 13 November 2009, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systematics, homology and speciation in time and space.

User Julie Hawkins, University of Reading.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Science of Spinning Things

User Dr. Hugh Hunt.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Balancing self-renewal and differentiation in the Drosophila nervous system

User Andrea Brand, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 November 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Cell fate specification and tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila mesoderm"

User Prof. Manfred Frasch - Developmental Biology, University of Erlangen - Nuremberg.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 14:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof. John Beddington - Title TBC

User Prof. John Beddington.

House Union Society Building, 9a Bridge Street.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sir David King - 21st Century Challanges

User Sir David King - Former chief scientific advisor to the UK government.

House Union Society Building, 9a Bridge Street.

Friday 30 October 2009, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The role of transcriptional regulators in extraembryonic cell-fate decisions

User Kathy Niakan, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 30 October 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Modelling human neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila"

User Dr Aaron Voigt.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 14:30-16:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The long and short of Hox non-coding RNAs

User Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 October 2009, 13:15-13:55

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

User Dr Helfrid Hochegger - Sussex centre for Genome damage and Stability.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs

User Artyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Marcus du Sautoy - Finding Moonshine

Free Event - The Freshers' Squash

User Marcus du Sautoy - Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.

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

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hedgehog signalling and myogenesis in the zebrafish

User Philip Ingham, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Singapore.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 October 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early Drosophila embryos"

User Dr Benedicte Sanson - PDN.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms

User Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Systems Genetics of complex Traits in Drosophila"

Note unusual time - Seminar will be held at 16:00pm

User Prof. Trudy Mackay - NC State Univeristy.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 September 2009, 16:00-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Chromatin control in development and disease"

User Prof. Peter Verrijzer - Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 14:30-16:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The imprinted atypical Notch ligand Dlk1 and the regulation of adult neurogenesis

User Anne Ferguson-Smith - PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 05 June 2009, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Insect gut feelings: development and function of visceral neurons in Drosophila

User Irene Miguel-Aliaga - Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 29 May 2009, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Division versus differentiation in the embryonic nervous system

User Anna Philpott - Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 May 2009, 13:15-13:55

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Taking a Shot at neuronal growth in Drosophila

User Andreas Prokop - Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 15 May 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Watching transcription in living cells"

User Dr Jonathan Chubb - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 14:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Filling Tomorrow's Pipeline - A discussion with Dr Martin Mackay, President of Pfizer Global Research and Development

User Dr Martin Mackay, President of Pfizer Global Research & Development.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Friday 08 May 2009, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genetic Specification of Neuronal Circuitry: How Are Different Types of Neurons Made in the Vertebrate Spinal Cord?

User Katharine Lewis - PDN University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 May 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Integrated analysis of memory phase dynamic in Drosophila

User Dr Thomas Preat - CNRS, Paris.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 14:30-16:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Integrins: force-responsive connectors for morphogenesis

User Nick Brown, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 May 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Tales from Irish genetics: from Milesius to Niall of the Nine Hostages.

User Prof. Dan Bradley - Trinity College, Dublin.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 14:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Annual Founders' Dinner with Simon Baron-Cohen

Tickets on sale now: visit http://groupspaces.com/SciSoc/e/11972?s=e223a8bf

User Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Monday 27 April 2009, 18:00-22:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Evolution of embryonic pluripotency and the early lineages of the mammalian blastocyst".

User Dr Miguel Manzanares - CNIC, Madrid.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 14:30-16:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

What is Consciousness For?

User Professor Chris Frith, University College London.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits

User Professor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA.

House William Harvey.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 16:45-17:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Identifying the Network of Selectively Vulnerable Neurons Associated With Symptom Onset in Alzheimer¹s Disease.

User Dr. Peter Nestor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 16:00-16:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Gambling and the Brain

User Dr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology..

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 15:30-16:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Glutamate, Spikes, and White Matter Disease

User Dr. Ragnhildur Káradóttir, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Soft Matters – Neuromechanics in Development and Disorders

User Dr. Jochen Guck, Department of Physics.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 12:30-13:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

What Can Worm Brains Tell Us About Big Brains?

User Dr. William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 12:00-12:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Visceral Neurons in Drosophila: What the Fly's Rear End Can Tell Us About the Brain

User Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Department of Zoology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 11:30-12:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Processing and Storage Within Neurons

User Professor Jeff Magee, Howard Hughs Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, USA.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 10:05-10:50

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass

User Rahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Fighting Blindness in the Developing World

User Brendan Moriarty MD.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Boundaries of Darwinism

User Professor John Dupre, University of Exeter.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How does smell turn into behaviour?

User Gregory Jefferis - Division of Neurobiology LMB Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 March 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

How does centralspindlin form microtubule bundles and accumulate on them during cytokinesis.

User Dr Masanori Mishima - Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 14:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When The Golden Chain Breaks: Sleep Dysfunction in Neurogenerative Disorder

User Dr Jenny Morton.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 03 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Is Human Evolution Over?

User Professor Steve Jones, University College London.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regulatory logic for cell specification during early embryogenesis

User Paola Oliveri - University College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 February 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Phospho-dependent Activation and Silencing of the Spindle Checkpoint"

User Dr Kevin Hardwick - WTC for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg

User Carsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Shedding Light on Dark Matter

User Professor Gerard Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity

User Professor Craig Moritz, University of California.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Sex Determination Mechanisms in Zebrafish

User John Postlethwait - Institute of Neuroscience University of Oregon.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 20 February 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Systems biology of genetic interactions in yeast"

User Dr Balazs Papp - Biological Research Center, Szeged..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin and Human Society

User Professor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Differential chromatin marking of introns and expressed exons by H3K36me3

User Julie Ahringer - The Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 13 February 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Molecular mechanisms of microtubule associated protein tau and alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disease"

User Dr Richard Wade-Martins - University of Oxford..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial

User Simon Singh.

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

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin in the Literary World

User Professor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular basis of development and degeneration of sensory hair cells in deafness

User Karen Steel - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hinxton, Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 February 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

The interplay of Notch with Shh and Wnt signalling in mesoderm development.

User Dr Kim Dale - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution From Malaria to Manuscripts

User Professor Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Global Darwin

User Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 30 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Intercellular signalling and intracellular transport during axis specification in Drosophila

User Isabel Palacios - Department of Zoology University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 30 January 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Building bridges between genes, brains and language.

http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1512

User Dr Simon Fisher - WTC for Human Genetics, University of Oxford..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Unpredictability and Chance in Scientific Progress

User Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin's Intellectual Development

User Professor Janet Browne, Harvard University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regulation of Dpp signalling in Drosophila

User Hilary Ashe - Faculty of Life Sciences University of Manchester.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 January 2009, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Gene-lifestyle interaction in type 2 diabetes

User Prof. Nick Wareham - Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cognitive Enhancement: Hope or Dope?

FREE ADMITTANCE

User Panel Debate - see abstract.

House McCrum Lecture Theatre, Benet Street (behind The Eagle pub, www.scisoc.com for directions).

Monday 19 January 2009, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Making of the Fittest

User Professor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Function of SRF and Mef2 transcription factors homologues during development of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum".

User Dr Leandro Sastre - CSIC/UAM, Madrid..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Investigating stem cell differentiation and positional signaling in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

User Aziz Aboobaker, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Biophysical Studies of the Nervous System

User Professor Meyer Jackson, University of Wisconsin.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcriptional networks in vertebrate mesoderm formation

User Fiona Wardle - Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 November 2008, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Lost connections: a tale of wandering centrosomes.

User Fanni Gergely, Cancer Research Uk Cambridge Research Institute..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Using Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) to study the evolution of flower development

User Sinead Drea, University of Leicester.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Extreme Natural Hazards

User Herbert Huppert FRS, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

In vivo analysis of morphogenesis in cultured imaginal discs: A new role for Myosin II

User Luis M. Escudero - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 November 2008, 13:15-13:55

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

User Dr Patrik Verstreken, Dept of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, K.U. Leuven..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mexican blind cavefish as a model system for micro evolutionary research

User Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, University College London.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Was there Anything Before the Big Bang? Possibly!

FREE ADMITTANCE

User Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS.

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

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How to build a bridal chamber: development of the thalamus

User Steffen Scholpp - MRC Centre for Developmental Biology King’s College Londo.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 14 November 2008, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"DNA repair in archaea: insights into mechanisms of homologous recombination"

www.nottingham.ac.uk/genetics/people/allers/index.php

User Dr Thorsten Allers, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Conserved regulatory networks in vertebrate development

User Greg Elgar, University of London.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Intimate Relations: Human Evolution and Climatic Change

Please note the change in venue and date! The talk is on Monday!

User Robert Foley, Professor of Human Evolution, Leverhulme Centre, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 10 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Non-catalytic roles for the maintenance methyltransferase, XDnmt1, in development and disease

User Richard Meehan - MRC Human Genetics Unit Western Gen Hospital Edinburgh.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 07 November 2008, 13:15-13:55

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

User Cameron Osborne, Babraham Institute..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.

User Angela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Computing for the Future of the Planet

User Prof Andy Hopper CBE FRS, Head of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Wnt signalling and cell fate decisions in stem cell populations

User Penny Hayward - Dept of Genetics University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 October 2008, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Engineering Self-Orgonization and electical signaling in Bacteria using standardized Genetic Parts"

www.gen.cam.ac.uk/About/iGEM2008-Genetics.htm

User iGem, International Genetically Engineered Machine, Cambridge Genetic Department..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Modelling the vertebrate melanocyte - how exactly do neural crest cells go black?

User Robert Kelsh - Dept of Biology and Biochemistry University of Bath.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 October 2008, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Transcriptional Silencing and lineage commitment in Pluripotent cells"

www.cscr.cam.ac.uk/research/bhendrich.html

User Dr Brian Hendrich, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air

User Prof David MacKay, Department of Physics.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms controlling cell fate specification of pluripotent stem cells

User Ludovic Vallier - Dept of Surgery Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 17 October 2008, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Gods, Devils and Alcohol - Their Influence in Chemical Nomenclature

FREE ENTRY

User Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry.

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

Thursday 16 October 2008, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Worms on Prozac: A genetic dissection of neuronal signalling pathways"

www.ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/research-groups/nurrish.htm

User Dr Stephen Nurrish, MRC Lab of Molecular Cell Biology, University College, London..

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye

User Gáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects

User Jeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Tensegrity, Self Organizing Attractors and Developmental Control"

User Prof. Don Ingber, Departments of Pathology and SurgeryChildren’s Hospital Harvard Medical School.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre.

Monday 08 September 2008, 15:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

“TGF-beta/Dpp signalling in epithelial morphogenesis and cell death”

User Christian Dahmann – MPI-CBG Dresden.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 14:30-16:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genetic regulation of musculoskeletal development in zebraﬁsh

User Henry Roehl - Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 June 2008, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

"Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability".

User Professor David Pellman, Havard Medical School..

House Biffen Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera)

Note changed location and time!!!

User Urs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A..

House Austin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pax genes and neurogenic placode identity

User Clare Baker - PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 30 May 2008, 13:15-13:55

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!

User Vigrinie Orgogozo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

House Austin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Switching and Interlocking: a computational look at genome regulation”

User Thomas down – Gurdon Institute.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Understanding the evolution of developmental mechanisms: the role of non-coding RNAs in Hox gene regulation

User Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in the tropics

User Catherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability

Please note location and time!

User Alexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Microbial Bioenergy Production

Note unusual day: Thursday, not Tuesday

User Professor Alison Smith (Department of Plant Sciences).

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre (Tennis Court Road - see http://tinyurl.com/rxaj7 ).

Thursday 08 May 2008, 20:00-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution

User Andreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“A cellular perspective on sensory-organ regeneration in the zebrafish”

User Hernan Lopez-Schier – Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis

User Adam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Has the Leopard Changed Its Spots? Is a New Biology Emerging?

User Prof Brian Goodwin, Schumacher College.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre (Tennis Court Road - see http://tinyurl.com/rxaj7 ).

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Love at First Light”

User Gero Miesenboeck – Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

User Jessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A..

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"The love and hate affaire between Wingless and Notch in Drosophila wing development"

User Marco Milan, ICREA and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB).

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Natural selection at SNP and Copy Number Variation in the human genome

User Chris Tyler-Smith, The Sanger Institute.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics. Please note this seminar is at 12:00 instead of 14:30.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 12:00-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A new view on arthropod limb evolution

User Gerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology

User Professor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Life and the Earth: interlocking histories

User Aubrey Manning.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar Series

'Cell fate decisions and establishment of pluripotency'

User Jennifer Nichols - Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cosmological Serendipity

User Simon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

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User tba.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ecdysozoan phylogeny and the origins of crustacean complexity: new data from the Cambrian fossil record

User Tom Harvey, Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Living with tsunamis: Sumatra and the Mediterranean

User James Jackson.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity as a Force in Physics

User Professor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic Dissection of the Homeostatic Signaling: Systems that Stabilize Neural Function

User Graeme Davis, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics - UCSF.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates

User Jordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Whose risk? Whose choice? Whose health?

User Lord Krebbs.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity in Political Life

User Oliver Letwin, Member of Parliament.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

What drives recombination hotspots in humans?

User Gil McVean, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Recapitulating ancestral mammalian incisor dentitions through disruption of NF-kB and Wnt signalling in the mouse

User Jim Blackburn, Dept of Craniofacial Development, Kings College London.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bell’s Theorem, Clifford’s Algebra, and Einstein’s Reality

User Joy Christian.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life

User Simon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World'.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Genome Instability and Cancer: lessons from analysis of Bloom's syndrome

User Ian Hickson, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Transgenic and transgenomic strategies for studying the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution: prospects and pitfalls

User David Baum, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A..

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Science of Chocolate

User Stephen Beckett.

House The Cambridge Union (9a Bridge Street - see http://tinyurl.com/3c7hf8).

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

HIV and the Naked Ape

User Professor Robin Weiss, University College London.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Genomic imprinting: a model for the epigenetic control of genome function

User Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Stratigraphy of Serendipity

User Professor Susan Alcock, Brown University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

The role of miRNAs and piRNAs in C.elegans development

User Eric Miska, Gurdon Institute.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 14:30-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The necessity of consciousness: why human zombies would be an evolutionary dead end

User Nicholas Humphrey, London School of Economics.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 22 January 2008, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy

User Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic studies in Drosophila identify a novel pathologic mechanism for Parkinson disease.

User Alex Whitworth, University of Sheffield.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The centipede tree: an evolutionary framework for segmentation studies

User Greg Edgecombe, Natural History Museum, London.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm

User Andreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A..

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Small open reading frames: new, abundant, important

User Juan Pablo Couso.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 14:30-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Computers and Illusion - from photography to computer vision

User Prof Andrew Blake, Microsoft Coorporation.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How to tinker a haltere instead of a wing: probing downstream targets of Hox genes in Drosophila

User Tassos Pavlopoulos - University of Cambridge, Dept. Zoology.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 November 2007, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Great Divide: Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran transition

User Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Imaging Methods in Tumour Therapy

User Kevin Brindle.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting the molecular basis of cranial muscle development in the zebrafish

User Robert Knight - Kings College London.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 November 2007, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis

User Guillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Rosalind Franklin Seminar: Transcriptional networks during development - dissecting the logics

User Eileen Furlong - EMBL, Heidelberg.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 November 2007, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Toxin-antitoxin pairs in biotechnology and therapy

User Guillermo de la Cueva Mendez - MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre, Cambridge.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution

User Benoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Neural induction requires simultaneous inhibition of both Smad1 and Smad2 signals during gastrulation

User Chenbei Chang - University of Alabama at Birmingham.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 November 2007, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic variation in Salmonella Typhi

User John Wain- Molecular Microbiology, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 14:30-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Banged at the Big Bang

User Neil Turok.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Combining classical and modern techniques in C. elegans to solve mechanisms of morphogenesis

User Bob Goldstein - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 October 2007, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Mechanism of epidermal maintenance of mice and men

User Ben Simons - Cavendish Laboratory, TCM, Cambridge.

House Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 14:30-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?

User Tom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Semaphorins, glia and keeping motor neurons in position

User Matthieu Vermeren - University of Cambridge, Dept. Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 19 October 2007, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The History of the Universe in 60 minutes

User Dr Simon Singh.

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

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Getting to the bottom of the Drosophila posterior

User Daniel St. Johnston - University of Cambridge, The Gurdon Institute.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 12 October 2007, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles

User Marcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Book Launch of 'Cool it' - bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg's latest release

User Prof Bjorn Lomborg.

House The Cambridge Union.

Wednesday 03 October 2007, 19:00-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull

User Anjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Alternative splicing in the human transcriptome: Functional and structural influence on proteins

ECTOPIC SEMINAR

User Dr. Kei Yura, Quantum Bioinformatics Team, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto, Japan.

House Bateson Room, Department of Genetics.

Wednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression and function of spider Wnt genes

Please note unusual time!

User Alistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 04 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders

Please note location and time!

User Wim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 26 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra

Please note location and time!

User Alexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford.

House Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 19 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

Please note different location!

User Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

House Austin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms

Please note different location!

User Peter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

House Austin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

10 Years of Biotech Crops: Global Economic and Environmental Impacts

User Dr. Graham Brookes.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 17 May 2007, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Getting more from your markers; statistical cleaning of genetic data

User Jérôme Goudet, Department of Ecology & Evolution, LAUSANNE, Switzerland.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 17 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Glial cell differentiation and function in Drosophila

User Christian Klämbt, Institut für Neurobiologie, Badestr. 9, D-48149 Münster, Germany.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 10 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene Networks and Natural Selection

User Andreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Quasars and Radio Galaxies - the most powerful sources of radio waves in the universe

User Dr Julia Riley.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 08 May 2007, 20:00-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gilding the Lily: The Evolution and Development of Specialized Petal Cell Types

User Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

GM Crops - There are a lot of them About!

User Prof. Nigel Halford.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 01 May 2007, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Growth regulation of ribosome biogenesis in yeast: what's inside the black box?

User David Shore, Department of Molecular Biology and NCCR Program "Frontiers in Genetics", University of Geneva.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 26 April 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Sex Determination in Musca domestica, a Prime Example of Evolutionary Plasticity in Development

User Daniel Bopp, Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

C++0x as a New Language

User Prof Bjarne Stroustrup.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 23 April 2007, 18:30-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Comic Relief Charity Concert

Songs for Cynical Scientists (and Non-Scientists!)

User Prof Ron Laskey and Friends (MRC Cambridge).

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 16 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

The antigenic and genetic evolution of influenza viruses

User Derek Smith, University of Cambridge (UK).

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories

User Aleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A..

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciEnts Cocktail Party

User --.

House New Hall Bar, Huntingdon Road.

Sunday 11 March 2007, 20:00-23:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS

User Peter Crane, University of Chicago.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The homeobox gene Hex has essential roles during liver development.

User Clifford Bogue, Yale University/ Gurdon Institute..

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 March 2007, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)

User Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc 2007 Annual General Meeting

User --.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 06 March 2007, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF

User Philippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Conserved mechanisms regulating lineage commitment during vertebrate gastrulation.

User Josh Brickman, Institute for Stem Cell Research, Edinburgh..

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 March 2007, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Can systems biology be useful, an ascidian perspective

NOTE CHANGE IN TIME - APOLOGIES FOR SHORT NOTICE

User Patrick Lemaire, University of Marseille (F).

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 01 March 2007, 12:00-13:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Embryos and Ancestors

User Phil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What do genes mean?

User Dr Eric Werner, Oxford University and Cellnomica Inc..

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 27 February 2007, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE MIND

User Raymond Tallis, Manchester University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 23 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Liver formation in zebrafish - Wnt and BMP signalling in organ specification.

User Elke Ober, NIMR, Mill Hill.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 February 2007, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

The regulatory origin of repeated evolution of Drosophila pigmentation patterns

User Nicolas Gompel, University of Cambridge (UK).

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas

User Pauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Drug discovery: how Academia can Contribute

User Sir Tom Blundell, Department of Biochemistry.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 20 February 2007, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE LAW

User Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 16 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genetic control of brain development in Drosophila.

User Frank Hirth, MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, KCL.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 February 2007, 13:15-13:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neanderthal Genomics

Please note different location and time!

User Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

House Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies.

Wednesday 14 February 2007, 17:00-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Religious and Scientific Belief

User Prof Lewis Wolpert, Department of Anatomy, UCL.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 13 February 2007, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY

User Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The transcription factor SRF directs developmental and adult brain plasticity.

User Alfred Nordheim, University of Tuebingen..

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 February 2007, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring the causes of regulatory variation in humans

User Manolis Dermitzakis, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK).

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 08 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Amphioxus Model in Evo-Devo/Neofunctionalization of Retinoic Acid Receptors in Vertebrates

User Hector Escrivà, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls sur Mer, France.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY OF MEANING

User Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genome-wide approaches to the identification and characterization of JAK/STAT pathways regulators in Drosophila and Human systems.

User Martin Zeidler, University of Sheffield..

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 February 2007, 13:15-13:55

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Arrested and developing embryos as a source for stem cells

User Prof Miodrag Stojkovic.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 01 February 2007, 20:00-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Privacy and Identity - System Engineering and the Database State

User Prof Ross Anderson, Computer Laboratory.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 January 2007, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

VISUALISING IDENTITY

User Ludmilla Jordanova, King's College London.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Size and Shape in Drosophila wing morphogenesis

User Antonio Garcia Bellido, CSIC Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Spain.

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 25 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Tweaking the Hinge and Caps: Testing a Model of the Organization of the Gnathostome Skull

User Michael Depew, King's College, London.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Science and Ethics of Stem Cells

User Prof Anne McLaren, Department of Zoology.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 23 January 2007, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

MUSICAL IDENTITY

User Christopher Hogwood.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can Science be Communicated through the Media?

User Dr Raj Persaud.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 23 November 2006, 20:00-21:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Interactions between Polymorphic Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors and Polymorphic MHC class I ligands

User Peter Parham, Stanford University (USA).

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

User David Hosken, University of Exeter (UK).

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 16 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Careers in Science

User Dr Anne Forde, University Careers Service.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 15 November 2006, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell biological parameters that modulate the range of Wingless in Drosophila epithelia.

User Jean Paul Vincent, NIMR, Mill Hill.

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 November 2006, 13:15-13:55

Genetics Seminar Series

Distinct roles for Tcf/Lef genes in mediating tissue-specific Wnt/beta-catenin signalling in Xenopus mesoderm development.

User Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen (UK).

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Exploitation of Micro- and Nanotechnologies

User Dr David Tolfree, MANCEF.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 07 November 2006, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

In vivo calcium imaging during zebrafish somite and muscle

Canceled

User Paul Kennedy, Yale University.

House LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

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Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Aneuploidy and its impact on human embryo development

👤 Marta Shahbazi 📅 Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are Airborne Ultrafine Particles the Next Frontier in Air Pollution Research?

👤 Professor Roy Harrison 📅 Tuesday 17 March 2026, 18:00-19:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song

👤 Richard Morrison, The Times 📅 Friday 13 March 2026, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Illuminating mechanisms of PGC migration in the early mouse embryo

👤 Kate McDole (LMB) 📅 Friday 13 March 2026, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast

⚠️ Host - Marco Geymonat

👤 Dr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier 📅 Thursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Resolving the Ediacaran enigma: Unravelling the fossil record of early animal evolution

👤 Professor Alex Liu 📅 Tuesday 10 March 2026, 18:00-19:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Palestinian Song in Transition: The Interplay of Tradition and Innovation, 1936-1948

👤 Professor Issa Boulos, University of Chicago 📅 Friday 06 March 2026, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Inter-Organ Communication and Metabolic Regulation in Drosophila

👤 Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School 📅 Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics

Where do we stand on the origin of eukaryotic cells?

⚠️ Host – Antoine Hocher

👤 Dr Tom Williams from Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol 📅 Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Adventures in Molecular recognition: from one happy accident to another

👤 Professor Jeremy Sanders 📅 Tuesday 10 February 2026, 18:00-19:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Songs We Grow By

👤 Dr Ibrahim Baltagi, Lebanese American University 📅 Friday 06 February 2026, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding bivalency: Mechanisms of poising at developmental gene promoters

👤 Philipp Voigt, Babraham Institute 📅 Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The death of consumerism and how we build a more sustainable future

👤 Professor Mark Miodownik 📅 Tuesday 03 February 2026, 18:00-19:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Throat-Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place

👤 Dr Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 30 January 2026, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Genomes

👤 Patrick Cai, University of Manchester 📅 Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

CANCELLED - Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation

⚠️ Host - Aylwyn Scally

👤 Dr James DiFrisco from The Francis Crick Institute, London 📅 Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Building molecules that mimic biological function

👤 Professor Jonathan Clayden 📅 Tuesday 27 January 2026, 18:00-19:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Notes and noises in nature: not a swan song?

👤 Professor Hans Slabbekoorn, Leiden University 📅 Friday 23 January 2026, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Genetics Seminar

How personalised is your immune system?

⚠️ Host - Lin Wang

👤 Professor Aleksandra Walczak from Laboratoire de physique, l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris 📅 Thursday 22 January 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 G12 Large Lecture Theatre in Department of Plant Sciences and Zoom

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Modelling self-organisation: Beyond Turing

👤 Jeremy Green 📅 Friday 05 December 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Imaging the virosphere: protein architecture for virus assembly and host cell entry

👤 Professor Peter Rosenthal 📅 Tuesday 02 December 2025, 18:00-19:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Heads or tails? Decoding the regulatory logic of body plan patterning

👤 Vicki Metzis, Imperial College London 📅 Friday 28 November 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

It's a Wonderful Life: the bizarre animals that live in the worlds coldest ocean and their extreme adaptations

👤 Professor Lloyd Peck 📅 Tuesday 25 November 2025, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Genetics Seminar

Small RNAs in Epigenetic Inheritance: a lesson from worms

⚠️ Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

👤 Dr Germano Cecere from Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris 📅 Thursday 20 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From deep time biogeomorphology to geo-evolutionary feedbacks

👤 Professor Neil Davies 📅 Tuesday 18 November 2025, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nonsense Mediated Decay in Early Embryonic Development

👤 Claire Senner, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research 📅 Friday 14 November 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding life - from genomes to organisms - using AI

👤 Professor Ewan Birney 📅 Tuesday 11 November 2025, 19:00-20:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Uncovering how the genome directs development

👤 Julie Ahringer 📅 Friday 07 November 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Molecular bases of Shigella virulence and host immune response

⚠️ Host – Kate Baker

👤 Professor Benoit Marteyn from Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), University of Strasbourg 📅 Thursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

21-cm Cosmology: First Stars and Beyond

👤 Professor Anastasia Fialkov 📅 Tuesday 04 November 2025, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A novel RASopathy caused by hyperactive Wnt signalling

👤 Dr. Ian Mcgough, Babraham Institute 📅 Friday 31 October 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

C-H Amination for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry: Reaction Development and Validation of Nitrene Intermediacy

👤 Professor Sukbok Chang 📅 Tuesday 28 October 2025, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regeneration at your fingertips

👤 Mekayla Storer (University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 24 October 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Machine learning force fields shows extreme generalisation

👤 Professor Gabor Csanyi 📅 Tuesday 21 October 2025, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Simplifying Synthesis with Radical Cross-Coupling

👤 Professor Phil S. Baran 📅 Thursday 09 October 2025, 15:00-16:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin remodelling and cell fate plasticity during neuronal maturation

👤 Tony Southall 📅 Friday 20 June 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch Signal

👤 Sarah Bray 📅 Friday 23 May 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Motility and matrix remodelling coupling drive early avian morphogenesis

👤 Lakshmi Balasubramaniam 📅 Friday 16 May 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coordination of Protrusions in Migrating Immune Cells

👤 Michael Sixt 📅 Friday 02 May 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Echoes of the Embryo: A stem cell model of human gastrulation and post-gastrulation lineage emergence

👤 Jitesh Neupane 📅 Friday 25 April 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

👤 Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics 📅 Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown

👤 Prof Maria Ubiali 📅 Tuesday 18 March 2025, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

👤 Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh 📅 Friday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Black Holes & spin-offs

👤 Prof Katherine Blundell 📅 Tuesday 11 March 2025, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

👤 Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster 📅 Friday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation

👤 Stanley Strawbridge - Centre for Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield 📅 Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

👤 Chaitanya Dingare - Department of Genetics 📅 Friday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare

⚠️ Host - Cahir O'Kane

👤 Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, Vice Principal for Health, Queen Mary University of London and Director of the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre 📅 Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How is limb size controlled during development and repair? New approaches for an old question

👤 Alberto Rosello-Diez - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience 📅 Friday 06 December 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

With a Little Help from My Friends: New Ways of Seeing Electrochemistry

👤 Prof Patrick Unwin 📅 Tuesday 03 December 2024, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms regulating trophoblast development in the human placenta

👤 Norah Fogarty - King's College London 📅 Friday 29 November 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI

⚠️ Host - Michael Boemo

👤 Dr Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool from DeepMind, London 📅 Thursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Order, Disorder, Flexibility, Function

👤 Prof Andrew Goodwin 📅 Tuesday 26 November 2024, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanical pre-patterning as a general mechanism in early morphogenesis

👤 Fengzhu Xiong - Gurdon Institute 📅 Friday 22 November 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

CANCELLED - News from the Palaeolithic: ancient genomes and Neandertal-human interactions

⚠️ Host – Alex Cagan

👤 Dr Mateja Hajdinjak from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 📅 Thursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 CANCELLED

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Viruses: Elegance in Their Simplicity, or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein?

👤 Dr Alexander Borodavka 📅 Tuesday 19 November 2024, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Understanding actomyosin contractility and force propagation within the zebrafish neural tube: an optogenetic approach

👤 Clare Buckley - University of Manchester 📅 Friday 15 November 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Programmed DNA elimination in insects

⚠️ Host – John Welch

👤 Dr Laura Ross from Institute of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh 📅 Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine

👤 Dr George Malliaras 📅 Tuesday 12 November 2024, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

London EvoDevo meeting

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Friday 08 November 2024, 13:00-17:00 📍 Queen Mary University of London (Math Building Lecture Theatre)

Genetics Seminar

How the double helix was really discovered, and what Rosalind Franklin thought about it

⚠️ Host – Frank Jiggins

👤 Professor Matthew Cobb from University of Manchester 📅 Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The rise of life on land: new insights from exceptionally preserved fossils

👤 Dr Sandy Hetherington 📅 Tuesday 05 November 2024, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle

👤 Prof Tina Potter 📅 Tuesday 29 October 2024, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial evolution in the lung

⚠️ Host – Kate Baker

👤 Dr Josie Bryant from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Lessons for human TB and its treatment from the tiny transparent zebrafish larva

👤 Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan 📅 Tuesday 22 October 2024, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Ageing and age-associated mutations in human haematopoietic stem cells

👤 Elisa Laurenti - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute 📅 Friday 18 October 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

⚠️ Host - Frank Jiggins

👤 Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

Genetics Seminar

E. coli and the Game of Clones

⚠️ Host – Kate Baker

👤 Professor Jukka Corander from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and University of Oslo 📅 Thursday 18 April 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

👤 Dr Omer Bayraktar 📅 Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

👤 Omer Bayraktar, Wellcome Sanger Institute 📅 Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Folding a Protein: Nature’s Origami

👤 Prof Sheena Radford 📅 Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

👤 Ms Tania Branigan 📅 Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Controlling the cell cycle

👤 Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute 📅 Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA

⚠️ Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

👤 Professor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen 📅 Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

👤 Prof Robin Dunbar 📅 Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

👤 Professor Nick Lane, University College London 📅 Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The development and evolution of the mammalian jaw joint

👤 Neil Anthwal, Kings College London 📅 Friday 01 March 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.

When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity

⚠️ Host - Steve Russell

👤 Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial Infections

👤 Professor Sir Tom Blundell 📅 Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

👤 Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics 📅 Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

⚠️ Host - Zach Baker

👤 Professor Daniel Falush from Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences 📅 Wednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

New models to study human embryo implantation and early development

👤 Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute 📅 Friday 01 December 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

👤 Sir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory 📅 Monday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBC

👤 Dr. Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London 📅 Friday 24 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development

⚠️ Host - Ben Steventon

👤 Professor Nancy Papolopulu, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester 📅 Thursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learning

👤 Dr Brendan Swain 📅 Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30 📍 Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Short Cuts

👤 Prof Ian Fleming 📅 Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of organs and cell types.

⚠️ Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli

👤 Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira from The Francis Crick Institute, London 📅 Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technology

👤 Dr Lyn Evans CBE, CERN 📅 Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Circuit basis of learning and decision-making

👤 Dr. Marta Zlatic, MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology 📅 Friday 10 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new

⚠️ Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

👤 Dr Lucy van Dorp from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London 📅 Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological Boundaries

👤 Dr Tamar Makin 📅 Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Zebrafish trunk neural crest: an in vivo model to understand cell migration under physiological mechanical stress

👤 Dr. Elena Scarpa, Department of Phhysiology, Development and Neuroscience 📅 Friday 03 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

👤 Dr. Alessandro Mongera, University College London 📅 Friday 27 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration

👤 Prof David Rubinsztein 📅 Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Genetics Seminar

Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolution

⚠️ Host - Erik Clark

👤 Professor Yolanda Schaerli from Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne 📅 Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.

👤 Sir Peter Ratcliffe 📅 Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Physical patterning of the cytosol in giant cells

👤 Prof. Amy Gladfelter, Duke University 📅 Friday 13 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery

👤 Prof Adam Nelson 📅 Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Genetics Seminar

Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation

⚠️ Host - John Welch

👤 Professor Michael Whitlock from Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 📅 Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

Genetics Seminar

Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies

⚠️ Host - Erik Clark

👤 Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott from the Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago 📅 Wednesday 13 September 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level

👤 Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University) 📅 Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3B

👤 Dr. Courtney Hanna, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosience 📅 Friday 09 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians

⚠️ Host - Richard Durbin

👤 Dr Hilary Martin from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

👤 Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University) 📅 Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Online

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular mechanisms of oocyte specification in female germline cysts

👤 Dr. Dmitry Nashchekin, Gurdon Institute 📅 Friday 02 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

👤 Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona) 📅 Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Online

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Progenitor niches in the developing pancreas: regulation of cell fate and beyond

👤 Prof. Francesca Spagnoli, Kings College London 📅 Friday 26 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Temporal development and maturation of CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids

👤 Dr. Laura Pellegrini, Kings College London/ MRC LMB 📅 Friday 19 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

👤 Dr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London) 📅 Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Sticky proteins and moving genomes: a single-molecule perspective of pluripotent cell differentiation

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Friday 12 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks

⚠️ Host - Henrik Salje

👤 Professor Philippe Lemey from Clinical and Epidemiological Virology Rega Institute, K.U. Leuven 📅 Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development

👤 Dr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London) 📅 Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decision making without genes?

👤 Prof Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory For Molecular Cell Bology UCL 📅 Friday 05 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancer

⚠️ Host - Cahir O'Kane

👤 Professor Serena Nik-Zainal from Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

👤 Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute, London 📅 Friday 24 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Mechanism of neural differentiation

Timescales in development: the tempo across and within species

👤 Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute 📅 Friday 28 October 2022, 13:15-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie?

👤 Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna) 📅 Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 Online

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling the cell cycle: A new model

👤 Sir Paul Nurse 📅 Monday 24 October 2022, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates?

⚠️ Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

👤 Dr Sandra Duharcourt, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite de Paris 📅 Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom meeting

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why We Aren't Just Great Apes

👤 Prof Robin Dunbar 📅 Monday 17 October 2022, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Biofabrication and material interfaces for life science applications

👤 Yan Yan Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 14 October 2022, 13:15-14:00 📍 Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks

⚠️ Host - Lin Wang

👤 Professor David Liu, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA 📅 Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom meeting

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida)

👤 Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen) 📅 Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 Online

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.

⚠️ Host: Elves Duarte

👤 Dr Johannes Köster, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Duisburg-Essen 📅 Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:30-14:30 📍 Zoom meeting

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Bio in the 21st Century

👤 Sir Prof. Richard Henderson FRS | 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 📅 Tuesday 01 February 2022, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

👤 Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester 📅 Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Genetics Seminar

Investigating the evolution and development of body plans and body parts in arthropods

⚠️ Host - Steve Russell

👤 Professor Alistair McGregor, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University 📅 Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom meeting

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

👤 Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York 📅 Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Genetics Seminar

Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells

⚠️ Host: Ben Steventon

👤 Professor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology 📅 Monday 06 December 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 TBC

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Birdwatching through Geological Time: A Paleontological Perspective on Avian Evolution

👤 Dr Daniel Field 📅 Tuesday 30 November 2021, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Energy and Matter at the Origin of Life

👤 Professor Nick Lane 📅 Tuesday 23 November 2021, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

👤 Chantal Roubinet, Postdoctoral Fellow Buzz Baum Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 📅 Friday 19 November 2021, 13:15-14:00 📍 Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cells

⚠️ Host: Cahir O'Kane

👤 Professor Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA 📅 Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom meeting

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

To COVID-19 Detection: How physics can be used to create novel tests for viruses

👤 Professor Ulrich Keyser 📅 Tuesday 16 November 2021, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Towards a cellular and molecular understanding of mammalian anterior patterning

👤 Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 12 November 2021, 13:15-14:00 📍 Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Hunting for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider

👤 Dr Sarah Williams 📅 Tuesday 09 November 2021, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Zooming into the sarcomere: from single molecules to molecular forces

👤 Frank Schnorrer, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille 📅 Friday 05 November 2021, 13:15-14:00 📍 Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Could we treat mental health disorders by disrupting maladaptive memories?

👤 Dr Amy Milton 📅 Tuesday 02 November 2021, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

👤 Ian McGough, Babraham Institute, Cambridge 📅 Friday 29 October 2021, 13:15-14:00 📍 Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Who Cares about the History of Science?

👤 Professor Hasok Chang 📅 Tuesday 26 October 2021, 18:00-19:30 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A finger on the pulse of regeneration

👤 Mekayla Storer, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 22 October 2021, 13:15-14:00 📍 Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Physics of Can and Can't

👤 Professor Chiara Marletto 📅 Thursday 21 October 2021, 18:00-19:30 📍 https://forms.gle/2qkANTNhuZvReZ6AA

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial condensates under stress

Human Immunity – one cell at a time

⚠️ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

👤 Dr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton 📅 Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:30-14:30 📍 Zoom meeting

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

👤 Professor Licia Verde 📅 Tuesday 23 February 2021, 18:00-19:30 📍 Google Meets

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

👤 Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30 📍 Online

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Antagonistic effects of ionising radiation in cell competition

👤 David Fernandez-Antoran, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 19 February 2021, 13:15-13:55 📍 Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins

👤 Dr Patricia Wittkopp, Biological Science Building, University of Michigan 📅 Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom meeting

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Technologies for scalably modeling and simulating whole cells

👤 Professor Jonathan Karr 📅 Tuesday 16 February 2021, 18:00-19:30 📍 Google Meets

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tips and Tricks for Inventing the Future

⚠️ Last talk of term

👤 Mr David A. Homfray CEng CPhys FInstP FRAS FBIS, Former Head of Engineering Realisation Group at the UK Atomic Energy Authority/Culham Centre for Fusion Energy 📅 Tuesday 01 December 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Google Meets

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Misinformation in the Digital Age: A Panel

⚠️ Please note this panel is on a Monday.

👤 Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, Dr Jon Roozenbeek, Professor Sander van der Linden 📅 Monday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 Google Meets

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Enhancers get ERKed around by chromatin remodellers during lineage commitment

👤 Brian Hendrich, MRC Stem Cell Institute, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 27 November 2020, 13:15-13:55 📍 Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link

Genetics Seminar

From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomes

⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally

👤 Professor Simon Myers, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford 📅 Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:30-14:30 📍 Zoom meeting

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can genomics improve health in Africa? Experience from sickle cell disease in Tanzania

👤 Professor Julie Makani Associate Professor, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences 📅 Tuesday 24 November 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Google Meets

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Re-generating the principles of appendage regeneration in the single-cell era

👤 Can Aztekin, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge 📅 Friday 20 November 2020, 13:15-13:55 📍 Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

On the interactions between our industrial system and the natural system

👤 Professor Steve Evans, Director of Research, Centre for Industrial Sustainability, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 17 November 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Google Meets

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin remodelling determines cell-type specific Notch activity in the developing mouse brain

👤 Jelle van den Ameele, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge 📅 Friday 13 November 2020, 13:15-13:55 📍 Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Human Cell Atlas: Mapping the human body one cell at a time

👤 Dr Sarah Teichmann FRS FMedSci, Wellcome Sanger Institute 📅 Tuesday 10 November 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Google Meets

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epithelial-mesenchymal cell plasticity during normal development and cancer progression

👤 Kyra Campbell, Dept. of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield 📅 Friday 06 November 2020, 13:15-13:55 📍 Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

DNA: Inspiring building blocks that made me a learner in perpetuity

👤 Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 03 November 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Google Meets

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Imaging and reconstructing mouse development at the cellular level using light-sheet microscopy

👤 Kate McDole, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge 📅 Friday 30 October 2020, 13:15-13:55 📍 Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

New Materials for a New Age

⚠️ Note that this talk is on a Wednesday

👤 Professor Nicola Spaldin FRS, Chair, Materials Theory, ETH Zurich 📅 Wednesday 28 October 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Google Meets

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Combustion Transition: tackling climate change at its source

⚠️ In collaboration with CUSPE and CUSISS

👤 Mr Simon Spooner, ATKINS Infrastructure. Principal Scientist, UK Water Management. Technical Director, China Infrastructure. Honorary Professor, Nottingham University UK and Ningbo, China. 📅 Tuesday 27 October 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Google Meets

Genetics Seminar

The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.

⚠️ Host: Marco Geymonat

👤 Professor Angelika Amon, MIT, Department of Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA 📅 Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom meeting

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why is sleep good for you?

👤 Professor William Wisden FMedSci, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London 📅 Tuesday 20 October 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Google Meets

Genetics Seminar

Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.

⚠️ Host: Ben Steventon

👤 Dr Timothy Saunders, Mechanobiology, Institute, National University of Singapore 📅 Thursday 15 October 2020, 09:00-10:00 📍 Zoom meeting

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ice cores and interglacials

👤 Professor Eric Wolff FRS, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Google Meets

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

👤 Professor Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley 📅 Tuesday 29 September 2020, 18:00-20:00 📍 Google Meets

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems

👤 Professor Ed Boyden, MIT 📅 Tuesday 04 August 2020, 15:00-17:00 📍 Google Meets

Genetics Seminar

Chromosomal evolution in Nematodes, and other adventures on the Tree of Life

⚠️ Host: Richard Durbin

👤 Professor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom meeting

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Studies in Natural Product Synthesis

👤 Professor Phil Baran, Scripps Research 📅 Tuesday 26 May 2020, 15:00-16:30 📍 Google Meets

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

👤 Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität 📅 Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

COVID-19: the cause, the disease and the response

⚠️ Canceled

👤 Professor Geoffrey L Smith FRS. Head, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

👤 Professor Clare Baker, Professor of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience 📅 Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

👤 Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist 📅 Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

👤 Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

⚠️ Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

👤 Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris 📅 Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing [CANCELLED]

👤 Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research 📅 Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations

👤 Professor Lorna Dawson, CBE, BSC, PhD, FRSE, FRSA, F.I.Soil.Sci., ChSci Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. AB15 8QH, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/ 📅 Tuesday 03 March 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

👤 Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

👤 Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT 📅 Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

⚠️ Host: Ben Steventon

👤 Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) 📅 Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

👤 Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University 📅 Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

👤 Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia 📅 Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

👤 Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

⚠️ Host: Richard Durbin

👤 Professor Nick Lane, University College London 📅 Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mathematics vs Dementia

👤 Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford 📅 Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo

👤 Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham 📅 Friday 22 November 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Minimal and Ancestral Genomes

⚠️ Host: Richard Durbin

👤 Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA 📅 Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An evening with Lynn Rothschild

👤 Professor Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Centre, Stanford University, Brown University 📅 Wednesday 20 November 2019, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

👤 Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology 📅 Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Is Obesity a Choice?

👤 Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK 📅 Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dendritic Cell Migration at Various Scales

👤 Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil Institut Curie, Paris, France 📅 Friday 15 November 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out

⚠️ Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

👤 Dr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London 📅 Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

👤 Professor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

"CAPs in the niche" A new in vivo labelling system reveals parenchymal cells in the lung metastatic niche with stem cell features

👤 Luigi Ombrato The Francis Crick Institute, London 📅 Friday 08 November 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

👤 Professor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

👤 Professor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA 📅 Friday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

👤 Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 01 November 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development

👤 Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics 📅 Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

👤 Professor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic remodelling enables adult liver regeneration and organoid formation

👤 Luigi Aloia The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 25 October 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanical scaling in blood platelets

👤 François Nédélec Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 18 October 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time?

⚠️ Host: Richard Durbin

👤 Professor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York 📅 Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Dressed to Kill: What do Infectious Disease Agents Have in their Wardrobes?

👤 Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford 📅 Tuesday 15 October 2019, 18:00-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Genetics Seminar

Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain

⚠️ Host: Michael Imbeault

👤 Professor Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden 📅 Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution

👤 Professor Anthony Graham, King's College London 📅 Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How To - An Evening with Randall Monroe

👤 Randall Munroe 📅 Tuesday 08 October 2019, 19:00-20:00 📍 Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

👤 Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 01 October 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Timing of the first lineage segregation in the early mouse embryo

👤 Meng Zhu, PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 31 May 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

👤 Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center 📅 Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Study of pioneer factor concentration, chromatin binding kinetics & cell-to-cell variability during genomeawakening

👤 Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh 📅 Friday 24 May 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Linking physical gut remodelling to stem cell divisions in Drosophila

👤 Golnar Kolahgar, PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 17 May 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From development to deep time: the macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration in living and extinct tetrapods

👤 Prof Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London 📅 Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Stem cell dynamics define clone fixation and spread in human colonic epithelium

👤 Doug Winton, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute 📅 Friday 10 May 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects

⚠️ Host: Berta Verd

👤 Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden 📅 Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

👤 Prof Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford 📅 Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cyclin B1 and the spindle assembly check point: A 15 year odyssey

👤 Jonathon Pines, The Institute of Cancer Research, University of London 📅 Friday 03 May 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells?

⚠️ Host: Ben Steventon

👤 Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh 📅 Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Genetics Seminar

Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization

⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

👤 Professor Marino Zerial from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden 📅 Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

👤 Professor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan 📅 Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life

👤 Professor Mike Cates 📅 Tuesday 12 March 2019, 18:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

👤 Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study 📅 Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics

👤 Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France 📅 Friday 08 March 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

⚠️ Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

👤 Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

👤 Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

👤 Dr Anne Corcoran 📅 Tuesday 05 March 2019, 18:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mitochondria Tansfer: a 25 Year Project

👤 Professor Alison Murdoch 📅 Friday 01 March 2019, 18:00-20:00 📍 The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

👤 Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre 📅 Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary

👤 Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester 📅 Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic inheritance in mammals

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

👤 Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience 📅 Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Genetics Seminar

Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution

⚠️ Host: Chris Illingworth

👤 Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

👤 Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon 📅 Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

👤 Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester 📅 Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer

👤 Axel Behrens 📅 Tuesday 27 November 2018, 18:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Academic Internships event!

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Saturday 24 November 2018, 13:00-19:30 📍 The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: what have we learnt?

👤 Petra Hajkova, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences 📅 Friday 23 November 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast

⚠️ Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

👤 Dr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Non coding RNA and normal botany

👤 David Baulcombe 📅 Tuesday 20 November 2018, 18:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Escape from pluripotency

👤 Austin Smith, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 16 November 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa

⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally

👤 Dr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London 📅 Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis

👤 Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris 📅 Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Polarized endosome dynamics during asymmetric cell division

👤 Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge 📅 Friday 09 November 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Particle Physics & CERN

👤 Professor Daniela Bortoletto 📅 Tuesday 06 November 2018, 18:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Rejuvenation biotechnology: why age may soon cease to mean aging

👤 Aubrey de Grey 📅 Saturday 03 November 2018, 18:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Time to wake up: Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Reactivation

👤 Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 02 November 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development

⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

👤 Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany 📅 Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity

👤 Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Influenza pandemics: past and future

👤 Wendy Barclay 📅 Tuesday 30 October 2018, 18:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Constructing the mammalian embryo in vitro: from single stem cells to gastrulation

👤 Berna Sozen, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 26 October 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense

⚠️ Host: Felipe Karam Teixeira

👤 Dr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter 📅 Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

👤 Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University 📅 Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Using Drosophila to understand mitochondrial biology and mechanisms of neurodegeneration

👤 Alex Whitworth, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge 📅 Friday 19 October 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

The Genetic Basis of Clinal Adaptation

⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins

👤 Professor Thomas Flatt from Department of Biology, University of Fribourg 📅 Thursday 18 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Drug discovery with machine learning: Towards a new way of thinking about molecules

👤 Alpha Lee 📅 Tuesday 16 October 2018, 18:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms controlling homeostasis in mammalian epidermis

👤 Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London 📅 Friday 12 October 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubules

⚠️ Host: Cahir O’Kane

👤 Professor Andreas Prokop from Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester 📅 Thursday 11 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

CRISPR based gene drive approaches for population control of malaria mosquitoes

👤 Andrea Crisanti 📅 Tuesday 09 October 2018, 18:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry

👤 Dr Frank Hirth, King's College London 📅 Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Determinants of embryo polarity in the evolution of flies

👤 Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott, University of Chicago 📅 Monday 17 September 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building and Breaking Epithelial tubes: an Optogenetic approach

👤 Clare Buckley, PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 01 June 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Life in the dark: can deep sea fishes see colours?

👤 Zuzana Musilova (Charles University, Prague) 📅 Wednesday 30 May 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hedgehog signalling in immune cells

👤 Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute 📅 Friday 25 May 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Signals regulating cell fates and cell movements in the vertebrate embryo

👤 Sergei Sokol, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York 📅 Friday 18 May 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene re-usages constrained the evolvability of the animal body plan?

👤 Naoki Irie (University of Tokyo) 📅 Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Self-organization and patterning of sensory organs in Drosophila

👤 François Schweisguth, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 📅 Friday 11 May 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer

⚠️ Host: Alexis Braun

👤 Professor David Glover, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Tracing the Transitions from Pluripotency to Germ Cell Fate with CRISPR Screening

👤 Ufuk Günesdogan, University of Göttingen, Germany 📅 Friday 04 May 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Regulatory RNA

⚠️ Host: Martyna Popis

👤 Professor Eric Miska from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mechanics and Evolution of Cell Sheet Folding – Embryonic Inversion in the micro-alga Volvox

👤 Stephanie Höhn (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Genetics Seminar

Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch

⚠️ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

👤 Professor Sarah Bray from Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dorsal closure in dipterans: epithelial rupture, contraction and seaming in embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita

👤 Juan Fraire-Zamora (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona) 📅 Wednesday 25 April 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Microsoft: Quantum Computing

👤 Anita Ramanan, Microsoft 📅 Thursday 15 March 2018, 18:30-20:00 📍 Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Improving on Nature: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Animal Enhancement

👤 Dr Sarah Chan, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh 📅 Tuesday 13 March 2018, 20:00-21:00 📍 Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

👤 Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology 📅 Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Organoid systems to study the maternal-fetal dialogue of early pregnancy

👤 Margherita Turco, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 09 March 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

👤 Laura Broutier, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 16 February 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescales

👤 Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 15 February 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Paracelsus' Chickens - Strange Tales from the History of Chemistry

👤 Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 13 February 2018, 20:00-21:00 📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

👤 Mr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees 📅 Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Modulating developmental signals allows establishment of cultures of expanded potential stem cells

👤 Liu Pentao, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 📅 Friday 09 February 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development

⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez Arias

👤 Dr Patrick Mueller, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany 📅 Thursday 08 February 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration

👤 Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) 📅 Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Particulars of Particulates: Granular Research on Dunes and Avalanches

👤 Dr Nathalia Vriend, DAMTP, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 06 February 2018, 20:00-21:00 📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

👤 Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham 📅 Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell polarity remodelling by the RASSF protein family

👤 Nic Tapon, The Francis Crick Institute, London 📅 Friday 02 February 2018, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Light, Sleep & Circadian Rhythms-Biology to Therapeutics

👤 Professor Russell Foster, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford 📅 Thursday 01 February 2018, 20:00-21:00 📍 Wolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Genetics Seminar

Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems

⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins

👤 Professor Andreas Wagner, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich 📅 Thursday 01 February 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The role of choanocytes in the sponge stem cell system and their suggested homology with choanoflagellates

👤 Shunsuke Sogabe (University of St Andrews) 📅 Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

👤 Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE 📅 Friday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Genetics Seminar

DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesis

⚠️ Host: Eric Miska

👤 Dr Déborah Bourc'his, Institut Curie, Paris 📅 Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neuropeptidergic signalling in the anterior nervous system of Platynereis larvae and evolution of neurosecretory brain centers

👤 Gaspar Jekely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) 📅 Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

It's Not All About The Science

👤 Dr Anna Barnes, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London 📅 Tuesday 23 January 2018, 20:00-21:00 📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

👤 Mr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster 📅 Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

👤 Hernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) 📅 Wednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

👤 Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Open Data and the Future of Science

👤 Professor Dame Sally Davies 📅 Tuesday 28 November 2017, 20:00-21:00 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of filopodia regulation

👤 Jenny Gallop, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute 📅 Friday 24 November 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Providing Science Advice to the Government

👤 Sir Mark Walport 📅 Thursday 23 November 2017, 20:00-21:00 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

👤 Brian Metscher (University of Vienna) 📅 Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Molecular mechanisms of biomineralisation in sponges and molluscs and their relevance to the Cambrian explosion

👤 Daniel Jackson (University of Göttingen) 📅 Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch signal

👤 Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 17 November 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Living in the Cold

👤 Professor Llyod Peck 📅 Tuesday 14 November 2017, 20:00-21:00 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Genetics Seminar

An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science Communication

⚠️ Host: Sudhakaran Prabakaran

👤 Dr Nancy R. Gough 📅 Monday 13 November 2017, 12:00-13:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cartilage by 3D bioprinting of iPS cells

👤 Stina Simonsson, Institute of Biomedicine, Göteborg (Sweden) 📅 Friday 10 November 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Capturing human axial progenitors in vitro

⚠️ Hosts: Alfonso Martinez-Arias & Shlomit Edri

👤 Dr Anestis Tsakiridis, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield 📅 Thursday 09 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Taxon-restricted genes at the origin of morphological novelty and ecological opportunity in water-striders

👤 Emilia Santos (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Exponents of Change: From Artificial Intellegence to Web Science

👤 Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt 📅 Tuesday 07 November 2017, 20:00-21:00 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Detecting death and damage: understanding macrophage migration in Drosophila

👤 Will Wood, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol 📅 Friday 03 November 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa.

⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally

👤 Dr Kirsten Bomblies, John Innes Centre, Norwich 📅 Thursday 02 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Pedagogical and Real Science - the Physics Case

👤 Professor Malcolm Longair 📅 Tuesday 31 October 2017, 20:00-21:00 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building a young brain on Old shoulders: A story on the most primitive ventricular brain

👤 Elia Benito-Gutiérrez, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 27 October 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bugs, Bites and Parasites

👤 Professor Janet Hemingway 📅 Tuesday 24 October 2017, 20:00-21:00 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates

👤 Andrew Gillis, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 20 October 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Formation and disease relevance of axonal endoplasmic reticulum, a "neuron within a neuron”.

👤 Dr Cahir O’Kane, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 19 October 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Perovskite Solar Cells - New Opportunities and Challenges

👤 Dr Olga Malinkiewicz 📅 Tuesday 17 October 2017, 20:00-21:00 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell polarity and local condensation of biomolecular condensates

👤 Anthony A. Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (Germany) 📅 Friday 13 October 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array

👤 Michael Bok (University of Bristol) 📅 Wednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Origin of the Laws of Nature

👤 Professor Peter Atkins 📅 Tuesday 10 October 2017, 20:00-21:00 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Genetics Seminar

Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function

⚠️ Host: Chris Illingworth

👤 Professor Ashleigh Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford 📅 Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

👤 Associate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará) 📅 Wednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Time and space in insect segmentation

👤 Erik Clark (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A battle for mitochondrial DNA transmission

👤 Hansong Ma, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge 📅 Friday 09 June 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Ascl1 control of neural stem cell homeostasis in the developing and adult brain

👤 Noelia Urban, The Francis Crick Institute, London 📅 Friday 02 June 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal skeleton

👤 Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder) 📅 Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Assembly of embryonic and extra-embryonic stem cells to mimic embryogenesis in vitro

👤 Sarah Harrison, PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 26 May 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Bridging Crumb-mediated polarity and Hippo-mediated growth by Spectrin-bound PP2A

👤 Graham Thomas, Center for Celluar Dynamics, PennState 📅 Friday 19 May 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting the functional heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells

👤 Elisa Laurenti, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 12 May 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Variable epigenetic silencing of the repeat genome: implications for non-genetic inheritance

👤 Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 05 May 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast

⚠️ Host: Marco Geymonat

👤 Dr. Gislene Pereira, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg 📅 Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum

👤 Dr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool) 📅 Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Genetics Seminar

The genetic analysis of population-scale data

⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally

👤 Professor Gil McVean, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford 📅 Thursday 27 April 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies

👤 Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley) 📅 Thursday 06 April 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shared developmental rules predict patterns of size evolution in vertebrate segmented structures

👤 Kathryn Kavanagh (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) 📅 Wednesday 22 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus provides unexpected insight into evolutionary processes

👤 Ildiko Somorjai (University of St Andrews) 📅 Wednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can Future Energy Needs be met Sustainably?

👤 Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith 📅 Tuesday 14 March 2017, 20:00-21:30 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reporting from Extreme Environments

👤 Lyse Doucet, BBC 📅 Friday 10 March 2017, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

👤 Ana Cvejic, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 17 February 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

👤 Roz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University 📅 Friday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pluripotency at the multicellular level

👤 Marta Shahbazi, PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 10 February 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

👤 Johannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum) 📅 Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Genetics Seminar

Decoding transcriptional regulation.

⚠️ Host: Alexis Braun

👤 Dr Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna 📅 Thursday 09 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage offers clues to mammalian evolution

👤 Neal Anthwal (King's College London) 📅 Wednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why scientists should also be revolutionaries

👤 Professor David Nutt 📅 Tuesday 07 February 2017, 20:00-21:30 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

👤 Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in brain development and cancer

👤 Eugene Makeyev, Dept. of Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London 📅 Friday 03 February 2017, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Non-coding solutions to developmental challenges

⚠️ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

👤 Professor Donal O’Carroll, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh 📅 Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

👤 Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York 📅 Friday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Genetics Seminar

Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrier

⚠️ Host: John Welch

👤 Dr Nicolas Galtier, University of Montpellier 📅 Thursday 26 January 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene regulatory complexity in chordate neural patterning

👤 Sebastian Shimeld (University of Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Science of Climate Change

👤 Professor Joanna Haigh 📅 Tuesday 24 January 2017, 20:00-21:30 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

👤 Dr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS 📅 Friday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Genetics Seminar

Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass.

⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

👤 Professor Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh 📅 Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world

👤 Professor Sir Michael Marmot 📅 Tuesday 17 January 2017, 20:00-21:30 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coping with a stressful start in life

👤 Alex Gould The Francis Crick Institute, London 📅 Friday 02 December 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Our cosmic origins: everything from nothing

👤 Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University 📅 Tuesday 29 November 2016, 20:00-21:30 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Lung Stem Cell Niche in Health and Disease

👤 Joo-Hyeon Lee Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 25 November 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Stem cell control in the Drosophila gut

⚠️ Host: Alexis Braun

👤 Professor Bruce Edgar, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah 📅 Thursday 24 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - 103 years of Crystallography: what has it taught us and where will lead us?

👤 Professor Elspeth Garman, Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford University 📅 Tuesday 22 November 2016, 20:00-21:30 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

"Why is the intestinal epithelia particularly susceptible to transformation by oncogenic APC mutations?"

👤 Marc de la Roche, Biochemistry department, Cambridge 📅 Friday 18 November 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Engineering challenges in creating underground space

👤 Professor Lord Robert Mair, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering 📅 Thursday 17 November 2016, 20:00-21:30 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression of segment polarity genes in brachiopods supports a non-segmental ancestral role of engrailed for bilaterians

👤 Bruno Vellutini (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology) 📅 Wednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

⚠️ Host: Ben Steventon

👤 Professor Jon Clarke, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London 📅 Thursday 20 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - The Roadmap to Applications of Graphene, Layered Materials and Hybrid systems

👤 Professor Andrea Ferrari, Head of the Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy group 📅 Tuesday 18 October 2016, 20:00-21:30 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Genetics Seminar

Towards a complete view of the genetics of gene expression variation in yeast

⚠️ Host: Chris Illingworth

👤 Professor Frank Albert, University of Minnesota 📅 Tuesday 18 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of embryonic form: a genetic and cellular analysis of arthropod development

👤 Matt Benton (University of Cologne) 📅 Wednesday 12 October 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When Antarctica was green: fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history

👤 Prof. Jane Francis, Director of the British Antarctic Survey 📅 Tuesday 11 October 2016, 20:00-21:30 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Genetics Seminar

Neural mechanisms of behavioral switches

⚠️ Host: Liria Masuda-Nakagawa

👤 Dr. Arantza Barrios, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London 📅 Thursday 06 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Maternal effects in Speckled Wood butterflies: an eco-evo-devo approach

👤 Casper Breuker (Oxford-Brookes University) 📅 Wednesday 05 October 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Flies, bees, aphids and frogs: what can this menagerie tell us about the evolution of developmental processes?

👤 Elizabeth Duncan (University of Leeds) 📅 Wednesday 08 June 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell fate imbalance in the Oesophageal Epithelium: mutant cell competition

👤 Maria Alcolea Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge 📅 Friday 03 June 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Balancing forces during mitosis: from molecular motors up to tissue mechanics

👤 Sarah Woolner, Faculty of life sciences, University of Manchester 📅 Friday 27 May 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building integrin adhesions in development and evolution

👤 Nick Brown Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 20 May 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Progress and future prospects of resolving the animal tree of life in the era of genomics

👤 Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard) 📅 Wednesday 18 May 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting mammalian 3D genome architecture with Capture Hi-C

👤 Stefan Schoenfelder (Fraser lab) Babraham Institute, Cambridge 📅 Friday 13 May 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of the Animal Face: from Principles to Mechanisms

👤 Arkhat Abzhanov (Imperial College London) 📅 Wednesday 11 May 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Division versus differentiation in development and disease

👤 Anna Philpott, Dept. of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/ MRC Research Centre, Cambridge 📅 Friday 06 May 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Beyond the reference genome: inference using prior knowledge of the diversity of a species.

⚠️ Host: Chris Illingworth

👤 Dr Zamin Iqbal, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford 📅 Thursday 28 April 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes

👤 Christopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 📅 Wednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Genetics Seminar

Genome diversity and evolution of DNA methylation genome in the human genome.

⚠️ Host: Aylwyn Scally

👤 Professor Tomas Marques-Bonet, Institut Biologia Evolutiva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/CSIC), Barcelona 📅 Thursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TCF/Lef regulates the Gsx ParaHox gene in central nervous development in chordates.

👤 Myles Garstang, University of St Andrews 📅 Wednesday 20 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Regulation in Spiders and Flies: Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts

👤 Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes University) 📅 Wednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game Theory of Conflict

👤 Dr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland 📅 Friday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pair-rule patterning in Drosophila: how does it work, and what does it tell us about short-germ segmentation

👤 Erik Clark (Akam lab) Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 04 March 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Gene and Genome Regulation in Early Fruit Fly Neurogenesis.

⚠️ Host: Steve Russell

👤 Dr. Robert Zinzen, Max-Delbruck-Center Berlin 📅 Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dr Philipp Holliger

👤 Dr Philipp Holliger 📅 Tuesday 01 March 2016, 20:00-21:30 📍 LT1, Department of Engineering

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games Animals Play

👤 Professor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Live imaging and genetic analyses of transformed cell extrusion from the zebrafish embryonic epithelium

👤 Masazumi Tada Dep. of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London 📅 Friday 26 February 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

👤 David Spiegelhalter (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Tuesday 02 February 2016, 20:00-21:30 📍 LT1, Department of Engineering

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

👤 Professor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities 📅 Friday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TF-mediated epigenetic memory in ES cells

👤 Pablo Navarro, Institut Pasteur Dep. of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Paris, France 📅 Friday 29 January 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a continuous spectrum of differentiation in haematopoietic cells.

⚠️ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

👤 Dr Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 28 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Three phases of Wnt signaling define three phases of axis development in the hemichordate S. kowalevskii

👤 Jens Fritzenwanker (Stanford University) 📅 Wednesday 27 January 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dame Julia Slingo

👤 Dame Julia Slingo 📅 Tuesday 26 January 2016, 20:00-21:30 📍 LT1, Department of Engineering

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game of Crime and Punishment

👤 Mrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Roles and mechanisms of the drivers of reprogramming

👤 Jose Silva, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 22 January 2016, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

An experimental assay of the genotype to phenotype connection.

⚠️ Host: John Welch

👤 Dr Fyodor Kondrashov, Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona 📅 Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dame Athene Donald - "Physics of the Everyday"

👤 Professor Dame Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory) 📅 Tuesday 19 January 2016, 20:00-21:30 📍 LT1, Department of Engineering

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

👤 Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords 📅 Friday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Comparative analyses of neuromesodermal progenitor dynamics in vivo

👤 Ben Steventon, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 27 November 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

More is different: Many-body physics with ultracold atoms.

👤 Dr Ulrich Schneider 📅 Tuesday 24 November 2015, 20:00-21:00 📍 LT1, Department of Engineering

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building a Platform for Cell Division

👤 Paul Conduit, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 20 November 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Genomics approaches for the investigation of gene regulation.

⚠️ Host: Steve Russell

👤 Dr Jim Hughes, Hughes Genome Biology Group, Oxford 📅 Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Endodermal contribution to orofacial structures in non-teleost fishes: How ancient is the pre-oral gut?

👤 Martin Minařík (Charles University, Prague) 📅 Wednesday 18 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr David Bainbridge - 'Curvology: the origins and power of female body shape"

👤 Dr David Bainbridge 📅 Tuesday 17 November 2015, 19:00-20:30 📍 The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The origin of Metazoa, a genomics and cell biology approach…or why things are never ever so simple

👤 Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, CSIC-UPF and Univeristy of Barcelona 📅 Friday 13 November 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Breaking the silence: defense and counter-defense in antiviral RNA silencing pathways of insects.

⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins

👤 Dr Ronald van Rij, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands 📅 Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Ewan Birney - 'Big Data for Basic Research'

👤 Dr Ewan Birney 📅 Monday 09 November 2015, 19:00-20:30 📍 The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The 6th element of DNA: Identification of methyl deoxyadenosines in higher eukaryotes

👤 Magdalena Koziol (Gurdon lab), Gurdon Institute, Cambridge 📅 Friday 06 November 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

👤 Dr Hugh Lewis 📅 Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30 📍 The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

👤 Dr Hugh Lewis 📅 Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30 📍 The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

👤 Dr Hugh Lewis 📅 Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30 📍 The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cerebral organoids: human brain development modelled in a dish

👤 Madeline Lancaster, MRC LMB, Cambridge 📅 Friday 30 October 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

GMOs: beginnings, advancements, new opportunities and public perceptions.

👤 Professor Sir David Baulcombe and Professor Jerzy Paszkowski 📅 Thursday 29 October 2015, 18:30-00:00 📍 Sainsbury Laboratory Lecture Theatre

Genetics Seminar

Transcriptional regulation and downstream program of Hox and Cdx genes during axial development in the mouse embryo.

⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

👤 Dr Jacqueline Deschamps, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands 📅 Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of eye development in Astyanax blind cavefish

👤 Hélène Hinaux 📅 Wednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Professor Jeremy Baumberg: Where is my nanobot?

👤 Professor Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 27 October 2015, 19:00-20:30 📍 The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

👤 Dr Benoit Sorre, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris 📅 Thursday 21 May 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape

👤 Christen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência) 📅 Wednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00 📍 Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

On growth and form: gastrulation and axis formation by stem cells in the Amniote embryo

👤 Octavian Voiculescu, PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 15 May 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates

👤 Andrew Gillis (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 13 May 2015, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Navigating through tissue mazes: how leukocytes find their way to functional destinations

👤 Milka Sarris, PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 08 May 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

New dimensions of antiviral immunity in insects.

⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins

👤 Dr Maria Carla Saleh, Institut Pasteur, Paris 📅 Thursday 07 May 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Trafficking and regulation of Wnt proteins in developing epithelia

👤 Jean-Paul Vincent, The Francis Crick Institute - NIMR, London 📅 Friday 01 May 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Biogenesis and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs).

⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan

👤 Dr Sebastian Kadener, University of Jerusalem 📅 Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Exploring the genetic toolkit for pattern formation and diversification in butterfly wings

👤 Arnaud Martin (UC Berkley) 📅 Monday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cellular strategies for airway epithelial maintenance

👤 Emma Rawlins, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 24 April 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Single-cell dynamics of the proliferation-quiescence decision.

⚠️ Host: Viji Draviam

👤 Dr Sabrina Spencer, Meyer Lab, Stanford University Medical Center 📅 Thursday 23 April 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An integrated structural biology approach to flower development

👤 Francois Parcy, Grenoble 📅 Thursday 19 March 2015, 13:00-14:00 📍 Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulatory Programme and Evolution Underlying the Development of Echinoderm Skelton

👤 Paola Oliveri 📅 Wednesday 18 March 2015, 11:00-12:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Raising the shield: How cell migration changes got the turtle its shell (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME)

👤 Scott Gilbert 📅 Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prostacyclin and nitric oxide in vascular biology

👤 Sir Salvador Moncada 📅 Tuesday 10 March 2015, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

👤 Dr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners 📅 Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Genetics Seminar

Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again.

⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins

👤 Professor Mike Brockhurst, Department of Biology, University of York 📅 Thursday 05 March 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan

👤 Professor Chi Wai Eric So, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, Department of Haematological Medicine, King's College London 📅 Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Computation, Technology and the New Era of STEM

👤 Conrad Wolfram 📅 Tuesday 10 February 2015, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Genetics Seminar

Single cell transcriptomics.

⚠️ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

👤 Dr Steve Harvey, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge 📅 Monday 09 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

👤 Professor Bruce Hood, Bristol 📅 Friday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Capturing pluripotency form early mammalian embryos

👤 Jenny Nichols, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 06 February 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response.

⚠️ Host: Yuu Kimata

👤 Dr. Adrian Saurin, Division of Cancer Research, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee 📅 Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

👤 Vahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London) 📅 Wednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The antibody revolution

👤 Sir Greg Winter 📅 Tuesday 03 February 2015, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Development of Galaxies

👤 Professor Richard Ellis, Caltech 📅 Friday 30 January 2015, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genome-wide loss-of-function screening using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

👤 Kosuke Yusa Wellcome, Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge 📅 Friday 30 January 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Imaging gene activity in living cells.

⚠️ Host: Viji Draviam

👤 Dr Jonathan Chubb, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London 📅 Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The earliest deuterostomes, or something else entirely?

👤 Simon Conway Morris (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Protein folding, misfolding, disease and cancer

👤 Sir Alan Fersht 📅 Tuesday 27 January 2015, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

👤 Dr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist 📅 Friday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell-based modelling of epithelial morphogenesis: towards an integrative approach

👤 Alexander Fletcher, Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 23 January 2015, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

UK Government Policy on Science and Technology Post-2015

👤 Andrew Miller 📅 Thursday 22 January 2015, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Genetics Seminar

Asymmetry in Drosophila neuroblasts: centrosomes & mRNA.

⚠️ Host: Yuu Kimata

👤 Dr Jens Januschke, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee 📅 Thursday 22 January 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

⚠️ Host: Boris Adyran

👤 Dr Greg Elgar, Systems Biology, MRC NIMR, London 📅 Thursday 30 October 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Bridging cell-cell contact and cell fate in the early mouse embryo

👤 Chuen Yan Leung (Zernicka-Goetz lab), PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 24 October 2014, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Organisation and Regulation of DNA supercoiling domains in Mammalian Chromatin.

⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan

👤 Professor Nick Gilbert, MRC Human Genetics Unit, The University of Edinburgh 📅 Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Morphogenesis and Molecular Regulation of Colour Patterning in Natural Populations

👤 Marie Manceau (Collège de France) 📅 Wednesday 22 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Building Brains

👤 Prof Steve Furber, University of Manchester 📅 Tuesday 21 October 2014, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Science of Invisibility

👤 Sir John Pendry, Imperial College London 📅 Thursday 16 October 2014, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Genetics Seminar

C. elegans development: getting the seams right and living a balanced life.

⚠️ Host: Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti

👤 Professor Alison Woollard, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford 📅 Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How to Win a Nobel Prize: The Secret of Cell Division

👤 Sir Tim Hunt, Cancer Research UK 📅 Tuesday 14 October 2014, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

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.

👤 Professor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona) 📅 Friday 12 September 2014, 12:00-13:00 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics. Please use the entrance by the Part II room and tea room underneath the external fire escape. Main entrance is not connected to Part II room due to refurbishment.

Genetics Seminar

The impact of viral IκB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions.

⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan

👤 Professor Giuseppe Gargiulo from Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, University of Bologna 📅 Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus: A laboratory surrogate of the ancestral chordate giving insights into vertebrate head origins

👤 Elia Benito Gutierrez (EMBL) 📅 Wednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Good night and good luck: the role of sleep in dementia

👤 Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 30 May 2014, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms controlling primary germ layers specification in human

👤 Ludovic Vallier, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 23 May 2014, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

(At least) 3 ways to publish a pigeon genome.

⚠️ Host: Frank Jiggins

👤 Professor Tom Gilbert from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen 📅 Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements

Floral quartets link flower development and evolution

👤 Günter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena) 📅 Wednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Quantum Games with Spins Alight

👤 Dr Mete Atatüre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 11 March 2014, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Metaphor

👤 Dr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 07 March 2014, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Arc stress: a novel mechanism for epithelial bending

👤 Jeremy Green, Department of Craniofacial Development, King’s College London 📅 Friday 07 March 2014, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Targets of T cell responses against malaria liver infection: immunology meets experimental genetics.

⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan

👤 Dr Julius Hafalla, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Immunology and Infection 📅 Thursday 06 March 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Genetics Seminar

A Drosophila resource to study human pathology.

⚠️ Host: Sarah Bray, PDN (sjb32@cam.ac.uk)

👤 Dr Shinya Yamamoto, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine 📅 Wednesday 05 March 2014, 15:00-16:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of branching patterns in plants

👤 Jill Harrison (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Genetics Seminar

Engineering flies.

⚠️ Host: Cahir O'Kane (c.okane@gen.cam.ac.uk)

👤 Professor Hugo J Bellen, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine 📅 Wednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stability and Complexity in Financial Ecosystems

👤 Lord Robert May, University of Oxford 📅 Tuesday 04 March 2014, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Development and Repair of Neurons

👤 Prof Roger Keynes, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience 📅 Tuesday 04 March 2014, 13:15-14:00 📍 Seminar Room, Institute of Criminology

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Economic Collapse

👤 Professor Ian Morris, Stanford University 📅 Friday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The role of pituitary stem cells in homeostasis and tumour formation

👤 Cynthia Andoniadou, Department of Craniofacial Development, King’s College London 📅 Friday 28 February 2014, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Molecular insights into the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of bat rabies.

⚠️ Hosts: John Welch and Ben Longdon

👤 Dr Daniel Streicker, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow 📅 Thursday 27 February 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Integration in Morphological Structures: how it affects evolution and how it evolves

👤 Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester) 📅 Wednesday 26 February 2014, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurons Feel the Force

👤 Dr Kristian Franze, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 25 February 2014, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Human Plague

👤 Professor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research 📅 Friday 21 February 2014, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular mechanisms of Wnt signalling

👤 Mariann Bienz, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge 📅 Friday 21 February 2014, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Studying the invasive migration of Drosophila immune cells.

⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan

👤 Professor Daria Siekhaus, IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) 📅 Thursday 20 February 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

👤 Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London 📅 Friday 24 January 2014, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance.

⚠️ Host: Ian Furner

👤 Professor Jurek Paszkowski, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 23 January 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Exploring the History of Mars by Robot: Curiosity's Adventures in Gale Crater

👤 Prof Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London 📅 Tuesday 21 January 2014, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Medicine

👤 Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Genetics Seminar

Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of accurate chromosome segregation.

⚠️ Host: Viji Draviam

👤 Dr. A. Jeyaprakash Arulanandam, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh 📅 Thursday 16 January 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Synthetic Biology: New Technologies and Sustainable Solutions

👤 Dr Jim Haseloff, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 14 January 2014, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

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

👤 James Castelli-Gair Hombría (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Seville) 📅 Wednesday 11 December 2013, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Subglacial Lake Ellsworth

👤 Prof Martin Siegert, University of Edinburgh 📅 Tuesday 03 December 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular alchemy: How to make one cell type into another

👤 David Tosh, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath 📅 Friday 29 November 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Immune-metabolic interaction in Drosophila.

⚠️ Host: Boris Adryan

👤 Dr Marc Dionne from the Peter Gorer Dept of Immunobiology, King's College London 📅 Thursday 28 November 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

RNA regulation during development and evolution

👤 Claudio Alonso (University of Sussex) 📅 Wednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Healing the body with new materials

👤 Prof Molly Stevens, Imperial College London 📅 Tuesday 26 November 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The sins of your maternal grandparents: Transgenerational epigenetic effects of folate metabolism on development

👤 Erica Watson, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 22 November 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Widespread translation of small Open Reading Frames from coding regions, UTRs and non-coding RNAs.

⚠️ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

👤 Professor Juan Pablo Couso, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex 📅 Thursday 21 November 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes

👤 Gáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) 📅 Wednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Life and the Earth: Interlocking Histories

👤 Prof Aubrey Manning, University of Edinburgh 📅 Tuesday 19 November 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Patterning ensembles of mouse ES cells: the embryo redux

👤 Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 15 November 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Motors, rulers and clocks in chromosome segregation.

⚠️ Host: Viji Draviam

👤 Dr Helder Maiato from Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto 📅 Thursday 14 November 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deciphering the onychophoran ‘segmentation gene cascade’: inferences about the evolution of segmentation

👤 Ralf Janssen (Uppsala University) 📅 Wednesday 13 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Headache of Hypoxia

👤 Prof Hugh Montgomery, University College London 📅 Tuesday 12 November 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Drosophila p53, growth control and metabolism

👤 Marco Milan, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona 📅 Friday 08 November 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why is Chemistry Difficult?

👤 Dr Jonathan Goodman, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 06 November 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nuclear actin and nuclear actin-binding protein as new players in embryonic development and reprogramming

👤 Kei Miyamoto, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 01 November 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental Modularity, and Evolvability of the Head Skeleton

👤 Charles Kimmel (University of Oregon) 📅 Wednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are Normal People Sane?

👤 Sir Robin Murray, King's College London 📅 Tuesday 29 October 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chiefs call in the Reserves: Differentiated Troy+ Chief cells act as ‘Reserve’ stem cells to generate all lineages of the stomach epithelium

👤 Bon-Kyoung Koo, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 25 October 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Super-resolution Microscopy

👤 Dr Eric Rees, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 22 October 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From Mars to the Multiverse

👤 Lord Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 15 October 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Genetics Seminar

How does the kinetochore orchestrate a functional checkpoint signal?

👤 Rafael Carazo Salas, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 24 May 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic regulation of tissue growth in Drosophila.

"Curing Incurable Cancer"

👤 James Watson 📅 Tuesday 23 April 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

CANCELLED!

⚠️ Talk will be given at the next session

👤 Josef Kittler, University College London 📅 Monday 15 April 2013, 18:00-19:30 📍 Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, New MRC-LMB (Addenbrooke's site)

Genetics Seminar

Tips at the Edge: Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics at the Cell Cortex.

👤 Professor Dr Anna Akhmanova from Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrech University 📅 Thursday 14 March 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How curiosity turned into Science?

👤 Dr Philip Ball 📅 Tuesday 12 March 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

Title to be confirmed

👤 Juan Burrone, King's College London 📅 Tuesday 12 March 2013, 18:00-19:30 📍 Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

👤 Professor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley 📅 Friday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Genetics Seminar

Molecular mechanisms that mediate the adaptation to hypoxia in Drosophila.

👤 Professor Pablo Wappner from Instituto Leloir, Argentina 📅 Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental, genetic, and adaptive bases of morphological evolution: the case of water-walking insects

👤 Abderrahman Khila, Lyon, France 📅 Wednesday 06 March 2013, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What’s special about the human brain

👤 Prof. Colin Blakemore 📅 Tuesday 05 March 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

👤 Professor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University 📅 Friday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin organisation in embryonic stem cells

👤 Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute, Cambridge 📅 Friday 01 March 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Linking the mitotic spindle to the plasma membrane during cytokinesis.

👤 Dr. Mark Petronczki from Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories 📅 Thursday 28 February 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental plasticity and life history evolution in amphibians

👤 Ivan Gomez-Mestre, Seville, Spain 📅 Wednesday 27 February 2013, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

POSTPONED: Energy and Life

👤 Prof. Sir John Ernest Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit & Nobel Prize Laureate 📅 Tuesday 26 February 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

👤 Dr Jim Wild, Lancaster University 📅 Friday 22 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Using bacterial pathogens to explore immunity and development in the nematode C. elegans

👤 Jonathan Hodgkin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 22 February 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

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

👤 Hiroki Oda, Osaka, Japan 📅 Friday 22 February 2013, 12:00-13:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Genetics Seminar

How to maintain a stable genome: A Passenger Perspective.

👤 Dr Susanne Lens from University Medical Centre Utrecht 📅 Thursday 21 February 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of gastrulation in flies

👤 Steffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany 📅 Wednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ornamentation, Attraction and Sexual Behaviour

👤 Dr Gayle Brewer 📅 Tuesday 19 February 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

👤 Professor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coping with life changing events: Stem cells, regeneration, and plasticity

👤 Robin Lovell-Badge, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London 📅 Friday 15 February 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Fate

👤 Professor Margaret Buckingham from Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris 📅 Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Unexpected Side of Entropy

👤 Prof. Daan Frenkel 📅 Tuesday 12 February 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

"The presynaptic side of synapse formation" & TBC

👤 Christine Holt (PDN) & Greg Jefferis (MRC-LMB) 📅 Tuesday 12 February 2013, 18:00-19:30 📍 Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

👤 Professor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cytoplasmic streaming in the female germline and stem cell fate in the male germline of Drosophila

👤 Isabel Palacios, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 08 February 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Hydra, a model for deciphering the principles of stem cells and regeneration

👤 Brigitte Galliot, Geneva, Switzerland 📅 Wednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Our shared destinies within the planet’s boundaries

👤 Prof. Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor 📅 Tuesday 05 February 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

👤 Robert J Sawyer, Author 📅 Friday 01 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcriptional Control of Cell Fate Choice in Blood Stem Cells

👤 Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 01 February 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Cell specification in the mouse blastocyst inner cell mass: interplay between Nanog, Gata6 and the Fgf signalling pathway.

👤 Dr Claire Chazaud from Laboratoire GReD, France 📅 Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Genetics Seminar

The mitotic checkpoint - a structural perspective.

👤 Dr. Victor Bolanos Garcia, Oxford Brookes University, UK 📅 Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:45-17:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Genetics Seminar

Quantification and modeling of spindle positioning and size regulation in the C. elegans embryo

👤 Dr. Akatsuki Kimura, National Institute of Genetics, Japan 📅 Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:00-16:45 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Incomprehensible Comprehensibility of the Universe

👤 Prof. Rev. Michal Heller, Templeton Prize Laureate 📅 Tuesday 29 January 2013, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

👤 Ms Bridget Kendall, BBC 📅 Friday 25 January 2013, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Spindle orientation and cell division in Drosophila epithelial cells

👤 Dan Bergstrahl, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 25 January 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Hox Control of a Drosophila Feeding Circuit.

👤 Professor Dr Ingrid Lohmann from The Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg 📅 Thursday 24 January 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

👤 Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting the role of stem cells in tissue development and maturation

👤 Kim Jensen, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 18 January 2013, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Perspectives on Next Generation DNA Sequencing.

👤 Dr Harold Swerdlow from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 📅 Thursday 10 January 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

Seeing what the brain sees: functional imaging in the zebrafish retina

👤 Martin Meyer, King's College London 📅 Tuesday 08 January 2013, 18:00-19:30 📍 Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Integrative evolutionary biology: a need for interdisciplinary studies of development, ecology and population genetics

👤 Ralf J. Sommer, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany 📅 Wednesday 12 December 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

"Dynamics of AMPAR assembly: from formation to channel function" & TBC

👤 Ingo Greger (MRC-LMB) & Ole Paulsen (PDN) 📅 Tuesday 11 December 2012, 18:00-19:30 📍 Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of body axes in Eumetazoa: what can we learn from Cnidaria?

👤 Grigory Genikhovich, University of Vienna, Austria 📅 Wednesday 05 December 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects

👤 Siegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany 📅 Wednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Time to grow up?

👤 Prof. David Nutt 📅 Tuesday 27 November 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Functional nuclear organization of the genome: from cell populations to single cell analyses

👤 Peter Fraser, Babraham Institute 📅 Friday 23 November 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression during Development.

👤 Dr Barbara Jennings from the Transcriptional Regulation Group, UCL Cancer Institute 📅 Thursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak

👤 Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK 📅 Wednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plastic Electronics

👤 Prof. Sir Richard Friend 📅 Tuesday 20 November 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch signal

👤 Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 16 November 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Systems-based, quantitative analyses of genomic function and variation.

👤 Dr Bart Deplancke from EPFL Lausanne 📅 Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Control of segmentation clock period and segment number in the zebrafish

👤 Christian Schroeter, University of Cambridge, UK 📅 Wednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Does Time Exist?

👤 Dr Julian Barbour 📅 Tuesday 13 November 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

Determinants of broadband signaling at a central synapse

👤 Angus Silver, University College London 📅 Tuesday 13 November 2012, 18:00-19:30 📍 Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How variable clones build an invariant retina

👤 Benjamin Simons, Cavendish Laboratory/ Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 09 November 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model.

👤 Dr Pavel Tomancak from MPI for Cell Biology, Dresden 📅 Thursday 08 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shedding light on lunar rhythms

👤 Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria 📅 Wednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The role of Dicer and miRNAs in regulating neural stem cell multipotency

👤 Therese Andersson, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge. 📅 Friday 02 November 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar

PTEN phosphatase-independent maintenance of apical membrane integrity during colorectal glandular morphogenesis.

👤 Professor F. C. Campbell from the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast 📅 Thursday 01 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling Cell Division

👤 Sir Richard 'Tim' Hunt 📅 Tuesday 30 October 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissection of the cellular and molecular hierarchy of the bronchioalveolar epithelium in homeostasis and disease

👤 Juan-Jose Ventura, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 26 October 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Provisional Title - A Life in Science : from academia to industry to political decision making and back

👤 Sr Peter Williams CBE FREng FRS (The Royal Society) 📅 Thursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Genetics Seminar

A life in science: from academia to industry and back.

👤 Sir Peter Williams from The Royal Society 📅 Thursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Science of Art

👤 Dr Spike Bucklow 📅 Tuesday 23 October 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Balancing cell potency and specification in stem cells and in the early embryo

👤 Veronique Azuara, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London 📅 Friday 19 October 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

👤 Dr Alexander Aulehla - EMBL Heidelberg 📅 Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Genetics Seminar

Phase-shifted gene-activity oscillations during embryo development - a real-time imaging approach.

👤 Dr Alexander Aulehla from EMBL Heidelberg 📅 Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Molecules of Murder

👤 Dr John Emsley 📅 Tuesday 16 October 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Deciphering gene regulatory circuitry underlying early steps of neural crest development

👤 Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 12 October 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can Nurture Influence Nature?

👤 Prof. Sir David Baulcombe 📅 Tuesday 09 October 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

"Synaptic transfer of visual information in the retina" & "Molecules that sense taste, force, and temperature in neurons"

👤 Leon Lagnado (MRC-LMB) & William Schafer (MRC-LMB) 📅 Tuesday 09 October 2012, 18:00-19:30 📍 Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"Science, Computation and the Future"

👤 Stephen Wolfram 📅 Thursday 14 June 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution

👤 Enrique Martinez-Perez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London 📅 Friday 18 May 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics and adaptive benefits of emergency and modular rearrangements of protein domains

👤 Prof. Erich Bornberg-Bauer PhD, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity School of Biol.Sciences, University of Muenster 📅 Thursday 17 May 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Genetics Seminar Series

“New Insights into the Mechanisms and Selectivity of Protein Degradation by the Proteasome Pathway”

👤 Alfred Lewis Goldberg - Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School ( guest of St Johns College) 📅 Tuesday 15 May 2012, 10:30-12:00 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Genetics Seminar Series

Cancer, Development & Adult Tissue Maintenance

👤 Prof. Nicholas Hastie MRC HGU and the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine 📅 Monday 14 May 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms regulating epidermal stem cell fate

👤 Michaela Frye, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 11 May 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit fly

👤 Scott Waddell Ph.D Professor of Neurobiology, University of Oxford 📅 Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of the molecular basis of thermotolerance, focussing on the embryos of an invasive marine invertebrate

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

👤 Bernard Moussian, University of Tubingen 📅 Thursday 01 March 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Morphological and molecular evolution of the arthropod nervous system: new insights from studies on the waterflea Daphnia magna

👤 Angelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary, University of London 📅 Wednesday 29 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"The natural and enhanced mathematical brain"

👤 Dr Roi Cohen Kadoch 📅 Tuesday 28 February 2012, 19:00-20:15 📍 The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

👤 Professor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mapping Morphogenesis

👤 Richard Adams, PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 24 February 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

The sperms’ hidden cargo; a distinctive epigenetic signature for the egg?

👤 Dr David Miller, University of Leeds 📅 Thursday 23 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development

👤 Mandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa 📅 Wednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

“Modelling aspects of tumour growth and progression”

👤 Prof Philip Maini 📅 Tuesday 21 February 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

👤 Dr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A histone marks embryonic differentiation and acts as an epigenetic barrier to reprogramming

👤 Vincent Pasque (Gurdon lab), Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 17 February 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Molecular regulation of Wallerian axonal degeneration

👤 Dr Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 16 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

“Astrophysicist - Speaker of the Parliament”

👤 Prof Ene Ergma 📅 Tuesday 14 February 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

👤 Dr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nanoscale Tools for the Silencing of Genes in the Brain

👤 Kostas Kostarelos, The School of Pharmacy, University of London 📅 Friday 10 February 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring the origin of leaves

👤 Dr Jill Harrison, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 09 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Drosophila segmentation paradigm: A product of molecular co-option and the blind clock breaker?

👤 Andrew Peel, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete 📅 Wednesday 08 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

“Fingerprints of the Early Universe”

👤 Hiranya Peiris 📅 Tuesday 07 February 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

👤 Professor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

SHiPSCs, Naïve Human Pluripotent Stem Cells?

👤 Pentao Liu, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge 📅 Friday 03 February 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

The family of mitochondrial transport proteins

👤 Edmund R.S. Kunji - The Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit 📅 Thursday 02 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The gap junction protein Innexin7 is required for cellularization of the Tribolium blastoderm

👤 Maurijn van der Zee, University of Leiden 📅 Wednesday 01 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"Biologically-Inspired Massively-Parallel Computing"

👤 Prof Steve Furber 📅 Tuesday 31 January 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

👤 Dr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 27 January 2012, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Embryonic enigmas: geminin regulation and function in stem cells

👤 Ron Laskey, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge 📅 Friday 27 January 2012, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"Proton Therapy: Particle physics fights cancer"

👤 Prof Roger Barlow 📅 Tuesday 24 January 2012, 20:00-21:15 📍 The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

👤 Professor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring epistasis maps of cellular processes

👤 Professor Michael Boutros, DKFZ Heidelberg 📅 Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates

👤 Stefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France 📅 Wednesday 30 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Everything from nothing: how our universe was made

👤 Prof Carlos Frenk 📅 Tuesday 29 November 2011, 20:00-21:15 📍 The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Heart development and ageing

👤 Thomas Brand, Heart Science Centre, Imperial College London 📅 Friday 25 November 2011, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Mechanisms and regulation of DNA recombination during meiosis

👤 Matthew Neale - MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex 📅 Thursday 24 November 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Axial homologies re-examined: a common ground plan at the base of Eumetazoa

👤 Heather Marlow, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany 📅 Wednesday 23 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Large Hadron Collider: answering Gauguin's questions about the Universe

👤 Prof John Ellis 📅 Tuesday 22 November 2011, 20:00-21:15 📍 The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Anterior-posterior axis specification in the mammalian embryo

👤 Tristan Rodriguez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London 📅 Friday 18 November 2011, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of morphology among populations and between species of Drosophila

👤 Alistair McGregor, Oxford Brookes University, UK 📅 Wednesday 16 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The limits of science

👤 Prof Peter Atkins 📅 Tuesday 15 November 2011, 20:00-21:15 📍 The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

What does smooth muscle development tell us about vascular disease susceptibility?

👤 Christine Cheung, Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 11 November 2011, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica

👤 Evelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France 📅 Wednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Multiple Sclerosis Genetics - light at the end of the tunnel

👤 Prof Stephen Sawcer 📅 Tuesday 08 November 2011, 20:00-21:15 📍 The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regulation of neuronal growth in a developing motor system – a Drosophila dendrite perspective

👤 Matthias Landgraf, Zoology, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 04 November 2011, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Changes in cell and tissue architecture in early stages of colorectal cancer

👤 Professor Inke Näthke - Dundee Cancer Centre, University of Dundee 📅 Thursday 03 November 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head

👤 Gregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany 📅 Wednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Defeating Ageing with Regenerative Medicine

👤 Professor Aubrey de Grey 📅 Tuesday 01 November 2011, 20:00-21:15 📍 The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A fly's-eye view of epithelial polarity

👤 Franck Pichaud, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London 📅 Friday 28 October 2011, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

The shape of things to come: from small G-proteins to cell polarity, cell-shape dynamics and cell-cell signalling

👤 Veronica Grieneisen (The John Innes Centre, Norwich) 📅 Thursday 27 October 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development

Some missing lincRNAs in Chromatin, Cancer and Stem Cells

The Logic of Foraging

"Organising microtubule organisers (and some new proteomics tools)

👤 Dr Ken Sawin, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh. 📅 Thursday 21 January 2010, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty

👤 Professor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

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Large Intergenic Non-Coding RNAs: From Discovery to Mechanism

⚠️ Host: Prof. Tony Kouzarides

👤 Dr. John L. Rinn, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, The Broad Institute 📅 Thursday 17 December 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 Tea Room, The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution

👤 David Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews 📅 Wednesday 16 December 2009, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Genetics Seminar Series

R.A. Fisher Exhibition

👤 Prof. AWF Edwards 📅 Tuesday 08 December 2009, 09:30-16:30 📍 Library, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb

👤 Dorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof. David Colquhoun - Science in an Age of Endarkenment

👤 Prof David Colquhoun 📅 Tuesday 01 December 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions)

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular control of axon pathfinding in the visual system

👤 Robert Hindges, MRC Neurobiology Unit, King's College London 📅 Friday 27 November 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Cell-Cell Communication during Fertilization in Arabidopsis: a Surprising Link to Disease Resistance

👤 Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus - Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich 📅 Thursday 26 November 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fingers, fins and faces: the role of fossils in documenting the assembly of modern bodyplans

👤 Matt Friedman, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford 📅 Wednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof. Anthony Hollander - Claudia's Tracha and other Stem Cell Stories

👤 Prof. Anthony Hollander 📅 Tuesday 24 November 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions)

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Establishing and manipulating pluripotency in the early embryo

👤 Jenny Nichols, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 20 November 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof. Rupert Sheldrake - Morphic Resonance, Collective Momory, and the Habits of Nature

👤 Prof. Rupert Sheldrake 📅 Tuesday 17 November 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions)

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Developmental programming of the placenta

👤 Abby Fowden, PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 13 November 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systematics, homology and speciation in time and space.

👤 Julie Hawkins, University of Reading 📅 Wednesday 11 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Science of Spinning Things

👤 Dr. Hugh Hunt 📅 Tuesday 10 November 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions)

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Balancing self-renewal and differentiation in the Drosophila nervous system

👤 Andrea Brand, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 06 November 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

"Cell fate specification and tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila mesoderm"

👤 Prof. Manfred Frasch - Developmental Biology, University of Erlangen - Nuremberg 📅 Thursday 05 November 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof. John Beddington - Title TBC

👤 Prof. John Beddington 📅 Tuesday 03 November 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Union Society Building, 9a Bridge Street

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sir David King - 21st Century Challanges

👤 Sir David King - Former chief scientific advisor to the UK government 📅 Friday 30 October 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Union Society Building, 9a Bridge Street

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The role of transcriptional regulators in extraembryonic cell-fate decisions

👤 Kathy Niakan, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 30 October 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

"Modelling human neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila"

👤 Dr Aaron Voigt 📅 Thursday 29 October 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The long and short of Hox non-coding RNAs

👤 Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester 📅 Friday 23 October 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

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

👤 Dr Helfrid Hochegger - Sussex centre for Genome damage and Stability 📅 Thursday 22 October 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs

👤 Artyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA 📅 Wednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Marcus du Sautoy - Finding Moonshine

⚠️ Free Event - The Freshers' Squash

👤 Marcus du Sautoy - Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science 📅 Tuesday 20 October 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hedgehog signalling and myogenesis in the zebrafish

👤 Philip Ingham, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Singapore 📅 Friday 16 October 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

"Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early Drosophila embryos"

👤 Dr Benedicte Sanson - PDN 📅 Thursday 15 October 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms

👤 Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Genetics Seminar Series

"Systems Genetics of complex Traits in Drosophila"

SciSoc Annual Founders' Dinner with Simon Baron-Cohen

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👤 Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 27 April 2009, 18:00-22:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions)

Genetics Seminar Series

"Evolution of embryonic pluripotency and the early lineages of the mammalian blastocyst".

👤 Dr Miguel Manzanares - CNIC, Madrid 📅 Thursday 23 April 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

What is Consciousness For?

👤 Professor Chris Frith, University College London 📅 Thursday 19 March 2009, 18:00-19:00 📍 William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits

👤 Professor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA 📅 Thursday 19 March 2009, 16:45-17:30 📍 William Harvey

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Identifying the Network of Selectively Vulnerable Neurons Associated With Symptom Onset in Alzheimer¹s Disease.

👤 Dr. Peter Nestor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience 📅 Thursday 19 March 2009, 16:00-16:30 📍 William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Gambling and the Brain

👤 Dr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology. 📅 Thursday 19 March 2009, 15:30-16:00 📍 William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Glutamate, Spikes, and White Matter Disease

👤 Dr. Ragnhildur Káradóttir, Department of Veterinary Medicine. 📅 Thursday 19 March 2009, 15:00-15:30 📍 William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Soft Matters – Neuromechanics in Development and Disorders

👤 Dr. Jochen Guck, Department of Physics 📅 Thursday 19 March 2009, 12:30-13:00 📍 William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

What Can Worm Brains Tell Us About Big Brains?

👤 Dr. William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 📅 Thursday 19 March 2009, 12:00-12:30 📍 William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Visceral Neurons in Drosophila: What the Fly's Rear End Can Tell Us About the Brain

👤 Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Department of Zoology 📅 Thursday 19 March 2009, 11:30-12:00 📍 William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Processing and Storage Within Neurons

👤 Professor Jeff Magee, Howard Hughs Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, USA 📅 Thursday 19 March 2009, 10:05-10:50 📍 William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass

👤 Rahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago 📅 Wednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Fighting Blindness in the Developing World

👤 Brendan Moriarty MD 📅 Tuesday 10 March 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions)

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Boundaries of Darwinism

👤 Professor John Dupre, University of Exeter 📅 Friday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How does smell turn into behaviour?

👤 Gregory Jefferis - Division of Neurobiology LMB Cambridge 📅 Friday 06 March 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

How does centralspindlin form microtubule bundles and accumulate on them during cytokinesis.

👤 Dr Masanori Mishima - Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University. 📅 Thursday 05 March 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When The Golden Chain Breaks: Sleep Dysfunction in Neurogenerative Disorder

👤 Dr Jenny Morton 📅 Tuesday 03 March 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions)

Darwin College Lecture Series

Is Human Evolution Over?

👤 Professor Steve Jones, University College London 📅 Friday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regulatory logic for cell specification during early embryogenesis

👤 Paola Oliveri - University College London 📅 Friday 27 February 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

"Phospho-dependent Activation and Silencing of the Spindle Checkpoint"

👤 Dr Kevin Hardwick - WTC for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh. 📅 Thursday 26 February 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg

👤 Carsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany 📅 Wednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Shedding Light on Dark Matter

👤 Professor Gerard Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy 📅 Tuesday 24 February 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions)

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity

👤 Professor Craig Moritz, University of California 📅 Friday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Sex Determination Mechanisms in Zebrafish

👤 John Postlethwait - Institute of Neuroscience University of Oregon 📅 Friday 20 February 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

"Systems biology of genetic interactions in yeast"

👤 Dr Balazs Papp - Biological Research Center, Szeged. 📅 Thursday 19 February 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin and Human Society

👤 Professor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse 📅 Friday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Differential chromatin marking of introns and expressed exons by H3K36me3

👤 Julie Ahringer - The Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 13 February 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

"Molecular mechanisms of microtubule associated protein tau and alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disease"

👤 Dr Richard Wade-Martins - University of Oxford. 📅 Thursday 12 February 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial

👤 Simon Singh 📅 Tuesday 10 February 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin in the Literary World

👤 Professor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia 📅 Friday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecular basis of development and degeneration of sensory hair cells in deafness

👤 Karen Steel - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hinxton, Cambridge 📅 Friday 06 February 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

The interplay of Notch with Shh and Wnt signalling in mesoderm development.

👤 Dr Kim Dale - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee. 📅 Thursday 05 February 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution From Malaria to Manuscripts

👤 Professor Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry 📅 Tuesday 03 February 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions)

Darwin College Lecture Series

Global Darwin

👤 Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 30 January 2009, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Intercellular signalling and intracellular transport during axis specification in Drosophila

👤 Isabel Palacios - Department of Zoology University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 30 January 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Building bridges between genes, brains and language.

⚠️ http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1512

👤 Dr Simon Fisher - WTC for Human Genetics, University of Oxford. 📅 Thursday 29 January 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Unpredictability and Chance in Scientific Progress

👤 Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas 📅 Tuesday 27 January 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions)

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin's Intellectual Development

👤 Professor Janet Browne, Harvard University 📅 Friday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regulation of Dpp signalling in Drosophila

👤 Hilary Ashe - Faculty of Life Sciences University of Manchester 📅 Friday 23 January 2009, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Gene-lifestyle interaction in type 2 diabetes

👤 Prof. Nick Wareham - Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital. 📅 Thursday 22 January 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cognitive Enhancement: Hope or Dope?

⚠️ FREE ADMITTANCE

👤 Panel Debate - see abstract 📅 Monday 19 January 2009, 19:30-21:00 📍 McCrum Lecture Theatre, Benet Street (behind The Eagle pub, www.scisoc.com for directions)

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Making of the Fittest

👤 Professor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin 📅 Friday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Genetics Seminar Series

"Function of SRF and Mef2 transcription factors homologues during development of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum".

👤 Dr Leandro Sastre - CSIC/UAM, Madrid. 📅 Thursday 15 January 2009, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Investigating stem cell differentiation and positional signaling in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

👤 Aziz Aboobaker, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham 📅 Wednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Biophysical Studies of the Nervous System

👤 Professor Meyer Jackson, University of Wisconsin 📅 Tuesday 02 December 2008, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions)

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcriptional networks in vertebrate mesoderm formation

👤 Fiona Wardle - Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 28 November 2008, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Lost connections: a tale of wandering centrosomes.

👤 Fanni Gergely, Cancer Research Uk Cambridge Research Institute. 📅 Thursday 27 November 2008, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Using Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) to study the evolution of flower development

👤 Sinead Drea, University of Leicester 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

👤 Prof Andy Hopper CBE FRS, Head of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory 📅 Tuesday 04 November 2008, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Wnt signalling and cell fate decisions in stem cell populations

👤 Penny Hayward - Dept of Genetics University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 31 October 2008, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

"Engineering Self-Orgonization and electical signaling in Bacteria using standardized Genetic Parts"

⚠️ www.gen.cam.ac.uk/About/iGEM2008-Genetics.htm

👤 iGem, International Genetically Engineered Machine, Cambridge Genetic Department. 📅 Thursday 30 October 2008, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Modelling the vertebrate melanocyte - how exactly do neural crest cells go black?

👤 Robert Kelsh - Dept of Biology and Biochemistry University of Bath 📅 Friday 24 October 2008, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

"Transcriptional Silencing and lineage commitment in Pluripotent cells"

⚠️ www.cscr.cam.ac.uk/research/bhendrich.html

👤 Dr Brian Hendrich, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 23 October 2008, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air

👤 Prof David MacKay, Department of Physics 📅 Tuesday 21 October 2008, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms controlling cell fate specification of pluripotent stem cells

👤 Ludovic Vallier - Dept of Surgery Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 17 October 2008, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Gods, Devils and Alcohol - Their Influence in Chemical Nomenclature

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👤 Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry 📅 Thursday 16 October 2008, 20:00-21:00 📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Genetics Seminar Series

"Worms on Prozac: A genetic dissection of neuronal signalling pathways"

⚠️ www.ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/research-groups/nurrish.htm

👤 Dr Stephen Nurrish, MRC Lab of Molecular Cell Biology, University College, London. 📅 Thursday 16 October 2008, 14:30-16:30 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye

👤 Gáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany) 📅 Wednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects

👤 Jeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany) 📅 Wednesday 01 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Genetics Seminar Series

"Tensegrity, Self Organizing Attractors and Developmental Control"

👤 Prof. Don Ingber, Departments of Pathology and SurgeryChildren’s Hospital Harvard Medical School 📅 Monday 08 September 2008, 15:30-16:30 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre

Genetics Seminar Series

“TGF-beta/Dpp signalling in epithelial morphogenesis and cell death”

👤 Christian Dahmann – MPI-CBG Dresden 📅 Thursday 19 June 2008, 14:30-16:00 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genetic regulation of musculoskeletal development in zebraﬁsh

👤 Henry Roehl - Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield 📅 Friday 06 June 2008, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

"Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability".

👤 Professor David Pellman, Havard Medical School. 📅 Tuesday 03 June 2008, 14:30-15:30 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera)

⚠️ Note changed location and time!!!

👤 Urs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A. 📅 Tuesday 03 June 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Austin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pax genes and neurogenic placode identity

👤 Clare Baker - PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 30 May 2008, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

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!

👤 Vigrinie Orgogozo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France 📅 Wednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Austin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Genetics Seminar Series

“Switching and Interlocking: a computational look at genome regulation”

👤 Thomas down – Gurdon Institute 📅 Thursday 22 May 2008, 14:30-16:00 📍 Part II room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Understanding the evolution of developmental mechanisms: the role of non-coding RNAs in Hox gene regulation

👤 Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester 📅 Wednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in the tropics

👤 Catherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh 📅 Wednesday 14 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability

⚠️ Please note location and time!

👤 Alexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford 📅 Tuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Microbial Bioenergy Production

Alternative splicing in the human transcriptome: Functional and structural influence on proteins

⚠️ ECTOPIC SEMINAR

👤 Dr. Kei Yura, Quantum Bioinformatics Team, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto, Japan 📅 Wednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Bateson Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression and function of spider Wnt genes

⚠️ Please note unusual time!

👤 Alistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany 📅 Tuesday 04 September 2007, 11:00-12:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders

⚠️ Please note location and time!

👤 Wim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany 📅 Thursday 26 July 2007, 11:00-12:00 📍 Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra

⚠️ Please note location and time!

👤 Alexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford 📅 Thursday 19 July 2007, 11:00-12:00 📍 Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

⚠️ Please note different location!

👤 Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands 📅 Wednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Austin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms

Genetics Seminar Series

The antigenic and genetic evolution of influenza viruses

👤 Derek Smith, University of Cambridge (UK) 📅 Thursday 15 March 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories

👤 Aleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A. 📅 Wednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciEnts Cocktail Party

👤 -- 📅 Sunday 11 March 2007, 20:00-23:30 📍 New Hall Bar, Huntingdon Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS

👤 Peter Crane, University of Chicago 📅 Friday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The homeobox gene Hex has essential roles during liver development.

👤 Clifford Bogue, Yale University/ Gurdon Institute. 📅 Friday 09 March 2007, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)

👤 Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands 📅 Wednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc 2007 Annual General Meeting

👤 -- 📅 Tuesday 06 March 2007, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF

👤 Philippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado 📅 Friday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Conserved mechanisms regulating lineage commitment during vertebrate gastrulation.

👤 Josh Brickman, Institute for Stem Cell Research, Edinburgh. 📅 Friday 02 March 2007, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Can systems biology be useful, an ascidian perspective

⚠️ NOTE CHANGE IN TIME - APOLOGIES FOR SHORT NOTICE

👤 Patrick Lemaire, University of Marseille (F) 📅 Thursday 01 March 2007, 12:00-13:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Embryos and Ancestors

👤 Phil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol 📅 Wednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What do genes mean?

👤 Dr Eric Werner, Oxford University and Cellnomica Inc. 📅 Tuesday 27 February 2007, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE MIND

👤 Raymond Tallis, Manchester University 📅 Friday 23 February 2007, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Liver formation in zebrafish - Wnt and BMP signalling in organ specification.

👤 Elke Ober, NIMR, Mill Hill 📅 Friday 23 February 2007, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

The regulatory origin of repeated evolution of Drosophila pigmentation patterns

👤 Nicolas Gompel, University of Cambridge (UK) 📅 Thursday 22 February 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas

👤 Pauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee 📅 Wednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Drug discovery: how Academia can Contribute

👤 Sir Tom Blundell, Department of Biochemistry 📅 Tuesday 20 February 2007, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE LAW

👤 Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 16 February 2007, 17:30-18:30 📍 LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genetic control of brain development in Drosophila.

👤 Frank Hirth, MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, KCL 📅 Friday 16 February 2007, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neanderthal Genomics

Interactions between Polymorphic Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors and Polymorphic MHC class I ligands

👤 Peter Parham, Stanford University (USA) 📅 Thursday 23 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

👤 David Hosken, University of Exeter (UK) 📅 Thursday 16 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Careers in Science

👤 Dr Anne Forde, University Careers Service 📅 Wednesday 15 November 2006, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell biological parameters that modulate the range of Wingless in Drosophila epithelia.

👤 Jean Paul Vincent, NIMR, Mill Hill 📅 Friday 10 November 2006, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

Distinct roles for Tcf/Lef genes in mediating tissue-specific Wnt/beta-catenin signalling in Xenopus mesoderm development.

👤 Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen (UK) 📅 Thursday 09 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Exploitation of Micro- and Nanotechnologies

👤 Dr David Tolfree, MANCEF 📅 Tuesday 07 November 2006, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

In vivo calcium imaging during zebrafish somite and muscle

⚠️ Canceled

👤 Caroline Brennan, Queen Mary University of London 📅 Friday 03 November 2006, 13:15-13:55 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of

Genetics Seminar Series

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