Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom


2023-01-12 14:00: Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species (Professor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA  )

2023-03-09 13:00: Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health (Dr Trevor Lawley from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire)

2023-04-27 14:00: Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancer (Professor Serena Nik-Zainal from Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge)

2023-05-11 14:00: Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks (Professor Philippe Lemey from Clinical and Epidemiological Virology Rega Institute, K.U. Leuven  )

2023-06-08 14:00: Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians (Dr Hilary Martin from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge )

2023-09-13 14:00: Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies (Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott from the Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago )

2023-10-05 14:00: Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation (Professor Michael Whitlock from Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver  )

2023-10-19 14:00: Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolution (Professor Yolanda Schaerli from Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne  )

2023-11-09 14:00: Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new (Dr Lucy van Dorp from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London )

2023-11-16 14:00: The evolution of organs and cell types. (Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira from The Francis Crick Institute, London )

2023-11-23 13:00:  Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development (Professor Nancy Papolopulu, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester )

2023-12-06 14:00: An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineages (Professor Daniel Falush from Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences )

2024-01-23 13:00: Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila (Professor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA  )

2024-01-25 14:00: The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division (Dr Helen Matthews from School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield )

2024-02-01 14:00: Epigenetic Inheritance (Dr Nicola Iovino from Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg)

2024-02-08 13:00: When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity  (Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge   )

2024-03-07 14:00: Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA (Professor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen  )

2024-04-18 14:00: E. coli and the Game of Clones (Professor Jukka Corander from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and University of Oslo)

2024-04-25 14:00: Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas (Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge  )

2024-05-02 14:00: Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale (Professor Ben Lehner from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge  )

2024-11-07 13:00: How the double helix was really discovered, and what Rosalind Franklin thought about it (Professor Matthew Cobb from University of Manchester   )

2024-11-14 13:00: Programmed DNA elimination in insects (Dr Laura Ross from Institute of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh   )

2024-11-28 13:00: Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI (Dr Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool from DeepMind, London   )

2025-01-23 14:00: Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare (Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, Vice Principal for Health, Queen Mary University of London and Director of the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre)

2025-01-30 14:00: Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive? (Dr John Lees from EMBL – EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton )

2025-02-06 14:00: Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour (Dr Justin Crocker from EMBL Heidelberg   )

2025-11-06 14:00: Molecular bases of Shigella virulence and host immune response (Professor Benoit Marteyn from Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), University of Strasbourg)

2025-11-20 14:00: Small RNAs in Epigenetic Inheritance: a lesson from worms (Dr Germano Cecere from Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris)

2026-02-12 13:00: Where do we stand on the origin of eukaryotic cells? (Dr Tom Williams from Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol)

2026-03-05 13:00: Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics (Professor Katrina Lythgoe from Department of Biology, University of Oxford)

2026-03-12 14:00: Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast (Dr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier)

2026-04-30 14:00: Fun experiments you can only do with frogs (Professor Rebecca Heald, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley)

2026-05-14 14:00: Tissue-scale communication in cancer development (Professor Richard White from Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)