bjm1's list


2006-10-05 16:00: From sodium pump to calcium pump - going round in circles? (Prof. Roger Thomas, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-10-12 16:00: Chipping away at genome regulation (Dr Rob White, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-10-12 16:00: (feed)-Back to the Future: (feed)-Forward thinking on the interplay between Golgi cells and granule cells in the cerebellum (Dr Tahl Holtzman, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-10-19 16:00: Roles of feedback regulation of signaling in kidney and brain development (Prof. Ivor Mason, King's College London)

2006-10-26 16:00: Regulation of the positional stability of neurons: why you need glia (Dr Matthieu Vermeren, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-10-26 16:00: Neuronal excitability is controlled by pH - but the pH of what? (Schwiening Lab, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-11-02 16:00: Programming the blood & cardiovascular system in Xenopus & zebrafish embryos (Prof. Roger Patient, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

2006-11-09 16:00: How does the cytoskeleton regulate cell shape during morphogenesis? (Dr Katja Roper, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-11-09 16:00: New brain cells for old - neurogenesis in the adult brain: what happens and does it matter? (Prof. Joe Herbert, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-11-16 16:00: Motor neuron degeneration and legs at odd angles (Prof. Elizabeth Fisher)

2006-11-21 16:00: The chemical synapse goes electric: GPCRs, voltage and beyond (Profs. Itzchak & Hanna Parnas; The Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

2006-11-23 16:00: Dynamics of gamma oscillations in the neocortex (Dr Hugh Robinson, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-11-23 16:00: Functions, mechanisms and evolution of genomic imprinting (Dr Anne Ferguson-Smith, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-11-30 16:00: Domains of the electrogenic Na/bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1 that contribute to function, expression, and ion translocation (Prof. Mark Bevensee; Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham)

2007-01-18 16:00: Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits (Prof. Steve Wilson, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, UCL)

2007-01-25 16:00: E.solo and E.pluribus: two new experimental organisms (Prof. Dennis Bray, PDN)

2007-01-25 16:30: Modelling of primary processes in Drosophila phototransduction (Dr. Marten Postma, Hardie Lab, PDN)

2007-02-01 16:30: Selectivity in the expression of pre- and post-synaptic mechanisms in cortical circuits (Prof. Alex Thomson, School of Pharmacy, London)

2007-02-15 16:00: Epithelial Physiology: facts, fantasies and fun (Prof. Richard Boyd, University of Oxford)

2007-02-22 16:00: Plasticity of neuron to astrocyte signalling in the cerebellum (Dr. Tom Bellamy, Babraham Institute)

2007-03-01 16:00: Sweet dreams: new pathways of glucose-sensing in the brain (Dr. Denis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology)

2007-03-08 16:00: Imaging neurulation in the zebrafish embryo (Dr. Richard Adams, PDN)

2007-03-08 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Sarah Bray, PDN)

2007-04-26 16:00: Experience Dependent Mechanisms of Visual System Development (Prof. Hollis Cline, Cold Spring Harbor)

2007-05-03 16:00: An interaction between the Trk and EphA tyrosine kinase families controls retinotectal topography (Dr. Uwe Drescher, King's College London)

2007-05-17 16:00: Prenatal Origins of Heart Disease: The Role of Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress (Dr. Dino Giussani, PDN)

2007-05-17 16:30: The vital role of kissing in reproduction (Dr. Bill Colledge, PDN)

2007-05-24 16:00: Central circuits that subserve pain of different behavioural significance and their descending control (Dr. Bridget Lumb, University of Bristol)

2007-05-31 16:00: Arrhythmogenic mechanisms in the isolated perfused hypokalemic murine heart (Prof. Chris Huang, PDN)

2007-05-31 16:30: Platelet Store-operated Ca2+ entry: The NCX trips up the TRP (Dr. Stewart Sage, PDN)

2007-06-07 16:00: Axon and dendrite geography predict the specificity of synaptic connections in a functioning spinal cord network (Prof. Alan Roberts, University of Bristol)

2007-06-14 16:00: Pluripotency and the early embryo: overriding development for production of embryonic stem cells (Dr. Jenny Nichols, PDN/Stem Cell Institute)

2007-10-02 17:00: Impact of genetic factors on extinction risk and implications for conservation management in New Zealand. (Ian Jamieson, University of Otago, NZ)

2007-10-04 16:00: Monoamines and mechanosensory behaviour in C. elegans (Dr William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2007-10-11 16:00: The evolution of life history strategies: individuals, populations, species (Oliver Krueger, University of Cambridge)

2007-10-11 16:00: Where is the plasticity in cerebellum-dependent forms of learning? (Prof. Christopher H. Yeo, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL)

2007-10-18 16:00: Jak/Stat regulates dpp transcription in support cells to maintain Drosophila ovarian niche (Acaimo Gonzalez-Reyes, Universidad de Sevilla)

2007-10-18 16:00: Understanding actions. (Dr James Kilner, The Institute of Neurology, UCL)

2007-10-25 16:00: The race to prevent the extinction of South Asian vultures (Rhys Green, University of Cambridge)

2007-10-25 16:00: Sides, bottom and top; diverse mechanisms of cell adhesion (Dr Nick Brown, PDN)

2007-10-25 16:30: Mesoderm formation in vertebrates - Identifying transcriptional targets of No tail in zebrafish (Dr Fiona Wardle, PDN)

2007-11-01 16:00: Tinkering with toxicity: How basic research on drug transporters can translate to policy changes on environmental pollution (David Epel, Stanford University)

2007-11-01 16:00: Teenagers: A Natural History (Dr David Bainbridge, PDN)

2007-11-01 16:30: Adapting a bacterial enzyme for gene therapy in the central nervous system. (Dr John Rogers, PDN)

2007-11-06 17:00: Baboon Metaphysics (Dorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania)

2007-11-08 16:00: Mechanisms of Regulating Epidermal Stem Cell Fate (Dr Michaela Frye, PDN)

2007-11-08 16:30: Interneuron specification in the zebrafish spinal cord (Dr Katharine Lewis, PDN)

2007-11-15 12:00: Development and evolution of the brain: insights from insects (Heinrich Reichert, University of Basel)

2007-11-15 16:00: Pain processing - what the brain tells the spinal cord (Prof. Anthony Dickenson, UCL)

2007-11-22 16:00: Predicting dental macroevolution from development: what happened to microevolution? (Jukka Jernvall, University of Helsinki)

2007-11-29 16:00: Spatial Neutral Theory, biodiversity, and coexistence (Stephen Cornell, University of Leeds)

2007-12-05 13:00: Phylogeography reveals South Africa's hidden vertebrate diversity (Paulette Bloomer, University of Pretoria, South Africa)

2007-12-06 17:00: Testing hypotheses about sexual selection and species recognition in Australian Bowerbirds using principles from sensory ecology (John Endler, University of California, Santa Barbara)

2008-01-17 16:00: CANCELLED (Tim Blackburn, Institute of Zoology London/Cambridge)

2008-01-17 16:00: Reward and uncertainty (Dr Wolfram Schultz (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-01-17 16:30: Horses for courses in intrauterine programming (Dr Abby Fowden (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-01-24 16:00: Heliconius colour patterns: from gene expression to speciation ecology (Chris Jiggins, University of Cambridge)

2008-01-24 16:00: Chromatin and pluripotency (Dr Veronique Azuara (Imperial College, London))

2008-01-31 16:00: 4D-microscopy & some results: fate, migrations, form in C. elegans & some other curious animals (Ralf Schnabel, University of Braunschweig)

2008-01-31 16:00: Stem Cells, cancer and brain repair. (Dr Colin Watts (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair))

2008-02-07 16:00: The early evolutionary history of amniote vertebrates: new insights, new fossils. (Johannes Müller, Humboldt University Berlin)

2008-02-07 16:00: Cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease – Hype or Hope? (Dr Roger Barker (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair))

2008-02-14 16:00: How do insects generate fast and powerful movements? (Malcolm Burrows, University of Cambridge)

2008-02-14 16:00: The secret life of neural stem cells (Dr Kojiro Yano (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-02-14 16:30: Metabolic adaptation to high altitude hypoxia. (Dr Andrew Murray (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-02-21 16:00: Patterning the fish inner ear: development and evolution (Tanya Whitfield, University of Sheffield)

2008-02-21 16:00: Early intracellular Abeta amyloid pathology and its relevance to Alzheimer's therapeutics (Dr Claudio Cuello (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada))

2008-02-28 16:00: The Mammoth's Tale: Evolution and Extinction in the Ice Age (Adrian Lister, Natural History Museum London)

2008-02-28 16:00: The role of Pax genes in neurogenic placode identity (Dr Clare Baker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-02-28 16:30: The lamprey locomotor network and functional recovery after spinal injury (Dr David Parker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-03-06 16:00: mRNA quality control: How do cells recognize and degrade aberrant mRNAs? (Elisa Izaurralde, Max Planck Inst Developmental Biology, Tuebingen)

2008-03-06 16:00: Computational modelling of structural and functional development of the visual system. (Dr Stephen Eglen (DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Science))

2008-03-13 16:00: Macrophage migration and chemotaxis in Drosophila embryos (Will Wood, University of Bath)

2008-03-20 16:00: Ecosystem decay in Amazonian forest fragments (Bill Laurance, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)

2008-04-24 16:00: Genetic control of tissue growth and form in Drosophila (Barry Thompson, Cancer Research UK)

2008-04-24 16:00: Placental evolution, structure and function. (Dr Peter Wooding, PDN)

2008-04-24 16:30: Phototransduction in Drosophila. (Professor Roger Hardie, PDN)

2008-04-28 14:00: Emerging complexities in the recovery of Canadian lakes from acidification: the influence of climate change, metal toxicity and Ca decline (Norman Yan, York University Toronto)

2008-05-01 16:00: Stem cell renewal and lineage selection in mammalian epidermis. (Dr Fiona Watt, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge)

2008-05-08 16:00: Timing the end of neural proliferation in Drosophila (Alex Gould, National Institute for Medical Research London)

2008-05-08 16:00: Analysis of cell movement in early embryos. (Dr Benedicte Sanson, PDN)

2008-05-08 16:30: Imaging sub-cellular pH dynamics: from synapse to acinus. (Dr Christof Schwiening, PDN)

2008-05-15 16:00: Sexual dimorphism, life history, and social structure in early hominin species (Charlie Lockwood, University College London)

2008-05-15 16:00: The mammalian Y chromosome and infertility. (Dr Paul Burgoyne, NIMR, MRC, London)

2008-05-22 16:00: Molecular Architecture of the novel RNA binding protein Rrp47 and its role in Exosome-Mediated RNA Processing and Surveillance (Phil Mitchell, University of Sheffield)

2008-05-22 16:00: Struggling to measure the number of protons pumped in by the calcium pump in snail neurones. (Professor Roger Thomas, PDN)

2008-05-22 16:30: A magnesium-inhibitable conductance hyperpolarises the resting membrane potential of the human erythroleukemia cell line (Dr Michael Mason)

2008-05-29 16:00: What comes next in biological microscopy? (Brad Amos, MRC Molecular Biology Cambridge)

2008-05-29 16:00: Why does it hurt so much? Understanding the neurobiology of pain. (Professor Steve McMahon, King’s College, London)

2008-06-05 16:00: Fossils and phylogeny: a waste of time? (Matthew Wills, University of Bath)

2008-06-05 16:00: To Cross or Not To Cross? Transcriptional Control of Axonal Pathfinding Choices. (Dr Sara I. Wilson, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York)

2008-06-12 16:00: Evo-Devo and 'Typological Thinking': An Exculpation (Tim Lewens, University of Cambridge)

2008-10-09 13:00: Insulin-like peptide signaling in renal tubules of Drosophila is under control of stress-induced release of tachykinin-related peptide (Dick Nassel, University of Stockholm)

2008-10-09 16:00: Alien movements across space and time: non-randomness in bird introductions (Tim Blackburn, Institute of Zoology London)

2008-10-09 16:00: Mouse molecular genetic studies of axon degeneration (Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

2008-10-16 16:00: Diversification of the Toxicofera reptile venom system (Brian Fry, University of Melbourne)

2008-10-16 16:00: Consider the mother as a pressure vessel: Adventures in Bioengineering and Obstetrics (Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering, Cambridge)

2008-10-23 16:00: Evolution of the central nervous system in animals: a cell type comparative approach (Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg)

2008-10-23 16:00: Synaptic specificity in the visual system (Josh Sanes, Harvard University)

2008-10-30 16:00: Axons, ions and injury: why synaptic machinery is present in your white matter and what it means for your chances during stroke (Robert Fern, University of Leicester)

2008-10-30 16:00: Segregation of cell fate in C. elegans embryos (Carrie Cowan, IMP Vienna)

2008-11-06 16:00: Controlling neural stem cell fates in the Drosophila optic lobe (Boris Egger, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-06 16:00: Motor learning and the cerebellum: more of those blinking bunnies (Steve Edgley, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-06 16:00: West Indian mammal extinctions: how much do we know? (Sam Turvey, Institute of Zoology London)

2008-11-13 16:00: Macroecology of the oceans (Simon Jennings, CEFAS Lowestoft)

2008-11-13 16:00: Making new motor neurons in the spinal cord of zebrafish (Catherina Becker, University of Edinburgh)

2008-11-20 16:00: Disease, experiment and physiology (James Fitzsimons, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-20 16:00: Measuring osmotic modulation of synaptic responses (Richard Dyball, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-20 16:00: Causes and consequences of avian personality differences (Kees van Oers, Netherlands Institute of Ecology)

2008-11-27 16:00: Complex mechanisms of simple memories: from miRNAs to (perhaps) attention (Mani Ramaswami, Trinity College, Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin)

2008-11-27 16:00: Hominoid ancestral population sizes and human-chimpanzee speciation (Ziheng Yang, UCL)

2008-12-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Magda Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge)

2008-12-04 16:00: Sex ratios and rarity in birds: an unhappy balance? (Paul Donald, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)

2009-01-15 16:00: The Music of Life: metaphors for 21st century biology (Denis Noble, University of Oxford)

2009-01-22 16:00: Some evolutionary and neurophysiological aspects of hearing in bush crickets (Andreas Stumpner, Uni-Goettingen)

2009-01-22 16:00: Tonic inhibition regulates the transfer of sensory information through the cerebellar cortex (Ian Duguid)

2009-01-29 16:00: New insights into neurogenic hypertension (Julian Paton, University of Bristol)

2009-01-29 16:00: The mammalian middle ear: development, evolution and hearing defects (Abigail Tucker, Kings College London)

2009-01-30 17:00: How can the invasive Asian clam help us tackle freshwater pollution? (Nicole Spann)

2009-01-30 17:30: The interaction of epigenetic remodelling and nuclear reprogramming, following nuclear transfer to an amphibian oocyte (Richard Halley-Stott)

2009-02-05 16:00: CANCELLED due to inclement weather (Andy Radford, Univ Bristol)

2009-02-06 17:00: Microcephaly genes and primate brain size evolution (Stephen Montgomery (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Evolutionary Genetics Group))

2009-02-06 17:30: Information-Energy trade-offs in spiking and graded cells (Biswa Sengupta (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Insect Vision Group))

2009-02-12 16:00: Exploring the hair follicle as an unconventional, but highly instructive tool for neuroendocrine research (Ralf Paus, Uni-Luebeck, University of Manchester)

2009-02-12 16:00: Plasticity, Regeneration and Repair of Spinal Cord Injury (James Fawcett, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)

2009-02-13 17:00: Somatic knock-ins + Chemical Genetics = Unveiling the specific roles of Cdk1 and Aurora A (Paola Marco (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cell Biology Group))

2009-02-13 17:30: Large-scale genetic structure and the demographic history of the domestic horse (Vera Warmuth (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Archaeogenetics Group))

2009-02-19 16:00: RNA-based guidance in axons (Christine Holt, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2009-02-19 16:00: Olfactory specialist D. sechellia avoids costly appetitive learning (Teun Dekker, SLU Alnarp, Sweden)

2009-02-20 17:00: Genetic linkage and reproductive isolation in Heliconius butterflies (Richard Merrill (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Butterfly Genetics Group))

2009-02-20 17:30: Pups and personality: Individual variation in helping behaviour in cooperative meerkats (Sinead English (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Large Animal Research Group))

2009-02-26 16:00: Cardiac t-tubules: Ca2+ handling microdomains (Clive Orchard, University of Bristol)

2009-02-26 16:00: Control of microtubule length by depolymerizing kinesins (Joe Howard, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden)

2009-02-27 17:00: Investigating nuclear reprogramming of the mammalian inactive X chromosome by somatic cell nuclear transfer to Xenopus laevis oocytes (Vincent Pasque (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology))

2009-02-27 17:30: The importance of forest fragments in the oil-palm matrix. Could parasitoids save the rainforest? (Tim Cockerill (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Insect Ecology Group))

2009-03-05 16:00: Dendrite development - insights from insects (Darren Williams, Kings College London)

2009-03-05 16:00: G L Brown prize lecture: "And the beat goes on. The cardiac conduction system: the wiring of the heart" (Mark Boyett, University of Manchester)

2009-03-06 17:00: Deceptive signalling strategies in the fork-tailed drongo (Tom Flower (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Bird Behavioural Ecology Group))

2009-03-06 17:30: Evo-devo and the bristle patterning of flies: attempting targeted transfer of gene regulatory regions between species (Richard Wallbank (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Skylab))

2009-03-12 16:00: Mechanism of microtubule plus-end tracking by EB1 and CLIP-170 elucidated by in vitro reconstitution (Thomas Surrey, EMBL Heidelberg)

2009-03-18 16:00: Molecular and computational aspects of neuronal motility (Professor Vincent Torre, SISSA, Trieste)

2009-04-23 16:00: How can lead poisoning of California Condors be prevented? (Rhys Green, University of Cambridge)

2009-04-23 16:00: Glass figures: a role for complex cells in visual processing? (David Berry, University of Cambridge)

2009-04-23 16:00: Glass figures: a role for complex cells in visual processing? (Horace Barlow, University of Cambridge)

2009-04-24 17:00: Elucidation of cyclin A function in the human cell cycle through proteomics (Felicia Walton (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cell Biology Group))

2009-04-24 17:30: The genetics of pigmentation in the Red-billed quelea (Neil Walsh (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Evolutionary Genetics Group))

2009-04-30 16:00: Integrative and systems approaches to osmoregulation in insects (and people) (Julian Dow, University of Glasgow)

2009-04-30 16:00: Epigenetic control of genome function - physiology development and neuroscience of genomic imprinting in mouse (Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-01 17:00: Contextual influences in filial imprinting; behaviour and neural correlates (Stephen Town (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology))

2009-05-01 17:30: Silicification in Eukaryotes (Alan Marron (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Development and Evolution Group))

2009-05-07 16:00: Role of the human origin recognition complex ORC in DNA replication (Aloys Schepers, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich)

2009-05-07 16:00: Connexins and carbonic anhydrases: pH regulators in heart and in cancer (Richard Vaughan-Jones, University of Oxford)

2009-05-08 17:00: Histone modification changes upon DNA damage (Jorrit Tjeertes (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology))

2009-05-14 16:00: The Evolution of Human Languages (Mark Pagel, University of Reading)

2009-05-14 16:00: Function and regulation of the PTEN tumour suppressor in neurons: from axon guidance to soma size control (Britta Eickholt, King's College London)

2009-05-15 17:00: Genetic susceptibility to bovine tuberculosis in UK cattle (Erin Driscoll (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Molecular Ecology Group))

2009-05-15 17:30: Variation in response to intruder scent cues in meerkats (Cesar Raff Mares (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Large Animal Research Group))

2009-05-21 16:00: Studies of wound healing and inflammation in flies (Paul Martin, University of Bristol)

2009-05-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Sarah Bray, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-28 16:00: Ecomorphological diversification and origins of major clades in early mammal evolution (Zhe-Xi Luo, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh)

2009-06-04 16:00: Synchronization of the Drosophila circadian clock by daily light and temperature fluctuations (Ralf Stanewsky, Queen Mary College, University of London)

2009-06-11 16:00: Plasticity of sex pheromone detection in male moths: modulation of behaviour and central nervous processing (Sylvia Anton, Centre de Recherches de Versailles)

2009-09-28 16:00: How to control respiration: hydroxylation, hypoxia, and HIF (Professor Randall Johnson (University of California))

2009-10-08 16:00: Phylodynamics of HIV-1 infection and escape from neutralizing antibodies (Simon Frost, Dept Veterinary Medicine, Univ Cambridge)

2009-10-08 16:00: "Shaping the amniote embryo: the cellular mechanisms of chick morphogenesis (Octavian Voiculescu, Dept of PDN)

2009-10-15 16:00: Conflict and cooperation in social birds (Andy Radford, University of Bristol)

2009-10-15 16:00: Pathobiology of antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies (David Lomas, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Addenbrookes Site, Cambridge)

2009-10-20 16:00: The Evolution of Creationism (Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education USA)

2009-10-22 16:00: Cancelled (Enrico Coen, John Innes Center, Norwich)

2009-10-22 16:00: Physics, development, and evolution of avian structural colors (Richard Prum, Yale University)

2009-10-29 16:00: 'Understanding the MRC's failure to fund Edwards' and Steptoe's work that led to the birth of Louise Brown (Martin Johnson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge)

2009-10-29 16:00: Life in rotten places: how O2 and CO2 sensing alter foraging in a worm (Mario DeBono, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2009-11-05 16:00: "Chromatin architecture and transcription: a view form the fly genome" (Steve Russell, Dept of Genetics, Cambridge)

2009-11-05 16:00: Comparative analysis of the evolutionary development of brain size in mammals (Isabella Capellini, University of Durham)

2009-11-12 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Steve Williams, MRC LMB, Cambridge)

2009-11-12 16:00: Smart foot sweat: two phasic foot pad secretion prevents slipping (Chris Clemente, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-13 17:00: The Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Blood (John Cannon)

2009-11-19 16:00: Clockwork in the embryo (Julian lewis)

2009-11-19 16:00: Does morality need religion? A selectionist approach (Robert Hinde, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-20 17:30: Seabirds as Indicator Species in the Southern Ocean (Claire Tancell)

2009-11-26 16:00: The importance of context in protein misfolding and aggregation (Anne Bertolotti, MRC LMB, Cambridge)

2009-11-26 16:00: Actin, pseudopods, and chemotaxis - cell biological and computational modelling approaches to cellular navigation (Robert Insall, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow)

2009-11-27 17:00: Biomechanical Problems of Load Transport: How Grass-Cutting Ants Avoid Falling Over (Karin Moll)

2009-11-27 17:30: Natural Hybridization in Heliconius Butterflies and the Role of Hybridization in Biological Diversification (Patricio Salazar)

2009-12-02 16:00: Obesity and insulin resistance: Lessons from human genetics (Prof. Stephen O’Rahilly, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge)

2009-12-03 16:00: The evolutionary biomechanics of dinosaur locomotion (John Hutchinson, Royal Veterinary College, Univ London)

2009-12-03 16:00: A systems approach to cellular shape and motion (Professor Jonathon Howard, Director of Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

2009-12-04 17:00: A Bird's Eye View: Egg Pattern Mimicry by the Common Cuckoo (Mary Caswell Stoddard)

2009-12-04 17:30: Information and Energy Optimization in the Fly Visual System (Nikon Rasumov)

2010-01-14 16:00: Mycobacterial disease in Drosophila: old signals, new biology (Marc Dionne, Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology of Inflammation, King's College London)

2010-01-15 17:00: The Influence of Phase Change on Learning and Memory in Desert Locusts (Patricio Simoes)

2010-01-15 17:30: Signatures of Historical Demography and Pathogen Richness on MHC Genes (Nouar Qutob)

2010-01-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Lopez-Barneo)

2010-01-21 16:00: The developmental origins of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome (Susan Ozanne, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

2010-01-22 17:00: Integrating Costs into Priorities for Conservation Planning in a Biodiversity Hotspot (Jonathan Green)

2010-01-22 17:30: Top Tips for Organ Shape (Helen Weavers)

2010-01-28 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Emma Rawlins)

2010-01-28 16:00: Multi-legged running in the real world: how do cockroaches, dogs, and horses handle different surfaces? (Andrew Spence, Royal Veterinary College London)

2010-01-29 17:00: Shells and Stones: Molluscan Analyses as a Means of Characterizing Hominin Habitats during the Pleistocene (Tom White)

2010-01-29 17:30: Analysis of Kinesin-1 function during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis (Lucy Williams)

2010-02-04 16:00: Taking shape; how Drosophila renal tubules find their way (Helen Skaer, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-05 17:30: Population Dynamics in Meerkats (Andrew Bateman)

2010-02-11 16:00: "Useful or just trendy? Using physics to solve biological problems" (Dr Miodownik- King's College London)

2010-02-11 16:00: The Cognitive Architecture of a Mini Brain: Lessons from Honeybees (Martin Giurfa, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)

2010-02-12 17:00: The Regulation of Motoneuron Dendrite Growth in the Fruit Fly Larva (Maarten Zwart)

2010-02-12 17:30: Identifying PCNA Interactors in Human Cells (Simon Cooper)

2010-02-18 16:00: Fifty Years of Wild Chimpanzee Tool Use: Where Do We Stand? (Bill McGrew, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge)

2010-02-18 16:00: Autocorrelation and Pinwheels in Primary Visual Cortex’ (Prof Horace Barlow and Dr David Berry, PDN, Cambridge)

2010-02-19 17:00: A Total Evidence Analysis of Ruminant Systematics (Eva Baermann)

2010-02-19 17:30: Life-history trade-offs in the evolution of insect parental care (redux) (James Gilbert)

2010-02-25 16:00: Social cognition: lessons from corvids and children (Nicky Clayton, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-25 16:00: "Development and organisation of connectivity in an embryonic motor (Dr Matthias Landgraf)

2010-02-26 17:00: Replication Fork Dynamics - In Vivo Analysis of PCNA-interacting Proteins (Shiphali Shetty)

2010-02-26 17:30: Organizational Principles of the Locomotor Network of Drosophila Melanogaster (Temur Yunusov)

2010-03-04 16:00: ‘Seeing is believing: imaging Ca2+-signalling events in living cells’ (Prof Graham McGeown, Queen's University, Belfast)

2010-03-05 17:00: Exploring the Relationship between Extinction Risk and Skewed Adult Sex Ratios (Jo Venables)

2010-03-11 16:00: Molecular and cellular mechanisms for cold sensing' (Prof Carlos Belmonte)

2010-03-11 17:00: Neural mechanisms of sky compass orientation in the desert locust (NOTE LATE START 17:00) (Uwe Homberg, University of Marburg, Germany)

2010-04-22 16:00: Evolutionary genetics of mito-nuclear cooperation, fitness and disease in Drosophila (David Rand, Brown University)

2010-04-29 00:00: CANCELLED (Olivier Hyrien, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)

2010-05-06 16:00: How and why desert ants learn habitual routes (Matthew Collett, University of Exeter)

2010-05-13 16:00: The Allure of the Centipede (Michael Akam, Department of Zoology, Cambridge)

2010-05-20 16:00: From genes to shape: notions from the study of the Drosophila tracheal system (Jordi Casanova, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona)

2010-05-27 13:00: Termites as ecosystem engineers. Water, soils and architecture in _Macrotermes_ mounds in Namibia (J. Scott Turner, Syracuse University USA)

2010-05-27 16:00: Specification of muscle identity in Drosophila (Laurence Dubois, Centre de Biologie du Développement, Toulouse)

2010-06-03 16:00: p38 SAPK signaling protects the Drosophila larval hindgut against chronic stress (Hugo Stocker, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich)

2010-06-10 16:00: Opening a window on primate and afrotherian evolution: new early Tertiary mammals from Algeria and Tunisia (Rodolphe Tabuce, Université Montpellier 2)

2010-09-16 16:00: Homeostatic growth in the Drosophila intestine (Bruce Edgar, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany)

2010-10-07 16:00: Potassium channel and Calcium signalling in Drosophila learning (James Hodge, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol)

2010-10-14 16:00: Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina revealed by two-photon laser scanning and serial block-face scanning electron microscopy (Kevin Briggman (Denk lab), Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg)

2010-10-21 16:00: Is life impossible? Information, sex and the origin of complex organisms (Joel Peck,	Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex)

2010-10-28 16:00: Seeing in the dark: Vision and visual behaviour in nocturnal insects (Eric Warrant, Department of Cell and Organism, University of Lund)

2010-10-28 16:00: Motor circuit dysfunction in a Drosophila model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Dr. Wendy Imlach, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York)

2010-11-04 16:00: The evolution and function of jaws: a study in taxonomic, morphological and functional variation (Emily Rayfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol)

2010-11-04 16:00: Analysis of synaptic connectivity and function in the cerebellum in vivo (Prof Henrik Jörntell, Lund University, Sweden)

2010-11-11 16:00: Why pain gets worse - the molecular basis of sensitization (Peter McNaughton, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-11 16:00: The nerve dependence of vertebrate limb regeneration (Prof Jeremy Brockes, University College London)

2010-11-12 17:00: Jaws 5: The Beginning (Kelly Richards)

2010-11-12 17:30: The Ins and Outs of Fly Guts (Paula Cognigni)

2010-11-18 16:00: DNA combing and massive sequencing of replication intermediates suggest a domino model for replication origin activation in the human genome (Olivier Hyrien, Department of Biology, ENS Paris)

2010-11-18 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-11-25 16:00: Control of sexual differentiation and behavior by the doublesex gene in Drosophila melanogaster (Stephen Goodwin, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)

2010-11-25 16:00: Rotavirus Calciomics: An Opera in Several Acts (Prof Fabian Michelangeli, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela)

2010-11-26 17:00: Scans and Skulls and Holes and Moles (Nick Crumpton)

2010-11-26 17:30: Developmental and functional crosstalk between the Drosophila gut and its neighboring tissues (Gerit Linneweber)

2010-12-02 12:00: Molecular neuroendocrinology:  how the brain builds its peptidergic sprinkler systems. (Paul Taghert, Washington University, St Louis)

2010-12-02 16:00: Continuous surprises: Live-Cell Imaging reveals that SMG6 and UPF1 inhibit release of nonsense mRNA from the transcription site (Oliver Mühlemann, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne)

2010-12-02 16:00: On the Role of Nitrogen Oxides in Acclimatization/Adaptation to Hypoxia (Prof Martin Feelisch, University of Warwick)

2010-12-03 17:30: Friday night at the movies: Fluorescence, lasers and 4D (Matt Benton)

2011-01-20 16:00: Mammalian phylogenomics and evolution: where are we and what is next? (Frederic Delsuc, CNRS, Universite Montpellier II, France)

2011-01-20 16:00: Neurons feel the force ‐ Mechanosensitivity in the nervous system (Dr Kristian Franze, Dept of Physics & Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ. of Cambridge)

2011-01-21 17:30: Planar Cell Polarity: pointing towards the right direction (Pedro Saavedra)

2011-01-27 16:00: Cell competition through growth factor signalling (Eugenia Piddini, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

2011-01-27 16:00: Stem Cells and Tissue Homeostasis (Dr 
Kim 
Jensen, 
Anne 
McLaren 
Laboratory 
for 
Regenerative 
Medicine)

2011-01-28 17:00: The Arts of Aerobatics and Origami in Insect flight (Kristien de Clercq)

2011-01-28 17:30: How do cells coordinate entry to mitosis? (Agata Lichawska)

2011-02-03 16:00: mRNA localisation at the neuromuscular junction (Alejandra Gardiol, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-03 16:00: How form shapes function; from sensory neurones to the organisation of the primate cortex (Dr 
Mikko 
Juusola, 
Dept 
of 
Biomedical 
Science,
 Univ 
of 
Sheffield)

2011-02-04 17:00: The centipede Strigamia maritima and the evolution of arthropod head patterning (Vera Hunnekuhl)

2011-02-04 17:30: Landscape change and its biological consequences in the Amazonian forest (Jose Ochoa-Quintero)

2011-02-10 16:00: The evolution of transcriptional regulation (Duncan Odom, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute)

2011-02-10 16:00: Infection and Autoimmunity: co‐habitation may be a good thing (Prof
. Anne 
Cooke, 
Dept 
of 
Pathology, Univ of 
Cambridge)

2011-02-11 17:30: Investment and maternal strategies in cooperative breeders (James Savage)

2011-02-17 16:00: The Drosophila intestinal epithelium as an immune barrier: from steady-state to pathology (Bruno Lemaitre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

2011-02-17 16:00: Physical aspects of collective cell migration (Dr 
Alexandre 
Kabla, 
Dept 
of 
Engineering, Univ of 
Cambridge)

2011-02-24 16:00: Epithelial repair in Drosophila (Antonio Jacinto, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal)

2011-02-25 17:00: Neural Circuits Involved in Kicking and Jumping in Locusts and Crickets (Armando Castillo)

2011-02-25 17:30: Title to be confirmed (Tom Clements)

2011-03-03 16:00: The origin and evolution of vision (Dan Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden)

2011-03-03 16:00: Can physiology and neuroscience help us understand the financial markets? (Dr 
John 
Coates, 
Judge 
Business 
School, Univ of 
Cambridge)

2011-03-04 17:30: The genetic basis of Mullerian mimicry in Heliconius melpomene (Carolina Pardo-Diaz)

2011-03-10 16:00: Neural and mechanical mechanisms of multifunctionality (Hillel Chiel, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA)

2011-03-10 16:00: Physiological and pathological plasticity in identified hippocampal inhibitory interneurons (Dr
 Karri 
Lamsa,
 Dept 
of 
Pharmacology, 
Univ 
of 
Oxford)

2011-03-17 16:00: foraging: from nature to molecule (Marla Sokolowski, University of Toronto, Canada)

2011-04-28 16:00: Transient population dynamics: implications for life history, evolution and conservation (Stuart Townley, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter)

2011-04-28 16:00: Intrinsically irregular spiking in a class of cortical inhibitory interneuron (Dr Hugh Robinson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ of Cambridge)

2011-05-05 16:00: From mice to molecules: the genetic basis of adaptation (Hopi Hoekstra, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA)

2011-05-05 16:00: Loopy Lungs in Alligators (Prof Colleen G. Farmer, Dept of Biology, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA)

2011-05-12 16:00: Calcium channels of vascular remodelling (Prof David J Beech, Inst of Membrane & Systems Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Univ of Leeds)

2011-05-12 16:00: Mechanisms of Hedgehog signalling in Drosophila epithelia (Isabel Guerrero, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain)

2011-05-19 16:00: Glutamine and its role in synaptic physiology (Dr
 Brian 
Billups, 
Dept of 
Pharmacology, Univ of 
Cambridge)

2011-05-19 16:00: Friends at the ends: a dynamic protein network controls the fate of microtubule tips (Anna Akhmanova, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

2011-05-26 16:00: Genetics and  physiology of growth in Drosophila (Pierre Leopold, Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer, University of Nice, France)

2011-05-26 16:00: Stemming Vision Loss Using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing (Prof Pete Coffey, Inst of Ophthalmology, University College London)

2011-06-02 16:00: The development and modulation of amphibian motor control systems (Keith Sillar, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Scotland)

2011-06-09 16:00: Trying to make sense of all that nonsense (-mediated mRNA decay) (Oliver Mühlemann, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne, Switzerland)

2011-06-16 16:00: Microfossils for macroevolution: planktonic foraminifera, the Court Jester and the Red Queen (Prof. Andy Purvis, Imperial College, London)

2011-07-06 12:30: Imprinting primes learning: thyroid hormone a determining factor for the critical period (Professor Koichi J. Homma, Department of Molecular Pathology, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan)

2011-07-07 16:00: Electrolyte and water transport by the Drosophila midgut (Subrata Tripathi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)

2011-09-30 11:00: ECTOPIC SEMINAR: Regulation and developmental role of the hypoxia response machinery in Drosophila (Pablo Wappner, Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

2011-10-03 16:00: ECTOPIC SEMINAR: Projecto PalNiassa: New fossils from Mozambique (Rui Castanhinha, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Museu da Lourinhã, Portugal)

2011-10-06 16:00: Luminal sensing and neuromodulation in the gut: different roles for PYY and NPY (Helen Cox, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College, London)

2011-10-13 16:00: Genetic basis of group dynamics in Drosophila (Joel Levine, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada)

2011-10-13 16:00: Genetic Shaping of Cells and Tissues. (Prof. Enrico Coen, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre)

2011-10-14 16:00: Dynamic aspects of the function and stoichiometry of ion channel complexes (Prof. Yoshihiro Kubo, National Institute for Physiological Science, Japan)

2011-10-20 16:00: Looking for novel regulators of cell morphogenesis using microscopy-based functional genomics approaches (Rafael Carazo Salas, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-20 16:00: Stemming Vision Loss using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing (Prof. Peter Coffey, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL)

2011-10-27 00:00: NO TEA TALK (Peter Lawrence Symposium) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-10-27 16:00: The egress mechanism of malaria parasites: surprising active participation of the host red cell membrane (Dr Virgilio Lew, PDN)

2011-11-02 16:30: INFORMAL SEMINAR: Development and maturation of the respiratory system in Drosophila (Maura Strigini, Heraklion, Crete)

2011-11-03 16:00: Physiomimetics: generating functional membranes for buildings (lessons from the ventilation systems of African fungus-growing termites) (Rupert Soar, Wolfson School of Engineering at Loughborough University)

2011-11-03 16:00: The importance of nature (as opposed to nurture) in the development of cortical interneurons (Dr Simon Butt, Dept. of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetic, University of Oxford)

2011-11-04 17:00: Genome re-sequencing reveals narrow islands of divergence among radiating butterflies.  (Simon Martin)

2011-11-04 17:30: Offspring sex ratio bias in meerkats (or a lack thereof).  (Kirsty MacLeod)

2011-11-10 15:30: Developmental function and possible role in morphological evolution of the vertebrate Cdx genes (Stephen Gaunt, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

2011-11-17 16:00: Nano-scale pathfinders: how kinesins move along the microtubule (Zeynep Oekten, Institute for Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany)

2011-11-24 16:00: Dynamics of mammalian chromosome evolution (Aurora Ruiz Herrera, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

2011-11-25 17:30: Stripes and rings: how to make a centipede.  (Jack Green)

2011-12-01 16:00: The molecular and neuronal control of nutrient decisions in Drosophila (Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)

2011-12-09 17:30: Flies and cameras in times of economic crisis. (Francisco Hernandez)

2012-01-19 16:00: Local coordination of cell polarity through cell-cell interactions (Professor David Strutt - MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield)

2012-01-26 16:00: From fly embryos to single molecule studies: elucidating molecular mechanisms of cytoplasmic mRNA transport (Dr Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2012-02-02 16:00: The role of mitochondrial DNA in neuronal development and neurodegeneration (Dr Joseph Bateman, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London)

2012-02-09 16:00: A sixth sense: the development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors (Dr Clare Baker, Dept. of PDN)

2012-02-09 16:00: Regulating the actin cytoskeleton during Drosophila oogenesis (Dr Margot Quinlan, UCLA)

2012-02-10 17:30: An invasive species as a biofilter to improve water quality: using the bad guys for good.  (Claire McLaughlan)

2012-02-10 17:30: Understanding locust phase-shift.  (Katja Stettin)

2012-02-16 16:00: Decision-making in animal collectives (Dr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Cajal Institute, Spain)

2012-02-16 16:00: Organogenesis during planarian regeneration (Dr Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)

2012-02-23 16:00: Polycomb complexes co-associate with a specific RNA polymerase II variant in ES cells (Prof. Ana Pombo, Imperial College London)

2012-02-23 16:00: Statistical inference in the fossil record: estimating the divergence time of primates (Professor Simon Tavaré,  Department of Oncology University of Cambridge)

2012-02-24 17:30: Are epiphytes important in oil palm plantations?  (Graham Prescott)

2012-02-24 17:30: Roles of sperm factors in the nuclear reprogramming. (Marta Teperek)

2012-03-01 16:00: Symphony of a thousand hair cells: orchestrating auditory development (Prof. Corne Kros, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex)

2012-03-01 16:00: Strategies to ensure robustness in genome replication (Prof. Julian Blow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee)

2012-03-08 16:00: Micro-RNAs, oscillations and neural progenitor maintenance (Prof. Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universtity of Manchester)

2012-03-08 16:00: Potentials and Challenges of Developing Ecosystem-Based Co-management: A Case Study From the Swedish West Coast (Dr Andrea Morf, University of Gothenburg, and the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment)

2012-03-15 16:00: All things bright and beautiful; structural colour in biological systems (Dr Pete Vukusic, Department of Physics, University of Exeter)

2012-03-16 17:30: Startle displays: halting predator attack.  (Alexandra Torok)

2012-03-23 17:30: A window to the past: Does adult ornamental plumage reveal early life environments? (Leila Walker)

2012-04-20 17:30: Ecological Transactions go Bonk. (Yangchen Lin)

2012-04-26 16:00: The physics of bird coloration (Professor Doekele Stavenga, University of Groningen, NL.)

2012-04-26 16:00: How much calcium does caffeine release from the endoplasmic reticulum in a large snail neurone? (Prof. Roger Thomas, PDN)

2012-05-03 16:00: Without a leg to stand on: locomotion in the earliest "land" animals (Dr Stephanie Pierce, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge and The Royal Veterinary College, London)

2012-05-03 16:00: Synaptic time-windows underlying neurodevelopmental disorders (Dr Rhiannon Meredith, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Netherlands)

2012-05-10 16:00: Controlling recombination: from worms to human disease (Professor Simon Boulton, CRUK Clare Hall Laboratories, UK.)

2012-05-10 16:00: Epo's impact on exercise performance (Prof. Max Gassmann, University of Zurich, Swisserland)

2012-05-17 16:00: Neurochemical control of aggression  - insights from crickets (Professor Paul Stevenson, University of Leipzig, Germany)

2012-05-17 16:00: Origin and properties of adult neural stem cells in the zebrafish brain: role of Notch signaling (Prof. Laure Bally-Cuif, University of Paris Sud, France)

2012-05-24 16:00: Mechanism regulating neural differentiation (Prof. Kate Storey, Cell and Devlopmental Biology division, University of Dundee)

2012-05-24 16:00: The genetics underlying emergence and diversification of a wing decoration in fruitflies (Dr Nicolas Gompel, IBDML, Marseille, France)

2012-05-25 17:30: Intensification of West African agriculture: socio-economic processes and gender-influenced patterns in bird distribution.  (Hope Usieta)

2012-05-25 17:30: Migrants in winter: how do ecological conditions in Africa affect the individual success of trans-Saharan migratory birds? (Marjorie Sorensen)

2012-05-31 16:00: Coordinating developmental timing with tissue growth (Dr Alisson Gontijo, Instituto de Neurociencias, CSIC-UMH Unidad de Neurobiología del Desarrollo, Alicante)

2012-06-07 16:00: Sequencing nucleic acids: from chemistry to life sciences and personalised medicine (Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian, Dept of Chemistry)

2012-06-07 16:00: The secret lives of the translesion polymerases (Dr Julian Sale, LMB, Cambridge)

2012-06-12 16:00: Using C. elegans as a model for neurodegenerative diseases (Chris Li, City College of New York, USA)

2012-06-14 16:00: Food for thought: visceral control of nutritional decisions in Drosophila (Dr Irene Miguel-Aliag, Dept of Zoology)

2012-07-05 16:00: Cows under the radar: The genetics of tuberculosis susceptibility in Britain (Bill Amos - Department of Zoology)

2012-07-19 16:00: 'Bacterial community diversity of the American alligator gastrointestinal tract' ( Sarah Keenan - Louisiana State University)

2012-07-26 16:00: Be careful what you wish for: the issues and politics of generating a potentially human-to-human transmissible bird flu virus (Professor Derek Smith. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.)

2012-10-04 16:00:  From Mammoth to Microscope: Life History and Dental Development in Mammals (Dr Wendy Dirks, University of Newcastle)

2012-10-10 14:00: Microtubule assemblers (Rob Cross, Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology,Warwick Medical School )

2012-10-11 16:00: The Promises of a Polychrome Retina  (Professor Bill Harris.  Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University )

2012-10-18 16:00: What is evidence-based reproductive medicine and what part did the Physiology Department in Cambridge play historically in its development? (Professor Martin Johnson. Cambridge University. )

2012-10-25 16:00: Space, sleep, brain rhythms and memory (Dr Mayank Mehta. UCLA.)

2012-11-01 16:00: Auxin, self-organisation and the colonial nature of plants (Dr Ottoline Leyser. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. )

2012-11-01 16:00:  From VB Wigglesworth to H-factors. Lessons from my first 50 years of research (Peter A. Lawrence, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-08 16:00: Ephrin and netrin synergy in spinal motor neuron axon guidance (Dr. Artur Kania, Neural Circuit Development research unit Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM))

2012-11-09 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Yanmin Zhou)

2012-11-09 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Pieter Santema)

2012-11-15 16:00: Combinatorial and Dynamic Control Logic within pathogen-responsive Gene Regulatory Networks (Professor Alexander Hoffmann. University of California San Diego.  )

2012-11-16 10:00: A histone tail:  Pre-messenger RNA splicing and the coordinated control of gene expression (Dr Tracy Johnson. UC San Diego.)

2012-11-22 16:00: An as-if model of economic decision making (Dr Ian Krajbich.  Department of Economics, University of Zurich )

2012-12-10 17:00: Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history. (Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany)

2012-12-13 17:00: Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of  today with a complex evolutionary history  (Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany)

2013-01-17 16:00: The human endometrium - dynamics and disorders (Professor Philippa Saunders.  University of Ediburgh. )

2013-01-24 16:00: Pituitary hypoplasia and decreased GnRH neurogenesis in Sox2-deficient Mice (Dr. Juan Pedro Martinez-Barbera.  UCL Institute of Child Health)

2013-02-07 16:00: The microvasculature - an early marker/driver of CVD risk across the life-course (Professor Geraldine Clough.  University of Southampton.  )

2013-02-08 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dave Daversa)

2013-02-08 16:30: In the Belly of the Beeb (Nick Crumpton)

2013-02-14 16:00: Food for thought: nutrients and neural stem cells in Drosophila (Dr Alex Gould. MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.)

2013-02-21 16:00: Depolarizing GABA actions in development and disease: back to the future (Professor Kai Kaila. Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki. )

2013-02-22 16:30: Do mites influence social interactions in the burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides? (Ornela De Gasperin Quintero)

2013-02-28 16:00: Mechanisms underlying the developmental origins of health and disease (Dr Sue Ozanne)

2013-03-07 16:00: Some assembly required: In vitro reconstitution of cellular structures (Professor Dan Fletcher. University of California Berkeley. )

2013-03-08 17:00: Jumping without slipping: spiders need sticky feet for take-off (Hanns Hagen)

2013-03-22 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Marius Somveille)

2013-03-22 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Ramona Mogling)

2013-04-05 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Alexander Hackmann)

2013-04-05 17:00: Title to be confirmed (David Labonte)

2013-04-18 16:00: Open Access: common good or uncommon danger? (Stephen Curry (Imperial Collge London))

2013-04-25 16:00: Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty (Andrew Balmford (Department of Zoology, Cambridge))

2013-05-02 16:00: Sheep Models of Human Neurodegenerative Disease. How, where and why? (Prof Jenny Morton. PDN, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-02 16:00: Life, death and resurrection in the Early Carboniferous (Jenny Clack (Department of Zoology, Cambridge))

2013-05-03 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Krzysztof Kozak)

2013-05-03 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Alexis Braun)

2013-05-16 16:00: The mechanical control of CNS development and functioning (Dr Kristian Franze. PDN, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-16 16:00: Museums and Science (Ian Owens (Natural History Museum, London))

2013-05-23 16:00: Actin cortex mechanics in animal cell morphogenesis (Prof Ewa Paluch. MRC LMCB, University College London)

2013-05-23 16:00: Fifty Years of Computers, statistics and the Tree of Life (Anthony Edwards (University of Cambridge))

2013-05-30 16:00: Live imaging of inflammation in wound healing and cancer (Prof Paul Martin.  School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol. )

2013-05-31 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Lina Maria Arenas)

2013-05-31 17:00: How to bridge the gaps between conservation science and practice (Jessica Walsh)

2013-06-13 16:00: MeCP2 in the brain and beyond: from biology to disease (Dr Stuart Cobb. Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow)

2013-06-13 16:00: The end of taxonomy as we know it? (Alfred Vogler (University of East Anglia))

2013-06-28 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Kwaku Aduse-Poku)

2013-06-28 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Thanh-Lan Gluckman)

2013-10-17 16:00: Studies on the evolutionary and functional morphology of mammalian ear ossicles (Prof Dr Wolfgang Maier (Chair of Systematic Zoology (emeritus) University of Tübingen))

2013-11-07 16:00: Tales from Television: bringing the natural world to your living room (George McGavin (University of Oxford))

2013-11-14 16:00: Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution (Rebecca Stott (University of East Anglia, Norwich))

2013-11-27 16:00: TBC (muscle metabolism in extreme environments) (Dr Lindsay Edwards, GlaxoSmithKline, Director (Metabolism and Systems Biology))

2013-12-04 16:00: Gender, Science and Myths of Merit (Marlene Zuk (University of Minnesota))

2013-12-06 16:30: Finding the balance: agriculture, biodiversity, and ecosystem services (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-12-06 16:30: Finding the balance: agriculture, biodiversity, and ecosystem services (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-01-16 16:00: All for one and one for all: single-cell properties in the service of circuit-level computations (Dr Máté Lengyel, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2014-01-23 16:00: Dendritic Potassium Channel Regulation by Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP) (Dr HyeYoung Lee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California in San Francisco)

2014-01-24 16:30: Investigation of the molecular mechanisms of Minute competition in Drosophila (Iwo Kucinski (University of Cambridge))

2014-01-24 17:00: Diversity and function of stream invertebrates in tropical forest and oil palm ecosystems in Sabah, Malaysia: Effects of habitat conversion and strategies for conservation (Sarah Luke (University of Cambridge))

2014-02-07 17:00: The role of previous social experience on risk-taking and leadership behaviour in three-spined sticklebacks (Jolle Jolles)

2014-02-20 16:00: Insights into human biology from patterns of genetic variation (Dr Chris Tyler-Smith - The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

2014-02-21 16:30: Modelling the Drosophila pair-rule gene system (Erik Clark)

2014-02-21 17:00: Cow vs. bird: Balancing food production and biodiversity conservation in the Neotropics (David Williams (University of Cambridge))

2014-02-27 16:00: Allosteric and genetic modulation of brain inhibition (Prof Trevor Smart; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London)

2014-03-06 16:00: Cortical HCN channels: function, trafficking and plasticity (Dr Mala Shah; Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy)

2014-03-13 16:00: Regulation of lymphocyte development and activation by RNA binding proteins and non-coding RNA (Dr Martin Turner; Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development, The Babraham Institute)

2014-03-21 17:00: Cricket’s Playlist: an evolutionary neuroanalysis of the singing central pattern generators in different cricket species. (Pedro Jacob (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-21 17:00: Cricket’s Playlist: an evolutionary neuroanalysis of the singing central pattern generators in different cricket species. (Pedro Jacob (University of Cambridge))

2014-04-24 16:00: Molecular regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells in distinct cell states (Shahragim Tajbakhsh - Institut Pasteur, Stem Cells & Development)

2014-05-08 16:00: Hippocampal network dynamics underpinning the emergence and persistence of spatial memories (David Dupret - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

2014-05-22 16:00: Mechanisms and Evolution of Transcriptional Control in Mammals (Dr. Duncan Odom - Cancer Research UK - Cambridge Institute at University of Cambridge.)

2014-05-29 16:00: GL Brown Lecture: Calcium in the heart: from physiology to disease (Professor David Eisner - Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester)

2014-05-30 16:00: Reward Inference by Prefrontal and Striatal neurons and their interaction (Prof. Masamichi Sakagami - Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute)

2014-06-05 16:00:  The first heart beat: initiation of cardiac contractile activity (Dr. Shankar Srinivas - Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics - University of Oxford)

2014-06-12 16:00: The Reward Prediction Error of Dopamine Neurons: What information does it convey and how is it generated? (Dr. Christopher D. Fiorillo - Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST - Daejeon, Korea)

2014-07-11 17:00: Consistency in leaf use by tooth-billed bowerbirds (Carmen Panayi)

2014-07-25 16:30: Periodic incremental markings in the enamel of cynodonts and mammaliaforms: the origin of mammalian growth patterns (Rachel O'Meara)

2014-07-25 17:00: Antigenic variation among dengue viruses (Leah Katzelnick)

2014-08-08 16:30: Foraging ecology, distribution and individual specialisation of brown skuas (Ana Carneiro)

2014-08-08 17:00: Conservation of reef sharks in Arabia: between science and fisherman gossip (Dareen Almojil)

2014-08-22 16:30: The Bush-crow, the swallow, and a curious climate bubble (Andrew Bladon)

2014-08-22 17:00: Acoustic classification of New World bats based on phylogenetic and ecological constraints on call design (Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez)

2014-10-09 16:00: A Deadly Game of “Tag”: Insect Aerial Predation as a Model for Sensorimotor Processing (Dr. Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2014-10-16 16:00: Cyclic Nucleotides and Neural Control of Cardiac Excitability in Cardiovascular Disease (Professor David Paterson, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)

2014-10-30 16:00: Collective Cell Migration: A Cellular, Molecular & Modelling Approach (Professor Roberto Mayor, UCL, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology)

2014-11-06 16:00: Cell Migration & Gradient Sensing: Lessons from Zebrafish Neutrophils (Dr Milka Sarris, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience / Cambridge Immunology Network)

2014-11-13 16:00: Fronto-subcortical Circuits in Cognition & Emotion: Modulation by Serotonin, Dopamine and Glutamate (Dr Hannah Clarke, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-20 16:00: Self-Organisation of Pluripotent Cells in the Mouse Embryo (Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience & Gurdon Institute)

2014-11-28 16:30: The Fitness Exchange Hypothesis (Ana Mosterin (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-28 17:00: Behavioural mechanisms limiting cheating behaviour in the cleaner wrasse Labroides bicolor (Max Gray)

2014-12-04 16:00: "Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolic Disease: Is It All In Our Head?": Elucidating Mechanisms of Central Metabolic Control (Dr Stefan Trapp, UCL, Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience)

2014-12-05 16:30: Simultaneous camouflage and conspicuous signalling in an island lizard (Kate Marshall)

2014-12-05 17:00: Heliconius butterflies: How do bird predators perceive them? (Denise DD (University of Cambridge))

2015-01-15 16:00: Inflammation-driven angiogenesis - organ fibrosis & the extracellular matrix (Dr Christian Stockmann, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes)

2015-01-16 14:00: Going for Gold (Professor Tom Welton, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London)

2015-02-05 16:00: Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors and Hepcidin in Iron Homeostasis (Dr Carole Peyssonnaux, INSERM, France)

2015-02-12 00:00: *CANCELLED: TERRY SEJNOWSKI TALK ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 12 FEB* (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-02-19 16:00: Neural Processing of Naturalistic Features by the Hoverfly Visual System (Dr Karin Nordström, Uppsala University, Sweden)

2015-02-26 16:00: Signals and Factors Controlling Stem Cell Activity in the Adult Brain (Dr François Guillemot, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London)

2015-03-05 16:00: Mechanisms of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction (Professor Norbert Weissmann, ECCPS Professur, University of Giessen, Germany)

2015-03-12 16:00: Visual information processing and its role in fly and cephalopod behaviour. (Dr Trevor Wardill,  Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-13 17:00: BIOSCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Q&A SESSION: A personal perspective about life in the Bioscience Industry. (Dr Tim Rink, MD, ScD)

2015-03-16 16:00: Imaging Brawny Mice and Hypercarnivorous Canids: Applications of CT and MRI for Soft & Hard Tissues (Dr Nathan Jeffrey, University of Liverpool)

2015-04-23 16:00: Neuroimmune interactions in early development and the biological embedding of health disparities (Professor Staci Bilbo, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, USA)

2015-04-30 16:00: Making, breaking and directing polarity during neural lumen formation and neurogenesis in the zebrafish embryo (Professor Jon Clarke, King's College London, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology)

2015-05-07 17:00: Seabirds and Conservation: One Life, Many Islands (Dr Michael Brooke)

2015-05-20 16:00: Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud (Dr. Nick Hopwood - Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2015-05-28 16:00: Extreme Threats - GL Brown Prize Lecture 2015, The Physiological Society (Professor Mike Tipton, Department of Sport & Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth)

2015-06-11 16:00: Looking back: some conclusions from my career in Science (Pr. Martin Raff - MRC LMCB, UCL)

2015-07-23 16:00: **Out-of-Term Neuroscience Seminar**   Cell Biological Insights into Parkinson’s Disease and ADHD (Professor Morgan Sheng, Vice President (Neuroscience & Molecular Biology), Genentech )

2015-09-15 12:00: Deciphering signaling specificity in development, one phosphate at a time (Professor Phillipe Soriano, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY)

2015-10-01 16:00: Career Stories (Dr Trevor Wardill, Dr Erica Watson)

2015-10-08 16:00: Polarity reversal during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (Dr Manuel Thery, Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France)

2015-10-15 16:00: CANCELLED: Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions (Prof Ranulfo Romo, Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

2015-10-22 16:00: Heart Disease Link to Fetal Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress (Professor Dino Giussani - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge)

2015-10-29 16:00: The Achilles' heel of the heart: the cardiac conduction system (Professor Mark Boyett, University of Manchester)

2015-10-29 16:00: Learning circuits and cue integration in navigating ants (Barbara Webb)

2015-11-05 16:00: Concept cells (Prof Rodrigo Quiroga, University of Leicester)

2015-11-18 16:00: Collective Sensing and Decision-Making in Animal Groups: From Fish Schools to Primate Societies (Iain Couzin)

2015-11-19 16:00: Migration of neuronal and immune cells in forebrain wiring (Dr Sonia Garel, INSERM, France)

2015-11-26 16:00: Circuit adaptations underlying drug addiction: mechanisms and therapeutic implications (Prof Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva)

2015-12-03 16:00: From mesoderm mechanotransductive evolutionary origins  to tumourogenic mechanical induction (Emmanuel Farge, Institute Curie, Paris)

2016-01-14 16:00: Evolution of color and motion vision (Claude Desplan- NYU Biology)

2016-01-14 16:00: "Transforming an 800 year old University to make it even better" (Professor Jeremy Sanders, Pro-Vice Chancellor of The University of Cambridge)

2016-01-21 16:00: How the sins of your grandparents affect your health (Dr Erica Watson PDN, Cambridge)

2016-02-11 16:00: Probing the mechanisms of learning and memory at the single-neuron level in humans (Dr Ueli Rutishauser California Institute of Technology)

2016-02-18 16:00: Parietal cortex and action space (Prof. Roberto Caminiti)

2016-02-25 16:00: ‘Of mice and men -­ and birds, too: how to pack lots of neurons in tiny brains, and why that should matter (Pr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

2016-02-26 16:30: Rewilding and the Future of HNV Species – does restoring flood disturbance recreate suitable habitat for HNV species? (Tim Kasoar - Department of Zoology)

2016-02-26 17:00: Ancient genome reveals continuity in East Asia over the last 9,000 years (Veronika Siska - Department of Zoology)

2016-03-03 16:00: Astrocyte-like glia during visual circuit assembly in Drosophila (Iris Salecker)

2016-03-10 16:00: Endothelial Cells and HIF transcription factors regulating lung pre-disposition for metastatic events (Dr Cristina Branco, PDN Cambridge)

2016-03-11 16:30: The role of individual differences in defining a species niche (Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun - Department of Zoology)

2016-03-11 17:00: An assessment of individual learning abilities and their phenotypic traits in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) (Claudia Martina Luna - Department of Zoology)

2016-04-21 16:00: Spatial homogeneity of seagrass faunal biodiversity (Pr. Richard S K Barnes, Department of Zoology, Cambridge)

2016-04-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Michael Strkyer, UCSF)

2016-04-22 16:30: The comparative landscape of duplications in Heliconius melpomene and Heliconius cydno  (Ana Pessoa Pinharanda - Department of Zoology)

2016-04-22 17:00: Selecting For Plasticity in the Harlequin Ladybird (Lea Van De Graaf - Department of Zoology)

2016-04-28 16:00: Raising the whale: defining zoology at Cambridge (Prof Jim Secord, Department of History and Philosophy of Science)

2016-05-05 16:00: The behavioural ecology of bacteria in infection (Dr. Ashleigh S. Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK)

2016-05-05 16:00: CANCELLED The pioneering history of IVF from the PND* Laboratory, Cambridge: 1976-2016, and what we know now! (Prof. Simon Fishel, CARE Fertility group)

2016-05-19 16:00: Transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils (Elizabeth Murchison, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge Veterinary School)

2016-05-26 16:00: Fly photoreceptors encode phase congruency (Prof Daniel Coca, University of Sheffield)

2016-06-09 16:00: The roles of dopamine in perceptual and economic decision making (Dr Armin Lak, UCL)

2016-06-16 16:00: Unraveling the role of astroglial perisynaptic nanodomains in synaptic strength and memory (Dr Nathalie Rouach, CIRB, College de France, Paris)

2016-06-23 16:00: Gene duplication and ion channel evolution in weakly electric fish (Prof Harold Zakon, UT Austin)

2016-10-06 16:00: The causes and consequences of cellular circadian rhythms (Dr John O'Neill, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-13 16:00: Learning flights in bumblebees (Dr Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Exeter University)

2016-10-27 16:00: Neural representation of complex space (Professor Kate Jeffery, UCL)

2016-11-10 16:00: Spatial polarization vision in crustaceans (Dr Martin How, Bristol University)

2016-11-11 16:30: Speciation in Heliconius butterflies: Pheromones and Female Choice (Kathy Darragh - Department of Zoology)

2016-11-17 16:00: Evolution of the tetrapod tympanic ear (Professor Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark)

2016-11-24 16:00: Stem cells, gene editing, and cellular models of human neurological disease (Dr Florian Merkel, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-25 16:30: Early life social behaviour and learning in juvenile Hihi (Victoria Franks - Department of Zoology)

2016-11-28 16:00: Deep Neural Networks (Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2016-12-01 16:00: Illuminating mouse cortical activity maps using genetically encoded voltage indicators (Professor Thomas Knoepfel, Imperial College London)

2016-12-09 16:30: Walking response of crickets depends on surface structure of the substrate (Edith Julieta (Julie) Sarmiento-Ponce - Department of Zoology)

2016-12-09 17:00: Can phenotypic plasticity allow specialist parasites to colonise new hosts? (Gabriel Jamie - Department of Zoology)

2016-12-12 10:30: One day meeting on vision and neuroscience (One day meeting on vision and neuroscience)

2017-01-26 16:00: Retinal functomics: What the eye tells the brain, and how it got there (Dr Tom Baden, University of Sussex)

2017-02-09 16:00: Signaling pathways to resilience or dysfunction in the brain (Professor Giles Hardingham, University of Edinburgh)

2017-02-16 16:00: In vivo studies of cellular and subcellular mechanisms that build the vertebrate brain (Professor Jon Clarke, King's College London)

2017-02-23 16:00: Live imaging inflammation in wound healing and cancer (Professor Paul Martin, University of Bristol)

2017-03-02 16:00: Cell morphogenesis across scales: from molecular processes to cell-scale behaviour (Professor Ewa Paluch, University College London)

2017-03-09 16:00: Kv10.1: a potassium channel involved in malignant growth (Professor Walter Stuehmer, University of Goettingen (Germany))

2017-03-16 16:00: Electrophysiology of autocrine and paracrine NMDA receptor signalling in invasive mouse pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour cells (Dr Hugh Robinson, PDN, University of Cambridge)

2017-04-21 16:30: The role of p53 in cell competition and leader cell migration (Katarzyna (Kasia) Kozyrska - Department of Zoology)

2017-04-21 17:00: Communication and Coordination: how individuals shape groups (Riva Riley - Department of Zoology)

2017-04-27 16:00: Removing tumours from within and around the brain (Dr Thomas Santarius)

2017-05-05 16:30: How do predators use social information about defended prey? (Liisa Hämäläinen - Department of Zoology)

2017-05-05 17:00: Ageing Rates in Meerkats (Jack Thorley - Department of Zoology)

2017-05-19 16:30: How does exposure to prenatal cortisol affect foraging success in meerkats? (Tejasvini Chalikonda - Department of Zoology)

2017-05-19 17:00: Insects at the extreme: midges, beetles, DNA and physiology in the Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic regions. (Felipe Simões - Department of Zoology)

2017-06-01 16:00: Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repair (Professor Manuel Serrano, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid)

2017-06-02 16:30: Red vs. Yellow: Genetics of carotenoid coloration in weaverbirds (Hanlu Twyman - Department of Zoology)

2017-06-02 17:00: Competitive coexistence between phoretic mites: between ecology and biomechanics? (Syuan-Jyun Sun - Department of Zoology)

2017-06-15 16:00: The emergence of pluripotency and germline specification in non-rodent mammals (Professor Ramiro Alberio (University of Nottingham))

2017-06-22 16:00: Cerebellar evolution and function: a neuroethological perspective (Professor John Montgomery (University of Auckland))

2017-10-12 16:00: Foster Talks: Professor Bill Harris "Promises of a polychrome retina redux: partial fulfilment with spectrum of fates" (Professor Bill Harris, PDN, Cambridge University)

2017-11-09 16:00: TODAY: Foster Talk "Evolution of olfactory receptors, circuits and behaviours" Professor Richard Benton (Professor Richard Benton, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)

2017-11-23 16:00: Foster Talk: Professor Wolfram Schultz "How my brain is getting me the best reward"  (Professor Wolfram Schultz, PDN, Cambridge)

2017-12-07 16:00: Foster Talk:  "Self-assembly of the mammalian embryo in vitro" Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz (Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PDN Cambridge)

2018-01-18 16:00: Foster Talk - Dr Rachel Tribe "How to expect the unexpected. Prediction and prevention of preterm birth" Physiology Lecture Theatre (Dr Rachel Tribe,Kings College London)

2018-02-01 16:00:  Foster Talk - "Hepatic organoids for the study of liver regeneration and disease" (Meritxell Huch, The Gurdon Institute)

2018-02-15 16:00: TODAY Foster Talk - Integrin-associated adhesion complexes and their role in mechanotransduction (Dr Christof Ballestrem, Welcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research, University of Manchester)

2018-03-01 16:00: TODAY Foster Talk - "Paraspeckles, TDP-43 & alternative polyadenylation: how regulation of a membraneless compartment guides cell fate" (Dr Jernej Ule, Francis Crick Institute, London)

2018-03-15 16:00: Foster Talk - TODAY - Professor Ifat Levy, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neurocience, Yale University, USA (Professor Ifat Levy, Yale University, USA)

2018-05-03 16:00: Foster Talk - CANCELLED - Redox Oscillations in the Circadian Clockwork (Professor Akhilesh Reddy, Frances Crick Institute, London)

2018-05-17 16:00: TODAY Foster Talk - Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiring (Professor Christine Holt)

2018-06-14 16:00: Foster Talk - "Integrating structural and functional approaches to decipher AMPA receptor signaling in synaptic transmission and plasticity" (Dr Ingo Greger, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2018-10-11 16:00: FOSTER TALK - Decoding the visual cortex (Dr Nathalie Rochefort, University of Edinburgh)

2018-10-25 16:00: Tipping the balance and regulatory processes during sex determination. (Robin Lovell-Badge, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2018-11-08 16:00: Neuronal connectivity and functional output in cerebral organoids. (Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB)

2018-11-22 16:00: The emotional brain and the neurobiology of uniqueness (Tara L. White, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, USA)

2018-12-06 16:00: Mapping human pluripotency during pre- and peri-implantation development using single cell transcriptional analysis. (Fredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institute)

2019-01-17 16:00: Neural progenitors and neural tube defects. (Andy Copp, University College, London)

2019-01-31 16:00: The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation (James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2019-02-14 16:00: Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing (Robin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

2019-02-28 16:00: Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis (Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School)

2019-03-22 16:00: SPECIAL FOSTER TALK . Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour (Steve Wilson, University College, London)

2019-03-28 16:00: Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis (Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen)

2019-05-02 16:00: An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature (Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London)

2019-05-16 16:00: Regulating needs: Exploring the role of insulin-like growth factor-2 in materno-fetal resource allocation and its importance for development, physiology and disease (Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri)

2019-10-17 16:00: Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing (Robin Franklin, WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

2019-11-07 16:00: The amazing world of the GnRH neuron (Allan Herbison, PDN Department, Cambridge)

2019-11-14 16:00: Activin signaling and the regulation of Drosophila metabolism, body size and appendage scaling (Michael O'Connor, University of Minnesota)

2019-11-21 16:00: Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation (Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen)

2019-12-05 16:00: Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical maps (Guillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante)

2020-01-16 16:00: Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding (Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia)

2020-01-23 16:00:  Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing (Steve Harridge, King's College London)

2020-02-06 16:00: Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency (Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland)

2020-02-27 16:00: Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells (Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK)

2020-03-12 16:00: 3D Genomics in development and disease (Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany)

2020-04-30 16:00: The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps (Francesca Cacucci, UCL)

2020-05-07 16:00: Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos (Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London)

2020-05-14 16:00: Mechanobiology of cell shape control (Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge)

2020-10-08 14:00: Adolescent brain development as a window of social-affective opportunities (Eveline Crone (Leiden University))

2020-10-13 16:00: Is the COVID-19 pandemic really causing mental illness?  (Professor Paul Fletcher)

2020-10-15 14:00: Flexible redistribution in the language network (Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences))

2020-10-20 16:00: NeuroCOVID: Epidemiology, biomarkers, and pathophysiology (Professor David Menon)

2020-10-22 14:00: How do our brains form maps of the world? (Alexandra Constantinescu (University College London))

2020-10-27 16:00: The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of children and young people. (Professor Tamsin Ford)

2020-11-02 16:00:  Population studies and ageing brains, in a time of COVID (Professor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care))

2020-11-05 14:00: Category selectivity in the ventral visual pathway: Computational models and developmental origins (Nancy Kanwisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) )

2020-11-10 16:00: The early impact of COVID-19 on mental health and community physical health services and their patients’ mortality in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, UK (Dr Rudolf Cardinal)

2020-11-12 14:00: Cognitive control networks involved in different kinds of listening  (Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Carnegie Mellon University))

2020-11-12 16:00: Woofing it Down: Lessons on the neurobiology of appetite from man’s best friend (Eleanor Raffan, PDN, Cambridge)

2020-11-19 14:00: Cognitive neuroscience in the era of Big Data: Lessons learned from the    Adolescent Cognition Brain Development Study (Damien Fair (University of Minnesota))

2020-11-24 16:00:  Development of the social brain in adolescence and effects of social distancing  (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore)

2020-11-26 14:00: The interpersonal function of emotional expressions (Julie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles))

2020-11-26 16:00: TBC (Kevin Chalut, Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge)

2020-12-01 16:00: Generation Covid-19: Should the fetus be worried? (Dr. Topun Austin (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) & Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (Dept. of Psychology) )

2020-12-03 14:00: Working Memory 2.0 (Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2020-12-08 16:00: Social deprivation, coping and drugs: a bad cocktail in the COVID-19 era: evidence from preclinical studies (Dr. David Belin)

2021-01-21 14:00: Early adversity, brain development, and risk/resilience for mental health across development (Deanna Barch (Washington University, St. Louis))

2021-01-21 16:00: Lineage tracing through somatic mutations in human development (Flora Vaccarino, Yale University)

2021-01-28 16:00: Pushing the boundaries of episodic memory: Representation and segmentation of naturalistic events by cortico-hippocampal networks (Charan Ranganath (University of California, Davis))

2021-02-04 14:00: The human language system in the mind and brain (Evelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2021-02-04 16:00: Will the Real Preeclampsia Patient Please Stand Up? ( Brian Cox, University of Toronto)

2021-02-11 14:00: A data-driven approach to advancing cognitive neuroscience (Kendrick Kay (University of Minnesota))

2021-02-16 16:00: Recurrent problems in spinal-cord and cerebellar circuits (Dr Steve Edgley, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2021-02-23 16:00: Electronics on the brain (Professor George Malliaras, Department of Engineering)

2021-02-25 14:00: Imaginative reinforcement learning (Sam Gershman (Harvard University))

2021-02-25 16:00: Functional evolution of Hox proteins: Regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiation (Robb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute for medical research)

2021-03-02 16:00: A developmental-cognitive perspective on the impact of adolescent social media use (Dr Amy Orben, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

2021-03-04 16:00: How cells integrate chemical and mechanical cues during cell migration in vivo (Roberto Mayor, UCL)

2021-03-04 16:00: Neuroscience informed treatments for anxiety and depression (Michelle Craske (UCLA))

2021-03-09 16:00: Organization of Midbrain Serotonin System (Dr Jing Ren, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2021-03-11 14:00: Mesoscale fMRI and electrophysiology in human visual cortex (Dora Hermes (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota))

2021-03-16 16:00: Data-driven Artificial Social Intelligence: From Social Appropriateness to Fairness (Dr Hatice Gunes, Computer Science and Technology)

2021-03-18 14:00: The role of content-free pointers in online visual memory (Ed Awh (University of Chicago))

2021-03-18 16:00: Memory, learning, and control of cognitive representations (Andre Fenton, New York University)

2021-04-20 16:00: Learning in pain: probabilistic inference and (mal)adaptive control. (Dr Flavia Mancini, Engineering)

2021-04-27 16:00: Unpacking Nature from Nurture: Understanding how Family Processes Affect Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Professor Gordon Harold, Education)

2021-04-29 12:00: Physiology and pathology of the higher brain function: insights from intracranial EEG recordings (Riki Matsumoto (Kobe University) )

2021-04-29 16:00: Regulation of stem cell fate by niche-derived factors and forces. (Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki)

2021-05-04 16:00: Can we repair the Parkinsonian brain? (Professor Roger Barker, Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-05-06 14:00: The geometry of neural representations in artificial and biological neural networks (Stefano Fusi (Columbia University))

2021-05-06 16:00: Human time vs. mouse time with recapitulated systems. (Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona)

2021-05-11 16:00: Covid And Cognition (Dr Lucy Cheke, Psychology)

2021-05-13 14:00: Reasoning: neural underpinnings, development, and plasticity (Silvia Bunge (UC Berkeley))

2021-05-18 16:00: Bedside to bench and back again, a path to translational pain research? (Dr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology)

2021-05-20 14:00: How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention (Mariam Aly (Columbia University))

2021-05-25 16:00: AI-guided solutions for early detection of neurodegenerative disorders (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology)

2021-05-27 14:00: Carving the world into useful task representations (Yael Niv (Princeton University))

2021-06-01 16:00: Regenerative Neuroimmunology - a stem cell perspective (Professor Stefano Pluchino, Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-06-10 14:00: A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression (Jonathan Roiser (UCL))

2021-06-17 14:00: Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research? (Katrin Amunts (Dusseldorf University))

2021-10-05 16:00: From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Brain: Understanding the Role of Inflammation in Vascular Health, Stroke, and Cerebrovascular Disease (Dr Nicholas Evans, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-10-07 14:00: The function of spontaneous brain activity (Maurizio Corbetta (University of Padua))

2021-10-12 16:00: Activity dependent myelination: a mechanism for learning and regeneration? (Dr Thóra Káradóttir, WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute)

2021-10-19 16:00: In vitro bioelectronic models of the gut-brain axis (Professor Róisín Owens, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology)

2021-10-21 14:00: Neural dynamics of working memory (Tim Buschman (Princeton University))

2021-10-21 16:00: Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines (David Sheppard, Bristol University)

2021-11-02 16:00: The brain control of appetite: Can an old dog teach us new tricks? (Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs)

2021-11-04 14:00: Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms (Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham))

2021-11-04 16:00: Mechanisms of Aging (Anne Brunet, Stanford University)

2021-11-09 16:00: Transdiagnostic approaches to understanding neurodevelopment (Dr Duncan Astle, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

2021-11-11 14:00: The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought (Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University))

2021-11-16 16:00: Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Building brain and body together in bio-inspired robots (Dr Fumiya Iida, Department of Engineering)

2021-11-18 14:00: Post-encoding persistence of encoding states strengthens individual memories, reorganizes those experiences based on shared features and biases the fate of new memories (Lila Davachi (Columbia University))

2021-11-18 16:00: Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis (Fiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge)

2021-11-25 14:00: Stimulating the brain with sound: low intensity ultrasound for neuromodulation (Chris Butler (Imperial College London/University of Oxford))

2021-11-25 16:00: Imaging inflammation and wound repair in situ ( Prof. Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin)

2021-11-30 16:00: Mechanisms to medicines in neurodegeneration (Professor Giovanna Mallucci, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-12-02 14:00: New models of human hearing via machine learning (Josh McDermott (MIT))

2021-12-02 16:00: What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex (Riccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge)

2021-12-09 14:00: How do signals from the body shape our actions (and our inactions)? Plus, a discussion on how we can green neuroscience (Charlotte Rae (University of Sussex))

2021-12-09 16:00: Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-01-18 16:00: Common elements: An innovative methodology for identifying effective interventions in early childhood education (Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2022-01-20 14:00: Neural dynamics of working memory  (Timothy Buschman (Princeton University) )

2022-01-20 16:00: CANCELLED: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion (Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris)

2022-01-27 14:00: The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought  (Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University) )

2022-02-01 16:00: How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention  (Dr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-03 14:00: Neural dynamics of natural speech perception via natural language processing (nlp) models (Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham)   )

2022-02-03 16:00: Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools (Wendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia)

2022-02-08 16:00: Why is the suprachiasmatic nucleus such a brilliant circadian time-keeper? (Dr Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2022-02-10 14:00: Perceiving and representing voice identity: effects of taker variability and listener familiarity (Carolyn McGettigan (UCL) )

2022-02-15 16:00: Dissecting the neural circuits underlying prefrontal regulation of reward and threat responsivity in a primate (Professor Angela Roberts, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2022-02-24 16:00: Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesity (Marcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY)

2022-02-24 16:00: Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors (Lucina Uddin (UCLA) )

2022-03-01 16:00: Cross-modality imaging of the neural systems that support executive functions (Dr Yaara Erez, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2022-03-03 14:00: Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms  (Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham) )

2022-03-10 16:00: Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafish ( Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai)

2022-03-15 16:00: Network science and network medicine: New strategies for understanding and treating the biological basis of mental ill-health (Dr Petra Vértes, Department of Psychiatry)

2022-03-17 14:00: Remembering the mammillary bodies: the importance of wider networks for memory (Seralynne Vann (Cardiff University))

2022-03-17 16:00: Development of interneurons in visual cortex (Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY)

2022-03-24 16:00: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion (Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris)

2022-04-07 16:00: Cochlear implants for deafness: how cochlear anatomy interacts with implant function (Manohar Bance, University of Cambridge)

2022-04-20 16:00: Global Views of Mammalian Development (Jay Shendure, University of Washington)

2022-04-26 16:00: Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversity (Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry)

2022-04-28 16:00: Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time (Anna Schapiro (University of Pennsylvania) )

2022-05-05 16:00: The long road of building a nervous system - smooth travels and accidents on the journey to get the shape and size. (Elisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona)

2022-05-17 16:00: Exploring mechanisms of human brain expansion in cerebral organoids (Dr Madeline Lancaster MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2022-05-24 16:00: Apathy and impulsivity in neurological disease – cause, effect and treatment (Professor James Rowe)

2022-05-26 14:00: Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings (Joel Voss (University of Chicago) )

2022-06-07 16:00: The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism (Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry)

2022-10-11 16:00: Designing the BEARS (Both Ears) Virtual Reality Training Package to Improve Spatial Hearing in Young People with Bilateral Cochlear Implant (Dr Deborah Vickers, Clinical Neurosciences)

2022-10-18 16:00: Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built (Professor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-08 16:00: Hypothalamic episode generators underlying the neural control of fertility (Professor Allan Herbison, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2022-11-23 16:00: Developmental disorders of presynaptic vesicle cycling - Synaptotagmin-1 and beyond (Dr Kate Baker, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2022-11-29 16:00: How can we treat visceral pain? (Dr David Bulmer, Department of Pharmacology)

2023-01-17 16:00: Can we have jam today and jam tomorrow? Improving outcomes for older people living with mental illness using applied and translational research (Dr Ben Underwood, Department of Psychiatry)

2023-01-31 16:00: Programmed axon death: from animal models into human disease (Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2023-02-07 16:00: Children-Agent Interaction For Assessment and Rehabilitation: From Linguistic Skills To Mental Well-being (Dr Micole Spitale, Department of Computer Science and Technology)

2023-02-14 16:00: Valentine’s Day for people with multiple sclerosis: promoting brain repair through remyelination (Professor Alasdair Coles, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2023-02-23 16:00: Membrane shapes and dynamics driven by curved active proteins (Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute Israel)

2023-02-28 16:00: Fidelity and Replication: Modelling the Impact of Protocol Deviations on Effect Size (Professor Michelle Ellefson)

2023-03-07 16:00: Integrative Neuromodulation: from biomarker identification to optimizing neuromodulation (Dr Valerie Voon, Department of Psychiatry)

2023-03-14 16:00: Fragile minds in a scary world: trauma and post traumatic stress in very young children (Dr Tim Dalgleish, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2023-05-09 16:00: Targeting Maladaptive Emotional Memories to Treat Mental Health Disorders: Insights from Rodent Models (Professor Amy Milton, Department of Psychology)

2023-05-16 14:00: Feedback control in the nervous system: from cells and circuits to behaviour (Dr Timothy O'Leary, Department of Engineering)

2023-06-06 16:00: Immunosuppression for Parkinson's disease - a new therapeutic strategy? (Dr Caroline Williams-Gray, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2023-11-09 16:00: Going out on a limb to study mechanisms controlling organ size and proportions (Alberto Rosell-Diez, PDN University of Cambridge)

2023-11-23 16:00: Dissecting neuronal circuits underlying visual cognition: from macaques to marmosets (Keita Tamura, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience,  University of Cambridge)

2023-12-07 16:00: Human lung organoid models of lung development and disease (Emma Rawlins, The Gurdon Institute/PDN, Univeristy of Cambridge)

2024-01-18 16:00: Our archael ancestry: cell division from arhaea to eukaryotes (Buzz Baum, MRC-LMB)

2024-02-15 16:00: Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep (Dr Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo, RIKEN BDR)

2024-02-29 16:00: Nutritional programming by maternal over-nutrition: a developing obesity crisis. (Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-29 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge)

2024-03-14 16:00: Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblast (Miguel Torres, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research)

2024-04-25 16:00: Eating and Walking - how cells manage their energy budget during migration and invasion (Laura Machesky, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-09 16:00: Behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpin cell migration essential for mouse anterior patterning (Shankar Srinivas, Professor of Developmental Biology in the Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics at the University of Oxford, based at the Institute for Developmental and Regenerative Medicine. )

2024-05-23 16:00: How innate immune cells adapt to environment and function: diverse tales of mitochondria (Stefanie Wculek, IRB (Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona))

2024-06-06 16:00: Identifying mechanisms of, and countermeasures to, muscle decline in ageing (Dr Colleen Deane, University of Southampton)

2024-10-10 16:00: Symmetry breaking decisions in stem cells from mouse bi-layered epithelia in development and regeneration. (Dr Silvia Fre - Institute Curie Paris)

2024-10-15 16:00: Hedonic and Homeostatic Mechanisms in Hunger Regulation: Insights into Hypothalamic Circuits (Bayram Yilmaz, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey)

2024-11-07 16:00: Molecular mechanisms that regulate the first cell fate decisions in human development (Kathy Niakan, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-28 16:00: The Environment and the Developing Brain: A Complex and Continuing Conversation (Stephen G. Matthews, Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health, Depts Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada)

2025-02-06 16:00: From Cell Migration to Macropinocytosis: How the Local Microenvironment Regulates Cell Behaviour (Jörg Renkawitz, LMU Munich)

2025-03-06 16:00: “Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments” (Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL)

2025-03-06 16:00: “Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments” (Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL)

2025-03-06 16:00: “Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments” (Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL)

2025-03-13 16:00: Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats (Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley)

2025-03-13 16:00: Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats (Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley)

2025-03-20 16:00: Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces (Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France)

2025-03-20 16:00: Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces (Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France)

2025-05-08 16:00: Potassium channel activators - a possible anti-seizure treatment. (Prof Frederik Elinder - Linköping University, Sweden)

2025-05-15 16:00: From nuclear swelling to chemoattractant production during tissue damage (Dr Balázs Enyedi - Semmelweis University, Budapest)

2025-05-22 16:00: It is not all in your genes - epigenetic regulation of human lung repair (Dr Renata Jurkowska, Cardiff University)