Biffen Lecture Theatre 2008-02-22 13:15: Cofilin actin'g up from growth cone guidance to synapse development (Prof. James Zheng: UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA) 2008-02-26 12:00: Local protein synthesis at synapses (Prof. Eric Schuman: California Institute of Technology, USA) 2008-06-03 14:30: "Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability". (Professor David Pellman, Havard Medical School.) 2008-09-08 15:30: "Tensegrity, Self Organizing Attractors and Developmental Control" (Prof. Don Ingber, Departments of Pathology and SurgeryChildren’s Hospital Harvard Medical School) 2013-03-14 14:30: Tips at the Edge: Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics at the Cell Cortex. (Professor Dr Anna Akhmanova from Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrech University )