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2020-09-23 15:00: Explorations of N- and O-linked Glycosylation  on Extracellular and Intracellular Cell Surfaces (Prof. Catherine Costello; William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University, Boston, MA)

2020-10-08 12:00: Equality4Success Bitesize Seminar "HeLa100: the history and ethics of HeLa cells" (Elizabeth Wynn; Equality & Diversity Manager, Babraham Institute)

2020-10-16 13:15: Palaeoproteomics in Archaeology: Recent Applications and Future Directions (Dr Jessica Hendy (Department of Archaeology - University of York))

2020-10-20 18:00: The War Babies of Black GIs and White British Women ( Professor Lucy Bland (Professor of Social and Cultural History, Anglia Ruskin University))

2020-10-23 13:15: The Genetic History of the Plague: From the Stone Age to the 18th Century (Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute))

2020-10-27 18:00: Does the Rule of Law Matter in China? History, System and Context of Chinese Legal System ( Professor Ge Chen (Assistant Professor of Chinese Law at Durham Law School) )

2020-10-30 13:15: Heritage Quest: An Archaeological Survey of the Veluwe based on Data Science and Citizen Science (Dr. Karsten Lambers (Leiden University))

2020-11-03 18:00: The Second World War and the Prospect of Quit India in Bengal: Perceptions, Rumours and Revolutionary Parties (Dr Anwesha Roy (SOAS, University of London))

2020-11-06 13:15: Copper metallurgy at Kerma: Technological innovation in the Nile Valley (Dr. Frederik Rademakers (KU Leuven))

2020-11-10 18:00: Antisemitism in the anonymous Renaissance dialogue Viaje de Turquía ( Dr Şizen Yiacoup (University of Liverpool) )

2020-11-11 11:30: Success: what lies behind the mask? (Kate Atkin)

2020-11-13 13:15: Early food production and human-animal relations: Isotopic insights into Neolithic social reconfiguration in the Near East (Prof. Cheryl Makarewicz (University of Kiel))

2020-11-19 12:00: The Climate crisis and its solutions - what role can scientists play? (Dr Joanne Durgan; Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Babraham Green Labs, Climate Reality Project leader )

2020-11-20 13:15: The mobility of Upper Palaeolithic prey in the Siberian Arctic (Wouter Bonhof, University of Exeter)

2020-11-24 18:00: Atoms for Peace (and War): the Italian Nuclear Programme During the Cold War ( Professor Elisabetta Bini (Professor of Contemporary History, University of Naples Federico II) )

2020-11-27 11:00: A short-lived but memorable style: Lapita Pottery in Vanuatu  (NOTE: Unusual time) (Dr. Mathieu Leclerc (Australian National University))

2020-11-30 16:00: Two brains in action: Neural mechanisms in frontal and paietal cortex of monkeys (Alexandra Battaglia Mayer - SAPIENZA - Università di Roma)

2020-12-04 13:15: Medieval medicine and leprosy: new insights from dental calculus analysis (Elena Fiorin (Sapienza University of Rome))

2020-12-14 15:00: Putting people before projects: Everything THAT nature communications paper got wrong about scientific success and mentorship (Dr Laura M. Huckins; Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Department of Psychiatry, Department of Genetic and Genomic Sciences, Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC, USA )

2020-12-21 19:00: The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis – Gut Feelings About the Brain (John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland )

2021-01-22 13:15: The Genomics of Megaliths: Hierarchy and Heterogeneity in Irish Neolithic Society (Dr. Lara Cassidy (Smurfit Institute of Genetics Trinity College Dublin))

2021-01-25 16:00: Restless engrams: the origin of continually reconfiguring neural representations (Tim O'Leary, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2021-01-26 18:00: Commemorating War Dead in Ancient Athens from Homer to Thucydides ( Dr Cezary Kucewicz (Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk & Wolfson College) )

2021-01-29 13:15: Seeing the woods for the trees: a palaeoecological investigation of native woodlands to inform present and future woodland conservation management strategies in Northern Scotland (Dr. Jasmijn Sybenga (University of the Highlands and Islands))

2021-02-01 16:00: From visual representation of space to schemas in the primate hippocampus (Sylvia Wirth)

2021-02-05 13:15: Iron Age (1100-300BC) in Oman and the United Arab Emirates: a discussion on the ceramics and columned halls (Sam Botan (Leiden University) )

2021-02-08 16:00: Tools for Analyzing and Repairing the Brain (Ed Boyden, MIT Department of Biological Engineering)

2021-02-09 18:00: A Very British History: British-Bangladeshis (Dr Aminul Hoque MBE (Goldsmiths, University of London))

2021-02-12 13:15: Pressing Concerns: Urartian Wine Production Equipment (Victoria Newson (University of Sheffield))

2021-02-15 16:00: Visual learning and attention in mice: behavioural strategies and neural circuit change (Jasper Poort, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2021-02-16 18:00: Dreams of Paradise (Dr Jane McLarty (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge & Wolfson College))

2021-02-17 17:00: Addressing Addenbrooke’s Critical Challenges: Two Perspectives, One Goal (Ajith Parlikad and Nyarie Sitholde)

2021-02-22 16:00: Chandelier cells: shining a light on the emergence and plasticity of GABAergic synapses (Juan Burrone ( MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College, London) )

2021-02-23 18:00: “A Mild Despotism, Tempered by Sugar”: the Rise of the Overseer State in Britain’s Post-Slavery Empire ( Dr. Sascha Auerbach (Department of History, University of Nottingham) )

2021-02-26 13:15: Recipes for Success: Paleoethnobotanical Evidence for Women’s Wealth through Root Processing on the Canadian Plateau (Dr. Monica Ramsey (University of Cambridge))

2021-03-05 13:15: Dung and desert copper - Evaluating 3rd millennium BCE desert subsistence at the macro- and microscales (Dr Zachary Dunseth (Brown University))

2021-03-08 16:00: The real-time formation of the hippocampal cognitive map (Julija Krupic, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-09 18:00: The Fascist Welfare State: Cleavages, Rupture, and Mediation ( Ilaria Pavan (Scuola Normale Superiore))

2021-03-10 15:00: Roles of TCR signal strength and duration in driving T cell development, differentiation and function (Dr David Bending; Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham)

2021-03-12 13:15: Understanding domestication in the genomic era (Dr. Laurent Frantz  (1,2))

2021-03-15 16:00: Adaptive brain computations for perceptual decisions (Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-24 15:00: Reprogramming and plasticity of epigenetic regulation (Prof Petra Hajkova; MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS), London)

2021-04-07 15:00: The Rosalind Franklin Institute: Factor of 10 technologies (Prof. Jim Naismith; Institute Director, The Rosalind Franklin Institute)

2021-04-30 13:15: Making and trading iron in the Swahili world: an archaeometallurgical study of iron production technologies in coastal Tanzania (Dr Ema Bauzyte, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-07 13:15: Open Brainstorming Session: Reconstructing an Iron Age burial ritual. Kurgan 4, Early Saka-Scythian burial complex -Eleke Sazy, Kazakhstan (Saltanat Amirova, University of Cambridge.)

2021-05-10 16:00: Functions of the primate amygdala in decision-making and social cognition (Fabian Grabenhorst, PDN, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-12 09:00: CCBI Annual Symposium 2021 (Programme and registration: https://bit.ly/ccbisymp21)

2021-05-14 13:15: Hominin behavioural dynamics in the insular rainforests of eastern Wallacea (Dylan Gaffney, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-17 16:00: The social brain in adolescence (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-20 14:00: mTOR signaling in growth and metabolism (Prof. Dr. Michael N. Hall; Professor of Biochemistry Biozentrum, University of Basel)

2021-05-21 13:15: Archaeological Science and Repatriation: collaboration and connection (Dr Trish Biers )

2021-05-28 13:15: New evidence and model for the early medieval "Adventus Saxonum" (Dr Sam Leggett, University of Oxford)

2021-06-04 13:15: ‘The Uruk Phenomenon’: Ceramic Variation and Cultural Connections  in the 4th Millennium BCE in the Zagros Foothills (Michael Lewis, University of Cambridge.)

2021-06-11 13:15: Tracing the copper trade in Central Africa during the 2nd millennium CE: a cross-disciplinary approach (Dr Nicolas Nikis, Université libre de Bruxelles & Africa Museum)

2021-06-17 12:30: Chromatin and Gene Transcription in Hypoxia (Prof. Sonia Rocha; Executive Dean of the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool)

2021-06-28 12:00: Ethical implications of ageing research  (Professor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care))

2021-06-30 15:00: Research Ecosystems, Cognitive Bias and Incentives  (Prof. Marcus Munafò; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol )

2021-07-14 15:00: Protein complexes subjected to tandem mass spectrometry reveal allosteric binding partners (Prof. Dame Carol Robinson; University of Oxford)

2021-07-22 14:00: Meet… Medicines Discovery Catapult (Dr Martin Main; Head of Molecular Sciences, Medicines Discovery Catapult, UK)

2021-07-28 15:00: L-selectin/CD62L: not just a lymph node homing receptor on T-cells (Professor Ann Ager; Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, University of Cardiff)

2021-09-29 15:00: Secret Life of Copper: From Kinases to Cancer  (Dr Donita C. Brady; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)

2021-10-08 13:15: Deep time proteins: an eggcellent resource for reconstructing past human-environment interactions (Beatrice Demarchi, University of Turin)

2021-10-13 15:00: Heavy mice and lighter things: developing models of extracellular matrix in health and ageing (Prof. Melinda J Duer; Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2021-10-15 13:15: Exploring the genetics of the extinct Darwin’s ground sloth (Mylodon darwinii) population from Cueva del Milodón, Chile (Maria Zicos, Natural History Museum)

2021-10-18 16:15: Synchrony and synaptic signaling in the cerebellar circuit (Indira Raman, Dept Neurobiology, Northwestern Univ, Evanston IL)

2021-10-19 18:00: Putin’s Use of Russian History (Professor Orlando Figes (Birkbeck, University of London))

2021-10-20 15:00: From Africa to Europe: A black immunologist's journey in the rough terrain of academia (Dr Yassin Elfaki; Institute of Immunity & Transplantation, Division of Infection & Immunity, University College London)

2021-10-22 13:15: New Directions in Coastal and Underwater Geoarchaeology. (Ruth Shahak-Gross, University of Haifa)

2021-10-27 16:00: Innovation Seminar Talk: The Entrepreneurial journey from deep science to a billion market product (Dr Giorgia Longobardi)

2021-10-29 13:15: Specialized aquatic animal exploitation at Nahal Ein Gev II, Israel and the division of labor at the Epipaleolithic-Neolithic crossroads (Natalie Munroe, University of Connecticut)

2021-11-03 13:15: Humans think through and with materials. So what? (Maikel Kuijpers, Leiden University)

2021-11-05 13:15: Practices, techniques and productions of a brass founder in a 15th century Brussels workshop (Lise Saussus, University of Louvain)

2021-11-10 16:00: Innovation Seminar Talk: Material Health/ Human Health/ Planet Health (Alison Mears)

2021-11-12 17:00: Understanding human adaptation from modern and ancient DNA sequences (Rasmus Nielsen, University of California Berkely)

2021-11-19 13:15: Large-Scale Migration into Britain During the Middle to Late Bronze Age (David Reich, Harvard Medical School)

2021-11-24 19:00: Seismic behaviour of anchored steel sheet pile retaining walls in sand (Alessandro Fusco,  Senior PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK)

2021-11-26 00:00: 'Epistemologies of Soil' gloknos Symposium (Maarten Meijer (University of Groningen))

2021-11-26 13:15: Under the Surface: X-ray Imaging in the British Museum (Dan O'Flynn, British Museum)

2021-11-30 12:30: My Life in Science Webinar: Gut feelings (Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga; Imperial College London)

2021-12-01 16:00: Senses and Taste: 'Taste and Knowledge' | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-12-02 19:00: Landslide pipe-soil interaction: new insights using fiber optic sensing and change detection photogrammetry (Geoff Eichhorn, Senior PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK)

2021-12-03 13:15: Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome (Anne Kathrine Runge, University of York)

2021-12-08 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Naama Barkai; Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

2021-12-13 15:00: RNA structure, a hidden regulator in vivo (Dr Yiliang Ding; John Innes Centre)

2022-01-12 12:00: A Tale of Two Phosphatases: The Control of Inflammation via Phosphorylation and Dephosphorylation of Tristetraprolin (Professor Andy Clark; Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham)

2022-01-21 13:15: Identification of ancient silks using proteomics and immunoassays (Bing Wang, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University)

2022-01-27 12:30: Regulatory evolution by transcription-factor duplication (Professor Naama Barkai; Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science )

2022-01-28 13:15: Microbial lipids and their application to study ancient microbiomes and environments (Ainara Sistiaga, University of Copenhagen / Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2022-02-02 13:30: Colour within the lines – a personal perspective of navigating academia as a black woman (Dr Ane Ogbe; Postdoctoral Scientist, University of Oxford)

2022-02-04 12:00: Seminar series I Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world (Various)

2022-02-04 13:15: Prehistory of the Eastern European Plain (Lehti Saag, UCL / Tartu University)

2022-02-09 15:00: Constructing 4D molecular roadmaps of cell fate decisions (Dr Effie Apostolou; Associate Professor of Molecular Biology in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College)

2022-02-09 19:00: Challenges from pipe installation to rehabilitation  (Dr Haitao Lan -  Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-10 17:00: Seminar Series: Music cognition and the language(s) of interdisciplinarity (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-02-11 13:15: A talk about some Very Good Dogs (Audrey Lin, Smithsonian Institution)

2022-02-17 09:30: The challenges in therapeutic targeting of the RAF-MEK-ERK signalling pathway (Dr Simon Cook FRSB,   Senior Group Leader, Babraham Institute)

2022-02-18 13:15: POSTPONED: Pierced or perforated: Using 3D models to differentiate anthropogenic piercing from natural perforations in shells (Marjolein Bosch, Austrian academy of sciences)

2022-02-18 15:00: Soil research and practice of ethnopedology | gloknos annual lecture series (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-02-23 15:00: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms of cell diversification - lessons from C. elegans (Dr Luisa Cochella; Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA)

2022-02-23 16:00: Qualifying Taste: 'Taste and Knowledge' | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-02-24 09:30: Artificial Intelligence for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities (Dr Namshik Han, Head of Computational Biology, Milner Therapeutics Institute)

2022-02-24 17:00: Seminar Series: Where do we go when we play? Attention, embodiment, and ensemble performance (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-02-25 13:15: 65,000 years of changing plant food and landscape use at Madjedbebe, Mirarr Country, northern Australia ( Anna Florin, University of Cambridge)

2022-03-02 13:30: Telling membranes where to go - the macroautophagy machinery in phagocytosis and viral envelope acquisition (Professor  Christian Münz, Viral Immunobiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland)

2022-03-04 13:15: Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome (Anne Kathrine Runge, University of Copenhagen)

2022-03-08 15:00: IWD 2022 - Bias in Science: an inspirational talk on bias mitigation (Dr Claartje Vinkenburg)

2022-03-10 17:00: Seminar Series: Embodied song: Then and now (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-11 17:00: Seminar series I Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-14 14:00: Global Epistemological Politics of Religion: Session One | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-16 16:00: POSTPONED Training Taste: 'Taste and Knowledge' | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-18 17:00: Seminar series I Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world (Various)

2022-03-24 17:00: Seminar Series: Early modern ears (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-25 11:00: Seminar series I Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world (Various)

2022-04-01 17:00: Seminar Series: The classroom, the chamber, the concert hall: Situated musicking (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-04-06 16:00: Training Taste: 'Taste and Knowledge' | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-04-13 19:00: Dr Ulas Cilingir, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Ørsted (Dr Ulas Cilingir, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Ørsted)

2022-04-22 11:00: Earth Day 2022 - How to save our planet: Developing win-win solutions (Prof. Mark Maslin; Dept of Geography, University College London )

2022-04-22 13:30: Phosphorylation-mediated signalling – a new era? (Professor Claire Eyers; Department of Biochemistry & Systems Biology, University of Liverpool)

2022-04-25 14:00: Global Epistemological Politics of Religion: Session Two | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-10 13:30: My Life in Science Seminar: Determination in life, science and cells (Professor Kathy Niakan; Francis Crick Institute )

2022-05-11 14:00: Global Epistemological Politics of Religion: Session Three | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-17 15:00: A biophysical hypothesis for the initiation of spontaneous ALS (Dr Liam Holt; Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University)

2022-05-25 14:00: Global Epistemological Politics of Religion: Session Four | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-01-19 14:00: Uncovering the role of regulatory T cells in tissue regeneration (Dr Ye Zheng; Salk Institute for Biological Studies)

2023-03-06 13:00: Hellenistic mouldmade bowls from Thessaly: a comprehensive study of old and new material (Anna Dalgkitsi| PhD Candidate, University of Oxford)

2024-05-30 12:30: IT’S ALL A Show. Fairground Showmen, identity, and mental health (Sheldon Chadwick)

2024-06-13 12:30: Experimental medicine trials (Riccardo Da Giorgi, Oxford University)

2024-11-07 12:30: Clozapine, mortality and other lies (Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea)

2024-11-28 12:30: Predicting Risk of Serious Mental Disorders Within Adolescent Psychiatry Services – Results From Nationwide Register-Based Studies (Dr. Ulla Lång)

2024-12-05 12:30: The SORTS project: A co-produced training resource for secondary school staff to provide a supportive response to students who self-harm. (Dr Anne-Marie Burn)

2025-02-06 12:30: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Psychosocial Adaptation in Emerging adulthood: The FACE Project (Jeanette Brodbeck University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, University of Bern)

2025-02-20 12:30: Half term break (no talk) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-03-06 12:30:  AI in basic and clinical neuroscience  (Professor Li Su, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2025-03-13 12:30: Constructing Cognitive Maps: Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Learning and Memory (Dr Deniz Vatansever)

2025-03-20 12:30: Neuromodulation therapy for psychiatric disorders (Professor Valerie Voon, University of Cambridge, Fudan University)

2025-05-01 12:30: History repeating: A critical perspective on psychedelic science (Michiel van Elk, Leiden University)

2025-05-15 12:30: Enactive psychiatry (Professor Sanneke de Haan, Erasmus School of Philosophy)

2025-06-05 12:30: What we can learn from hunter-gatherers about child and maternal mental health? (Dr Nikhil Chaudhary, University of Cambridge)

2025-06-19 12:30: Beyond Resilience: How to Use Adversity as Fuel for Growth (Dr Brian Pennie, Trinity College Dublin)

2025-10-23 12:30: Holding pieces of the same puzzle: can we use linked routine data to identify adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and intervene earlier? (Katherine Parkin, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-30 12:30: Precision neuroimaging, neuropeptides and AI: decoding and regulating human emotion (Professor Ben Becker, University of Hong Kong)

2025-11-06 12:30: PPI: What, when, how and why? (Naomi Clements-Brod, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-13 12:30: “Finding strengths from within” – a global approach to utilising resources to overcome mental distress (Victoria Bird, University of Essex)

2025-12-11 18:30: July Rain (1966): Ksenia Golubovich on Marlen Khutsiev’s Masterpiece (Ksenia Golubovich )

2026-01-22 12:30: How to put individual patient’s values back into EBM to improve treatments for our patients? (Dr Robert Dudas (University of Cambridge))

2026-02-05 12:30: Bayesian brains, emotions and psychopathology (Dr Alje van Hoorn)

2026-02-12 12:30: Development and initial evaluation of a school-based intervention for ADHD -the Flex toolkit (Dr Abby Russell, University of Exeter)

2026-02-26 12:30: Re-Analysis of Three Network Meta-Analyses of Fluoxetine for Depression in Children and Adolescents: Clarifying Efficacy and Finding a Zombie (Dr Martin Plöderl, Dr Florian Naudet, and Dr Richard Lyus)

2026-03-05 12:30: Neuroinflammation in dementia: a patient-centred multimodal approach (Dr Maura Malpetti, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-12 12:30: Predicting a Timeline of Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease Deterioration (Henry Musto, University of Cambridge)

2026-04-30 12:30: The organisational management of traumatic stress (Professor Neil Greenberg, King's College London)

2026-05-21 12:30: Novel neuroimaging methods in Lewy body dementia (Dr Rohan Bhome, University College London)

2026-05-28 12:30: Precision psychiatry (Professor Karl J. Friston, University College London)

2026-06-04 12:30: Topic Film, TV shows for Medical Education, ‘The Wire’ as a case study (Dr Akeem Sule, University of Cambridge)