Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College


2010-10-15 18:00: "The Master Puppeteer: How the Brain Controls the Body" (Prof Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering)

2010-10-22 18:00: "Causes and prevention of type 2 diabetes" (Professor Nick Wareham, MRC Epidemiology Unit)

2010-11-12 18:00: "Of water flumes, waxy walls and toilet bowls: trapping strategies of carnivorous pitcher plants" (Dr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Zoology)

2010-11-26 18:00: "Are my genes to blame when my jeans don’t fit?" (Dr Giles Yeo, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science)

2011-01-21 18:00: "Is nuclear reprogramming a route to cell replacement therapy?" (Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, Department of Zoology/Wellcome Gurdon Institute)

2011-02-04 18:00: "Printed and plastic electronics: will the microchips of the future be printed?" (Dr Enrico Gili, Department of Physics)

2011-02-25 18:00: "Quantum teleportation, its use and abuse" (Prof Richard Josza, DAMPT)

2011-03-11 18:00: Have I got path for you...? (Prof. Alun Williams, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

2011-05-03 18:00: Digitisation and Print on demand for Cambridge University Library (Ed Chamberlain, University Library Cambridge)

2011-05-20 18:00: Nanotechnology: Science or Fiction? (Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-27 18:00: Bananas, bandits and biology on the high seas (Dr Anna Snowdon, Senior Member, Wolfson College)

2011-06-03 18:00: The Nature of Empathy: Perspectives from Psychiatry (Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge)

2011-10-14 18:00: Rubik's Planet; Global Consequences of Nanoscale Phenomena (Dr Dr Christopher Forman, Institute for Manufacturing)

2011-10-28 18:00: Communication with a single button (Dr Patrick Welche, Cavendish Laboratory)

2011-11-11 18:00: How nature might influence nurture (Professor Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences)

2012-02-24 18:00: The Unexpected Side of Entropy ( Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS, Department of Chemistry)

2012-03-09 18:00: The Jet Engine:  What Happens If....? (Dr Ivor Day, Department of Engineering)

2012-05-04 18:00: The mammary gland:  a source of milk and a cancer time bomb (Dr Christine Watson, Department of Pathology)

2012-05-18 18:00: From Gutenberg to the digital age: the challenges and opportunities of inkjet printing (Professor Ian Hutchings, Department of Engineering)

2012-05-25 18:00: Extracting meaning from text (Professor Ann Copestake, Computer Laboratory)

2012-06-08 18:00: Hearing loss and hearing aids (Professor Brian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology)

2012-10-12 18:00: Could the ageing be infectious? (Dr Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-26 18:00: 90 days of night: A year in Antarctica at the French/Italian base Concordia Station (Dr Eoin Macdonald-Nethercott, European Space Agency and Alumnus)

2012-11-09 18:00: Issues in fuel supply and utilisation (Dr John C. Jones, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen)

2013-01-25 18:00: Publishing in Nature journals (Dr Elisa de Rainieri, Nature Communications)

2013-02-08 18:00: Kinect: You Are The Controller - The Inside Story! (Mat Cook, Microsoft Research)

2013-02-22 18:00: Nature v. nurture:  dissecting the tumour ecosystem (Prof Gillian Murphy, Department of Oncology)

2013-03-08 18:00: Can yeast and a Robot Scientist help us design therapies for diseases like cancers and malaria? (Prof Steve Oliver, Department of Biochemistry and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre)

2013-04-26 18:00: The impact of the genomic revolution on medicine and agriculture (Prof Dame Janet Thornton, Director of EMBL-EBI)

2013-05-17 18:00: Planetary landscapes (Prof Paul Murdin)

2013-05-31 18:00: EDSAC: The World's First Practical Electronic Digital Computer (Dr Andrew Herbert OBE)

2013-06-07 18:00: Sonic Pi: Teaching Computer Science with Music (Dr Samuel Aaron)

2013-10-25 18:15: The Origin and Evolution of the Universe (Prof. John Barrow (Dpt of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University) )

2013-11-08 18:15: The Dark Matter Mystery and the Large Hadron Collider (Prof. Ben Allanach (Theoretical Physics, Cambridge))

2014-01-23 18:15: Title to be confirmed (Julian Conrad, MRC-LMB, Cambridge)

2014-03-13 18:15: TBC - personal genomics (Paul Flicek, EMBL - EBI)

2014-10-31 18:15: Flexible and Stretchable Electronics: Make Way for Wearables. (Mark Allen, from Nokia)

2015-01-23 18:15: Structure of the DNA Replication Machinery (Julian Conrad, MRC-LMB, Cambridge)

2015-02-20 18:15: Life after death: social evolution in a grave (Prof Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology)

2015-02-27 18:15: From Bench to Books: writing science books for children  (Tiffany Taylor)

2015-05-15 18:15: Toward cleaner vehicle emissions: catalyst technologies for today and tomorrow  (Dr. York, Johnson Matthey)

2015-05-29 18:15: Building a Start-up from Cam’lab Research (Dr. Stone (Novalia) )

2018-05-23 13:00: Reconciling conservation and development at the forest agricultural nexus: insights from the forested tropics (Rachel Carmenta, Frank Jackson Research Fellow, Wolfson College and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI))