Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre


2011-12-12 12:00: Imaging calcium flux and localization of single IP3 receptor channels in intact cells (Professor Ian Parker University of California, Irvine)

2012-01-20 13:00: “Nutrient-sensing pathways and ageing.” ( Linda Partridge (Institute of Healthy Aging, UCL))

2012-01-27 13:00: “Neuronal plasticity: from synapses to the axon initial segment.” (Juan Burrone (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, KCL))

2012-02-17 13:00: “Adrenal causes of hypertension: genetic solutions for channelling conundra.” ( Morris Brown (Clinical Pharmacology, Cambridge))

2012-02-24 13:00:  “Vesicular trafficking of ion channels in health and disease.” (Rao Sivaprasadarao (Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology, Leeds))

2012-03-02 13:00: “Doing the locomotions: regulation of PI 3-kinases by tyrosine kinases, G proteins and membranes.” ( Roger Williams (LMB, Cambridge))

2012-03-09 13:00: “Membrane dynamics of GABA-A receptors and the tuning of synaptic inhibition” (Josef Kitler (Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology, UCL))

2012-06-14 17:30: Cambridge Neuroscience Technical Lecture "Neural cells as a model: from differentiation to transfection" (Dr Alberto Chinali, Life Technologies)

2012-10-09 20:00: Can Nurture Influence Nature? (Prof. Sir David Baulcombe)

2012-10-16 16:30: Cambridge Neuroscience Technical Lecture in association with Life Technologies (Dr David Bourdon, Life Technologies)

2012-10-16 20:00: Molecules of Murder (Dr John Emsley)

2012-10-23 20:00: The Science of Art (Dr Spike Bucklow)

2012-10-30 20:00: Controlling Cell Division (Sir Richard 'Tim' Hunt)

2012-11-13 20:00: Does Time Exist? (Dr Julian Barbour)

2012-11-20 20:00: Plastic Electronics (Prof. Sir Richard Friend)

2012-11-27 20:00: Time to grow up? (Prof. David Nutt)

2013-01-29 20:00: Incomprehensible Comprehensibility of the Universe (Prof. Rev. Michal Heller, Templeton Prize Laureate)

2013-02-05 20:00: Our shared destinies within the planet’s boundaries (Prof. Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor)

2013-02-12 20:00: The Unexpected Side of Entropy (Prof. Daan Frenkel)

2013-02-19 20:00: Ornamentation, Attraction and Sexual Behaviour (Dr Gayle Brewer)

2013-02-26 20:00: POSTPONED: Energy and Life (Prof. Sir John Ernest Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit & Nobel Prize Laureate)

2013-03-05 20:00: What’s special about the human brain (Prof. Colin Blakemore)

2013-03-12 20:00: How curiosity turned into Science? (Dr Philip Ball)

2016-01-15 16:00: Drink, Drugs and Disasters:  Disrupting Reconsolidation to Treat Psychiatric Disorders (Amy Milton, Department of Psychology)

2016-01-29 16:00: Isoform and codon-specific Ras signalling (Ian Prior, University of Liverpool)

2016-02-05 16:00: Platelets: from biogenesis to function (Alastair Poole, University of Bristol)

2016-02-12 16:00: Pharmacological studies of peripheral versus central mechanisms of arthritis pain (Victoria Chapman, University of Nottingham)

2016-02-19 16:00: Mapping Cancer Origins (Richard Gilbertson, Cambridge Cancer Centre)

2016-02-26 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Cath Lindon, Department of Pharmacology)

2016-03-04 16:00: Signalling bias at G protein-coupled receptors (Graham Ladds, Department of Pharmacology)

2016-10-07 16:00: Multi-dimensional programming of G protein-coupled receptor signalling: mechanisms and applications (Aylin Hanyaloglu, Imperial College London)

2016-10-14 16:00: How do microRNAs work? (Martin Bushell, MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester)

2016-10-21 16:00: Neuronal regulation of myelination and remyelination (Thora Karadottir, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

2016-10-28 16:00: Quantum Dots and Microspheres and Red Blood Cells, Oh My! (Ken Meissner, University of Swansea)

2016-11-04 16:00: Non-canonical signalling through acidic calcium stores (Sandip Patel, University College London)

2016-11-11 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Charlotte Summers, Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-18 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Jules Griffin)

2016-11-25 16:00: Understanding the role of BCL11A in triple negative breast cancer (Kyren Lazarus, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge)