Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site


2011-03-09 19:00: Science for People who Don't Want to Know About Science (Tim Radford)

2011-03-16 19:00: Human Planet: Making a Serious Message Popular (Brian Leith)

2012-05-03 19:00: Global Challenges in Ex Situ Plant Conservation (Professor Hugh Pritchard, Millenium Seed Bank Project, Kew Gardens, and University of Sussex)

2013-10-16 19:00: Teenagers: A Natural History (Dr David Bainbridge (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge))

2013-10-23 19:00: Some challenges in modelling influenza (Dr Julia Gog (CCBI and DAMTP, University of Cambridge))

2013-10-30 19:00: Multiprotein assemblies, structural biology and drug discovery: Gaining selectivity through allostery (Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge))

2013-11-13 19:00: Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty (Professor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

2013-11-20 19:00: Are you your brain? (Professor Steven Rose (The Open University))

2013-11-27 19:00: Fat fish are a forest product (Dr Andrew Tanentzap (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2014-02-05 19:00: Socio-ecology and Conservation of Asian Apes (Dr David Chivers (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge))

2014-02-12 19:00: Biophysical insights into protein aggregation (Dr Tuomas Knowles (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

2014-02-19 19:00: Imaging biology in the cancer patient (Professor Kevin Brindle FMedSci (CRUK and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge))

2014-02-26 19:00: Sex and the Brain (in fruit flies) (Dr Gregory Jefferis (MRC LMB, University of Cambridge))

2014-03-03 19:00: Energetic constraints on the evolution of life (Dr Nick Lane (Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London))

2014-10-15 19:00: Informal discussion on "Small and Large Challenges in Engineering the Biosphere" (Prof. Andrew Fire (Stanford University School of Medicine))

2014-10-20 19:00: The Spark of Life: the story of ion channels    (Prof. Frances Ashcroft (University of Oxford))

2014-10-29 19:00: Active and Passive Immunization against Infectious Disease (Prof. Peter Lachmann (Veterinary Medicine))

2014-11-05 19:00: Internship Event (Sally Todd, Careers Service and student speakers)

2014-11-11 19:00: Breast cancer- tackling 10 diseases (Prof. Carlos Caldas (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute))

2014-11-26 19:00: PhD Information Event (Prof. Steve Russell (University of Cambridge), Dr. Tim Weil (University of Cambridge))

2014-12-03 19:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Colin Russell (Department of Veterinary Medicine))

2015-01-21 19:00: HPV vaccines – are they doing their job? (Prof. Margaret Stanley OBE, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-25 19:00: Structure of the mitochondrial ATPase (Professor Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit)

2015-03-04 19:00: Protein misfolding and disaggregation by chaperones (Prof. Helen Saibil FRS, Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London)

2015-04-22 19:00: The Tortoiseshell Cat in the Junk Yard (Nessa Carey)

2015-10-14 19:00: PhD Event (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-10-21 19:30: Pattern formation and positional information in development (Professor Lewis Wolpert)

2015-10-28 19:30: Summer Internships Event (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-11-04 19:30: Thinking without a brain: Auxin and the self-organisation of plant form (Professor Ottline Leyser, Sainsbury's Laboratory )

2015-11-11 19:30: The evolutionary struggles of giant land animals against gravity (Professor John Hutchinson)

2015-11-18 19:30: TBC (Dr Julian Huppert)

2015-11-25 19:30: Revolutions that made the earth (Professor Tim Lenton)

2015-12-01 14:00: SynBio Fund Pitches (SynBio Fund Applicants)

2015-12-02 19:30: TBC (Dr Ross Piper)

2016-01-20 21:00: Nuclear Reprogramming: Prospects for Cell Replacement (Professor Sir John Gurdon)

2019-01-15 14:00: Balancing Economic Development and Ecological Responsibility (Budiman Sudjatmiko (Innovator 4.0 Indonesia), Dr. Rachel Carmenta (University of Cambridge), Irendra Radjawali (Swandiri Institute))

2019-06-12 16:00: Are you ready for a food revolution?  (    )

2024-01-18 15:30: Pious labour: Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India (Amanda Lanzillo (Brunel University London))

2024-01-25 15:30: PhD Showcase (Various speakers)

2024-02-01 15:30: In defense of the medical model of obesity (Andreas De Block (KU Leuven))

2024-02-08 15:30: Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic (Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison))

2024-02-15 15:30: Conceptualising climate futures (Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki))

2024-02-22 15:30: Risky sex data: precision medicine, big data and the ossification of a sex binary (Marion Boulicault (University of Edinburgh))

2024-02-29 15:30: Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation (Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPIWG))

2024-03-07 15:30: Biotechnological artefacts and the in vivo/in vitro problem (Emma Tobin (University College London))

2024-04-25 15:30: Algorithmic diagnosis and the problem of statistical evidence (Sune Hannibal Holm (University of Copenhagen))

2024-05-02 15:30: Volcanoes and their lovers: a brief and biased history of volcanology (Clive Oppenheimer (Department of Geography))

2024-05-09 15:30: Cocoon cultures: the (dis)entangling of silk and biology in Japan (Lisa Onaga (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science))

2024-05-16 15:30: Opening the West with Japanese mermaid mummies: ningyo in the making of the theory of evolution (Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University))

2024-05-23 15:30: Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science (Nick Jardine (History and Philosophy of Science) and Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy))