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Duncan Simpson’s personal list of talks.

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Duncan Simpson. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

7 upcoming talks and 2092 talks in the archive.

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 107th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Saturday 11 April 2026, 11:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

How life finds a way: resilience in mammalian embryogenesis

User Sarah Bowling, PhD. Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 23 March 2026, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of Natural History: Contributions from some Cambridge scientific giants of the 19th century

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

User CNHS President and a former President of Cambridge Philosophical Society.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2026

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

User The President and Officers.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 18:30-18:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

Seed Testing, its History and Links with Cambridge

User Pam Butler.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Millimetre-wave antenna designs for future wireless communications and radar sensor applications

User Dr James Henderson, Plextek Services Limited.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 09 March 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2025

User Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ladybirds in the UK: more diverse than you may think!

User Peter Brown.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED .....CSAR lecture: Finding common ground

User Professor Ruchi Choudhary, Professor of Digital Civil Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge University.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The role of Selenoprotein O in mitochondrial signaling

User Anju Sreelatha Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 23 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Update on Swift Conservation in the UK

User Dick Newell.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Return of the Beaver: reintroducing the first beavers to Northamptonshire for 400 years

User Ben Casey, Wildlife Trust BCN.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Illuminating the Future: The Transformative Power of Laser Materials Processing in Science, Engineering, Art and Design

User Prof Bill O’Neill FREng, FInstP, FLIA, FIAPLE, Director of the Centre for Industrial Photonics, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 09 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trumpington Meadows past, present and future

User Iain Webb, Wildlife Trust BCN.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Nature's Memory; behind the scenes at the world's natural history museums

User Jack Ashby, Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hidden Universe of The Human Microbiome and Its Role In Health and Disease: How DNA sequencing approaches can help us understand the hidden dark matter of the human microbiome

User Dr. Alexandre Almeida, School of the Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 26 January 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The intricate relationships of Sallow and Hazel and the Organisms that live on them

User Duncan Mackay.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 18:45-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Expanding the kinome

User Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D. - UT Southwestern Medical Center.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 08 December 2025, 15:30-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Hard numbers—physicochemical models of a mitotic signalling organelle

User Kevin A. Janes, Ph.D. Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

From Planets to Exoplanets: the search for life, with the James Webb Telescope and others

User Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 01 December 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of the Little Wilbraham River

User David Lomas, retired academic, medic & engineer.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 18:45-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

User Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School .

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 November 2025, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

User Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School .

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 November 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Visit to the Vercors

User Monica Frisch, CNHS.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Lecture: Biopharmaceutical Development - The Journey from Molecule to Medicine

User Professor Nicholas Darton, Associate Director of Biopharmaceutical Development at AstraZeneca, Honorary Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Nottingham.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 17 November 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Unsung Songbirds: Vocal Communication and Cognition in Corvids

User Claudia Wascher, Anglia Ruskin University.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 November 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Looking for the Goshawk - The Lost Raptor

User Conor Jameson, writer and naturalist.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 November 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Revealing the artists’ secrets: combining humanities with science

User Professor Erma Hermens, Hamilton Kerr Institute for Easel Painting Conservation; Fitzwilliam Museum.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 03 November 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Plastics in the Environment

User Claire Barlow, Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing, IfM.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 30 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Conserving Butterflies: Past, Present and Future

User Matt Hayes, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 23 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy

User Professor Raj Jena, Clinical Professor, Data Science & Machine Learning in Radiotherapy, University of Cambridge Department of Oncology.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 20 October 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins using neural networks

User Nicholas Polizzi.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 October 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Searching for (and finding) Snow Leopards

User Peter Pilbeam.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Past and Future of Natural History

User Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 09 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees Through History

Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)

User Dino Martins.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

NatHistFest: 106th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

House Common Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Saturday 19 April 2025, 11:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

User Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

User Jim Woodhouse, CNHS President; Emeritus Professor of Structural Dynamics.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2025

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

User The President and Officers.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 18:30-18:55

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Cambridgeshire Bird Club - 1925 to 2025: a century of bird watching

User Bob Jarman.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

User Professor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 10 March 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The History of Forests

User Charles Turner.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2024

User Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement

User Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 24 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations

User Mohammad Lotfollahi.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Great Fen: progress on the peat

User Henry Stanier, Monitoring & Research Officer at the BCN Wildlife Trust.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Squirrels of the British Isles: Red, Grey, and Black!

User Helen McRobie, Anglia Ruskin University.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

User Professor Sander L. van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 10 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alice Hibbert-Ware: Nature Study and the Little Owl Food Enquiry (1936-7)

User Max Long.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

User Jeffrey West, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Integrated Mathematical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Marine World

User Frances Dipper.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing

User Dr Sam Grimshaw, The Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 January 2025, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

User Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insect Conservation: conserving the little things that run the world

User Ed Turner, Professor of Insect Ecology and Curator of Insects, Cambridge Museum of Zoology.

House Weston Seminar Room (First Floor) - David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 18:45-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

How to Fold Every Protein: (Mission Accomplished?)

User Stephen D Fried, John Hopkins University.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Geological disposal of our radioactive waste legacy.

User Professor Neil Hyatt is Chief Scientific Adviser to Nuclear Waste Services, Aegis Professor of Deep Time at The University of Bristol.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 02 December 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tropical Butterflies: using museum collections to study changes in biodiversity

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

User Tiffany Ki, Henslow Research Fellow, Darwin College.

House Seminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein Evolution in Sequence Landscapes - From Data to Models and Back

User Professor Martin Weigt, Institute of Biology, Paris.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 November 2024, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Future-proofing the Fens

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

User Laurie Friday, Cambridge Centre for Landscape Regeneration.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Is recycling just a load of rubbish?

User Dr. Claire Barlow, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 18 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Studying Speciation in the Small Ermine Moths (Yponomeuta)

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

User Nathan Clark.

House via zoom .

Thursday 14 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Plant Collecting in Kyrgyzstan

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

User Kathryn Bray, Senior Horticulturist, CU Botanic Garden.

House Seminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Next Gen asset tracking using battery-free Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence

User Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan OBE, PervasID Ltd., St. Johns Innovation Centre, Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 04 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A beep in the dark: 120 years of midwife toads in Great Britain

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

User Steve Allain, the Pop Punk Herpetologist, ARU .

House Seminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Global Warming in the Arctic

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

User Colin and Christine Lang.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Celebrating the contribution of viral sequencing to the COVID-19 pandemic response.

User Professor Sharon Peacock, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Cambridge; Director and Chair of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 21 October 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Finding W H Hudson — the writer who came to Britain to save birds

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

User Conor Jameson, writer and naturalist.

House Seminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife, or, Why are there so many species?

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

User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein genetic architecture is simple, and epistasis can facilitate the evolution of new functions

User Assistant Professor Brian Metzger, Purdue University .

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 October 2024, 12:30-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

**Seminar cancelled**

User Dr Mohammed Lotfollahi, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 30 September 2024, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Digital Cancer Twins: From Mechanistic Insights to Therapeutic Applications

User Professor Jasmin Fisher, UCL Cancer Institute.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 01 July 2024, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Segmenting the biological causes of hearing loss

User Professor Karen P. Steel PhD, FMedSci, FRS, Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King's College London.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 10 June 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Physics IS Enhancing Machine Learning

User Dr Alice Cicirello, Data, Vibration and Uncertainty Group, Department of Engineering.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 May 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Creating brain organoids to uncover what makes us human.

User Dr. Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 13 May 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wicken Fen: 125 Years of Conservation

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

User Ajay Tegala.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 19:15-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2024

User The President and Officers.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 18:45-19:10

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?

User Professor Jonathan Cullen, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 29 April 2024, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Programmed evolution: Using asexual gene drives to sculpt tumor populations and combat genetic diversity

User Justin Pritchard, Penn State College of Engineering.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 29 April 2024, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 2

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 20 April 2024, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 1

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 19 April 2024, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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

User Duncan Mackay.

House via zoom .

Thursday 21 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Screening Approaches for the Identification of Covalent Peptide Inhibitors

User Scott Lovell, University of Bath.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 March 2024, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

What and Where I Record

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

User Jonathan Shanklin.

House via zoom .

Thursday 14 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

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

User Rosemary Fricker.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mathematical modelling to develop insights into cancer evolution

User Dr Weini Huang.

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

Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

User Professor Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd..

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 04 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

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

User Peter Pilbeam.

House Meeting Room (Second Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell size - A new hallmark of aging?

User Jette Lengefeld, University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institute.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 26 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

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

User Olwen Williams.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mapping DNA replication stress in cancer cells and parasites with long-read sequencing and AI

User Dr Michael Boemo.

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

Thursday 22 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED: CSAR lecture: Graphene, Two Dimensional Materials & Delivering the Future of Electronic Devices

User Dr. Simon Thomas, Paragraf Ltd..

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 19 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Habitat associations of British butterflies and their foodplants: implications for conservation

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

User Esme Ashe-Jepson.

House via zoom .

Thursday 15 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Modelling Blood Cell Development across Molecular and Tissue Scales

User Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

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

Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

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

User Morgan Morrison, Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Horizonal gene transfer in transmissible cancers

User Prof. Elizabeth Murchison.

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

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBC

User Professor Mark Middleton, University of Oxford Department of Oncology; Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 05 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Functional studies of genetic variation using precision genome editing

User Dr Francisco J Sanchez-Rivera, Koch Institute at MIT.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Development of a combined digital and biomarker test for Bipolar Disorder.

User Professor Sabine Bahn, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research .

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 22 January 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Ticketed Event

User Annual Social Gathering.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

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

User Morag Hunter.

House via zoom .

Thursday 30 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Unlocking cellular reprogramming to reverse ageing and age-driven diseases.

User Dr. Daniel Ives, Shift Bioscience.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Exploring cell heterogeneity in health and disease using single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics

User Erwin Schoof, Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Health of the Cam

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User Stephen Tomkins.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fieldwork: A Dendrochronologist's perspective of Science, Life and Adventure

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User Paul Krusic.

House via zoom .

Thursday 16 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

ESA HydroGNSS Scout – A Small Satellite Mission Sensing Climate Variables using GNSS Reflectometry

User Dr Martin Unwin, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 13 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Biodiverse City

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User Guy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

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User Liam Saddington.

House via zoom .

Thursday 02 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Social prescribing - beyond pills

User Professor Sir Sam Everington, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Tower Hamlets.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 30 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

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User Will Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

User Fernando Santini, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

House CRUK CI.

Monday 23 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

People Power for Nature

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User Pete Exley, RSPB.

House via zoom .

Thursday 19 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: FlexEnable: Taking Organic Electronics from Lab to Fab

User Dr. Mike Banach, FlexEnable Technology Ltd., Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 16 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

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User Mark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

House Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPases

User Pau Castel, NYU School of Medicine.

House CRUK CI.

Tuesday 04 July 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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Developments in neuroscience (TBC)

User Professor Jack Price, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. King’s College London.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 12 June 2023, 19:30-21:00

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Unsung Heroes of the Discovery of the Double Helix

User Professor Malcolm Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 29 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

OpenFold: Lessons learned and insights gained from rebuilding and retraining AlphaFold2.

On Zoom Only

User Mohammed AlQuarishi, Columbia University.

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94647233365?pwd=SGlubDdCL2ZSTWJvNHNjV0NiWHM5dz09.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium

User multiple.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 09:45-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lens

User Prof. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 15 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite: Dispatchable Green Energy from Space

User Ian Cash, M.Eng, International Electric Company.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 01 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 15 April 2023, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting

User The President and Officers.

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 14 April 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 14 April 2023, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cool as a caterpillar

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User Esme Ashe-Jepson.

House via zoom .

Thursday 30 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

User Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 06 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

User Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 18:45-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational Biology in Drug Discovery

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

User Philippe Sanseau, GSK Senior Fellow, Head In Silico Target Biology, Computational Biology, Genomic Sciences.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 01 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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Seeing the Unseen

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

User Jordan P. Skittrall, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Virology and Honorary Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Medical Virology, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are there solutions for plastic degradation in protein sequence space?

User Professor Florian Hollfelder, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 20 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

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User Joshua Pike.

House via zoom .

Thursday 16 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mapping DNA replication stress in parasites and cancer cells with long-read sequencing and AI

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

User Dr. Michael A. Boemo, Research Group Leader, Department of Pathology.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mammalian Synthetic Biology – Biomolecular Circuits as Medicine

User Xiaojing Gao, Stanford University.

House CRUK CI.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

In Search of Wild Tulips

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User Brett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

House via zoom .

Thursday 09 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Research in the Goldman group: pandemic-scale phylogenetics, and optimizing new sequencing technologies

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

User Nick Goldman and Nicola De Maio, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications

User Professor Pavel Matousek, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK..

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 06 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting today´s extinction crisis

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

User Dan Landau, New York Genome Center | Weill Cornell Medicine.

House CRUK CI.

Monday 09 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated

User Cynthia Rudin, Duke University.

House Zoom.

Monday 12 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

User Social Gathering 🍾.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insects in Flight

User John Brackenbury.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 18:45-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Motile behaviour and evolution of bacteria in antibiotic landscapes

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

User Nuno Miguel Oliveira, DPhil, BBSRC Discovery Fellow & Teaching Bye-Fellow in Zoology (Christ's College).

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.

User Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR..

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic Cancer

User Kamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre.

House Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

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

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House via zoom .

Thursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

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

User Bethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

House via zoom .

Thursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Knowledge Graphs for Precision Oncology

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

User Krishna C Bulusu Director, Early Data Science Oncology Data Science, Oncology R&D AstraZeneca.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 16 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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hydrogen-Electric Propulsion for a Clean Aviation Future

User Dr. Sergey Kiselev, Zeroavia.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 14 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

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User Contributing Authors.

House via zoom .

Thursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

User Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 09 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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mosquitoes in the Cambridgeshire Fens: past, present and future

User Mark Welch, Natural History Museum.

House Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 18:45-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

User Michele Vendruscolo, Co-Director, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain

User Prof. Usha Goswami, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 31 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

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

User Harriet Allen, President CNHS.

House via zoom .

Thursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Buffering genetic variation in populations

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

User Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology Unit.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TALK POSTPONED

User Francesca Buffa.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

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

User Georgie Bray, RSPB.

House via zoom .

Thursday 20 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

A semantics knowledge commons for climate change

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

User Peter Murray-Rust, Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?

User Prof. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

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

User Monica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

House via zoom .

Thursday 13 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

An introduction to counts-of-counts data

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

User Simon Tavaré PhD Herbert and Florence Irving Director Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics & Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences Columbia University.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 12 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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

User Stefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site (NOT Dept Geography).

Thursday 06 October 2022, 18:45-20:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Combining multi-omics and biological knowledge to extract disease mechanisms

Please contact Ciara for further details

User Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, Director of the Institute of Computational Biomedicine and Group Leader at the EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU).

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 11 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deciphering Shared Intratumor Transcriptional Heterogeneity of Human Tumors

User Valentina Boeva, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Are we alone?

User Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 13 June 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

User Professor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 30 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Projectile Fusion A new challenge in applied computational science and engineering

User Dr. Nathan Joiner, First Light Fusion, Yarnton, Oxfordshire.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Genomic Evolution of Cancer

User David Wedge, University of Manchester.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 23 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2022

User Various.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:00-17:00

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

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Drug response and tolerance in normal and cancer cells

User Klaas Mulder, Molecular Developmental Biology, Radboud University.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

User Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 31 March 2022, 19:00-20:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Causality, Perturbations, Gene Regulation, and Drug Repurposing

User Caroline Uhler, Co-Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

House Zoom.

Monday 28 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fenland Flora

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

User Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

House via zoom .

Thursday 24 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Protein self-assembly - From fundamentals to applications in materials and drug discovery

User Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, U. of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 21 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

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

User Martin Davies.

House via zoom .

Thursday 17 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

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

User Rebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

House via zoom .

Thursday 10 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

User Professor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 07 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lower Wood

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

User Duncan Mackay.

House via zoom .

Thursday 03 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

User Elizabeth Murchison.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Accelerating drug discovery with the power of microscopy & AI

User Anne E Carpenter, PhD, Senior Director of the Imaging Platform, Institute Scientist, Broad Institute .

House https://zoom.us/j/94056313546?pwd=N1dYVFR1b0FwNmk0eGlxeDd1OVY1QT09 .

Monday 28 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Peatbogs

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

User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

House via zoom .

Thursday 24 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mining for meaning in electronic health records; deep semantic normalisation for precision medicine and discovery.

User Paul Schofield.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Cambridge vaccine, targeting SARS-CoV-2 variants and related Coronaviruses

User Professor Jonathan Heeney, Lab of Viral Zoonotics, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 21 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using Sound to Study the Behaviour of Wild Wolves, Coyotes and Jackals

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User Arik Kershenbaum.

House via zoom .

Thursday 17 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Seeing the unseen: informatic approaches to find, characterise and drug conserved regions of nucleic acid in RNA viruses

User Jordan Skittrall (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge).

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Fenland Flora

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User Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

House via zoom .

Friday 11 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

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User Ann Miles.

House via zoom .

Thursday 10 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Drug Discovery in the era of large-scale genetics and genomics data

User Philippe Sanseau (Glaxo SmithKline).

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations.

User Prof. Giles E. D. Oldroyd, FRS, Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 07 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

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User Daniel Field.

House via zoom .

Thursday 03 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Machine learning with biomedical ontologies: applications in precision health

User Robert Hoehndorf.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Genomic and digital pathology approaches to elucidate cancer dormancy

Hybrid seminar, please join at: https://zoom.us/j/97592722368?pwd=eXg4bHN3SEJKMm5hRXpCZUtncnVBdz09

User Maria Secrier, UCL Genetics Institute.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Audience Choice

The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.

User Jonathan Shanklin.

House via zoom .

Thursday 27 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis

User Dr Jim Denholm, Postdoctoral visitor Dept. Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics

User Dr. Sam Stranks, Chemical Eng. & Biotechnology/Cavendish Lab.

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

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity

User Michele Vendruscolo (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

MAGNATM, a novel single molecule platform to analyze genetic variation and epigenetic modifications on native RNA and DNA molecules

User Dr Jimmy Ouellet, Depixus SAS.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Deep AI Research in Health and Life Sciences

User Dr. Kenji Takeda, Director of Academic Health and AI Partnerships, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 15 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

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User Gwenda Kyd, Author.

House via zoom .

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Elucidating inter-species interactions in microbial communities using metabolic models

User Kiran R. Patil (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge).

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

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User Dr Steve Boreham.

House via zoom .

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

A multidimensional perspective on immune-mediated diseases: using genetic feature engineering to study shared risk factors in a reduced dimension space

User Guillermo Reales (Dept. of Medicine, University of Cambridge).

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

User Dr. Bob Bates, The Pye Foundation.

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

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Buffering genetic variation in populations

User Dr. Ritwick Sawarkar (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge).

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

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User Dr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

House via zoom .

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational Oncology at AstraZeneca

User Ben Sidders (AstraZeneca).

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Productivity Puzzle

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees for Streets

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User Simeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

House via zoom .

Thursday 14 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Understanding DNA Replication with Nanopore Sequencing, Deep Learning, and Mathematical Modelling

User Dr. Michael A. Boemo (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) .

House CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 vision

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User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants.

House via zoom .

Thursday 07 October 2021, 19:30-20:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Artificial intelligence for prediction of genetic alterations directly from histology images

Please email tania.smith@cruk.cam.ac.uk to request the Zoom registration link

User Prof Jakob Kather is a physician/scientist and assistant professor at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) with additional affiliations at the NCT Heidelberg (Germany) and the University of Leeds (UK). .

House ZOOM (live).

Monday 04 October 2021, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Forum - Bridging the Gap

User Speakers from Arm, Microsoft and the University of Cambridge..

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR website for joining information..

Tuesday 06 July 2021, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Nanomanufacturing, batteries and the energy transition.

User Professor Michael de Volder, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 21 June 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Asteroids, comets and impacts: should we worry?

User Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 07 June 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Ice templating for Regenerative Medicine - using ice to define cell-guiding frameworks for healing

User Professor Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 24 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering model-based systems to monitor and steer subclonal dynamics

User Dr Noemi Andor, Moffitt Cancer Center.

House ZOOM (live).

Monday 24 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI Annual Symposium 2021

User Programme and registration: https://bit.ly/ccbisymp21.

House Online via zoom.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics.

User Professor Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology; Co-director for the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, Cambridge University.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 10 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Graphene and GaN - From Basic Science to Manufacturing Devices

User Prof Sir Colin Humphreys, Professor of Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London..

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 19 April 2021, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Determining the age of Barrett’s esophagus using stochastic multiscale modeling and epigenetic clocks

User Dr Kathleen Curtius from UCSD in San Diego .

House ZOOM (live).

Monday 19 April 2021, 17:00-18:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Innovation - the engine of economic growth

User Lord David Sainsbury, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 29 March 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Space Weather - exploring the science, impacts and challenges posed by space weather.

User Professor Richard B. Horne, Head of Space Weather and Atmosphere, British Antarctic Survey..

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 08 March 2021, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

The genomes of transmissible cancers

User Prof. Elizabeth Murchison (University of Cambridge).

House Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Driving Insurance Innovation: Data Science and Research at Aviva

User Simon Warsop, FIA, Life Analytics Director | Partner, Aviva Quantum Data Science and Research at Aviva.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 22 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Regulation of gene expression and genome organisation

User Prof. Julie Ahringer (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge).

House Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hunt for Exoplanets

User Professor Didier Queloz, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 08 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Visualizing Spatial Single-Cell Data with Vitessce

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 5th February to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Prof Nils Gehlenborg from Harvard Medical School .

House ZOOM (live).

Monday 08 February 2021, 15:00-16:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational Biology in Drug Discovery

User Philippe Sanseau (GSK).

House Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis

User Dr Julian Gilbey (University of Cambridge).

House Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hydrogen: Its Role in the UK Economy

User Professor Nigel Brandon, Imperial College London.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 25 January 2021, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity

User Dr Elizabeth Soilleux (University of Cambridge).

House Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The End of the World (again) .... or, Lessons from the Black Death

User Professor John Robb, Professor of European Prehistory, University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 11 January 2021, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deep learning in medical imaging - successes, pitfalls and challenges

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 11th December to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Prof Lena Maier-Hein from DKFZ in Heidelberg .

House ZOOM (live).

Monday 14 December 2020, 15:00-16:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tooth Regeneration and Repair: Dentistry in the 21st century

User Professor Paul Sharpe, King's College London, Head of the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology, Dickinson Professor of Craniofacial Biology..

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

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

Computational and Systems Biology

AstraZeneca Oncology Bioinformatics case studies and the skill sets we value

User Miika Ahdesmäki & Dimitris Polychronopoulos (AstraZeneca).

House Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational Morphodynamics - a quantitative description of multicellular development

User Prof. Henrik Jönsson (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

House Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Is Dementia Preventable?

User Professor Gill Livingston, Division of Psychiatry, UCL..

House Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 16 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Can machines understand the scientific literature?

User Dr. Peter Murray-Rust (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

House Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Computational analysis of cancer genomes

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 6th November to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Prof Nuria Lopez-Bigas from Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona .

House ZOOM (live).

Monday 09 November 2020, 10:00-11:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational Approaches to Drug Design and Computational Toxicology

User Dr Andreas Bender (Centre for Molecular Informatics).

House Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Osseointegration, approaching 1,000 cases.

User Professor Munjed Al Muderis, MB ChB FRACS FAOrthA; Orthopedic Surgeon, School Of Medicine, University Of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney; School of Medicine Macquarie University.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 02 November 2020, 09:00-10:30

Computational and Systems Biology

A multi-'omics graph convolutional network analysis for prediction of cancer survival

User Dr Paul Schofield (University of Cambridge).

House Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Genetics Through the Lens of Mutational Signatures and the Two-Hit Hypothesis.

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 16th October to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Dr Paz Polak from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

House ZOOM (live).

Monday 19 October 2020, 16:30-17:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

User Dr Katherine Lawler (IMS, Cambridge).

House Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information..

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Electronics on the brain

User Professor George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 12 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Characterizing and forecasting tumour evolution

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 25 September to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Dr Robert Noble from City, University of London.

House ZOOM (live).

Monday 28 September 2020, 10:30-11:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Understanding regulatory systems and mechanisms of genetic interactions: from yeast to pediatric cancer

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Dr Patrick Kemmeren from Princess Maxima Center in Utrecht, Netherlands .

House ZOOM (live).

Monday 20 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Zero cases - the lessons from New Zealand

User Professor Michael Baker, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand..

House Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 10:00-11:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical challenges posed by heterogeneous data from immunology and microbiology

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 12th June to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Professor Susan Holmes from Stanford University .

House ZOOM (live).

Monday 15 June 2020, 10:00-11:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity.

User Professor Danny Altmann, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital Campus..

House Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

User Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

House Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

“Focus on the Individual; The importance of chromosome-specific biology in generating aneuploidy patterns in cancer”

Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk to receive a ZOOM registration link

User Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London .

House ZOOM (live).

Monday 01 June 2020, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. Science-led Policy: From Global Pandemics to Climate Change

User Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. Dieselgate: The Inside Story

User John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

House Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

CANCELLED

User Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute in London.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 04 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

TO BE ADJOURNED - AGM

AGM WILL BE ADJOURNED

User AGM.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. From Medicine to Hamburgers. Cell and tissue culture applied to sustainable production of food meat.

User Professor Mark Post, Maastricht University..

House Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 27 April 2020, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

User Professor Valentina Boeva from Institute for Machine Learning in Zurich.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 30 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - A trillion trees – A trillion reasons to thrive!

CANCELLED

User Stuart Dainton, Head of Trillion Trees WWF-UK.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - Seasearch

CANCELLED

User Paul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical challenges posed by heterogeneous data from immunology and microbiology- CANCELLED

User Professor Susan Holmes from Stanford University .

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 16 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Matthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

User Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Visual Exploration of Longitudinal Oncology Data - CANCELLED

User Professor Nils Gehlenborg from Harvard Medical School .

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Monday 09 March 2020, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

User Mal Faloon.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

User Sophia Upton.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

User Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting context dependent cancer signalling processes using CRISPR-based approaches

User Dr Evangelina Petsalaki from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

User Peter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Image-based quantitative morphology with geometrical models

User Dr Virginie Uhlmann from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lines in nature and the landscape

User Martin Davies.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

User Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Harrold-Odell Country Park

User Richard Dowsett.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

User James Moss (the Reserve Manager) and Stephen Tomkins.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

User Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

User Mark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

User Ruth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

User Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

User Members' Event.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Members' enthusiasms

User Rod Mulvey - John O’Boyle - Ben Greig.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The short Arctic summer

User Robert Burton.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

User .

House (no venue).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

User Professor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

An astronomer in Antarctica

User Jonathan Shanklin.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tasty Crafty Aliens - Making the best of a bad situation...

User Abigail Stancliffe-Vaughan.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Opthalmology

User Dr. Pearce Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 28 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Last Dog? Wolves in the Highlands of Ethiopia and elsewhere

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Kevin Hand.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Changes: the Bird Life of Cambridgeshire - for better or for worse?

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Bob Jarman.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data Psychometrics

User Dr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 14 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

(Re-)discovering Moths

User Annette Shelford.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridge's Natural History - what do we know after three years of NatHistCam?

User Mark Hill.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 03 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation and the Cambridge Cluster: Past, present and future.

User Professor Tim Minshall, Institutue for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 30 September 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS bat & moth trapping night

Book by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.

User Duncan Mackay.

House Meet at north end of Riverside 'Millennium' foot/cycle bridge..

Saturday 28 September 2019, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.

User Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 10 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

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

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI Annual Symposium 2019

User REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene eating

User Dr. Giles Yeo, Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 13 May 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

“The Robot will see you now.” Has the time for surgical robots arrived?

User Mr. Mark Slack, CMR Surgical and University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 29 April 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

User Free Public Exhibition.

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting

User The President and Officers.

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 12 April 2019, 18:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

User Free Public Exhibition.

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 12 April 2019, 13:00-18:00

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Crystallography and strain mapping: some new theory for Geometric Phase Analysis (GPA)

User Prof. Martin Hytch, CEMES-CNRS.

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Monday 08 April 2019, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology

User Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

User Cambridge Concert Orchestra.

House Wesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

Saturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A systems biology approach to identify perturbed processes driving cancer

User Professor Francesca D. Ciccarelli from King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 25 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Farming of the future: Alternative options for agriculture & conservation

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Abigail Burns.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

User Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Kevin Hand.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Towards the high-level sequence code of gene regulation

User Dr Aleksandr Sahakyan (MRC WIMM, Oxford).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Regulatory Genomics: From Basic Biology to Disease Mechanisms and Ageing

User Dr Judith Zaugg from EMBL in Heidelberg.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Parasitic plants

User Helen Moore.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Statistical Approaches to Personalised Medicine in Breast Cancer

User Dr Oscar Rueda (CRUK - CI).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor.

User Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Chemical and Biological Data - from Compound Selection to Mode of Action Analysis (and Back Again)

User Dr Andreas Bender (Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept of Chemistry).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

User Greg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Ribosome profiling and virus infection

User Dr Andrew Firth (Dept of Pathology).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancers and the tumour microenvironment

User Prof. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 18 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Learning Engines for Healthcare: Using Machine Learning to Transform Clinical Practice and Discovery

User Prof Mihaela van der Schaar from Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cheetah conservation in Namibia

User Chris Heron.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Prioritization of mutations in coding and noncoding regions of the human genome using machine learning approaches

User Dr Sudhakaran Prabakaran (Dept of Genetics).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Venom

User Leah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Inflamed Depression

User Prof. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Replacing pathologists with next generation diagnostics: use of artificial intelligence to analyse image and DNA sequencing data

User Dr Elizabeth Sollieux (Dept of Pathology), Dr Matt Thorpe (DAMTP) and Oliver Crook (MRC Biostatistics Unit/DAMTP).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational approaches to Immuno-Oncology drug development

User Dr Ben Sidders (Astrazeneca).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

User Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell-of-origin of prostate cancer and clinical heterogeneity

User Dr Esther Baena from CRUK Manchester Institute .

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

User Anastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

FREE EVENT

User Dr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 19:00-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematics for mechanistic biology and drug discovery

User Dr Rahuman Sheriff (EMBL-EBI).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

User Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Discovering lichens

User Mark Powell.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical modelling of rapid evolutionary processes

User Dr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Non invasive detection of tissue specific cell death via methylation patterns of circulating DNA

User Prof Yuval Dor from The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 19 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wildlife photography

User Joshua Harris, CU Nature Society.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

How space constrains evolution: lessons from bacteria and bacteriophage

User Dr Diana Fusco.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

User Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Genome Evolution and Immune Escape

You must email Anna.Toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk prior to the talk if you are not based in CRUK CI and you wish to attend.

User Dr Nicholas McGranahan from Francis Crick Institute in London.

House Room 215, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Monday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Spectacular Chemistry of Coal

User Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Getting to know British reptiles

User Terry Moore.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

User Dr Katherine Lawler (MRC Institute of Metabolic Science).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Personal Genomics

User Dr Julian Gough (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 October 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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Energy and matter at the origin of life – and why it matters

User Prof. Nick Lane, UCL.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 29 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Sam Buckton.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

User Dr Laurent Gatto (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Chris Preston.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Data-driven approaches to drug target identification

User Dr Alex Gutteridge (GSK).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hello World: How to be human in the age of the machine

User Dr. Hannah Fry, UCL.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 15 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A trip to the Galapagos islands

User Paul Hoxey.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Exploiting stochastic fluctuations to understand cellular processes and infer biochemical kinetics

User Dr Andreas Hilfinger (University of Toronto).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Exploring the role of ion channels in cancer using executable modelling

User Dr Benjamin Hall from MRC Cancer Unit in Cambridge .

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Old specimens, new tricks? The Cambridge University Herbarium: what a million dead plants can tell us about the world today

Opening Autumn Lecture

User Lauren Gardiner.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 04 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Can we slow ageing? Lessons from an EPIC cohort

User Prof. Kay-Tee Khaw, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 01 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Gone fishing. Machine-learning guided discovery from public data.

User Professor Casey Greene from the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania .

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Friday 21 September 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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dynamics of HIV Intra-Patient Drug Resistance Evolution through Space and Time

User Dr Alison Feder from University of California, Berkeley, USA .

House Room 215, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Thursday 13 September 2018, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Patient-past based precision medicine: multi-morbidities in a life-course perspective

User Professor Soren Brunak from University of Copenhagen.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 10 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

An overview of protein phase behavior

User Prof Neer Asherie, Yeshiva University, New York, USA.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI Annual Symposium

User REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 09:00-17:25

BSS Formal Seminars

Cell morphogenesis across scales, from molecular processes to cell surface mechanics

User Prof. Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London and Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge..

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Linking mechanochemistry with protein folding with single bond resolution

User Prof. Sergi Garcia-Manyes, Department of Physics and and Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London .

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Phoretic Transport: a challenge for microscopic simulations

User Prof. Daan Frenkel, Chemistry Department, Universtiy of Cambridge.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 07 April 2018, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 06 April 2018, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Land of Eagles - Albania: from closed nation to wildlife paradise - where next?

Preceded by the AGM, 18:00 to 18:30.

User Kevin Hand.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 22 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility

User Prof. Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 19 March 2018, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Understanding/engineering cell and community metabolism

User Prof. Orkun Soyer, Life Sciences, University of Warwick.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Breckland, birds and conservation

User Robert Hawkes.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Quantitative Super-Resolution Imaging of Biological Samples and DNA Nanostructures

User Prof. Christian Soeller, Physics Department, University of Exeter.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The importance of seed testing

User Pam Butler.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Knotty Maths of Medicine

User Prof. Dorothy Buck, University of Bath, University of Bath.

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 05 March 2018, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Talk title: Microfluidic devices for blood analysis

User Debjani Paul, Department for Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, INDIA.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

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User Leah Fitzpatrick.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Ribosome profiling and virus infection

User Dr Andrew Firth, Department of Pathology.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Epigenetics - Why DNA Is Not Your Destiny

User Dr Nessa Carey, Imperial College, London.

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 19 February 2018, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Synthetic Cellularity via Protocell Design of Soft Matter Interfaces

User Prof. Stephen Mann Centre for Protolife Research and Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Smuts, bunts and ergots

User Sandra Chapman.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exhibiting Ice Age Cambridge

User Douglas Palmer.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 18:45-20:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Enhancing the Brain and Wellbeing in Health and Disease

User Prof. Barbara J. Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 05 February 2018, 19:30-21:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Reprogramming the Genetic Code

User Prof. Jason Chin, MRC LBM and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Multiple mouse reference genomes defines subspecies specific haplotypes and novel coding sequences

User Dr Thomas Keane, Sanger Institute.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building World Class Life Science Businesses – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

User Dr. Jonathan Milner, Deputy Chairman, Abcam plc.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 22 January 2018, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Making sense of sewage: a multi-omics approach

User Dr James Chong, University of York.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 19 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Networks by Quantitative Phosphoproteomics

User Prof. Jesper V. Olsen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Tuesday 16 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation

This will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.

User Louise Bacon.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 07 December 2017, 18:45-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Enhancers as regulatory hubs in mammalian embryogenesis and human congenital disease

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

User Dr Alvaro Rada-Iglesias, CMMC - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Germany.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 04 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Deciphering the origins of gene expression bursts at dawn, using computer-aided experimental design

User Dr Daphne Ezer, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Democracy Ends: Thinking the Unthinkable

User Prof. David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 27 November 2017, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Inferring the Evolutionary History of Cancers: Statistical Methods and Applications

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Thank you.

User Dr Andrew Roth, Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford .

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 27 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Amphibian conservation and midwife toads in Cambridge

User Steven Allain.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

User Dr Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

An intracellular organization of extracellular information

User Prof. Peter Swain, University of Edinburgh .

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Origins of Mediterranean flora

User Harriet Allen.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical Modelling in Early Drug Discovery

User Dr Domingo Salazar, AstraZeneca UK Limited .

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Will the Antarctic Go Green Again? Lessons from its Fossil History

User Prof. Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 13 November 2017, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Bonfires with a Bang. Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

User Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Shepreth Hedgehog Hospital

User Robert Day.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants

User Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 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

BSS Formal Seminars

Motion of uni-flagellated bacteria at interfaces and in complex media

User Prof. Jay Tang, Brown University.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Plants and their uses (medicinal & otherwise)

User Gwenda Kyd.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Evolution while you wait: population genetic modelling of rapid evolutionary processes

User Dr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Scientific Challenges of Fusion Power

User Prof. Steven Cowley, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 30 October 2017, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mutational heterogeneity in promoter regions in melanoma

All external guests should arrive to the room at least 5 minutes before the start of the talk.

User A/Prof. Dr Erik Larsson Lekholm, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden .

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 30 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Gaining control of DNA-based nanodevices

User Prof. Francesco Ricci, Chemistry Department, University of Rome, Tor Vergata.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Data-driven approaches to drug target identification

User Dr Alex Gutteridge Director,Computational Biology TSci Computational Biology(UK) GSK.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research

Please note that this event will be recorded. Guests should arrive to the Lecture Theatre at leat 5-10 minutes prior the talk, swich off their phones and minimise disruption and noise level to the minimum. Use of wi-fi is not allowed during the talk.

User Dr Timothy Errington.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 23 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost forests of Huntingdonshire

User Jason Peters.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Chemical and Biological Data - from Compound Selection to Mode of Action Analysis (and Back Again)

User Andreas Bender, PhD, Department of Chemistry.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The DNA Revolution Has Arrived in the Behavioural Sciences

User Prof. Robert Plomin, King's College, London.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 16 October 2017, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Britain's Hidden Marine Life

User Dr. Frances Dipper.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 18:45-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Personal Genomics

User Professor Julian Gough, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Using DNA to Program Nanostructure Assembly and Molecular Machinery

User Professor Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory..

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

To be confirmed

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

User Prof. Tomas Marques Bonet.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 25 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Coding and non-coding cancer mutations

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

User Prof. Dr Núria López-Bigas, ICREA Research Professor, IRB Barcelona.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 14 August 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Targeted optimization of functional materials utilizing 3D structure analysis.

User Arved Reising, University of Marburg.

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Thursday 20 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Topological defects in mesoscopic and complex crystals

User Jian-Min Zuo, University of Illinois.

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Friday 07 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O'Toole to book.

User Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

House Meet in front of the Round Church, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mutational processes in the human genome

User Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow & CDF Group Leader, Cancer Genome Project, Sanger Institute. .

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 19 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 17 June 2017, 10:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

How to read and write mechanical information in DNA molecules

User prof. dr. Helmut Schiessel, University of Leiden.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 16 June 2017, 13:00-18:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks

User Lord Martin Rees OM FRS FREng FMedSci, Trinity College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Astronomer Royal..

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 05 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Drops: A tool to structure materials

User Prof. Esther Amstad, EPFL. Soft Materials Laboratory.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Light sheet fluorescence microscopy for fast volumetric imaging of bio-samples

User Pablo Loza-Alvarez. Staff Scientist SLN Chief at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences. Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain .

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Debate: "This house believes that Artificial Intelligence/Robotics will make us happy"

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 22 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical Bioinformatics at Scale

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

User Prof. Alexander Schliep.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 22 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

To be confirmed

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

User Dr Paz Polak.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 15 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

User Dr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd..

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

User TBA.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 24 April 2017, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Building a bigger brain: genetic bases for the evolution of the human neocortex

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

User Prof. Gregory A. Wray.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 24 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Structure determination by electron crystallography: a powerful complement to conventional methods for structure elucidation

User Tom Willhammar, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE−106 91, Sweden.

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Monday 24 April 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Travels of a botanist in search of mosses: Unst to Albania, then Cambridge

User Mark Hill.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Functional variation in the human genome: lessons from the transcriptome

If you have a question about this talk or would like to attend this talk but you are from outside CRUK CI, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek. Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

User Prof. Tuuli Lappalainen.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 03 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Gaia's first data release: the galactic census begins (Cambridge Science Festival 2017)

User Professor Gerry Gilmore.

House Mil Lane Lecture Rooms ML9, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RW.

Friday 24 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Adventures in the Arctic

User Duncan Mackay.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 23 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Towards General Artificial Intelligence

User Dr Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 20 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

First Footsteps: the Colonisation of Land

User Ken McNamara.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors?

All external to CRUK CI people need to be booked at least 24 hours prior the talk. Please contact Kamila by email if you would like to come.

User Dr Laurent Duret.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 13 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors?

All external to CRUK CI people need to be booked at least 24 hours prior the talk. Please contact Kamila by email if you would like to come.

User Dr Laurent Duret.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 13 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Protecting trees in South Cambridgeshire

User Ian Lorman.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour

User Prof. Beverley Glover FLS, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 06 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk, clunch and life on the edge

User Chris Donnelly and Reg Nicholls.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

User Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine .

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanopores in 2d materials‐opportunities and challenges

User Aleksandra Radenovic, Associate Professor,Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

House Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Friday 24 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Citizens, Science and Science for Citizens

User Prof. Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS, Dept Physics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 20 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The cacti of Peru

User Paul Hoxey.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Integrating Chemical and Biological Data for Drug Discovery

User Dr Andreas Bender.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A review of 2016: wildlife and more - a personal perspective

User Brian Eversham.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational Biology and Drug Discovery

User Philippe Sanseau - GSK R&D.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Black Holes at Work

User prof. Andy Fabian OBE FRS, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 06 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Simple regulatory strategies to control stochastic fluctuations in gene expression

User Prof Michele Caselle, Department of Physics, University of Turin, Italy.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The environmental impacts of oil palm: good crop/bad crop?

User Ed Turner.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Discovery and design of catalysts for sustainable technologies

User Javier Perez-Ramirez, Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Ribosome profiling and virus infection

User Dr Andrew Firth Division of Virology ( University of Cambridge, UK).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The blind watch-breaker: evolution at regulatory sites in cancer

User Prof. Colin Semple.

House CRUK CI Room 215A/B.

Monday 30 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

3D holographic imaging of microswimmers

User Dr. Laurence Wilson. Department of Physics. University of York.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

New Detectors for measuring probability current flow of an atomic-scale electron beam

User David A. Muller, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, U.S.A..

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Friday 27 January 2017, 15:00-16:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Creating and erasing memories with epigenetics

User Prof. Wolf Reik FRS FMedSci, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 23 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Where have all the speckles gone? Incoherence and decoherence in fluctuation electron microscopy

User Mike Treacy, Department of Physics, Arizona State University.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modeling cancer evolution from genomic data

Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

User Beerenwinkel, Niko, Prof. Dr..

House CRUK CI Room 215A/B.

Friday 13 January 2017, 16:15-17:15

CCIMI Seminars

A new perspective from Information Theory on genetic sequences

User Omri Tal, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.

House MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Manufacturing - the vital capability for effective innovation

User Prof. Sir Mike Gregory FREng, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 09 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

New Experimental Techniques for Exploring Crystallization Pathways and Structural Properties of Solids

User Kenneth D.M. Harris, School of Chemistry, Cardiff University.

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Monday 12 December 2016, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Approaches to imaging fast biological events

User Drs Michael Shaw & Vikas Trivedi.

House CRUK Cambridge Institute lecture theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE.

Monday 05 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research

User Dr Marta Halina, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 01 December 2016, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of Hair

User Prof. Raymond Goldstein FRS FInstp, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 28 November 2016, 19:30-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

The Rise of Low Voltage Electron Microscopy for Quantum Materials Research

User David C. Bell, Harvard University .

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Monday 28 November 2016, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees, hedges and woodland management

User Simon Damant, Forester at the National Trust Wimpole Hall estate.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Multimetallic Functional Nanomaterials: From Reconfigurable Plasmonics to Catalysts

User Emilie Ringe, Rice University, Houston, USA..

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mining scientific diagrams for semantic information

User Dr. Peter Murray-Rust (University of Cambridge).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Christopher Yau.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 21 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bioluminescent Reporter Screens: Illuminating Novel Regulators and Dynamics of Signaling Pathways

User Prof. David Piwnica-Worms. Department of Cancer Systems Imaging Deputy Division Head, Research Affairs, Division of Diagnostic Imaging Gerald Dewey Dodd, Jr., Endowed Distinguished Chair in Diagnostic Imaging The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer C.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A bird's-eye view of the natural world: monitoring forests from aircraft

User David Coomes, reader in Forest Ecology and Conservation.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

User Dr Laurent Gatto.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

User Dr Laurent Gatto.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Transposable elements and epigenome evolution

User Prof. Ting Wang.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data in Biology: Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare and Research

User Dr Ewan Birney FRS FMedSci, European Bioinformatics Institute.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 14 November 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Surveying marine biodiversity in the Staffa archipelago

User Nick Owens.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Vesicle bionanotechnology and biophysics: from hybrid lipid-copolymer systems to anticancer peptides

User Prof. Paul Beales. School of Chemistry, University of Leeds,.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistCam

User Mark Hill.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome architecture and chromatin regulation in C. elegans

User Professor Julie Ahringer, The Gurdon Institute.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What shapes the human immune system?

User Dr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 31 October 2016, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

User Prof. Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng FNAE, Dept of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

BSS Formal Seminars

“Lab on chip” – microfluidics, organ on chip and biomimetic channel networks

User Prof. Andreas Manz. Head of Research Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Universität des Saarlandes. Saarbruecken, Germany.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridge University Botanic Garden: past, present and future

User Beverley Glover, Director of the Botanic Garden.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolution, genomics and mode of action of long noncoding RNAs in mammalian cells

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek from CRUK CI.

User Dr. Igor Ulitsky.

House CRUK CI Room 215A/B.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Transcriptional and phenotypic variability in response to temperature in plants

User Dr Sandra Cortijo.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

OK Computer - teaching machines to write music

User Ed Newton-Rex, Founder and CEO at Jukedeck.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 17 October 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Once you get a taste for it...

User Leah Fitzpatrick.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Using evolutionary sequence variation to build predictive models of protein structure and function.

User Lucy Colwell (University of Cambridge).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Whipple Museum of the History of Science - Private tour - FULLY BOOKED

User Museum staff.

House Meet at the Whipple Museum, Free School Lane, CB2 3RH.

Thursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Slugs and snails

User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the local Wildlife Trust.

House David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Long-legged mouse and the Impossible Hybrid – the genetics of genome evolution in the mouse from stem cells to whole organisms

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek.

User Dr Yingguang Frank Chan.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 03 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Computational Imaging in Atomic Force Microscopy

User Thomas Arildsen, Department of Electronic Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University, Denmark.

House Goldsmiths 2, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Wednesday 21 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Non-coding genome function in pancreatic islets and diabetes

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek.

User Professor Jorge Ferrer.

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 19 September 2016, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A Bayesian ordination method for 16S microbiome profiling data

User Dr Sergio Bacallado.

House CRUK CI, Room 009/009A.

Monday 22 August 2016, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Optimizing spatial resolution and minimizing beam damage in TEM and EELS

User Ray F. Egerton, Physics Department, University of Alberta, Canada.

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Monday 15 August 2016, 11:30-12:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Analyzing Orientation Relationships with MTEX

User Ralf Hielscher, Department of Mathematics, TU Chemnitz.

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Wednesday 03 August 2016, 11:00-12:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - FULLY BOOKED

User Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

House Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE..

Thursday 21 July 2016, 18:30-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Decision making in hierarchical multi-label classification (HMC) problems

User Haiyan Huang (UC Berkeley).

House CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Friday 08 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques for Biomedical Applications

User Laura Marcu, PhD. Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering. University of California at Davis.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Measurement of local magnetic properties of devices with transmission electron microscopy

User Xiaoxiao Fu, CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France.

House LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Wednesday 22 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Sergio Bacallado.

House CRUK CI, Room 009/009A.

Tuesday 21 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Engineering and Design for the Built Environment

User Professor Max Fordham OBE,RDI,FREng,MA,FCIBSE,Hon FRIBA.

House The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (Hoyle Building) Madingley Road, CB3 0HA.

Monday 20 June 2016, 19:00-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKED

User Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

House Meet in front of the Round Church, CB2 1UB.

Thursday 16 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Bond-Orientational Order in Metallic and Colloidal Glasses Measured by Limited-Volume Electron and X-ray Diffraction

User Amelia Liu, Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.

House LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Thursday 16 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Recent applications of sub 20meV monochromated STEM-EELS: from phonons to core losses in real and momentum space

User Quentin Ramasse, The EPSRC National Facility for Aberration Corrected STEM (SuperSTEM), United Kingdom.

House LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 11:30-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Sex chromosomes in development and disease

User James Turner (The Francis Crick Institute).

House CRUK CI Room 215A.

Monday 13 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 11 June 2016, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge's oldest celebration of citizen science!

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 10 June 2016, 13:00-18:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Landing on a Comet

User Professor Monica Grady CBE, Professor of Planetary and Space Science, The Open University.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 06 June 2016, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Exploring soft matter with DNA

User Prof. Tommaso Bellini. Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale. Laboratory of Complex Fluids and Molecular Biophysics. Università degli Studi di Milano .

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Pushing the limits of analytical electron microscopy with data science

User Francisco de la Pena, Electron Microscopy Group, University of Cambridge.

House LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Probing the Polar Oceans

User Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Deputy Head of Polar Oceans, British Antactic Survey.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 16 May 2016, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Gene-drug interaction screens in cancer

User Sebastian Nijman (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Oxford).

House CRUK CI Room 215A/B.

Monday 16 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bespoke Crystals: Using Bio-Inspired Approaches to Generate Crystals with Target Properties

User Prof. Fiona Meldrum, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

From Atoms to Planets: Understanding Planetary Magnetic Records Using Nanoscale Microscopy

User Joshua F. Einsle, Dept. of Earth Sciences and Dept. of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Univeristy of Cambridge.

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Friday 13 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Atomic-resolution studies of materials by aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy

User Ondrej L. Krivanek, Nion Co. & Dept. of Physics, Arizona State University.

House Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Monday 02 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Onsager Principle -A useful principle in soft matter dynamics -

User Prof. Masao Doi. Center of Soft Matter Physics and its Applications, Internationa Research Center, Beihang University, Beijing, China.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 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

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanoscale organisation and dynamics of molecules and ions at the interface with solids in solution

User Dr Kislon Voitchovsky, Lecturer in Soft Matter and Biological Physics. Durham University.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Change in the bryophyte flora of Cambridgeshire over 65 years of intensive recording

Please note earlier time, 6.30 for 7pm

Event is now fully booked

User Alissa Aron, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

House Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 March 2016, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Super-resolution microscopy in thick specimen

Biochemistry Lecture theatre !

User George Sirinakis & Edward Allgeyer (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute ).

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 18 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridgeshire butterflies

User Louise Bacon.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 19:30-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

In-situ TEM sample-management solutions Workshop (by DENSsolutions and LOT Quantum Design)

To register follow link from http://www-hrem.msm.cam.ac.uk/

User DENSsolutions and LOT Quantum Design.

House LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 15 March 2016, 09:30-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Churchill's Bomb

User Dr Graham Farmelo,Physicist, Author, Historian.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 14 March 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Camouflage in Aegean lizards

User Kate Marshall.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Learn to use a microscope

Booking essential and there will be a small charge. See website for details.

User ..

House Department of Zoology, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 18:30-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Using C. elegans to learn principles of eukaryotic chromatin regulation

User Julie Ahringer, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective story

User Dr Nigel Bennee FBCS, The EDSAC Replica Project, The Computer Conservation Society.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 29 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Conformational Spread: The Propagation of Allosteric States in Large Multiprotein Complexes

User Prof. Dennis Bray, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

House Pippard Lecture Theater.

Friday 26 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Quantitative Characterisation of Catalyst Nanoparticles using STEM

User Kate MacArthur, Ernst Ruska Centre, Forschungszentrum Juelich.

House LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Circulating tumour cells: a model from breast cancer to bone metastasis

User Dr Gianluca Ascolani.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Live cell biochemistry by light

Location alternates between CRUK CI and Sanger LT Biochemistry

User Alessandro Esposito (Hutchison/Medical Research Council Research Centre).

House CRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre.

Friday 19 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Birdsong - what's all the noise about?

User Tony Fulford, Ely Wildspace, and Dept. of Zoology.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

User Dr Elizabeth Murchison.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Misha Kapushesky.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Managing Cherry Hinton Brook: balancing wildlife, recreation and public access

User Sue Wells and Monica Frisch.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Comparative genomics of RNA viruses

User Dr Andrew Firth, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge..

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance

User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Cellular Systems Biology of Chromosome Dynamics

User Dr Karen Lipkow, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Depicting the Dead and Verifying the Visage Facial identification:Forensic and Archaeological Application

User Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Director, Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 01 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Droplet-Based Microfluidics: High-Throughput Experimentation One Drop at a Time

User Prof. Andrew J. deMello, Professor of Biochemical Engineering Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland.

House Pippard Lecture Theater.

Friday 29 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mining scientific diagrams for semantic information

User Dr Peter Murray-Rust.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 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

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Light Sheet Microscopy at the Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre

Location alternates between CRUK CI and Sanger LT Biochemistry

User Kevin O’Holleran & Ruth Sims (CAIC, University of Cambridge).

House CRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 January 2016, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Composite Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

User Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzan, Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director, CIC biomaGUNE, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain.

House Pippard Lecture Theater.

Friday 22 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Understanding tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

User Professor Simon Tavaré.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Challenge and Excitement of Discovering New Medicines

User Dr Menelas Pangalos, Executive Vice-President, Astra Zeneca.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 18 January 2016, 19:30-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Exploring the world with high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction (HR-EBSD)

User Ben Britton,Department of Materials, Imperial College London.

House LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Monday 18 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Defining cell states and regulatory networks by single cell expression profiling

User Professor Bertie Gottgens.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Technology Development

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation entitled "In the African Bush: Researching the Rhino Poaching Crisis in South Africa" given by Katrin Pfeil

User Dr Hermann Hauser KBE, FRS, FREng, FinstP, C Phys Co-Founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 07 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Natural History of Cambridge

User Mark Hill.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

User Helen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Integrating Chemical and Biological Data for Drug Discovery

User Dr Andeas Bender, Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge University. .

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in Asia

This lecture will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Past President of CSAR who died earlier this year

User Professor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 30 November 2015, 19:15-21:00

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Imaging with Entangled photons

Location alternates between CRUK CI and Sanger LT Biochemistry

User John White (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison).

House CRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre.

Saturday 21 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanophotonic approaches to investigate the spatiotemporal organization of biological membranes

User Prof. Maria F. Garcia-Parajo, ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain and ICREA- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The pleasures of fungal forays

User Bill Amos.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky Way

Free & open to the public. Suitable for A-level students.

User Prof Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 19 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Defining Transcription factor specificity and redundancy in Drosophila

User Professor Steve Russell, Department of Genetics..

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

This lecture will be preceded by the CSAR AGM

User Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 16 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Adventures in structural variation and evolution in cancer

User Tony Papenfuss (WEHI + Peter Mac Melbourne).

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Hyperspectral imaging - a flexible tool for tissue characterization

User Prof. Lise Lyngsnes Randeberg, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway) .

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

Friday 13 November 2015, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Agricultural trials and wildlife

User Bob Jarman.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants

User Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory..

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wandlebury: People, Nature and Heritage

User Robin Pellew.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Fireworks & Waterworks - Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

User Dr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London).

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Spatio-temporal organization of replication: On genome evolution and large-scale chromatin folding

User Benjamin Audit, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Maths and the Arts

The Lecture will be preceded by a five minute presentation entitled "Balancing food production and the environment in Mexico" by CSAR Award Student David Williams.

User Professor John Barrow FRS, Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 02 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

How to Understand Molecular Transport through Channels: The Role of Interactions

User Prof. Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Department of Chemistry, Houston.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mining the root causes, driver mutations snd therapeutic opportunities from recalcitrant cancers

User Sean Grimmond (Glasgow).

House CRUK CI Room 215.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:30-15:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Decoding 3-D vision in the human brain

User Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology..

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 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

BSS Formal Seminars

Continuous Droplet Interface Crossing Encapsulation (cDICE): artificial cells and capsules

User Dr. Gladys Massiera. Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C – UMR 5221), CNRS - Université de Montpellier, Place E. Bataillon, Montpellier, France.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Non-Native Species: The good, the bad and the ugly

User Helen Roy.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Bioinformatics to support cancer therapeutics

User Dr Dennis Wang and Dr. Manasa Ramakrishna, AstraZeneca. .

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneer Colonists and Indigenous Response: Resistance and Collaboration

Jointly with "The Cambridge Festival of Ideas"

User Professor Mark Horton FSA, Professor of Archaeology, University of Bristol.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 19 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

User Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Friday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Substituted Nucleotides: versatile building blocks in DNA bio-nanotechnology

User Prof. Eugen Stulz, School of Chemistry and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Title to be confirmed

User Jonathan Shanklin.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

User Dr Laurent Gatto ( Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology

Joint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

User Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics.

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

Monday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The history and management of Hayley Wood

User Richard Dowsett.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Zoology - FULL

User Museum guide.

House Meet at entrance to Museum of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 01 October 2015, 19:00-20:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

CANCELED

User Olivier Gevaert (Stanford University).

House CRUK CI Room 215A.

Monday 24 August 2015, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The molecular basis of developmental buffering: a key to understanding the interface between environment and evolution?

User Dr Atsuko Sato (Ochanomizu University).

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

CANCELED

User Sean Grimmond (Glasgow).

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Discovering enhancer sequences with a role in vertebrate left-right patterning

User Dennis Kostka (University of Pittsburgh).

House CRUK CI Room 013.

Wednesday 15 July 2015, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A Horizontal Transfer from Bacteria to Fungi Enhances Fungal Pathogenicity

User Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University).

House CRUK CI Room 215.

Friday 03 July 2015, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour. - Fully Booked!

This event is now fully booked

User Dr Nigel Woodcock.

House Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK)

User Details of speakers on registration webpage.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 09:00-17:15

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Illés Farkas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Developing and using atomic force microscopy to understand soft and biological systems, from bacteria to plastic bags

User Professor Jamie Hobbs, Physics Department, University of Sheffield.

House Ryle Seminar Room no930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Evolution of Dragonfly Wings

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation by Jan Mertens on new materials

User Dr Robin Wootton, University of Exeter.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 11 May 2015, 19:30-21:00

smh80's list

Nanostructure characterization of planar biomimetic membranes with neutron reflectometry

User Dr. Marco Maccarini, TIMC/IMAG, Grenoble.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory..

Friday 08 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Developments in Machine Intelligence

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation from Laura Burzynski on her research into blood clotting proteins

User Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Interferometric scattering microscopy: From high-speed nanometry to ultra-sensitive label-free imaging

User Professor Philipp Kukura, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford .

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address on “Garden ecology”, and AGM

Please note earlier start: 6:30 pm for 7:00 pm

User Mark Hill.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 April 2015, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CSAR debate:"This House believes that the Government should fund discovery of new antibiotics and control their distribution and use"

User For: Drs Nick Brown and Zack Hassan; Against: Drs David Williams and Ewan Harrison.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 13 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of tumours

User Prof Quaid Morris (Toronto).

House CRUK CI Room 215.

Monday 13 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

44 million of our birds are missing

User Niki Williamson.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The flora & lizards of the Canary Islands

User Peter Payne.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Homeopathy – science fact or science fiction? (at Cambridge Science Festival)

User Professor Jayne Lawrence, King's College London.

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

Thursday 19 March 2015, 19:00-20:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Cell-size control and homeostasis at the single-cell level

User Professor Suckjoon Jun, UCSD Physics and Molecular Biology.

House Ryle Seminar Room no930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 17 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

Held in association with the Cambridge Science Festival

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Mill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge.

Monday 16 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Decoding 3-D vision in the human brain

User Dr Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Growth and form of the gut

User Dr Thiery Savin, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University .

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Scrub clearance and chalk grassland restoration

User Peter Grubb.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

User Dr Elizabeth Murchison. Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Flying 300 underwater Planes and other Oil Industry Innovations

User Dr Simon Bittleston, Vice President Research, Schlumberger.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 02 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes

User Dr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Transcriptional Network Control of Blood Cell Development

User Professor Bertie Göttgens, Department of Haematology.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution

User Dr Davide Marenduzzo, Lecturer in Biophysics, University of Edinburgh.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

African natural products

User Chiyedza Heri.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Towards a molecular psychophysics of decision making in neuro-development and repair

User Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Some of my Accidents

User Prof. Stephen Richardson, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 16 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Flagellated bacterial motility in polymer solutions

User Dr Vincent A. Martinez, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Communities, conservation, and climate change in the Pacific Islands

User Pepe Clark.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Image analysis tools for cancer biology: how could we make it better?

User Patrice Mascalchi. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute..

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology Open Day

User Professor Simon Tavaré and Dr Stephen Eglen.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Putting the flowers of Fenland on the map

User Owen Mountford.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genomics of transcription factor redundancy

User Professor Steve Russell, Department of Genetics, Cambridge.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ripping up the Rule Book in Formula One

User Prof. Tony Purnell, Systems Design, Royal Academy of Engineering.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 02 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The transport of active swimmers in shear flows

User Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool .

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical Image Analysis for Cancer Research

User Joana Grah, DAMTP.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Surgical Imaging, Biophotonics and Endoscopy

User Dr Daniel Elson, Reader in Surgical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

There is no medicine except in the light of models

User Dr Pietro Lio, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation in Practise

User Prof. Andy Hopper, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 19 January 2015, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

An evolutionary perspective to systems and synthetic biology: From cellular networks to microbial communities

User Dr Orkun Soyer, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Prospects and Obstacles affecting Cell Replacement in Humans

User Prof. Sir John Gurdon, Dept. Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 15 December 2014, 19:25-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hunting for dinner in the ice age

User Simon Parfitt.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Simulation Approaches to Biomolecular Recognition and Assembly

User Dr Peter J Bond, Bioinformatics Institute (BII) A*STAR, Singapore..

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building a Climate System Laboratory: Modelling the climate system.

User Prof. Dame Julia Slingo DBE, Chief Scientist, UK Met Office.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 01 December 2014, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomedical photoacoustic imaging for the clinical and life sciences

User Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Multi-scale studies on transcription factors

User Dr Boris Adryan, Department of Genetics.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

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

Collaborative research: funding available for collaborative research out of Science and Technology Funding Council areas.

STFC collaborative R&D funding

Free parking on Clerk Maxwell Road (2 minutes from the Cavendish). Parking closer very limited, please email organiser if needed.

User Dr Vlad Skarda, STFC External Innovations.

House TCM - Seminar Room (room 530), Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory..

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 11:00-13:30

BSS Formal Seminars

CANCELLED - The transport of active swimmers in shear flows

User Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool .

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

In search of the snow leopard in Ladakh, in winter

User Christine Newell.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Biological Databases: More than just stamp collections.

User Dr Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute..

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Living Time Machine: Non-verbal intelligence

User Prof. Nicky Clayton FRS, Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge and Clive Wilkins.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 17 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

On growth and flow: bacterial biofilms in porous environments

User Mack Durham, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 14 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trapping Mink for Water Vole recovery in the upper Cam catchment

User Vince Lea.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Using human genome variation to study history and cellular function

User Dr Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Enhancing single-molecule detection with DNA origami nanostructures

User Prof. Dr. Philip Tinnefeld, Institut für Physikalische & Theoretische Chemie TU Braunschweig.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 07 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tatous and Taiwan Devils: making sense of scaly mammals in the seventeenth century

User Natalie Lawrence.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

As if by Magic...... Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

User Dr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London).

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 19:00-20:15

Computational and Systems Biology

High-content microscopy: big-data biology goes spatio-temporal

User Dr Anatole Chessel, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre..

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Human Metabolic Disease: Lessons from the extremes.

User Prof. Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 03 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Whole-genome sequencing of cell-free DNA in maternal plasma

User Dineika Chandrananda .

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational analyses of high-throughput spatial proteomics data

User Dr Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge..

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Targeting the brain tumour stem cell phenotype with small molecules

User Heiko Wurdak (Leeds).

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungal Foray

Admission free for CNHS members & Friends of CUBG. Garden entrance fee for others.

User ..

House Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

Saturday 25 October 2014, 13:30-16:30

BSS Formal Seminars

The complexity, modularity and evolution of self-assembling structures in biology

User Dr Sebastian Ahnert, TCM, Cavendish Laboratory.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridgeshire orchards and their wildlife

User Val Perrin.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 19:00-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Population genetic models of evolution

User Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, Cambridge.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Learning to Remember: How should we teach history?

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 20 October 2014, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting translation efficiency through lab evolution, genome engineering and inspection of the cancerous genome

User Yitzhak Pilpel (Weizmann Institute, Israel).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

What is Biological Adaptation and How Can it be Measured?

User Dr Joel Peck, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The challenges of monitoring and evaluating a wetland restoration project in the UK

User Francine Hughes.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 19:00-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants

User Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Are we star dust or nuclear waste? Astronomy lecture

User Dr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 09 October 2014, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wimpole Estate and its wildlife

User Simon Damant.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 19:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modelling the transcriptional response to ER signalling in breast cancer cells

User Magnus Rattray (Manchester).

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 06 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Keynote Address - Using Hi-C to Determine 3-D Structures of Whole Genomes in Single Cells

User Tim Stevens, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Rising stars 2 - Sequencing Applications in Health and Disease

User Chaired by Jelena Aleksic, WT/MRC Stem Cell Institute.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 14:15-15:00

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 3 - Single Cell Sequencing

User Led by Simon Andrews (Babraham Institute), Boris Adryan (CSBC), Misha Kapushesky (Genestack).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 13:30-14:15

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Rising stars 1 - Data Analysis and Data Sharing Methods

User Chaired by Richard Smith-Unna.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 11:45-12:30

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 2 - Long Read / New Technologies

User Led by Rory Stark (CRUK Cambridge Institute), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 11:00-11:45

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 1 - Local Computational Resources and Issues

User Led by Misha Kapushesky (Genestack), Aylwyn Scally (Genetics), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Discovery and allele frequency estimation of somatic twilight zone insertions and deletions

User Alexander Schönhuth (CWI Amsterdam).

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 22 September 2014, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Therapeutic landscape of cancer drivers

User Nuria Lopez-Bigas.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 15 September 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!" How Chemistry Changed the First World War

Free & open to all

User Dr Michael Freemantle.

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

Thursday 11 September 2014, 19:00-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Development of an advanced scanning transmission electron microscope for material science research

The Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

User Dr Naoya Shibata, Institute of Engineering Innovation, University of Tokio.

House LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Friday 27 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

User Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

House Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints

User Dr Joshua Nall, Assistant Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

House Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Noise in audio and electronics

User Dr Chris Hicks, Engineering Director of CEDAR Audio, Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 16 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomedical photoacoustic imaging for the clinical and life sciences

User Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

User Professor Dr Ralf Seidel, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Germany.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Taste and Flavour

User Professor Peter Barham, School of Physics, University of Bristol.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 19 May 2014, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Watching single molecules

User Professor David Klenerman FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

2050: Sustainable UK?

User Dr John Emsley.

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

Thursday 15 May 2014, 19:00-20:00

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

Art Cell Gallery Exhibtions

Clare Park: 'Gathering Light', at ArtCell, 09 May - 31st July 2013

The exhibition is free and open to the public

User Clare Park .

House ArtCell Gallery @ Cancer Research UK.

Friday 09 May 2014, 17:00-20:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Contact Line – Quo Vadis?

User Professor Dirks Aarts, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Twilight of the Scientific Age

User Dr Martín López Corredoira (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands).

House Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 19:00-20:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tunnelling Under Cities, Advances in Research and Practice

User Professor Robert Mair, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 05 May 2014, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

If the fittest never arrive, then they can't survive: on the topology of evolutionary search.

User Prof. Ard A Louis, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Particles and fluids

User Dr Mark Haw, Department of Engineering, University of Strathclyde.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 April 2014, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Self-Assembling Molecular Structures, Novel molecular structures and materials

User Professor Daan Frenkel, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 14 April 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address and AGM

Please note earlier than usual start time.

User Jonathan Shanklin, President, Cambridge Natural History Society.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 April 2014, 19:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Variations in genetic and phenotypic diversity during breast cancer progression.

User Vanessa Almendro (Harvard University).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The age of the collector: the founding and development of the Woodwardian and Sedgwick Museums

User Ken McNamara, Director of the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 April 2014, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Single molecule approaches for studying gene expression in intact mammalian tissues.

User Shalev Itzkovitz (Weizmann Institute).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Scientific wine tasting with Luke Webster

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2014. £10 but FULLY BOOKED!

User Luke Webster.

House Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Friday 21 March 2014, 19:30-21:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insect biodiversity in Cambridge – rare species in our urban meadows

User Alex Dittrich, Dept. of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Book Evening

In association with the Cambridge Science Festival

User Profs. Spiegelhalter, Ahmed and Longair.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 17 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Frankenstein 2.0: Structure + Pattern + Movement = LIFE?

Part of Cambridge Science Festival 2014. Free & open to all.

User Dr Mark Haw (University of Strathclyde).

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

Friday 14 March 2014, 19:00-20:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Living photonic devices from patchy colloids: Inspiration from cephalopods

User Alison Sweeney, University of Pennsylvania.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Great Fen – out of the past and into the future

User Alan Bowley, Natural England Senior Reserves Manager.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Living Clusters in Suspensions of Active Colloids

User Bortolo Mognetti, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium, Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Booking in advance essential.

User ..

House Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 19:00-21:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Why aircraft may soon grow bumps on their wings

User Professor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 03 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Mechanisms of leading edge protrusion in interstitial migration

User Dr Guillaume Charras, UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology .

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Working under confinement

User Miguel Rubi, Universitat de Barcelona & Leverhulme Professor at Imperial College London.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wild flowers and some wildlife of western Cyprus

User Monica Frisch & Charles Turner.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

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

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

“Impact of Climate Change on Ocean Chemistry”

18:15 for 19:00 start

User Joanna Kerr and India Weidle.

House Harker 1 Dept. Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 18:15-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Grand Challenges and Accomplishments of Engineering Research

User Professor Lord Alec Broers, Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 17 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Resistant Cancer Cell Line (RCCL) collection – cancer cell lines with acquired drug resistance as a pre-clinical and basic science model

User Martin Michaelis (University of Kent).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 17 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomimetic routes to colloidal self-assembly

User Jasna Burjic, NYU, Physics and Soft Matter Center.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A brief history of fungi on plants

User Ali Ashby, Cambridge University Dept. of Plant Sciences.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Are CMOS image sensors (and CCDs) dinosaurs?

User Dr Renato Turchetta, STFC-RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Five weeks that changed the world: Darwin and the Galapagos

User John Parker, ex-Director, Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Can Research Prevent Crime?

User Professor Lawrence Sherman, Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 03 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Using time-resolved genetic data to study the evolution of drug resistance.

User Ville Mustonen (Sanger Institute).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bioinspired materials and devices

User Dr Elisa Mele, The Italian institute of Technology .

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 31 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Profiling the Subclonal Copy Number Architecture from Whole Genome Sequencing of Heterogeneous Tumours

User Gavin Ha, BC Cancer Research Centre.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Reversible Control of NON-Volatile Magnetic Memory Using Soft Materials: Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Nanocomposites

User Raffaele Mezzenga, ETH Zurich.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A View from Nine Wells

User Steve Boreham, Cambridge University Dept. of Geography.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Validation of EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performance

User Professor John Gruzelier, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 20 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Systems biology of stem cell fate

User Ben MacArthur (University of Southampton).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Physico-chemical properties of colloids, their interaction with cells, and some applications

User Prof Wolfgang Parak, Biophotonics Group, University of Marburg, Marburg Germany.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Science of Whisky - A tasting tour of Scotland's finest

User Alex Woolgar-Toms.

House Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 December 2013, 19:00-21:30

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Native oysters: conserving a commercially fished species

User Cass Bromley.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 December 2013, 19:30-21:00

Imaging and Mathematics

IMAGiNG and MATHEMATiCS workshops

Light Microscopy in Cambridge is now on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/491162727587920/

User Hendrik Dirks (DAMTP Cambridge/University of Münster), Kirsty Wan (DAMTP, Cambridge), Joan Lasenby (Engineering Department, Cambridge), Patrice Mascalchi (CRUK CI, Cambridge), Siru Virtanen (CRUK CI, Cambridge), Isabel Peset Martin (CRUK CI, Cambridge).

House CRUK CI, lecture theatre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE.

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 14:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Do We Really Need Pandas? The impact of human intervention on natural selection

User Dr Ken Thompson, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 02 December 2013, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Incorporating Prior Biological Knowledge into Genetic Association Studies

User David V. Conti (USC).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Light, camera, action: watching single DNA/RNA polymerases at work in living cells

User Achillefs Kapanidis, Dept Physics, University of Oxford.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Moving to low carbon energy provision – do we have a choice?

User Prof Geoffrey Maitland (Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 28 November 2013, 19:00-20:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Artificial evolution strategy for pet reconstruction

User Franck Vidal, School of Computer Science, Bangor University .

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Eyespots and scents on butterfly wings

User Paul Brakefield, Director of Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Notes on Notes: The musicology of performance

The CSAR AGM will precede this lecture at 19:15

User Professor John Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 18 November 2013, 19:15-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

VIRUS ASSEMBLY AND GENOME TRANSLOCATION: ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES FROM POLYMER PHYSICS

User Murugappan Muthukumar, Dept Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams and their management

User Ruth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer for the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Measuring within-tumour diversity as a universal biomarker for cancer prognosis

User Trevor Graham (Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary Univ London).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 11 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

X-ray phase contrast imaging - detecting the undetectable

User Sandro Olivo, Dept of Medical Phys & Bioengineering, University College London.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollution and wildlife – practical problems for nature conservation in England

User Alastair Burn, Principal Specialist in environmental impacts for Natural England.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Science of Fireworks and Explosives – Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

User Prof Chris Bishop (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

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

Thursday 07 November 2013, 19:00-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Physical constraints can encode bacterial promoter regulatory logic

User Daphne Ezer (Department of Genetics).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CSAR Debate

User Speakers to be announced.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 04 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineered Nanoparticles: the Bionano Interface in a Biological Environment

User Francesca Baldelli-Bombelli, Department of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Key Drivers in the World Economy: Why we should be positive

The ‘Festival of Ideas’ Lecture

User Dr Gerard Lyons, Economic Adviser to the Mayor of London.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 28 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Accelerating localisation microscopy

User Susan Cox, Department of Biology, King's College London.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The House Sparrow survey of Cambridge

User Bob Jarman.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Applied and not-yet-applied

User Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS.

Monday 21 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Analysis of a large cancer gene screen in myelodysplastic syndromes

User Moritz Gerstung (Sanger).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 21 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function

User Lucy Colwell, Chemistry Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hardwick Wood, past and present

User Vince Lea, voluntary warden for Hardwick Wood.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology, from the Schrodinger Equation.

User Professor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics.

House Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Stochastic signal encoding strategies in single cells

User James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Saving Asia's vultures

User Kevin Hand, wildlife tour leader for ACE Cultural Tours.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Practically Making the Philosophers' Stone: Recreating Alchemical Experiments

User Dr Jennifer Rampling (Dept of History of Science, Cambridge University).

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

Thursday 10 October 2013, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife

User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge Museum of Technology Guided Tour

Tickets £3.50

User Museum Guide.

House Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cheddars Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8LD.

Saturday 21 September 2013, 11:00-12:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Colon CSCs are sensitized by HDACinhibitors in a FOXO-dependent fashion

User Jan Paul Medema (Amsterdam Medical Center).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 September 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Molecular imaging of tumor progression at the tumor/stromal boundary

Please let me know if you like to meet Patricia before or after the seminar.

User Patricia Keely, Associate Professor and Co-PI LOCI, Madison-Wisconsin.

House CRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 September 2013, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Platinum Genomes

User Michael Eberle (Illumina).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Global microRNA level regulation of EGFR-driven cell-cycle protein network in breast cancer

Note unusual day and time!

User Stefan Wiemann (DKFZ Heidelberg).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Room 009.

Tuesday 25 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Saturday 15 June 2013, 10:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The influence of matrix geometry and stiffness on cancer invasion

User Erik Sahai (Cancer Research UK, London).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Friday 14 June 2013, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building Business in the Sunshine

User Stuart Elmes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Viridian Solar.

House Wolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 10 June 2013, 19:00-21:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Rigidity Theory and Some Applications

User Micheal Thorpe.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 03 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineered protein pores in nanotechnology and single-enzyme studies

User Giovanni Maglia, Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Belgium.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of Pollination

User Mike Brown, Head of National Bee Unit, The Food and Environmental Research Agency, DEFRA.

House Wolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 27 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Approaching biology discretely

User Professor Timothy Newman (Univ. Dundee).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Petri nets as semi-quantitative modeling method to explore systems behavior of disease-related pathways

User Ina Koch (Frankfurt University).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Artificial Cells in Picoliter Droplets

User Prof Wilhelm Huck (Nijmegen - Radboud Universiteit).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Organic Electronics: a story of science and technology

User Professor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, Optoelectronics Group, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 13 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Genome-wide association studies: Lessons from studying a large clinical cohort

User Sven Bergmann (Lausanne).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 13 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Uniﬁed study of glass and jamming rheology in soft particle systems

User Peter Sollich, Department of Mathematics, King's College London.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to Industry

User Prof Alan Windle, FRS, Dept of Material Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 09 May 2013, 19:00-20:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Mesenchymal stem cell response to nanotopographical features

User Matthew Dalby (Univ Glasgow).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcanology Applied to Emergencies

User Professor Stephen Sparks CBE, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

House Wolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 29 April 2013, 19:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping tumor heterogeneity and developmental trajectories using 40 markers at single cell resolution:

Room change: 215 instead of lecture theatre (outside guests will need visitor ID)

User Dana Pe'er (Columbia University, NYC).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Monday 29 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Patchy colloids: a simple model for complex fluids

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKED

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited.

User Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

House Cambridge University Botanic Garden. CB2 1JF.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 18:30-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

The Ninth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

User various speakers.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 09:00-17:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Chemotaxome – A new member with complex biological entities in systems biology.

User Kohidai, Laszlo MD, PhD, Med.Habil. Cell Biology, Assoc. Professor Chemotaxis Research Group – SRI Core Facility Department of Genetics, Cell- & Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 12 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the 'Fauna Cantabrigiensis' of the Rev Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)

Note: This talk will be held in room LAB107 in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

User Tim Sparks.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 04 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Stressing Out Cells: flow-induced migration of endothelial cells and cell adhesion on hydrogels

User Prof Gerry Fuller, University of Stanford.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium

Note: CNHS members only, as numbers are restricted.

User ..

House Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Our Fluid Earth

Joint Event with Cambridge Science Festival and BlueSci.

User Professor Dan McKenzie.

House Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Inferring causal mediators from omics data in the context of genetic and environmental variations

User Oliver Stegle (EBI).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridge’s newest local nature reserve

User Guy Belcher.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty?

User Andrew Balmford.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational analyses of high-throughput spatial proteomics data

User Dr. Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Book Evening

User Dr Paula Gomes, Dr Richard Preece, Dr Tim Sparks, Charles Cotton.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The logic and variation in genomic regulatory networks

User Mikhail Spivakov (Babraham Institute).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 04 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Extreme Mechanics of Marginal Matter

User Martin van Hecke, Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, University of Leiden.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome sequencing of transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

User Elizabeth Murchison (Sanger) .

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Polymer and hybrid nanostructures for applications in organic solar cells investigated with advanced x-ray techniques

User Prof. Peter Müller-Buschbaum (Technische Universität München ).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridgeshire's herpetofauna and its conservation

User Paul Furnborough.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Machine learning approaches to predicting protein-ligand binding

User Dr. Pedro J. Ballester, MRC Methodology Research Fellow and EMBL-EBI.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Graphene Future Emerging Technology

User Professor Andrea C. Ferrari, Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Engineering.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 18 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Metabolic regulation of the stress response and the cancer cell's Warburg effect

User Markus Ralser (University of Cambridge, Dept of Biochemistry).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nano-optics of complex media

User R. Sapienza, King's College London.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Travels with research: baboons to earthquakes

User Hilary Conlan.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Methodological Challenges in the Pursuit of the Tree of Life

User Dr. Christophe Dessimoz, EMBL-EBI.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Euler's elasticas and their applications to DNA, nucleosomes and chromatin fibers

User Prof Helmut Schiessel (Leiden).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Diseases of ash and other trees round the world

Note: This talk will be held in room MEL001 in the Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

User Oliver Rackham.

House Mellish Clark Building (MEL 001), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome-wide approaches to study alternative splicing using RNA-seq data

User Dr. Kathi Zarnack, London Research Institute and EMBL-EBI.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology Open Afternoon

User various.

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 14:00-17:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Shift in the Balance of Economic and Financial Power: what does it really mean?

User Dr. Gerard Lyons, Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 04 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolution of cellular networks: from interactions to phenotypes

User Pedro Beltrao (EMBL-EBI).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 04 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Observations of a mathematician running a wet-lab: decades of pharmacology, MICs, efflux pumps, drug interactions and antibiotic resistance in the context of models and genomics

User Prof Robert Beardmore (Exeter University).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Ecological niche modeling and infectious disease

User Dr. Daniel Henk, University of Bath.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Circulating tumour DNA as a biomarker of genetics alterations in cancer

User Florent Mouliere (IRCM U896 Inserm, Montpellier, France).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Molecular bionics: copying Nature to control Nature

User Prof Beppe Battaglia (University of Sheffield).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Integration of functional genomics and pathway information to elucidate deregulation of signal transduction and drugs' mode of action

User Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Keeping the Lights on in 2050: how can we do it and how much will it cost?

User Professor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 21 January 2013, 19:00-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Leverhulme Lecture: The translocation of polymers across nanometer sized pores in membranes

User Prof Sandip Ghosal (Northwestern University).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Evolution of post-translational networks

User Dr. Pedro Beltrao, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Multiparametric MRI of the vasculature: applications to therapy monitoring of gliomas

User Chantal Remy, Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences, France.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 16:30-17:30

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

A Scientific Wine Tasting with Dr James Hutchinson (RSC)

User Dr James Hutchinson (RSC).

House Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 December 2012, 19:30-21:30

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Julie MacPherson, University of Warwick, UK.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Lost Soldiers of Fromelles

User Professor Margaret Cox, Emeritus Professor, Department of Forensic Anthropology, Cranfield University and Founder of the International Centre for Forensic Excellence.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 26 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

How One Cell Eats Another - Physical Principles in Phagocytosis

User Dr Robert Endres, University College London, UK.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The National Ecosystem Assessment and its follow-on phase

User Lucy Simpson.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Social Fluids

User Professor Matthew Turner, University of Warwick, UK.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Giving wildlife an edge on the Middle Level waterways

User Cliff Carson, Environment Officer, Middle Level Commissioners.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are We Alone?

User Dr. Robin Catchpole, Emeritus Researcher, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 12 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Influence of the Glass Transition on the Liquid-gas Spinodal Decomposition

User Professor Walter Kob, Universite Montpellier 2, France.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Dung pats, flies and farmers

User Olwen Williams.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Fireworks and Waterworks! Spectacular demonstration lecture.

User Dr Andy Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

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

Thursday 08 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Colloidal Dispersions in External Fields

User Professor Stefan Egelhaaf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) College of Scholar Presentations & Networking Event

Free event. Open to all.

User Prof Alan Heaton.

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

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:30-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Green Energy Debate

User Professor Keith Tovey,Professor Andy Woods,Lucy Fielding,Megan Davies Sykes,Hugh Parnell,Robin Nicholson.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 29 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bioactive glasses and their hybrids as scaffolds for regenerative medicine

User Dr Julian Jones, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exotic mammals in the Antarctic region

User Bob Headland.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What is a fungal foray?

Note this is on FRIDAY 19th October (not Thursday as usual).

User Hélène Davies.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Friday 19 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Coarse-grained modelling of DNA for biophysics and nanotechnology

User Dr Ard Louis, Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 19 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea Cover

User Professor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 15 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

az302's list

Dynamic arrest in polymer gels

User Johan Mattsson, Soft Matter Physics Group School of Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds.

House Small Lecture Theater.

Friday 12 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

The Dog That Didn't Bark: How Computational Analysis of Complex Cell Signaling Data Can Find Surprising Critical Regulatory Nodes

Please contact Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez if you wish to attend this talk as he will need to inform security

User Doug Lauffenberger (MIT).

House The Crick Auditorium, Wellcome Trust Campus, Hinxton.

Friday 12 October 2012, 12:00-01:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using maps and GPS

User Jean Sinclair.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Food Detectives - Some curious cases with a chemical twist

User Dr Ellen Norman, Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL).

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

Thursday 11 October 2012, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture

User Professor Mike Edmunds.

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre.

Monday 08 October 2012, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Conserving the small things that run the world

User Ed Turner.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 04 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Network biology of cancer

User Andrea Califano (Columbia University, New York).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 September 2012, 10:30-11:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Visit

User Jason Cole, Deputy Executive Director CCDC.

House CCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ.

Thursday 13 September 2012, 19:00-20:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

From protein networks to disease mechanisms

User Roded Sharan (Tel-Aviv University).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 10 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanoparticle-based electrodes for sustainable energy

User Dr Scott Warren, Northwestern University.

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 17 July 2012, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

Characterising the evolutionary trajectories generating C4 photosynthesis through inference of phenotypic transition networks

User Ben Williams, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Tom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

Friday 06 July 2012, 13:00-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Variational Methods in 3+Dimensional Biomedical Imaging

User Martin Burger (Uni Münster).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The life histories of 21 breast cancers

User Peter van Loo (Sanger Institute).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

3D EDS Microanalysis by FIB-SEM: limitations, potential and perspectives

User Pierre Burdet, Interdisciplinary Centre for Electron Microscopy (CIME), Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Station 12, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Monday 25 June 2012, 15:00-16:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Roman Arbury and Sylvia Plath

User Sarah-Jane Harknett.

House Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Saturday 16 June 2012, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Friday 15 June 2012, 13:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution

note unusual location

User Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany..

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genetics and Evolution of Transmissible Cancers in Dogs and Tasmanian Devils

User Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Fellow of Medical Sciences, King's College, Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 11 June 2012, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited

User Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

House Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 18:30-20:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

The Roman and Anglo-Saxon Foundations of Girton Revealed

User Imogen Gunn.

House Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Gap Gene System

note unusual location

User Johannes Jaeger, CRG Barcelona.

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Sutton Hoo: A Personal Perspective

User Peter Rooley.

House Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci

note unusual location

User Matthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK.

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bacteria as Active Colloids

User Professor Wilson Poon, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics SUPA and School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 28 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Eighth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

User Various Speakers.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 09:00-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fitting pieces and further puzzles - What 'nobody' can tell about the evolution of arthropod neurogenesis

User Georg Brenneis, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Biological Image Analysis Made Easy

Note the unusual time: 11am not 4pm!

User Fred Hamprecht (Heidelberg).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 21 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Shocks in fragile matter

User Professor Vincenzo Vitelli, Instituut-Lorentz for theoretical physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty

User Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 14 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The evolution of mammalian tissue transcriptomes

User Henrik Kaessmann (Lausanne).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 14 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Ionomer Design Principles for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials

User Professor Ralph Colby, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

User Ian Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired).

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

Thursday 10 May 2012, 19:00-20:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modeling stem cell differentiation on multiple scales

Tuesday, not Monday!

User Fabian Theis (Helmholtz Center Munich).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

Introduction to Metabolomics

User Dr Matthew Davey, Plant Metabolism Group, Department of Plant Sciences..

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 04 May 2012, 16:30-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Single molecule imaging of protein pore assembly using droplet interface bilayers

User Dr Mark Wallace, University of Oxford.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st Century

User Professor Sir David King, Director, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 30 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineering cellular systems

User Dr Jim Hasellof, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address, and Annual General Meeting

Note earlier time.

User Inigo Everson.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 April 2012, 19:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Machine learning applications in genetic regulation and cancer

User David Westhead (Leeds).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

East Anglian orchard biodiversity

User Paul Read.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

ShrinkSeq: a flexible and powerful method for Bayesian analysis of RNAseq data

Note the time change: 2pm (not 4pm)

User Mark van de Wiel (VU University Medical Center).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evening visit to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Note earlier time. Admission by ticket only (see details of event).

User Ken McNamara.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Thursday 22 March 2012, 19:00-21:00

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

A Step-by-Step Guide to Phylogenetic Analysis

User Sebastian Mueller.

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolution of developmental gene expression programs

User Itai Yanai (Technion).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Non stick surfaces and self motile particles: some old and new problems in colloid physics

User Professor Richard Jones, University of Sheffield, UK.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Myxomycetes: A life of slime

User John Holden.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Understanding landscapes: the challenge of East Anglia

User Peter Friend.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells

User Professor Allan Bradley, Director Emeritus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 05 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modelling in systems genetics: computational approaches for discovering disease networks

User Tom Michoel (FRIAS Freiburg).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Peter Smith, Institute of Life Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Photons, dust, and honeybees

User Diederik Wiersma, European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A living cemetery: the flora & fauna of Mill Road Cemetery

User Keri Russell and Simon Ward.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Science of Well-Being and its Application to Policy

User Professor Felicia Huppert, Director of the Well-being Institute University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 20 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Reinhard Miller, Max-Planck Institute for Colloids & Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Developing imaging approaches for novel cancer therapies

User Eric Aboagye, Imperial College, London.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Come and get me! How plants attract their pollinators.

User Clive Nuttman.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Shaping the Future of Manipulation

User Professor Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Keeping the skies alive with Swifts

User Dick Newell.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Molecular Model Solutions

User Dr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 09 February 2012, 19:00-20:00

All CMS Events

Open Afternoon for the MPhil in Computational Biology

User Various Speakers.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 14:00-17:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics

User Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 06 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Model Based Target Identification from Expression Data

User Neil Lawrence (University of Sheffield).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 06 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Functionalised nanoparticles and SERS for bioanalysis

User Professor Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde, UK.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

50 years of conservation

User Vince Lea, Louise Bacon, and Merlin Fox.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome-Based Drug Discovery and Re-Purposing: a new golden age for DNA microarrays?

User Dr. Francesco Iorio, EMBL-EBI.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Mesoscopic Systems: Synthesis, Interactions and Analysis

User Professor Dr Helmut Cölfen, University Konstanz, Germany.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and Non-science in Drug Policy

Held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

User Professor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit Division of Experimental Medicine.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 23 January 2012, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and Medicine

User Dr Alison Foster, Senior Curator, University of Oxford Botanic Garden.

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

Thursday 19 January 2012, 19:00-20:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Deconstructing Nuclear Pore Complex Function by Bio-Synthetic Reconstruction

User Professor Roderick Lim, University of Basel, Switzerland.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Search for Organizing Principles in Cancer Systems Biology

User Olaf Wolkenhauer (University of Rostock, www.sbi.uni-rostock.de).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Increased methylation variation across cancer types

User Kasper Daniel Hansen (Johns Hopkins).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Measuring phonon behaviour with electron diffraction

User Dr Alex Eggeman, Dept of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House Austin Lecture Theatre [Austin Building], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 06 December 2011, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

RNAi libraries for high throughput phenotyping and drug resistance screening in the African trypanosome

User David Horn (LSHTM).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Monday 05 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Clive Roberts, University of Nottingham, UK.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Is water H2O?

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc.

User Prof Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 01 December 2011, 19:00-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Multi-scale studies on Drosophila transcription factors

User Boris Adryan (CCBI,Genetics).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Bespoke microlenses for high-efficiency light-gathering applications

User Dr Vlad Stolojan, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey.

House Austin Lecture Theatre [Austin Building], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

RNA Silencing in Plant and Animal Biotechnology

User Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 28 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mammals and milk

User Hayley Frend, Department of Pathology.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Michael Hausser, Univeristy College London, UK.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

RNAi-based molecular computing for cancer cell detection

User Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson (ETH Zurich BSSE).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 21 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Crystallization and Structure Formation in Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers for Applications in Organic Photovoltaics

User Professor Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, Martin Luther Unversity, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A botanist on Mull

User Lynne Farrell, Botanical Recorder for Mid-Ebudes.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Thorium Could Save the Planet

User Professor Robert Cywinski, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 14 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Intermetallic Compounds – Materials for a Knowledge-Based Development in Heterogeneous Catalysis

User M. Armbrüster, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzer Str. 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Friday 11 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Using bespoke fluorescence microscopy to study the soft matter of living cells at the single molecule level

User Dr Mark Leake, University of Oxford, UK.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The star-crossed stone

User Ken McNamara, Sedgwick Museum.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Approximate Bayesian Computation for evolution in a test tube

User Professor Simon Tavare ( CCBI, CRI-CRUK, DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

When nano meets bio: Interdisciplinary applications of electron microscopy

User Professor Martin Saunders, Deputy Director Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis The University of Western Australia.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Combining Optical and Electrochemical Devices to Investigate Activities of Biological Nano-Structures

User Dr Stephane Arbault, University of Bordeaux, France.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mapping the land use of Britain: 80 years of innovation

User Ruth Swetnam, Department of Zoology.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

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User Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

The lecture will be preceeded by the AGM of the society

User Vivienne Parry, OBE, Science writer and broadcaster.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 31 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Probing liquid crystal elastomers with light

User Professor Martin Copic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Biochemistry of Autumn - Why do the leaves fall?

Organised by CU ChemSoc, SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

User Prof Brian J Ford (President of CSAR).

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 19:00-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Inferring mechanisms of gene regulation from patterns of evolutionary divergence

User Itay Tirosh (Weizmann Institute).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

From batch effects and randomness to personalised stratified medicine

User John Todd (CIMR).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Hydrodynamic interactions: from Brownian motion to swimming bacteria

User Dr Roberto Dileonardo, University of Rome, Italy.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cacti in Chile and in cultivation

User Clarke Brunt, British Cactus & Succulent Society.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Secret Science of WWII

User Professor Brian J Ford, President of CSAR.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 17 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Artic Sea Cover

User Professor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Saturday 15 October 2011, 19:00-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45)

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

User Dr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge.

House Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 19:45-20:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

Managing the River Cam: balancing the needs of river users and the environment

User Philippa Noon, Cam Conservancy.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture

This lecture is held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

User Professor John Papaloizou, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 10 October 2011, 17:30-19:00

Leica Scientific Forum

Single Molecule Biology: One, two, three and four

Followed by a drinks reception in the Todd Hamied Room

User Prof. Dr. Teakjip Ha, Professor of Physics, Head of Single Molecule Nanometry Group, University of Illinois.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Monday 10 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Portholme Meadow, Brampton: history and natural history intertwined

User Pat Doody, ecologist.

House Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Chromatin-mediated regulation of gene expression in mouse ES cells

User Helle Jørgensen (University of Cambridge).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

One Day Meeting - Seventh Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

CCBI Annual Symposium

User Various speakers.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Thursday 29 September 2011, 09:30-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Adult stem cell fate: a laboratory for statistical physics

User Ben Simons (University of Cambridge).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 September 2011, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Nanoparticle Shape: Effects and Modeling

User Emilie Ringe, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Wednesday 14 September 2011, 15:00-16:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Imaging molecules and atoms in motions and reactions by HR-(S)TEM

User Dr Masanori Koshino, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba, Japan.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 15:00-16:00

Leica Scientific Forum

Examples, Molecules, and Methods for Super-Resolution Imaging in Cells with Single Molecules

User Professor W. E. Moerner, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 29 June 2011, 17:00-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Perturbation Biology of Cancer Cells

User Chris Sander (MSKCC).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 29 June 2011, 15:00-16:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

STEM Cathodoluminescence of Individual GaN/AlN Quantum Disks within a single Nanowire

User Luiz Fernando Zagonel, Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Friday 24 June 2011, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Phylogenetic Inference of Multidomain Evolution

User Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Saturday 18 June 2011, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

User ..

House Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Friday 17 June 2011, 13:00-18:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Aggregation of Gap Junctions

User Prof. Phillip Pincus, Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Controlling the diabetes epidemic. Is screening the way forward?

User Dr Rebecca Simmons, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 06 June 2011, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Porous Multilayers: Novel Multifunctional Optical Materials for Applications

User Dr. Hernán Míguez, Institute of Materials Science of Seville, Spain.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genomes, Structural Biology and Drug Discovery: What Can Academia Contribute?

User Emeritus Professor Sir Tom Blundell, FRS, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 23 May 2011, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Colloidal Gas-Liquid-Solid phase transitions induced by the Critical Casimir Effect

User Dr. Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

User Philip Ball, prizewinning science writer.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 19:00-20:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Allele specific expression design using short read DNA sequencing and application to the genetics of autoimmune disorders

User Vincent Plagnol (UCL).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge University Botanic Garden visit

User Tour guides (Friends of the Botanic Garden).

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Doing Mathematics online, and in the open

User Professor Tim Gowers, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 09 May 2011, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Umbrella Sampling with Laser Tweezers: Measurement of the Pair Potential of Charged Colloidal Stars

User Prof. Seth Fraden ( Brandeis University, USA).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Probing Soft Structures

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~pschall/index.html

User Prof. Peter Schall, vander Waals Zeeman Institute, Univ. Amsterdam.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

DNA Profiling of Horses

Please note this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

User Susan Gurney, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Genes into Geometry: Imaging for mouse phenotyping

User Mark Henkelman, Department of Medical Biophysics and Medical Imaging, University of Toronto.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 April 2011, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

CRUK computational biology day

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 April 2011, 09:00-17:00

Art Cell Gallery Exhibtions

'April is the Cruellest Month...'

User Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury, Stefanie Reichelt, Jim Haseloff, Fernan Federici and Andrea Baczynski.

House ArtCell Gallery @ Caner Research UK.

Saturday 09 April 2011, 12:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Weather, climate and ozone; an Antarctic perspective

User Jonathan Shanklin.

House Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Do modules or pathways help predict breast cancer outcome?

User Gunnar Klau (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 009.

Monday 04 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

From data to bench to bedside - prognostic markers and therapeutic targets in breast cancer

User Gyan Bhanot (Rutgers).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Bird tango

User Professor Nicky Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology.

House Newnham College.

Sunday 27 March 2011, 15:00-18:00

Cambridge Science Festival

You are what you hear: music and the brain

User Dr Harry Witchel, University of Bristol.

House Hicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

Friday 25 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Stromatolites

User Ken McNamara.

House Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Changing nature: a view of Britain and Cambridge

User Norman Maclean, Brian Eversham.

House Hicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

Thursday 24 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The hidden mysteries within the DNA of cancers

User Professor Mike Stratton, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

House Hicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

Wednesday 23 March 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Is evolution predictable?

User Professor Simon Conway Morris, Department of Earth Sciences.

House Hicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

Wednesday 23 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Challenged by carbon: the oil industry and climate change

User Dr Bryan Lovell.

House Hicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

Tuesday 22 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

High Temperature Superconductors

Venue back to normal

User Professor David A Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 21 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Electrochemical detection in nanochannels: a new single-molecule technique

User Prof. Searge J. G. Lemay, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploration and exploitation of the Arctic: hunters and trappers, whalers and sealers

User Bob Headland.

House Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CPERC, who we are, what we do and why it's important for local biodiversity

User John Cornell.

House Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Images from the dawn of science - Observing the origins of modern microscopy

User Prof. Brian J. Ford, President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR).

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 19:00-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Persistence and control of bTB in Great Britain

User Andrew Conlan (Vet School).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mathematics of Complex Systems

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

User Dr Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House The Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 07 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests a risk management strategy for bacterial evolution

User Nicholas Luscombe (EBI).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Monday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Multivariant gradient assemblies of oligomers and polymers on flat surfaces

User Prof. Jan Genzer, North Carolina State University, USA..

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Studying the behaviour of Alpine Ibex

User Catharina Karlsson.

House Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Mechanics and growth of tissues

User Jean-Francois Joanny, Institute Curie.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Peanut Allergies

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

User Dr Andrew Clark, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Addenbrooke's NHS Foundation Trust.

House The Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 21 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins: Regulation and Disease

User Madan Babu (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 21 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Liquid Crystal and Nonequilibrium states in mixed suspensions of mineral colloidal plates and spheres

User Prof. Henk Lekkerkerker, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Madagascan vegetation: an introduction to its richness

User Peter Grubb.

House Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Hayley Wood story up to date

User Oliver Rackham.

House Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE

User Dr Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

House The Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 07 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Theoretical models of the development of the nervous system

User Stephen Eglen (University of Cambridge).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Active Emulsions

User Prof. Seth Fraden, Brandeis University, USA.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lake Victoria, the people and their fisheries

User Inigo Everson.

House Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology

User Various speakers associated with the course.

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 14:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

What have the planets got to do with the metals? Scientific axioms and astrology.

User Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 19:00-20:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Molecular dynamics at nanometric length-scales

User Prof. Fridrich Kremer, University Leipzig, Germany.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 January 2011, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Cryomicroscopy of calicivirus entry

User Dr David Bhella, MRC Virology Unit, Glasgow.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 19 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Molecular dynamics at nanometric length-scales

User Prof. Fridrich Kremer.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 December 2010, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Using association-based genetics to understand basic biology

User Ewan Birney (EBI).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 06 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Kidney Transplantation

User Dr. Frederieke Bemelman, Head of Kidney transplants, Hospital of Amsterdam (AMC), Netherlands.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 December 2010, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical models of signaling networks and their application to disease

User Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EBI).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Human Contact Networks

User Dr Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 29 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Integrative Network Biology and Cellular Information Processing

User Rune Linding (ICR).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 29 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The strange world of low Reynolds numbers: Fluiddynamics at the micron scale

User Professor Holger Stark, Technical University, Berlin.

House The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 09:30-10:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Proteomic and cell biological approaches to the study of clathrin in a vertebrate conditional knockout cell-line

http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?apj10

User Dr. Tony Jackson, Univ. Cambridge, Neuroscience.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 19 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Modelling epidemics: mixing patterns, changing behaviour, and swine flu

User Ken Eames (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Energy in the UK

User Dr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy & Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 15 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The evolution and regulation of gene expression levels in mammals

User John Marioni (EBI).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 15 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Developing cell-scale biomimetic models involving lipid vesicles.

User Miglena Angelova, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 12 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Delights of Chemistry - Spectacular demonstration lecture

User Mike Hoyland, University of Leeds.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 19:00-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Decoding Genetic Switches in T Helper Cell Differentiation

User Sarah Teichmann (LMB).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Executable Strategies for Cellular Decision Making

User Jasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research Europe).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Molecular Modelling of Anaesthetics

This lecture will be preceded by the society's AGM

User Dr Pak-Lee Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, CNRS URA 2185, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 01 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Finding interesting clusters using Bayesian data fusion

User Richard Savage (University of Warwick).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 01 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

self-assembly of colloidal molecules.

User Prof. Willem Kegel, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Plasmon-induced DNA damage?

User Prof. Zdenka Kuncic, University of Sidney.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Can we feed 9 billion?

User Dr John Emsley.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 19:00-20:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Marc Gheoghegan, Reader in Experimental Polymer Science, Univ. Sheffield.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Physiology of Autumn

User Professor Brian J. Ford, President of CSAR.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 18 October 2010, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deconvolving the epigenome

User Thomas Down (Gurdon Institute).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Why is genomics now unfashionable in drug discovery?

User Quin Wills (SimuGen).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

String Theory - A unifying principle in theoretical physics

Please note that this lecture is not at the usual spacetime coordinates.

User Professor Michael Green, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAPTP, University of Cambridge.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site.

Monday 11 October 2010, 17:30-19:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bacterial swarming in Pseudomonas A.: socio-microbiology or hydrodynamics?

User Prof. Jan Vermant, Unive Leuven, Belgium.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Transcriptional characterization of glioma stem cells using high-throughput tag sequencing

User Paul Bertone (EBI).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 04 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolutionary Signatures of Strand Specific Mutagenic Processes

User Paz Polak (MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 September 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Unexpected complex dynamics of cellular transcriptional response

User Amit Zeisel (Weizmann Institute of Science).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 06 September 2010, 16:00-17:00

Fitzwilliam Museum

Work in Progress: Nick Turvey

User Nick Turvey.

House The Fitzwilliam Museum.

Saturday 10 July 2010, 13:15-13:45

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Uncovering signaling differences between normal and transformed hepatocytes using cell-specific pathway models

User Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EBI).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 July 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Accelerated substitution rates in non-coding sequence: Gene duplication, transcription factor binding site turnover and biased gene conversion.

User Dennis Kostka, Gladstone Institute, UCSF.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Friday 02 July 2010, 14:30-15:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Agnes Martin

User Michael Harrison, Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 24 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A quantitative view of gene expression levels and epigenetic modifications

User Sarah Teichmann (University of Cambridge).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 21 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanoplasmonics: Classical oscillator physics at the nanoscale

User Prof. Stefan Maier, Experimental Solid State Group Department of Physics Imperial College London.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Constantin Brancusi

User Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 17 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Guided Tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

TICKETS £7

User Guided Tour.

House Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genomics, Society and Policies

User Dr Ron Zimmern, Director of the Public Health Genetics Unit.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 07 June 2010, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

ChIP-Seq in six Drosophila species reveals a highly similar binding landscape for the developmental transcription factor Twist.

User Alexander Stark (IMP Vienna).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

William Congdon

User Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Saturday 05 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

BSS Formal Seminars

Physical Aspects of Multicellular Behaviour

http://cit.kuleuven.be/ltrk/JV/Homepage_Jan_Vermant.html

User Dr. Knut Drescher, DAMTP, Cambridge, UK.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Agnes Martin

User Michael Harrison, Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

BSS Formal Seminars

Insights into disorder

User Dr. Tomaso Aste, Materials Dept, Univ. Kent.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

Rausing Lecture

From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren

Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Myles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU).

House McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Elisabeth Vellacott

User Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Prostate cancer imaging: from cell to man

User John Kurhanewicz, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Urology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 11:30-12:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Molecular and functional imaging of cancer

User Zaver Bhujwalla, Professor of Radiology and Oncology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 10:45-11:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Magnetic resonance microscopy

User G. Allan Johnson, Charles E. Putman Professor of Radiology, Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Duke University.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 10:00-10:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Happy Danes

Please note that this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

User Dr Luisa Corrado, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Microfluidics: a tool for discovery and development

User Prof. Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

Fitzwilliam Museum

Objects of History: with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum

User Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum.

House The Fitzwilliam Museum.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 18:00-20:00

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

From phenotypes to pathways: inferring genetic architecture from perturbation maps

User Florian Markowetz ( Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 16:30-17:00

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Michele Vendruscolo ( Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 15:30-16:00

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Quantifiying Adaptive Evolution in the Drosophila Immune System

User Frank Jiggins (Department of Genetics).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 14:30-15:00

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Matthew Hurles.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 14:00-14:30

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Gene Expression in Aneuupoid Drosophila

User Brian Oliver (NIH).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 11:45-12:30

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Paul Sternberg (Caltech).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 10:30-11:15

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Gos Micklem, (CCBI, Genetics, CSBC).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 09:00-09:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dynamics of molecular clocks expose the lineage relations of cells

User Shalev Itzkovitz (MIT).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

New Breath: regenerative medicine of the airways

User Prof. M. Birchall, Professor of Laryngology and Consultant Laryngologist at The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and Reader in Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Bristol.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 May 2010, 15:15-16:15

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Henry Moore

User Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 13:10-13:40

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

MERCURY - WINDOW ON THE INVISIBLE

User Dr Andrea Sella, UCL.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Holographic Technologies

User Dr T D Wilkinson, Reader in Photonic Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 10 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Active self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton driven by molecular motors

User Dr. Gijsje Koenderinck.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deep sequencing reveals differential expression of microRNAs in favorable versus unfavorable neuroblastoma

User Sven Rahmann (TU Dortmund).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar Presentations & Networking Event

FREE & OPEN TO ALL

User Claire Stanley, Fionn O'Hara & Simon Beaumont.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 17:00-19:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Meet the Curator

User Elizabeth Fisher, Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 13:10-13:40

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Brood Parasitism

User Dr Clair Spottiswoode, Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 26 April 2010, 19:30-21:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Barbara Hepworth

User Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 13:10-13:40

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A global map of human gene expression

User Alvis Brazma (EBI).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

The Digital Image in Printmaking

User Paul Coldwell.

House Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 15 April 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging studies of dissolution phenomena in pharmaceutical delivery devices

User Mick Mantle, Assistant Director of Research, Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 09 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Italo Valenti

User Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 08 April 2010, 13:10-13:40

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Ultrasound elastography

User Dr Graham Treece (University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 06 April 2010, 11:15-11:45

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Nicholas le Novere (EBI).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 06 April 2010, 09:30-10:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Tim Head: Raw Material

User Elizabeth Fisher, Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

Thursday 25 March 2010, 13:10-13:40

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

User Francesca D. Ciccarelli Professor of Cancer Genomics | King’s College London| The Francis Crick Institute.

House CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Thursday 25 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

When is a structure a musical instrument? Adventures in tuned percussion

User Jim Woodhouse (Department of Engineering).

House Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 17 March 2010, 18:00-19:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Learning the structure of graphical models with latent variables

User Zoubin Ghahramani (University of Cambridge).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 15 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Winifred Nicholson

User Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 13:10-13:40

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

O the noise, noise, Noise, NOISE!

User Christopher Hicks (CEDAR Audio Ltd).

House Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 18:00-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Characterization of 1000 breast cancer genomes and transcriptomes

User Dr Christina Curtis (University of Cambridge).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

All CMS Events

"Bioinformatics in the Pharmaceutical Industry"

User Various speakers from GSK.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

Monday 08 March 2010, 13:00-17:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 4

User Lutz Becker - Kettle's Yard Curatorial Fellow.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 13:10-13:40

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Ed Bullmore, Department of Psychiatry.

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Building in the UK

User David Adamson, Director of Smarter Construction in the Office of Government Commerce.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 01 March 2010, 19:30-21:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Alfred Wallis

User Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

BSS Formal Seminars

Wires, Reporters and Information Capsules: Cellular journalism with DNA.

User Dr. Yamuna Krishnan ( National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India).

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 19 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 3

User Michael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Imaging Cancer

Please note this week the lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

User Dr Kevin Brindle, Cancer Research Institute/Dept. Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 February 2010, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Next generation computing for next generation sequencing

User Arndt von Haeseler (Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 15 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

How disordered is a pile of marbles? Numerical techniques to quantify disorder.

User Prof. Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge, Theoretical Chemistry.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 12 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ben Nicholson's prints and textiles

User Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

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

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 2

User Lutz Becker - Kettle's Yard Curatorial Fellow.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Stem Cells: Overcoming the Embryo

Please Note this lecture is not on a Monday

User Professor Austin Smith, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 02 February 2010, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Analysing the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs in vivo by upgrading in vitro data based on mathematical modelling

User Wilhelm Huisinga, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 01 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

What keeps sand-castles standing? The physics of wet granular matter

User Prof. Stefan Herminghaus, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's Drawings

User Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 13:10-13:40

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

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 1

User Michael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational Lensing

User Dr Lindsay King, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 18 January 2010, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

In Vivo studies with Optical Tweezers

User Prof. Lene B. Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

New Approaches to Biomedical Data Modelling: An Introductory Tutorial

User Christopher M. Bishop (Microsoft Research, Cambridge).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

DNA homology recognition: love on first sight

User Prof. Alexei A. Kornyshev, Imperial College London.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 December 2009, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri

User Lizzie Fisher, exhibitions curator Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 13:10-13:40

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

The Nature of the Structural Phase Transition in SrFe2As2 Determined by Measurement of the Local Order Parameter using Transmission Electron Microscopy

User Dr James Loudon, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Robotic Surgery

User Professor David Neal, Professor of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Research UK.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 30 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Roger Hilton exhibition tour

User Michael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 13:10-13:40

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Induced stress due to focused ion beam milling and minimum feature sizes

User Dr Richard Langford, Dept of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 15:00-16:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Constantin Brancusi

User Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 13:10-13:40

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Designer Zeolites

User Mike Treacy, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Dept of Materials, Oxford and Dept of Physics, Arizona State University, USA.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Laser Photonics

Please note the return to our usual venue

User Dr Bill O'Neill, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 16 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Flow-Induced “Shish-kebab” Formation: A New-Scenario of Kinetic Pathways for􀀁Entangled Polymer Solutions

User Takeji Hashimoto, Prof. Emeritus, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 16 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Intracellular signalling in a molecular jungle: insights from bacterial chemotaxis

User Prof. Dennis Bray.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

William Congdon

User Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 13:10-13:40

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Electron Tomography for novel nanostructures

User Dr Juan-Carlos Hernandez, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Colloidal Characterization and Thermodynamic Stability of Binary Protein Mixtures

User Prof. Giuseppe Foffi.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

SPECTACULAR CHEMISTRY LECTURE

Free & open to all (suitable for families)

User Dr Hal Sosabowski, University of Brighton.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 19:00-20:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Performance, self and memory in relation to Helena Almeida’s work

User Elena Cologni, artist.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 13:10-13:40

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

FIB/SEM 3D applications: a progress report

User Dr Martin Ritter, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

Please note our temporary venue

User Quentin Cooper, Presenter of BBC's "Material World".

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 02 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Biochemical network reconstruction from data

User Jorge Goncalves, Department of Engineering.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineered protein pores as components of soft micromachines

User Hagan Bayley.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Naum Gabo

User Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Future electron imaging detectors for radiation sensitive samples

User Dr Greg McMullan,MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 27 October 2009, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Cells Under the Tip

http://www.pellinglab.net/people.htm

User Prof. Andrew E. Pelling, University of Ottawa, Canada.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Helena Almeida: Writing the Body

(a Festival of Ideas event)

User Dr Alyce Mahon, author and art historian.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Precession Electron Diffraction in the Transmission Electron Microscope

User Dr Alex Eggeman, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House Pfizer Seminar Room [4th floor], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plagiarism in Science

Please note our temporary venue

User Professor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR.

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 19 October 2009, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin

User Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Cryo Electron Microscopy: From Molecules to Systems

User Professor Wolfgang Baumeister, MPI of Biochemistry, Head of Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Martinsried/Germany.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Introduction to Kettle's Yard

User Michael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Determining the optical properties of atmospheric carbon species using low-loss EELS

Room changed

User Dr Duncan Alexander, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

House Pfizer Seminar Room [4th floor], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 13 October 2009, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Dipolar Gels

User Dr Mark Miller (University of Cambridge).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Helena Almeida and recent Portuguese photography

User Paulo Catrica, photographer.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 08 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Tumour/Normal Pair Analysis with the Illumina Genome Analyzer

User Dirk Evers and Keira Cheetham (Illumina Cambridge Ltd.).

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

HUNTING THE ANTISOCIAL CANCER CELL

Free & open to all

User Prof. Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 October 2009, 19:00-20:00

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Point-of-Care Testing: Challenge and Opportunity in Resource-Limited Settings

Discussion 13:00 – 14:00 (lunch provided)

User Dr. Trevor Peter (Senior Advisor, Diagnostics) and Ms. Maurine Murtagh (Director of Diagnostics), The Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI).

House National Blood Service Centre, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Site, Long Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 September 2009, 12:00-13:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin

User Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 September 2009, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Radiation damage in metals and polymers

User R.F. Egerton University of Alberta and National Institute for Nanotechnology Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Wednesday 16 September 2009, 15:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

TALES FROM THE BREWHOUSE

Tickets £5 (over 18s only)

Limited numbers. Tickets: Adults £5. Under 16s £3.

User Botanic Garden guides.

House Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 18:30-21:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Alfred Wallis

User Sebastiano Barassi, Curator.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 13:10-13:40

Scientific Images Discussion Group

'Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy' (1804)

User Melanie Keene.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 10:30-12:30

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Is art historical methodology useful for HPS and how could it be applied?

User Mirjam Brusius.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 10:30-12:30

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Topological keystone species: network analysis in modern systems ecology

User Ferenc Jordán, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 June 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Complexity and Robustness in Colonies of Agents: A Formal Languages and a Game Theory Approach

User Matteo Cavaliere, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 June 2009, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Happy Danes!" A scientific analysis of the recent EU survey into income and contentment

User Dr Luisa Corrado (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge ).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 08 June 2009, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Executable Pathway to Biological Networks

User Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 08 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The Flexibility Window in Networks and Proteins

User Prof. Mike Thorpe, Arizona State University.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 08 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Chemically modifying surfaces and biomolecules for nanopore analysis

User Dr Stefan Howorka, Department of Chemistry, University College London.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Just one more try will do it!" The Psychology of Gambling

Rescheduled from February

User Dr Luke Clarke (Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 01 June 2009, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Survival of the aligned: Modeling the cortical microtubule array in plant cells

User Bela Mulder, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wageningen University.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Winifred Nicholson

User Sebastiano Barassi, Curator.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 13:10-13:40

Scientific Images Discussion Group

A (visual) tour of the wisdom of the human eye with Robert Boyle

User Alexander Wragge-Morley.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 01:00-03:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Visualizing nature: Marianne North's botanical portraits at Kew

User Katie Zimmerman.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 01:00-03:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Bringing new medicines to market" How the biopharmaceutical industry works

User Dr Melanie Lee DSc (Hon) FMedSci (Executive Vice President of Research and Development, UCB Belgium ).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Tuesday 26 May 2009, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nucleation and growth of insulin fibrils in bulk solution and at hydrophobic polystyrene surfaces

User Dr. James Sharp, School of Physics and Astronomy and Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre, University of Nottingham.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Exhibition Tour

User Elizabeth Fisher, Curator of Exhibitions.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 13:10-13:40

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Study disease-causing genes based on protein-protein interaction networks

User Phuong Nguyen, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Stochastic simulation algorithms and analysis of biological systems

User Sean Sedwards, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Drinks & Flip Chart Session

User Organisers.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Keynote 2: Dark matter and the dark arts

User Professor David Baulcombe, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 16:45-17:30

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Future Steps

User Dr Gos Micklem.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 16:15-16:45

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 4: Counting and comparing

Workshop covers peak calling, segmentation , enrichment, differential expression, normalisation, transcriptomics, ChIPseq.

User Dr Krys Kelly (Lead).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 15:15-16:15

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 3: Assembly / Structural variation

Workshop covers de novo assemblers, paired end data, integrating data from different technologies, structural variation.

User Aylwyn Scally (Lead).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 13:30-14:45

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Lunch & Flip Chart Session

User Lunch.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 2: Alignment

Workshop covers: Speed, sensitivity, alignment formats, repeats, SNPs, indels.

User Mario Caccamo (Lead).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Keynote 1: Computational issues in ancient genomics

User Dr Ed Green, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 10:15-11:00

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 1: Data Production

Workshop covers Primary pipeline processing: quality scores, multiplexing; Data management: metadata, data storage, data delivery.

User Rory Stark (Lead).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 09:15-10:15

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Registration

User Organisers.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 08:45-09:10

BSS Formal Seminars

Thick & thin: physics of polymers with sticky ends.

User Prof. Martien Cohen Stuart, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

The state of PET for experimental medicine in oncology - current challenges

User Professor Pat Price, Ralston Paterson Professor of Radiation Oncology, Christie Hospital, University of Manchester.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Picturing points: geometric imagination in the first English translations of Euclid's Elements

User Michael Barany.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 01:00-03:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Doughnut holes and paper cut-outs: image, visualization and manipulation in low dimensional topology

User Gerardo Con Diaz.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 01:00-03:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Model Abstraction Methodology for Temporal Behavior Analysis of Multiscale Biological Systems

User Hiroyuki Kuwahara, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Chemotaxis. Do we understand it all?

User Orkun Soyer, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Life in the Colonies" Social insects and their relevance to human behavior

User Professor Francis Ratneiks (Professor of Apiculture, University of Sussex ).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 11 May 2009, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Code Underlying Tissue-Regulated Splicing

User Brendan Frey, University of Toronto.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 11 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Non-equilibrium fluctuations and mechanics of active gels and living cells

User Fred Mackintosh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Assessing responses to cancer therapy using molecular imaging magnetic resonance methods

User Kevin Brindle and John Griffiths, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

House CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 09:30-10:30

Scientific Images Discussion Group

The historiography of the scientific image

User Chitra Ramalingam.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 01:00-03:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Images of blood transfusion in wartime London

User Nick Whitfield.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 01:00-03:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"The Venetians certainly knew about building" The extraordinary and enduring properties of Lime Mortar

User Professor Geoff Allen (University of Bristol).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 27 April 2009, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Two-dimensional colloidal systems in optical and magnetic fields

User Roel Dullens, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 April 2009, 14:15-15:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ART MEETS SCIENCE – THE STORY OF LAPIS LAZULI & ULTRAMARINE

Free & open to all.

User Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton-Kerr Institute, Cambridge.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 19:00-20:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Christopher Wood

User Sebastiano Barassi.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 13:10-13:40

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Dynamics of cell cycle transitions

User Attila Csikasz-Nagy, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 April 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Exploiting non-Markovian Bio-Processes within BlenX

User Davide Prandi, CoSBi.

External Conference. Registration is required

User Programme to be Confirmed.

House MR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 09:30-17:30

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

KInfer and BetaWB: tools for supporting the modeling workflow of Biological Systems

User Alida Palmisano, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 31 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

David Ward

User Michael Harrison.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 26 March 2009, 13:10-13:40

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

A Framework study of the NF-kB signalling pathway

User Adaoha Ihekwaba, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

On the deduction of chemical reaction rate constants from measurements of time series of concentration

User Paola Lecca, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 24 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The nature of life - a scientific debate

User Professor Lewis Wolpert and Dr Rupert Sheldrake.

House Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Friday 20 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Quantum

User Manjit Kumar.

House Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Friday 20 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Animals and ourselves

User Professor Aubrey Manning.

House Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Friday 20 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Development of copper markers for PET imaging of tumour hypoxia

User Martin Christlieb, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Cafe Scientifique: can we read minds?

Age 12+ (www.neuromedia.eu)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House The Michaelhouse, Trinity Street.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 19:30-21:30

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 Science Festival

What is consciousness for?

User Chris Frith, Professor in Neuropsychology.

House William Harvey Lecture Theatre, The Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The cosmic century; a history of astrophysics and cosmology

User Professor Malcolm Longair.

House Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

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 Science Festival

Small and beautiful: Alex Hopkins lecture

User Professor Brian Johnson.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb lecture theatre, University Chemical Laboratory.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

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

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

ReCollection: Kettle's Yard Oral History Project

User Sarah Campbell and Robert Wilkinson.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 13:10-13:40

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

Cambridge Science Festival

Quantum anomalies and the origin of time

User Professor Shahn Majid.

House Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Wednesday 18 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Chemistry saves lives

User Dr Tony Wood, Vice President and Worldwide Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Entering the ecological age

Pre book (rsdevents@rsd.cam.ac.uk)

User Peter Head, Director of Planning and Integrated Urbanism.

House Engineering Department.

Wednesday 18 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Statistics are either dull or wrong:discuss

User Professor David Spiegelhalter.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 March 2009, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Darwin's Islands: In Darwin's footsteps to the Galapagos

Ages 12+, Pre book (tel 01223 364721 ext 66147, email: ro6-Outreach@open.ac.uk

User Dr David Robinson.

House The Open University in the East of England, Hills Road.

Tuesday 17 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Carbon neutral communities

Pre book (rsdevents@rsd.cam.ac.uk)

A taste of teaching: D&T and Sciences

This event is for adults only

User Elaine Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Science Education and Raza Shah, Subject Lecturer in Design and Technology Education.

House Facutly of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

'A function of the time': the Cavendish Society and its Postprandial Proceedings

User Jeff Hughes (University of Manchester).

House Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 17:30-19:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Arp's Sculptural Concretions

User Eric Robertson.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge Science Festival

Making the most of our minds

User Sponsored by Science AAAS.

House Judge Business School.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Marshall - one hundred years in Cambridge

User Terry Holloway.

House University Centre.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

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

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Evolutionary computation: optimization and inference

User Michele Forlin, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Curious – Looking at Microscopy through Craft and Technology

User Susanna Edwards (Science Museum London).

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Time flies: Exploring Visual Links between Hummingbird Iconography and the Aztec Calendar

User Iris Montero Sobrevilla (HPS).

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Darwin in a global context

User Professor Jim Secord and Professor John Parker.

House University Centre.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

EESCN question time - stem cell special

Pre book (please visit www.eescn.org.uk)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House CRI Auditorium, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 20:00-21:30

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

What soft matter physics can give and take from cell biology

User Dr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge).

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Visual systems biology: design, understand, organize

User Lorenzo Dematté, CoSBi.

House Large public lecture room, Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Can science beat terrorism?

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Monday 09 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

'Orphan diseases' and research collaborations in global health innovation

User Dr Monica Konrad, Director of PLACEB-O.

House The Michaelhouse, Trinity Street.

Monday 09 March 2009, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Why do we like to eat?

User Dr Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Addenbrookes.

House University Centre.

Monday 09 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Identification of structure-conserving correlated motions in the β-sheet of ubiquitin

User Xavier Salvatella, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, IRB Barcelona.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Curator's Tour of The Roundhouse of International Spirits

User Sebastiano Barassi.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 13:10-13:40

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

What does a living cell know of itself?

User Dennis Bray, Department of PDN, University of Cambridge.

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 03 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Where is it safe to go on holiday?" Antigenic Cartography; a mathematical method for mapping the spread of viruses

User Professor Derek Smith (Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 02 March 2009, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The Molecular Mechanism of Nuclear Protein Import

User Dr Murray Stewart, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ben and Winifred Nicolson in Winter

User Michael Harrison.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

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

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Physics of Multicellularity

User Prof Ray Goldstein ( DAMTP, Cambridge).

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR CANCER PATIENTS

Free & open to all

User Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald, Hutchison-MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Research Centre, Cambridge.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 19:00-20:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Julius Bissier

User Sebastiano Barassi.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Magnificent pas de deux: spindle orientation in yeast - ACT I

User Marisa Segal, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Genetics and Cancer" The BRCA2 gene (discovered by Professor Stratton and his team), and its involvement in human breast and prostate cancer

User Professor Michael Stratton (Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Head of the Cancer Genome Project).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 16 February 2009, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Linked Oscillators in Circadian Biology

User Dr. Alex Webb (Plant Sciences).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 16 February 2009, 15:00-16:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Italo Valenti

User Sebastiano Barassi.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

Scientific Images Discussion Group

When Nature Begins to Write Herself: German Romantics Read the Electrophore

User Antje Pfannkuchen (NYU).

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 11 February 2009, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Forms and Flows of Ferrofluids

User Dr Reinhard Richter, Experimentalphysik 5, Universität Bayreuth, Germany.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update

Please note change of venue

User Various speakers.

House Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

Friday 06 February 2009, 14:00-17:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Hans Richter

User Sebastiano Barassi.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

Computational and Systems Biology

Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology

User Various speakers.

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 14:00-16:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Mars Globes and the Canal Controversy

User Joshua Nall (HPS).

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 11:00-12:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Cell movements in reshaping tissues

User Alexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ben Nicholson and William Scott

User Michael Harrison.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 13:10-13:40

Computational and Systems Biology

Better multiple sequence alignment by being phylogeny-aware, and better base calling from next-generation sequencers

User Nick Goldman (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 January 2009, 15:00-16:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Human Art and Natural Beauty in eighteenth-century Microscopy

User Florence Grant (King's College London).

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 28 January 2009, 11:00-12:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Mapping Morphogenesis

User Richard Adams (University of Cambridge).

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Canceled

User Dr James Sharp, School of Physics and Astronomy and Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre , University of Nottingham.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Diagnostic and prognostic MRS-based biomarkers for brain tumours: human and animal model studies

User Carles Arús, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

House Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 23 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Curator's Tour of The Roundhouse of International Spirits

User Sebastiano Barassi.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 13:10-13:40

Computational and Systems Biology

Pathogen Genome Sequencing at the Sanger Institute

User Dr. Arnab Pain.

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 15:00-16:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

On Automatic Quantitative Verification of Biological Systems

Time changed

User Paolo Ballarini, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

BlenX, a language based approach for modelling biological systems

User Roberto Larcher, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

The Historiography of the Scientific Image

User Chitra Ramalingam (Harvard University).

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Precision and exploration in assembling neural circuits

User Michael Bate (University of Cambridge).

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"We know who you are, from the way you sound" Computer voice-recognition systems and what they can do

This lecture is joint with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

User Dr Kirsty McDougall (Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 19 January 2009, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Experiments on cytoskeletal and “Recombinase” motors

User Dr Giovanni Cappello, Institut Curie, France.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physics of Living Matter 3

registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you

User registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 16 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Heterogeneity and transcriptional noise in cell populations

User One Day Special Meeting - see abstract for details.

House Department of Genetics.

Monday 15 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Angiogenesis imaging for human drug development: decision making tools or decorations?

User Anwar Padhani, Consultant Radiologist and Head of Imaging Research, Paul Strickland Scanner Centre, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood.

House Lecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Friday 12 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BIOFUELS – A VIABLE APPROACH TO CARBON REDUCTION?

User Dr Bruce Tofield, CRed, UEA Norwich.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 December 2008, 19:00-20:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Christmas Quiz

Canceled

User Speakers to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 11 December 2008, 17:30-19:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Understanding shape and traction of adherent cells

User Prof. Ulrich Schwarz, University of Karlsruhe & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & University of Heidelberg, Germany.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 December 2008, 14:15-15:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

A new player in the orchestra of cell growth: SREBP activity is regulated by mTORC1 and contributes to the regulation of cell and organ size

User Almut Schulze, Gene Expression Analysis Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute.

House Room 215, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Friday 05 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

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

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Biology in five dimensions - the evolution of development

User Michael Akam, Museum of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

User Prof David J C Mackay (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 01 December 2008, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

A singular view of DNA transactions

User Dr Gijs Wuite, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

OBESITY - A GROWING PROBLEM

User David Haslam, MB BS, National Obesity Forum.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 19:00-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

"Studying human variation from whole genome sequence data".

User Richard Durbin, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre.

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 15:00-16:00

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

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Documentary sociology: Mass-Observation as aesthetic science

User Boris Jardine (HPS).

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 11:00-01:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Network Biology

User Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Computational and Systems Biology

" The dynamics of parasite-mediated competition"

User Olivier Restif, CIDC, The Veterinary School, University of Cambridge.

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 15:00-16:00

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

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Exactness and Approximation of the Stochastic Simulation Algorithm

User Ivan Mura, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 11:00-12:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Stochasticity in stem and progenitor cell fate

User Ben Simons, TCM The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Colonies of Synchronizing Agents: Computability and Robustness

User Radu Mardare, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

“What goes round comes round” Making wind turbines from renewable materials

User Dr Jim Platts (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 17 November 2008, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Rare events and the flipping of genetic switches

User Dr Rosalind Allen, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Title to be confirmed

User Speakers to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 17:30-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

User Kojiro Yano.

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 15:00-16:00

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

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Methodology and the visual image

Please note the different time

User Geoff Belknap (HPS).

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 10:30-01:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

On allegories and vanities, and the connections between science, art and collecting in the Spanish Baroque culture

Please note the different time

User Jose Ramon Marcaida (Madrid).

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 10:30-01:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Molecular bases and function of cellular heterogeneity in development

User Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Designing Molecular Swimmers

User Prof. Ramin Golestanian, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Fireworks and Waterworks! Lecture & demonstration.

User Dr Andy Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 19:00-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Type 1 Diabetes research, before and after association studies

User Vincent Plagnol, CIMR, University of Cambridge.

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 15:00-16:00

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

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Transcriptional noise in gene regulatory networks

User Lawrence Wernisch, MRC Biostatistical Unit, Cambridge.

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Something’s come up": The Discovery of New Drugs, (including Cardura, Norvasc and Viagra)

User Dr Simon Campbell CBE (Former President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Former Pfizer Senior Vice-President for Discovery).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 03 November 2008, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Biological Photonics: Controlling the Flow of Colour

User Dr Peter Vukusic, School of Physics, University of Exeter.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 31 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900

User Torben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 17:30-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Simultaneous Determination of Protein Structure and Dynamics

User Dr. Michele Vendruscolo, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 15:00-16:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Biophysics of behaviourally defined neurocircuits

User Dennis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

What makes cellular decisions irreversible?

User Prof. Béla Novák, University of Oxford.

House Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

How plasmids cope with noise in the bacterial cell

Note unusual time

User David Summers, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 15:00-16:30

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Computational analysis of the connection between cell cycle and circadian rhythm

User Judit Zámborszky, CoSBi.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Intelligence and the Living Cell": Adaptive behaviour and decision-making by single cells

User Professor Brian J Ford (President of CSAR).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 20 October 2008, 19:30-21:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Title to be confirmed

User Speakers to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 17:30-19:30

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

Scientific Images Discussion Group

The visual language of geology, 1760-1840

User Martin Rudwick (HPS).

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 11:00-01:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Isaac Newton's architectural drawings of the Temple of Solomon

User Alexander Wragge-Morley (HPS).

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 11:00-01:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

DNA beyond the double helix

User Julian Huppert, Biological and Soft Systems, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

House Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture: "Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scale"

This lecture is jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

User Professor Jeremy J Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre Department of Physics. University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 13 October 2008, 17:30-19:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The biophysical properties of microtubules and their technological potential

User Prof. Jack Tuszynski, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Molecules of Murder

User Dr John Emsley.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 October 2008, 19:00-20:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative

User Professor Roger Pedersen, Centre for Regenerative Medicine.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 16:30-17:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Cambridge Physics of Medicine Initiative

registration is required for this event

User Professor Athene Donald, Director, Centre for Physics of Medicine.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 16:00-16:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Synthetic Biology

User Professor Peter Leadley (Department of Biochemistry).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 13:30-14:00

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

Horizon: Bioengineering

Health Technologies KTN: working together to accelerate innovation in healthcare

User Professor Mehdi Tavakoli, Health Technologies KTN.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:45-12:15

Horizon: Bioengineering

Collagen mechanics: from basic understanding to clinical applications

registration is required for this event

User Dr Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:15-11:45

Horizon: Bioengineering

Systems Biology: from models (and model organisms) to medicines

User Professor Steve Oliver, Centre for Systems Biology.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 10:45-11:15

Horizon Seminars

Bioengineering

Registration is required

User Programme to be confirmed.

House MR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 09:30-17:30

Computational and Systems Biology

RNA editing in plant organelles: Correlation between editing sites and protein three-dimensional structures

Ectopic seminar - N.B. in Biochemistry Department

User Kei Yura (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo).

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building (old building).

Tuesday 30 September 2008, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

A Scientific Wine Tasting - The Maturation of Port and Madeira Wines

User Luke Webster.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 September 2008, 19:00-20:00

9th Cambridge Immunology Forum - Visions of Immunology

Imaging pH in vivo

To register for this meeting go to http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/nephrology/teaching/roche.html

User Kevin Brindle, University of Cambridge.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 September 2008, 12:00-12:20

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Development tools for mobile devices

User Alexander Griekspoor (mekentosj.com), Alistair de B Clarkson (nCipher).

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 18 September 2008, 17:30-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Uncovering design principles of bacterial biochemical networks and biofilm self-organization

Ectopic seminar - N.B. in Biochemistry Department

User Oleg Igoshin (Rice University).

House Seminar Room, Biochemistry Department (Sanger Building), Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 18 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology - Student Project Presentations

User MPhil Students.

House Fletcher-Moulton Room at Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road.

Wednesday 27 August 2008, 09:30-14:45

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology - Student Project Presentations

User MPhil Students.

House Fletcher-Moulton Room at Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road.

Tuesday 26 August 2008, 09:30-17:00

Cambridge Cell Biology Seminar Series

Imaging lysosome dynamics

User Professor Dr Judith Klumperman, Cell Microscopy Center, Dept of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Utrecht.

House The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Monday 04 August 2008, 16:30-17:30

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Field Programmable Gate Arrays

POSTPHONED TO LATER IN THE YEAR

User Speakers to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 17 July 2008, 17:30-19:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Strain Measurement in Electronic Devices by Transmission Electron Microscopy

User Florian Hue, CEMES-CNRS, Tououse, France.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 15 July 2008, 12:00-13:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Advanced Electron Microscopy for Nanomaterials

User Dr Ilke Arslan, Sandia National Laboratories, USA.

House Austin Lecture Theatre, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Monday 14 July 2008, 15:00-16:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Novel molecular switches for optical research on living cells

User Dr Gerard Marriott.

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 10 July 2008, 16:15-17:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Quantitative elemental mapping in biological systems

User Maria Aronova, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institute of Health, United States of America.

House Austin Lecture Theatre, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Monday 30 June 2008, 15:00-16:00

Craik Club

Identifying novel boundaries within cognitive architecture via repetition suppression brain imaging

User Scott Grafton, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara.

House Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Thursday 26 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Atomic Structure of Nanoparticles and Their Surfaces

User Prof. Jian Min Zuo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, United States of America.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Thursday 26 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Structural analysis of cells and viruses at molecular resolution with 3D electron microscopy

User Dr Sriram Subramaniam.

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 25 June 2008, 16:15-17:30

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Modelling and simulation of biological systems with COPASI

User Prof. Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester.

House Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Optical force and torque on a spheroid: Generalized Lorenz Mie Theory

User Dr Feng Xu, TU Darmstadt, Germany.

House Edwards Room, Bragg building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 23 June 2008, 14:30-15:30

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Workflow processing

User Speakers to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 17:30-19:30

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Mouse Genome Informatics Database: Phenotypes and Phenotype Ontology

User Prof. Janan Eppig, The Jackson Laboratory.

House WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 12:20-12:50

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Towards an Open Source Disease Ontology

http://diseaseontology.sf.net/

User Prof. Warren Kibbe (Northwestern University) & Prof. Lynn Schriml (U. Maryland School of Medicine).

House WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:10-11:50

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

The OBO Foundry and PATO

User Prof. Michael Ashburner (University of Cambridge).

House WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:50-11:10

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Ontologies for Biologists – The Promise and the Reality

User Prof. Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridge (and former joint head of EMBL-EBI).

House WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:30-10:50

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Wellcome and Background to Meeting

User Prof. Janet Thornton & Dr. Dominic Clark (EMBL-EBI).

House WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:15-10:30

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Registration and Tea/Coffee

User There is no Registration Fee but pre-registration is requested.

House WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 09:30-10:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Optically-assisted interrogation of cells

User Dr Lynn Paterson, Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Modernist aesthetics, Marxist science

User Boris Jardine.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 12:00-01:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Topographical anatomy and the visual culture of Edinburgh obstetrics

User Salim Al-Gailani.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 11:00-12:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Case Studies III from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science

User Various speakers.

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

Thursday 12 June 2008, 11:00-16:00

BRC Seminar Series

Towards imaging genomics for Alzheimer's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis

User Prof Paul Matthew, Imperial College London.

House Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Addenbrookes.

Wednesday 11 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Quadruplexes. What else ?

User Dr Jean-Louis Mergny, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle USM 503, Regulation et Dynamique des Genomes, Paris, France.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Horizon Seminars

China (day 2)

registration is required

User Horizon Speakers.

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 June 2008, 09:30-17:30

Horizon Seminars

The story of jades.

Part of the China Horizon event (this talk open to non-delegates).

User Dr James Lin, Fitzwilliam Museum.

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 18:30-19:30

Horizon Seminars

China

Registration is required

User Horizon Speakers.

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 09:30-17:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

The scientific detection of forgery in paintings

User Prof. Jehane Ragai, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 15:00-16:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Designing Self-Propelled Polymeric Capsules and Gels

User Prof Anna C Balazs, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

What comes next in biological microscopy?

User Brad Amos, MRC Molecular Biology Cambridge.

House Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Structural analysis of cellular networks

User Prof. Jörg Stelling, ETH Zürich.

House Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Force generation at dynamic microtubule ends

User Prof Marileen Dogterom, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, AmsterdamThe Netherlands.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR

LIMITED SPACES SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Cambridge Botanic Garden.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 18:30-20:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Guide dogs for the sighted: the role of canis familiaris in constructing images of Victorian town and country

User Allison Ksiazkiewicz, David Allan Feller.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 11:00-01:00

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Genomic Regulatory Network Models for Developing Blood Stem Cells

User Dr. Bertie Gottgens (Haematology).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 16:25-17:10

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Mapping quantitative traits in mice and plants

User Richard Mott (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 15:40-16:25

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Biological learning and memory from a theoretical perspective

User Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department, University of Cambridge).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 14:35-15:20

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Evolution of protein complexes and protein interaction networks

User Sarah Teichmann (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 13:50-14:35

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

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Quantum Mechanical Simulations of Biochemistry

User Gabor Csanyi (Engineering Department, University of Cambridge).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 12:05-12:50

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Collective Hydrodynamics of Swimming Micro-Organisms

User Tim Pedley (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 11:20-12:05

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Signals, Gradients and Cellular Architecture

User Karen Lipkow (Cambridge Systems Biology Centre & Biochemistry Department).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 10:15-11:00

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Determinants of tissue-specific transcriptional regulation in a transplanted chromosome

User Duncan Odom (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 09:30-10:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

PET/MR: a new modality for molecular imaging

User Adrian Carpenter, Head of MRI, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre and Reader in Imaging Sciences, Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

House Lecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Friday 16 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ALL IN THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE - THE SCIENCE OF FOOD & FLAVOUR

User Dr Len Fisher, University of Bristol.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 19:00-20:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Productivity Applications

User tbc.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 17:30-19:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Reverse engineering cell mechanics

User Prof. Daniel Fletcher, UC Berkeley, USA.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"I was nowhere near there at the time Guv - honest"

User Professor Sir Bob Hepple, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, former Master of Clare College.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 12 May 2008, 19:30-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

A TEM and SAXS/USAXS study of particle growth of a mesoporous silica

User Viveka Alfredsson, Lund University, Sweden.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Monday 12 May 2008, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Capillary-Gravity Waves

User Elie Raphael, ESPCI, Paris, France.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Scientific Images Discussion Group

The problem with periodicals in the 19th century

User Geoff Belknap.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 12:00-01:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Portrait of a spark: William Armstrong's photographs of electricity (1897)

User Chitra Ramalingam.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 11:00-12:00

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Modelling Self-Assembled Polymer Composites

User Dr Nigel Clarke, Department of Chemistry, Durham University.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

An ingenious gadget from a Greek musical theorist's workshop

User Andrew Barker (University of Birmingham).

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

Thursday 01 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

www.Antibodies_Direct.com

User Dr Jonathan Milner, Abcam plc, Cambridge Science Park.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 28 April 2008, 19:30-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Use of mesoporous materials to overcome reactant incompatibility and for homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis

User Prof. Krister Holmberg, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Friday 25 April 2008, 15:00-16:00

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

FlyMine, InterMine and databases for biology.

User Richard Smith, Flymine, Dept of Genetics.

House Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 25 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

A robustness-based approach to systems-oriented drug design

User Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories.

House Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Jan Vermeer's images of scientists and Pascal's "esprit de finesse": art, philosophy and science in the Dutch Golden Age

User Mirjam Brusius.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:00-01:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Editing early-modern astronomical diagrams

User Boris Jardine.

House Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:00-12:00

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

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Functional Programming

User Various Speakers.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 17 April 2008, 17:30-19:30

CAPE-CIKC Advanced Technology Lectures

Local Probe Techniques - Keys to the Nanoworld

User Prof. Heinrich Hoerber (University of Bristol, UK).

House Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, 9, JJ Thomson Ave..

Friday 11 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Wolfgang Huber from the EBI will be talking on the vsn method.

User Wolfgang Huber, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus.

House Lecture Room, Sanger Building, Biochemistry Department.

Monday 07 April 2008, 14:15-13:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Extraction and classification of cellular and genetic phenotypes from automated microscopy data

Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data

User Huber, W (EBI).

House Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 02 April 2008, 11:30-12:30

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Molecular arms race between host and parasite leads to evolution of robustness against gene loss in signaling networks

User Dr Orkun Soyer, CoSBi.

House Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Wicken Fen: the science behind the vision

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House University Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge.

Thursday 20 March 2008, 18:30-19:30

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

SciComp minitalks

Meeting Room 4, CMS

User tbc.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 March 2008, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Science and technology in international development

User Professor David King, Tim Radford, Peter Head.

House Cripps Court, Chesterton Lane, Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Quirkology: weird psychology

User Professor Richard Wiseman.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Kettle's Yard Talks and Lectures

Design at Ogle

User Tom Karen.

House Kettle's Yard.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Happiness and heartbreak

User Dr Nick Baylis; Professor Martin Cowie.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

The Fact and Fiction of Robots

User Kathleen Richardson, Department of Social Anthropology.

House Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 16:30-17:00

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Is there anything 'computers still can't do' and does it matter?

User Professor Alison Adam, nformation Systems, Organisations and Society Research Centre, University of Salford.

House Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 16:00-16:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Bonding at screw dislocations in b.c.c. metals studied by electron energy loss spectroscopy

User Suneel Motru, University of Liverpool & SuperSTEM, Daresbury.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 15:00-16:00

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Can Machines Reason?

User Dr Mateja Jamnik, The Computer Laboratory.

House Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 14:45-15:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Learning Language, Evolving languages

User Professor Ted Briscoe, The Computer Laboratory.

House Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 14:45-15:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Making Machines That See

User Professor Roberto Cipolla, Department of Engineering.

House Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 14:15-14:45

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Caching Decisions: What Jays Know About Other Minds and Other Times

User Professor Nicola Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology.

House Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 12:45-13:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Learning to Play: Machine Learning in Games

User Dr Thore Graepel, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

House Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 12:15-12:45

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Reverse-Engineering the Human Motor System

User Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering.

House Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 11:45-12:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Synapse Machines and Mental State

User Professor Seth Grant, The Sanger Institute.

House Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 10:00-10:30

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Memory - Storing associations between items? Insights from a normative perspective

User Dr Máté Lengyel, Department of Engineering.

House Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 09:30-10:00

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Cognitive Information Retrieval Systems

User Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering.

House Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 09:00-09:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Not Mammoth Steaks Again?!

User Professor Martin Jones, Archaeological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 17 March 2008, 19:30-21:00

Fitzwilliam Museum

A Beautiful Line

User Allan McRobie, Reader in Engineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department.

House The Fitzwilliam Museum, Seminar Room.

Sunday 16 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Sex, drugs and rock & roll – life in forensic science

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Arts School Room A, New Museums Site.

Saturday 15 March 2008, 15:00-15:45

Cambridge Science Festival

Extreme Science

User Dr Basil Singer.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Saturday 15 March 2008, 14:15-15:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The aviation heritage of East Anglia

User Terry Holloway - Marshall's of Cambridge.

House Arts School Room A, New Museums Site.

Saturday 15 March 2008, 14:00-14:45

Cambridge Science Festival

Learning from nature

User Dr Jonathan wood.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Saturday 15 March 2008, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Hyenas and minervas: women, science and history

User Dr Patricia Fara.

House Arts School Room A, New Museums Site.

Saturday 15 March 2008, 13:00-13:45

Cambridge Science Festival

Working at the speed of light: modern high power laser beams

User Dr Bill O'Neill.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Saturday 15 March 2008, 12:15-13:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The secret life of your brain

User Andrew Morris.

House Arts School Room A, New Museums Site.

Saturday 15 March 2008, 12:00-12:45

Cambridge Science Festival

It’s about time

User Andrew Pontzen.

House Arts School Room A, New Museums Site.

Saturday 15 March 2008, 11:00-11:45

Cambridge Science Festival

The science of Doctor Who

User Dr Paul Parsons.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Saturday 15 March 2008, 11:00-11:45

Cambridge Science Festival

Smart drugs?

User Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Friday 14 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Hidden in rock and frozen in time

User Dr Eric Wolff, BAS; Dr Aradhna Tripati, Dept of Earth Sciences.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Holidays beyond earth, the future of space tourism

User Will Whitehorn, Virgin Galactic; Duncan Law-Green, National Space Centre.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Memories are made of this

User Prof Steven Rose, Open University.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 18:30-20:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Artists in Momentary Momentum

User Sarah Wood, independent curator.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge Science Festival

Sustainable energy - without the hot air

User Professor David MacKay, Department of Physics.

House University Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Acoustics and architecture

User Professor Deborah Howard, Department of History of Art.

House University Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Computational and Systems Biology

A comparison of background correction methods for two-colour microarrays

User Matt Ritchie (Cancer Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 15:00-16:00

Fitzwilliam Museum

Art in Context: Two portraits by Bartel Beham

User David Scrase, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, The Fitzwilliam Museum.

House The Fitzwilliam Museum.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

fMRI and multivariate analyses of neuroimaging in healthy participants

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

User Alexandra Woolgar.

House Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

The early human occupation of Europe and Britain

User Prof Jim Rose, Royal Holloway.

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

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Preserve the old, but know the new

User Dr Ann Prentice, Medical Research Council.

House University Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

The evolution of Living Matter

User Adrian Friday (The Museum of Zoology).

House IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Do hormones in the womb affect how your brain develops?

User Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Monday 10 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

The big experiment

User Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Monday 10 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Pictures of data: improving scientific illustrations

User Matt Davis (MRC-CBU).

House MRC-CBU.

Monday 10 March 2008, 16:15-17:45

BSS Formal Seminars

Changes in skeletal muscle cell volume during exercise

User Prof Chris Huang, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 March 2008, 14:15-15:15

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Eric Gill, Inscription

User Sebastiano Barassi.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 13:10-13:40

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Why is the violin so hard to play?

User Jim Woodhouse (Department of Engineering).

House Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 17:30-19:00

Computational and Systems Biology

tba

User Irene Papatheodorou (Cancer Research Institute) University of Cambridge.

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 15:00-16:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Lapis Lazuli

User Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 19:00-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Electrical transport and optical properties of carbon nanotubes probed by in situ and cross-correlated experiments

User Mathias Kobylko, University of Paris Sud, France.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 15:00-16:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

The Activity of Living Matter - Networks and emergent properties

User Jordi Garcia Ojalvo (Physics, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain).

House IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanoelectronics and Quantum Computing

User Dr David Williams, Head of the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 03 March 2008, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Soft Matter for Hard Copy

User Dr Andrew Howe, Kodak European Research, 332 Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WN.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Using biological ontologies in databases: where do GO terms come from?

User Susan Tweedie, Department of Genetics.

House Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 29 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Artist Animators

User Sarah Evans.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Spatial point process modelling and its applications in ecology

User Dr. Janine B. Illian, University of St. Andrews.

House Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Analysing interfaces in multilayer films using STEM-EELS

User David McComb, Imerial College London.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 15:00-16:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Signalling and information processing in biology.

User Alfonso Martinez Arias (Dpt Genetics).

House IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

From cells to embryo: the magic of gastrulation

User Professor Claudio Stern.

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 25 February 2008, 20:00-21:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional brain imaging as a physiolgical method

User John Duncan (MRC-CBU).

House MRC-CBU.

Monday 25 February 2008, 16:15-17:45

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Python Tools for software development

User Oliver Stegle (University of Cambridge).

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 17:30-19:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

William Congdon, Views of Venice

User Sebastiano Barassi.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational methods to analyse large-scale and high-dimensional gene perturbation screens

User Florian Markowetz (University of Princeton).

House Lecture Theatre, CRI Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Phase contrast/retrieval as a quantitative link to the physics of nano-materials

User Marco Beleggia, University of Leeds and Brookhaven National Labs, U.S..

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 15:00-16:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Light and Matter - Tissues

User Alexandre Kabla (Dept Engineering).

House IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Stefanie Reichelt (CR UK Cambridge Research Institute) and Sara Booth (Palliative Care), Addenbrooke's Hospital.

House Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Breaking Abbe's barrier: diffraction-unlimited resolution in far-field optical microscopy

User Professor Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen.

House Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rebuilding the Colossus of the Modern World

User Tony Sale, Hon Fellow of the British Computer Society.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 18 February 2008, 19:30-21:00

Kettle's Yard Talks and Lectures

Saturday Workshops with John Greening

User John Greening.

House Kettle's Yard.

Saturday 16 February 2008, 14:30-17:00

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

EarthTalk

User Dr Sally Gibson and Dr Lyall Anderson, Department of Earth Sciences.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Saturday 16 February 2008, 13:30-14:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Monitoring the microscopic water distribution in soft solids with multidimensional NMR relaxometry

User Dr Brian Hills, Institute of Food Research, Norwich.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Artist Animators

User Emily Russell and Kristian de la Riva.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

Computational and Systems Biology

A Programming Language for Biology

User Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 15:00-16:00

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

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Light and Matter - Cells.

User Jochen Guck (Dept Physics).

House IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 14:00-16:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Constantin Brancusi

User Sebastiano Barassi.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks and Lectures

Ways of Seeing

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Kettle's Yard and the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 10:00-15:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Strain Tensor Mapping using Electron Backscatter Diffraction

User Angus Wilkinson, University of Oxford.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology

User Various.

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 14:00-16:00

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

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Light and Matter - Molecules

User Alfonso Martinez Arias (Dept Genetics).

House IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Journey of the Future

User Dr Liz Orme, Director of Transport, Cambridge Consultants.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 04 February 2008, 19:30-21:00

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

Druggable targets - the need for fresh thinking in neglected disease .

User Dr. Tim Wells (Medicines for Malaria Venture).

House Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 12:30-13:00

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

BindingDB

User Prof. Michael Gilson (University of Maryland).

House Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 12:00-12:30

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

ChEBI: Chemical Entities of Biological Interest

User Paula de Matos (ChEBI Group, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute).

House Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 11:30-12:00

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

DrugBank2

User Prof. David Wishart (University of Alberta).

House Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 10:30-11:00

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

ChemoGenomics

User Prof. Andrew Hopkins (University of Dundee).

House Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 10:00-10:30

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

Introduction and Overview

User Prof. Janet Thornton (Director, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute).

House Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 09:30-10:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Tiny Hands make Light Work

User Prof Miles Padgett, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

4D-microscopy & some results: fate, migrations, form in C. elegans & some other curious animals

User Ralf Schnabel, University of Braunschweig.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Atomic scale characterization, by means of electron microscopy techniques, of Ruthenium catalysts supported on cerium and zirconim mixed oxides

User Juan-Carlos Hernandez, Universities of Cadiz and Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 15:00-16:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Cinema and the Art of Animation

User Trish Sheil, Cambridgeshire Film Consortium.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 13:10-13:40

Computational and Systems Biology

tba

User Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2008, 15:00-16:00

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Watching living matter. -Advanced microscopy.

User Clemens Kaminski (Dept Chemical Engineering).

House IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 29 January 2008, 14:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

MRI screening for women at high risk of breast cancer: from genetically based biological differences to tumour growth rate

User Martin Leach, Co-director of the Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research Group, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton.

House Lecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Friday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Harnessing naturally randomized transcription to infer regulatory relationships among genes

User Phil Charles, Cambridge Centre for Proteomics.

House Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Christopher Wood's Self Portrait

User Sebastiano Barassi.

House Kettle's Yard.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 13:10-13:40

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Living Matter: An Introduction - A physicist's perspective

User Jochen Guck (Dept Physics).

House IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 22 January 2008, 14:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC - LOOKING NORTH: ARCTIC SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR, 2007-2008

Please visit www.soci.org for updated details/late cancellation notification.

User Prof Elizabeth Morris, Scott Polar research Institute, Cambridge.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 19:00-20:00

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

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Living Matter: An Introduction - A biologist's perspective

User Alfonso Martinez Arias (Dept Genetics).

House IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 15 January 2008, 14:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Imaging liver cancer

User David Lomas, University of Cambridge and Department of Radiology, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Friday 14 December 2007, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Conferences

Turning Points in Solid-State, Materials and Surface Chemistry

User A symposium to celebrate the 75th birthday of Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS.

House Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Friday 14 December 2007, 09:00-00:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 December 2007, 17:15-19:15

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

European Bioinformatics Institute

Signalling in E. coli chemotaxis as an example of evolutionary optimization

User Victor Sourjik, University of Heidelberg.

House Shared facilities C209/210.

Monday 10 December 2007, 13:30-14:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ARE WE STAR DUST OR NUCLEAR WASTE?

User Dr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 19:00-20:00

Chaucer Club

Chaucer Club debate: What can functional neuroimaging tell us that is relevant for cognitive psychology?

User Mike Page (University of Hertfordshire) vs Tim Shallice (University College London).

House Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 16:15-17:15

Horizon Seminar – "Live Long and Prosper? Ageing in the 21st Century"

Horizon Seminar : "Live Long and Prosper? Ageing in the 21st Century"

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 04 December 2007, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Water that does not wet hands

User Dr Zbigniew ("Andy") Szydlo.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 03 December 2007, 19:30-21:00

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

General Discussion Session

User All.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 16:30-17:00

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells

User Ron Weiss (Princeton).

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 15:50-16:30

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Synthetic Biology: DNA version 2.0

User Jeremy Minshull (DNA2.0).

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 14:40-15:20

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Biological Engineering of Plant Systems

User Jim Haseloff (Cambridge).

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 14:00-14:40

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Exploiting Scaffold Proteins to Generate Diverse I/O Dynamics in MAPK Pathways

User Caleb Bashor (UCSF).

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 12:10-12:50

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Towards large-scale integrated nucleic acid logic circuits

User Georg Seelig (Caltech).

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 11:30-12:10

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Computational Design in Synthetic Biology

User Alfonso Jaramillo (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris).

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 10:20-11:00

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

The iGEM competition: Building with biology

User James Brown (Cambridge) and Cambridge iGEM team.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 09:40-10:20

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Tea/ coffee from 9.05 + Introduction (9.30)

User Gos Micklem (Cambridge).

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 09:05-09:40

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

The use of a power law global error model for the identification of differentially expressed genes in microarray data

User Matthew Russell, Biochemistry Department.

House Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 30 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Wormlike and Glassy Wormlike Chains

Note unusual time

User Professor Klaus Kroy ITP, Leipzig University, Postfach , Leipzig, Germany.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 November 2007, 10:30-11:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

User Richard Adams (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 November 2007, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

The PASADENA method for 13C hyperpolarisation of biomolecules for imaging and spectroscopy

User Pratip Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology and Huntingdon Medical Research Institute, Pasadena, California.

House Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Wednesday 28 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Neuroethical Issues in Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroimaging

There will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm.

User PROFESSOR BARBARA SAHAKIAN, FMEDSCI (Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University).

House Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Valence Changes and Structural Distortions in 'Charge Ordered' Manganites Quantified by Atomic-Scale Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

User James Loudon, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 15:00-16:00

Self-build society

Discussion meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 26 November 2007, 12:45-14:00

Everything about EVERYTHING

User Kate Trumper.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 26 November 2007, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The rheology of cellular systems

User Dr Alexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Functional imaging as a guide for systemic treatment of cancer: from mouse to man

User Hanneke vanLaarhoven, Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands.

House Room 215, Cambridge Research Institute.

Friday 23 November 2007, 13:30-14:30

ARClub Talks

The MRC Autism Imaging Multicentre Study (AIMS): An Update

please note later start time

User Michael Lombardo (ARC).

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:30-15:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Complex relationships: modelling epidemics on human social networks

User Ken Eames, CCBI, DAMTP.

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 15:00-16:00

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

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Colours in Gemstones

User Mrs Gill Mallet.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Lives and Letters (the Robert Hooke Portfolio)

User Professor Lisa Jardine CBE, Queen Mary College, University of London.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 19 November 2007, 19:30-21:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to assess brain function.

User Rhodri Cusack (MRC-CBU).

House MRC-CBU.

Monday 19 November 2007, 16:15-17:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Molecular imaging using hyperpolarised carbon-13

From molecules to cells

User Ferdia Gallagher Departments of Biochemistry and Radiology, University of Cambridge (UK).

House Lubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Friday 16 November 2007, 16:30-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

No harm in looking? The effects of optical imaging on cytoplasm

From molecules to cells

User Brad Amos MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (UK).

House Lubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Friday 16 November 2007, 15:30-16:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 17:15-19:15

Chaucer Club

Beyond localization. What brain imaging can tell us

User Dick Passingham (University of Oxford).

House Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Approximate Bayesian Computation and the fossil record

User Simon Tavare (DAMTP/Oncology).

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 15:00-16:00

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

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

The Sedgwick in the Galapagos

User Dr David Norman, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

On the plasmonic properties of nano-structured metal-dielectric materials

User Dr. Alex Eggeman, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)

NOTE: New start time and New venue

User Professor Kevin Brindle, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK.

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

Monday 12 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Emergent properties in biological macromolecular assemblies

User Professor Tim Wess School of Optometry and The Institute of Vision, Cardiff University.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

FIREWORKS – EXPLOSIVES FOR ENTERTAINMENT !

User Dr Tom Smith, Davas UK Ltd, Kimbolton.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ancient Vaults

User Professor Jacques Heymen, Former Head of Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 05 November 2007, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Cancer cell mechanics

User Dr Michael Beil, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Germany.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

User Vincent Plagnol (CIMR).

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 October 2007, 15:00-16:00

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

A new type of stochastic dependence revealed in gene expression data.

User Marcelo Segura, Biochemistry Department.

House Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 26 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Some questions that can be answered by molecular dynamics

User Daniel Barsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 15:00-16:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The invention of the High Power Microscope

Celebrating Antony van Leeuwenhoek's 375th Birthday

User Professor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 22 October 2007, 19:30-21:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 17:15-19:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Some questions that can be answered by molecular dynamics

User Daniel Barsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 October 2007, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungi and Woodland History

User Professor Oliver Rackham.

House David Building, Anglia-Ruskin University.

Friday 12 October 2007, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BEAGLE 2 AND BEYOND – THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION

User Prof Colin Pillinger FRS, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 October 2007, 19:00-20:00

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

Horizon: Energy "What does the future hold?"

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House TBC.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 09:00-18:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Toxicogenomics - helping reshape drug discovery (?)

User Quin Wills (Simugen Ltd.).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 October 2007, 15:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DO ANIMALS HAVE MEMORIES OF TOMORROW?

User Prof. Nicola Clayton, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 September 2007, 19:00-20:00

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Assessing the probability that a positive report is false: an approach for molecular epidemiology studies.

User Gregor McCombie (Biochemistry Department, Cambridge University).

House Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 28 September 2007, 14:00-15:00

Joint EBI/ Cambridge University Research Symposium

User Multiple speakers from the EBI and across Cambridge University.

House Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton Hall, Hinxton.

Friday 21 September 2007, 09:15-17:15

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 September 2007, 17:15-19:15

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BITING BACK AT BLOOD-SUCKING INSECTS

User Dr James Logan, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 September 2007, 19:00-20:00

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

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Centering, scaling, and transformations: improving the biological information content of metabolomics data

User Kian Kai Cheng (Biochemsitry Department, Uni of Cambridge).

House Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 31 August 2007, 14:00-15:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 23 August 2007, 17:15-19:15

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Bootstrapping cluster analysis: assessing the reliability of conclusions

User Jules Griffin ( Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge).

House Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 27 July 2007, 14:00-15:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 26 July 2007, 17:15-19:15

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

User Howard Griffiths, Professor of Plant Ecology,.

House Museum of Zoology, Downing Street.

Thursday 05 July 2007, 18:00-19:00

Museum of Zoology

Learning about tropical forests: a hands on approach

User Dr. Rosie Trevelyan.

House Museum of Zoology, Downing Street.

Tuesday 26 June 2007, 18:00-19:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Report from Apple WWDC07

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 21 June 2007, 17:15-19:15

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Linux on the Playstation3

User David Fox, JPY Ltd..

House CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 21 June 2007, 17:15-19:15

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Postcolonial Trauma: the aesthetic prescriptions of Gordon Bennett's art

User Professor Ian McLean, University of Western Australia.

House Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Wednesday 20 June 2007, 18:00-19:00

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Food-borne pathogens, functional genomics and farm animals

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 17:05-17:30

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Bright solutions for food diagnostics

User Professor Jim Murray, Institute of Biotechnology and Lumora.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 16:35-17:00

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

What's new on the Menu

User Chaired by Professor Nigel Slater, Department of Chemical Engineering.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 16:05-17:30

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

What's new in the Kitchen

User Dr Ian Wilson, Department of Chemical Engineering.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 16:05-16:30

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Plants need their vitamins too

User Dr Alison Smith, Department of Plant Sciences.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 15:15-15:40

Symposium on Computational Biology

DNA-binding computation at large and small scales

User Dr. Marco Consentino-Lagomarsino, Institut Curie, Paris.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 15:10-16:00

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Abstract – Red meat and bowel cancer – identifying the link

User Dr Gunter Kuhnle, MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:45-15:10

Symposium on Computational Biology

Insight into ion channel biophysics via computer simulations

User Dr. Carmen Domene, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:20-15:10

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Nutrients in our Food

User Chair: Professor Ian White, Institute of Food Research, Norwich.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:15-15:45

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Dietary Iron

User Professor Jonathan Powell, MRC Human Nutrition Research.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:15-14:40

Symposium on Computational Biology

Quadruple stranded DNA: cancer, gene regulation and evolution

User Dr. Julian Huppert, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 13:30-14:20

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

The way we ate - Scientific approaches to the archaeology of food

User Dr Tamsin O'Connell, Department of Archaeology.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 12:50-13:15

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Why people share food

User Dr Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 12:20-12:45

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Human Behaviour

User Chair Dr Andre Wadge, Food Standards Agency.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:50-13:15

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

What did you eat today? Cultures of food choices

User Dr Manpreet Janeja, Department of Social Anthropology.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:50-12:15

Symposium on Computational Biology

Simulations of phase transitions: from colloids to proteins

User Dr. Stefan Auer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:40-12:30

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Infant Weight Gain and childhood obesity

User Dr Ken Ong, MRC Epidemiology Unit.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:10-11:30

Symposium on Computational Biology

The physics of protein folding

User Dr. Patricia Faisca, Universadade Nova de Lisboa.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:50-11:40

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

The Genetic Basis of Obesity

User Dr Sadaf Farooqi, Department of Clinical Biochemistry.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:45-11:10

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Genes Lifestyles and risk of diabetes and obesity

User Professor Nick Wareham, MRC Epidemiology Unit.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:20-10:45

Symposium on Computational Biology

Measuring and predicting complexity

User Dr. Sebastian Ahnert, Cavendish Laboratory.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:00-10:50

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

The Great Food Debate

User Dr Susan Jebb, MRC Human Nutrition Research.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 09:55-10:20

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

User Introduction by Professor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 09:45-09:55

BSS Formal Seminars

Understanding Cell Mechanics: From Axonal Instabilities To Oscillating Fibroblasts

User Dr Pramod A Pullarkat, Universitat Bayreuth.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 June 2007, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

Please note different location!

Single Molecule Biology: Coming of Age

User Dr Liming Ying, Biological Nanoscience, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 June 2007, 11:00-12:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

3D imaging of nanomaterials by discrete tomography

User Dr Joost Batenburg, Department of Physics, University of Antwerp.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 05 June 2007, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Soft Active Matter : From Polymer Physics To The Cell Cytoskeleton

User Dr Tanniemola Liverpool, Leeds University.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 05 June 2007, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Actually you were' and I can prove it"

User Mr Skip Palenik, President, Microtrace, Illinois, USA.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Saturday 02 June 2007, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Cell Divisions During Epithelial Morphogenesis

User Dr Sebastien Courty, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Departement de Physique.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 May 2007, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Uncovering Buried Biological Interfaces

User Dr Simon Titmuss, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 May 2007, 11:00-12:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Atomic scale investigations of alloy structures

User Emmanuelle Marquis, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 29 May 2007, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

www.Antibodies_Direct.com The story of Abcam; selling antibodies on-line

User Dr Jonathan Milner. Abcam plc, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 28 May 2007, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Fractional calculus approach for viscoelasticity at the sol-gel transition: application to sol-gel materials and biogels

User Alain Ponton, Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057 CNRS & Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, Paris, France.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

A human protein atlas

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

User Anja Persson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

House Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 16:45-17:30

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

The biology of common disease from a genome-wide perspective: susceptibility genes as nodes for pathways and systems

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

User John Todd, The Cambridge Institute of Medical Research (CIMR).

House Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 16:00-16:45

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Genome regulation: a sequence-gazer's view.

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

User Thomas Down, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

House Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 14:45-15:30

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Learning from the worm: predicting phenotype from genotype

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

User Andrew Fraser (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

House Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 14:00-14:45

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Lies, damn lies and metabolomics - statistical approaches for processing metabolomic data.

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

User Jules Griffin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 12:15-01:00

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Oscillators and sychronisation in circadian rhythms

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

User Jorge Goncalves, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 11:30-12:15

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Epidemics on Networks

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

User Ken Eames, CCBI, DAMTP.

House Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 10:15-11:00

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Modelling the hidden world of protein activities

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

User Lorenz Wernisch, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

House Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 09:30-10:15

BSS Formal Seminars

A Molecular Mechanism for Toughening and Strengthening Waterborne Nanocomposites

User Dr Joe Keddie, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BACK TO THE FUTURE - TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT REVISITED

Free & open to all

User Prof. Peter Lillford, CBE, University of York.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 May 2007, 19:00-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Electron diffractive imaging of extended objects

User Dr Christian Dwyer, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 15 May 2007, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mending Broken Hearts: replacing damaged cardiac muscle; the MAGIC programme

User Mr Stephen Large FRCS, Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 14 May 2007, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Physical description of mitotic spindle orientation during cell division

User Dr Andrea Cecilia Jimenez Dalmaroni, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems , Dresden, Germany.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Distinct tensile and adhesive forces determine germ layer organization during gastrulation

User Dr Carl Philipp Heisenberg, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Germany.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Two Dimensional Coherent Infra-Red Spectroscopy for the measurement of vibration-vibration coupling, and its application to the study of protein composition, dynamics, structure and function

User Prof David Klug, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

DNA Repair Mechanisms in the Central Nervous System

User Professor Robin Franklin. Neurosciences Laboratory (Department of Veterinary medicine) and the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 30 April 2007, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Polymer Physics and DNA Topology

User Professor Giovanni Dietler, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Vivante, Institut de Physique de la Matiere Complexe , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2007, 14:15-15:15

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

Electron Microscopy Group Conferences

Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials XV

User Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group, Institute of Physics.

House Churchill College, Cambridge.

Monday 02 April 2007, 00:00-00:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The 27km machine and the building blocks of the Universe

User Dr Brian Cox.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Friday 23 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

The Scale of Science Panel Discussion

User Panel of Speakers.

House Law Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

Thursday 22 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

Horizon Seminars

A Sensory World: novel sensor technologies and applications

programme available at http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/7981

User One Day Seminar Series.

House Kaetsu Centre, New Hall.

Tuesday 20 March 2007, 09:30-17:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Who Do You Think You Are?

User Dr Wolf Reik.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Monday 19 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

It's a Gas!

User Dr Peter Wothers.

House Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 March 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Cabaret: Science of Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll

User Dr Harry Witchel, Dr Graeme Jones and Dr Mark Lewney.

House ADC Theatre.

Sunday 18 March 2007, 19:45-20:45

Cambridge Science Festival

Science and Religion

User Panel of Speakers.

House Michaelhouse Centre.

Saturday 17 March 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The Truth About Food

User Panel of Speakers.

House Michaelhouse Centre.

Saturday 17 March 2007, 17:00-18:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Paint Your Own Rock Art

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Saturday 17 March 2007, 14:00-16:30

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Fathoming Finds and Observing Objects

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Saturday 17 March 2007, 14:00-16:30

Cambridge Science Festival

The Silent Aircraft Initiative

User Dr Tom Hynes.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Friday 16 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Nano-Structuring Surfaces by Templated Assembly

User Professor Alain Jonas Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Science Festival

Science in the Real World and Stem Cell Science

User Professor Colin Blakemore and Professor Austin Smith.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 15 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

The Importance of Being Peripheral

User Professor John Barrow.

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Automated image analysis for high-throughput cell-based microscopy assays with R and Bioconductor

User Dr. Oleg Sklyar, European Bioinformatics Institute-EMBL.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 14 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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

From 1822 Until Today - Technology of Photography

User Tony Kaye (ex Kodak UK).

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 March 2007, 19:00-20:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Emulsion stabilized by proteins – surfactant-covered drops or capsules?

User Dr Peter Fischer, Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Titan 80-300 Dedicated Corrector Platform: A new Era of Electron Microscopy

User Dr. Bert Freitag, FEI Company, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

House Rolls Royce Conference Room, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Friday 09 March 2007, 11:00-12:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology

User Professor Simon Tavare and Dr. Stephen Eglen.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 14:00-17:00

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Eternal Triangle: Science, Propaganda and Disease Control; the facts behind the 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic

User Dr Mike Thrusfield, Easter Bush Veterinary Centre, University of Edinburgh.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 05 March 2007, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Studying single molecule dynamic with local probe techniques

User Professor Heinrich Hoerber, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

The FlyMine/ InterMine Project

User Gos Micklem, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

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

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Dinosaurs from Mongolia

User Dr Altangerel Perle, National University of Mongolia, Ulaan Bataar.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Monday 26 February 2007, 11:00-11:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

This talk has been canceled/deleted

User Professor David Klug.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Modelling Epidemics

User Pietro Lio, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 21 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

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Evolution in the giant marine reptiles of the Mesozoic

User Dr Leslie Noe, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 20 February 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Calving of Larson-B and other phenomena: Climate Change in the Antarctic

User Professor David Vaughan, Deputy Director, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 19 February 2007, 19:30-21:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Thomas Young: the last man who knew everything

User Andrew Robinson.

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

Monday 19 February 2007, 17:30-19:00

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

EarthTalk

User Dr Alex Piotrovski, Hilary Ketchum, Dr John Hillier.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Saturday 17 February 2007, 13:30-14:30

BSS Formal Seminars

How filament assembly dynamics can power the crawling motion of amoeboid cells

User Dr Murray Stewart, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Monkeys on Trees: A Bayesian Approach to Inferring Primate Divergence Times

User Richard Wilkinson, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 14 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Materials drivers for the 21st century and the role of electron microscopy

User Jean-Pierre Chevalier, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 13 February 2007, 15:00-16:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Activities during February half term

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Tuesday 13 February 2007, 14:00-16:30

BSS Formal Seminars

New Functions for Glial Cells: From Soft Guideposts for Neuronal Migration to Living Light Guides in the Retina

User Kristian Franze from the University of Leipzig.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 12 February 2007, 14:00-15:30

BSS Formal Seminars

DSM Innovation: Functional Coatings and Biomedical Materials

User Dr Jens Thies.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Identifying novel therapies for breast cancer using Independent Component Analysis

User Andrew E Teschendorff (Cancer Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 07 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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Kinetic measurements during the nucleation and growth of Si and Ge

User Frances M Ross, IBM T J Watson Research Center.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 06 February 2007, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Avian 'Flu - The origin of SARS and the impact of avian influenza H5N1 upon mammals and wild birds

User Dr Diana Bell, School of Biological Sciences, University of east Anglia, Norwich.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 05 February 2007, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Using thermal probes for analysis and characterisation of materials on a micro and nano scale

User Professor Mike Reading, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Identifying deletions and duplications from PCR data

All welcome and please feel free to join us for coffee and biscuits after the talk in the Pavilion G common room

User Dr. Andy Lynch (Department of Oncology).

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Towards Higher Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy

User Greg McMullan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Monday 29 January 2007, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

"Identifying deletions and duplications from PCR data"

This talk has been canceled/deleted

User Dr. Andy Lynch, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Monday 29 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Building from bottom up: Fabrication of novel materials using designer self-assembling peptides

User Dr Shuguang Zhang Center for Biomedical Engineering NE47-379, 500 Technology Square, Center for Bits & Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA..

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory (**Note non-standard location**).

Friday 26 January 2007, 14:15-15:15

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Unconventional Electron Microscopy

User Vlad Stolojan, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 15:00-16:00

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

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Death , destruction and evolution of sea-shells

User Dr Liz Harper, Dept.of Earth Sciences, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 23 January 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Stitch in Time: The molecular Basis of DNA repair

joint meeting with Cambridge Philosophical Society

User Professor Steve Jackson, Wellcome Trust, CRUK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 22 January 2007, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bio-Inspired Growth of Crystals: Hydrogels and Self-Assembled Monolayers

User Assistant Professor Lara Estroff.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 19 January 2007, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Protein structure determination using NMR chemical shifts

User Michele Vendruscolo.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 17 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

Imaging and Mathematics

waiting for CR UK Cambridge Research Institute opening

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House CR-UK CRI.

Wednesday 10 January 2007, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Cryo-STEM: A new tool for SEM and Dualbeam instruments

User Harald Dobberstein, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 12 December 2006, 15:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Evolution lecture : Darwin's Dilemma - The Burgess Shale and The Cambrian Explosion

User Prof. Simon Conway Morris.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of.

Thursday 07 December 2006, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

THE CHEMISTRY OF CHRISTMAS - an exciting practical demonstration lecture

User Dr Colin Pulham & Prof Lesley Yellowlees (University of Edinburgh).

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 December 2006, 19:00-20:00

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Closing Address

User Sir Richard Dearlove (Pembroke College).

House Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 17:30-17:45

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Biological / Chemical Security

User Chair Professor Ian White.

House Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 16:15-17:30

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Digital Security

User Chair: Professor Rex Britter.

House Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 14:15-15:55

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Physical Security

User Chair: Professor Sir Michael Pepper.

House Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 11:40-13:00

Horizon Seminars

Risk, Threat & Detection

Programme details at: http://talks/show/index/7184

User One Day Seminar Series.

House Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 09:30-17:30

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Context

User Chair: Professor Ian White.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 09:00-11:20

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Three-dimensional imaging and analysis using aberration-corrected STEM

Note MONDAY this week

User Pete Nellist, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Monday 04 December 2006, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Machine Learning Methods for Uncovering cis-Regulatory Modules

User Dr Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 29 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Rheology of Viscoelastic Suspensions of Rigid Spheres

User Prof Pier Luca Meffettone.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

MIXING CHEMICALS AND CHARACTERS: The craft of writing science-based fiction

User Malcolm Rose - prizewinning childrens science fiction author.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 November 2006, 19:00-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Next generation electron detectors for TEM: an introduction

User Grigore Moldovan, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome Informatics at the Sanger Institute

User Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Preservation of Burgess-Shale-type fossils: implications for early animal evolution

User Dr Nick Butterfield, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 21 November 2006, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Children of Eve: Exon Sequencing; identifying variation in the human genome

User Dr Alison 'Pod' Coffey, Sanger Centre, Hinxton Hall, Cambridgeshire.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 20 November 2006, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Some Like it Hot: High Temperature Experiments in the ESEM

User Dr Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Microarrays and molecular biology: beyond gene expression profiling

User Dr. Paul Bertone, EBI.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 15 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age

User Joel N. Shurkin (Stanford University).

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

Tuesday 14 November 2006, 17:30-19:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Quantifying deformation under indentations by TEM diffraction

User Kirsten McLaughlin, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 14 November 2006, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

C Dots: Highly Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles for Materials and Life Sciences Applications

User Prof Uli Wiesner, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Nano-structural and chemical characterisation of supported noble metal catalysts using Transmission Electron Microscopy techniques

User José A. Pérez-Omil, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 07 November 2006, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mother Nature Knows Best: Making Heat-Stable Vaccines

User Dr Bruce Roser, Chief Scientific Officer, Cambridge Biostability, Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 06 November 2006, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Laser Manipulation in Liquid Crystals: an approach to microfluidics and micromachines

User Prof Helen Gleeson, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Manchester University.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Spectacular Chemistry Lecture & Demonstration - Thunder & Lightning !

User Colin Baker, Director Studies, Bedford School.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, Department of.

Thursday 02 November 2006, 19:00-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Cell signalling and oscillations

User Dr. Kojiro Kano, DAMTP and PDN, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 01 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

The Cambrian explosion: as mysterious as ever?

User Professor Simon Conway Morris, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 31 October 2006, 19:00-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

ectopic seminar Evidence for the existence of organism-specific regulatory elements that are linked to RNAi

* Ectopic Seminar at Genetics Department *

User Isidore Rigoutsos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, U.S.A..

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 31 October 2006, 15:00-16:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Some ideas how to improve quantification of chemical signals in transmission electron microscopy studies of very thin layers

User Thomas Walther, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 31 October 2006, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Some properties of microgel particles

User Dr Alex Routh, Department of Chemical Engineering and BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Evolution and dynamics of transcription factor repertoires

User Sarah Teichmann (LMB).

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 25 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Scanning probe microscopy of GaN: Beyond pretty pictures

User Rachel Oliver, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 24 October 2006, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Soft Small and Interesting - Soft Matter: towards Soft Nanotechnology

User Professor Ullrich Steiner, Professor of Physics of Materials, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 23 October 2006, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Compact self-wired cultured neural networks

User Dr Yael Hanein, School of Electrical Engineering; Physical Electronics, Tel-Aviv University.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

History of Science : Gaiters and gunpowder - the extraordinary story of Richard Watson, professor of chemistry and bishop.

User Prof. Colin A.Russell, The Open University and the University of Cambridge..

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of.

Thursday 19 October 2006, 19:00-20:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Linear Separability of Gene Expression Dataset

User Dr. Benny Chor (University of Tel-Aviv).

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 18 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Why study the Burgess Shale? Memories from the 1966-7 expeditions

User Professor Harry Whittington (former Woodwardian Professor), Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 17 October 2006, 19:00-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Time and Frequency as New Frontiers in Microscopy

User Archie Howie, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House Gordon Seminar Room, Austin Building, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 17 October 2006, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture

Note unusual time and venue

This lecture is part of the Distinguished Seminar Series run by the CCBI.

User Prof. David Gifford (MIT).

House MR2, DAMTP.

Monday 09 October 2006, 16:30-17:30

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Lonesome George: The life and loves of a conservation icon

User Henry Nicholls.

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

Monday 25 September 2006, 17:30-19:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Broader Horizons and a Narrower Focus: Expanding the capability and applicability of 3D electron microscopy

User Dr Matthew Weyland, Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, Monash University, Melbourne.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Thursday 21 September 2006, 11:30-12:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Describing drug toxicity using functional data analysis and the model-driven clustering of gene-expression bio-markers

User Dr. Quin Wills SimuGen.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Monday 11 September 2006, 14:00-15:00

Imaging and Mathematics

summer holiday

User back in october.

House CR-UK CRI.

Wednesday 06 September 2006, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Proof-of-concept of multi-electron-beam system

User Osamu Kamimura, Central Research Laboartory, Hitachi, Japan.

House Austin Seminar Room, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Thursday 27 July 2006, 11:30-12:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Some aspects of deterministic phase retrieval

User David Paganin, School of Physics, Monash University, Australia.

House Austin Seminar Room, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 18 July 2006, 11:30-12:30

Imaging and Mathematics

Second Harmonic Generation Imaging of voltage in dendritic spines.

Special lecture ! Different venue !

User Rafael Yuste, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger building, Lecture theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 12 July 2006, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

The Chemistry of Metal-Cluster Complexes containing Phenyl Tin Ligands

User Prof RD Adams, Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Monday 10 July 2006, 11:10-12:10

Imaging and Mathematics

Optical Imaging in Cancer and Radiobiology

User Borivoj Vojnovic (Gray Cancer Institute).

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 05 July 2006, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Explaining the Broadband Absorbance of Melanins

User Jennifer Riesz, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 04 July 2006, 14:15-15:15

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Modification of Polymer/Polymer Interfaces Using Block Copolymers and Microgel Particles

User Richard J Spontak, Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Monday 03 July 2006, 11:30-12:30

Horizon Seminars

Green Frontiers

Online Registration now available

User One-day seminar.

House MR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

Tuesday 27 June 2006, 09:30-17:30

Inference Group

In search of the brain's wiring

User Philipp Hennig, Heidelberg.

House Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 June 2006, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanopores for Biological and Soft-Matter Physics

User Dr. Ulrich F. Keyser, Delft University of Technology.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 19 June 2006, 12:00-13:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanomechanics of self-assembled protein filaments

User Dr Laurent Kreplak.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 16 June 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

The Interaction of Light with Cells

User Dr Jochen Guck (Universität Leipzig).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 15 June 2006, 11:00-12:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Spectrum Imaging: Challenges with Real Materials

User Professor Alan J Craven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 13 June 2006, 11:30-12:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Atomic Structure of Nanotubes and Nano-Clusters

User Jian-Min Zuo, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois.

House Austin Seminar Room, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Monday 12 June 2006, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Kinetics and Pathways in Self-Assembly: Light Scattering and Theoretical Studies on Human Papillomavirus Capsids

User Professor David Wu, Chemical Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 June 2006, 14:15-15:15

Imaging and Mathematics

Breaking the Resolution Limit in Light Microscopy

User Rainer Heintzmann (King's College London).

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 07 June 2006, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Looking inside a star (and other stories) - Developments in Radio Astronomy made here in Cambridge

User Professor Richard Hills, Professor of Radio Astronomy, the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Tuesday 06 June 2006, 19:30-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

The development of advanced TEM techniques for the characterisation of Pt catalyst nanoparticles

User Lionel Cervera, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House Austin Seminar Room, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 06 June 2006, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Ultrafast and low barrier motions in the photoreactions of the Green Fluorescent Protein

User Dr Jasper van Thor.

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 02 June 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Single Molecule Force-Spectroscopy Maps the Details of the Protein Free Energy Landscape

User Dr Jasna Brujic (Fernandez Lab, University of Columbia).

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 02 June 2006, 11:00-12:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Art & Authenticity - Science in the fight against art forgery

User Dr Nicholas Eastaugh, Pigmentum Project.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of.

Thursday 01 June 2006, 19:00-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

3-dimensional dislocation imaging in the electron micoscope: Analysis of delamination in GaN devices

User Jonathan S Barnard, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House Austin Seminar Room, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 30 May 2006, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

3-D cryo-EM in biology: specimen preparation and imaging for tomography

User Michael Marko.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Single Molecule Approaches to Biology

User Dr Liming Ying.

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 26 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI 2nd Annual Symposium

User http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_06.php.

House MR2, DAMTP.

Wednesday 24 May 2006, 09:30-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Direct observation of vortex configurations in mesoscopic superconductors: vortex shells, magic numbers and more...

User Irina Grigorieva, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 23 May 2006, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

CANCELLED

User Dr Mark Leake.

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 23 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Alternative to the Infernal Combustion engine.? - Modern Fuel Cells

User Professor John Kilner, Department of Materials, Imperial College, London.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 22 May 2006, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Applying Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine to Understand Cardiac Arrhythmias and Epilepsy

User Dr Jennifer Simonotto.

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 19 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Exit Wave Restoration: Methods and Applications

User Shery Chang, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 16 May 2006, 15:00-16:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

On Gray Scale Features-Based Image Classification of Textural Type Continuous Objects

User Andrei Reztsov, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis, Sydney, Australia.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Monday 15 May 2006, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

DNA-based supramolecular structures and devices

User Dr Friedrich Simmel.

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 15 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Interfaces, Films and Membranes: Soft Matter Physics in 2 Dimensions

User Dr Pietro Cicuta.

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 12 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Semiconductor Structures for Quantum Information Processing

User David A Williams, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 09 May 2006, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Obesity and Modern Humans - Diet, lifestyle or simply in our genes?

User Professor Steve ORahilly, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 08 May 2006, 19:30-21:00

Imaging and Mathematics

New Developments in Optical Imaging

User Brad Amos (MRC-LMB).

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 03 May 2006, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Network structures in green-emitting InGaN/GaN quantum wells

User Nicole van der Laak, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 02 May 2006, 15:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

An introduction to Molecular Gastronomy - Why do we like some foods and hate others ?

User Dr Peter Barham, H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of.

Wednesday 26 April 2006, 19:00-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Recent advances in specimen preparation and manipulation technology for SEM/FIB and TEM

User Alan C Robins , E A Fischione Instruments Inc.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 25 April 2006, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Defence research: Changing world, changing priorities (R&D in the MoD)

User Professor Phil Sutton, Director-General (Research and Development), Ministry of Defence, Whitehall.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 24 April 2006, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Polyelectrolyte multilayer microcapsules as a novel biomimetic system

User Prof. Dr. Olga Vinogradova, http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~vinograd.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 April 2006, 14:15-15:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Extrinsic and Intrinsic Defects in Colloidal Photonic Crystals

User Prof Doug D Perovic, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Thursday 20 April 2006, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Measuring Intermolecular Forces in Biology

User Dr Erik Schffer, Dresden.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

Horizon Seminars

Beyond Einstein

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 March 2006, 09:30-21:00

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

CANCELLED - Transmission Electron Microscopy of Biological Samples

User Dr. J. Skepper, Multi-Imaging Centre, Department of Anatomy, Cambridge.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 16 March 2006, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

PLEASE NOTE SEMINAR CANCELLED

User Jochen Guck, Universitt Leipzig.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 13 March 2006, 10:00-11:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Granular materials with even circuits: Ball-bearings and dry quicksand

User Professor Nick Rivier, Laboratoire de Physique Thorique, Universit Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

(Environmental) Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM & ESEM)

User Dr. D Stokes, Biological and Soft Systems, Dept of Physics.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 09 March 2006, 11:00-12:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Phase transitions in biopolymers: statistical mechanics of interacting loops

User David Mukamel, The Weizmann Institute of Science.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 08 March 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Antibiotics are no substitute for good hygiene - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; the importance of hospital cleanliness and practices

User Dr Norman Alan Simmons, CBE, Emeritus Consultant Microbiologist, Guys and St Thomas Hospital Trust.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 06 March 2006, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Signal processing in bacterial chemotaxis

User Victor Sourjik.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

Electron Tomography for the Physical Sciences

User Dr. P. Midgley, Dept of Materials Sceince and Metallurgy.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 02 March 2006, 11:00-12:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Modelling equine influenza

User James Woods, CIDC, Cambridge Veterinary School, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 01 March 2006, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Fission yeast interphase microtubules: self-sufficient and self-centred!

User Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas, CCL Cancer Research UK, London.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

Introduction into Chemical Analysis for Electron Microscopy (EELS, EDS)

User Prof. M. Brown, (PCS, Physics, Cambridge).

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 23 February 2006, 11:00-12:00

Computational and Systems Biology

To be confirmed

User Daniel Wolpert.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 22 February 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Antibiotics, 75 years on - New antibiotics, using genes cloned from Streptomyces species

User Professor Sir David Hopwood, FRS, Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 20 February 2006, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Ligand-receptor interactions in proteins and membranes

User P-L Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

Aberration Correction in TEM and STEM

User Dr Max Haider, (CEOS, Germany).

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 16 February 2006, 11:00-12:00

Computational and Systems Biology

To be confirmed

User Daniel Crowther.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 15 February 2006, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

Introduction into Transmission and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM & STEM)

User Dr. A. Bleloch, (PCS/SuperSTEM Daresbury).

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 09 February 2006, 11:00-12:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Disease in a changing landscape

User Professor Chris Gilligan, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 08 February 2006, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Just print me another computer, will you? - The world of plastic electronics

User Dr Henning Sirringhaus, Chief Scientist at Plastic Logic, Cambridge Science Park, Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics at the University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Tuesday 07 February 2006, 19:30-21:00

Computational and Systems Biology

TBC

User Prof. David Balding, Department of Epdemiology and Public Health, Imperial College.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 01 February 2006, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Polymers in motion

User Dick J. Broer, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven University of Technology.

House IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 27 January 2006, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical Models of Tumour Dormancy

User Dr Karen Page, Department of Computer Science, UCL.

House MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 25 January 2006, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

From C60 to C1000000: A review on carbon nanotube growth

User Stephen Hofmann, Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge.

House T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Tuesday 24 January 2006, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hush, here comes an aircraft! - The Silent Aircraft Initiative

User Professor Ann Dowling, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 23 January 2006, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Receiving you, Loud and Clear - Digital radio, and its future in the UK

User Mike Ellis, BBC Research and Development.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 05 December 2005, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Atomic force microscopy and force spectroscopy of membrane proteins - Joint seminar with Nanoscience

User Sonja Contera, Dept. of Physics, University of Oxford.

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 November 2005, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Faster than the speed of sound - The M52 -the worlds first supersonic aircraft

User Rod Kirkby, CSAR Member, aeronautical engineer, and aviation artist.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 21 November 2005, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

In situ experiments in the ESEM - a challenge for both the scientist and the engineer

User Dr Armin Zankel, Research Institute for Electron Microscopy, Graz University of Technology.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Eve, Uncovered - Sequencing the human X-chromosome

User Dr Alison Coffey, The Sanger Centre and the Human Genome Project, Hinxton Hall, Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 07 November 2005, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Functional nanoporous materials from reactive block copolymers

User Marc Hillmyer, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The eyes: gateway to the soul? - Iris Recognition Technology

User Dr John Daugman OBE, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 24 October 2005, 19:30-21:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Protein Assisted Assembly of Carbon Nanotube into Functional Materials - joint with Nanoscience

User Dr. Alan B. Dalton, Department of Physics and the Unis Materials Institute, University of Surrey.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture: Epidemiology - where are the limits?

User Professor Nick E Day, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

House Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, Cockcroft Building.

Monday 17 October 2005, 20:30-22:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Granular Segregation as a Critical Phenomenon

User Prof. Tom Mullin, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Dynamics of single molecular motors labeled to quantum dots in a living cell

User Sebastien Courty, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Dpartement de Physique, Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Differences between non-specific and bio-specific, and between equilibrium and non-equilibrium, interactions in biological systems

User Professor Jacob Israelachvili, University of Calirfornia Santa Barbara.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Thin film and interface effects in electroactive and responsive polymers

User Prof Richard Jones, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Bio-Inspired Crystal Growth

User Dr Fiona Meldrum, Biomineralisation, University of Bristol.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 May 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

The Outstanding Magnetic Behaviour of Nematic Suspensions of Goethite Nanorods

User Patrick Davidson, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 May 2005, 13:30-14:30

BSS Formal Seminars

The properties of free polymer surfaces and their effect upon the glass transition in thin polymer films

User Dr James Sharp, University of Nottingham.

House HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 April 2005, 01:15-02:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Sudden Cardiac Death. Medicine is not enough, we need physical sciences as well

User Dr Richard Saumarez.

House HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 January 2005, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Swelling and deformation of gels: an old problem revisited

User Professor Masao Doi.

House HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 January 2005, 11:15-12:15

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Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 107th Conversazione

⚠️ Free Exhibition on the Natural World

👤 Free Public Exhibition 📅 Saturday 11 April 2026, 11:00-17:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

How life finds a way: resilience in mammalian embryogenesis

👤 Sarah Bowling, PhD. Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine 📅 Monday 23 March 2026, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of Natural History: Contributions from some Cambridge scientific giants of the 19th century

⚠️ Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

👤 CNHS President and a former President of Cambridge Philosophical Society 📅 Thursday 19 March 2026, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2026

⚠️ Please note earlier 6.30pm start

👤 The President and Officers 📅 Thursday 19 March 2026, 18:30-18:45 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Seed Testing, its History and Links with Cambridge

👤 Pam Butler 📅 Thursday 12 March 2026, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Millimetre-wave antenna designs for future wireless communications and radar sensor applications

👤 Dr James Henderson, Plextek Services Limited 📅 Monday 09 March 2026, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2025

👤 Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin 📅 Thursday 05 March 2026, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ladybirds in the UK: more diverse than you may think!

👤 Peter Brown 📅 Thursday 26 February 2026, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED .....CSAR lecture: Finding common ground

👤 Professor Ruchi Choudhary, Professor of Digital Civil Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge University 📅 Monday 23 February 2026, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The role of Selenoprotein O in mitochondrial signaling

👤 Anju Sreelatha Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research 📅 Monday 23 February 2026, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Update on Swift Conservation in the UK

👤 Dick Newell 📅 Thursday 19 February 2026, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Return of the Beaver: reintroducing the first beavers to Northamptonshire for 400 years

👤 Ben Casey, Wildlife Trust BCN 📅 Thursday 12 February 2026, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Illuminating the Future: The Transformative Power of Laser Materials Processing in Science, Engineering, Art and Design

👤 Prof Bill O’Neill FREng, FInstP, FLIA, FIAPLE, Director of the Centre for Industrial Photonics, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 09 February 2026, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trumpington Meadows past, present and future

👤 Iain Webb, Wildlife Trust BCN 📅 Thursday 05 February 2026, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Nature's Memory; behind the scenes at the world's natural history museums

👤 Jack Ashby, Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology 📅 Thursday 29 January 2026, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hidden Universe of The Human Microbiome and Its Role In Health and Disease: How DNA sequencing approaches can help us understand the hidden dark matter of the human microbiome

👤 Dr. Alexandre Almeida, School of the Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 26 January 2026, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

The intricate relationships of Sallow and Hazel and the Organisms that live on them

👤 Duncan Mackay 📅 Thursday 22 January 2026, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Expanding the kinome

👤 Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D. - UT Southwestern Medical Center 📅 Monday 08 December 2025, 15:30-16:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Hard numbers—physicochemical models of a mitotic signalling organelle

👤 Kevin A. Janes, Ph.D. Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia 📅 Tuesday 02 December 2025, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

From Planets to Exoplanets: the search for life, with the James Webb Telescope and others

👤 Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge 📅 Monday 01 December 2025, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of the Little Wilbraham River

👤 David Lomas, retired academic, medic & engineer 📅 Thursday 27 November 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

👤 Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School 📅 Monday 24 November 2025, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

👤 Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School 📅 Monday 24 November 2025, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Visit to the Vercors

👤 Monica Frisch, CNHS 📅 Thursday 20 November 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Lecture: Biopharmaceutical Development - The Journey from Molecule to Medicine

👤 Professor Nicholas Darton, Associate Director of Biopharmaceutical Development at AstraZeneca, Honorary Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Nottingham 📅 Monday 17 November 2025, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Unsung Songbirds: Vocal Communication and Cognition in Corvids

👤 Claudia Wascher, Anglia Ruskin University 📅 Thursday 13 November 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Looking for the Goshawk - The Lost Raptor

👤 Conor Jameson, writer and naturalist 📅 Thursday 06 November 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Revealing the artists’ secrets: combining humanities with science

👤 Professor Erma Hermens, Hamilton Kerr Institute for Easel Painting Conservation; Fitzwilliam Museum 📅 Monday 03 November 2025, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Plastics in the Environment

👤 Claire Barlow, Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing, IfM 📅 Thursday 30 October 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Conserving Butterflies: Past, Present and Future

👤 Matt Hayes, Department of Zoology, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 23 October 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy

👤 Professor Raj Jena, Clinical Professor, Data Science & Machine Learning in Radiotherapy, University of Cambridge Department of Oncology 📅 Monday 20 October 2025, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins using neural networks

👤 Nicholas Polizzi 📅 Monday 20 October 2025, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Searching for (and finding) Snow Leopards

👤 Peter Pilbeam 📅 Thursday 16 October 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Past and Future of Natural History

👤 Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire 📅 Thursday 09 October 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees Through History

⚠️ Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)

👤 Dino Martins 📅 Wednesday 01 October 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cells, Tissues & Organs: assembling the Human Cell Atlas

👤 Professor Sarah Teichmann - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute 📅 Monday 29 September 2025, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Multi-modal modeling in precision medicine: from data imputation to synthetic data

👤 Dr. Olivier Gevaert - Associate Professor, Depts of Medicine & Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University 📅 Monday 15 September 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence

👤 Professor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department 📅 Monday 16 June 2025, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

👤 Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health 📅 Monday 16 June 2025, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

👤 David Savage, UC Berkeley 📅 Monday 19 May 2025, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bioelectronic Medicine

👤 Professor George Malliaras FRS, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University 📅 Monday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Malaria Mosquito Genomics Across Africa

👤 Dr Mara Lawniczak, Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute 📅 Monday 28 April 2025, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

👤 Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg 📅 Monday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 106th Conversazione

⚠️ Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

👤 Free Public Exhibition 📅 Saturday 19 April 2025, 11:00-17:00 📍 Common Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

👤 Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine 📅 Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

⚠️ Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

👤 Jim Woodhouse, CNHS President; Emeritus Professor of Structural Dynamics 📅 Thursday 20 March 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2025

⚠️ Please note earlier 6.30pm start

👤 The President and Officers 📅 Thursday 20 March 2025, 18:30-18:55 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Cambridgeshire Bird Club - 1925 to 2025: a century of bird watching

👤 Bob Jarman 📅 Thursday 13 March 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

👤 Professor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 10 March 2025, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

The History of Forests

👤 Charles Turner 📅 Thursday 06 March 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2024

👤 Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin 📅 Thursday 27 February 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement

👤 Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department 📅 Monday 24 February 2025, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations

👤 Mohammad Lotfollahi 📅 Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Great Fen: progress on the peat

👤 Henry Stanier, Monitoring & Research Officer at the BCN Wildlife Trust 📅 Thursday 20 February 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Squirrels of the British Isles: Red, Grey, and Black!

👤 Helen McRobie, Anglia Ruskin University 📅 Thursday 13 February 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

👤 Professor Sander L. van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 10 February 2025, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alice Hibbert-Ware: Nature Study and the Little Owl Food Enquiry (1936-7)

👤 Max Long 📅 Thursday 06 February 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

👤 Jeffrey West, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Integrated Mathematical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute 📅 Monday 03 February 2025, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Marine World

👤 Frances Dipper 📅 Thursday 30 January 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing

👤 Dr Sam Grimshaw, The Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 27 January 2025, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

👤 Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London 📅 Monday 27 January 2025, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insect Conservation: conserving the little things that run the world

👤 Ed Turner, Professor of Insect Ecology and Curator of Insects, Cambridge Museum of Zoology 📅 Thursday 23 January 2025, 18:45-20:00 📍 Weston Seminar Room (First Floor) - David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

How to Fold Every Protein: (Mission Accomplished?)

👤 Stephen D Fried, John Hopkins University 📅 Wednesday 11 December 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Geological disposal of our radioactive waste legacy.

👤 Professor Neil Hyatt is Chief Scientific Adviser to Nuclear Waste Services, Aegis Professor of Deep Time at The University of Bristol 📅 Monday 02 December 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tropical Butterflies: using museum collections to study changes in biodiversity

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👤 Tiffany Ki, Henslow Research Fellow, Darwin College 📅 Thursday 28 November 2024, 18:45-20:00 📍 Seminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein Evolution in Sequence Landscapes - From Data to Models and Back

👤 Professor Martin Weigt, Institute of Biology, Paris 📅 Monday 25 November 2024, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Future-proofing the Fens

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👤 Laurie Friday, Cambridge Centre for Landscape Regeneration 📅 Thursday 21 November 2024, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Is recycling just a load of rubbish?

👤 Dr. Claire Barlow, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 18 November 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Studying Speciation in the Small Ermine Moths (Yponomeuta)

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👤 Nathan Clark 📅 Thursday 14 November 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

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)

Cambridge Natural History Society

Plant Collecting in Kyrgyzstan

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👤 Kathryn Bray, Senior Horticulturist, CU Botanic Garden 📅 Thursday 07 November 2024, 18:45-20:00 📍 Seminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Next Gen asset tracking using battery-free Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence

👤 Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan OBE, PervasID Ltd., St. Johns Innovation Centre, Cambridge 📅 Monday 04 November 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

A beep in the dark: 120 years of midwife toads in Great Britain

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👤 Steve Allain, the Pop Punk Herpetologist, ARU 📅 Thursday 31 October 2024, 18:45-20:00 📍 Seminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Global Warming in the Arctic

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👤 Colin and Christine Lang 📅 Thursday 24 October 2024, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Celebrating the contribution of viral sequencing to the COVID-19 pandemic response.

👤 Professor Sharon Peacock, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Cambridge; Director and Chair of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium 📅 Monday 21 October 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Finding W H Hudson — the writer who came to Britain to save birds

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👤 Conor Jameson, writer and naturalist 📅 Thursday 17 October 2024, 18:45-20:00 📍 Seminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife, or, Why are there so many species?

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👤 Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire 📅 Thursday 10 October 2024, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Protein genetic architecture is simple, and epistasis can facilitate the evolution of new functions

👤 Assistant Professor Brian Metzger, Purdue University 📅 Monday 07 October 2024, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Quantitative Biology Seminar

⚠️ **Seminar cancelled**

👤 Dr Mohammed Lotfollahi, Wellcome Sanger Institute 📅 Monday 30 September 2024, 12:00-13:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Digital Cancer Twins: From Mechanistic Insights to Therapeutic Applications

👤 Professor Jasmin Fisher, UCL Cancer Institute 📅 Monday 01 July 2024, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Segmenting the biological causes of hearing loss

👤 Professor Karen P. Steel PhD, FMedSci, FRS, Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King's College London 📅 Monday 10 June 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Physics IS Enhancing Machine Learning

👤 Dr Alice Cicirello, Data, Vibration and Uncertainty Group, Department of Engineering 📅 Monday 27 May 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Creating brain organoids to uncover what makes us human.

👤 Dr. Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 📅 Monday 13 May 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wicken Fen: 125 Years of Conservation

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👤 Ajay Tegala 📅 Thursday 09 May 2024, 19:15-21:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2024

👤 The President and Officers 📅 Thursday 09 May 2024, 18:45-19:10 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?

👤 Professor Jonathan Cullen, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 29 April 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Programmed evolution: Using asexual gene drives to sculpt tumor populations and combat genetic diversity

👤 Justin Pritchard, Penn State College of Engineering 📅 Monday 29 April 2024, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 2

⚠️ Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

👤 Free Public Exhibition 📅 Saturday 20 April 2024, 10:00-17:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 1

⚠️ Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

👤 Free Public Exhibition 📅 Friday 19 April 2024, 13:00-18:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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👤 Duncan Mackay 📅 Thursday 21 March 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Screening Approaches for the Identification of Covalent Peptide Inhibitors

👤 Scott Lovell, University of Bath 📅 Monday 18 March 2024, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

What and Where I Record

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👤 Jonathan Shanklin 📅 Thursday 14 March 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

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👤 Rosemary Fricker 📅 Thursday 07 March 2024, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mathematical modelling to develop insights into cancer evolution

👤 Dr Weini Huang 📅 Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

👤 Professor Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd. 📅 Monday 04 March 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

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👤 Peter Pilbeam 📅 Thursday 29 February 2024, 18:45-20:30 📍 Meeting Room (Second Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell size - A new hallmark of aging?

👤 Jette Lengefeld, University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institute 📅 Monday 26 February 2024, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

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👤 Olwen Williams 📅 Thursday 22 February 2024, 18:45-20:30 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mapping DNA replication stress in cancer cells and parasites with long-read sequencing and AI

👤 Dr Michael Boemo 📅 Thursday 22 February 2024, 16:00-17:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED: CSAR lecture: Graphene, Two Dimensional Materials & Delivering the Future of Electronic Devices

👤 Dr. Simon Thomas, Paragraf Ltd. 📅 Monday 19 February 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Habitat associations of British butterflies and their foodplants: implications for conservation

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👤 Esme Ashe-Jepson 📅 Thursday 15 February 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Modelling Blood Cell Development across Molecular and Tissue Scales

👤 Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute 📅 Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

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👤 Morgan Morrison, Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London 📅 Thursday 08 February 2024, 18:45-20:30 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Horizonal gene transfer in transmissible cancers

👤 Prof. Elizabeth Murchison 📅 Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00 📍 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBC

👤 Professor Mark Middleton, University of Oxford Department of Oncology; Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre 📅 Monday 05 February 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Functional studies of genetic variation using precision genome editing

👤 Dr Francisco J Sanchez-Rivera, Koch Institute at MIT 📅 Monday 05 February 2024, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Development of a combined digital and biomarker test for Bipolar Disorder.

👤 Professor Sabine Bahn, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research 📅 Monday 22 January 2024, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

⚠️ Ticketed Event

👤 Annual Social Gathering 📅 Thursday 07 December 2023, 18:30-20:30 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

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👤 Morag Hunter 📅 Thursday 30 November 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Unlocking cellular reprogramming to reverse ageing and age-driven diseases.

👤 Dr. Daniel Ives, Shift Bioscience 📅 Monday 27 November 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Exploring cell heterogeneity in health and disease using single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics

👤 Erwin Schoof, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) 📅 Monday 27 November 2023, 12:30-13:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Health of the Cam

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👤 Stephen Tomkins 📅 Thursday 23 November 2023, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fieldwork: A Dendrochronologist's perspective of Science, Life and Adventure

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👤 Paul Krusic 📅 Thursday 16 November 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

ESA HydroGNSS Scout – A Small Satellite Mission Sensing Climate Variables using GNSS Reflectometry

👤 Dr Martin Unwin, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd 📅 Monday 13 November 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Biodiverse City

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👤 Guy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council 📅 Thursday 09 November 2023, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

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👤 Liam Saddington 📅 Thursday 02 November 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Social prescribing - beyond pills

👤 Professor Sir Sam Everington, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Tower Hamlets 📅 Monday 30 October 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

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👤 Will Simonson, Organic Research Centre 📅 Thursday 26 October 2023, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

👤 Fernando Santini, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 📅 Monday 23 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI

Cambridge Natural History Society

People Power for Nature

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👤 Pete Exley, RSPB 📅 Thursday 19 October 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: FlexEnable: Taking Organic Electronics from Lab to Fab

👤 Dr. Mike Banach, FlexEnable Technology Ltd., Cambridge 📅 Monday 16 October 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

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👤 Mark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts 📅 Thursday 12 October 2023, 18:45-20:00 📍 Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPases

👤 Pau Castel, NYU School of Medicine 📅 Tuesday 04 July 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Developments in neuroscience (TBC)

👤 Professor Jack Price, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. King’s College London 📅 Monday 12 June 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, 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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Unsung Heroes of the Discovery of the Double Helix

👤 Professor Malcolm Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 29 May 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

OpenFold: Lessons learned and insights gained from rebuilding and retraining AlphaFold2.

⚠️ On Zoom Only

👤 Mohammed AlQuarishi, Columbia University 📅 Monday 22 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94647233365?pwd=SGlubDdCL2ZSTWJvNHNjV0NiWHM5dz09

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

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium

👤 multiple 📅 Wednesday 17 May 2023, 09:45-17:15 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lens

👤 Prof. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University 📅 Monday 15 May 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, 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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite: Dispatchable Green Energy from Space

👤 Ian Cash, M.Eng, International Electric Company 📅 Monday 01 May 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

👤 Dr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen) 📅 Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Online

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

⚠️ Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

👤 Free Public Exhibition 📅 Saturday 15 April 2023, 10:00-17:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting

👤 The President and Officers 📅 Friday 14 April 2023, 18:00-19:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

⚠️ Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

👤 Free Public Exhibition 📅 Friday 14 April 2023, 13:00-18:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cool as a caterpillar

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👤 Esme Ashe-Jepson 📅 Thursday 30 March 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers

👤 Jason Sheltzer, Yale School of Medicine 📅 Monday 27 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and Cambridge

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👤 Kevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President 📅 Thursday 23 March 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Climate Stories from Yew Trees

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👤 Tatiana Bebchuk 📅 Thursday 16 March 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Finding Target-Disease-Drug evidences from Literature and supporting curators. Please note: the details of this talk have changed

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Matthew Jeffryes and Santosh Tirunagari, EMBL-EBI 📅 Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

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👤 Jonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire. 📅 Thursday 09 March 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Katherine Lawler, Research Associate Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital 📅 Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

👤 Dr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer) 📅 Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

👤 Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 06 March 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moths

⚠️ NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

👤 Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography 📅 Thursday 02 March 2023, 18:45-20:30 📍 Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational Biology in Drug Discovery

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Philippe Sanseau, GSK Senior Fellow, Head In Silico Target Biology, Computational Biology, Genomic Sciences 📅 Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

👤 Dr Marie Manceau (College De France) 📅 Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Online

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Seeing the Unseen

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Jordan P. Skittrall, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Virology and Honorary Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Medical Virology, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology 📅 Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are there solutions for plastic degradation in protein sequence space?

👤 Professor Florian Hollfelder, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 20 February 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

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👤 Joshua Pike 📅 Thursday 16 February 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mapping DNA replication stress in parasites and cancer cells with long-read sequencing and AI

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Dr. Michael A. Boemo, Research Group Leader, Department of Pathology 📅 Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

👤 Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh) 📅 Wednesday 15 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mammalian Synthetic Biology – Biomolecular Circuits as Medicine

👤 Xiaojing Gao, Stanford University 📅 Monday 13 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI

Cambridge Natural History Society

In Search of Wild Tulips

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👤 Brett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences 📅 Thursday 09 February 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Research in the Goldman group: pandemic-scale phylogenetics, and optimizing new sequencing technologies

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Nick Goldman and Nicola De Maio, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute 📅 Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications

👤 Professor Pavel Matousek, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK. 📅 Monday 06 February 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting today´s extinction crisis

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👤 Mike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative 📅 Thursday 02 February 2023, 18:45-20:30 📍 Via Zoom, and in-person: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Does computational biology explain Fibonacci numbers in plants?

⚠️ Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

👤 Jonathan Swinton 📅 Wednesday 01 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants

👤 Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Ben Schreiber, Image Analysis Team, Dept of Pathology 📅 Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Feeding Britain: should this rich country feed itself more or rely on others’ land and labour?

👤 Professor Timothy Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City University London 📅 Monday 23 January 2023, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology 📅 Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics

👤 Dan Landau, New York Genome Center | Weill Cornell Medicine 📅 Monday 09 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated

👤 Cynthia Rudin, Duke University 📅 Monday 12 December 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

👤 Social Gathering 🍾 📅 Thursday 08 December 2022, 18:30-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insects in Flight

👤 John Brackenbury 📅 Thursday 01 December 2022, 18:45-20:30 📍 Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Motile behaviour and evolution of bacteria in antibiotic landscapes

⚠️ Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

👤 Nuno Miguel Oliveira, DPhil, BBSRC Discovery Fellow & Teaching Bye-Fellow in Zoology (Christ's College) 📅 Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

👤 Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna) 📅 Wednesday 30 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 Online

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.

👤 Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR. 📅 Monday 28 November 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic Cancer

👤 Kamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre 📅 Monday 28 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

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👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

⚠️ hybrid

👤 Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol) 📅 Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

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👤 Bethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer 📅 Thursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Knowledge Graphs for Precision Oncology

⚠️ Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

👤 Krishna C Bulusu Director, Early Data Science Oncology Data Science, Oncology R&D AstraZeneca 📅 Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

⚠️ hybrid

👤 Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hydrogen-Electric Propulsion for a Clean Aviation Future

👤 Dr. Sergey Kiselev, Zeroavia 📅 Monday 14 November 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

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👤 Contributing Authors 📅 Thursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

👤 Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine. 📅 Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

⚠️ hybrid

👤 Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mosquitoes in the Cambridgeshire Fens: past, present and future

👤 Mark Welch, Natural History Museum 📅 Thursday 03 November 2022, 18:45-20:30 📍 Department of Geography, Downing Site

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Michele Vendruscolo, Co-Director, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry 📅 Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain

👤 Prof. Usha Goswami, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 31 October 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

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👤 Harriet Allen, President CNHS 📅 Thursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Buffering genetic variation in populations

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology Unit 📅 Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TALK POSTPONED

👤 Francesca Buffa 📅 Monday 24 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

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👤 Georgie Bray, RSPB 📅 Thursday 20 October 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

A semantics knowledge commons for climate change

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Peter Murray-Rust, Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry 📅 Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?

👤 Prof. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease 📅 Monday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

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👤 Monica Frisch, CNHS Archivist 📅 Thursday 13 October 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

An introduction to counts-of-counts data

⚠️ Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

👤 Simon Tavaré PhD Herbert and Florence Irving Director Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics & Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences Columbia University 📅 Wednesday 12 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

⚠️ Admission Free

👤 Stefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London 📅 Thursday 06 October 2022, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site (NOT Dept Geography)

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Combining multi-omics and biological knowledge to extract disease mechanisms

⚠️ Please contact Ciara for further details

👤 Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, Director of the Institute of Computational Biomedicine and Group Leader at the EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU) 📅 Monday 11 July 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deciphering Shared Intratumor Transcriptional Heterogeneity of Human Tumors

👤 Valentina Boeva, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 📅 Monday 20 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Are we alone?

👤 Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 13 June 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

👤 Professor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University 📅 Monday 30 May 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

⚠️ On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

👤 Dr Dorit Hockman 📅 Wednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 Zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Projectile Fusion A new challenge in applied computational science and engineering

👤 Dr. Nathan Joiner, First Light Fusion, Yarnton, Oxfordshire 📅 Monday 23 May 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Genomic Evolution of Cancer

👤 David Wedge, University of Manchester 📅 Monday 23 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

⚠️ Hybrid, ask organisers for link

👤 Dr Edwige Moyroud 📅 Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2022

👤 Various 📅 Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:00-17:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems

⚠️ Hybrid, ask organisers for link

👤 Prof Gaspar Jékely 📅 Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

⚠️ Hybrid, ask organisers for link

👤 Dr Jordi Solana 📅 Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms

⚠️ Hybrid, ask organisers for link

👤 Prof Paola Oliveri 📅 Wednesday 27 April 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Drug response and tolerance in normal and cancer cells

👤 Klaas Mulder, Molecular Developmental Biology, Radboud University 📅 Monday 25 April 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

⚠️ Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

👤 Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. 📅 Thursday 31 March 2022, 19:00-20:30 📍 Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Causality, Perturbations, Gene Regulation, and Drug Repurposing

👤 Caroline Uhler, Co-Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 📅 Monday 28 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fenland Flora

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👤 Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project 📅 Thursday 24 March 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Protein self-assembly - From fundamentals to applications in materials and drug discovery

👤 Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, U. of Cambridge 📅 Monday 21 March 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

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👤 Martin Davies 📅 Thursday 17 March 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

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👤 Rebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute 📅 Thursday 10 March 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

👤 Professor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham 📅 Monday 07 March 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lower Wood

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👤 Duncan Mackay 📅 Thursday 03 March 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents

⚠️ Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person, we will follow University Covid Guidance on this. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

👤 Elizabeth Murchison 📅 Wednesday 02 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Accelerating drug discovery with the power of microscopy & AI

👤 Anne E Carpenter, PhD, Senior Director of the Imaging Platform, Institute Scientist, Broad Institute 📅 Monday 28 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/94056313546?pwd=N1dYVFR1b0FwNmk0eGlxeDd1OVY1QT09

Cambridge Natural History Society

Peatbogs

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👤 Brian Eversham, Chief Executive, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants 📅 Thursday 24 February 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Mining for meaning in electronic health records; deep semantic normalisation for precision medicine and discovery.

👤 Paul Schofield 📅 Wednesday 23 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Cambridge vaccine, targeting SARS-CoV-2 variants and related Coronaviruses

👤 Professor Jonathan Heeney, Lab of Viral Zoonotics, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 21 February 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using Sound to Study the Behaviour of Wild Wolves, Coyotes and Jackals

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👤 Arik Kershenbaum 📅 Thursday 17 February 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Seeing the unseen: informatic approaches to find, characterise and drug conserved regions of nucleic acid in RNA viruses

👤 Jordan Skittrall (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 16 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Fenland Flora

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👤 Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project 📅 Friday 11 February 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

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👤 Ann Miles 📅 Thursday 10 February 2022, 19:30-20:45 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Drug Discovery in the era of large-scale genetics and genomics data

👤 Philippe Sanseau (Glaxo SmithKline) 📅 Wednesday 09 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations.

👤 Prof. Giles E. D. Oldroyd, FRS, Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 07 February 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

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👤 Daniel Field 📅 Thursday 03 February 2022, 19:30-20:45 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Machine learning with biomedical ontologies: applications in precision health

👤 Robert Hoehndorf 📅 Wednesday 02 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Genomic and digital pathology approaches to elucidate cancer dormancy

⚠️ Hybrid seminar, please join at: https://zoom.us/j/97592722368?pwd=eXg4bHN3SEJKMm5hRXpCZUtncnVBdz09

👤 Maria Secrier, UCL Genetics Institute 📅 Monday 31 January 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Audience Choice

⚠️ The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.

👤 Jonathan Shanklin 📅 Thursday 27 January 2022, 19:30-20:45 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis

👤 Dr Jim Denholm, Postdoctoral visitor Dept. Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 26 January 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics

👤 Dr. Sam Stranks, Chemical Eng. & Biotechnology/Cavendish Lab 📅 Monday 24 January 2022, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity

👤 Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, MA, MB BChir, PhD, FRCPath, PGDipMedEd University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 19 January 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

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👤 Ellie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson 📅 Thursday 02 December 2021, 19:30-20:45 📍 via zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Early detection of cancer: learning from the oesophagus, or how long is a piece of string?

👤 Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Professor of Cancer Prevention and Interim Director at the MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 29 November 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

The launch of the online NatHistFest

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👤 CNHS Members 📅 Thursday 25 November 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

An Introduction to Machine Learning in AstraZeneca

👤 Domingo Salazar (AstraZeneca) 📅 Wednesday 24 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

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👤 April Bagwill 📅 Thursday 18 November 2021, 19:30-20:45 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination

👤 Michele Vendruscolo (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 17 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

MAGNATM, a novel single molecule platform to analyze genetic variation and epigenetic modifications on native RNA and DNA molecules

👤 Dr Jimmy Ouellet, Depixus SAS 📅 Tuesday 16 November 2021, 10:00-11:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Deep AI Research in Health and Life Sciences

👤 Dr. Kenji Takeda, Director of Academic Health and AI Partnerships, Microsoft Research, Cambridge 📅 Monday 15 November 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

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👤 Gwenda Kyd, Author 📅 Thursday 11 November 2021, 19:30-20:45 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Elucidating inter-species interactions in microbial communities using metabolic models

👤 Kiran R. Patil (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 10 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

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👤 Dr Steve Boreham 📅 Thursday 04 November 2021, 19:30-20:45 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

A multidimensional perspective on immune-mediated diseases: using genetic feature engineering to study shared risk factors in a reduced dimension space

👤 Guillermo Reales (Dept. of Medicine, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 03 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

👤 Dr. Bob Bates, The Pye Foundation 📅 Monday 01 November 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Buffering genetic variation in populations

👤 Dr. Ritwick Sawarkar (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 27 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

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👤 Dr Harriet Allen, CNHS President 📅 Thursday 21 October 2021, 19:30-20:45 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Computational Oncology at AstraZeneca

👤 Ben Sidders (AstraZeneca) 📅 Wednesday 20 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Productivity Puzzle

👤 Professor Diane Coyle, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 18 October 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees for Streets

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👤 Simeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets 📅 Thursday 14 October 2021, 19:30-20:45 📍 via zoom

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2023 - 24

Understanding DNA Replication with Nanopore Sequencing, Deep Learning, and Mathematical Modelling

👤 Dr. Michael A. Boemo (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 13 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, Meeting Room 15

Cambridge Natural History Society

The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 vision

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

👤 Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants 📅 Thursday 07 October 2021, 19:30-20:30 📍 via zoom

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Artificial intelligence for prediction of genetic alterations directly from histology images

⚠️ Please email tania.smith@cruk.cam.ac.uk to request the Zoom registration link

👤 Prof Jakob Kather is a physician/scientist and assistant professor at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) with additional affiliations at the NCT Heidelberg (Germany) and the University of Leeds (UK). 📅 Monday 04 October 2021, 09:30-10:30 📍 ZOOM (live)

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Forum - Bridging the Gap

👤 Speakers from Arm, Microsoft and the University of Cambridge. 📅 Tuesday 06 July 2021, 18:00-19:15 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR website for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Nanomanufacturing, batteries and the energy transition.

👤 Professor Michael de Volder, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 21 June 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Asteroids, comets and impacts: should we worry?

👤 Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge 📅 Monday 07 June 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Ice templating for Regenerative Medicine - using ice to define cell-guiding frameworks for healing

👤 Professor Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 24 May 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering model-based systems to monitor and steer subclonal dynamics

👤 Dr Noemi Andor, Moffitt Cancer Center 📅 Monday 24 May 2021, 15:00-16:00 📍 ZOOM (live)

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI Annual Symposium 2021

👤 Programme and registration: https://bit.ly/ccbisymp21 📅 Wednesday 12 May 2021, 09:00-17:00 📍 Online via zoom

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics.

👤 Professor Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology; Co-director for the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, Cambridge University 📅 Monday 10 May 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Graphene and GaN - From Basic Science to Manufacturing Devices

👤 Prof Sir Colin Humphreys, Professor of Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London. 📅 Monday 19 April 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Determining the age of Barrett’s esophagus using stochastic multiscale modeling and epigenetic clocks

👤 Dr Kathleen Curtius from UCSD in San Diego 📅 Monday 19 April 2021, 17:00-18:15 📍 ZOOM (live)

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Innovation - the engine of economic growth

👤 Lord David Sainsbury, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 29 March 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Space Weather - exploring the science, impacts and challenges posed by space weather.

👤 Professor Richard B. Horne, Head of Space Weather and Atmosphere, British Antarctic Survey. 📅 Monday 08 March 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.

Computational and Systems Biology

The genomes of transmissible cancers

👤 Prof. Elizabeth Murchison (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 03 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Driving Insurance Innovation: Data Science and Research at Aviva

👤 Simon Warsop, FIA, Life Analytics Director | Partner, Aviva Quantum Data Science and Research at Aviva 📅 Monday 22 February 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.

Computational and Systems Biology

Regulation of gene expression and genome organisation

👤 Prof. Julie Ahringer (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 17 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hunt for Exoplanets

👤 Professor Didier Queloz, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 08 February 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Visualizing Spatial Single-Cell Data with Vitessce

⚠️ Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 5th February to receive a ZOOM registration link

👤 Prof Nils Gehlenborg from Harvard Medical School 📅 Monday 08 February 2021, 15:00-16:15 📍 ZOOM (live)

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational Biology in Drug Discovery

👤 Philippe Sanseau (GSK) 📅 Wednesday 03 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information.

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis

👤 Dr Julian Gilbey (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 27 January 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hydrogen: Its Role in the UK Economy

👤 Professor Nigel Brandon, Imperial College London 📅 Monday 25 January 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.

Computational and Systems Biology

Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity

👤 Dr Elizabeth Soilleux (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 20 January 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The End of the World (again) .... or, Lessons from the Black Death

👤 Professor John Robb, Professor of European Prehistory, University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology 📅 Monday 11 January 2021, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deep learning in medical imaging - successes, pitfalls and challenges

⚠️ Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 11th December to receive a ZOOM registration link

👤 Prof Lena Maier-Hein from DKFZ in Heidelberg 📅 Monday 14 December 2020, 15:00-16:15 📍 ZOOM (live)

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tooth Regeneration and Repair: Dentistry in the 21st century

👤 Professor Paul Sharpe, King's College London, Head of the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology, Dickinson Professor of Craniofacial Biology. 📅 Monday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information.

Computational and Systems Biology

AstraZeneca Oncology Bioinformatics case studies and the skill sets we value

👤 Miika Ahdesmäki & Dimitris Polychronopoulos (AstraZeneca) 📅 Wednesday 25 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information.

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational Morphodynamics - a quantitative description of multicellular development

👤 Prof. Henrik Jönsson (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 18 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Is Dementia Preventable?

👤 Professor Gill Livingston, Division of Psychiatry, UCL. 📅 Monday 16 November 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information.

Computational and Systems Biology

Can machines understand the scientific literature?

👤 Dr. Peter Murray-Rust (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 11 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Computational analysis of cancer genomes

⚠️ Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 6th November to receive a ZOOM registration link

👤 Prof Nuria Lopez-Bigas from Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona 📅 Monday 09 November 2020, 10:00-11:00 📍 ZOOM (live)

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational Approaches to Drug Design and Computational Toxicology

👤 Dr Andreas Bender (Centre for Molecular Informatics) 📅 Wednesday 04 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Osseointegration, approaching 1,000 cases.

👤 Professor Munjed Al Muderis, MB ChB FRACS FAOrthA; Orthopedic Surgeon, School Of Medicine, University Of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney; School of Medicine Macquarie University 📅 Monday 02 November 2020, 09:00-10:30 📍 Location: Zoom. See CSAR website or emails for joining information.

Computational and Systems Biology

A multi-'omics graph convolutional network analysis for prediction of cancer survival

👤 Dr Paul Schofield (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 28 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Genetics Through the Lens of Mutational Signatures and the Two-Hit Hypothesis.

⚠️ Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 16th October to receive a ZOOM registration link

👤 Dr Paz Polak from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York 📅 Monday 19 October 2020, 16:30-17:30 📍 ZOOM (live)

Computational and Systems Biology

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

👤 Dr Katherine Lawler (IMS, Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 14 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining information.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Electronics on the brain

👤 Professor George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 12 October 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Characterizing and forecasting tumour evolution

⚠️ Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 25 September to receive a ZOOM registration link

👤 Dr Robert Noble from City, University of London 📅 Monday 28 September 2020, 10:30-11:30 📍 ZOOM (live)

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Understanding regulatory systems and mechanisms of genetic interactions: from yeast to pediatric cancer

⚠️ Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk to receive a ZOOM registration link

👤 Dr Patrick Kemmeren from Princess Maxima Center in Utrecht, Netherlands 📅 Monday 20 July 2020, 11:30-12:30 📍 ZOOM (live)

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Zero cases - the lessons from New Zealand

👤 Professor Michael Baker, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand. 📅 Wednesday 17 June 2020, 10:00-11:00 📍 Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical challenges posed by heterogeneous data from immunology and microbiology

⚠️ Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk by Friday 12th June to receive a ZOOM registration link

👤 Professor Susan Holmes from Stanford University 📅 Monday 15 June 2020, 10:00-11:15 📍 ZOOM (live)

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity.

👤 Professor Danny Altmann, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital Campus. 📅 Wednesday 03 June 2020, 12:00-13:00 📍 Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

👤 Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable 📅 Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

“Focus on the Individual; The importance of chromosome-specific biology in generating aneuploidy patterns in cancer”

⚠️ Please email anna.toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk to receive a ZOOM registration link

👤 Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London 📅 Monday 01 June 2020, 13:00-14:15 📍 ZOOM (live)

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. Science-led Policy: From Global Pandemics to Climate Change

👤 Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. Dieselgate: The Inside Story

👤 John German, International Council on Clean Transportation 📅 Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

CANCELLED

👤 Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute in London 📅 Monday 04 May 2020, 13:00-14:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

Cambridge Natural History Society

TO BE ADJOURNED - AGM

⚠️ AGM WILL BE ADJOURNED

👤 AGM 📅 Thursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-19:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

👤 Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Visual Exploration of Longitudinal Oncology Data - CANCELLED

👤 Professor Nils Gehlenborg from Harvard Medical School 📅 Monday 09 March 2020, 10:00-11:00 📍 Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

👤 Mal Faloon 📅 Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

👤 Sophia Upton 📅 Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

👤 Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK 📅 Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting context dependent cancer signalling processes using CRISPR-based approaches

👤 Dr Evangelina Petsalaki from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton 📅 Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

Cambridge Natural History Society

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

👤 Peter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber 📅 Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Image-based quantitative morphology with geometrical models

👤 Dr Virginie Uhlmann from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton 📅 Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lines in nature and the landscape

👤 Martin Davies 📅 Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

👤 Andrew Ashe, onebillion 📅 Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

Harrold-Odell Country Park

👤 Richard Dowsett 📅 Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

👤 James Moss (the Reserve Manager) and Stephen Tomkins 📅 Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

👤 Justin Crocker, EMBL 📅 Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

👤 Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London 📅 Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

👤 Mark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust 📅 Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

👤 Ruth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants 📅 Thursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

👤 Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London 📅 Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

⚠️ Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

👤 Members' Event 📅 Thursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

👤 Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University 📅 Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Natural History Society

Members' enthusiasms

👤 Rod Mulvey - John O’Boyle - Ben Greig 📅 Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

The short Arctic summer

👤 Robert Burton 📅 Thursday 21 November 2019, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

👤 📅 Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30 📍 (no venue)

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

👤 Professor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

An astronomer in Antarctica

👤 Jonathan Shanklin 📅 Thursday 07 November 2019, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tasty Crafty Aliens - Making the best of a bad situation...

👤 Abigail Stancliffe-Vaughan 📅 Thursday 31 October 2019, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Opthalmology

👤 Dr. Pearce Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital 📅 Monday 28 October 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Last Dog? Wolves in the Highlands of Ethiopia and elsewhere

⚠️ Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

👤 Kevin Hand 📅 Thursday 24 October 2019, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Changes: the Bird Life of Cambridgeshire - for better or for worse?

⚠️ Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

👤 Bob Jarman 📅 Thursday 17 October 2019, 18:45-20:30 📍 Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data Psychometrics

👤 Dr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School 📅 Monday 14 October 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

(Re-)discovering Moths

👤 Annette Shelford 📅 Thursday 10 October 2019, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridge's Natural History - what do we know after three years of NatHistCam?

👤 Mark Hill 📅 Thursday 03 October 2019, 18:45-20:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation and the Cambridge Cluster: Past, present and future.

👤 Professor Tim Minshall, Institutue for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 30 September 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS bat & moth trapping night

⚠️ Book by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.

👤 Duncan Mackay 📅 Saturday 28 September 2019, 19:00-21:00 📍 Meet at north end of Riverside 'Millennium' foot/cycle bridge.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.

👤 Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford 📅 Monday 10 June 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

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

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

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI Annual Symposium 2019

👤 REGISTRATION REQUIRED 📅 Wednesday 15 May 2019, 09:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene eating

👤 Dr. Giles Yeo, Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 13 May 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

“The Robot will see you now.” Has the time for surgical robots arrived?

👤 Mr. Mark Slack, CMR Surgical and University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 29 April 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

⚠️ Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

👤 Free Public Exhibition 📅 Saturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting

👤 The President and Officers 📅 Friday 12 April 2019, 18:00-18:30 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

⚠️ Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

👤 Free Public Exhibition 📅 Friday 12 April 2019, 13:00-18:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Crystallography and strain mapping: some new theory for Geometric Phase Analysis (GPA)

👤 Prof. Martin Hytch, CEMES-CNRS 📅 Monday 08 April 2019, 10:00-11:00 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology

👤 Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 04 April 2019, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

⚠️ Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

👤 Cambridge Concert Orchestra 📅 Saturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30 📍 Wesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A systems biology approach to identify perturbed processes driving cancer

👤 Professor Francesca D. Ciccarelli from King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute 📅 Monday 25 March 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

Cambridge Natural History Society

Farming of the future: Alternative options for agriculture & conservation

⚠️ Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

👤 Abigail Burns 📅 Thursday 21 March 2019, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

👤 Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

⚠️ Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

👤 Kevin Hand 📅 Thursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Towards the high-level sequence code of gene regulation

👤 Dr Aleksandr Sahakyan (MRC WIMM, Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Regulatory Genomics: From Basic Biology to Disease Mechanisms and Ageing

👤 Dr Judith Zaugg from EMBL in Heidelberg 📅 Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

Cambridge Natural History Society

Parasitic plants

👤 Helen Moore 📅 Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Statistical Approaches to Personalised Medicine in Breast Cancer

👤 Dr Oscar Rueda (CRUK - CI) 📅 Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor.

👤 Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin 📅 Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Computational and Systems Biology

Chemical and Biological Data - from Compound Selection to Mode of Action Analysis (and Back Again)

👤 Dr Andreas Bender (Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept of Chemistry) 📅 Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

👤 Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona 📅 Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

👤 Greg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks 📅 Thursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Ribosome profiling and virus infection

👤 Dr Andrew Firth (Dept of Pathology) 📅 Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains - approaching the next level of detail

👤 Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg 📅 Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancers and the tumour microenvironment

👤 Prof. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London 📅 Monday 18 February 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Learning Engines for Healthcare: Using Machine Learning to Transform Clinical Practice and Discovery

👤 Prof Mihaela van der Schaar from Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cheetah conservation in Namibia

👤 Chris Heron 📅 Thursday 14 February 2019, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Prioritization of mutations in coding and noncoding regions of the human genome using machine learning approaches

👤 Dr Sudhakaran Prabakaran (Dept of Genetics) 📅 Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations

👤 Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Natural History Society

Venom

👤 Leah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum 📅 Thursday 07 February 2019, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Inflamed Depression

👤 Prof. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 04 February 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Computational and Systems Biology

Replacing pathologists with next generation diagnostics: use of artificial intelligence to analyse image and DNA sequencing data

👤 Dr Elizabeth Sollieux (Dept of Pathology), Dr Matt Thorpe (DAMTP) and Oliver Crook (MRC Biostatistics Unit/DAMTP) 📅 Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila

👤 Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki 📅 Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational approaches to Immuno-Oncology drug development

👤 Dr Ben Sidders (Astrazeneca) 📅 Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

👤 Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell-of-origin of prostate cancer and clinical heterogeneity

👤 Dr Esther Baena from CRUK Manchester Institute 📅 Monday 17 December 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

Cambridge Natural History Society

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

⚠️ CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

👤 Anastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International 📅 Thursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

⚠️ FREE EVENT

👤 Dr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 29 November 2018, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematics for mechanistic biology and drug discovery

👤 Dr Rahuman Sheriff (EMBL-EBI) 📅 Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

👤 Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University 📅 Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

Discovering lichens

👤 Mark Powell 📅 Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical modelling of rapid evolutionary processes

👤 Dr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Non invasive detection of tissue specific cell death via methylation patterns of circulating DNA

👤 Prof Yuval Dor from The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School 📅 Monday 19 November 2018, 16:30-17:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wildlife photography

👤 Joshua Harris, CU Nature Society 📅 Thursday 15 November 2018, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

How space constrains evolution: lessons from bacteria and bacteriophage

👤 Dr Diana Fusco 📅 Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

👤 Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University 📅 Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Genome Evolution and Immune Escape

⚠️ You must email Anna.Toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk prior to the talk if you are not based in CRUK CI and you wish to attend.

👤 Dr Nicholas McGranahan from Francis Crick Institute in London 📅 Monday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Room 215, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Spectacular Chemistry of Coal

👤 Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London 📅 Thursday 08 November 2018, 19:00-20:30 📍 Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Cambridge Natural History Society

Getting to know British reptiles

👤 Terry Moore 📅 Thursday 08 November 2018, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

👤 Dr Katherine Lawler (MRC Institute of Metabolic Science) 📅 Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Personal Genomics

👤 Dr Julian Gough (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 📅 Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Energy and matter at the origin of life – and why it matters

👤 Prof. Nick Lane, UCL 📅 Monday 29 October 2018, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

Foula: Edge of the World

⚠️ Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

👤 Sam Buckton 📅 Thursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

👤 Dr Laurent Gatto (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) 📅 Wednesday 24 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

⚠️ Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

👤 Chris Preston 📅 Thursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Data-driven approaches to drug target identification

👤 Dr Alex Gutteridge (GSK) 📅 Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hello World: How to be human in the age of the machine

👤 Dr. Hannah Fry, UCL 📅 Monday 15 October 2018, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

A trip to the Galapagos islands

👤 Paul Hoxey 📅 Thursday 11 October 2018, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Exploiting stochastic fluctuations to understand cellular processes and infer biochemical kinetics

👤 Dr Andreas Hilfinger (University of Toronto) 📅 Wednesday 10 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Exploring the role of ion channels in cancer using executable modelling

👤 Dr Benjamin Hall from MRC Cancer Unit in Cambridge 📅 Monday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

Cambridge Natural History Society

Old specimens, new tricks? The Cambridge University Herbarium: what a million dead plants can tell us about the world today

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

👤 . 📅 Saturday 07 April 2018, 10:00-17:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

👤 . 📅 Friday 06 April 2018, 13:00-18:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Land of Eagles - Albania: from closed nation to wildlife paradise - where next?

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Networks by Quantitative Phosphoproteomics

👤 Prof. Jesper V. Olsen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 📅 Tuesday 16 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

Cambridge Natural History Society

Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation

⚠️ This will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.

👤 Louise Bacon 📅 Thursday 07 December 2017, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Enhancers as regulatory hubs in mammalian embryogenesis and human congenital disease

⚠️ All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

👤 Dr Alvaro Rada-Iglesias, CMMC - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Germany 📅 Monday 04 December 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

Computational and Systems Biology

Deciphering the origins of gene expression bursts at dawn, using computer-aided experimental design

👤 Dr Daphne Ezer, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 29 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Democracy Ends: Thinking the Unthinkable

👤 Prof. David Runciman, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 27 November 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Inferring the Evolutionary History of Cancers: Statistical Methods and Applications

⚠️ All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Thank you.

👤 Dr Andrew Roth, Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford 📅 Monday 27 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

Cambridge Natural History Society

Amphibian conservation and midwife toads in Cambridge

👤 Steven Allain 📅 Thursday 23 November 2017, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

👤 Dr Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry 📅 Wednesday 22 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

BSS Formal Seminars

An intracellular organization of extracellular information

👤 Prof. Peter Swain, University of Edinburgh 📅 Friday 17 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Origins of Mediterranean flora

👤 Harriet Allen 📅 Thursday 16 November 2017, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical Modelling in Early Drug Discovery

👤 Dr Domingo Salazar, AstraZeneca UK Limited 📅 Wednesday 15 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Will the Antarctic Go Green Again? Lessons from its Fossil History

👤 Prof. Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey 📅 Monday 13 November 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Bonfires with a Bang. Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

👤 Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London 📅 Thursday 09 November 2017, 19:00-20:30 📍 Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Cambridge Natural History Society

Shepreth Hedgehog Hospital

👤 Robert Day 📅 Thursday 09 November 2017, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants

👤 Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University 📅 Wednesday 08 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Motion of uni-flagellated bacteria at interfaces and in complex media

👤 Prof. Jay Tang, Brown University 📅 Friday 03 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Plants and their uses (medicinal & otherwise)

👤 Gwenda Kyd 📅 Thursday 02 November 2017, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Evolution while you wait: population genetic modelling of rapid evolutionary processes

👤 Dr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 01 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Scientific Challenges of Fusion Power

👤 Prof. Steven Cowley, Corpus Christi College, Oxford 📅 Monday 30 October 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mutational heterogeneity in promoter regions in melanoma

⚠️ All external guests should arrive to the room at least 5 minutes before the start of the talk.

👤 A/Prof. Dr Erik Larsson Lekholm, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden 📅 Monday 30 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

BSS Formal Seminars

Gaining control of DNA-based nanodevices

👤 Prof. Francesco Ricci, Chemistry Department, University of Rome, Tor Vergata 📅 Friday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Data-driven approaches to drug target identification

👤 Dr Alex Gutteridge Director,Computational Biology TSci Computational Biology(UK) GSK 📅 Wednesday 25 October 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research

⚠️ Please note that this event will be recorded. Guests should arrive to the Lecture Theatre at leat 5-10 minutes prior the talk, swich off their phones and minimise disruption and noise level to the minimum. Use of wi-fi is not allowed during the talk.

👤 Dr Timothy Errington 📅 Monday 23 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost forests of Huntingdonshire

👤 Jason Peters 📅 Thursday 19 October 2017, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Chemical and Biological Data - from Compound Selection to Mode of Action Analysis (and Back Again)

👤 Andreas Bender, PhD, Department of Chemistry 📅 Wednesday 18 October 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The DNA Revolution Has Arrived in the Behavioural Sciences

👤 Prof. Robert Plomin, King's College, London 📅 Monday 16 October 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

Britain's Hidden Marine Life

👤 Dr. Frances Dipper 📅 Thursday 12 October 2017, 18:45-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Personal Genomics

👤 Professor Julian Gough, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 📅 Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Using DNA to Program Nanostructure Assembly and Molecular Machinery

👤 Professor Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory. 📅 Friday 06 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

To be confirmed

⚠️ All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

👤 Prof. Tomas Marques Bonet 📅 Monday 25 September 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Coding and non-coding cancer mutations

⚠️ All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

👤 Prof. Dr Núria López-Bigas, ICREA Research Professor, IRB Barcelona 📅 Monday 14 August 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Targeted optimization of functional materials utilizing 3D structure analysis.

👤 Arved Reising, University of Marburg 📅 Thursday 20 July 2017, 11:30-12:30 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Topological defects in mesoscopic and complex crystals

👤 Jian-Min Zuo, University of Illinois 📅 Friday 07 July 2017, 11:30-12:30 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

To be confirmed

⚠️ All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

👤 Dr Paz Polak 📅 Monday 15 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

👤 Dr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd. 📅 Monday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

👤 TBA 📅 Monday 24 April 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Building a bigger brain: genetic bases for the evolution of the human neocortex

⚠️ All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

👤 Prof. Gregory A. Wray 📅 Monday 24 April 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Structure determination by electron crystallography: a powerful complement to conventional methods for structure elucidation

👤 Tom Willhammar, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE−106 91, Sweden 📅 Monday 24 April 2017, 11:30-12:30 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Cambridge Natural History Society

Travels of a botanist in search of mosses: Unst to Albania, then Cambridge

👤 Mark Hill 📅 Thursday 06 April 2017, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Functional variation in the human genome: lessons from the transcriptome

⚠️ If you have a question about this talk or would like to attend this talk but you are from outside CRUK CI, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek. Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

👤 Prof. Tuuli Lappalainen 📅 Monday 03 April 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001)

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Gaia's first data release: the galactic census begins (Cambridge Science Festival 2017)

👤 Professor Gerry Gilmore 📅 Friday 24 March 2017, 18:00-19:00 📍 Mil Lane Lecture Rooms ML9, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RW

Cambridge Natural History Society

Adventures in the Arctic

👤 Duncan Mackay 📅 Thursday 23 March 2017, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Towards General Artificial Intelligence

👤 Dr Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind 📅 Monday 20 March 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

First Footsteps: the Colonisation of Land

👤 Ken McNamara 📅 Thursday 16 March 2017, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors?

⚠️ All external to CRUK CI people need to be booked at least 24 hours prior the talk. Please contact Kamila by email if you would like to come.

👤 Dr Laurent Duret 📅 Monday 13 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors?

⚠️ All external to CRUK CI people need to be booked at least 24 hours prior the talk. Please contact Kamila by email if you would like to come.

👤 Dr Laurent Duret 📅 Monday 13 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

Cambridge Natural History Society

Protecting trees in South Cambridgeshire

👤 Ian Lorman 📅 Thursday 09 March 2017, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulatory evolution and the diversification of pigmentation patterns in Drosophila

👤 Nicolas Gompel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) 📅 Wednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour

👤 Prof. Beverley Glover FLS, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens 📅 Monday 06 March 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk, clunch and life on the edge

👤 Chris Donnelly and Reg Nicholls 📅 Thursday 02 March 2017, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

👤 Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine 📅 Wednesday 01 March 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanopores in 2d materials‐opportunities and challenges

👤 Aleksandra Radenovic, Associate Professor,Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 📅 Friday 24 February 2017, 14:15-15:15 📍 Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary and embryonic origins of the gnathostome axial skeleton

👤 Kate Criswell (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Citizens, Science and Science for Citizens

👤 Prof. Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS, Dept Physics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 20 February 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

The cacti of Peru

👤 Paul Hoxey 📅 Thursday 16 February 2017, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Integrating Chemical and Biological Data for Drug Discovery

👤 Dr Andreas Bender 📅 Wednesday 15 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

A review of 2016: wildlife and more - a personal perspective

👤 Brian Eversham 📅 Thursday 09 February 2017, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational Biology and Drug Discovery

👤 Philippe Sanseau - GSK R&D 📅 Wednesday 08 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Black Holes at Work

👤 prof. Andy Fabian OBE FRS, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 06 February 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

BSS Formal Seminars

Simple regulatory strategies to control stochastic fluctuations in gene expression

👤 Prof Michele Caselle, Department of Physics, University of Turin, Italy 📅 Friday 03 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

The environmental impacts of oil palm: good crop/bad crop?

👤 Ed Turner 📅 Thursday 02 February 2017, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Discovery and design of catalysts for sustainable technologies

👤 Javier Perez-Ramirez, Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 📅 Thursday 02 February 2017, 12:00-13:00 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Computational and Systems Biology

Ribosome profiling and virus infection

👤 Dr Andrew Firth Division of Virology ( University of Cambridge, UK) 📅 Wednesday 01 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The blind watch-breaker: evolution at regulatory sites in cancer

👤 Prof. Colin Semple 📅 Monday 30 January 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 215A/B

BSS Formal Seminars

3D holographic imaging of microswimmers

👤 Dr. Laurence Wilson. Department of Physics. University of York 📅 Friday 27 January 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

New Detectors for measuring probability current flow of an atomic-scale electron beam

👤 David A. Muller, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, U.S.A. 📅 Friday 27 January 2017, 15:00-16:00 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Creating and erasing memories with epigenetics

👤 Prof. Wolf Reik FRS FMedSci, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 23 January 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Where have all the speckles gone? Incoherence and decoherence in fluctuation electron microscopy

👤 Mike Treacy, Department of Physics, Arizona State University 📅 Thursday 19 January 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modeling cancer evolution from genomic data

⚠️ Please note that all external visitors have to be booked onto an internal visitors' booking system.

👤 Beerenwinkel, Niko, Prof. Dr. 📅 Friday 13 January 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 CRUK CI Room 215A/B

CCIMI Seminars

A new perspective from Information Theory on genetic sequences

👤 Omri Tal, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences 📅 Friday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Manufacturing - the vital capability for effective innovation

👤 Prof. Sir Mike Gregory FREng, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 09 January 2017, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

New Experimental Techniques for Exploring Crystallization Pathways and Structural Properties of Solids

👤 Kenneth D.M. Harris, School of Chemistry, Cardiff University 📅 Monday 12 December 2016, 10:00-11:00 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Approaches to imaging fast biological events

👤 Drs Michael Shaw & Vikas Trivedi 📅 Monday 05 December 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK Cambridge Institute lecture theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research

👤 Dr Marta Halina, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 01 December 2016, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of Hair

👤 Prof. Raymond Goldstein FRS FInstp, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Churchill College, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 28 November 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

The Rise of Low Voltage Electron Microscopy for Quantum Materials Research

👤 David C. Bell, Harvard University 📅 Monday 28 November 2016, 10:00-11:00 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees, hedges and woodland management

👤 Simon Damant, Forester at the National Trust Wimpole Hall estate 📅 Thursday 24 November 2016, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Multimetallic Functional Nanomaterials: From Reconfigurable Plasmonics to Catalysts

👤 Emilie Ringe, Rice University, Houston, USA. 📅 Thursday 24 November 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Computational and Systems Biology

Mining scientific diagrams for semantic information

👤 Dr. Peter Murray-Rust (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 23 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

👤 Professor Christopher Yau 📅 Monday 21 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

BSS Formal Seminars

Bioluminescent Reporter Screens: Illuminating Novel Regulators and Dynamics of Signaling Pathways

👤 Prof. David Piwnica-Worms. Department of Cancer Systems Imaging Deputy Division Head, Research Affairs, Division of Diagnostic Imaging Gerald Dewey Dodd, Jr., Endowed Distinguished Chair in Diagnostic Imaging The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer C 📅 Friday 18 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

A bird's-eye view of the natural world: monitoring forests from aircraft

👤 David Coomes, reader in Forest Ecology and Conservation 📅 Thursday 17 November 2016, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

👤 Dr Laurent Gatto 📅 Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

👤 Dr Laurent Gatto 📅 Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Transposable elements and epigenome evolution

👤 Prof. Ting Wang 📅 Tuesday 15 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data in Biology: Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare and Research

👤 Dr Ewan Birney FRS FMedSci, European Bioinformatics Institute 📅 Monday 14 November 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

Surveying marine biodiversity in the Staffa archipelago

👤 Nick Owens 📅 Thursday 10 November 2016, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

BSS Formal Seminars

Vesicle bionanotechnology and biophysics: from hybrid lipid-copolymer systems to anticancer peptides

👤 Prof. Paul Beales. School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, 📅 Friday 04 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistCam

👤 Mark Hill 📅 Thursday 03 November 2016, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome architecture and chromatin regulation in C. elegans

👤 Professor Julie Ahringer, The Gurdon Institute 📅 Wednesday 02 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in cartilaginous fishes - teeth, scales and the cartilaginous skeleton of the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula

👤 Mélanie Debiais-Thibaud (University of Montpellier) 📅 Wednesday 02 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What shapes the human immune system?

👤 Dr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute and Churchill College, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 31 October 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 – Evolution of digit number through modification of embryonic Sonic hedgehog signalling

👤 Megan Davey (University of Edinburgh) 📅 Wednesday 26 October 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

👤 Prof. Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng FNAE, Dept of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00 📍 Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

BSS Formal Seminars

“Lab on chip” – microfluidics, organ on chip and biomimetic channel networks

👤 Prof. Andreas Manz. Head of Research Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Universität des Saarlandes. Saarbruecken, Germany 📅 Friday 21 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridge University Botanic Garden: past, present and future

👤 Beverley Glover, Director of the Botanic Garden 📅 Thursday 20 October 2016, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolution, genomics and mode of action of long noncoding RNAs in mammalian cells

⚠️ If you have a question about this talk, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek from CRUK CI.

👤 Dr. Igor Ulitsky 📅 Wednesday 19 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 215A/B

Computational and Systems Biology

Transcriptional and phenotypic variability in response to temperature in plants

👤 Dr Sandra Cortijo 📅 Wednesday 19 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

OK Computer - teaching machines to write music

👤 Ed Newton-Rex, Founder and CEO at Jukedeck 📅 Monday 17 October 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

Once you get a taste for it...

👤 Leah Fitzpatrick 📅 Thursday 13 October 2016, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

Computational and Systems Biology

Using evolutionary sequence variation to build predictive models of protein structure and function.

👤 Lucy Colwell (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 12 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Whipple Museum of the History of Science - Private tour - FULLY BOOKED

👤 Museum staff 📅 Thursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00 📍 Meet at the Whipple Museum, Free School Lane, CB2 3RH

Cambridge Natural History Society

Slugs and snails

👤 Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the local Wildlife Trust 📅 Thursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00 📍 David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Long-legged mouse and the Impossible Hybrid – the genetics of genome evolution in the mouse from stem cells to whole organisms

⚠️ If you have a question about this talk, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek.

👤 Dr Yingguang Frank Chan 📅 Monday 03 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Computational Imaging in Atomic Force Microscopy

👤 Thomas Arildsen, Department of Electronic Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University, Denmark 📅 Wednesday 21 September 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Goldsmiths 2, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Non-coding genome function in pancreatic islets and diabetes

⚠️ If you have a question about this talk, please contact Kamila.Lembrych-Turek.

👤 Professor Jorge Ferrer 📅 Monday 19 September 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A Bayesian ordination method for 16S microbiome profiling data

👤 Dr Sergio Bacallado 📅 Monday 22 August 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI, Room 009/009A

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Optimizing spatial resolution and minimizing beam damage in TEM and EELS

👤 Ray F. Egerton, Physics Department, University of Alberta, Canada 📅 Monday 15 August 2016, 11:30-12:30 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Analyzing Orientation Relationships with MTEX

👤 Ralf Hielscher, Department of Mathematics, TU Chemnitz 📅 Wednesday 03 August 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - FULLY BOOKED

👤 Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden 📅 Thursday 21 July 2016, 18:30-20:00 📍 Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE.

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Decision making in hierarchical multi-label classification (HMC) problems

👤 Haiyan Huang (UC Berkeley) 📅 Friday 08 July 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 009/009A

BSS Formal Seminars

Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques for Biomedical Applications

👤 Laura Marcu, PhD. Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering. University of California at Davis 📅 Friday 01 July 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Measurement of local magnetic properties of devices with transmission electron microscopy

👤 Xiaoxiao Fu, CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France 📅 Wednesday 22 June 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

👤 Dr Sergio Bacallado 📅 Tuesday 21 June 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI, Room 009/009A

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Engineering and Design for the Built Environment

👤 Professor Max Fordham OBE,RDI,FREng,MA,FCIBSE,Hon FRIBA 📅 Monday 20 June 2016, 19:00-21:00 📍 The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (Hoyle Building) Madingley Road, CB3 0HA

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKED

👤 Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 16 June 2016, 18:30-20:00 📍 Meet in front of the Round Church, CB2 1UB

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Bond-Orientational Order in Metallic and Colloidal Glasses Measured by Limited-Volume Electron and X-ray Diffraction

👤 Amelia Liu, Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, Monash University, Clayton, Australia 📅 Thursday 16 June 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Recent applications of sub 20meV monochromated STEM-EELS: from phonons to core losses in real and momentum space

👤 Quentin Ramasse, The EPSRC National Facility for Aberration Corrected STEM (SuperSTEM), United Kingdom 📅 Tuesday 14 June 2016, 11:30-12:30 📍 LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Sex chromosomes in development and disease

👤 James Turner (The Francis Crick Institute) 📅 Monday 13 June 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 215A

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

👤 . 📅 Saturday 11 June 2016, 10:00-17:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge's oldest celebration of citizen science!

👤 . 📅 Friday 10 June 2016, 13:00-18:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Landing on a Comet

👤 Professor Monica Grady CBE, Professor of Planetary and Space Science, The Open University 📅 Monday 06 June 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

BSS Formal Seminars

Exploring soft matter with DNA

👤 Prof. Tommaso Bellini. Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale. Laboratory of Complex Fluids and Molecular Biophysics. Università degli Studi di Milano 📅 Friday 20 May 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Pushing the limits of analytical electron microscopy with data science

👤 Francisco de la Pena, Electron Microscopy Group, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 17 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Probing the Polar Oceans

👤 Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Deputy Head of Polar Oceans, British Antactic Survey 📅 Monday 16 May 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Gene-drug interaction screens in cancer

👤 Sebastian Nijman (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Oxford) 📅 Monday 16 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 215A/B

BSS Formal Seminars

Bespoke Crystals: Using Bio-Inspired Approaches to Generate Crystals with Target Properties

👤 Prof. Fiona Meldrum, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds 📅 Friday 13 May 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

From Atoms to Planets: Understanding Planetary Magnetic Records Using Nanoscale Microscopy

👤 Joshua F. Einsle, Dept. of Earth Sciences and Dept. of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Univeristy of Cambridge 📅 Friday 13 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Atomic-resolution studies of materials by aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy

👤 Ondrej L. Krivanek, Nion Co. & Dept. of Physics, Arizona State University 📅 Monday 02 May 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy

BSS Formal Seminars

Onsager Principle -A useful principle in soft matter dynamics -

👤 Prof. Masao Doi. Center of Soft Matter Physics and its Applications, Internationa Research Center, Beihang University, Beijing, China 📅 Friday 29 April 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanoscale organisation and dynamics of molecules and ions at the interface with solids in solution

👤 Dr Kislon Voitchovsky, Lecturer in Soft Matter and Biological Physics. Durham University 📅 Friday 22 April 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Change in the bryophyte flora of Cambridgeshire over 65 years of intensive recording

⚠️ Please note earlier time, 6.30 for 7pm

👤 Mark Hill 📅 Thursday 21 April 2016, 19:00-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pearl mussels: ecology, threats and prospects

👤 Mike Norbury 📅 Thursday 14 April 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Ebola to Zika: portable nanopore sequencing for outbreak surveillance

👤 Josh Quick (University of Birmingham) 📅 Monday 11 April 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 DAMPT MR2

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 4 - Analysis of cancer genomes

👤 Geoff Macintyre (CRUK) 📅 Monday 11 April 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 DAMPT MR2

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 3 - Hot topics in transcriptomics

👤 Irene Papatheodorous and Catalina Vallejos, with Angela Goncalves (WTSI), Davis McCarthy (EBI) 📅 Monday 11 April 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 DAMPT MR2

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: RISING STARS TALKS - A landscape of pharmacogenomics interactions in cancer

👤 Francesco Iorio (EBI) 📅 Monday 11 April 2016, 12:45-13:00 📍 DAMPT MR2

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: RISING STARS TALKS - Emergence and progression of naive pluripotency in mammalian embryogenesis

👤 Thorsten Boroviak (WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute) 📅 Monday 11 April 2016, 12:30-12:45 📍 DAMPT MR2

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 2: 3D genomics

👤 Tim Stevens, with Robert Beagrie (MDC Berllin), Paula Freire Pritchitt (Babraham Intstitute) 📅 Monday 11 April 2016, 11:30-12:30 📍 DAMPT MR2

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 1 - Buggy science: improving bioinformatics software quality

👤 John Davey (Zoology) and Gord Brown (CRUK) with Jennifer Liddle (WTSI) and Irina Colgiu (WTSI) 📅 Monday 11 April 2016, 10:00-11:00 📍 DAMPT MR2

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VIII (2016)

CASIM VIII: Reproducibility Workshop follow up

👤 Gord Brown (CRUK) and Ines de Santiago (CRUK) 📅 Monday 11 April 2016, 09:30-10:00 📍 DAMPT MR2

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evolution and extinction in Western Australian trilobites

👤 Ken McNamara 📅 Thursday 07 April 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Book Event: Meet the Authors

👤 Speakers to be confirmed 📅 Monday 04 April 2016, 19:00-21:00 📍 The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (Hoyle Building) Madingley Road, CB3 0HA

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Nanoscale chemical imaging by soft X-ray spectro-microscopy and spectro-ptychography

👤 Prof. Adam Hitchcock, Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research & Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology McMaster University, Canada 📅 Friday 01 April 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Improving with age? A multisensory lecture on wine chemistry

⚠️ Event is now fully booked

👤 Alissa Aron, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 31 March 2016, 19:00-21:00 📍 Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Super-resolution microscopy in thick specimen

⚠️ Biochemistry Lecture theatre !

👤 George Sirinakis & Edward Allgeyer (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute ) 📅 Friday 18 March 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridgeshire butterflies

👤 Louise Bacon 📅 Thursday 17 March 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

In-situ TEM sample-management solutions Workshop (by DENSsolutions and LOT Quantum Design)

⚠️ To register follow link from http://www-hrem.msm.cam.ac.uk/

👤 DENSsolutions and LOT Quantum Design 📅 Tuesday 15 March 2016, 09:30-15:30 📍 LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Churchill's Bomb

👤 Dr Graham Farmelo,Physicist, Author, Historian 📅 Monday 14 March 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

Camouflage in Aegean lizards

👤 Kate Marshall 📅 Thursday 10 March 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Learn to use a microscope

⚠️ Booking essential and there will be a small charge. See website for details.

👤 . 📅 Thursday 03 March 2016, 18:30-20:30 📍 Department of Zoology, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ

Computational and Systems Biology

Using C. elegans to learn principles of eukaryotic chromatin regulation

👤 Julie Ahringer, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 02 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective story

👤 Dr Nigel Bennee FBCS, The EDSAC Replica Project, The Computer Conservation Society 📅 Monday 29 February 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

BSS Formal Seminars

Conformational Spread: The Propagation of Allosteric States in Large Multiprotein Complexes

👤 Prof. Dennis Bray, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 26 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theater

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Quantitative Characterisation of Catalyst Nanoparticles using STEM

👤 Kate MacArthur, Ernst Ruska Centre, Forschungszentrum Juelich 📅 Thursday 25 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Computational and Systems Biology

Circulating tumour cells: a model from breast cancer to bone metastasis

👤 Dr Gianluca Ascolani 📅 Wednesday 24 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of animal body axes: insights from the oral-aboral axis of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

👤 Chiara Sinigaglia 📅 Wednesday 24 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Live cell biochemistry by light

⚠️ Location alternates between CRUK CI and Sanger LT Biochemistry

👤 Alessandro Esposito (Hutchison/Medical Research Council Research Centre) 📅 Friday 19 February 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 CRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Birdsong - what's all the noise about?

👤 Tony Fulford, Ely Wildspace, and Dept. of Zoology 📅 Thursday 18 February 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

👤 Dr Elizabeth Murchison 📅 Wednesday 17 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

👤 Dr Misha Kapushesky 📅 Wednesday 17 February 2016, 10:00-11:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Managing Cherry Hinton Brook: balancing wildlife, recreation and public access

👤 Sue Wells and Monica Frisch 📅 Thursday 11 February 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Comparative genomics of RNA viruses

👤 Dr Andrew Firth, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge. 📅 Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance

👤 Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust 📅 Thursday 04 February 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Cellular Systems Biology of Chromosome Dynamics

👤 Dr Karen Lipkow, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre 📅 Wednesday 03 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative Analyses of Neuromesodermal Progenitor Dynamics in vivo

👤 Ben Steventon (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Depicting the Dead and Verifying the Visage Facial identification:Forensic and Archaeological Application

👤 Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Director, Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University 📅 Monday 01 February 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

BSS Formal Seminars

Droplet-Based Microfluidics: High-Throughput Experimentation One Drop at a Time

👤 Prof. Andrew J. deMello, Professor of Biochemical Engineering Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland 📅 Friday 29 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theater

Computational and Systems Biology

Mining scientific diagrams for semantic information

👤 Dr Peter Murray-Rust 📅 Wednesday 27 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Light Sheet Microscopy at the Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre

⚠️ Location alternates between CRUK CI and Sanger LT Biochemistry

👤 Kevin O’Holleran & Ruth Sims (CAIC, University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 22 January 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 CRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Composite Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

👤 Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzan, Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director, CIC biomaGUNE, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain 📅 Friday 22 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theater

Computational and Systems Biology

Understanding tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

👤 Professor Simon Tavaré 📅 Wednesday 20 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Challenge and Excitement of Discovering New Medicines

👤 Dr Menelas Pangalos, Executive Vice-President, Astra Zeneca 📅 Monday 18 January 2016, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Exploring the world with high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction (HR-EBSD)

👤 Ben Britton,Department of Materials, Imperial College London 📅 Monday 18 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Computational and Systems Biology

Defining cell states and regulatory networks by single cell expression profiling

👤 Professor Bertie Gottgens 📅 Wednesday 13 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Technology Development

⚠️ The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation entitled "In the African Bush: Researching the Rhino Poaching Crisis in South Africa" given by Katrin Pfeil

👤 Dr Hermann Hauser KBE, FRS, FREng, FinstP, C Phys Co-Founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners 📅 Monday 07 December 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Natural History of Cambridge

👤 Mark Hill 📅 Thursday 03 December 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

⚠️ Free & open to the public

👤 Helen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Integrating Chemical and Biological Data for Drug Discovery

👤 Dr Andeas Bender, Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge University. 📅 Wednesday 02 December 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in Asia

⚠️ This lecture will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Past President of CSAR who died earlier this year

👤 Professor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 30 November 2015, 19:15-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Imaging with Entangled photons

⚠️ Location alternates between CRUK CI and Sanger LT Biochemistry

👤 John White (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison) 📅 Saturday 21 November 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 CRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanophotonic approaches to investigate the spatiotemporal organization of biological membranes

👤 Prof. Maria F. Garcia-Parajo, ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain and ICREA- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain 📅 Friday 20 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

The pleasures of fungal forays

👤 Bill Amos 📅 Thursday 19 November 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky Way

⚠️ Free & open to the public. Suitable for A-level students.

👤 Prof Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 19 November 2015, 19:00-20:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Defining Transcription factor specificity and redundancy in Drosophila

👤 Professor Steve Russell, Department of Genetics. 📅 Wednesday 18 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

⚠️ This lecture will be preceded by the CSAR AGM

👤 Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds 📅 Monday 16 November 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Adventures in structural variation and evolution in cancer

👤 Tony Papenfuss (WEHI + Peter Mac Melbourne) 📅 Monday 16 November 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Hyperspectral imaging - a flexible tool for tissue characterization

👤 Prof. Lise Lyngsnes Randeberg, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway) 📅 Friday 13 November 2015, 11:00-12:00 📍 Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Cambridge Natural History Society

Agricultural trials and wildlife

👤 Bob Jarman 📅 Thursday 12 November 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants

👤 Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory. 📅 Wednesday 11 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wandlebury: People, Nature and Heritage

👤 Robin Pellew 📅 Thursday 05 November 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Fireworks & Waterworks - Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

👤 Dr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London) 📅 Thursday 05 November 2015, 19:00-20:30 📍 Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Computational and Systems Biology

Spatio-temporal organization of replication: On genome evolution and large-scale chromatin folding

👤 Benjamin Audit, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France 📅 Wednesday 04 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Maths and the Arts

⚠️ The Lecture will be preceded by a five minute presentation entitled "Balancing food production and the environment in Mexico" by CSAR Award Student David Williams.

👤 Professor John Barrow FRS, Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 02 November 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

BSS Formal Seminars

How to Understand Molecular Transport through Channels: The Role of Interactions

👤 Prof. Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Department of Chemistry, Houston 📅 Friday 30 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mining the root causes, driver mutations snd therapeutic opportunities from recalcitrant cancers

👤 Sean Grimmond (Glasgow) 📅 Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 CRUK CI Room 215

Computational and Systems Biology

Decoding 3-D vision in the human brain

👤 Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology. 📅 Wednesday 28 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Continuous Droplet Interface Crossing Encapsulation (cDICE): artificial cells and capsules

👤 Dr. Gladys Massiera. Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C – UMR 5221), CNRS - Université de Montpellier, Place E. Bataillon, Montpellier, France 📅 Friday 23 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Non-Native Species: The good, the bad and the ugly

👤 Helen Roy 📅 Thursday 22 October 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Bioinformatics to support cancer therapeutics

👤 Dr Dennis Wang and Dr. Manasa Ramakrishna, AstraZeneca. 📅 Wednesday 21 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneer Colonists and Indigenous Response: Resistance and Collaboration

⚠️ Jointly with "The Cambridge Festival of Ideas"

👤 Professor Mark Horton FSA, Professor of Archaeology, University of Bristol 📅 Monday 19 October 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

👤 Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds 📅 Friday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

BSS Formal Seminars

Substituted Nucleotides: versatile building blocks in DNA bio-nanotechnology

👤 Prof. Eugen Stulz, School of Chemistry and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton 📅 Friday 16 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Title to be confirmed

👤 Jonathan Shanklin 📅 Thursday 15 October 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Mapping the sub-cellular proteome

👤 Dr Laurent Gatto ( Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.) 📅 Wednesday 14 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology

⚠️ Joint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

👤 Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics 📅 Monday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00 📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Cambridge Natural History Society

The history and management of Hayley Wood

👤 Richard Dowsett 📅 Thursday 08 October 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Zoology - FULL

👤 Museum guide 📅 Thursday 01 October 2015, 19:00-20:30 📍 Meet at entrance to Museum of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

⚠️ CANCELED

👤 Olivier Gevaert (Stanford University) 📅 Monday 24 August 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 215A

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The molecular basis of developmental buffering: a key to understanding the interface between environment and evolution?

👤 Dr Atsuko Sato (Ochanomizu University) 📅 Wednesday 05 August 2015, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

⚠️ CANCELED

👤 Sean Grimmond (Glasgow) 📅 Monday 27 July 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Discovering enhancer sequences with a role in vertebrate left-right patterning

👤 Dennis Kostka (University of Pittsburgh) 📅 Wednesday 15 July 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 013

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A Horizontal Transfer from Bacteria to Fungi Enhances Fungal Pathogenicity

👤 Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University) 📅 Friday 03 July 2015, 12:00-13:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 215

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour. - Fully Booked!

⚠️ This event is now fully booked

👤 Dr Nigel Woodcock 📅 Thursday 18 June 2015, 18:30-20:00 📍 Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK)

👤 Details of speakers on registration webpage 📅 Thursday 21 May 2015, 09:00-17:15 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

👤 Illés Farkas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 📅 Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Developing and using atomic force microscopy to understand soft and biological systems, from bacteria to plastic bags

👤 Professor Jamie Hobbs, Physics Department, University of Sheffield 📅 Friday 15 May 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Ryle Seminar Room no930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Evolution of Dragonfly Wings

⚠️ The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation by Jan Mertens on new materials

👤 Dr Robin Wootton, University of Exeter 📅 Monday 11 May 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

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Nanostructure characterization of planar biomimetic membranes with neutron reflectometry

👤 Dr. Marco Maccarini, TIMC/IMAG, Grenoble 📅 Friday 08 May 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Developments in Machine Intelligence

⚠️ This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation from Laura Burzynski on her research into blood clotting proteins

👤 Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge 📅 Monday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Interferometric scattering microscopy: From high-speed nanometry to ultra-sensitive label-free imaging

👤 Professor Philipp Kukura, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 24 April 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address on “Garden ecology”, and AGM

⚠️ Please note earlier start: 6:30 pm for 7:00 pm

👤 Mark Hill 📅 Thursday 16 April 2015, 19:00-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CSAR debate:"This House believes that the Government should fund discovery of new antibiotics and control their distribution and use"

👤 For: Drs Nick Brown and Zack Hassan; Against: Drs David Williams and Ewan Harrison 📅 Monday 13 April 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of tumours

👤 Prof Quaid Morris (Toronto) 📅 Monday 13 April 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Room 215

Cambridge Natural History Society

44 million of our birds are missing

👤 Niki Williamson 📅 Thursday 09 April 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

The flora & lizards of the Canary Islands

👤 Peter Payne 📅 Thursday 19 March 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Homeopathy – science fact or science fiction? (at Cambridge Science Festival)

👤 Professor Jayne Lawrence, King's College London 📅 Thursday 19 March 2015, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Cell-size control and homeostasis at the single-cell level

👤 Professor Suckjoon Jun, UCSD Physics and Molecular Biology 📅 Tuesday 17 March 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 Ryle Seminar Room no930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

⚠️ Held in association with the Cambridge Science Festival

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Monday 16 March 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Mill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Decoding 3-D vision in the human brain

👤 Dr Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology 📅 Wednesday 11 March 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Growth and form of the gut

👤 Dr Thiery Savin, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University 📅 Friday 06 March 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Scrub clearance and chalk grassland restoration

👤 Peter Grubb 📅 Thursday 05 March 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

👤 Dr Elizabeth Murchison. Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 04 March 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The curious incident of the seal in the pond

👤 Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki) 📅 Wednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Flying 300 underwater Planes and other Oil Industry Innovations

👤 Dr Simon Bittleston, Vice President Research, Schlumberger 📅 Monday 02 March 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes

👤 Dr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona 📅 Friday 27 February 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Transcriptional Network Control of Blood Cell Development

👤 Professor Bertie Göttgens, Department of Haematology 📅 Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution

👤 Dr Davide Marenduzzo, Lecturer in Biophysics, University of Edinburgh 📅 Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

African natural products

👤 Chiyedza Heri 📅 Thursday 19 February 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Towards a molecular psychophysics of decision making in neuro-development and repair

👤 Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London 📅 Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Some of my Accidents

👤 Prof. Stephen Richardson, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College 📅 Monday 16 February 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Flagellated bacterial motility in polymer solutions

👤 Dr Vincent A. Martinez, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh 📅 Friday 13 February 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Communities, conservation, and climate change in the Pacific Islands

👤 Pepe Clark 📅 Thursday 12 February 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Image analysis tools for cancer biology: how could we make it better?

👤 Patrice Mascalchi. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. 📅 Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology Open Day

👤 Professor Simon Tavaré and Dr Stephen Eglen 📅 Tuesday 10 February 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Putting the flowers of Fenland on the map

👤 Owen Mountford 📅 Thursday 05 February 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Genomics of transcription factor redundancy

👤 Professor Steve Russell, Department of Genetics, Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ripping up the Rule Book in Formula One

👤 Prof. Tony Purnell, Systems Design, Royal Academy of Engineering 📅 Monday 02 February 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

The transport of active swimmers in shear flows

👤 Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool 📅 Friday 30 January 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical Image Analysis for Cancer Research

👤 Joana Grah, DAMTP 📅 Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Surgical Imaging, Biophotonics and Endoscopy

👤 Dr Daniel Elson, Reader in Surgical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London 📅 Friday 23 January 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

There is no medicine except in the light of models

👤 Dr Pietro Lio, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory 📅 Wednesday 21 January 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The development and evolution of vertebrate oxygen-sensing cells

👤 Dorit Hockman (University of Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 21 January 2015, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation in Practise

👤 Prof. Andy Hopper, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 19 January 2015, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

An evolutionary perspective to systems and synthetic biology: From cellular networks to microbial communities

👤 Dr Orkun Soyer, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick 📅 Friday 16 January 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Prospects and Obstacles affecting Cell Replacement in Humans

👤 Prof. Sir John Gurdon, Dept. Zoology, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 15 December 2014, 19:25-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hunting for dinner in the ice age

👤 Simon Parfitt 📅 Thursday 04 December 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Simulation Approaches to Biomolecular Recognition and Assembly

👤 Dr Peter J Bond, Bioinformatics Institute (BII) A*STAR, Singapore. 📅 Wednesday 03 December 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building a Climate System Laboratory: Modelling the climate system.

👤 Prof. Dame Julia Slingo DBE, Chief Scientist, UK Met Office 📅 Monday 01 December 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomedical photoacoustic imaging for the clinical and life sciences

👤 Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London 📅 Friday 28 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Multi-scale studies on transcription factors

👤 Dr Boris Adryan, Department of Genetics 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Bdelloid rotifers: unveiling the mystery of an evolutionary scandal

👤 Chiara Boschetti (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Collaborative research: funding available for collaborative research out of Science and Technology Funding Council areas.

STFC collaborative R&D funding

⚠️ Free parking on Clerk Maxwell Road (2 minutes from the Cavendish). Parking closer very limited, please email organiser if needed.

👤 Dr Vlad Skarda, STFC External Innovations 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2014, 11:00-13:30 📍 TCM - Seminar Room (room 530), Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

BSS Formal Seminars

CANCELLED - The transport of active swimmers in shear flows

👤 Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool 📅 Friday 21 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

In search of the snow leopard in Ladakh, in winter

👤 Christine Newell 📅 Thursday 20 November 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Biological Databases: More than just stamp collections.

👤 Dr Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute. 📅 Wednesday 19 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How does an alga become a parasite?

👤 Ellen Nisbet (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Living Time Machine: Non-verbal intelligence

👤 Prof. Nicky Clayton FRS, Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge and Clive Wilkins 📅 Monday 17 November 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

On growth and flow: bacterial biofilms in porous environments

👤 Mack Durham, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 14 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trapping Mink for Water Vole recovery in the upper Cam catchment

👤 Vince Lea 📅 Thursday 13 November 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Using human genome variation to study history and cellular function

👤 Dr Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. 📅 Wednesday 12 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Enhancing single-molecule detection with DNA origami nanostructures

👤 Prof. Dr. Philip Tinnefeld, Institut für Physikalische & Theoretische Chemie TU Braunschweig 📅 Friday 07 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tatous and Taiwan Devils: making sense of scaly mammals in the seventeenth century

👤 Natalie Lawrence 📅 Thursday 06 November 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

As if by Magic...... Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

👤 Dr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London) 📅 Thursday 06 November 2014, 19:00-20:15 📍 Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Computational and Systems Biology

High-content microscopy: big-data biology goes spatio-temporal

👤 Dr Anatole Chessel, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre. 📅 Wednesday 05 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Human Metabolic Disease: Lessons from the extremes.

👤 Prof. Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 03 November 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Whole-genome sequencing of cell-free DNA in maternal plasma

👤 Dineika Chandrananda 📅 Monday 03 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational analyses of high-throughput spatial proteomics data

👤 Dr Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge. 📅 Wednesday 29 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Targeting the brain tumour stem cell phenotype with small molecules

👤 Heiko Wurdak (Leeds) 📅 Monday 27 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungal Foray

⚠️ Admission free for CNHS members & Friends of CUBG. Garden entrance fee for others.

👤 . 📅 Saturday 25 October 2014, 13:30-16:30 📍 Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance

BSS Formal Seminars

The complexity, modularity and evolution of self-assembling structures in biology

👤 Dr Sebastian Ahnert, TCM, Cavendish Laboratory 📅 Friday 24 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridgeshire orchards and their wildlife

👤 Val Perrin 📅 Thursday 23 October 2014, 19:00-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Population genetic models of evolution

👤 Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 22 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Learning to Remember: How should we teach history?

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Monday 20 October 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting translation efficiency through lab evolution, genome engineering and inspection of the cancerous genome

👤 Yitzhak Pilpel (Weizmann Institute, Israel) 📅 Monday 20 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

What is Biological Adaptation and How Can it be Measured?

👤 Dr Joel Peck, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 17 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

The challenges of monitoring and evaluating a wetland restoration project in the UK

👤 Francine Hughes 📅 Thursday 16 October 2014, 19:00-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants

👤 Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory 📅 Wednesday 15 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Are we star dust or nuclear waste? Astronomy lecture

👤 Dr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 09 October 2014, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wimpole Estate and its wildlife

👤 Simon Damant 📅 Thursday 09 October 2014, 19:00-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modelling the transcriptional response to ER signalling in breast cancer cells

👤 Magnus Rattray (Manchester) 📅 Monday 06 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Keynote Address - Using Hi-C to Determine 3-D Structures of Whole Genomes in Single Cells

👤 Tim Stevens, Laboratory of Molecular Biology 📅 Monday 29 September 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Rising stars 2 - Sequencing Applications in Health and Disease

👤 Chaired by Jelena Aleksic, WT/MRC Stem Cell Institute 📅 Monday 29 September 2014, 14:15-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 3 - Single Cell Sequencing

👤 Led by Simon Andrews (Babraham Institute), Boris Adryan (CSBC), Misha Kapushesky (Genestack) 📅 Monday 29 September 2014, 13:30-14:15 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Rising stars 1 - Data Analysis and Data Sharing Methods

👤 Chaired by Richard Smith-Unna 📅 Monday 29 September 2014, 11:45-12:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 2 - Long Read / New Technologies

👤 Led by Rory Stark (CRUK Cambridge Institute), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute) 📅 Monday 29 September 2014, 11:00-11:45 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 1 - Local Computational Resources and Issues

👤 Led by Misha Kapushesky (Genestack), Aylwyn Scally (Genetics), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute) 📅 Monday 29 September 2014, 09:30-10:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Discovery and allele frequency estimation of somatic twilight zone insertions and deletions

👤 Alexander Schönhuth (CWI Amsterdam) 📅 Monday 22 September 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Therapeutic landscape of cancer drivers

👤 Nuria Lopez-Bigas 📅 Monday 15 September 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI Lecture Theatre

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.

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!" How Chemistry Changed the First World War

⚠️ Free & open to all

👤 Dr Michael Freemantle 📅 Thursday 11 September 2014, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Development of an advanced scanning transmission electron microscope for material science research

⚠️ The Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

👤 Dr Naoya Shibata, Institute of Engineering Innovation, University of Tokio 📅 Friday 27 June 2014, 11:00-12:00 📍 LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

⚠️ Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

👤 Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00 📍 Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints

👤 Dr Joshua Nall, Assistant Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science 📅 Wednesday 18 June 2014, 13:15-14:00 📍 Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35)

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Noise in audio and electronics

👤 Dr Chris Hicks, Engineering Director of CEDAR Audio, Cambridge 📅 Monday 16 June 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomedical photoacoustic imaging for the clinical and life sciences

👤 Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London 📅 Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

👤 Professor Dr Ralf Seidel, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Germany 📅 Friday 23 May 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements

⚠️ This talk is kindly sponsored by eLife Sciences

👤 Hannah Long (University of Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 📍 Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Taste and Flavour

👤 Professor Peter Barham, School of Physics, University of Bristol 📅 Monday 19 May 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Watching single molecules

👤 Professor David Klenerman FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 16 May 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

2050: Sustainable UK?

👤 Dr John Emsley 📅 Thursday 15 May 2014, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developmental Constraints? Why blind cavefish still have eye at embryonic stage

👤 Yoshiyuki Yamamoto (University College London) 📅 Wednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Art Cell Gallery Exhibtions

Clare Park: 'Gathering Light', at ArtCell, 09 May - 31st July 2013

Self-Assembling Molecular Structures, Novel molecular structures and materials

👤 Professor Daan Frenkel, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 14 April 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address and AGM

⚠️ Please note earlier than usual start time.

👤 Jonathan Shanklin, President, Cambridge Natural History Society 📅 Thursday 10 April 2014, 19:00-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Variations in genetic and phenotypic diversity during breast cancer progression.

👤 Vanessa Almendro (Harvard University) 📅 Monday 07 April 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

The age of the collector: the founding and development of the Woodwardian and Sedgwick Museums

👤 Ken McNamara, Director of the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University 📅 Thursday 03 April 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Single molecule approaches for studying gene expression in intact mammalian tissues.

👤 Shalev Itzkovitz (Weizmann Institute) 📅 Monday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Scientific wine tasting with Luke Webster

⚠️ Part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2014. £10 but FULLY BOOKED!

👤 Luke Webster 📅 Friday 21 March 2014, 19:30-21:30 📍 Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insect biodiversity in Cambridge – rare species in our urban meadows

👤 Alex Dittrich, Dept. of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University 📅 Thursday 20 March 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Book Evening

⚠️ In association with the Cambridge Science Festival

👤 Profs. Spiegelhalter, Ahmed and Longair 📅 Monday 17 March 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Frankenstein 2.0: Structure + Pattern + Movement = LIFE?

⚠️ Part of Cambridge Science Festival 2014. Free & open to all.

👤 Dr Mark Haw (University of Strathclyde) 📅 Friday 14 March 2014, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Living photonic devices from patchy colloids: Inspiration from cephalopods

👤 Alison Sweeney, University of Pennsylvania 📅 Friday 14 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Great Fen – out of the past and into the future

👤 Alan Bowley, Natural England Senior Reserves Manager 📅 Thursday 13 March 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Living Clusters in Suspensions of Active Colloids

👤 Bortolo Mognetti, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles 📅 Friday 07 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium, Cambridge University Botanic Garden

⚠️ Booking in advance essential.

👤 . 📅 Thursday 06 March 2014, 19:00-21:00 📍 Cambridge University Botanic Garden

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Why aircraft may soon grow bumps on their wings

👤 Professor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 03 March 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Mechanisms of leading edge protrusion in interstitial migration

👤 Dr Guillaume Charras, UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology 📅 Friday 28 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Working under confinement

👤 Miguel Rubi, Universitat de Barcelona & Leverhulme Professor at Imperial College London 📅 Friday 21 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wild flowers and some wildlife of western Cyprus

👤 Monica Frisch & Charles Turner 📅 Thursday 20 February 2014, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Making similar embryos with divergent genomes

👤 Patrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier) 📅 Wednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

“Impact of Climate Change on Ocean Chemistry”

IMAGiNG and MATHEMATiCS workshops

⚠️ Light Microscopy in Cambridge is now on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/491162727587920/

👤 Hendrik Dirks (DAMTP Cambridge/University of Münster), Kirsty Wan (DAMTP, Cambridge), Joan Lasenby (Engineering Department, Cambridge), Patrice Mascalchi (CRUK CI, Cambridge), Siru Virtanen (CRUK CI, Cambridge), Isabel Peset Martin (CRUK CI, Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 03 December 2013, 14:00-17:00 📍 CRUK CI, lecture theatre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Do We Really Need Pandas? The impact of human intervention on natural selection

👤 Dr Ken Thompson, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield 📅 Monday 02 December 2013, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Incorporating Prior Biological Knowledge into Genetic Association Studies

👤 David V. Conti (USC) 📅 Monday 02 December 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Light, camera, action: watching single DNA/RNA polymerases at work in living cells

👤 Achillefs Kapanidis, Dept Physics, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 29 November 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Moving to low carbon energy provision – do we have a choice?

👤 Prof Geoffrey Maitland (Imperial College London) 📅 Thursday 28 November 2013, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Artificial evolution strategy for pet reconstruction

👤 Franck Vidal, School of Computer Science, Bangor University 📅 Friday 22 November 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Eyespots and scents on butterfly wings

👤 Paul Brakefield, Director of Cambridge University Museum of Zoology 📅 Thursday 21 November 2013, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Notes on Notes: The musicology of performance

The Key Drivers in the World Economy: Why we should be positive

Cambridge Museum of Technology Guided Tour

⚠️ Tickets £3.50

👤 Museum Guide 📅 Saturday 21 September 2013, 11:00-12:30 📍 Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cheddars Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8LD

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Colon CSCs are sensitized by HDACinhibitors in a FOXO-dependent fashion

👤 Jan Paul Medema (Amsterdam Medical Center) 📅 Monday 16 September 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Molecular imaging of tumor progression at the tumor/stromal boundary

⚠️ Please let me know if you like to meet Patricia before or after the seminar.

👤 Patricia Keely, Associate Professor and Co-PI LOCI, Madison-Wisconsin 📅 Monday 02 September 2013, 12:00-13:00 📍 CRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Platinum Genomes

👤 Michael Eberle (Illumina) 📅 Thursday 04 July 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing the molecular and cellular basis of developmental morphogenesis

👤 Tassos Pavlopoulos, Max Planck Institute at Dresden 📅 Thursday 27 June 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 Part II Theatre, Department of Zoology

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Global microRNA level regulation of EGFR-driven cell-cycle protein network in breast cancer

Mapping tumor heterogeneity and developmental trajectories using 40 markers at single cell resolution:

⚠️ Room change: 215 instead of lecture theatre (outside guests will need visitor ID)

👤 Dana Pe'er (Columbia University, NYC) 📅 Monday 29 April 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215

BSS Formal Seminars

Patchy colloids: a simple model for complex fluids

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Friday 26 April 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKED

⚠️ Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited.

👤 Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden 📅 Thursday 25 April 2013, 18:30-20:00 📍 Cambridge University Botanic Garden. CB2 1JF

Computational and Systems Biology

The Ninth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

👤 various speakers 📅 Wednesday 24 April 2013, 09:00-17:30 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Chemotaxome – A new member with complex biological entities in systems biology.

👤 Kohidai, Laszlo MD, PhD, Med.Habil. Cell Biology, Assoc. Professor Chemotaxis Research Group – SRI Core Facility Department of Genetics, Cell- & Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 📅 Friday 12 April 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the 'Fauna Cantabrigiensis' of the Rev Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)

⚠️ Note: This talk will be held in room LAB107 in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

👤 Tim Sparks 📅 Thursday 04 April 2013, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Stressing Out Cells: flow-induced migration of endothelial cells and cell adhesion on hydrogels

👤 Prof Gerry Fuller, University of Stanford 📅 Thursday 28 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium

⚠️ Note: CNHS members only, as numbers are restricted.

👤 . 📅 Thursday 21 March 2013, 19:00-21:00 📍 Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Our Fluid Earth

⚠️ Joint Event with Cambridge Science Festival and BlueSci.

👤 Professor Dan McKenzie 📅 Wednesday 20 March 2013, 20:00-21:00 📍 Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Inferring causal mediators from omics data in the context of genetic and environmental variations

👤 Oliver Stegle (EBI) 📅 Monday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridge’s newest local nature reserve

👤 Guy Belcher 📅 Thursday 14 March 2013, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty?

👤 Andrew Balmford 📅 Thursday 07 March 2013, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational analyses of high-throughput spatial proteomics data

👤 Dr. Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry 📅 Wednesday 06 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Book Evening

👤 Dr Paula Gomes, Dr Richard Preece, Dr Tim Sparks, Charles Cotton 📅 Monday 04 March 2013, 19:00-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The logic and variation in genomic regulatory networks

👤 Mikhail Spivakov (Babraham Institute) 📅 Monday 04 March 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Extreme Mechanics of Marginal Matter

👤 Martin van Hecke, Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, University of Leiden 📅 Friday 01 March 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome sequencing of transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

👤 Elizabeth Murchison (Sanger) 📅 Wednesday 27 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Polymer and hybrid nanostructures for applications in organic solar cells investigated with advanced x-ray techniques

👤 Prof. Peter Müller-Buschbaum (Technische Universität München ) 📅 Friday 22 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cambridgeshire's herpetofauna and its conservation

👤 Paul Furnborough 📅 Thursday 21 February 2013, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Machine learning approaches to predicting protein-ligand binding

👤 Dr. Pedro J. Ballester, MRC Methodology Research Fellow and EMBL-EBI 📅 Wednesday 20 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Graphene Future Emerging Technology

👤 Professor Andrea C. Ferrari, Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Engineering 📅 Monday 18 February 2013, 19:00-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Metabolic regulation of the stress response and the cancer cell's Warburg effect

👤 Markus Ralser (University of Cambridge, Dept of Biochemistry) 📅 Monday 18 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Nano-optics of complex media

👤 R. Sapienza, King's College London 📅 Friday 15 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Travels with research: baboons to earthquakes

👤 Hilary Conlan 📅 Thursday 14 February 2013, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Methodological Challenges in the Pursuit of the Tree of Life

👤 Dr. Christophe Dessimoz, EMBL-EBI 📅 Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Euler's elasticas and their applications to DNA, nucleosomes and chromatin fibers

👤 Prof Helmut Schiessel (Leiden) 📅 Friday 08 February 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Diseases of ash and other trees round the world

Colloidal Dispersions in External Fields

👤 Professor Stefan Egelhaaf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany 📅 Friday 02 November 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) College of Scholar Presentations & Networking Event

⚠️ Free event. Open to all.

👤 Prof Alan Heaton 📅 Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:30-19:30 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Green Energy Debate

👤 Professor Keith Tovey,Professor Andy Woods,Lucy Fielding,Megan Davies Sykes,Hugh Parnell,Robin Nicholson 📅 Monday 29 October 2012, 19:00-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Bioactive glasses and their hybrids as scaffolds for regenerative medicine

👤 Dr Julian Jones, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK 📅 Friday 26 October 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exotic mammals in the Antarctic region

👤 Bob Headland 📅 Thursday 25 October 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

What is a fungal foray?

⚠️ Note this is on FRIDAY 19th October (not Thursday as usual).

👤 Hélène Davies 📅 Friday 19 October 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Coarse-grained modelling of DNA for biophysics and nanotechnology

👤 Dr Ard Louis, Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK 📅 Friday 19 October 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea Cover

👤 Professor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics 📅 Monday 15 October 2012, 19:00-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

az302's list

Dynamic arrest in polymer gels

👤 Johan Mattsson, Soft Matter Physics Group School of Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds 📅 Friday 12 October 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theater

Computational and Systems Biology

The Dog That Didn't Bark: How Computational Analysis of Complex Cell Signaling Data Can Find Surprising Critical Regulatory Nodes

⚠️ Please contact Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez if you wish to attend this talk as he will need to inform security

👤 Doug Lauffenberger (MIT) 📅 Friday 12 October 2012, 12:00-01:00 📍 The Crick Auditorium, Wellcome Trust Campus, Hinxton

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using maps and GPS

👤 Jean Sinclair 📅 Thursday 11 October 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Food Detectives - Some curious cases with a chemical twist

👤 Dr Ellen Norman, Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) 📅 Thursday 11 October 2012, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture

👤 Professor Mike Edmunds 📅 Monday 08 October 2012, 17:30-19:00 📍 Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Conserving the small things that run the world

👤 Ed Turner 📅 Thursday 04 October 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Network biology of cancer

👤 Andrea Califano (Columbia University, New York) 📅 Friday 28 September 2012, 10:30-11:30 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Visit

👤 Jason Cole, Deputy Executive Director CCDC 📅 Thursday 13 September 2012, 19:00-20:30 📍 CCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

From protein networks to disease mechanisms

👤 Roded Sharan (Tel-Aviv University) 📅 Monday 10 September 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanoparticle-based electrodes for sustainable energy

👤 Dr Scott Warren, Northwestern University 📅 Tuesday 17 July 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

Characterising the evolutionary trajectories generating C4 photosynthesis through inference of phenotypic transition networks

👤 Ben Williams, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 06 July 2012, 13:00-13:30 📍 Tom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Variational Methods in 3+Dimensional Biomedical Imaging

👤 Martin Burger (Uni Münster) 📅 Monday 02 July 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The life histories of 21 breast cancers

👤 Peter van Loo (Sanger Institute) 📅 Monday 25 June 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

3D EDS Microanalysis by FIB-SEM: limitations, potential and perspectives

👤 Pierre Burdet, Interdisciplinary Centre for Electron Microscopy (CIME), Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Station 12, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 📅 Monday 25 June 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Roman Arbury and Sylvia Plath

👤 Sarah-Jane Harknett 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2012, 17:00-18:30 📍 Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

👤 . 📅 Saturday 16 June 2012, 10:00-17:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

👤 . 📅 Friday 15 June 2012, 13:00-18:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution

⚠️ note unusual location

👤 Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany. 📅 Wednesday 13 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genetics and Evolution of Transmissible Cancers in Dogs and Tasmanian Devils

👤 Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Fellow of Medical Sciences, King's College, Cambridge 📅 Monday 11 June 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

⚠️ Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited

👤 Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden 📅 Thursday 07 June 2012, 18:30-20:00 📍 Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

The Roman and Anglo-Saxon Foundations of Girton Revealed

👤 Imogen Gunn 📅 Thursday 07 June 2012, 17:00-18:30 📍 Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Gap Gene System

⚠️ note unusual location

👤 Johannes Jaeger, CRG Barcelona 📅 Wednesday 06 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Sutton Hoo: A Personal Perspective

👤 Peter Rooley 📅 Thursday 31 May 2012, 17:00-18:30 📍 Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci

⚠️ note unusual location

👤 Matthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK 📅 Wednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bacteria as Active Colloids

👤 Professor Wilson Poon, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics SUPA and School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh 📅 Monday 28 May 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Eighth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

👤 Various Speakers 📅 Thursday 24 May 2012, 09:00-17:30 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fitting pieces and further puzzles - What 'nobody' can tell about the evolution of arthropod neurogenesis

👤 Georg Brenneis, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany 📅 Wednesday 23 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Biological Image Analysis Made Easy

⚠️ Note the unusual time: 11am not 4pm!

👤 Fred Hamprecht (Heidelberg) 📅 Monday 21 May 2012, 11:00-12:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Shocks in fragile matter

👤 Professor Vincenzo Vitelli, Instituut-Lorentz for theoretical physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands 📅 Friday 18 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty

👤 Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk 📅 Monday 14 May 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The evolution of mammalian tissue transcriptomes

👤 Henrik Kaessmann (Lausanne) 📅 Monday 14 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Ionomer Design Principles for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials

👤 Professor Ralph Colby, Pennsylvania State University, USA 📅 Friday 11 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

👤 Ian Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired) 📅 Thursday 10 May 2012, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of the molecular basis of thermotolerance, focussing on the embryos of an invasive marine invertebrate

⚠️ note unusual time

👤 Seb Shimeld, University of Oxford, UK 📅 Wednesday 09 May 2012, 12:00-13:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modeling stem cell differentiation on multiple scales

⚠️ Tuesday, not Monday!

👤 Fabian Theis (Helmholtz Center Munich) 📅 Tuesday 08 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

Introduction to Metabolomics

👤 Dr Matthew Davey, Plant Metabolism Group, Department of Plant Sciences. 📅 Friday 04 May 2012, 16:30-17:00 📍 Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Single molecule imaging of protein pore assembly using droplet interface bilayers

👤 Dr Mark Wallace, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 04 May 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st Century

👤 Professor Sir David King, Director, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford 📅 Monday 30 April 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineering cellular systems

👤 Dr Jim Hasellof, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 27 April 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address, and Annual General Meeting

⚠️ Note earlier time.

👤 Inigo Everson 📅 Thursday 19 April 2012, 19:00-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Machine learning applications in genetic regulation and cancer

👤 David Westhead (Leeds) 📅 Monday 16 April 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

East Anglian orchard biodiversity

👤 Paul Read 📅 Thursday 12 April 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

ShrinkSeq: a flexible and powerful method for Bayesian analysis of RNAseq data

⚠️ Note the time change: 2pm (not 4pm)

👤 Mark van de Wiel (VU University Medical Center) 📅 Monday 02 April 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evening visit to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

⚠️ Note earlier time. Admission by ticket only (see details of event).

👤 Ken McNamara 📅 Thursday 22 March 2012, 19:00-21:00 📍 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

A Step-by-Step Guide to Phylogenetic Analysis

👤 Sebastian Mueller 📅 Wednesday 21 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolution of developmental gene expression programs

👤 Itai Yanai (Technion) 📅 Monday 19 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Non stick surfaces and self motile particles: some old and new problems in colloid physics

👤 Professor Richard Jones, University of Sheffield, UK 📅 Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Myxomycetes: A life of slime

👤 John Holden 📅 Thursday 15 March 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research

👤 Diethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany 📅 Wednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Natural History Society

Understanding landscapes: the challenge of East Anglia

👤 Peter Friend 📅 Thursday 08 March 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genome evolution as seen from each of its genes: what "phylomes" can tell us about newly-sequenced species

👤 Toni Gabaldon, CRG, Barcelona 📅 Wednesday 07 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells

👤 Professor Allan Bradley, Director Emeritus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge 📅 Monday 05 March 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modelling in systems genetics: computational approaches for discovering disease networks

👤 Tom Michoel (FRIAS Freiburg) 📅 Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

👤 Professor Peter Smith, Institute of Life Sciences, University of Southampton, UK 📅 Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Photons, dust, and honeybees

👤 Diederik Wiersma, European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy 📅 Friday 24 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

A living cemetery: the flora & fauna of Mill Road Cemetery

👤 Keri Russell and Simon Ward 📅 Thursday 23 February 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Science of Well-Being and its Application to Policy

👤 Professor Felicia Huppert, Director of the Well-being Institute University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 20 February 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

👤 Professor Reinhard Miller, Max-Planck Institute for Colloids & Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany 📅 Friday 17 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Developing imaging approaches for novel cancer therapies

👤 Eric Aboagye, Imperial College, London 📅 Friday 17 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Come and get me! How plants attract their pollinators.

👤 Clive Nuttman 📅 Thursday 16 February 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Shaping the Future of Manipulation

👤 Professor Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK 📅 Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Keeping the skies alive with Swifts

👤 Dick Newell 📅 Thursday 09 February 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Molecular Model Solutions

👤 Dr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 09 February 2012, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

All CMS Events

Open Afternoon for the MPhil in Computational Biology

👤 Various Speakers 📅 Wednesday 08 February 2012, 14:00-17:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics

👤 Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 06 February 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Model Based Target Identification from Expression Data

👤 Neil Lawrence (University of Sheffield) 📅 Monday 06 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Functionalised nanoparticles and SERS for bioanalysis

👤 Professor Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde, UK 📅 Friday 03 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

50 years of conservation

👤 Vince Lea, Louise Bacon, and Merlin Fox 📅 Thursday 02 February 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome-Based Drug Discovery and Re-Purposing: a new golden age for DNA microarrays?

👤 Dr. Francesco Iorio, EMBL-EBI 📅 Wednesday 01 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Mesoscopic Systems: Synthesis, Interactions and Analysis

👤 Professor Dr Helmut Cölfen, University Konstanz, Germany 📅 Friday 27 January 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and Non-science in Drug Policy

⚠️ Held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

👤 Professor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit Division of Experimental Medicine 📅 Monday 23 January 2012, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and Medicine

👤 Dr Alison Foster, Senior Curator, University of Oxford Botanic Garden 📅 Thursday 19 January 2012, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Deconstructing Nuclear Pore Complex Function by Bio-Synthetic Reconstruction

👤 Professor Roderick Lim, University of Basel, Switzerland 📅 Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Search for Organizing Principles in Cancer Systems Biology

👤 Olaf Wolkenhauer (University of Rostock, www.sbi.uni-rostock.de) 📅 Monday 16 January 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Increased methylation variation across cancer types

👤 Kasper Daniel Hansen (Johns Hopkins) 📅 Friday 13 January 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Measuring phonon behaviour with electron diffraction

👤 Dr Alex Eggeman, Dept of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 06 December 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 Austin Lecture Theatre [Austin Building], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

RNAi libraries for high throughput phenotyping and drug resistance screening in the African trypanosome

👤 David Horn (LSHTM) 📅 Monday 05 December 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

👤 Professor Clive Roberts, University of Nottingham, UK 📅 Friday 02 December 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Is water H2O?

⚠️ Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc.

👤 Prof Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 01 December 2011, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Multi-scale studies on Drosophila transcription factors

👤 Boris Adryan (CCBI,Genetics) 📅 Wednesday 30 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Bespoke microlenses for high-efficiency light-gathering applications

👤 Dr Vlad Stolojan, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey 📅 Tuesday 29 November 2011, 12:00-13:00 📍 Austin Lecture Theatre [Austin Building], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

RNA Silencing in Plant and Animal Biotechnology

👤 Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 28 November 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mammals and milk

👤 Hayley Frend, Department of Pathology 📅 Thursday 24 November 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

👤 Professor Michael Hausser, Univeristy College London, UK 📅 Wednesday 23 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

RNAi-based molecular computing for cancer cell detection

👤 Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson (ETH Zurich BSSE) 📅 Monday 21 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Crystallization and Structure Formation in Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers for Applications in Organic Photovoltaics

👤 Professor Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, Martin Luther Unversity, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 📅 Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

A botanist on Mull

👤 Lynne Farrell, Botanical Recorder for Mid-Ebudes 📅 Thursday 17 November 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Thorium Could Save the Planet

👤 Professor Robert Cywinski, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield 📅 Monday 14 November 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Intermetallic Compounds – Materials for a Knowledge-Based Development in Heterogeneous Catalysis

👤 M. Armbrüster, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzer Str. 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany 📅 Friday 11 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

BSS Formal Seminars

Using bespoke fluorescence microscopy to study the soft matter of living cells at the single molecule level

👤 Dr Mark Leake, University of Oxford, UK 📅 Friday 11 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

The star-crossed stone

👤 Ken McNamara, Sedgwick Museum 📅 Thursday 10 November 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Approximate Bayesian Computation for evolution in a test tube

👤 Professor Simon Tavare ( CCBI, CRI-CRUK, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 09 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

When nano meets bio: Interdisciplinary applications of electron microscopy

👤 Professor Martin Saunders, Deputy Director Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis The University of Western Australia 📅 Tuesday 08 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

BSS Formal Seminars

Combining Optical and Electrochemical Devices to Investigate Activities of Biological Nano-Structures

👤 Dr Stephane Arbault, University of Bordeaux, France 📅 Friday 04 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mapping the land use of Britain: 80 years of innovation

👤 Ruth Swetnam, Department of Zoology 📅 Thursday 03 November 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

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👤 Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 📅 Wednesday 02 November 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

⚠️ The lecture will be preceeded by the AGM of the society

👤 Vivienne Parry, OBE, Science writer and broadcaster 📅 Monday 31 October 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Probing liquid crystal elastomers with light

👤 Professor Martin Copic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 📅 Friday 28 October 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Biochemistry of Autumn - Why do the leaves fall?

⚠️ Organised by CU ChemSoc, SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

👤 Prof Brian J Ford (President of CSAR) 📅 Thursday 27 October 2011, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Inferring mechanisms of gene regulation from patterns of evolutionary divergence

👤 Itay Tirosh (Weizmann Institute) 📅 Wednesday 26 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215

Computational and Systems Biology

From batch effects and randomness to personalised stratified medicine

👤 John Todd (CIMR) 📅 Wednesday 26 October 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development

⚠️ (note unusual location)

👤 Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK 📅 Wednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 📍 Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

BSS Formal Seminars

Hydrodynamic interactions: from Brownian motion to swimming bacteria

👤 Dr Roberto Dileonardo, University of Rome, Italy 📅 Friday 21 October 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cacti in Chile and in cultivation

👤 Clarke Brunt, British Cactus & Succulent Society 📅 Thursday 20 October 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Secret Science of WWII

👤 Professor Brian J Ford, President of CSAR 📅 Monday 17 October 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Artic Sea Cover

👤 Professor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics 📅 Saturday 15 October 2011, 19:00-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45)

⚠️ Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

👤 Dr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge 📅 Thursday 13 October 2011, 19:45-20:45 📍 Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Managing the River Cam: balancing the needs of river users and the environment

👤 Philippa Noon, Cam Conservancy 📅 Thursday 13 October 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture

⚠️ This lecture is held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

👤 Professor John Papaloizou, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 10 October 2011, 17:30-19:00 📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Leica Scientific Forum

Single Molecule Biology: One, two, three and four

⚠️ Followed by a drinks reception in the Todd Hamied Room

👤 Prof. Dr. Teakjip Ha, Professor of Physics, Head of Single Molecule Nanometry Group, University of Illinois 📅 Monday 10 October 2011, 17:00-18:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW

Cambridge Natural History Society

Portholme Meadow, Brampton: history and natural history intertwined

👤 Pat Doody, ecologist 📅 Thursday 06 October 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Chromatin-mediated regulation of gene expression in mouse ES cells

👤 Helle Jørgensen (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 03 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

One Day Meeting - Seventh Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

CCBI Annual Symposium

👤 Various speakers 📅 Thursday 29 September 2011, 09:30-16:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Adult stem cell fate: a laboratory for statistical physics

👤 Ben Simons (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 19 September 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Nanoparticle Shape: Effects and Modeling

👤 Emilie Ringe, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA 📅 Wednesday 14 September 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Imaging molecules and atoms in motions and reactions by HR-(S)TEM

👤 Dr Masanori Koshino, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba, Japan 📅 Wednesday 13 July 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Leica Scientific Forum

Examples, Molecules, and Methods for Super-Resolution Imaging in Cells with Single Molecules

👤 Professor W. E. Moerner, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 📅 Wednesday 29 June 2011, 17:00-18:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Perturbation Biology of Cancer Cells

👤 Chris Sander (MSKCC) 📅 Wednesday 29 June 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

STEM Cathodoluminescence of Individual GaN/AlN Quantum Disks within a single Nanowire

👤 Luiz Fernando Zagonel, Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory 📅 Friday 24 June 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Phylogenetic Inference of Multidomain Evolution

👤 Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) 📅 Monday 20 June 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

👤 . 📅 Saturday 18 June 2011, 10:00-17:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

👤 . 📅 Friday 17 June 2011, 13:00-18:00 📍 Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site

BSS Formal Seminars

Aggregation of Gap Junctions

👤 Prof. Phillip Pincus, Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA 📅 Wednesday 08 June 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Controlling the diabetes epidemic. Is screening the way forward?

👤 Dr Rebecca Simmons, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge 📅 Monday 06 June 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Porous Multilayers: Novel Multifunctional Optical Materials for Applications

👤 Dr. Hernán Míguez, Institute of Materials Science of Seville, Spain 📅 Friday 27 May 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genomes, Structural Biology and Drug Discovery: What Can Academia Contribute?

👤 Emeritus Professor Sir Tom Blundell, FRS, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 23 May 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Colloidal Gas-Liquid-Solid phase transitions induced by the Critical Casimir Effect

👤 Dr. Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam 📅 Friday 20 May 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

👤 Philip Ball, prizewinning science writer 📅 Thursday 19 May 2011, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Allele specific expression design using short read DNA sequencing and application to the genetics of autoimmune disorders

👤 Vincent Plagnol (UCL) 📅 Monday 16 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge University Botanic Garden visit

👤 Tour guides (Friends of the Botanic Garden) 📅 Thursday 12 May 2011, 18:30-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Doing Mathematics online, and in the open

👤 Professor Tim Gowers, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 09 May 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Umbrella Sampling with Laser Tweezers: Measurement of the Pair Potential of Charged Colloidal Stars

👤 Prof. Seth Fraden ( Brandeis University, USA) 📅 Tuesday 03 May 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

BSS Formal Seminars

Probing Soft Structures

⚠️ http://staff.science.uva.nl/~pschall/index.html

👤 Prof. Peter Schall, vander Waals Zeeman Institute, Univ. Amsterdam 📅 Tuesday 03 May 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

DNA Profiling of Horses

BSS Formal Seminars

Electrochemical detection in nanochannels: a new single-molecule technique

👤 Prof. Searge J. G. Lemay, University of Twente, The Netherlands 📅 Friday 18 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploration and exploitation of the Arctic: hunters and trappers, whalers and sealers

👤 Bob Headland 📅 Thursday 17 March 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

CPERC, who we are, what we do and why it's important for local biodiversity

👤 John Cornell 📅 Thursday 10 March 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Images from the dawn of science - Observing the origins of modern microscopy

👤 Prof. Brian J. Ford, President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) 📅 Thursday 10 March 2011, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Persistence and control of bTB in Great Britain

👤 Andrew Conlan (Vet School) 📅 Wednesday 09 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mathematics of Complex Systems

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

👤 Dr Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 07 March 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests a risk management strategy for bacterial evolution

👤 Nicholas Luscombe (EBI) 📅 Monday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215

BSS Formal Seminars

Multivariant gradient assemblies of oligomers and polymers on flat surfaces

👤 Prof. Jan Genzer, North Carolina State University, USA. 📅 Friday 04 March 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Studying the behaviour of Alpine Ibex

👤 Catharina Karlsson 📅 Thursday 03 March 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Mechanics and growth of tissues

👤 Jean-Francois Joanny, Institute Curie 📅 Friday 25 February 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Peanut Allergies

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

👤 Dr Andrew Clark, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Addenbrooke's NHS Foundation Trust 📅 Monday 21 February 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 The Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins: Regulation and Disease

👤 Madan Babu (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 📅 Monday 21 February 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Liquid Crystal and Nonequilibrium states in mixed suspensions of mineral colloidal plates and spheres

👤 Prof. Henk Lekkerkerker, University of Utrecht, Netherlands 📅 Friday 18 February 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Natural History Society

Madagascan vegetation: an introduction to its richness

👤 Peter Grubb 📅 Thursday 17 February 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Hayley Wood story up to date

👤 Oliver Rackham 📅 Thursday 10 February 2011, 19:30-21:00 📍 Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica

Proteomic and cell biological approaches to the study of clathrin in a vertebrate conditional knockout cell-line

⚠️ http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?apj10

👤 Dr. Tony Jackson, Univ. Cambridge, Neuroscience 📅 Friday 19 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Modelling epidemics: mixing patterns, changing behaviour, and swine flu

👤 Ken Eames (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) 📅 Wednesday 17 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Energy in the UK

👤 Dr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy & Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission 📅 Monday 15 November 2010, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The evolution and regulation of gene expression levels in mammals

👤 John Marioni (EBI) 📅 Monday 15 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Developing cell-scale biomimetic models involving lipid vesicles.

👤 Miglena Angelova, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 📅 Friday 12 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Delights of Chemistry - Spectacular demonstration lecture

👤 Mike Hoyland, University of Leeds 📅 Thursday 11 November 2010, 19:00-20:30 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Decoding Genetic Switches in T Helper Cell Differentiation

👤 Sarah Teichmann (LMB) 📅 Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Executable Strategies for Cellular Decision Making

👤 Jasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research Europe) 📅 Wednesday 03 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Molecular Modelling of Anaesthetics

⚠️ This lecture will be preceded by the society's AGM

👤 Dr Pak-Lee Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, CNRS URA 2185, Institut Pasteur, Paris 📅 Monday 01 November 2010, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

👤 Professor Michael Green, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAPTP, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 11 October 2010, 17:30-19:00 📍 Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site

BSS Formal Seminars

Bacterial swarming in Pseudomonas A.: socio-microbiology or hydrodynamics?

👤 Prof. Jan Vermant, Unive Leuven, Belgium 📅 Friday 08 October 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Transcriptional characterization of glioma stem cells using high-throughput tag sequencing

👤 Paul Bertone (EBI) 📅 Monday 04 October 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolutionary Signatures of Strand Specific Mutagenic Processes

👤 Paz Polak (MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin) 📅 Monday 20 September 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Unexpected complex dynamics of cellular transcriptional response

👤 Amit Zeisel (Weizmann Institute of Science) 📅 Monday 06 September 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Fitzwilliam Museum

Work in Progress: Nick Turvey

👤 Nick Turvey 📅 Saturday 10 July 2010, 13:15-13:45 📍 The Fitzwilliam Museum

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Uncovering signaling differences between normal and transformed hepatocytes using cell-specific pathway models

👤 Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EBI) 📅 Monday 05 July 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Accelerated substitution rates in non-coding sequence: Gene duplication, transcription factor binding site turnover and biased gene conversion.

👤 Dennis Kostka, Gladstone Institute, UCSF 📅 Friday 02 July 2010, 14:30-15:30 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Agnes Martin

👤 Michael Harrison, Kettle's Yard 📅 Thursday 24 June 2010, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A quantitative view of gene expression levels and epigenetic modifications

👤 Sarah Teichmann (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 21 June 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanoplasmonics: Classical oscillator physics at the nanoscale

👤 Prof. Stefan Maier, Experimental Solid State Group Department of Physics Imperial College London 📅 Friday 18 June 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Constantin Brancusi

👤 Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard 📅 Thursday 17 June 2010, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Guided Tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

⚠️ TICKETS £7

👤 Guided Tour 📅 Thursday 10 June 2010, 18:30-20:30 📍 Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

👤 Zaver Bhujwalla, Professor of Radiology and Oncology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 📅 Wednesday 26 May 2010, 10:45-11:30 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Magnetic resonance microscopy

👤 G. Allan Johnson, Charles E. Putman Professor of Radiology, Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Duke University 📅 Wednesday 26 May 2010, 10:00-10:45 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Happy Danes

Deep sequencing reveals differential expression of microRNAs in favorable versus unfavorable neuroblastoma

👤 Sven Rahmann (TU Dortmund) 📅 Tuesday 04 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar Presentations & Networking Event

⚠️ FREE & OPEN TO ALL

👤 Claire Stanley, Fionn O'Hara & Simon Beaumont 📅 Thursday 29 April 2010, 17:00-19:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 3

👤 Michael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard 📅 Thursday 18 February 2010, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Imaging Cancer

⚠️ Please note this week the lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

👤 Dr Kevin Brindle, Cancer Research Institute/Dept. Biochemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 16 February 2010, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Next generation computing for next generation sequencing

👤 Arndt von Haeseler (Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna) 📅 Monday 15 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

How disordered is a pile of marbles? Numerical techniques to quantify disorder.

👤 Prof. Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge, Theoretical Chemistry 📅 Friday 12 February 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ben Nicholson's prints and textiles

👤 Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard 📅 Thursday 11 February 2010, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa

👤 Barry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham 📅 Wednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 2

👤 Lutz Becker - Kettle's Yard Curatorial Fellow 📅 Thursday 04 February 2010, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Stem Cells: Overcoming the Embryo

Laser Photonics

⚠️ Please note the return to our usual venue

👤 Dr Bill O'Neill, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 16 November 2009, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Flow-Induced “Shish-kebab” Formation: A New-Scenario of Kinetic Pathways for􀀁Entangled Polymer Solutions

👤 Takeji Hashimoto, Prof. Emeritus, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 📅 Monday 16 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

BSS Formal Seminars

Intracellular signalling in a molecular jungle: insights from bacterial chemotaxis

👤 Prof. Dennis Bray 📅 Friday 13 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

William Congdon

👤 Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard 📅 Thursday 12 November 2009, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Electron Tomography for novel nanostructures

👤 Dr Juan-Carlos Hernandez, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 10 November 2009, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

BSS Formal Seminars

Colloidal Characterization and Thermodynamic Stability of Binary Protein Mixtures

👤 Prof. Giuseppe Foffi 📅 Friday 06 November 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

SPECTACULAR CHEMISTRY LECTURE

⚠️ Free & open to all (suitable for families)

👤 Dr Hal Sosabowski, University of Brighton 📅 Thursday 05 November 2009, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Performance, self and memory in relation to Helena Almeida’s work

👤 Elena Cologni, artist 📅 Thursday 05 November 2009, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

FIB/SEM 3D applications: a progress report

👤 Dr Martin Ritter, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 03 November 2009, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

⚠️ Please note our temporary venue

👤 Quentin Cooper, Presenter of BBC's "Material World" 📅 Monday 02 November 2009, 19:30-21:00 📍 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Biochemical network reconstruction from data

👤 Jorge Goncalves, Department of Engineering 📅 Monday 02 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineered protein pores as components of soft micromachines

👤 Hagan Bayley 📅 Friday 30 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Naum Gabo

👤 Sebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard 📅 Thursday 29 October 2009, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Future electron imaging detectors for radiation sensitive samples

👤 Dr Greg McMullan,MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 27 October 2009, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

BSS Formal Seminars

Cells Under the Tip

⚠️ http://www.pellinglab.net/people.htm

👤 Prof. Andrew E. Pelling, University of Ottawa, Canada 📅 Friday 23 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Helena Almeida: Writing the Body

⚠️ (a Festival of Ideas event)

👤 Dr Alyce Mahon, author and art historian 📅 Thursday 22 October 2009, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Precession Electron Diffraction in the Transmission Electron Microscope

👤 Dr Alex Eggeman, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 20 October 2009, 15:00-16:00 📍 Pfizer Seminar Room [4th floor], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plagiarism in Science

⚠️ Please note our temporary venue

👤 Professor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR 📅 Monday 19 October 2009, 19:30-21:00 📍 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road

BSS Formal Seminars

Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin

👤 Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 16 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Cryo Electron Microscopy: From Molecules to Systems

👤 Professor Wolfgang Baumeister, MPI of Biochemistry, Head of Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Martinsried/Germany 📅 Thursday 15 October 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Introduction to Kettle's Yard

👤 Michael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard 📅 Thursday 15 October 2009, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Determining the optical properties of atmospheric carbon species using low-loss EELS

⚠️ Room changed

👤 Dr Duncan Alexander, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland 📅 Tuesday 13 October 2009, 15:00-16:00 📍 Pfizer Seminar Room [4th floor], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

BSS Formal Seminars

Dipolar Gels

👤 Dr Mark Miller (University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 09 October 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Helena Almeida and recent Portuguese photography

👤 Paulo Catrica, photographer 📅 Thursday 08 October 2009, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Tumour/Normal Pair Analysis with the Illumina Genome Analyzer

👤 Dirk Evers and Keira Cheetham (Illumina Cambridge Ltd.) 📅 Monday 05 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

HUNTING THE ANTISOCIAL CANCER CELL

⚠️ Free & open to all

👤 Prof. Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 01 October 2009, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Point-of-Care Testing: Challenge and Opportunity in Resource-Limited Settings

⚠️ Discussion 13:00 – 14:00 (lunch provided)

👤 Dr. Trevor Peter (Senior Advisor, Diagnostics) and Ms. Maurine Murtagh (Director of Diagnostics), The Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) 📅 Tuesday 29 September 2009, 12:00-13:00 📍 National Blood Service Centre, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Site, Long Road, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin

👤 Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 18 September 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Radiation damage in metals and polymers

👤 R.F. Egerton University of Alberta and National Institute for Nanotechnology Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 📅 Wednesday 16 September 2009, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

TALES FROM THE BREWHOUSE

⚠️ Tickets £5 (over 18s only)

⚠️ Limited numbers. Tickets: Adults £5. Under 16s £3.

👤 Botanic Garden guides 📅 Thursday 11 June 2009, 18:30-21:00 📍 Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Alfred Wallis

👤 Sebastiano Barassi, Curator 📅 Thursday 11 June 2009, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Scientific Images Discussion Group

'Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy' (1804)

👤 Melanie Keene 📅 Thursday 11 June 2009, 10:30-12:30 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Is art historical methodology useful for HPS and how could it be applied?

👤 Mirjam Brusius 📅 Thursday 11 June 2009, 10:30-12:30 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Topological keystone species: network analysis in modern systems ecology

👤 Ferenc Jordán, CoSBi 📅 Wednesday 10 June 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Complexity and Robustness in Colonies of Agents: A Formal Languages and a Game Theory Approach

👤 Matteo Cavaliere, CoSBi 📅 Tuesday 09 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Happy Danes!" A scientific analysis of the recent EU survey into income and contentment

👤 Dr Luisa Corrado (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge ) 📅 Monday 08 June 2009, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Executable Pathway to Biological Networks

👤 Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge 📅 Monday 08 June 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

The Flexibility Window in Networks and Proteins

👤 Prof. Mike Thorpe, Arizona State University 📅 Monday 08 June 2009, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

BSS Formal Seminars

Chemically modifying surfaces and biomolecules for nanopore analysis

👤 Dr Stefan Howorka, Department of Chemistry, University College London 📅 Friday 05 June 2009, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Just one more try will do it!" The Psychology of Gambling

⚠️ Rescheduled from February

👤 Dr Luke Clarke (Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 01 June 2009, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

Survival of the aligned: Modeling the cortical microtubule array in plant cells

👤 Bela Mulder, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wageningen University 📅 Friday 29 May 2009, 14:15-15:15 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Winifred Nicholson

👤 Sebastiano Barassi, Curator 📅 Thursday 28 May 2009, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Scientific Images Discussion Group

A (visual) tour of the wisdom of the human eye with Robert Boyle

👤 Alexander Wragge-Morley 📅 Thursday 28 May 2009, 01:00-03:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Visualizing nature: Marianne North's botanical portraits at Kew

👤 Katie Zimmerman 📅 Thursday 28 May 2009, 01:00-03:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Bringing new medicines to market" How the biopharmaceutical industry works

👤 Dr Melanie Lee DSc (Hon) FMedSci (Executive Vice President of Research and Development, UCB Belgium ) 📅 Tuesday 26 May 2009, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

Nucleation and growth of insulin fibrils in bulk solution and at hydrophobic polystyrene surfaces

👤 Dr. James Sharp, School of Physics and Astronomy and Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre, University of Nottingham 📅 Friday 22 May 2009, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Exhibition Tour

👤 Elizabeth Fisher, Curator of Exhibitions 📅 Thursday 21 May 2009, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Study disease-causing genes based on protein-protein interaction networks

👤 Phuong Nguyen, CoSBi 📅 Wednesday 20 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Stochastic simulation algorithms and analysis of biological systems

👤 Sean Sedwards, CoSBi 📅 Tuesday 19 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Drinks & Flip Chart Session

👤 Organisers 📅 Monday 18 May 2009, 17:30-18:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Keynote 2: Dark matter and the dark arts

👤 Professor David Baulcombe, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 18 May 2009, 16:45-17:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Future Steps

👤 Dr Gos Micklem 📅 Monday 18 May 2009, 16:15-16:45 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 4: Counting and comparing

⚠️ Workshop covers peak calling, segmentation , enrichment, differential expression, normalisation, transcriptomics, ChIPseq.

👤 Dr Krys Kelly (Lead) 📅 Monday 18 May 2009, 15:15-16:15 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 3: Assembly / Structural variation

⚠️ Workshop covers de novo assemblers, paired end data, integrating data from different technologies, structural variation.

👤 Aylwyn Scally (Lead) 📅 Monday 18 May 2009, 13:30-14:45 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Lunch & Flip Chart Session

👤 Lunch 📅 Monday 18 May 2009, 12:30-13:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 2: Alignment

⚠️ Workshop covers: Speed, sensitivity, alignment formats, repeats, SNPs, indels.

👤 Mario Caccamo (Lead) 📅 Monday 18 May 2009, 11:30-12:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Keynote 1: Computational issues in ancient genomics

👤 Dr Ed Green, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany 📅 Monday 18 May 2009, 10:15-11:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 1: Data Production

⚠️ Workshop covers Primary pipeline processing: quality scores, multiplexing; Data management: metadata, data storage, data delivery.

👤 Rory Stark (Lead) 📅 Monday 18 May 2009, 09:15-10:15 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Registration

👤 Organisers 📅 Monday 18 May 2009, 08:45-09:10 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Thick & thin: physics of polymers with sticky ends.

👤 Prof. Martien Cohen Stuart, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands 📅 Friday 15 May 2009, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

The state of PET for experimental medicine in oncology - current challenges

👤 Professor Pat Price, Ralston Paterson Professor of Radiation Oncology, Christie Hospital, University of Manchester 📅 Friday 15 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Picturing points: geometric imagination in the first English translations of Euclid's Elements

👤 Michael Barany 📅 Thursday 14 May 2009, 01:00-03:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Doughnut holes and paper cut-outs: image, visualization and manipulation in low dimensional topology

👤 Gerardo Con Diaz 📅 Thursday 14 May 2009, 01:00-03:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Model Abstraction Methodology for Temporal Behavior Analysis of Multiscale Biological Systems

👤 Hiroyuki Kuwahara, CoSBi 📅 Wednesday 13 May 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Chemotaxis. Do we understand it all?

👤 Orkun Soyer, CoSBi 📅 Tuesday 12 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Life in the Colonies" Social insects and their relevance to human behavior

👤 Professor Francis Ratneiks (Professor of Apiculture, University of Sussex ) 📅 Monday 11 May 2009, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Code Underlying Tissue-Regulated Splicing

👤 Brendan Frey, University of Toronto 📅 Monday 11 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre

BSS Formal Seminars

Non-equilibrium fluctuations and mechanics of active gels and living cells

👤 Fred Mackintosh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit 📅 Friday 08 May 2009, 14:15-15:15 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Assessing responses to cancer therapy using molecular imaging magnetic resonance methods

👤 Kevin Brindle and John Griffiths, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute 📅 Thursday 07 May 2009, 09:30-10:30 📍 CRI Lecture Theatre

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Cafe Scientifique: can we read minds?

Chemistry saves lives

👤 Dr Tony Wood, Vice President and Worldwide Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer 📅 Wednesday 18 March 2009, 18:00-19:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry

Cambridge Science Festival

Entering the ecological age

⚠️ Pre book (rsdevents@rsd.cam.ac.uk)

👤 Peter Head, Director of Planning and Integrated Urbanism 📅 Wednesday 18 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 Engineering Department

Cambridge Science Festival

Statistics are either dull or wrong:discuss

👤 Professor David Spiegelhalter 📅 Tuesday 17 March 2009, 19:30-20:30 📍 Babbage Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Science Festival

Darwin's Islands: In Darwin's footsteps to the Galapagos

⚠️ Ages 12+, Pre book (tel 01223 364721 ext 66147, email: ro6-Outreach@open.ac.uk

👤 Dr David Robinson 📅 Tuesday 17 March 2009, 18:00-19:30 📍 The Open University in the East of England, Hills Road

Cambridge Science Festival

Carbon neutral communities

⚠️ Pre book (rsdevents@rsd.cam.ac.uk)

A taste of teaching: D&T and Sciences

Darwin in a global context

👤 Professor Jim Secord and Professor John Parker 📅 Tuesday 10 March 2009, 20:00-21:00 📍 University Centre

Cambridge Science Festival

EESCN question time - stem cell special

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

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Physics of Multicellularity

👤 Prof Ray Goldstein ( DAMTP, Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 24 February 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR CANCER PATIENTS

⚠️ Free & open to all

👤 Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald, Hutchison-MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Research Centre, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 19 February 2009, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Julius Bissier

👤 Sebastiano Barassi 📅 Thursday 19 February 2009, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Magnificent pas de deux: spindle orientation in yeast - ACT I

👤 Marisa Segal, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 17 February 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Genetics and Cancer" The BRCA2 gene (discovered by Professor Stratton and his team), and its involvement in human breast and prostate cancer

👤 Professor Michael Stratton (Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Head of the Cancer Genome Project) 📅 Monday 16 February 2009, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Computational and Systems Biology

Linked Oscillators in Circadian Biology

👤 Dr. Alex Webb (Plant Sciences) 📅 Monday 16 February 2009, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Italo Valenti

👤 Sebastiano Barassi 📅 Thursday 12 February 2009, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Scientific Images Discussion Group

When Nature Begins to Write Herself: German Romantics Read the Electrophore

👤 Antje Pfannkuchen (NYU) 📅 Wednesday 11 February 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

BSS Formal Seminars

Forms and Flows of Ferrofluids

👤 Dr Reinhard Richter, Experimentalphysik 5, Universität Bayreuth, Germany 📅 Friday 06 February 2009, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update

Pathogen Genome Sequencing at the Sanger Institute

👤 Dr. Arnab Pain 📅 Wednesday 21 January 2009, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

On Automatic Quantitative Verification of Biological Systems

⚠️ Time changed

👤 Paolo Ballarini, CoSBi 📅 Wednesday 21 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

BlenX, a language based approach for modelling biological systems

👤 Roberto Larcher, CoSBi 📅 Wednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

Scientific Images Discussion Group

The Historiography of the Scientific Image

👤 Chitra Ramalingam (Harvard University) 📅 Wednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Precision and exploration in assembling neural circuits

👤 Michael Bate (University of Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 20 January 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"We know who you are, from the way you sound" Computer voice-recognition systems and what they can do

⚠️ This lecture is joint with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

👤 Dr Kirsty McDougall (Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 19 January 2009, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

Experiments on cytoskeletal and “Recombinase” motors

👤 Dr Giovanni Cappello, Institut Curie, France 📅 Friday 16 January 2009, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physics of Living Matter 3

⚠️ registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you

👤 registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you 📅 Tuesday 16 December 2008, 09:00-18:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Heterogeneity and transcriptional noise in cell populations

👤 One Day Special Meeting - see abstract for details 📅 Monday 15 December 2008, 09:00-18:00 📍 Department of Genetics

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Angiogenesis imaging for human drug development: decision making tools or decorations?

👤 Anwar Padhani, Consultant Radiologist and Head of Imaging Research, Paul Strickland Scanner Centre, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood 📅 Friday 12 December 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BIOFUELS – A VIABLE APPROACH TO CARBON REDUCTION?

👤 Dr Bruce Tofield, CRed, UEA Norwich 📅 Thursday 11 December 2008, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Christmas Quiz

⚠️ Canceled

👤 Speakers to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 11 December 2008, 17:30-19:30 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

BSS Formal Seminars

Understanding shape and traction of adherent cells

👤 Prof. Ulrich Schwarz, University of Karlsruhe & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & University of Heidelberg, Germany 📅 Friday 05 December 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

A new player in the orchestra of cell growth: SREBP activity is regulated by mTORC1 and contributes to the regulation of cell and organ size

👤 Almut Schulze, Gene Expression Analysis Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute 📅 Friday 05 December 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Room 215, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute

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

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Biology in five dimensions - the evolution of development

👤 Michael Akam, Museum of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 02 December 2008, 16:30-18:00 📍 Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

👤 Prof David J C Mackay (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 📅 Monday 01 December 2008, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

A singular view of DNA transactions

👤 Dr Gijs Wuite, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands 📅 Friday 28 November 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

OBESITY - A GROWING PROBLEM

👤 David Haslam, MB BS, National Obesity Forum 📅 Thursday 27 November 2008, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

"Studying human variation from whole genome sequence data".

👤 Richard Durbin, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Documentary sociology: Mass-Observation as aesthetic science

👤 Boris Jardine (HPS) 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2008, 11:00-01:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Network Biology

👤 Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 25 November 2008, 16:30-18:00 📍 Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of

Computational and Systems Biology

" The dynamics of parasite-mediated competition"

👤 Olivier Restif, CIDC, The Veterinary School, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 19 November 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mexican blind cavefish as a model system for micro evolutionary research

👤 Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, University College London 📅 Wednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Exactness and Approximation of the Stochastic Simulation Algorithm

👤 Ivan Mura, CoSBi 📅 Wednesday 19 November 2008, 11:00-12:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Stochasticity in stem and progenitor cell fate

👤 Ben Simons, TCM The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 18 November 2008, 16:30-18:00 📍 Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Colonies of Synchronizing Agents: Computability and Robustness

👤 Radu Mardare, CoSBi 📅 Tuesday 18 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

“What goes round comes round” Making wind turbines from renewable materials

👤 Dr Jim Platts (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 17 November 2008, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

Rare events and the flipping of genetic switches

👤 Dr Rosalind Allen, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh 📅 Friday 14 November 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Title to be confirmed

👤 Speakers to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 13 November 2008, 17:30-19:30 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

👤 Kojiro Yano 📅 Wednesday 12 November 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Conserved regulatory networks in vertebrate development

👤 Greg Elgar, University of London 📅 Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Methodology and the visual image

⚠️ Please note the different time

👤 Geoff Belknap (HPS) 📅 Wednesday 12 November 2008, 10:30-01:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific Images Discussion Group

On allegories and vanities, and the connections between science, art and collecting in the Spanish Baroque culture

⚠️ Please note the different time

👤 Jose Ramon Marcaida (Madrid) 📅 Wednesday 12 November 2008, 10:30-01:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Molecular bases and function of cellular heterogeneity in development

👤 Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 11 November 2008, 16:30-18:00 📍 Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of

BSS Formal Seminars

Designing Molecular Swimmers

👤 Prof. Ramin Golestanian, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield 📅 Friday 07 November 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Fireworks and Waterworks! Lecture & demonstration.

👤 Dr Andy Szydlo, Highgate School, London 📅 Thursday 06 November 2008, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Computational and Systems Biology

Type 1 Diabetes research, before and after association studies

👤 Vincent Plagnol, CIMR, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 05 November 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.

👤 Angela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University 📅 Wednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Transcriptional noise in gene regulatory networks

👤 Lawrence Wernisch, MRC Biostatistical Unit, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 04 November 2008, 16:30-18:00 📍 Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Something’s come up": The Discovery of New Drugs, (including Cardura, Norvasc and Viagra)

👤 Dr Simon Campbell CBE (Former President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Former Pfizer Senior Vice-President for Discovery) 📅 Monday 03 November 2008, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

Biological Photonics: Controlling the Flow of Colour

👤 Dr Peter Vukusic, School of Physics, University of Exeter 📅 Friday 31 October 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900

👤 Torben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) 📅 Wednesday 29 October 2008, 17:30-19:30 📍 Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Computational and Systems Biology

Simultaneous Determination of Protein Structure and Dynamics

👤 Dr. Michele Vendruscolo, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 29 October 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Biophysics of behaviourally defined neurocircuits

👤 Dennis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 28 October 2008, 16:30-18:00 📍 Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

What makes cellular decisions irreversible?

👤 Prof. Béla Novák, University of Oxford 📅 Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

How plasmids cope with noise in the bacterial cell

⚠️ Note unusual time

👤 David Summers, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 21 October 2008, 15:00-16:30 📍 Part 2 Seminar Room, Genetics, Department of

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Computational analysis of the connection between cell cycle and circadian rhythm

👤 Judit Zámborszky, CoSBi 📅 Tuesday 21 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Intelligence and the Living Cell": Adaptive behaviour and decision-making by single cells

👤 Professor Brian J Ford (President of CSAR) 📅 Monday 20 October 2008, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Title to be confirmed

👤 Speakers to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 16 October 2008, 17:30-19:30 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

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

Scientific Images Discussion Group

The visual language of geology, 1760-1840

👤 Martin Rudwick (HPS) 📅 Wednesday 15 October 2008, 11:00-01:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific Images Discussion Group

⚠️ Synthetic Biology

👤 Professor Peter Leadley (Department of Biochemistry) 📅 Wednesday 01 October 2008, 13:30-14:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

Horizon: Bioengineering

Health Technologies KTN: working together to accelerate innovation in healthcare

👤 Professor Mehdi Tavakoli, Health Technologies KTN 📅 Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:45-12:15 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Horizon: Bioengineering

Collagen mechanics: from basic understanding to clinical applications

⚠️ registration is required for this event

👤 Dr Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering 📅 Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:15-11:45 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Horizon: Bioengineering

Systems Biology: from models (and model organisms) to medicines

👤 Professor Steve Oliver, Centre for Systems Biology 📅 Wednesday 01 October 2008, 10:45-11:15 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Horizon Seminars

Bioengineering

⚠️ Registration is required

👤 Programme to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 01 October 2008, 09:30-17:30 📍 MR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for

Computational and Systems Biology

RNA editing in plant organelles: Correlation between editing sites and protein three-dimensional structures

⚠️ Ectopic seminar - N.B. in Biochemistry Department

👤 Kei Yura (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) 📅 Tuesday 30 September 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building (old building)

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

A Scientific Wine Tasting - The Maturation of Port and Madeira Wines

👤 Luke Webster 📅 Thursday 25 September 2008, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

9th Cambridge Immunology Forum - Visions of Immunology

Imaging pH in vivo

⚠️ To register for this meeting go to http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/nephrology/teaching/roche.html

👤 Kevin Brindle, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 25 September 2008, 12:00-12:20 📍 Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Cambridge

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Development tools for mobile devices

👤 Alexander Griekspoor (mekentosj.com), Alistair de B Clarkson (nCipher) 📅 Thursday 18 September 2008, 17:30-19:30 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Computational and Systems Biology

Uncovering design principles of bacterial biochemical networks and biofilm self-organization

⚠️ Ectopic seminar - N.B. in Biochemistry Department

👤 Oleg Igoshin (Rice University) 📅 Thursday 18 September 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Seminar Room, Biochemistry Department (Sanger Building), Tennis Court Road

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology - Student Project Presentations

👤 MPhil Students 📅 Wednesday 27 August 2008, 09:30-14:45 📍 Fletcher-Moulton Room at Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology - Student Project Presentations

👤 MPhil Students 📅 Tuesday 26 August 2008, 09:30-17:00 📍 Fletcher-Moulton Room at Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road

Cambridge Cell Biology Seminar Series

Imaging lysosome dynamics

👤 Professor Dr Judith Klumperman, Cell Microscopy Center, Dept of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Utrecht 📅 Monday 04 August 2008, 16:30-17:30 📍 The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Field Programmable Gate Arrays

⚠️ POSTPHONED TO LATER IN THE YEAR

👤 Speakers to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 17 July 2008, 17:30-19:30 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Strain Measurement in Electronic Devices by Transmission Electron Microscopy

👤 Florian Hue, CEMES-CNRS, Tououse, France 📅 Tuesday 15 July 2008, 12:00-13:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Advanced Electron Microscopy for Nanomaterials

👤 Dr Ilke Arslan, Sandia National Laboratories, USA 📅 Monday 14 July 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 Austin Lecture Theatre, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Novel molecular switches for optical research on living cells

👤 Dr Gerard Marriott 📅 Thursday 10 July 2008, 16:15-17:30 📍 Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Quantitative elemental mapping in biological systems

👤 Maria Aronova, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institute of Health, United States of America 📅 Monday 30 June 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 Austin Lecture Theatre, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Craik Club

Identifying novel boundaries within cognitive architecture via repetition suppression brain imaging

👤 Scott Grafton, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara 📅 Thursday 26 June 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Atomic Structure of Nanoparticles and Their Surfaces

👤 Prof. Jian Min Zuo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, United States of America 📅 Thursday 26 June 2008, 12:00-13:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Structural analysis of cells and viruses at molecular resolution with 3D electron microscopy

👤 Dr Sriram Subramaniam 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2008, 16:15-17:30 📍 Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Modelling and simulation of biological systems with COPASI

👤 Prof. Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

Optical force and torque on a spheroid: Generalized Lorenz Mie Theory

👤 Dr Feng Xu, TU Darmstadt, Germany 📅 Monday 23 June 2008, 14:30-15:30 📍 Edwards Room, Bragg building, Cavendish Laboratory

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Workflow processing

👤 Speakers to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 19 June 2008, 17:30-19:30 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Mouse Genome Informatics Database: Phenotypes and Phenotype Ontology

👤 Prof. Janan Eppig, The Jackson Laboratory 📅 Thursday 19 June 2008, 12:20-12:50 📍 WTCC, Hinxton

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Towards an Open Source Disease Ontology

⚠️ http://diseaseontology.sf.net/

👤 Prof. Warren Kibbe (Northwestern University) & Prof. Lynn Schriml (U. Maryland School of Medicine) 📅 Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:10-11:50 📍 WTCC, Hinxton

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

The OBO Foundry and PATO

👤 Prof. Michael Ashburner (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:50-11:10 📍 WTCC, Hinxton

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Ontologies for Biologists – The Promise and the Reality

👤 Prof. Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridge (and former joint head of EMBL-EBI) 📅 Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:30-10:50 📍 WTCC, Hinxton

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Wellcome and Background to Meeting

👤 Prof. Janet Thornton & Dr. Dominic Clark (EMBL-EBI) 📅 Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:15-10:30 📍 WTCC, Hinxton

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Registration and Tea/Coffee

👤 There is no Registration Fee but pre-registration is requested 📅 Thursday 19 June 2008, 09:30-10:15 📍 WTCC, Hinxton

BSS Formal Seminars

Optically-assisted interrogation of cells

👤 Dr Lynn Paterson, Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh 📅 Friday 13 June 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Modernist aesthetics, Marxist science

👤 Boris Jardine 📅 Thursday 12 June 2008, 12:00-01:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Topographical anatomy and the visual culture of Edinburgh obstetrics

👤 Salim Al-Gailani 📅 Thursday 12 June 2008, 11:00-12:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Case Studies III from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science

👤 Various speakers 📅 Thursday 12 June 2008, 11:00-16:00 📍 Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of

BRC Seminar Series

Towards imaging genomics for Alzheimer's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis

👤 Prof Paul Matthew, Imperial College London 📅 Wednesday 11 June 2008, 12:00-13:00 📍 Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Addenbrookes

BSS Formal Seminars

Quadruplexes. What else ?

👤 Dr Jean-Louis Mergny, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle USM 503, Regulation et Dynamique des Genomes, Paris, France 📅 Friday 06 June 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Horizon Seminars

China (day 2)

⚠️ registration is required

👤 Horizon Speakers 📅 Friday 06 June 2008, 09:30-17:30 📍 Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge

Horizon Seminars

The story of jades.

⚠️ Part of the China Horizon event (this talk open to non-delegates).

👤 Dr James Lin, Fitzwilliam Museum 📅 Thursday 05 June 2008, 18:30-19:30 📍 Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge

Horizon Seminars

China

⚠️ Registration is required

👤 Horizon Speakers 📅 Thursday 05 June 2008, 09:30-17:30 📍 Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

The scientific detection of forgery in paintings

👤 Prof. Jehane Ragai, The American University in Cairo, Egypt 📅 Tuesday 03 June 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Designing Self-Propelled Polymeric Capsules and Gels

👤 Prof Anna C Balazs, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh 📅 Friday 30 May 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

What comes next in biological microscopy?

👤 Brad Amos, MRC Molecular Biology Cambridge 📅 Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Structural analysis of cellular networks

👤 Prof. Jörg Stelling, ETH Zürich 📅 Wednesday 28 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Force generation at dynamic microtubule ends

👤 Prof Marileen Dogterom, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, AmsterdamThe Netherlands 📅 Friday 23 May 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR

⚠️ LIMITED SPACES SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 22 May 2008, 18:30-20:00 📍 Cambridge Botanic Garden

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Guide dogs for the sighted: the role of canis familiaris in constructing images of Victorian town and country

👤 Allison Ksiazkiewicz, David Allan Feller 📅 Thursday 22 May 2008, 11:00-01:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Genomic Regulatory Network Models for Developing Blood Stem Cells

👤 Dr. Bertie Gottgens (Haematology) 📅 Wednesday 21 May 2008, 16:25-17:10 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Mapping quantitative traits in mice and plants

👤 Richard Mott (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 21 May 2008, 15:40-16:25 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Biological learning and memory from a theoretical perspective

👤 Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 21 May 2008, 14:35-15:20 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Evolution of protein complexes and protein interaction networks

👤 Sarah Teichmann (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 📅 Wednesday 21 May 2008, 13:50-14:35 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

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

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Quantum Mechanical Simulations of Biochemistry

👤 Gabor Csanyi (Engineering Department, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 21 May 2008, 12:05-12:50 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Collective Hydrodynamics of Swimming Micro-Organisms

👤 Tim Pedley (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) 📅 Wednesday 21 May 2008, 11:20-12:05 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Signals, Gradients and Cellular Architecture

👤 Karen Lipkow (Cambridge Systems Biology Centre & Biochemistry Department) 📅 Wednesday 21 May 2008, 10:15-11:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Determinants of tissue-specific transcriptional regulation in a transplanted chromosome

👤 Duncan Odom (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute) 📅 Wednesday 21 May 2008, 09:30-10:15 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

PET/MR: a new modality for molecular imaging

👤 Adrian Carpenter, Head of MRI, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre and Reader in Imaging Sciences, Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital 📅 Friday 16 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ALL IN THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE - THE SCIENCE OF FOOD & FLAVOUR

👤 Dr Len Fisher, University of Bristol 📅 Thursday 15 May 2008, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Productivity Applications

👤 tbc 📅 Thursday 15 May 2008, 17:30-19:30 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

BSS Formal Seminars

Reverse engineering cell mechanics

👤 Prof. Daniel Fletcher, UC Berkeley, USA 📅 Thursday 15 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"I was nowhere near there at the time Guv - honest"

👤 Professor Sir Bob Hepple, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, former Master of Clare College 📅 Monday 12 May 2008, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

A TEM and SAXS/USAXS study of particle growth of a mesoporous silica

👤 Viveka Alfredsson, Lund University, Sweden 📅 Monday 12 May 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

BSS Formal Seminars

Capillary-Gravity Waves

👤 Elie Raphael, ESPCI, Paris, France 📅 Friday 09 May 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Scientific Images Discussion Group

The problem with periodicals in the 19th century

👤 Geoff Belknap 📅 Thursday 08 May 2008, 12:00-01:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Portrait of a spark: William Armstrong's photographs of electricity (1897)

👤 Chitra Ramalingam 📅 Thursday 08 May 2008, 11:00-12:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution

👤 Andreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 📅 Wednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

BSS Formal Seminars

Modelling Self-Assembled Polymer Composites

👤 Dr Nigel Clarke, Department of Chemistry, Durham University 📅 Friday 02 May 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

An ingenious gadget from a Greek musical theorist's workshop

👤 Andrew Barker (University of Birmingham) 📅 Thursday 01 May 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis

👤 Adam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday) 📅 Wednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

www.Antibodies_Direct.com

👤 Dr Jonathan Milner, Abcam plc, Cambridge Science Park 📅 Monday 28 April 2008, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Use of mesoporous materials to overcome reactant incompatibility and for homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis

👤 Prof. Krister Holmberg, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden 📅 Friday 25 April 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

FlyMine, InterMine and databases for biology.

👤 Richard Smith, Flymine, Dept of Genetics 📅 Friday 25 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

A robustness-based approach to systems-oriented drug design

👤 Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories 📅 Thursday 24 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Jan Vermeer's images of scientists and Pascal's "esprit de finesse": art, philosophy and science in the Dutch Golden Age

👤 Mirjam Brusius 📅 Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:00-01:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Editing early-modern astronomical diagrams

👤 Boris Jardine 📅 Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:00-12:00 📍 Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

👤 Jessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A. 📅 Wednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Functional Programming

👤 Various Speakers 📅 Thursday 17 April 2008, 17:30-19:30 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CAPE-CIKC Advanced Technology Lectures

Local Probe Techniques - Keys to the Nanoworld

👤 Prof. Heinrich Hoerber (University of Bristol, UK) 📅 Friday 11 April 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, 9, JJ Thomson Ave.

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Wolfgang Huber from the EBI will be talking on the vsn method.

👤 Wolfgang Huber, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus 📅 Monday 07 April 2008, 14:15-13:15 📍 Lecture Room, Sanger Building, Biochemistry Department

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Extraction and classification of cellular and genetic phenotypes from automated microscopy data

⚠️ Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data

👤 Huber, W (EBI) 📅 Wednesday 02 April 2008, 11:30-12:30 📍 Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Molecular arms race between host and parasite leads to evolution of robustness against gene loss in signaling networks

👤 Dr Orkun Soyer, CoSBi 📅 Wednesday 26 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

Cambridge Science Festival

Wicken Fen: the science behind the vision

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 20 March 2008, 18:30-19:30 📍 University Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

SciComp minitalks

Art in Context: Two portraits by Bartel Beham

👤 David Scrase, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, The Fitzwilliam Museum 📅 Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:15-13:45 📍 The Fitzwilliam Museum

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A new view on arthropod limb evolution

👤 Gerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin 📅 Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

fMRI and multivariate analyses of neuroimaging in healthy participants

⚠️ This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

👤 Alexandra Woolgar 📅 Wednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences

Cambridge University Biological Society

The early human occupation of Europe and Britain

👤 Prof Jim Rose, Royal Holloway 📅 Tuesday 11 March 2008, 20:00-21:30 📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

Cambridge Science Festival

Preserve the old, but know the new

👤 Dr Ann Prentice, Medical Research Council 📅 Tuesday 11 March 2008, 18:00-19:00 📍 University Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

The evolution of Living Matter

👤 Adrian Friday (The Museum of Zoology) 📅 Tuesday 11 March 2008, 14:00-16:00 📍 IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Cambridge Science Festival

Do hormones in the womb affect how your brain develops?

👤 Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre 📅 Monday 10 March 2008, 19:30-20:30 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Cambridge Science Festival

The big experiment

👤 Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry 📅 Monday 10 March 2008, 18:00-19:00 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Pictures of data: improving scientific illustrations

👤 Matt Davis (MRC-CBU) 📅 Monday 10 March 2008, 16:15-17:45 📍 MRC-CBU

BSS Formal Seminars

Changes in skeletal muscle cell volume during exercise

👤 Prof Chris Huang, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 07 March 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Eric Gill, Inscription

👤 Sebastiano Barassi 📅 Thursday 06 March 2008, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Why is the violin so hard to play?

👤 Jim Woodhouse (Department of Engineering) 📅 Wednesday 05 March 2008, 17:30-19:00 📍 Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Computational and Systems Biology

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👤 Irene Papatheodorou (Cancer Research Institute) University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 05 March 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Lapis Lazuli

👤 Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute 📅 Tuesday 04 March 2008, 19:00-20:00 📍 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Electrical transport and optical properties of carbon nanotubes probed by in situ and cross-correlated experiments

👤 Mathias Kobylko, University of Paris Sud, France 📅 Tuesday 04 March 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

The Activity of Living Matter - Networks and emergent properties

👤 Jordi Garcia Ojalvo (Physics, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain) 📅 Tuesday 04 March 2008, 14:00-16:00 📍 IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanoelectronics and Quantum Computing

👤 Dr David Williams, Head of the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory 📅 Monday 03 March 2008, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

Soft Matter for Hard Copy

👤 Dr Andrew Howe, Kodak European Research, 332 Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WN 📅 Friday 29 February 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Using biological ontologies in databases: where do GO terms come from?

👤 Susan Tweedie, Department of Genetics 📅 Friday 29 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Artist Animators

👤 Sarah Evans 📅 Thursday 28 February 2008, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Spatial point process modelling and its applications in ecology

👤 Dr. Janine B. Illian, University of St. Andrews 📅 Wednesday 27 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ecdysozoan phylogeny and the origins of crustacean complexity: new data from the Cambrian fossil record

👤 Tom Harvey, Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 27 February 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Analysing interfaces in multilayer films using STEM-EELS

👤 David McComb, Imerial College London 📅 Tuesday 26 February 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Signalling and information processing in biology.

👤 Alfonso Martinez Arias (Dpt Genetics) 📅 Tuesday 26 February 2008, 14:00-16:00 📍 IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Cambridge University Biological Society

From cells to embryo: the magic of gastrulation

👤 Professor Claudio Stern 📅 Monday 25 February 2008, 20:00-21:30 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional brain imaging as a physiolgical method

👤 John Duncan (MRC-CBU) 📅 Monday 25 February 2008, 16:15-17:45 📍 MRC-CBU

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Python Tools for software development

👤 Oliver Stegle (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 21 February 2008, 17:30-19:30 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

William Congdon, Views of Venice

👤 Sebastiano Barassi 📅 Thursday 21 February 2008, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational methods to analyse large-scale and high-dimensional gene perturbation screens

👤 Florian Markowetz (University of Princeton) 📅 Wednesday 20 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, CRI Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates

👤 Jordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain 📅 Wednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Phase contrast/retrieval as a quantitative link to the physics of nano-materials

👤 Marco Beleggia, University of Leeds and Brookhaven National Labs, U.S. 📅 Tuesday 19 February 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Light and Matter - Tissues

👤 Alexandre Kabla (Dept Engineering) 📅 Tuesday 19 February 2008, 14:00-16:00 📍 IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

👤 Stefanie Reichelt (CR UK Cambridge Research Institute) and Sara Booth (Palliative Care), Addenbrooke's Hospital 📅 Tuesday 19 February 2008, 12:00-13:00 📍 Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Breaking Abbe's barrier: diffraction-unlimited resolution in far-field optical microscopy

👤 Professor Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen 📅 Tuesday 19 February 2008, 11:30-12:30 📍 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rebuilding the Colossus of the Modern World

👤 Tony Sale, Hon Fellow of the British Computer Society 📅 Monday 18 February 2008, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Kettle's Yard Talks and Lectures

Saturday Workshops with John Greening

👤 John Greening 📅 Saturday 16 February 2008, 14:30-17:00 📍 Kettle's Yard

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

EarthTalk

👤 Dr Sally Gibson and Dr Lyall Anderson, Department of Earth Sciences 📅 Saturday 16 February 2008, 13:30-14:30 📍 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

BSS Formal Seminars

Monitoring the microscopic water distribution in soft solids with multidimensional NMR relaxometry

👤 Dr Brian Hills, Institute of Food Research, Norwich 📅 Friday 15 February 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Artist Animators

👤 Emily Russell and Kristian de la Riva 📅 Thursday 14 February 2008, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Computational and Systems Biology

A Programming Language for Biology

👤 Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research) 📅 Wednesday 13 February 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Recapitulating ancestral mammalian incisor dentitions through disruption of NF-kB and Wnt signalling in the mouse

👤 Jim Blackburn, Dept of Craniofacial Development, Kings College London 📅 Wednesday 13 February 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Light and Matter - Cells.

👤 Jochen Guck (Dept Physics) 📅 Tuesday 12 February 2008, 14:00-16:00 📍 IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Constantin Brancusi

👤 Sebastiano Barassi 📅 Thursday 07 February 2008, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Kettle's Yard Talks and Lectures

Ways of Seeing

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 07 February 2008, 10:00-15:30 📍 Kettle's Yard and the Fitzwilliam Museum

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Strain Tensor Mapping using Electron Backscatter Diffraction

👤 Angus Wilkinson, University of Oxford 📅 Wednesday 06 February 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Computational and Systems Biology

Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology

👤 Various 📅 Wednesday 06 February 2008, 14:00-16:00 📍 MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Transgenic and transgenomic strategies for studying the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution: prospects and pitfalls

👤 David Baum, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. 📅 Wednesday 06 February 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Light and Matter - Molecules

👤 Alfonso Martinez Arias (Dept Genetics) 📅 Tuesday 05 February 2008, 14:00-16:00 📍 IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Journey of the Future

👤 Dr Liz Orme, Director of Transport, Cambridge Consultants 📅 Monday 04 February 2008, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

Druggable targets - the need for fresh thinking in neglected disease .

👤 Dr. Tim Wells (Medicines for Malaria Venture) 📅 Monday 04 February 2008, 12:30-13:00 📍 Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

BindingDB

👤 Prof. Michael Gilson (University of Maryland) 📅 Monday 04 February 2008, 12:00-12:30 📍 Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

ChEBI: Chemical Entities of Biological Interest

👤 Paula de Matos (ChEBI Group, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute) 📅 Monday 04 February 2008, 11:30-12:00 📍 Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

DrugBank2

👤 Prof. David Wishart (University of Alberta) 📅 Monday 04 February 2008, 10:30-11:00 📍 Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

ChemoGenomics

👤 Prof. Andrew Hopkins (University of Dundee) 📅 Monday 04 February 2008, 10:00-10:30 📍 Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

Introduction and Overview

👤 Prof. Janet Thornton (Director, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute) 📅 Monday 04 February 2008, 09:30-10:00 📍 Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton

BSS Formal Seminars

Tiny Hands make Light Work

👤 Prof Miles Padgett, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow 📅 Friday 01 February 2008, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

4D-microscopy & some results: fate, migrations, form in C. elegans & some other curious animals

👤 Ralf Schnabel, University of Braunschweig 📅 Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Atomic scale characterization, by means of electron microscopy techniques, of Ruthenium catalysts supported on cerium and zirconim mixed oxides

👤 Juan-Carlos Hernandez, Universities of Cadiz and Cambridge 📅 Thursday 31 January 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Cinema and the Art of Animation

👤 Trish Sheil, Cambridgeshire Film Consortium 📅 Thursday 31 January 2008, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Computational and Systems Biology

tba

👤 Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 📅 Wednesday 30 January 2008, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Watching living matter. -Advanced microscopy.

👤 Clemens Kaminski (Dept Chemical Engineering) 📅 Tuesday 29 January 2008, 14:00-16:00 📍 IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

MRI screening for women at high risk of breast cancer: from genetically based biological differences to tumour growth rate

👤 Martin Leach, Co-director of the Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research Group, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton 📅 Friday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Harnessing naturally randomized transcription to infer regulatory relationships among genes

👤 Phil Charles, Cambridge Centre for Proteomics 📅 Friday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Christopher Wood's Self Portrait

👤 Sebastiano Barassi 📅 Thursday 24 January 2008, 13:10-13:40 📍 Kettle's Yard

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Living Matter: An Introduction - A physicist's perspective

👤 Jochen Guck (Dept Physics) 📅 Tuesday 22 January 2008, 14:00-16:00 📍 IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC - LOOKING NORTH: ARCTIC SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR, 2007-2008

⚠️ Please visit www.soci.org for updated details/late cancellation notification.

👤 Prof Elizabeth Morris, Scott Polar research Institute, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 17 January 2008, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The centipede tree: an evolutionary framework for segmentation studies

👤 Greg Edgecombe, Natural History Museum, London 📅 Wednesday 16 January 2008, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Physics of Living Matter Part III course (PLM)

Living Matter: An Introduction - A biologist's perspective

👤 Alfonso Martinez Arias (Dept Genetics) 📅 Tuesday 15 January 2008, 14:00-16:00 📍 IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Imaging liver cancer

👤 David Lomas, University of Cambridge and Department of Radiology, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge 📅 Friday 14 December 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute

Electron Microscopy Group Conferences

Turning Points in Solid-State, Materials and Surface Chemistry

👤 A symposium to celebrate the 75th birthday of Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS 📅 Friday 14 December 2007, 09:00-00:00 📍 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 13 December 2007, 17:15-19:15 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm

👤 Andreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A. 📅 Wednesday 12 December 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

European Bioinformatics Institute

Signalling in E. coli chemotaxis as an example of evolutionary optimization

👤 Victor Sourjik, University of Heidelberg 📅 Monday 10 December 2007, 13:30-14:30 📍 Shared facilities C209/210

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ARE WE STAR DUST OR NUCLEAR WASTE?

👤 Dr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 06 December 2007, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Chaucer Club

Chaucer Club debate: What can functional neuroimaging tell us that is relevant for cognitive psychology?

👤 Mike Page (University of Hertfordshire) vs Tim Shallice (University College London) 📅 Thursday 06 December 2007, 16:15-17:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences

Horizon Seminar – "Live Long and Prosper? Ageing in the 21st Century"

Horizon Seminar : "Live Long and Prosper? Ageing in the 21st Century"

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Tuesday 04 December 2007, 09:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Water that does not wet hands

👤 Dr Zbigniew ("Andy") Szydlo 📅 Monday 03 December 2007, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

General Discussion Session

👤 All 📅 Monday 03 December 2007, 16:30-17:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells

👤 Ron Weiss (Princeton) 📅 Monday 03 December 2007, 15:50-16:30 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Synthetic Biology: DNA version 2.0

👤 Jeremy Minshull (DNA2.0) 📅 Monday 03 December 2007, 14:40-15:20 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Biological Engineering of Plant Systems

👤 Jim Haseloff (Cambridge) 📅 Monday 03 December 2007, 14:00-14:40 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Exploiting Scaffold Proteins to Generate Diverse I/O Dynamics in MAPK Pathways

👤 Caleb Bashor (UCSF) 📅 Monday 03 December 2007, 12:10-12:50 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Towards large-scale integrated nucleic acid logic circuits

👤 Georg Seelig (Caltech) 📅 Monday 03 December 2007, 11:30-12:10 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Computational Design in Synthetic Biology

👤 Alfonso Jaramillo (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) 📅 Monday 03 December 2007, 10:20-11:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

The iGEM competition: Building with biology

👤 James Brown (Cambridge) and Cambridge iGEM team 📅 Monday 03 December 2007, 09:40-10:20 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Tea/ coffee from 9.05 + Introduction (9.30)

👤 Gos Micklem (Cambridge) 📅 Monday 03 December 2007, 09:05-09:40 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

The use of a power law global error model for the identification of differentially expressed genes in microarray data

👤 Matthew Russell, Biochemistry Department 📅 Friday 30 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre

BSS Formal Seminars

Wormlike and Glassy Wormlike Chains

⚠️ Note unusual time

👤 Professor Klaus Kroy ITP, Leipzig University, Postfach , Leipzig, Germany 📅 Friday 30 November 2007, 10:30-11:30 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

👤 Richard Adams (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) 📅 Wednesday 28 November 2007, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

The PASADENA method for 13C hyperpolarisation of biomolecules for imaging and spectroscopy

👤 Pratip Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology and Huntingdon Medical Research Institute, Pasadena, California 📅 Wednesday 28 November 2007, 14:15-15:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Neuroethical Issues in Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroimaging

⚠️ There will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm.

👤 PROFESSOR BARBARA SAHAKIAN, FMEDSCI (Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University) 📅 Tuesday 27 November 2007, 17:30-19:00 📍 Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Valence Changes and Structural Distortions in 'Charge Ordered' Manganites Quantified by Atomic-Scale Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

👤 James Loudon, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 27 November 2007, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Self-build society

Discussion meeting

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Monday 26 November 2007, 12:45-14:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Everything about EVERYTHING

👤 Kate Trumper 📅 Monday 26 November 2007, 11:00-12:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge

BSS Formal Seminars

The rheology of cellular systems

👤 Dr Alexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 23 November 2007, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Functional imaging as a guide for systemic treatment of cancer: from mouse to man

👤 Hanneke vanLaarhoven, Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands 📅 Friday 23 November 2007, 13:30-14:30 📍 Room 215, Cambridge Research Institute

ARClub Talks

The MRC Autism Imaging Multicentre Study (AIMS): An Update

⚠️ please note later start time

👤 Michael Lombardo (ARC) 📅 Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:30-15:30 📍 Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road

Computational and Systems Biology

Complex relationships: modelling epidemics on human social networks

👤 Ken Eames, CCBI, DAMTP 📅 Wednesday 21 November 2007, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Great Divide: Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran transition

👤 Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 21 November 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Imaging Methods in Tumour Therapy

👤 Kevin Brindle 📅 Tuesday 20 November 2007, 20:00-21:00 📍 Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Colours in Gemstones

👤 Mrs Gill Mallet 📅 Tuesday 20 November 2007, 19:00-20:00 📍 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Lives and Letters (the Robert Hooke Portfolio)

👤 Professor Lisa Jardine CBE, Queen Mary College, University of London 📅 Monday 19 November 2007, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to assess brain function.

👤 Rhodri Cusack (MRC-CBU) 📅 Monday 19 November 2007, 16:15-17:45 📍 MRC-CBU

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Molecular imaging using hyperpolarised carbon-13

⚠️ From molecules to cells

👤 Ferdia Gallagher Departments of Biochemistry and Radiology, University of Cambridge (UK) 📅 Friday 16 November 2007, 16:30-17:00 📍 Lubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

No harm in looking? The effects of optical imaging on cytoplasm

⚠️ From molecules to cells

👤 Brad Amos MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (UK) 📅 Friday 16 November 2007, 15:30-16:00 📍 Lubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 15 November 2007, 17:15-19:15 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Chaucer Club

Beyond localization. What brain imaging can tell us

👤 Dick Passingham (University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:15-17:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences

Computational and Systems Biology

Approximate Bayesian Computation and the fossil record

👤 Simon Tavare (DAMTP/Oncology) 📅 Wednesday 14 November 2007, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis

👤 Guillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 📅 Wednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

The Sedgwick in the Galapagos

👤 Dr David Norman, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 13 November 2007, 19:00-20:00 📍 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

On the plasmonic properties of nano-structured metal-dielectric materials

👤 Dr. Alex Eggeman, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 13 November 2007, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)

⚠️ NOTE: New start time and New venue

👤 Professor Kevin Brindle, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK 📅 Monday 12 November 2007, 17:30-18:30 📍 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road

BSS Formal Seminars

Emergent properties in biological macromolecular assemblies

👤 Professor Tim Wess School of Optometry and The Institute of Vision, Cardiff University 📅 Friday 09 November 2007, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

FIREWORKS – EXPLOSIVES FOR ENTERTAINMENT !

👤 Dr Tom Smith, Davas UK Ltd, Kimbolton 📅 Thursday 08 November 2007, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution

👤 Benoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France 📅 Wednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ancient Vaults

👤 Professor Jacques Heymen, Former Head of Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 05 November 2007, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

Cancer cell mechanics

👤 Dr Michael Beil, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Germany 📅 Friday 02 November 2007, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

👤 Vincent Plagnol (CIMR) 📅 Wednesday 31 October 2007, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

A new type of stochastic dependence revealed in gene expression data.

👤 Marcelo Segura, Biochemistry Department 📅 Friday 26 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre

Computational and Systems Biology

Some questions that can be answered by molecular dynamics

👤 Daniel Barsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) 📅 Wednesday 24 October 2007, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?

👤 Tom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands 📅 Wednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The invention of the High Power Microscope

⚠️ Celebrating Antony van Leeuwenhoek's 375th Birthday

👤 Professor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR 📅 Monday 22 October 2007, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 18 October 2007, 17:15-19:15 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Computational and Systems Biology

Some questions that can be answered by molecular dynamics

👤 Daniel Barsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) 📅 Wednesday 17 October 2007, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungi and Woodland History

👤 Professor Oliver Rackham 📅 Friday 12 October 2007, 19:30-21:00 📍 David Building, Anglia-Ruskin University

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BEAGLE 2 AND BEYOND – THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION

👤 Prof Colin Pillinger FRS, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University 📅 Thursday 11 October 2007, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles

👤 Marcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland 📅 Wednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Horizon: Energy "What does the future hold?"

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 10 October 2007, 09:00-18:00 📍 TBC

Computational and Systems Biology

Toxicogenomics - helping reshape drug discovery (?)

👤 Quin Wills (Simugen Ltd.) 📅 Wednesday 03 October 2007, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DO ANIMALS HAVE MEMORIES OF TOMORROW?

👤 Prof. Nicola Clayton, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 28 September 2007, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Assessing the probability that a positive report is false: an approach for molecular epidemiology studies.

👤 Gregor McCombie (Biochemistry Department, Cambridge University) 📅 Friday 28 September 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre

Joint EBI/ Cambridge University Research Symposium

👤 Multiple speakers from the EBI and across Cambridge University 📅 Friday 21 September 2007, 09:15-17:15 📍 Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton Hall, Hinxton

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 20 September 2007, 17:15-19:15 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull

👤 Anjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Genetics Seminar Series

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BITING BACK AT BLOOD-SUCKING INSECTS

👤 Dr James Logan, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden 📅 Thursday 06 September 2007, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

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

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Centering, scaling, and transformations: improving the biological information content of metabolomics data

👤 Kian Kai Cheng (Biochemsitry Department, Uni of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 31 August 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 23 August 2007, 17:15-19:15 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Bootstrapping cluster analysis: assessing the reliability of conclusions

👤 Jules Griffin ( Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 27 July 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 26 July 2007, 17:15-19:15 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

👤 Howard Griffiths, Professor of Plant Ecology, 📅 Thursday 05 July 2007, 18:00-19:00 📍 Museum of Zoology, Downing Street

Museum of Zoology

Learning about tropical forests: a hands on approach

👤 Dr. Rosie Trevelyan 📅 Tuesday 26 June 2007, 18:00-19:00 📍 Museum of Zoology, Downing Street

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Report from Apple WWDC07

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 21 June 2007, 17:15-19:15 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Linux on the Playstation3

👤 David Fox, JPY Ltd. 📅 Thursday 21 June 2007, 17:15-19:15 📍 CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Postcolonial Trauma: the aesthetic prescriptions of Gordon Bennett's art

👤 Professor Ian McLean, University of Western Australia 📅 Wednesday 20 June 2007, 18:00-19:00 📍 Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Food-borne pathogens, functional genomics and farm animals

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 17:05-17:30 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Bright solutions for food diagnostics

👤 Professor Jim Murray, Institute of Biotechnology and Lumora 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 16:35-17:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

What's new on the Menu

👤 Chaired by Professor Nigel Slater, Department of Chemical Engineering 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 16:05-17:30 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

What's new in the Kitchen

👤 Dr Ian Wilson, Department of Chemical Engineering 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 16:05-16:30 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Plants need their vitamins too

👤 Dr Alison Smith, Department of Plant Sciences 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 15:15-15:40 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Symposium on Computational Biology

DNA-binding computation at large and small scales

👤 Dr. Marco Consentino-Lagomarsino, Institut Curie, Paris 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 15:10-16:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Abstract – Red meat and bowel cancer – identifying the link

👤 Dr Gunter Kuhnle, MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:45-15:10 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Symposium on Computational Biology

Insight into ion channel biophysics via computer simulations

👤 Dr. Carmen Domene, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:20-15:10 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Nutrients in our Food

👤 Chair: Professor Ian White, Institute of Food Research, Norwich 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:15-15:45 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Dietary Iron

👤 Professor Jonathan Powell, MRC Human Nutrition Research 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:15-14:40 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Symposium on Computational Biology

Quadruple stranded DNA: cancer, gene regulation and evolution

👤 Dr. Julian Huppert, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 13:30-14:20 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

The way we ate - Scientific approaches to the archaeology of food

👤 Dr Tamsin O'Connell, Department of Archaeology 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 12:50-13:15 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Why people share food

👤 Dr Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 12:20-12:45 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Human Behaviour

👤 Chair Dr Andre Wadge, Food Standards Agency 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:50-13:15 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

What did you eat today? Cultures of food choices

👤 Dr Manpreet Janeja, Department of Social Anthropology 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:50-12:15 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Symposium on Computational Biology

Simulations of phase transitions: from colloids to proteins

👤 Dr. Stefan Auer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:40-12:30 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Infant Weight Gain and childhood obesity

👤 Dr Ken Ong, MRC Epidemiology Unit 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:10-11:30 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Symposium on Computational Biology

The physics of protein folding

👤 Dr. Patricia Faisca, Universadade Nova de Lisboa 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:50-11:40 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

The Genetic Basis of Obesity

👤 Dr Sadaf Farooqi, Department of Clinical Biochemistry 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:45-11:10 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Genes Lifestyles and risk of diabetes and obesity

👤 Professor Nick Wareham, MRC Epidemiology Unit 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:20-10:45 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Symposium on Computational Biology

Measuring and predicting complexity

👤 Dr. Sebastian Ahnert, Cavendish Laboratory 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:00-10:50 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

The Great Food Debate

👤 Dr Susan Jebb, MRC Human Nutrition Research 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 09:55-10:20 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

👤 Introduction by Professor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2007, 09:45-09:55 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

BSS Formal Seminars

Understanding Cell Mechanics: From Axonal Instabilities To Oscillating Fibroblasts

👤 Dr Pramod A Pullarkat, Universitat Bayreuth 📅 Thursday 14 June 2007, 14:30-15:30 📍 Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

⚠️ Please note different location!

A human protein atlas

⚠️ Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

👤 Anja Persson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 📅 Wednesday 23 May 2007, 16:45-17:30 📍 Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

The biology of common disease from a genome-wide perspective: susceptibility genes as nodes for pathways and systems

⚠️ Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

👤 John Todd, The Cambridge Institute of Medical Research (CIMR) 📅 Wednesday 23 May 2007, 16:00-16:45 📍 Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Genome regulation: a sequence-gazer's view.

⚠️ Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

👤 Thomas Down, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 📅 Wednesday 23 May 2007, 14:45-15:30 📍 Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Learning from the worm: predicting phenotype from genotype

⚠️ Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

👤 Andrew Fraser (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 📅 Wednesday 23 May 2007, 14:00-14:45 📍 Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Lies, damn lies and metabolomics - statistical approaches for processing metabolomic data.

⚠️ Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

👤 Jules Griffin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 23 May 2007, 12:15-01:00 📍 Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Oscillators and sychronisation in circadian rhythms

⚠️ Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

👤 Jorge Goncalves, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 23 May 2007, 11:30-12:15 📍 Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Epidemics on Networks

⚠️ Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

👤 Ken Eames, CCBI, DAMTP 📅 Wednesday 23 May 2007, 10:15-11:00 📍 Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Modelling the hidden world of protein activities

⚠️ Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

👤 Lorenz Wernisch, MRC Biostatistics Unit 📅 Wednesday 23 May 2007, 09:30-10:15 📍 Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences

BSS Formal Seminars

A Molecular Mechanism for Toughening and Strengthening Waterborne Nanocomposites

👤 Dr Joe Keddie, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey 📅 Friday 18 May 2007, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BACK TO THE FUTURE - TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT REVISITED

The 27km machine and the building blocks of the Universe

👤 Dr Brian Cox 📅 Friday 23 March 2007, 19:30-20:30 📍 Babbage Lecture Theatre

Cambridge Science Festival

The Scale of Science Panel Discussion

👤 Panel of Speakers 📅 Thursday 22 March 2007, 19:30-20:30 📍 Law Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ

Horizon Seminars

A Sensory World: novel sensor technologies and applications

⚠️ programme available at http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/7981

👤 One Day Seminar Series 📅 Tuesday 20 March 2007, 09:30-17:30 📍 Kaetsu Centre, New Hall

👤 Professor David Klug 📅 Friday 23 February 2007, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Modelling Epidemics

👤 Pietro Lio, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 21 February 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

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

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Evolution in the giant marine reptiles of the Mesozoic

👤 Dr Leslie Noe, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 20 February 2007, 19:00-20:00 📍 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Calving of Larson-B and other phenomena: Climate Change in the Antarctic

👤 Professor David Vaughan, Deputy Director, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge 📅 Monday 19 February 2007, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Thomas Young: the last man who knew everything

👤 Andrew Robinson 📅 Monday 19 February 2007, 17:30-19:00 📍 Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

EarthTalk

👤 Dr Alex Piotrovski, Hilary Ketchum, Dr John Hillier 📅 Saturday 17 February 2007, 13:30-14:30 📍 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

BSS Formal Seminars

How filament assembly dynamics can power the crawling motion of amoeboid cells

👤 Dr Murray Stewart, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge 📅 Friday 16 February 2007, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neanderthal Genomics

⚠️ Please note different location and time!

👤 Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany 📅 Wednesday 14 February 2007, 17:00-18:00 📍 Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies

Computational and Systems Biology

Using thermal probes for analysis and characterisation of materials on a micro and nano scale

👤 Professor Mike Reading, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich 📅 Friday 02 February 2007, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Identifying deletions and duplications from PCR data

⚠️ All welcome and please feel free to join us for coffee and biscuits after the talk in the Pavilion G common room

👤 Dr. Andy Lynch (Department of Oncology) 📅 Wednesday 31 January 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Towards Higher Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy

👤 Greg McMullan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 📅 Monday 29 January 2007, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Computational and Systems Biology

"Identifying deletions and duplications from PCR data"

⚠️ This talk has been canceled/deleted

👤 Dr. Andy Lynch, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 29 January 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

BSS Formal Seminars

Building from bottom up: Fabrication of novel materials using designer self-assembling peptides

👤 Dr Shuguang Zhang Center for Biomedical Engineering NE47-379, 500 Technology Square, Center for Bits & Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA. 📅 Friday 26 January 2007, 14:15-15:15 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory (**Note non-standard location**)

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Unconventional Electron Microscopy

👤 Vlad Stolojan, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford 📅 Wednesday 24 January 2007, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Tweaking the Hinge and Caps: Testing a Model of the Organization of the Gnathostome Skull

👤 Michael Depew, King's College, London 📅 Wednesday 24 January 2007, 13:00-14:00 📍 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Death , destruction and evolution of sea-shells

👤 Dr Liz Harper, Dept.of Earth Sciences, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 23 January 2007, 19:00-20:00 📍 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Stitch in Time: The molecular Basis of DNA repair

⚠️ joint meeting with Cambridge Philosophical Society

👤 Professor Steve Jackson, Wellcome Trust, CRUK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 22 January 2007, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

Bio-Inspired Growth of Crystals: Hydrogels and Self-Assembled Monolayers

👤 Assistant Professor Lara Estroff 📅 Friday 19 January 2007, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Protein structure determination using NMR chemical shifts

👤 Michele Vendruscolo 📅 Wednesday 17 January 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

Imaging and Mathematics

waiting for CR UK Cambridge Research Institute opening

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 10 January 2007, 16:00-17:00 📍 CR-UK CRI

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Cryo-STEM: A new tool for SEM and Dualbeam instruments

👤 Harald Dobberstein, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 12 December 2006, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Evolution lecture : Darwin's Dilemma - The Burgess Shale and The Cambrian Explosion

👤 Prof. Simon Conway Morris 📅 Thursday 07 December 2006, 19:00-20:00 📍 Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

THE CHEMISTRY OF CHRISTMAS - an exciting practical demonstration lecture

👤 Dr Colin Pulham & Prof Lesley Yellowlees (University of Edinburgh) 📅 Wednesday 06 December 2006, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Closing Address

👤 Sir Richard Dearlove (Pembroke College) 📅 Tuesday 05 December 2006, 17:30-17:45 📍 Cripps Court, Magdalene College

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Biological / Chemical Security

👤 Chair Professor Ian White 📅 Tuesday 05 December 2006, 16:15-17:30 📍 Cripps Court, Magdalene College

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Digital Security

👤 Chair: Professor Rex Britter 📅 Tuesday 05 December 2006, 14:15-15:55 📍 Cripps Court, Magdalene College

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Physical Security

👤 Chair: Professor Sir Michael Pepper 📅 Tuesday 05 December 2006, 11:40-13:00 📍 Cripps Court, Magdalene College

Horizon Seminars

Risk, Threat & Detection

⚠️ Programme details at: http://talks/show/index/7184

👤 One Day Seminar Series 📅 Tuesday 05 December 2006, 09:30-17:30 📍 Cripps Court, Magdalene College

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Context

👤 Chair: Professor Ian White 📅 Tuesday 05 December 2006, 09:00-11:20 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Three-dimensional imaging and analysis using aberration-corrected STEM

⚠️ Note MONDAY this week

👤 Pete Nellist, Department of Materials, University of Oxford 📅 Monday 04 December 2006, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Computational and Systems Biology

Machine Learning Methods for Uncovering cis-Regulatory Modules

👤 Dr Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin 📅 Wednesday 29 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

BSS Formal Seminars

Rheology of Viscoelastic Suspensions of Rigid Spheres

👤 Prof Pier Luca Meffettone 📅 Friday 24 November 2006, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

MIXING CHEMICALS AND CHARACTERS: The craft of writing science-based fiction

👤 Malcolm Rose - prizewinning childrens science fiction author 📅 Thursday 23 November 2006, 19:00-20:00 📍 Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Next generation electron detectors for TEM: an introduction

👤 Grigore Moldovan, Department of Materials, University of Oxford 📅 Wednesday 22 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome Informatics at the Sanger Institute

👤 Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 📅 Wednesday 22 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Preservation of Burgess-Shale-type fossils: implications for early animal evolution

👤 Dr Nick Butterfield, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 21 November 2006, 19:00-20:00 📍 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Children of Eve: Exon Sequencing; identifying variation in the human genome

👤 Dr Alison 'Pod' Coffey, Sanger Centre, Hinxton Hall, Cambridgeshire 📅 Monday 20 November 2006, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

Some Like it Hot: High Temperature Experiments in the ESEM

👤 Dr Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester 📅 Friday 17 November 2006, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Microarrays and molecular biology: beyond gene expression profiling

👤 Dr. Paul Bertone, EBI 📅 Wednesday 15 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age

👤 Joel N. Shurkin (Stanford University) 📅 Tuesday 14 November 2006, 17:30-19:00 📍 Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Quantifying deformation under indentations by TEM diffraction

👤 Kirsten McLaughlin, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 14 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

BSS Formal Seminars

C Dots: Highly Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles for Materials and Life Sciences Applications

👤 Prof Uli Wiesner, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University 📅 Friday 10 November 2006, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Nano-structural and chemical characterisation of supported noble metal catalysts using Transmission Electron Microscopy techniques

👤 José A. Pérez-Omil, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 07 November 2006, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mother Nature Knows Best: Making Heat-Stable Vaccines

👤 Dr Bruce Roser, Chief Scientific Officer, Cambridge Biostability, Cambridge 📅 Monday 06 November 2006, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

Laser Manipulation in Liquid Crystals: an approach to microfluidics and micromachines

👤 Prof Helen Gleeson, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Manchester University 📅 Friday 03 November 2006, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Spectacular Chemistry Lecture & Demonstration - Thunder & Lightning !

👤 Colin Baker, Director Studies, Bedford School 📅 Thursday 02 November 2006, 19:00-20:00 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, Department of

Computational and Systems Biology

Cell signalling and oscillations

👤 Dr. Kojiro Kano, DAMTP and PDN, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 01 November 2006, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

The Cambrian explosion: as mysterious as ever?

👤 Professor Simon Conway Morris, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 31 October 2006, 19:00-20:00 📍 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Computational and Systems Biology

ectopic seminar Evidence for the existence of organism-specific regulatory elements that are linked to RNAi

⚠️ * Ectopic Seminar at Genetics Department *

👤 Isidore Rigoutsos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, U.S.A. 📅 Tuesday 31 October 2006, 15:00-16:00 📍 Part II Room, Department of Genetics

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Some ideas how to improve quantification of chemical signals in transmission electron microscopy studies of very thin layers

👤 Thomas Walther, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield 📅 Tuesday 31 October 2006, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

BSS Formal Seminars

Some properties of microgel particles

👤 Dr Alex Routh, Department of Chemical Engineering and BP Institute, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 27 October 2006, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Computational and Systems Biology

Evolution and dynamics of transcription factor repertoires

👤 Sarah Teichmann (LMB) 📅 Wednesday 25 October 2006, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Scanning probe microscopy of GaN: Beyond pretty pictures

👤 Rachel Oliver, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 24 October 2006, 15:00-16:00 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Soft Small and Interesting - Soft Matter: towards Soft Nanotechnology

👤 Professor Ullrich Steiner, Professor of Physics of Materials, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 23 October 2006, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

BSS Formal Seminars

Compact self-wired cultured neural networks

👤 Dr Yael Hanein, School of Electrical Engineering; Physical Electronics, Tel-Aviv University 📅 Friday 20 October 2006, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

History of Science : Gaiters and gunpowder - the extraordinary story of Richard Watson, professor of chemistry and bishop.

👤 Prof. Colin A.Russell, The Open University and the University of Cambridge. 📅 Thursday 19 October 2006, 19:00-20:00 📍 Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of

Computational and Systems Biology

Linear Separability of Gene Expression Dataset

👤 Dr. Benny Chor (University of Tel-Aviv) 📅 Wednesday 18 October 2006, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Why study the Burgess Shale? Memories from the 1966-7 expeditions

👤 Professor Harry Whittington (former Woodwardian Professor), Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 17 October 2006, 19:00-20:00 📍 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Time and Frequency as New Frontiers in Microscopy

👤 Archie Howie, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 17 October 2006, 15:00-16:00 📍 Gordon Seminar Room, Austin Building, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture

⚠️ Note unusual time and venue

👤 Professor Andy Hopper, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 16 October 2006, 20:30-22:00 📍 Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, Cockcroft Building

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Drinks Reception

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 12 October 2006, 17:45-19:30 📍 Kaetsu Centre, New Hall

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Closing Remarks

👤 Professor Sir David King 📅 Thursday 12 October 2006, 17:30-17:45 📍 Kaetsu Centre, New Hall

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Clinical Neuroscience

👤 Chair Professor Alastair Compston, Deartment of Clinical Neurosciences 📅 Thursday 12 October 2006, 16:15-17:30 📍 Kaetsu Centre, New Hall

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Public Understanding of Neuroscience

👤 Chair: Dr Roger Carpenter, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience 📅 Thursday 12 October 2006, 14:30-16:00 📍 Kaetsu Centre, New Hall

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Translational Neuroscience

👤 Chair: Professor Trevor Robbins, Department of Experimental Psychology 📅 Thursday 12 October 2006, 12:00-13:30 📍 Kaetsu Centre, New Hall

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Basic Neuroscience

👤 Chair Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology 📅 Thursday 12 October 2006, 10:15-11:45 📍 Kaetsu Centre, New Hall

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

An Introduction to Cambridge Neuroscience

👤 Professor Alastair Compston and Professor Trevor Robbins 📅 Thursday 12 October 2006, 10:00-10:15 📍 Kaetsu Centre, New Hall

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Welcoming remarks

👤 Professor Sir Gabriel Horn, Chair of Cambridge University Government Policy Programme 📅 Thursday 12 October 2006, 09:45-10:00 📍 Kaetsu Centre, New Hall

Horizon Seminars

Neuroscience and Society

👤 One-day seminar 📅 Thursday 12 October 2006, 09:30-17:30 📍 Kaetsu Centre, New Hall

Computational and Systems Biology

DESCRIBING DRUG TOXICITY USING FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS AND THE MODEL-DRIVEN CLUSTERING OF GENE EXPRESSION BIOMARKERS. (HOW TO TURN YOUR MPHIL INTO A PAYCHEQUE)

👤 Dr Quin Wills (CSO, Simugen Ltd) 📅 Wednesday 11 October 2006, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Colision Course - How Science is abused by the Media

👤 Professor Brian J Ford, Writer, Broadcaster and CSAR Member of Council 📅 Monday 09 October 2006, 19:30-21:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College

Computational and Systems Biology

High resolution models of genome regulatory events

⚠️ This lecture is part of the Distinguished Seminar Series run by the CCBI.

👤 Prof. David Gifford (MIT) 📅 Monday 09 October 2006, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR2, DAMTP

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Lonesome George: The life and loves of a conservation icon

👤 Henry Nicholls 📅 Monday 25 September 2006, 17:30-19:00 📍 Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Broader Horizons and a Narrower Focus: Expanding the capability and applicability of 3D electron microscopy

👤 Dr Matthew Weyland, Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, Monash University, Melbourne 📅 Thursday 21 September 2006, 11:30-12:30 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Computational and Systems Biology

Describing drug toxicity using functional data analysis and the model-driven clustering of gene-expression bio-markers

👤 Dr. Quin Wills SimuGen 📅 Monday 11 September 2006, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, DAMTP

Imaging and Mathematics

summer holiday

👤 back in october 📅 Wednesday 06 September 2006, 16:00-17:00 📍 CR-UK CRI

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Proof-of-concept of multi-electron-beam system

👤 Osamu Kamimura, Central Research Laboartory, Hitachi, Japan 📅 Thursday 27 July 2006, 11:30-12:30 📍 Austin Seminar Room, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Some aspects of deterministic phase retrieval

👤 David Paganin, School of Physics, Monash University, Australia 📅 Tuesday 18 July 2006, 11:30-12:30 📍 Austin Seminar Room, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Imaging and Mathematics

Second Harmonic Generation Imaging of voltage in dendritic spines.

⚠️ Special lecture ! Different venue !

👤 Rafael Yuste, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 📅 Wednesday 12 July 2006, 16:00-17:00 📍 Department of Biochemistry, Sanger building, Lecture theatre, Tennis Court Road

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

The Chemistry of Metal-Cluster Complexes containing Phenyl Tin Ligands

👤 Prof RD Adams, Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina 📅 Monday 10 July 2006, 11:10-12:10 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Imaging and Mathematics

Optical Imaging in Cancer and Radiobiology

👤 Borivoj Vojnovic (Gray Cancer Institute) 📅 Wednesday 05 July 2006, 16:00-17:00 📍 Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

BSS Formal Seminars

Explaining the Broadband Absorbance of Melanins

👤 Jennifer Riesz, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 📅 Tuesday 04 July 2006, 14:15-15:15 📍 IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Modification of Polymer/Polymer Interfaces Using Block Copolymers and Microgel Particles

👤 Richard J Spontak, Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University 📅 Monday 03 July 2006, 11:30-12:30 📍 T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of

Horizon Seminars

Green Frontiers

Differences between non-specific and bio-specific, and between equilibrium and non-equilibrium, interactions in biological systems

👤 Professor Jacob Israelachvili, University of Calirfornia Santa Barbara 📅 Friday 24 June 2005, 14:15-15:15 📍 Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory

BSS Formal Seminars

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