irh25's list


2006-10-05 14:00: Why do research? (Peter Lawrence, MRC lab, Cambridge (UK))

2006-10-17 17:00: Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual (Roger Cooter (University College London) and Claudia Stein (University of Warwick))

2006-10-19 14:00: *** POSTPONED *** - Exploring the causes of regulatory variation in humans (Manolis Dermitzakis, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK))

2006-10-24 17:00: 'It's all in the blood': thoroughbred racehorse reproduction (Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths College, London))

2006-10-26 14:00: Wiring the worm: global functional and genetic networks for a multicellular animal (Andrew Fraser, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK))

2006-10-31 13:00: Use of Linguistic Information and Reordering Strategies for Ngram- 
based Statistical Machine Translation (Adria de Gispert, TALP Research Centre – Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC),   
Barcelona, Spain)

2006-11-02 14:00: Vertebrate Limb Patterning and Morphogenesis (Miguel Torres, Universidad Autónoma Madrid (Spain))

2006-11-07 17:00: From standardization to welfare: the origins of the '3 Rs' approach to managing laboratory animals (Robert Kirk (University of Manchester))

2006-11-09 14:00: Distinct roles for Tcf/Lef genes in mediating tissue-specific Wnt/beta-catenin signalling in Xenopus mesoderm development. (Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen (UK))

2006-11-14 17:00: Nature, nurture or neither? Some Hippocratic generations of difference (Rebecca Flemming (Faculty of Classics))

2006-11-16 14:00: Sexual selection and sexual conflict (David Hosken, University of Exeter (UK))

2006-11-16 16:00: Speciation and genomic diversity of Drosophila species: based on microarray and genome analyses (Dr. Atsushi Ogura, Department of developmental biology and neuroscience, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

2006-11-16 16:00: Speciation and genomic diversity of Drosophila species: based on microarray and genome analyses (Dr. Atsushi Ogura, Department of developmental biology and neuroscience, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

2006-11-20 13:00: Tracheoesophageal Speech Repair (Arantza Del Pozo, CUED Machine Intelligence Laboratory)

2006-11-23 14:00: Interactions between Polymorphic Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors and Polymorphic MHC class I ligands (Peter Parham, Stanford University (USA))

2006-11-28 17:00: The H-bomb, fishermen and an unusual infection: the Bikini incident and the rise of a new medicine in Cold War Japan (Aya Homei (University of Manchester))

2007-01-16 13:00: Interpreting Multimodal Communication Scenes (Steve Renals (Edinburgh))

2007-01-24 13:00: Tweaking the Hinge and Caps: Testing a Model of the Organization of the Gnathostome Skull (Michael Depew, King's College, London)

2007-01-25 14:00: Size and Shape in Drosophila wing morphogenesis (Antonio Garcia Bellido, CSIC Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Spain)

2007-01-30 17:00: Queer feet: tracing the normal and the pathological in nineteenth-century movement studies (Andreas Mayer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-02-06 17:00: Why write a history of both red and green biotech? The controversies over DES in post-war France and the United States (Jean-Paul Gaudillière (CERMES, Paris))

2007-02-07 13:00: The Amphioxus Model in Evo-Devo/Neofunctionalization of Retinoic Acid Receptors in Vertebrates (Hector Escrivà, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls sur Mer, France)

2007-02-08 14:00: Exploring the causes of regulatory variation in humans (Manolis Dermitzakis, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK))

2007-02-14 17:00: Neanderthal Genomics (Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)

2007-02-20 17:00: ‘The dog days’: rabies in England, 1830–1860 (Michael Worboys and Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester))

2007-02-21 13:00: The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas (Pauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee)

2007-02-22 14:00: The regulatory origin of repeated evolution of Drosophila pigmentation patterns (Nicolas Gompel, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-02-27 17:00: The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives (Sigrid Weigel (Centre for Literature Research, Berlin))

2007-02-28 13:00: Embryos and Ancestors (Phil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol)

2007-03-01 12:00: Can systems biology be useful, an ascidian perspective (Patrick Lemaire, University of Marseille (F))

2007-03-07 13:00: Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED) (Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2007-03-13 17:00: Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine (Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo))

2007-03-14 13:00: Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories (Aleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A.)

2007-03-15 14:00: The antigenic and genetic evolution of influenza viruses (Derek Smith, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-04-25 13:00: Sex Determination in Musca domestica, a Prime Example of Evolutionary Plasticity in Development (Daniel Bopp, Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2007-04-26 14:00: Growth regulation of ribosome biogenesis in yeast: what's inside the black box? (David Shore, Department of Molecular Biology and NCCR Program "Frontiers in Genetics", University of Geneva)

2007-05-02 13:00: Gilding the Lily: The Evolution and Development of Specialized Petal Cell Types (Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge)

2007-05-09 13:00: Gene Networks and Natural Selection (Andreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2007-05-10 14:00: Glial cell differentiation and function in Drosophila (Christian Klämbt, Institut für Neurobiologie, Badestr. 9, D-48149 Münster, Germany)

2007-05-17 14:00: Getting more from your markers; statistical cleaning of genetic data (Jérôme Goudet, Department of Ecology & Evolution,  LAUSANNE, Switzerland)

2007-06-06 13:00: High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms (Peter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2007-06-13 13:00: Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways (Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2007-07-10 11:30: Can Robots Learn Language the Way Children Do? (Stephen E. Levinson (University of Illinois))

2007-07-19 11:00: Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra (Alexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford)

2007-07-26 11:00: Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders (Wim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany)

2007-08-14 11:30: Multidimensional Dialogue Management and Dialogue Act Recognition using Bayesian Networks (Simon Keizer (University of Tilburg))

2007-08-24 11:30: Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition (Thomas Fang Zheng (Tsinghua University, Beijing))

2007-09-04 11:00: Expression and function of spider Wnt genes (Alistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany)

2007-09-12 13:00: Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull (Anjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2007-09-12 13:00: Alternative splicing in the human transcriptome: Functional and structural influence on proteins (Dr. Kei Yura, Quantum Bioinformatics Team, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto, Japan)

2007-10-10 13:00: Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles (Marcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2007-10-16 17:00: How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938 (Bonnie Evans (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-10-23 17:00: Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice (Evelleen Richards (University of Sydney))

2007-10-24 13:00: Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints? (Tom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2007-10-25 14:30: Mechanism of epidermal maintenance of mice and men (Ben Simons - Cavendish Laboratory, TCM, Cambridge)

2007-11-01 14:30: Genetic variation in Salmonella Typhi (John Wain- Molecular Microbiology, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge)

2007-11-06 17:00: Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox (Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL))

2007-11-07 13:00: Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution (Benoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France)

2007-11-08 14:30: Toxin-antitoxin pairs in biotechnology and therapy (Guillermo de la Cueva Mendez - MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre, Cambridge)

2007-11-13 17:00: Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate (Solveig Jülich (Stockholm University))

2007-11-14 13:00: Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis (Guillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

2007-11-21 13:00: The Great Divide:  Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran transition (Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2007-11-27 17:00: The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition (Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester))

2007-12-06 14:30: Small open reading frames: new, abundant, important (Juan Pablo Couso)

2007-12-12 13:00: The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm (Andreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A.)

2008-01-16 13:00: The centipede tree: an evolutionary framework for segmentation studies (Greg Edgecombe, Natural History Museum, London)

2008-01-17 14:30: Genetic studies in Drosophila identify a novel pathologic mechanism for Parkinson disease. (Alex Whitworth, University of Sheffield)

2008-01-24 14:30: The role of miRNAs and piRNAs in C.elegans development (Eric Miska, Gurdon Institute)

2008-01-29 17:00: Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story (Lynn Morgan (Mount Holyoke College))

2008-01-31 14:30: Genomic imprinting: a model for the epigenetic control of genome function (Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge)

2008-02-06 13:00: Transgenic and transgenomic strategies for studying the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution: prospects and pitfalls (David Baum, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.)

2008-02-07 14:30: Genome Instability and Cancer: lessons from analysis of Bloom's syndrome (Ian Hickson, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

2008-02-12 17:00: Biotrash: medical garbage in India (Sarah Hodges (University of Warwick))

2008-02-13 13:00: Recapitulating ancestral mammalian incisor dentitions through disruption of NF-kB and Wnt signalling in the mouse (Jim Blackburn, Dept of Craniofacial Development, Kings College London)

2008-02-14 14:30: What drives recombination hotspots in humans? (Gil McVean, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

2008-02-19 11:30: Breaking Abbe's barrier: diffraction-unlimited resolution in far-field optical microscopy (Professor Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen)

2008-02-19 17:00: Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages (William MacLehose (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine))

2008-02-20 13:00: The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates (Jordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain)

2008-02-21 14:30: Genetic Dissection of the Homeostatic Signaling: Systems that Stabilize Neural Function (Graeme Davis, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics - UCSF)

2008-02-27 13:00: Ecdysozoan phylogeny and the origins of crustacean complexity: new data from the Cambrian fossil record (Tom Harvey, Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge)

2008-02-28 14:30: tba (tba)

2008-03-04 11:30: Building asymmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits (Professor Steve Wilson, University College London)

2008-03-04 17:00: Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture (Amanda Rees (University of York))

2008-03-06 14:30: 'Cell fate decisions and establishment of pluripotency' (Jennifer Nichols - Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge)

2008-03-10 13:00: Uncertainty and Learning in Spoken Human-Computer Dialogue (Blaise Thomson, CUED MIL)

2008-03-12 13:00: A new view on arthropod limb evolution (Gerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin)

2008-03-12 13:15: Art in Context: Two portraits by Bartel Beham (David Scrase, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

2008-03-13 12:00: Natural selection at SNP and Copy Number Variation in the human genome (Chris Tyler-Smith, The Sanger Institute)

2008-03-16 12:30: A Beautiful Line (Allan McRobie, Reader in Engineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2008-04-15 16:30: "The love and hate affaire between Wingless and Notch in Drosophila wing development" (Marco Milan, ICREA and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB))

2008-04-23 13:00: Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Jessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.)

2008-04-24 14:30: “Love at First Light” (Gero Miesenboeck – Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)

2008-04-30 13:00: The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis (Adam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday))

2008-05-01 14:30: “A cellular perspective on sensory-organ regeneration in the zebrafish” (Hernan Lopez-Schier – Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)

2008-05-06 13:00: Inducing Meaning from Text (Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University))

2008-05-07 13:00: Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution (Andreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

2008-05-12 13:00: Recent work on POMDP-based dialog systems at AT&T (Jason Williams (At&T))

2008-05-13 14:00: Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability (Alexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2008-05-14 13:00: Evo-devo in the tropics (Catherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

2008-05-19 13:00: Vocal Tract Transfer Function Estimation Using Factor Analyzed 
Trajectory Hidden Markov Model (Tomoki Toda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology))

2008-05-21 13:00: Understanding the evolution of developmental mechanisms: the role of non-coding RNAs in Hox gene regulation (Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)

2008-05-22 14:30: “Switching and Interlocking: a computational look at genome regulation” (Thomas down – Gurdon Institute)

2008-05-27 13:00: Spoken Dialogue Systems for Space and Lunar Exploration (Jim Hieronymus (NASA Ames Research Center))

2008-05-28 13:00: The genetic loci underlying phenotypic evolution in animals and plants: from single case studies to general principles (Vigrinie Orgogozo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)

2008-06-02 13:00: Extended HVS Parser (Filip Jurcicek (Pilsen))

2008-06-03 13:00: Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera) (Urs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A.)

2008-06-03 14:30: "Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability". (Professor David Pellman, Havard Medical School.)

2008-06-09 19:15: QUESTION TIME ( ())

2008-06-19 14:30: “TGF-beta/Dpp signalling in epithelial morphogenesis and cell death” (Christian Dahmann – MPI-CBG Dresden)

2008-06-26 12:00: A Comparison of VTLN and Gender-Dependent Models (Thomas Schaaf (Multimodal Technologies, Inc))

2008-07-10 13:00: Error Approximation and Minimum Bayes Risk Acoustic Model Estimation (Matt Gibson  (University of Sheffield))

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)

2008-10-01 13:00: The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects (Jeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany))

2008-10-14 11:30: Origins and organization of synapse complexity (Seth Grant, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK)

2008-10-15 13:00: Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye (Gáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany))

2008-10-16 14:30: "Worms on Prozac: A genetic dissection of neuronal signalling pathways" (Dr Stephen Nurrish, MRC Lab of Molecular Cell Biology, University College, London.)

2008-10-17 16:45: Do ghosts get itchy? A cross-cultural study of folk dualistic reasoning (Dr. Emma Cohen (Centre for Anthropology and Mind, University of Oxford))

2008-10-20 13:00: A tractable hybrid DDN-POMDP approach to affective dialogue modeling for probabilistic frame-based dialogue systems (Trung Bui (Twente))

2008-10-21 11:30: Analysis of signal transduction pathways involved in cancer and control of blood pressure (Dario Alessi FRSE, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit University of Dundee, UK)

2008-10-21 17:00: The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain (Elizabeth Toon (University of Manchester))

2008-10-23 14:30: "Transcriptional Silencing and lineage commitment in Pluripotent cells" (Dr Brian Hendrich, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge)

2008-10-23 16:30: Implicit theism in self-reported atheists (Dr. Jesse Bering (Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University Belfast))

2008-10-28 17:00: Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys (Suzanne Anker (School of Visual Arts, New York))

2008-10-30 14:30: "Engineering Self-Orgonization and electical signaling in Bacteria using standardized Genetic Parts" (iGem, International Genetically Engineered Machine, Cambridge Genetic Department.)

2008-10-30 16:30: Cultural psychology of religion (Prof. Jacob Belzen (University of Amsterdam))

2008-11-05 13:00: Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies. (Angela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University)

2008-11-06 14:30: 'Intimate Encounters and Dangerous Liaisons: Spatial Organization of Transcription in the Mammalian Nucleus' (Cameron Osborne, Babraham Institute.)

2008-11-10 19:15: IMMUNITY AND AUTOIMMUNITY – A NECESSARY   BALANCING ACT (Prof Hill Gaston,  Professor of Rheumatology, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-11 11:30: The asymmetric dance of the microtubules at the end of mitosis (François Nédélec, Structural & Computational Biology Unit, EMBL)

2008-11-11 17:00: 'Der neue Trend – no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945–1975 (Rosemary Elliot (University of Glasgow))

2008-11-12 13:00: Conserved regulatory networks in vertebrate development (Greg Elgar, University of London)

2008-11-12 16:30: The natural foundations of reincarnation beliefs (Claire White (University of Cambridge))

2008-11-13 14:30: "DNA repair in archaea: insights into mechanisms of homologous recombination" (Dr Thorsten Allers, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham)

2008-11-18 17:00: Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark (Anne Løkke (University of Copenhagen))

2008-11-19 13:00: Mexican blind cavefish as a model system for micro  evolutionary research (Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, University College London)

2008-11-20 14:30: "Mechanisms of synaptic communication:  Vesicle traffic and Neuronal disease" (Dr Patrik Verstreken, Dept of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, K.U. Leuven.)

2008-11-26 13:00: Using Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) to study the evolution of flower development (Sinead Drea, University of Leicester)

2008-11-26 16:30: Irreligious experiences: Preliminary empirical findings (Stephen Bullivant (University of Oxford))

2008-11-27 14:30: Lost connections:  a tale of wandering centrosomes. (Fanni Gergely, Cancer Research Uk Cambridge Research Institute.)

2008-12-02 11:30: Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues (Ben Simons, The Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics Cambridge, UK)

2008-12-02 17:00: Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience (Katja Guenther (Harvard University))

2008-12-03 13:00: Investigating stem cell differentiation and positional signaling in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea (Aziz Aboobaker, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham)

2008-12-08 19:15: The inevitable evolution of humans (Prof Simon Conway Morris, FRS, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology,  University of Cambridge)

2009-01-12 19:15: What should we learn from Richard Dawkins? ( Revd Dr Patrick Richmond, Vicar, Christ Church, Eaton, Norwich)

2009-01-15 14:30: "Function of SRF and Mef2 transcription factors homologues during development of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum". (Dr Leandro Sastre - CSIC/UAM, Madrid.)

2009-01-20 17:00: Gynaecological fragments in a pragmatic archbishop's handbook: the Old English 'Formation of the Foetus' in context (Conan Doyle (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic))

2009-01-22 14:30: Gene-lifestyle interaction in type 2 diabetes (Prof. Nick Wareham - Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital.)

2009-01-26 13:00: Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis (Heiga Zen (Toshiba))

2009-01-27 11:30: (cancelled due to speaker's illness) Role of polarized cell divisions in morphogenesis and neurogenesis in the zebrafish neural tube (Jonathan Clarke, Department of Anatomy & Human Science, King’s College, London, UK)

2009-01-27 17:00: Genetically ethnic? Medicine, heredity and immigration in post-war Britain (Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick))

2009-01-29 14:30: Building bridges between genes, brains and language. (Dr Simon Fisher - WTC for Human Genetics, University of Oxford.)

2009-02-03 16:30: A religious Stroop effect? Searching for attentional biases in religious cognition (Dr. Nicholas Gibson (University of Cambridge))

2009-02-03 17:00: Womb with a view: transforming obstetric ultrasound into a consumer experience (Deborah Nicholson (University of the West of Scotland, Paisley))

2009-02-05 14:30: The interplay of Notch with Shh and Wnt signalling in mesoderm development. (Dr Kim Dale - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.)

2009-02-09 19:15: Science meets the Indian traditions (Dr David Gosling,Principal of Edwardes College, Peshawar University, Pakistan)

2009-02-10 11:30: The Anne McLaren Lecture: Gene regulatory networks during development:  Is there a code ? (Eileen Furlong, Developmental Biology & Gene Expression Programmes, EMBL)

2009-02-12 14:30: "Molecular mechanisms of microtubule associated protein tau and alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disease" (Dr Richard Wade-Martins - University of Oxford.)

2009-02-17 17:00: The diseased convict and the Australian voyage: medical knowledge, penal reform and colonisation (Katherine Foxhall (University of Manchester))

2009-02-19 14:30: "Systems biology of genetic interactions in yeast" (Dr Balazs Papp - Biological Research Center, Szeged.)

2009-02-24 11:30: DNA replication and cancer: lessons from budding yeast (John Diffley, CRUK LRI, Clare Hall Laboratories)

2009-02-24 16:30: Strange bedfellows: Psychologists in missionary care (Prof. Steve Allison (Abilene Christian University))

2009-02-25 13:00: Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg (Carsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany)

2009-02-26 14:30: "Phospho-dependent Activation and Silencing of the Spindle Checkpoint" (Dr Kevin Hardwick - WTC for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh.)

2009-03-05 14:30: How does centralspindlin form microtubule bundles and accumulate on them during cytokinesis. (Dr Masanori Mishima - Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University.)

2009-03-09 19:15: How I wonder...? (Audience Paticipation)

2009-03-10 11:30: C. elegans in an evolutionary context: natural populations and vulva development variations (Marie-Anne Félix, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France)

2009-03-10 17:00: Pregnancy, pathology and public morals: making antenatal care in early twentieth-century Edinburgh (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-03-11 13:00: Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass (Rahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago)

2009-03-19 10:05: Processing and Storage Within Neurons (Professor Jeff Magee, Howard Hughs Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, USA)

2009-03-19 11:30: Visceral Neurons in Drosophila: What the Fly's Rear End Can Tell Us About the Brain (Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Department of Zoology)

2009-03-19 12:00: What Can Worm Brains Tell Us About Big Brains? (Dr. William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2009-03-19 12:30: Soft Matters – Neuromechanics in Development and Disorders (Dr. Jochen Guck, Department of Physics)

2009-03-19 15:00: Glutamate, Spikes, and White Matter Disease (Dr. Ragnhildur Káradóttir, Department of Veterinary Medicine.)

2009-03-19 15:30: Gambling and the Brain (Dr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology.)

2009-03-19 16:00: Identifying the Network of Selectively Vulnerable Neurons Associated With Symptom Onset in Alzheimer¹s Disease. (Dr. Peter Nestor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience)

2009-03-19 16:45: In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits (Professor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA)

2009-03-19 18:00: What is Consciousness For? (Professor Chris Frith, University College London)

2009-04-23 14:30: "Evolution of embryonic pluripotency and the early lineages of the mammalian blastocyst". (Dr Miguel Manzanares - CNIC, Madrid)

2009-04-30 14:30: Tales from Irish genetics: from Milesius to Niall of the Nine Hostages. (Prof. Dan Bradley - Trinity College, Dublin)

2009-05-05 16:30: Jesus in your heart: Why personal relationships with God can increase both cardiovascular health and coalitional aggression (Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook and Colin Holbrook (Queen's University, Belfast))

2009-05-07 14:30: Integrated analysis of memory phase dynamic in Drosophila (Dr Thomas Preat - CNRS, Paris)

2009-05-11 19:15: Two ways of arriving at the truth (Revd Dr Geoff Cook,   Vice-Master of St Edmund’s College)

2009-05-14 14:30: "Watching transcription in living cells" (Dr Jonathan Chubb - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.)

2009-05-19 16:30: How to create a religion: What does it really take to explain (and therefore understand) a religious ritual act? (Prof. E. Thomas Lawson (Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University, Belfast))

2009-06-08 16:30: Religion and self-regulation (Prof. Michael McCullough (University of Miami))

2009-06-11 11:30: “Colour vision in flies” (Claude Desplan, Department of Biology, New York University)

2009-06-11 14:30: "Chromatin control in development and disease" (Prof. Peter Verrijzer - Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam)

2009-09-01 11:00: Factors Affecting ASR Model Self-Training (Scott Novotney (HLTCOE and BBN Technologies))

2009-09-04 13:00: Bayesian Learning Approaches for Speech Recognition (Professor Jen-Tzung Chien (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan))

2009-09-15 16:00: Multi-view Learning of Speech Feature Spaces (Karen Livescu (TTI-Chicago))

2009-09-24 16:00: "Systems Genetics of complex Traits in Drosophila" (Prof. Trudy Mackay - NC State Univeristy)

2009-10-14 13:00: Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms (Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-15 14:30: "Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early Drosophila embryos" (Dr Benedicte Sanson - PDN)

2009-10-19 16:30: Researching fundamentalism and xenophobia: A religious schema approach (Dr. Heinz Streib (Bielefeld University, Germany))

2009-10-21 13:00: How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs (Artyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA)

2009-10-22 14:30: Initiation of Centrosome separation in G2 phase requires concerted actio of Plk1, Aurora A kinase and Eg5, but occurs independently of Cdk1 (Dr Helfrid Hochegger - Sussex centre for Genome damage and Stability)

2009-10-29 14:30: "Modelling human neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila" (Dr Aaron Voigt)

2009-11-02 16:30: Religion and the emergence of differentiated cognition (Dr. Fraser Watts (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-05 14:30: "Cell fate specification and tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila mesoderm" (Prof. Manfred Frasch - Developmental Biology, University of Erlangen - Nuremberg)

2009-11-11 13:00: Systematics, homology and speciation in time and space. (Julie Hawkins, University of Reading)

2009-11-23 16:30: Improving paper-and-pencil measures of God representations (Bonnie Poon Zahl (Dept. of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2009-11-25 13:00: Fingers, fins and faces: the role of fossils in documenting the assembly of modern bodyplans (Matt Friedman, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2009-11-26 14:30: Cell-Cell Communication during Fertilization in Arabidopsis: a Surprising Link to Disease Resistance (Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus - Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich)

2009-12-02 13:00: Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb (Dorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2009-12-08 09:30: R.A. Fisher Exhibition (Prof. AWF Edwards)

2009-12-16 13:00: Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution (David Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews)

2010-01-12 11:30: VHL tumor suppressor mechanisms: from maintenance of the primary cilium to promotion of error-free mitosis (Wilhelm Krek (ETH-Hönggerberg,  Institute of Cell Biology Zurich, Switzerland ))

2010-01-21 14:30: "Organising microtubule organisers (and some new proteomics tools) (Dr Ken Sawin, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh.)

2010-01-26 11:30: Feedback control of mitosis (Andrea Musacchio (Department of Experimental Oncology, IFOM-IEO Milan, Italy))

2010-01-27 13:00: The evolution of determinism: an evolutionary history of mechanisms underlying insect wing patterning (Robert Ray, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex)

2010-01-28 14:30: "Insights into the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington's disease" (Prof. Gillian Bates - King's College London School of Medicine)

2010-02-01 13:00: Towards Tree-to-Tree Translation (David Chiang (University of Southern California))

2010-02-04 14:30: "Stem Cells in Mammalian epidermis" (Prof. Fiona Watt - Wellcome Trust for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.)

2010-02-09 11:30: Mitotic entry following a DNA damage-induced arrest (Rene Medema (Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, UMC Utrecht The Netherlands))

2010-02-10 13:00: The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa (Barry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham)

2010-02-18 14:30: "Genetics of common obesity - what have we learned from genome-wide association studies?" (Dr Ruth Loos - MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital.)

2010-02-25 16:30: Spirituality, religiousness, and schizophrenia (Prof. Pierre-Yves Brandt (Universities of Lausanne and Geneva))

2010-02-25 17:00: ' The mechanics of tissue morphogenesis ' (Dr Thomas Lecuit - Developmental Biology Institute, Marseilles.)

2010-03-03 13:00: Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution. (Sebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.)

2010-03-03 17:30: Hearing God: an anthropological look at American evangelical Christianity (Professor Tanya Luhrmann)

2010-03-09 11:30: TBA (Andrew Lumsden (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology King's College London UK))

2010-03-12 16:00: The ethical brain (Prof. MIchael Gazzaniga (UC Santa Barbara))

2010-03-23 11:30: Cell cycle machinery in mouse development and in cancer (Peter Sicinski (Harvard Medical School Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Boston, USA))

2010-04-28 13:00: The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates (Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield)

2010-04-29 14:30: "Finding the middle ground: achieving a perfect metaphase plate" (Prof. Patrick Meraldi)

2010-05-04 11:30: The Anne McLaren Lecture: Remodeling the nucleus through development (Susan Gasser (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland))

2010-05-06 14:30: "Small RNA and epigenetics in plants" (Prof. Sir David Baulcombe)

2010-05-19 18:00: Objects of History: with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum (Neil  MacGregor, Director of the British Museum)

2010-05-20 14:30: "Genetic analysis of organelle-specific unfolded protein responses". (Prof. David Ron)

2010-06-10 14:30: "Epithelial morphogenesis: the role of polarity and adhesion during Drosophila tracheal system development" (Dr Marta Llimargas)

2010-06-18 13:00: Psychological essentialism and the concept of the soul (Prof. Rebekah Richert (Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside))

2010-06-25 13:00: Scientific study of forgiveness: Status (Prof. Everett L. Worthington (Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA))

2010-07-10 13:15: Work in Progress: Nick Turvey (Nick Turvey)

2010-07-15 14:30: 'The UK Ladybird Survey: A model citizen science project' (Dr Remy Ware)

2010-10-05 11:30: The mechanism of mRNA transport and localized translation in Drosophila oocytes and neurons (Ilan Davis (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK))

2010-10-07 14:30: Silencing chromosomes with Xist in embryonic and adult stem cells. (Dr Anton Wutz - Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.)

2010-10-19 11:30: Using switchable genetically engineered mice to model cancer therapies (Gerard Evan (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK))

2010-10-20 15:30: Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity (Dr. Nicholas Gibson (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-21 14:30: Single cell genomics reveals chromosome instability in human cleavage stage embryogenesis (Dr Thierry Voet - Centre for Human Genetics, Leuven.)

2010-10-28 14:30: Stars and sequences - Genomics as a public science (Dr Simone Roedder, Institute of Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld, Germany)

2010-11-02 11:30: Does epigenetic gene regulation extend beyond histone modifications? (Wendy Bickmore (MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK))

2010-11-04 14:30: Rab protein evolution and the history of the eukaryotic endomembrane system (Prof. Mark Field - Dept of Pathology, Cambridge.)

2010-11-09 11:30: Human disease in a dish:  modelling premature aging and neurological disorders using induced pluripotent stem cells (Alan Colman (Stem Cell Research, King’s College London, UK, Singapore Stem Cell Consortium and A*Star Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore))

2010-11-11 14:30: Post-translational regulation of division versus differentiation in the embryonic nervous system. (Dr Anna Philpott - Hutchinson, MRC Cambridge.)

2010-11-16 17:00: Diagnosing child sexual abuse in early modern England (Sarah Toulalan (University of Exeter))

2010-11-18 14:30: Mind the Gap (phase):  kinase signalling cascades in mitotic control in fission yeast. (Prof. Iain Hagan - Paterson Institute, Manchester)

2010-11-23 17:00: Spermatic animalcules and concepts of life around 1800 (Florence Vienne (Technical University, Braunschweig))

2010-11-25 14:30: The 4-dimensional E.coli chromosome:  how a temporal programme can be encoded in a 2D genetic map. (Dr Andrew Travers - Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, Paris.)

2010-11-30 11:30: TBA (Yohanns Bellaiche (Institut Curie, Paris, France))

2010-12-08 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Marc Kirschner, Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)

2011-01-14 16:00: Evolution of Cerebral Cortical Development (Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, Oxford))

2011-01-18 11:30: The Anne McLaren Lecture: The genetics and cell biology of mammalian Hedgehog signaling (Kathryn Anderson, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, USA)

2011-01-20 14:30: Integrating complex genomic datasets and high-throughput cancer cell line screens: linking drug response to molecular signatures (Dr Ultan McDermott - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge)

2011-02-01 10:00: Moving stem cell discoveries into translation (Alan Trounson, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, San Francisco, USA)

2011-02-01 11:45: Cancer as developmental disease: chance and necessity in networks dynamics during somatic evolution of cancer cells (Sui Huang, Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary, Canada)

2011-02-01 17:00: Race and population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920s–1960s (Sandrine Bertaux (Marmara University, Istanbul))

2011-02-03 14:30: Embryo environment restricts the developmental plasticity of epiblast precursors (Dr Berenika Plusa - University of Manchester.)

2011-02-10 14:30: Genetic approaches to metabolic disease (Dr Ines Barroso - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton)

2011-02-15 11:45: Reprogramming the code of life (Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK)

2011-02-17 14:30: Comparative logical models of signalling networks in normal and transformed hepatocytes (Dr Julio Saez-Rodriguez - Group Leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). joint appointment at EMBL-Heidelberg, Genome Biology Unit, Cambridge.)

2011-02-24 14:30: Gene Regulatory Networks for Vertebrate Mesoderm Specification (Dr Matt Loose, School of Biology, University of Nottingham)

2011-03-01 11:30: Modeling malignant growth in Drosophila (Cayetano Gonzalez, Cell Division Laboratory, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain)

2011-03-01 17:00: Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood (Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University))

2011-03-03 14:30: Transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils (Dr Elizabeith Murchison - Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.)

2011-03-10 14:30: Many ways to make ends meet: orchestration of DNA double-strand break repair processes by the NHEJ pathway (Prof. Aidan Doherty - Genome Damage & Stability Centre, University of Sussex.)

2011-04-08 11:30: Aurora B kinase regulates chromosome architecture and chromosome segregation (Yoshinori Watanabe, Laboratory of Chromosome Dynamics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Japan)

2011-04-28 14:30: ''How Cells Defend Their Cytosol Against Bacterial Invasion'' (Dr Felix Randow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2011-05-03 11:30: The developmental biology toolbox in basic and translational studies (Chris Wylie)

2011-05-12 14:30: ''How SUMO talks to ubiquitin'' (Professor Ron Hay - Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee)

2011-05-13 13:00: The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations across Cultures and Development (Dr. Cristine Legare, University of Texas at Austin)

2011-05-18 13:00: Sacred values, sacred terror: Motivation and religious terrorism (Dr. James W. Jones (Rutgers University; John Jay College of Criminal Justice))

2011-05-19 14:30: ''Deciphering Mechanisms of Endoderm Development and Disease'' (Dr Heiko Lickert - Institute of Stem Cell Research, German Research Centre for Enviromental Health, Munich)

2011-05-23 14:00: Imitation, Participation, and the Transformation of Identity in Paul's Practical Theology (Prof. Susan Eastman (Duke Divinity School))

2011-05-27 13:00: Toward a Psychology of Atheism: Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity (Dr. Nicholas J. S. Gibson, University of Cambridge)

2011-06-28 11:00: Transthyretin and Alzheimer's amyloid beta peptide - do two wrongs make a right? (Joel Buxbaum, MD PhD, Scripps Research Institute)

2011-07-05 11:00: A Drosophila Model for the role of ApoE in Alzheimer’s Disease (Paul Hopkins, King’s College London)

2011-10-04 11:30: Reproductive organ development in the mouse (Richard Behringer, Dept of Genetics, University of Texas, USA)

2011-10-06 14:30: Integration of RNA- and ChIP-sequencing reveals two major gene expression levels in metazoa (Daniel Hebenstreit - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2011-10-13 14:30: A genome-wide screen for developmental regulators of airway maturation regulators in Drosophila (Professor Christos Samakovlis - The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm)

2011-10-18 11:30: The genetics of cell competition and synthetic species (Eduardo Moreno, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland)

2011-10-18 17:00: Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900–45 (Martina Schlünder (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen))

2011-10-20 14:30: Post-transcriptional regulation of human mitochondrial gene expression (Michal Minczuk - MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit)

2011-10-26 13:00: Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development (Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK)

2011-10-27 14:30: The shape of things to come: from small G-proteins to cell polarity, cell-shape dynamics and cell-cell signalling (Veronica Grieneisen (The John Innes Centre, Norwich))

2011-11-02 13:00: Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head (Gregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany)

2011-11-03 14:30: Changes in cell and tissue architecture in early stages of colorectal cancer (Professor Inke Näthke - Dundee Cancer Centre, University of Dundee)

2011-11-08 11:30: Guidance mechanisms in collective cell migration (Pernille Rorth, Institute of Molecular & Cell Biology, Singapore)

2011-11-09 13:00: Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica (Evelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France)

2011-11-15 11:45: Stem cells, cell-cell interactions, and homeostasis in the Drosophila intestine (Bruce Edgar, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany)

2011-11-15 17:00: Rethinking generation in the late 18th century: the concept of 'reproduction' (Susanne Lettow (Freie Universität Berlin))

2011-11-16 13:00: Evolution and development of morphology among populations and between species of Drosophila (Alistair McGregor, Oxford Brookes University, UK)

2011-11-23 13:00: Axial homologies re-examined:  a common ground plan at the base of Eumetazoa (Heather Marlow, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)

2011-11-24 14:30: Mechanisms and regulation of DNA recombination during meiosis (Matthew Neale - MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex)

2011-11-29 11:45: Genomic encoding of shape in ascidian embryos (Patrick Lemaire, CRBM, Montpellier, France)

2011-11-30 13:00: Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates (Stefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France)

2012-01-19 14:30: Exploring epistasis maps of cellular processes (Professor Michael Boutros, DKFZ Heidelberg)

2012-01-24 11:45: Multiscale dynamics in zebrafish gastrulation (Nadine Peyrieras, CNRS-NED, Institute of Neurobiology, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

2012-01-31 17:00: British 'sexology' and the uses of the past (Kate Fisher (University of Exeter))

2012-02-01 13:00: The gap junction protein Innexin7 is required for cellularization of the Tribolium blastoderm (Maurijn van der Zee, University of Leiden)

2012-02-02 14:30: The family of mitochondrial transport proteins ( Edmund R.S. Kunji - The Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit)

2012-02-07 11:45: THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED (Suzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

2012-02-08 13:00: The Drosophila segmentation paradigm: A product of molecular co-option and the blind clock breaker? (Andrew Peel, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete)

2012-02-09 14:30: Exploring the origin of leaves (Dr Jill Harrison, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-16 14:30: Molecular regulation of Wallerian axonal degeneration (Dr Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

2012-02-21 11:45: Dynamics of Dpp signaling and proliferation control (Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, Depts of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland)

2012-02-22 13:00: What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development (Mandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa)

2012-02-23 14:30: The sperms’ hidden cargo; a distinctive epigenetic signature for the egg? (Dr David Miller, University of Leeds)

2012-02-28 17:00: Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century (Ed Ramsden (University of Exeter))

2012-02-29 13:00: Morphological and molecular evolution of the arthropod nervous system: new insights from studies on the waterflea Daphnia magna (Angelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary, University of London)

2012-03-01 14:30: The development and structure of the insect cuticle (Bernard Moussian, University of Tubingen)

2012-03-06 11:45: Dosage compensation: An intertwined world of RNA and chromatin remodeling (Asifa Akhtar, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany)

2012-03-07 13:00: Genome evolution as seen from each of its genes: what "phylomes" can tell us about newly-sequenced species (Toni Gabaldon, CRG, Barcelona)

2012-03-08 14:30: “The mosquito immune response against malaria parasites” (Dr George K Christophides, Imperial College, London)

2012-03-14 13:00: The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research (Diethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany)

2012-03-15 14:30: Genome-wide RNAi and HCS Microscopy approaches to dissect membrane traffic pathways (Professor Jez Simpson, University College Dublin)

2012-04-26 14:30: Forks and Factories: Coordination and control of mammalian DNA replication (Dr Catherine Green, Department of Zoology)

2012-05-03 14:30: “Target site recognition of Hox transcription factors by means of rapid, “trial-and-error” interactions with chromatin.” (Dimitros Papdopoulos, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm)

2012-05-09 12:00: Evolution of the molecular basis of thermotolerance, focussing on the embryos of an invasive marine invertebrate (Seb Shimeld, University of Oxford, UK)

2012-05-10 14:30: Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit fly (Scott Waddell Ph.D Professor of Neurobiology, University of Oxford)

2012-05-14 14:30: Cancer, Development & Adult Tissue Maintenance (Prof. Nicholas Hastie MRC HGU and the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine)

2012-05-15 10:30: “New Insights into the Mechanisms and Selectivity of Protein Degradation by the Proteasome Pathway” (Alfred Lewis Goldberg - Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School ( guest of St Johns College))

2012-05-17 14:30: Evolutionary dynamics and adaptive benefits of emergency and modular rearrangements of protein domains (Prof. Erich Bornberg-Bauer PhD, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity School of Biol.Sciences, University of Muenster)

2012-05-23 13:00: Fitting pieces and further puzzles - What 'nobody' can tell about the evolution of arthropod neurogenesis (Georg Brenneis, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)

2012-05-30 13:00: Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci (Matthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK)

2012-06-06 13:00: The Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Gap Gene System (Johannes Jaeger, CRG Barcelona)

2012-06-07 14:30: Rapid evolution of mammalian genomes and transcriptomes (Chris Ponting, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford)

2012-06-13 13:00: From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution (Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.)

2012-10-09 11:00: Covert communication in insects (Richard Benton, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne)

2012-10-16 17:00: Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland (Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh))

2012-10-18 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Alexander Aulehla - EMBL Heidelberg)

2012-10-18 14:30: Phase-shifted gene-activity oscillations during embryo development - a real-time imaging approach. (Dr Alexander Aulehla from EMBL Heidelberg )

2012-10-25 14:30: Provisional Title - A Life in Science : from academia to industry to political decision making and back (Sr Peter Williams CBE FREng FRS (The Royal Society))

2012-10-25 14:30: A life in science: from academia to industry and back. (Sir Peter Williams from The Royal Society )

2012-11-01 14:30: PTEN phosphatase-independent maintenance of apical membrane integrity during colorectal glandular morphogenesis. (Professor F. C. Campbell from the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast )

2012-11-06 11:00: The Anne McLaren Lecture: Lipoproteins and signaling lipids in the Hedgehog pathway (Suzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden)

2012-11-06 17:00: 'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England (Marisa Benoit (University of Oxford))

2012-11-07 13:00: Shedding light on lunar rhythms (Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria)

2012-11-08 14:30: Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model. (Dr Pavel Tomancak from MPI for Cell Biology, Dresden )

2012-11-14 13:00: Control of segmentation clock period and segment number in the zebrafish (Christian Schroeter, University of Cambridge, UK)

2012-11-15 14:30: Systems-based, quantitative analyses of genomic function and variation. (Dr Bart Deplancke from EPFL Lausanne )

2012-11-20 11:00: Gene punctuation in eukaryotes: roles of R-loops, gene loops and co-transcriptional cleavage in controlling transcription (Nick Proudfoot, University of Oxford)

2012-11-21 13:00: Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak (Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK)

2012-11-22 14:30: Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression during Development. (Dr Barbara Jennings from the Transcriptional Regulation Group, UCL Cancer Institute )

2012-11-28 13:00: The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects (Siegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany)

2012-12-04 11:00: Unlocking the secrets of scarless wound healing and appendage regeneration (Enrique Amaya, University of Manchester)

2012-12-05 13:00: Evolution of body axes in Eumetazoa: what can we learn from Cnidaria? (Grigory Genikhovich, University of Vienna, Austria)

2012-12-12 13:00: Integrative evolutionary biology: a need for interdisciplinary studies of development, ecology and population genetics (Ralf J. Sommer, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany)

2013-01-10 14:30: Perspectives on Next Generation DNA Sequencing. (Dr Harold Swerdlow from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute )

2013-01-22 11:00: The Anne McLaren Lecture: Reprogramming and cellular dominance (Amanda Fisher, Imperial College, London)

2013-01-24 14:30: Hox Control of a Drosophila Feeding Circuit. (Professor Dr Ingrid Lohmann from The Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg )

2013-01-30 16:00: Quantification and modeling of spindle positioning and size regulation in the C. elegans embryo (Dr. Akatsuki Kimura, National Institute of Genetics, Japan )

2013-01-30 16:45: The mitotic checkpoint - a structural perspective. (Dr. Victor Bolanos Garcia, Oxford Brookes University, UK )

2013-01-31 14:30: Cell specification in the mouse blastocyst inner cell mass: interplay between Nanog, Gata6 and the Fgf signalling pathway. (Dr Claire Chazaud from Laboratoire GReD, France )

2013-02-05 11:00: Immune regulation of vertebrate regeneration (Nadia Rosenthal, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London; Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University; EMBL Australia)

2013-02-06 13:00: Hydra, a model for deciphering the principles of stem cells and regeneration (Brigitte Galliot, Geneva, Switzerland)

2013-02-12 17:00: Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy (Emma-Jayne Graham (Open University))

2013-02-14 14:30: Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Fate (Professor Margaret Buckingham from Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris)

2013-02-20 13:00: Evolution of gastrulation in flies (Steffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany)

2013-02-21 14:30: How to maintain a stable genome: A Passenger Perspective. (Dr Susanne Lens from University Medical Centre Utrecht)

2013-02-22 12:00: The spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum as a model to study the ancestral mechanisms of bilaterian metazoan development (Hiroki Oda, Osaka, Japan)

2013-02-26 11:00: Controlling gene expression fluctuations during development (Alexander van Oudenaarden, Hubrecht Institute-KNAW & University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands)

2013-02-27 13:00: Developmental plasticity and life history evolution in amphibians (Ivan Gomez-Mestre, Seville, Spain)

2013-02-28 14:30: Linking the mitotic spindle to the plasma membrane during cytokinesis. (Dr. Mark Petronczki from Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories )

2013-03-05 11:00: Mechanisms of Wnt signal transduction (Christof Niehrs, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz, Germany)

2013-03-06 13:00: The developmental, genetic, and adaptive bases of morphological evolution: the case of water-walking insects (Abderrahman Khila, Lyon, France)

2013-03-07 14:30: Molecular mechanisms that mediate the adaptation to hypoxia in Drosophila. (Professor Pablo Wappner from Instituto Leloir, Argentina )

2013-03-12 17:00: Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present (Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London))

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 )

2013-03-19 11:00: Spatial and temporal regulation of the DNA damage response (Jiri Lukas, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

2013-04-24 14:30: Sequence-based discovery of transcriptional targets. (Dr Stein Aerts, Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven University)

2013-05-09 14:30: Tracking transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens with high-throughput genomics. (Dr Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute )

2013-05-15 13:00: Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: stories from electric fish, scorpions and mice (Harold Zakon, University of Texas at Austin, USA)

2013-05-16 14:30: The evolutionary dynamics of unusual reproductive systems. (Dr Laura Ross from the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford .)

2013-05-22 13:00: Amphioxus: an unusual model gives insight into chordate development and regeneration (Ildiko Somorjai, University of St Andrews, UK)

2013-05-23 14:30: Epigenetic regulation of tissue growth in Drosophila. (Dr Anne Kathrin Classen, LMU Munich )

2013-05-29 13:00: Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors (Melinda Modrell, University of Cambridge, UK)

2013-06-05 13:00: Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in Drosophila (Christen Mirth, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal)

2013-06-06 14:30: Sibling Rivalry and Stress Tolerance: the Single-Cell Biology of Mycobacteria. (Dr Bree Aldridge, Tufts University, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology,  Boston )

2013-06-13 14:30: Feedback control of the anaphase-telophase transition. (Dr Helder Maiato, Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto )

2013-06-27 14:00: Probing the molecular and cellular basis of developmental morphogenesis (Tassos Pavlopoulos, Max Planck Institute at Dresden)

2013-10-08 17:00: Reinventing infectious disease: antibiotic resistance and drug development at the Bayer Company, 1940–1980 (Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo))

2013-10-10 14:30: How does the kinetochore orchestrate a functional checkpoint signal? (Professor Jakob Nilsson from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen )

2013-10-15 11:45: Mechanisms of cellular programming and reprogramming (Ken Zaret, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

2013-10-15 17:00: The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century (Lisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan))

2013-10-30 13:00: Developmental Modularity, and Evolvability of the Head Skeleton (Charles Kimmel (University of Oregon))

2013-11-05 11:00: Self-regulatory mechanism of multicellular systems: tissue self-organization and scaling (Yoshiki Sasai, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan)

2013-11-05 17:00: The 'premature arrival of the future': temporalities of cloning in 1970s life sciences and culture (Christina Brandt (Ruhr University Bochum))

2013-11-12 17:00: The birth of gender: transforming sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s (Sandra Eder (University of Zurich))

2013-11-13 13:00: Deciphering the onychophoran ‘segmentation gene cascade’: inferences about the evolution of segmentation (Ralf Janssen (Uppsala University))

2013-11-14 14:30: Motors, rulers and clocks in chromosome segregation. (Dr Helder Maiato from Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto)

2013-11-19 11:00: Growth and size regulation in development and disease (Tian Xu, HHMI/Yale University, USA)

2013-11-20 13:00: Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes (Gáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology))

2013-11-21 14:30: Widespread translation of small Open Reading Frames from coding regions, UTRs and non-coding RNAs. (Professor Juan Pablo Couso, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex )

2013-11-27 13:00: RNA regulation during development and evolution (Claudio Alonso (University of Sussex))

2013-11-28 14:30: Immune-metabolic interaction in Drosophila. (Dr Marc Dionne from the Peter Gorer Dept of Immunobiology, King's College London )

2013-12-03 11:00: Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit fly (Scott Waddell, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford)

2013-12-11 13:00: The endocrine organs of Drosophila as new model to study extreme evolutionary divergence and epithelial to mesenchymal transitions during development (James Castelli-Gair Hombría (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Seville))

2014-01-16 14:30: Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of accurate chromosome segregation. (Dr. A. Jeyaprakash Arulanandam, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh)

2014-01-21 11:00: Stem cell dynamics during development, homeostasis and cancer (Cédric Blanpain, WELBIO, Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRIBHM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

2014-01-21 17:00: The multiple inventions of transgenic mice (Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-01-23 14:30: Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance. (Professor Jurek Paszkowski, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge )

2014-01-27 17:15: One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging 'Making Sex' (Helen King (Open University))

2014-01-28 11:00: The Anne McLaren Lecture: Cell shape and morphogenesis: sub cellular and supra-cellular mechanisms (Maria Leptin, EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany)

2014-01-29 13:00: Cracking the code of crocodile skin (Michel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva))

2014-01-30 14:30: Deconstructing Greatwall Kinase. (Dr Helfrid Hochegger, University of Sussex )

2014-02-06 14:30: Checks and Balances in Drosophila Muscle and Heart Differentiation Programs. (Dr Mike Taylor, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff)

2014-02-11 11:00: Mechanisms of centriole assembly (Pierre Gönczy, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

2014-02-13 14:30: Vaccinia virus has evolved the Bcl-2 family of proteins to thwart the host innate immune system. (Dr Stephen Graham, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge )

2014-02-18 20:30: Spiritual genetics: hereditary sin and religious genealogy in early modern England (Alexandra Walsham (Faculty of History))

2014-02-19 13:00: Making similar embryos with divergent genomes (Patrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier))

2014-02-20 14:30: Studying the invasive migration of Drosophila immune cells. (Professor Daria Siekhaus, IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria))

2014-02-25 17:00: From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement (Niki Vermeulen (University of Manchester))

2014-02-26 13:00: Integration in Morphological Structures: how it affects evolution and how it evolves (Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester))

2014-02-27 14:30: Molecular insights into the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of bat rabies. (Dr Daniel Streicker, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow)

2014-03-05 13:00: The evolution of branching patterns in plants (Jill Harrison (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-05 13:00: Engineering flies. ( Professor Hugo J Bellen, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine)

2014-03-05 15:00:  A Drosophila resource to study human pathology. (Dr Shinya Yamamoto, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine)

2014-03-06 14:30: Targets of T cell responses against malaria liver infection: immunology meets experimental genetics. (Dr Julius Hafalla, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Immunology and Infection)

2014-03-11 11:00: Origins and consequences of (epi)genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives (Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany)

2014-03-12 13:00: Floral quartets link flower development and evolution (Günter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena))

2014-03-13 12:00: Origin and evolution of novel microRNAs. (Dr Antonio Marco, University of Essex)

2014-03-25 11:00: Generating neuronal diversity: stochastic or deterministic choices (Claude Desplan, Department of Biology, New York University, USA)

2014-04-23 13:00: Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila (Benjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy))

2014-04-24 14:30: Computational insights into stem cell differentiation using dynamic hybrid modelling. (Dr Ben Hall from Microsoft Research, Cambridge )

2014-04-30 13:00: Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment (John Colbourne (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham))

2014-05-01 14:30: From stripes to blood flow: cell fates of the lateral plate. (Professor Christian Mosimann from the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences (IMLS), University of Zürich)

2014-05-07 13:00: Using barcoding to understand British Collembola (Springtails) (Peter Shaw (University of Roehampton))

2014-05-08 14:30: Molecular mechanisms of Mediator complex recruitment by transcription factors. (Alexis Verger from Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Université de Lille )

2014-05-14 13:00: Developmental Constraints? Why blind cavefish still have eye at embryonic stage (Yoshiyuki Yamamoto (University College London))

2014-05-15 14:30: Shaping and reshaping regulatory loops in Drosophila morphogen signaling. (Dr. Giorgos Pyrowolakis from BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies & Institute for Biology, University of Freiburg)

2014-05-21 13:00: Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements (Hannah Long (University of Oxford))

2014-05-22 14:30: (At least) 3 ways to publish a pigeon genome. (Professor Tom Gilbert from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen )

2014-06-04 13:00:  Amphioxus: A laboratory surrogate of the ancestral chordate giving insights into vertebrate head origins (Elia Benito Gutierrez (EMBL))

2014-06-12 14:30: The impact of viral IκB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions. (Professor Giuseppe Gargiulo from Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, University of Bologna )

2014-09-12 12:00: Deep Time and Modern Brains (Professor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona))

2014-10-14 11:30: Self-organization of genetic oscillators during mouse mesoderm development (Alexander Aulehla, EMBL, Heidelberg)

2014-10-16 14:30: C. elegans development: getting the seams right and living a balanced life. (Professor Alison Woollard, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford)

2014-10-21 11:30: Microtubules need actin's help in large oocytes, to collect chromosomes and to break the nuclear envelope (Péter Lénárt, EMBL, Heidelberg)

2014-10-21 17:00: Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre (Cathy McClive (Durham University))

2014-10-22 13:00: Morphogenesis and Molecular Regulation of Colour Patterning in Natural Populations (Marie Manceau (Collège de France))

2014-10-23 14:30: Organisation and Regulation of DNA supercoiling domains in Mammalian Chromatin. (Professor Nick Gilbert, MRC Human Genetics Unit, The University of Edinburgh)

2014-10-28 17:00: Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big data (Joanna Radin (Yale University))

2014-10-30 14:30: Understanding mechanisms of long-range gene regulation. (Dr Greg Elgar, Systems Biology, MRC NIMR, London )

2014-11-06 14:30: Regulation of Notch signalling by the endosomal pathway. (Professor Dr. Thomas Klein, Institute of Genetics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

2014-11-11 17:00: Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America (Carlos López Beltrán (UNAM, Mexico))

2014-11-13 14:30: The memory of retinal stem cells? (Professor Jochen Wittbrodt, COS Heidelberg, Heidelberg University)

2014-11-18 17:00: Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in Britain, 1860–1960 (Claire Jones (King's College London))

2014-11-19 13:00: How does an alga become a parasite? (Ellen Nisbet (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-20 14:30: Large scale genomic analyses of complex traits in human populations. (Dr Nicole Soranzo, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton)

2014-11-25 11:30: Evolution of Cell-Cell Adhesion, and New Insight into Mechanisms in Animals (W. James Nelson, Stanford, USA)

2014-11-26 13:00: Bdelloid rotifers: unveiling the mystery of an evolutionary scandal (Chiara Boschetti (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-27 14:30: COMT: from single nucleotide polymorphism to whole brain function. (Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2014-12-02 11:30: A Protein phosphatase 1/protein phosphatase 2A relay controls mitotic progression (Iain Hagan, Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute)

2014-12-02 17:00: 'Operation ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine (Stephen Mawdsley (Clare Hall, Cambridge))

2015-01-15 14:30: Using zebrafish models to identify novel alleles affecting human behaviour- a proof of principle study using smoking as an example.  (Dr Caroline Brennan, The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of London )

2015-01-20 11:30: Transcriptional regulation during developmental transitions: a view from 3D (Eileen Furlong, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)

2015-01-21 13:00: The development and evolution of vertebrate oxygen-sensing cells (Dorit Hockman (University of Oxford))

2015-01-22 14:30: Asymmetry in Drosophila neuroblasts: centrosomes & mRNA. (Dr Jens Januschke, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee )

2015-01-27 17:00: Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France (Margaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-01-28 13:00: The earliest deuterostomes, or something else entirely? (Simon Conway Morris (University of Cambridge))

2015-01-29 14:30: Imaging gene activity in living cells. (Dr Jonathan Chubb, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London)

2015-02-03 11:30: Biological insights into mutagenesis through modern sequencing technologies (Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge )

2015-02-04 13:00: Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease (Vahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London))

2015-02-05 14:30: Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response. (Dr. Adrian Saurin, Division of Cancer Research, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee )

2015-02-09 14:30: Single cell transcriptomics. (Dr Steve Harvey, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge )

2015-02-10 17:00: Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine (Caitjan Gainty (King's College London))

2015-02-12 14:30: Beyond cancer genetics: dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in leukaemia. (Professor Chi Wai Eric So, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, Department of Haematological Medicine, King's College London )

2015-02-19 14:30: How dynein and its co-factors at the kinetochore ensure chromosome segregation fidelity. (Dr Reto Gassmann, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Portugal )

2015-02-24 11:30: The atomic structure of the APC/C: implications for understanding regulation and mechanism of protein ubiquitination (David Barford, MRC-LMB, Cambridge)

2015-02-24 17:00: Malthus and the South Sea (Alison Bashford (Faculty of History))

2015-02-26 14:30: Causes and Consequences of New Mutations. (Dr Matthew Hurles, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge )

2015-03-03 17:00: Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950s–1970s (María Jesús Santesmases (CSIC, Madrid))

2015-03-04 13:00: The curious incident of the seal in the pond (Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki))

2015-03-05 14:30: Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again. (Professor Mike Brockhurst, Department of Biology, University of York )

2015-03-11 16:00: Raising the shield: How cell migration changes got the turtle its shell (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME) (Scott Gilbert)

2015-03-18 11:00: Regulatory Programme and Evolution Underlying the Development of Echinoderm Skelton (Paola Oliveri)

2015-03-19 13:00: An integrated structural biology approach to flower development (Francois Parcy, Grenoble)

2015-03-24 11:30: Stem cells in the brain: Glial Identity and Niches (Fiona Doetsch, University of Basel, Switzerland)

2015-04-23 14:30: Single-cell dynamics of the proliferation-quiescence decision. (Dr Sabrina Spencer, Meyer Lab, Stanford University Medical Center)

2015-04-27 13:00: Exploring the genetic toolkit for pattern formation and diversification in butterfly wings (Arnaud Martin (UC Berkley))

2015-04-28 11:30: The Anne McLaren Lecture: Stem cells in lung maintenance and repair (Brigid Hogan, Duke University Medical Center, USA)

2015-04-30 14:30: Biogenesis and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs). (Dr Sebastian Kadener, University of Jerusalem)

2015-05-07 14:30: New dimensions of antiviral immunity in insects. (Dr Maria Carla Saleh, Institut Pasteur, Paris )

2015-05-13 13:00: Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates (Andrew Gillis (University of Cambridge))

2015-05-19 11:30: Imaging heart development and function in zebrafish (Didier Stainier, Max Planck Institute for Heart & Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany )

2015-05-20 13:00: Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape (Christen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência))

2015-05-21 14:30: Model systems to study embryonic patterning. (Dr Benoit Sorre, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris)

2015-06-11 14:30: Inhibitory activities of short linear motifs underlie Hox interactome specificity in vivo. (Dr Samir Merabet, IGFL France)

2015-08-05 13:00: The molecular basis of developmental buffering: a key to understanding the interface between environment and evolution? (Dr Atsuko Sato (Ochanomizu University))

2015-10-06 11:30: New insights into aneuploidy in mammalian oocytes (Melina Schuh, Cell Biology Division, MRC LMB, Cambridge)

2015-10-08 14:00: Into the void: bridging the gap between risk genes and psychiatric phenotypes. (Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2015-10-13 17:00: 'Highly coloured': race, ethnicity and the NHS (Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick))

2015-10-15 14:00: Intra-tumour heterogeneity and genomic rearrangements in solid cancers. (Dr Roland Schwarz, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton )

2015-10-20 11:30: The logic and origins of Eukaryotic cell organisation: Inside-out or Outside-in? (Buzz Baum, University College London)

2015-10-22 14:00: Targeting Polycomb repression to the genome. (Dr Yuri Schwartz, Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University, Sweden )

2015-10-28 13:00: Evolution of eye development in Astyanax blind cavefish (Hélène Hinaux )

2015-10-29 14:00: Transcriptional regulation and downstream program of Hox and Cdx genes during axial development in the mouse embryo. (Dr Jacqueline Deschamps, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands)

2015-11-03 11:30: Coordinating growth and tissue organization during development (Helen McNeill, Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, Canada)

2015-11-03 17:00: After the end of disease: looking past the epidemic narrative (Dora Vargha (Birkbeck, University of London))

2015-11-12 14:00: Breaking the silence: defense and counter-defense in antiviral RNA silencing pathways of insects. (Dr Ronald van Rij, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands )

2015-11-17 17:00: Interracial relationships and the 'brown baby' problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain (Lucy Bland (Anglia Ruskin University))

2015-11-18 13:00: Endodermal contribution to orofacial structures in non-teleost fishes: How ancient is the pre-oral gut? (Martin Minařík (Charles University, Prague))

2015-11-19 14:00: Genomics approaches for the investigation of  gene regulation. (Dr Jim Hughes, Hughes Genome Biology Group, Oxford )

2015-11-24 11:30: The relationships between chromosome structure and gene activity during X inactivation (Edith Heard, Institut Curie, Paris, France)

2015-11-24 17:00: The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade (Sarah Bull (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-12-01 11:30: Gene regulation from a distance (Wendy Bickmore, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

2016-01-19 17:00: The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880–1950 (Chris Manias (KCL))

2016-01-21 14:00: An experimental assay of the genotype to phenotype connection. (Dr Fyodor Kondrashov, Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona )

2016-01-27 13:00: Three phases of Wnt signaling define three phases of axis development in the hemichordate S. kowalevskii (Jens Fritzenwanker (Stanford University))

2016-01-28 14:00: Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a continuous spectrum of differentiation in haematopoietic cells. (Dr Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-02 17:00: Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the 20th century (Lisa Malich (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin))

2016-02-03 13:00: Comparative Analyses of Neuromesodermal Progenitor Dynamics in vivo (Ben Steventon (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-09 11:30: FANcy nucleases that cut chromosome instability and disease (John Rouse, MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Scotland)

2016-02-09 17:00: The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900 (Tatjana Buklijas (Liggins Institute and Central European University))

2016-02-11 14:00: Checkpoint and non-checkpoint functions of Drosophila Mad1 and RZZ.  (Professor Roger Karess, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Diderot)

2016-02-18 14:00: Role of neuromesodermal progenitors in axial elongation. (Professor Val Wilson, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh )

2016-02-23 17:00: The seed you need: generation, reproduction and female orgasm in medieval Islamic medicine (Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University))

2016-02-24 13:00: Evolution of animal body axes: insights from the oral-aboral axis of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Chiara Sinigaglia)

2016-03-01 10:30: Genome regulation by Polycomb proteins, between epigenetic inheritance and dynamic gene regulation (Giacomo Cavalli, Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, Montpellier, France)

2016-03-01 17:00: Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century (Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool))

2016-03-03 14:00: Gene and Genome Regulation in Early Fruit Fly Neurogenesis. (Dr. Robert Zinzen, Max-Delbruck-Center Berlin)

2016-03-09 13:00: The Evolution of Developmental Regulation in Spiders and Flies: Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts (Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes University))

2016-04-19 11:30: Principles of skin regeneration, repair and cancer by live imaging (Valentina Greco, Yale University, USA)

2016-04-20 13:00: TCF/Lef regulates the Gsx ParaHox gene in central nervous development in chordates. (Myles Garstang, University of St Andrews)

2016-04-21 13:00: Genome diversity and evolution of DNA methylation genome in the human genome. (Professor Tomas Marques-Bonet, Institut Biologia Evolutiva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/CSIC), Barcelona)

2016-04-27 13:00: Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes (Christopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute))

2016-04-28 14:00: Beyond the reference genome:  inference using prior knowledge of the diversity of a species. (Dr Zamin Iqbal, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford )

2016-05-10 11:30: Understanding and manipulating cell fate (Konrad Hochedlinger, Harvard University, USA)

2016-05-11 13:00: Evolution of the Animal Face: from Principles to Mechanisms (Arkhat Abzhanov (Imperial College London))

2016-05-18 13:00: Progress and future prospects of resolving the animal tree of life in the era of genomics (Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard))

2016-06-08 13:00: Flies, bees, aphids and frogs: what can this menagerie tell us about the evolution of developmental processes? (Elizabeth Duncan (University of Leeds))

2016-06-14 11:30: Reading and Writing Genomes in 3D: The CTCF code and how to hack it (Erez Lieberman Aiden, Baylor College of Medicine & Rice University, Texas, USA)

2016-10-05 13:00: Maternal effects in Speckled Wood butterflies: an eco-evo-devo approach (Casper Breuker (Oxford-Brookes University))

2016-10-06 14:00: Neural mechanisms of behavioral switches (Dr. Arantza Barrios, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London )

2016-10-11 17:00: The Colindale typers: bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service (Claas Kirchhelle (University of Oxford))

2016-10-12 13:00: The evolution of embryonic form: a genetic and cellular analysis of arthropod development (Matt Benton (University of Cologne))

2016-10-18 14:00: Towards a complete view of the genetics of gene expression variation in yeast (Professor Frank Albert, University of Minnesota )

2016-10-18 17:00: Bringing together family planning and parasite control: Cold War collaborations between Japan and South Korea (Aya Homei (University of Manchester))

2016-10-20 14:00: Directing and shaping the inside-out axis of the vertebrate brain (Professor Jon Clarke, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London )

2016-10-26 13:00: 5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 – Evolution of digit number through modification of embryonic Sonic hedgehog signalling (Megan Davey (University of Edinburgh))

2016-10-27 14:00: Using experimental evolution to understand adaptation from standing genetic variation. (Professor Christian Schlotterer, Institute of Population Genetics of Vetmeduni Vienna )

2016-11-01 11:30: Mobile elements, polydactyl proteins and the making of human-specific transcriptional networks (Didier Trono, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

2016-11-01 17:00: Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England (Leah Astbury (Department of History and Philosphy of Science))

2016-11-02 13:00: Evo-devo in cartilaginous fishes - teeth, scales and the cartilaginous skeleton of the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula (Mélanie Debiais-Thibaud (University of Montpellier))

2016-11-03 14:00: Defining transcription units across the human genome. (Professor Nick Proudfoot, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford )

2016-11-08 11:30: The Anne McLaren Lecture: Cell polarity in lymphocytes (Gillian Griffiths, CIMR, Cambridge)

2016-11-08 17:00: The life of forms: biology and modernist sculpture (Ed Juler (Newcastle University))

2016-11-15 11:30: Imaging Cancer Invasion and Therapy Failure (Erik Sahai, Crick Institute, London)

2016-11-16 13:00: Expression of segment polarity genes in brachiopods supports a non-segmental ancestral role of engrailed for bilaterians (Bruno Vellutini (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology))

2016-11-24 14:00: Stem cell control in the Drosophila gut (Professor Bruce Edgar, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah )

2016-11-29 11:30: Cell biological mechanisms regulating vertebrate neurogenesis (Kate Storey, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee, Scotland)

2016-11-29 17:00: The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis' (Susanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-01-19 14:00: Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass. (Professor Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh)

2017-01-24 11:30: Measuring and Modeling the Dynamics of Developmental Decisions in Single Cells (Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard University, USA)

2017-01-24 17:00: Picturing the unusual: medical photography as an 'experimental system' (Lukas Engelmann (CRASSH))

2017-01-25 13:00: Gene regulatory complexity in chordate neural patterning (Sebastian Shimeld (University of Oxford))

2017-01-26 14:00: Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrier  (Dr Nicolas Galtier, University of Montpellier )

2017-02-02 13:00: Non-coding solutions to developmental challenges  (Professor Donal O’Carroll, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

2017-02-07 17:00: Multispecies settlement in Palestine: the problem of infertility and the wonders of urine (Tamar Novick (MPI, Berlin))

2017-02-08 13:00: How the breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage offers clues to mammalian evolution (Neal Anthwal (King's College London))

2017-02-09 14:00: Decoding transcriptional regulation. (Dr Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna )

2017-02-09 16:00: Lizards, skulls and reptile communities (Johannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum))

2017-02-21 17:00: Genomics and the industrialisation of medical tests, 1980–2000 (Steve Sturdy (University of Edinburgh))

2017-02-22 13:00: The evolutionary and embryonic origins of the gnathostome axial skeleton (Kate Criswell (University of Cambridge))

2017-02-23 14:00: Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteria (Dr Isabel Gordo, Evolutionary Biology Group, Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon )

2017-02-28 11:30: Sex differences in organ size and plasticity (Irene Miguel-Aliaga, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS))

2017-02-28 17:00: Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility (Zubin Mistry (University of Edinburgh))

2017-03-02 14:00: Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genome (Professor Peter Keightley, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh )

2017-03-08 13:00: Regulatory evolution and the diversification of pigmentation patterns in Drosophila (Nicolas Gompel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich))

2017-03-14 17:00: Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905–1940s (Jeong-ran Kim (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford))

2017-03-15 13:00: Amphioxus provides unexpected insight into evolutionary processes (Ildiko Somorjai (University of St Andrews))

2017-03-22 13:00: Shared developmental rules predict patterns of size evolution in vertebrate segmented structures  (Kathryn Kavanagh (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth))

2017-04-06 13:00: The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies (Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley))

2017-04-10 11:30: Embracing Complexity: A Fly-to-Bedside Approach to Cancer Therapies (Ross Cagan, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA)

2017-04-25 11:30: Multi-scale models of organogenesis: Limb bud development (James Sharpe, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain)

2017-04-27 14:00: The genetic analysis of population-scale data (Professor Gil McVean, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford )

2017-05-03 13:00: Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum (Dr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool))

2017-05-04 14:00: Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast (Dr. Gislene Pereira, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg )

2017-05-09 11:30: A solid state conceptualization of information transfer from gene to message to protein (Steven McKnight, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA)

2017-05-31 13:00: Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal  skeleton (Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder))

2017-06-14 13:00: Time and space in insect segmentation (Erik Clark (University of Cambridge))

2017-07-26 13:00: Evolution of limb and fin regeneration (Associate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará))

2017-08-25 10:45: Liver Regeneration in the Damaged Liver (Stuart J Forbes, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

2017-09-26 11:30: Protecting Immortality: Germ line Development in Drosophila (Ruth Lehmann, Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA)

2017-10-05 14:00: Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function  (Professor Ashleigh Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford )

2017-10-10 11:30: The Anne McLaren Lecture: Epigenetic regulation by histone acetylation (Asifa Akhtar, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany)

2017-10-11 13:00: Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array (Michael Bok (University of Bristol))

2017-10-17 17:00: Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century (Nicole Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva))

2017-10-19 14:00: Formation and disease relevance of axonal endoplasmic reticulum, a "neuron within a neuron”. (Dr Cahir O’Kane, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-31 17:00: Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585–86 (Boyd Brogan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-11-02 14:00: The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa. (Dr Kirsten Bomblies, John Innes Centre, Norwich )

2017-11-07 11:30: Are RNA granules liquid organelles? Regulation of P granule dynamics by intrinsically-disordered proteins (Geraldine Seydoux, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA)

2017-11-07 17:00: The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda (Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick))

2017-11-08 13:00: Taxon-restricted genes at the origin of morphological novelty and ecological opportunity in water-striders (Emilia Santos (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-09 14:00: Capturing human axial progenitors in vitro (Dr Anestis Tsakiridis, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield )

2017-11-13 12:00: An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science Communication (Dr Nancy R. Gough)

2017-11-14 17:00: Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices (Stuart Hogarth (Department of Sociology))

2017-11-22 13:00: Molecular mechanisms of biomineralisation in sponges and molluscs and their relevance to the Cambrian explosion (Daniel Jackson (University of Göttingen))

2017-11-23 13:00: MicroCT from zoology to pathology (Brian Metscher (University of Vienna))

2017-11-27 11:30: RNA Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Disease (Ron Vale, University of California, San Francisco, USA)

2017-11-28 11:30: Robustness and dynamics of natural direct reprogramming  (Sophie Jarriault, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cell Biology (IGBMC), Illkirch, France )

2017-11-28 17:00: The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain (James Stark (University of Leeds))

2017-11-29 13:00: Probing human brain evolution in a dish (Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge))

2017-12-05 11:30: Growth coordination in Drosophila (Pierre Léopold, Institute of Biology Valrose (iBV), Nice, France)

2018-01-16 11:30: Imaging cancer invasion and pluripotency (Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku, Finland)

2018-01-17 13:00: Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis (Hernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory))

2018-01-23 17:00: 'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system (Margaret Charleroy (University of Warwick))

2018-01-24 13:00: Neuropeptidergic signalling in the anterior nervous system  of Platynereis larvae and evolution of neurosecretory brain  centers (Gaspar Jekely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology))

2018-01-25 14:00: DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesis (Dr Déborah Bourc'his, Institut Curie, Paris )

2018-01-30 11:30: Immune evasion and metastasis in colorectal cancer (Eduard Batlle, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona, Spain )

2018-01-31 13:00: The role of choanocytes in the sponge stem cell system and their suggested homology with choanoflagellates (Shunsuke Sogabe (University of St Andrews))

2018-02-01 14:00: Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems (Professor Andreas Wagner, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich)

2018-02-06 11:30: Regulation of progenitor cells in adult lung and in lung cancer (Carla F. Kim, Boston Children's Hospital, USA)

2018-02-06 17:00: Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility (Valerie Worth (University of Oxford))

2018-02-07 13:00: Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration (Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin))

2018-02-08 14:00: Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development (Dr Patrick Mueller, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society,  Tübingen, Germany)

2018-02-13 17:00: Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East (Elise Burton (Newnham College, Cambridge))

2018-02-15 14:00: Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescales (Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)

2018-02-21 13:00: Modularity, criticality and evolvability of a developmental  GRN (Berta Verd (University of Cambridge))

2018-02-22 13:00: Eukaryotic cell division and its origins (Professor Buzz Baum, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London)

2018-02-27 17:00: Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion (Sally Sheldon (University of Kent))

2018-03-01 13:00: Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture (Dr Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna)

2018-03-06 11:30: The Anne McLaren Lecture: CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing: Biology, Technology and Ethics (Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA)

2018-03-07 13:00: Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution (Jordi Solana (Oxford Brookes University))

2018-03-13 17:00: Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences (Mathias Grote (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin))

2018-03-20 11:30: Smart light sheet microscopes for you and me (Jan Huisken, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, USA)

2018-03-29 12:00: The cellular phase of Alzheimer’s Disease (Bart De Strooper, Director UK Dementia Research Institute, Professor at UCL, University of Leuven and VIB)

2018-04-05 11:30: On the function of PRDM15, a member of the PRDM family of transcriptional regulators, in development and lymphomagenesis (Ernesto Guccione, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Hess Center for Science and Medicine, New York, USA)

2018-04-25 13:00: Dorsal closure in dipterans: epithelial rupture, contraction and seaming in embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita (Juan Fraire-Zamora (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona))

2018-04-26 14:00: Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch (Professor Sarah Bray from Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge )

2018-05-02 13:00: Mechanics and Evolution of Cell Sheet Folding – Embryonic Inversion in the micro-alga Volvox (Stephanie Höhn (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-03 14:00: Regulatory RNA (Professor Eric Miska from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)

2018-05-10 14:00: Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer (Professor David Glover, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)

2018-05-15 11:00: Modified small RNA regulate chromosome dosage and segregation (Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA)

2018-05-15 12:30: Epigenetics: One Genome, Multiple Phenotypes (Danny Reinberg, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NYU Langone School of Medicine at Smilow Research Center, New York, USA)

2018-05-16 13:00: Gene re-usages constrained the evolvability of the animal body plan? (Naoki Irie (University of Tokyo))

2018-05-30 13:00: Life in the dark: can deep sea fishes see colours? (Zuzana Musilova (Charles University, Prague))

2018-06-05 11:30: Regulatory principles in human development and evolution (Joanna Wysocka, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)

2018-06-19 11:30: Regulators of Muscle Stem Cell Fate and Function (Helen Blau, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University, USA)

2018-07-10 11:30: Role of H3K27me3-mediated genomic imprinting in development and somatic cell nuclear transfer reprogramming (Yi Zhang, Dept Genetics & Dept of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA)

2018-09-17 14:00: Determinants of embryo polarity in the evolution of flies (Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott, University of Chicago)

2018-10-03 13:00: Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry (Dr Frank Hirth, King's College London)

2018-10-09 17:00: 'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France (Bibia Pavard (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris))

2018-10-11 14:00: How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubules (Professor Andreas Prokop from Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester )

2018-10-18 14:00: The Genetic Basis of Clinal Adaptation (Professor Thomas Flatt from Department of Biology, University of Fribourg )

2018-10-23 17:00: 'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959 (Gareth Millward (University of Warwick))

2018-10-24 13:00: Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus (Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University)

2018-10-25 14:00: Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense (Dr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter )

2018-10-30 17:00: Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s (Wendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde))

2018-10-31 13:00: Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity (Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-01 14:00: Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development (Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

2018-11-13 17:00: Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute (Marissa Mika (University College London))

2018-11-14 13:00: Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis (Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris)

2018-11-15 10:00: Generating human kidney tissue from pluripotent stem cells (Melissa Little, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Victoria, Australia)

2018-11-15 14:00: Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa (Dr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2018-11-20 17:00: From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe (Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London))

2018-11-22 14:00: Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast (Dr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge )

2018-11-27 11:30: Towards in vivo structural biology: solving protein structures using deep mutagenesis (Ben Lehner, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain)

2018-12-05 13:00: Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex (Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester)

2019-01-16 13:00: Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis (Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon)

2019-01-17 14:00: Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution (Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)

2019-01-22 17:00: Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-01-24 14:00: Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines (Dr Louise Johnson from School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading )

2019-01-29 17:00: From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain (Carolin Schmitz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-01-30 13:00: Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila (Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki)

2019-02-12 17:00: Anatomy museum on the move (Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford))

2019-02-13 13:00: Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations (Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-20 13:00: Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains -  approaching the next level of detail (Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg)

2019-02-26 17:00: Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences (Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin))

2019-02-27 13:00: Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution  and development (Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)

2019-02-28 14:00: Epigenetic inheritance in mammals (Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge )

2019-03-05 11:30: Chemical regulation of functional RNAs (Yunsun Nam, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA)

2019-03-05 17:00: Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion (Sally Sheldon (University of Kent))

2019-03-06 13:00: The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions,  and developmental directions (Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-07 14:00: Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques (Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge )

2019-04-10 13:00: Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field (Professor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan)

2019-04-25 14:00: Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization (Professor Marino Zerial from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden )

2019-04-30 11:30: The Anne McLaren Lecture: The blastocyst and its stem cells; from mouse to human relevance (Janet Rossant, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada)

2019-05-02 14:00: Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells? (Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh  )

2019-05-08 13:00: TBC (Prof Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford)

2019-05-09 14:00: A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects (Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden )

2019-05-15 13:00: From development to deep time: the macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration in living and extinct tetrapods (Prof Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London)

2019-05-16 11:30: Transposable elements as catalysts of cellular innovation (Cédric Feschotte, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA)

2019-05-21 11:30: Spatio-temporal dynamics of cell fate specification and differentiation in the zebrafish embryo  (Philip W Ingham, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore - Imperial College London)

2019-05-29 13:00: Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development (Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center)

2019-10-09 13:00: Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution (Professor Anthony Graham, King's College London)

2019-10-10 14:00: Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain (Professor Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden )

2019-10-15 17:00: Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913 (Michael Sappol (Uppsala University))

2019-10-17 14:00: What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time?  (Professor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York )

2019-10-29 11:30: Human Regulator of TElomere Length Helicase 1 (RTEL1) couples nuclear envelope stability and functions to genome replication (Arturo Londoño-Vallejo, Institut Curie, Paris, France)

2019-10-29 17:00: A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe (Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London))

2019-10-30 13:00: How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development (Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics)

2019-10-31 10:30: Epigenetic memory over geological timescales (Hiten Madhani, University of California, San Francisco, USA)

2019-11-05 17:00: Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title (Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin))

2019-11-12 17:00: In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood (Lochlann Jain (Stanford University))

2019-11-14 14:00: Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out (Dr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London)

2019-11-20 13:00: TBC (Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology)

2019-11-21 14:00: Minimal and Ancestral Genomes (Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA )

2019-11-26 11:30: Mechanistic insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery and DNA repair (Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2019-11-26 17:00: Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa (Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg))

2019-11-28 14:00: The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity (Professor Nick Lane, University College London )

2019-12-04 13:00: TBC (Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University)

2020-01-14 17:00: The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s (Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde))

2020-01-16 16:15: A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomes (Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute )

2020-01-21 17:00: The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China (Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute))

2020-01-23 14:00: How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer (Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

2020-01-28 11:30: Stem Cells: It’s All About the Neighborhood (Elaine Fuchs, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Rockefeller University, New York, USA)

2020-01-28 14:30: Cell competition during development and disease (Eduardo Moreno, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)

2020-01-29 13:00: Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function (Justin Crocker, EMBL)

2020-01-30 14:00:  The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops (Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester)

2020-02-04 11:30: Robustness and scaling in early development: the “distal pinning” mechanism (Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

2020-02-04 17:00: 'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974 (Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London))

2020-02-06 13:00:  Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics. (Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)

2020-02-11 17:00: A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain (Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science))

2020-02-13 14:00: Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation (Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics)

2020-02-20 14:00: This talk has been cancelled (Dr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2020-02-25 17:00: Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain (Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2020-02-27 14:00: Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning (Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU))

2020-03-04 13:00: The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing [CANCELLED] (Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research)

2020-03-05 13:00: Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila  (Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris  )

2020-04-03 11:30: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED (Andy McMahon, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, USA)

2020-04-22 13:00: The role of FoxN3 in the development of the chondrocranium and associated head muscles in the African Clawed-frog, Xenopus laevis (Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität)

2020-05-26 11:30: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED (Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA)

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 )

2020-06-30 14:00: Model-based explanation of cellular response (Fabian Theis, Director, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany)

2020-07-27 10:30: Firing up the genome (Nadine Vastenhouw, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, Germany)

2020-10-13 14:00: The Anne McLaren Lecture: How CST protects telomeres and double-strand breaks (Titia de Lange, Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, New York, USA)

2020-10-13 17:00: Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993 (Grace Redhead (University College London))

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

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

2020-10-27 17:00: Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s) (Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow))

2020-11-10 17:00: Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan (Victoria Lee (Ohio University))

2020-11-17 13:00: Mechanistic basis of epigenetic switching and memory (Martin Howard, John Innes Centre, Norwich)

2020-11-17 17:00: Gender and generation in premodern Europe (Leah DeVun (Rutgers University))

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)

2020-12-01 17:00: The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century (Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois))

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

2021-01-26 17:00: The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine (Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University))

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 )

2021-02-02 17:00: Renaissance eugenics (Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College))

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

2021-02-16 17:00: Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening (Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley))

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

2021-03-02 17:00: As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s (Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University))

2021-03-04 00:00: This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later this year. (Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London)

2021-03-09 17:00: Birth, fate, and Roman futures (Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan))

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 )

2021-03-16 17:00: The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940 (Aro Velmet (University of Southern California))

2021-04-26 16:00: Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs (Howard Chang, Stanford University Medical Center, USA)

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)

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

2021-05-25 15:00: Homeoboxes build the nervous system (Oliver Hobert, Columbia University, USA)

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)

2021-06-08 15:00: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Using Fruit Flies to Understand Tissue Regeneration (Rachel Smith-Bolton, Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois, USA)

2021-06-14 11:00: Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance (Anja Groth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

2021-06-29 13:00: Dicer dependent tRNA derived small RNAs promote nascent RNA silencing (Monika Gullerova, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK)

2021-10-05 11:00: Symmetry breaking in gastruloids development (Prisca Liberali, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel, Switzerland)

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)

2021-10-12 17:00: 'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain (Chris Otter (Ohio State University))

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)

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

2021-10-26 17:00:  Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910) (Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna))

2021-11-02 17:00: Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment? (Anna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity))

2021-11-11 12:30: The Anne McLaren Lecture: Signalling pathways regulating cell fate allocation in the early mouse embryo (Elizabeth Robertson, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK)

2021-11-16 17:00: Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil (Ryan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

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)

2021-11-23 14:00: Engineering epithelial organoid development (Matthias Lütolf, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

2021-11-30 17:00: 'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids (Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware))

2021-12-06 14:00: Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells (Professor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology)

2022-01-25 11:00: Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair (Magdalena Götz, Director, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Center, Munich)

2022-01-25 17:00: Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction (Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton University))

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)

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

2022-02-08 17:00: Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i (Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia))

2022-02-15 17:00: Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences (Tracey Loughran (University of Essex))

2022-02-22 12:15: Title to be confirmed (Maria Pilar Alcolea, Wellcome-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge)

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

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

2022-03-07 17:00: Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010 (Wayne Soon (Vassar College))

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

2022-04-12 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Anne-Kathrin Classen, University of Freiburg, Germany)

2022-04-27 13:00: Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms (Prof Paola Oliveri)

2022-05-04 13:00: Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomics (Dr Jordi Solana)

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

2022-05-09 14:00: Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Hematopoietic Malignancies (Prof Robert G Roeder, The Rockefeller University, New York)

2022-05-11 13:00: On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems (Prof Gaspar Jékely)

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)

2022-05-18 13:00: One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers  (Dr Edwige Moyroud)

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)

2022-05-24 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Wolf Reik, Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

2022-05-24 17:00: A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America (Kathryn Renton (UCLA))

2022-05-25 13:00: Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans (Dr Dorit Hockman)

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

2022-06-07 11:30: Decoding transcriptional regulation (Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria)

2022-06-09 14:00: “Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”. (Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

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 )

2022-10-11 09:00: 'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages' (Manabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo))

2022-10-12 13:00: How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida) (Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen))

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)

2022-10-25 17:00: How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s (Tinne Claes (KU Leuven))

2022-10-26 13:00: Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie? (Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna))

2022-11-01 09:00: The Anne McLaren Lecture: Embryonic and adult neural stem cells- what underlies their difference (Dr Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, Japan)

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

2022-11-08 17:30: Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century (Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute))

2022-11-09 13:00: The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact (Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford))

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

2022-11-16 13:00: The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals (Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

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

2022-11-22 14:00: You get a methylation, and you get a methylation, everybody gets a methylation (Dr Pedro J Batista, NIH, Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MC, USA)

2022-11-22 17:00: Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century (Jenny Bangham (QMUL))

2022-11-23 13:00: Origin and early evolution of vertebrates (Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol))

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

2022-11-29 17:30: Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India (Sonia Wigh)

2022-11-30 13:00: From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution (Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna))

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  )

2023-01-24 11:00: Taking it up a Notch, building the body plan (Professor Kim Dale, University of Dundee)

2023-01-24 17:00: Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences (Tracey Loughran (University of Essex))

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

2023-02-01 13:00: Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants (Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford))

2023-02-07 17:00: 'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990 (Camilla Røstvik (University of Aberdeen))

2023-02-15 13:00: The origins of land plant complexity: interpreting development in the Devonian (Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh))

2023-02-23 14:00: Mechanism of neural differentiation (Professor Kate Storey from School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee)

2023-02-28 11:00: Physics of morphogenesis (Professor Stephan Grill, Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

2023-03-01 13:00: The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds (Dr Marie Manceau (College De France))

2023-03-02 14:00: Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome (Dr Mounia Lagha from Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France )

2023-03-07 17:00: Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960 (Dora Yao (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-08 13:00: To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish (Dr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer))

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

2023-03-28 11:00: Being a Good Neighbour: Cell Cycle, Metabolism and Cell Fate in the Drosophila Testis. (Dr Marc Amoyel, UCL)

2023-04-04 11:00: Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signalling dynamics in the epithelium (Professor Maddy Parsons, King’s College, London)

2023-04-25 11:00: Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signaling dynamics in the epithelium (Professor Olivier Pertz, University of Bern, Switzerland)

2023-04-26 13:00: The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation (Dr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen))

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)

2023-05-02 17:00: Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain (Rebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London))

2023-05-09 17:00: Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine (Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta))

2023-05-10 13:00: Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development (Dr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London))

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  )

2023-05-17 13:00: A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development (Dr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London))

2023-05-30 14:00: Human brain chimeroids as avatars to study inter-individual variation in brain development and disease (Dr Paola Arlotta, Harvard, USA)

2023-05-31 13:00: Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties (Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona))

2023-06-07 13:00: Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time (Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University))

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 )

2023-06-14 13:00: Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level (Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University))

2023-06-27 11:00: Synthetic ex utero embryogenesis:  from naive pluripotent stem cells to human and mouse bona fide embryo-models (Professor Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute, Israel)

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  )

2023-10-10 17:00: The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China (Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University))

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  )

2023-10-24 17:00: Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain (Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick))

2023-11-07 17:00: Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics (Claire Shaw (University of Warwick))

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 )

2023-11-14 17:00: Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain (Rebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham))

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

2023-11-21 17:00: Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933 (Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews))

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 )

2023-11-28 10:30: The Anne McLaren Lecture: Coordination of cell states and tissue architecture by mechanical forces (Sara Wickström, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster)

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  )

2024-01-23 17:00: How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present (Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland))

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)

2024-02-06 17:00: Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity (Ana Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil))

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   )

2024-02-20 17:00: The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine (Various speakers)

2024-02-27 17:00: Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350 (Catherine Rider (University of Exeter))

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

2024-03-05 17:00: A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference (Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego))

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  )

2024-03-19 11:00: Our first choices: decoding cellular signals during developmental transitions (Silvia Santos, Francis Crick Institute)

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  )

2024-04-30 17:00: Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War (Andreas Killen (The City College of New York, CUNY))

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  )

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

2024-05-14 17:00: The global health focus on early life: origin stories (Michelle Pentecost (King's College London))

2024-06-18 11:00: Control of cell fate specification and physiological maturation in the human brain by the lipid phosphatase OCRL (Prof Raghu Padinjat, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore)

2024-06-20 11:00: Dynamic Interplay: Coordinating stem cell fate and states through niche interactions (Dr Joo-Hyeon Lee, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

2024-09-20 11:00: Life without HOX (Olivier Pourquié, Harvard Medical School)

2024-10-10 14:00: What can butterfly hybrid zones tell us about the genomic architecture of species barriers? (Dr Konrad Lohse from Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh)

2024-10-15 17:00: AIDS and the Naz Project: British Asian AIDS activism in the nineties (Somak Biswas (Faculty of History))

2024-10-24 14:00: Bacterial evolution in the lung (Dr Josie Bryant from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge   )

2024-10-29 17:00: Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution (Anna Toropova (University of Warwick))

2024-11-05 17:00: Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history (Emily Baughan (University of Sheffield))

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   )

2024-11-08 13:00: London EvoDevo meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2024-11-19 17:00: Scientific perception, interpretation and prediction of the weather in late medieval England (Maximilian Schuh (Freie Universität Berlin))

2024-11-21 13:00: CANCELLED - News from the Palaeolithic: ancient genomes and Neandertal-human interactions (Dr Mateja Hajdinjak from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)

2024-11-26 17:00: Swinging into crip time: teenage limb loss and art making in 1960s London (Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester))

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

2024-12-10 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Ina Sonnen, Hubrecht Institute)

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 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Muzlifah Haniffa, Sanger Institute)

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   )

2025-02-13 14:00: Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development (Professor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University   )

2025-02-18 17:00: 'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia (Emma Kalb (Universität Bonn))

2025-02-25 17:00: Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained (Ann Kelly (University of Oxford))

2025-03-06 14:00: 21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology (Professor Rebecca Sear from Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University)

2025-03-11 17:00: How TV made 'The Naked Ape' (Miles Kempton (Christ's College))

2025-03-18 11:00: The Anne McLaren Lecture (Alex Joyner, Sloan Kettering Institute)

2025-04-29 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Meritxell Huch, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden)

2025-05-13 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Alex Schier, Biozentrum, University of Basel)

2025-05-27 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Ian Swinburne, UC Berkeley)

2025-06-24 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute)

2025-10-14 17:00: Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction (Avey Nelson and Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex))

2025-10-22 14:00: Using Epigenomics to Unlock Plant Regulatory Variation   (Bob Schmitz, University of Georgia)

2025-10-28 17:00: The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s (Tatjana Buklijas (University of Auckland))

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)

2025-11-11 17:00: Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore (Timothy Sim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-11-18 17:00: Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts (Róisín Donohoe (National Library of Ireland))

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)

2025-11-25 17:00: Genetics, infrastructure and historicity in the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain (Miguel Garcia-Sancho (University of Edinburgh))

2026-01-22 14:00: How personalised is your immune system? (Professor Aleksandra Walczak from Laboratoire de physique, l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2026-01-29 14:00: CANCELLED - Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation (Dr James DiFrisco from The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2026-02-10 17:00: Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China (Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

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)

2026-02-17 17:00: Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria (Chidi Ugwu (University of Nigeria, Nsukka))

2026-02-24 17:00: Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge (Meleisa Ono-George (University of Oxford))

2026-03-03 17:00: How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning (Christos Lynteris (University of St Andrews) )

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)

2026-03-17 15:00: The birth of scientific anti-racism (Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz))

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)