Zoom meeting


2020-04-22 13:30: Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts (Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting))

2020-05-28 14:00: Chromosomal evolution in Nematodes, and other adventures on the Tree of Life (Professor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge )

2020-05-29 16:30: The role of the anterior temporal lobe in semantic  representation and its disorders (Professor Matt Lambon Ralph, Unit Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2020-06-05 16:30: Psychedelic Relationship Enhancement  (Brian D. Earp,  Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and  Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, arch Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford.)

2020-06-11 11:00: DIAL New Starters Seminar Series 4 (Jie, Manu, Zhengyang)

2020-10-15 09:00: Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales. (Dr Timothy Saunders, Mechanobiology, Institute, National University of Singapore)

2020-10-16 16:30: The case for formal methodology in scientific reform (Dr Berna Devezer, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science at the University of Idaho.)

2020-10-21 16:00: How is Human Social Cognition Special? (Professor Lasana Harris, Associate Professor, Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2020-10-22 14:00: The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.  (Professor Angelika Amon, MIT, Department of Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA )

2020-10-30 16:30: Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Professor Kristin Dukes, Dean for Institutional Diversity at Allegheny College, USA.)

2020-11-06 16:30: Role of medial prefrontal cortex serotonin 2A receptors in recognition memory in rodents (Professor Noelia Weisstaub, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires)

2020-11-13 16:30: Understanding Fallism (Professor Wahbie Long, clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Cape Town)

2020-11-26 13:30: From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomes (Professor Simon Myers, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)

2020-11-27 16:30: Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuation (Professor Johannes Gräff, Associate Professor at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland)

2020-12-04 16:30: Non-racism and Toxic Interaction Theory in Mental Health Practice: Professional responsibility in the light of systemic racism   (Hari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy)

2020-12-11 16:30: [NEW DATE:11th of December]  Old wine in new skins: a fresh look at cognitive control development (Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London )

2021-01-15 16:30: - Towards a Translational Neuroscience of Consciousness (Prof Hakwan Lau)

2021-01-21 14:00: Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids (Dr Robert Johnston, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)

2021-01-22 16:30: Social Minds in Joint Action (Professor Natalie Sebanz)

2021-01-28 16:00: Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges (Dr Sally Otto, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver )

2021-01-29 16:30: The ties that bind: Investigating the links between reward and mimicry to understand autism (Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading, UK)

2021-01-30 11:30: Translational Science in the UK (Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) schemes)

2021-02-11 13:30: Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability. (Professor Elly Tanaka, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna )

2021-02-12 16:30: Being an I: Cognitive and Neurobiological processes of “Self” models (Dr. Roy Salomon)

2021-02-18 14:00: Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression (Dr Patricia Wittkopp, Biological Science Building, University of Michigan)

2021-02-19 16:30:  Nocturnal dreaming: A replica or a distortion of waking life experiences? (Dr. ValdasNoreika, Lecturer in Psychology Queen Mary University of London)

2021-02-26 16:30: An auditory thread: music, sleep, brain stimulation, and neuroplasticity (Emily BJ Coffey, PhD  )

2021-03-11 16:00: PP2A-B55 inhibitors Arpp19 and ENSA define the cell cycle program by controlling the temporal pattern of protein phosphorylation (Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier )

2021-03-12 16:30: Rethinking food reward (Dr Dana Small   Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Director, Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center)

2021-04-29 13:30: Human Immunity – one cell at a time (Dr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton)

2021-05-06 17:00: Genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and phase-separation (Professor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco)

2021-05-07 16:30: Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors (Lucina Q. Uddin, Ph.D, University of Miami)

2021-05-13 13:30: The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease (Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus)

2021-05-14 16:30: Individual Differences In Fear Attenuation And Social Transfer Of Knowledge (Marie-H. Monfils, PhD, University of Texas at Austin)

2021-05-21 16:30: Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body Disownership ( Professor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2021-05-27 17:00: Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure (Dr Karen Miga from Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2021-05-28 16:15: Data-driven versus Hypothesis-driven approaches in cognitive neuroscience (Karim Jerbi, PhD, Canada Research Chair (CRC) University of Montreal)

2021-06-04 16:30: Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections (Dr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

2021-10-07 13:30: Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism. (Professor Tatiana Giraud, Departement Genetique et Ecologie Evolutives, Université Paris-Saclay)

2021-10-14 13:30: Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair (Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London)

2021-10-15 16:15: Hippocampal LTP and Psychiatry: The Prime Suspect (David Bannerman (University of Oxford))

2021-10-21 14:00: Bacterial condensates under stress (Professor Stephanie Weber, McGill University, Montreal)

2021-10-22 16:15: Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and liking (Richard Holton (University of Cambridge))

2021-11-05 16:15: Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour (Dominik Bach (University College London))

2021-11-12 16:15: Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policies (Lucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) )

2021-11-18 14:00: Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cells (Professor Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA)

2021-11-18 16:00: Innovation Seminar Talk -  Partner and conquer: The Journey of Echion’s superfast charging battery from lab to market (Jean de La Verpillière, Echion Technologies)

2021-11-19 16:15: Time perception as accumulation of salient events (Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex))

2021-11-26 16:15: What does magic tell us about free will?  (Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London))

2021-12-03 14:45: The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations (Peter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology))

2021-12-08 16:00: Innovation Seminar Talk: Building a Display Technology (Dr Jeremy Burroughes, Cambridge Display Technology)

2022-01-21 16:30: Developmental visuospatial disorder: New advances in its research (Irene Mammarella (Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova))

2022-01-27 14:00: Investigating the evolution and development of body plans and body parts in arthropods (Professor Alistair McGregor, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University)

2022-01-28 16:30: Reading Scenes:  A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments (Melissa Le-Hoa Võ (Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt))

2022-02-03 13:30: Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis. (Dr Johannes Köster, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Duisburg-Essen)

2022-02-04 16:30: Individual Differences in (Dietary) Decision Making and Its Control: Connecting the Brain and Gut to Improve our Understanding of Behavior (Professor Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD Europe Campus))

2022-02-18 16:30: Reproducibility and transparency indicators across diverse scientific fields (John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc (Stanford University))

2022-02-23 16:00: Innovation Seminar Talk: Adding value by taking material away? The Porotech story (Prof Rachel Oliver)

2022-02-24 14:00: Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality (Professor Yukiko Yamashita, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA)

2022-02-25 16:30: Covid and Cognition (Lucy Cheke (University of Cambridge) )

2022-03-03 14:00: Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila (Dr Susumu Hirabayashi, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London)

2022-03-04 16:30:  A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird. (Professor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania))

2022-03-09 16:00: SMARTer health-tech (Dr Gita Khalili Moghaddam)

2022-03-10 14:00: Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis (Dr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris)

2022-03-18 16:30: Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19  (Professor Tamsin Ford (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) )

2022-03-25 16:30: Thinking the right thoughts (Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University))

2022-05-05 14:00: The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes (Professor Jason Wolf, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath)

2022-05-12 14:00: A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell division (Dr Fernando Monje Casas, Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER), Seville)

2022-05-19 17:00: Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur (Professor William Sullivan, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2022-05-26 14:00: How does complexity arise from molecular interaction? (Professor Simone Reber, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

2022-06-01 16:00: Innovation Seminar Talk: "Innovation - a real life water purification case study- and how UK Ecosystem can support your commercialisation efforts." (Graeme Cruickshank, CPI-Formulation)

2022-06-09 14:00: Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability (Professor Michael Coleman from Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus )

2022-06-16 14:00: Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite. (Professor Aurelio Teleman, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)

2022-09-29 14:00: Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common? (Professor Michael Turelli, from Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, CA )

2022-10-13 14:00: Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks (Professor David Liu, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA)

2022-10-20 14:00: Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates? (Dr Sandra Duharcourt, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite de Paris)

2022-11-03 14:00: Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion (Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2022-11-10 14:00: Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective (Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)

2022-11-17 14:00: Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2 (Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel)

2022-11-24 14:00: Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans (Dr Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2023-01-26 14:00: Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution (Professor Heidi McBride from McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal, Quebec  )

2024-02-29 15:00: Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development. (Professor Shelby Blythe from Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, USA  )

2024-05-09 15:00: Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS (Professor Marc Freeman from The Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, USA)