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This is a superlist combining all talks (from those lists on talks.cam) of interest to researchers in the School of Biological Sciences as well as the Clinical School. It also includes some occasional talks from other departments which have a strong Biological, Biochemical, Biophysics or Biomedical interest. This list is syndicated elsewhere within the University.

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

44 upcoming talks and 12646 talks in the archive.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Decoding genomic chaos - a pancancer compendium of chromosomal instability

UserProfessor Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 23 April 2026, 09:30-10:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

A novel hereditary encephalopathy in four related Labrador Retrievers associated with a missense variant in the ALDH5A1 gene’

UserGeorgina Harris and Ellen Schofield, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 24 April 2026, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

UserAnya Patel, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 24 April 2026, 08:45-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Mechanisms of mRNA packaging and export

UserClemens Plaschka, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna.

HouseIn person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

ClockMonday 27 April 2026, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

β€―Life, death, and the discovery of PDAR: the Pol II Degradation-dependent Apoptotic ResponseΒ 

UserMike Lee PhD, Associate Professor Department of Systems Biology, UMass Chan Medical School.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 27 April 2026, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: In a post-Ozempic world, have we cured obesity?

UserProfessor Giles S.H. Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 27 April 2026, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

UserShelley McKeown Jones (University of Oxford).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

From lab to clinic: an introduction to translational research

UserDr James Jones; Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology .

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 30 April 2026, 09:30-10:30

Genetics Seminar

Fun experiments you can only do with frogs

Host - Ben Steventon

UserProfessor Rebecca Heald, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 30 April 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

UserRΓ²ΕΌa Przanowska (Postdoc, UVirginia), Zhipeng Lu (PI, USC).

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 30 April 2026, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

UserKatja Roeper and Nadine Muschalik.

Housein person at Gurdon Institute.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2026, 16:00-17:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Oncology

Usertbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 08 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

CΓ©sar Milstein Lecture - Title TBC

UserEdith Heard, Director General of EMBL and Collège de France.

HouseIn person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95122962995?pwd=dG75ztaqH0oR5SMRb80IXw88rEDmQo.1.

ClockMonday 11 May 2026, 11:00-12:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Task performance predicts the substitution of feedforward by feedback drive in visual cortex

UserAndreas Keller, University of Basel.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 11 May 2026, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Decarbonizing road freight (TBC)

UserProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 11 May 2026, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

UserSakshi Ghai (London School of Economics).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of treatment for non-small cell lung cancer

UserDr Huiqi Yang and Dr Nicola Thompson, Cambridge University Hopitals Trust.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 14 May 2026, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

UserFrancisco X. Real, CNIO, Madrid.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Tissue-scale communication in cancer development

Hosts – Heather Machado, Elena Scarpa and Ben Steventon

UserProfessor Richard White from Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford.

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 14 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS Presentations

Usertbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 15 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

John Kendrew Lecture - Title TBC

UserElena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

HouseIn person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95988394961?pwd=aaFWaBpqCJ5drab6eos7mkUvhn9Nfj.1.

ClockMonday 18 May 2026, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

TBC

UserLuke Gilbert, PhD, Associate Professor of Urology, University of California, San Francisco.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 18 May 2026, 12:30-13:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of radiation in cancer care: a spotlight on cancers of the oesophagus, head and neck

UserDr Gill Barnett; Dept of Oncology; Dr Christopher Jones, Dept of Oncology and Cambridge University Hospitals .

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 21 May 2026, 09:30-10:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS Presentations

Usertbc, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 22 May 2026, 08:45-10:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans Seminar Talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2026, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

UserJens Madsen (London School of Economics).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserMiguel Aracena Velazquez (PhD student, UYork), Pedro Madrigal (Project Leader, EMBL EBI).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 28 May 2026, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Climate Repair (TBC)

UserProf. Shaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 01 June 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Using Light for Cancer Detection

UserDr Danielle Harper; Dept of Oncology and Early Cancer Institute .

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 04 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

UserLeor Zmigrod.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Early cancer clinical trials

UserDr Simon Pacey, Cambridge University Hospitals, Dept of Oncology.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 11 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Equine

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLT2.

ClockFriday 12 June 2026, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: 46&: Development of a probiotic that supports the natural removal of forever chemicals from the body

UserProfessor Kiran Patil, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 15 June 2026, 19:30-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Pancreatic cancer - the clinical challenge;Β  Why the microenvironment matters during pancreatic cancer progression and treatment

UserDr Kiran Purusothaman, CUH and Dept of Oncology; Dr Wenlong Li, Biffi Lab, CRUK Cammbridge Institute.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 18 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Seminars in Cancer

UserTyler Jacks, PhD, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clonal haematopoiesis, early detection and pre-leukemia to leukemia development

UserProf Elisa Laurenti, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Dept of Haematology.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 25 June 2026, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSON

UserNida Ali (Postdoc, UCambridge, UK), TBD (Novogene, Sponsor).

HousePerham Seminar Room - Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building.

ClockThursday 25 June 2026, 16:30-18:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Max Perutz Lecture - Title TBC

UserReinhard LΓΌhrmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

HouseIn person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94514662338?pwd=QFmpzVDjmvrrMmV476z2wynx6r2aoA.1.

ClockMonday 29 June 2026, 11:00-12:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy and Neurosurgery for the oncologist

UserDr Raj Jena and Mr Adel Helmy; Cambridge University Hospitals; Departments of Oncology/ Clinical Nuroscience.

HouseTheo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

ClockThursday 02 July 2026, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Housein person at Gurdon Institute.

ClockWednesday 08 July 2026, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge RNA Club

Cambridge RNA Club - ONLINE

UserSung Chul Kwon (PI, UHong Kong), TBD .

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 16 July 2026, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Title to be confirmed

UserMarta Zlatic.

Housein person at Gurdon Institute.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2026, 16:00-17:30

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Group Work Group Work Morning Tea and Coffee When Programmes Disagree About Programmes: Code Poetry and the Problem of Programme–Programme Communication Title TBC TBC
 

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