1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College


2012-10-25 13:10: What is an individual? - Theory and practice behind the biological concept of individuality (Patricio Salazar)

2012-11-01 13:10: Reconstructing the Earth's Climate using the Sulfur Cycle (Vicky Rennie)

2012-11-08 13:10: Software networking for the Internet of Things (Amir Chaudhry)

2012-11-15 13:10: Genetic variants that modify breast cancer risk in women who carry a BRCA2 mutation (Karoline Kuchenbaecker)

2012-11-22 13:10: Noise in knowledge: How do we study variability in cognitive development? (Sara Baker)

2012-11-29 13:10: Massive black holes in galactic centres  (Wako Ishibashi)

2013-01-24 13:10: Invisible Residents: You and your 100 trillion bacteria (Vagheesh Narasimhan)

2013-01-31 13:10: Sexual selection in females: insights from baboon societies (Elise Huchard)

2013-02-07 13:10: Malaria - algae that kill (Ellen Nisbet)

2013-02-14 13:10: Amazonia 1492: Pristine forest or cultural parkland?  (Toby Gardner)

2013-02-21 13:10: Simulations of protein-lipid interactions in the mitochondria (Anna Duncan)

2013-02-28 13:10: Building Machines that Learn from Examples of Complicated Things (Danny Tarlow)

2013-03-07 13:10: Proteins, Crystals and mechanisms (Paul Elliott)

2013-03-14 13:10: Ubiquitin - How a small protein regulates complex signalling cascades (Kirstin Keusekotten)

2013-04-18 13:10: Speeding the Convergence of Impact and Profit (Nikon Rasumov)

2013-04-25 13:10: How modifications to proteins lead to Parkinson's Disease (Alex van der Wateren)

2013-05-02 13:10: The Work Meets Life project:  How does Work get done? (Prof Robert A. Levin)

2013-05-09 13:10: Curing Parkinson's Disease: From Camels to Worms (Tim Guilliams)

2013-05-16 13:10: Microstructures in Layered Intrusions – What Can They Tell Us? (Evidence from the Sept Iles intrusion, Quebec, Canada) (Halley Keevil)

2013-05-23 13:10: Canceled (Eyemen Kheir )

2013-05-30 13:10: Mt Erebus, Antarctica; Understanding the world's southernmost active volcano (Yves Moussalllam)

2013-06-06 13:10: Needles in a haystack: Tracking down the genetic cause of rare diseases. (Stefan Gräf)

2013-06-13 13:10: Polymers for nanotechnology (Paul Zavala-Rivera)

2013-10-10 13:10: Cool Conductors (Sven Friedemann, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-17 13:10: The World’s First Bulk-Type Fully High-Temperature Superconducting Machine (Zhen Huang, Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-24 13:10: How Biomolecular Simulations of Molecules Can Help Us Understand What Matters (Florian Roessler, Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-31 13:10: Abrasive Wear of Nano-structured Steel: Does Hardness Matter?   (Subhankar Das bakshi, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.)

2013-11-07 13:10: Functional Integrated Plastic Systems (Antony Sou, Optoelectronics Group, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-14 13:10: Cutting as Untying (Topo2: Resolving the Gordian Knot of the Cell since 3.8 billion B.C.) (Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-21 13:10: Studying the intracellular localisation of Y RNAs (Eyemen Kheir, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-28 13:10: Is it possible track and predict the Huntington's disease progression? (Ye Yuan, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2013-12-05 13:10: The Strength of Broken Glass (Caroline Butchart, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2014-01-23 13:10: Graphene: When a Crystal Goes Flexible (Dr Felice Torrisi, Cambridge Graphene Centre, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-06 13:10: Cassandra's Climate (Michael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger)

2014-02-27 13:10: Building understanding from the ground up: hierarchical modelling of the climate system (Dr Dan Jones, British Antarctic Survey)

2014-03-06 13:10: Tibial rigidity through prolonged culture change: Adaptation across ~6150 years of agriculture in Central Europe (Alison Macintosh, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-08 13:10: Transport into the cell: How many ways to get in? (Vassilis Bitsikas, MCR Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-15 13:10: The Science of Dishwashing (Akin Ali, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Chembridge)

2014-05-22 13:10: Gene expression divergence in mammalian speciation (Angela Filimon Goncalves)

2014-05-29 13:10: Mapping Methane in the Arctic  (Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2014-06-05 13:10: How and why do reproductive cheats like cuckoo finches lay such diverse eggs? (Dr Wenfei Tong)

2014-10-16 13:10: Living Long and Living Well: Changing  Prospects for Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease and Late Life Dementias, 2014 (Prof. Eric Larson,  Group Health Research Institute, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington)

2014-10-23 13:10: Valuing the Human Body by Discounting Labor Capacity: Evidence from Industrial Injury Cases in China (Enying Zheng)

2014-10-30 13:10: Scientific instruments before science (Dr Alexi Baker, CRASSH & History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-06 13:10: Energy storage: Understanding supercapacitors for improving them (Dr Céline Merlet, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-13 13:10: Genetic code expansion in vivo:  making proteins with novel properties (Dr Ambra Bianco, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-20 13:10: What can we understand from the structure of a protein? (Dr Paul Elliott, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Centre)

2014-11-27 13:10: Investigative Interviewing of Children (Dr Beth Ahern, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-22 13:10: Holographic Sensors and Smartphone Applications in Point-of-Care Testing (Dr. Ali K. Yetisen)

2015-02-05 13:10: Why do black holes shine? (Prof. Christopher Reynolds, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, USA)

2015-02-12 13:10: Assessing the energy, water and land nexus in China  (Ying Qin, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-19 13:10: Making Smarter Artificial Muscles (Stoyan Smoukov (University of Cambridge))

2015-02-26 13:10: Towards bi-treated glass (Marco Zaccaria)

2015-03-05 13:10: The ocean at the centre of the Earth: The Southern Ocean and its role in climate (Dr Andrew Meijers)

2015-04-30 13:10: Membrane proteins at work: Mhp1 and the human Histamin receptor H1 (Simone Weyand)

2015-05-07 13:10: Computational Fluid Dynamics for prediction of flow separation from aircraft tail surfaces (Andrea Masi (Department of Engineering))

2015-05-14 13:10: Metabolic cooperation in a synthetic yeast community (Kate Campbell (University of Cambridge))

2015-05-21 13:10: Osteomorphology and origins of sheep/goats domestication in China (Yiru Wang)

2015-11-19 13:10: The mechanics of intelligence: A motivation for the way we design robots. (Fabio Giardina (Department of Engineering))

2015-12-08 16:30: Charlie Hebdo and the Arab Shia: Instrumental rhetoric and freedom of expression (The Cambridge Media Reading Group)

2016-01-19 13:10: What is a crossover picturebook? - A case study of the adult reader’s and the child reader’s engagement with the spatiotemporal construction in 'How to Live Forever' (Xiaofei Shi, Faculty of Education)

2016-01-19 19:30: How to Talk to the Media (Nick Saffel & Dr John Nilsson-Wright)

2016-02-02 19:30: How to stay confident in Cambridge (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-02-11 13:10: Smelling molecules with optical nano-noses (Dr Tanya Hutter, Department of Chemistry )

2016-11-17 19:30: How to commercialise your idea/research (Tanya Hutter (University of Cambridge))

2019-01-24 13:10: Gorilla Society: investigating cooperation, territoriality and social support in our evolutionary cousins (Robin E Morrison (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge))

2019-02-14 13:10: Genome sequencing paves the way for precision medicine in the NHS: the Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) point of view (Dr Stefan Gräf)

2022-10-06 13:10: The fluid dynamics of airborne disease transmission (Dr Rajesh Bhagat)

2022-10-11 13:15: All virtue, war and honour? On the early phase of Latin literature and the evolution of a concept of play in republican Rome (Robin Kreutel (Classics, University of Cambridge))

2022-10-13 13:10: Supernovae: Superheroes of the universe (Or Graur)

2022-10-18 13:15: Getting Ready for the Quantum Age: Quantum Technologies and Business Model Innovation (Professor Chander Velu, Institute for Manufacturing)

2022-10-20 13:10: The molecular mechanism of DNA crosslink repair (Pablo Alcon)

2022-10-25 13:15: Value of Humanitarian Technology at the Base of the Pyramid (Professor Albert Ko (Lingnan University))

2022-10-27 13:10: Dementia and ageing brains: what can population studies tell us? (Carol Brayne)

2022-11-01 13:15: Locating the Reversals: Adapting EMMA for the screen (Eleanor Catton (novelist & screenwriter))

2022-11-03 13:10: New approaches for understanding macroscale brain network development (Sofia Orellana)

2022-11-08 13:15: CANCELLED - TO BE RE-SCHEDULED - Border town: Tharros and the Roman Frontier in Sardinia (Patrick Hayes (Classics Faculty))

2022-11-10 13:10: The awakening of the genome –modelling embryonic genome activation programs in vitro (Jasmin Taubenschmid-Stowers)

2022-11-17 13:10: On the (actual) origin of species through the lens of hybridization. (Hilde Schneeman)

2022-11-22 13:15: Automating the Archive: From Card Catalogues to Computer Bots (Dr Siddharth Soni (Cambridge Digital Humanities))

2022-11-24 13:10: School-based health promotion: what went wrong and where to next? (Mairead Ryan)

2022-11-29 13:15: Why is the international tax system problematic for low-income countries? (Kui Li (Law Faculty))

2023-01-19 13:10: Rapid decarbonisation of the NHS (James Smith)

2023-01-24 13:15: Can we use network analysis to predict violence? (Dr Paolo Campana, Associate Professor in Criminology and Complex Networks, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge)

2023-01-26 13:10: Unlocking the power of cell therapy to reverse disease (Sandra Petrus-Reurer)

2023-01-31 13:15: Zooming in on Micro-Methods: Archaeometry and the Interpretation of Ancient Ceramics (Christopher Kotkin (Archeological Science))

2023-02-02 13:10: Popper meets machine learning - How falsificationism can guide the design of AI solutions (Patrik Reizinger)

2023-02-07 13:15: Border Town: Tharros and the Roman Frontier in Sardinia (Patrick Hayes, Classics)

2023-02-09 13:10: Tools utilised by bacteria to interact with humans (Vivian Monzon)

2023-02-14 13:15: Meta-monuments: storytelling, collaboration and the proxy-wars of public art (Alexander Augustus (Artist))

2023-02-16 13:10: Are net-zero proposals feasible? (Jennifer Hawkin)

2023-02-21 13:15: Revisiting early Jewish-Christian relations (Daniel H. Weiss (Jewish Studies))

2023-02-23 13:10: Creative Intelligence in Generative Models and Why Consciousness Matters (Dvija Mehta)

2023-02-28 13:15: Measuring the impact of climate change on within-country income inequality (Emile Petraviciute (Development Studies))

2023-03-02 13:10: The Story the Soil tells (Chike Pilgrim)

2023-03-07 13:15: Dust, Animacies and Distributions: VR, AR and Digital Arts Pedagogies for Complex Times  (Dr Annouchka Bayley (SFHEA))

2023-03-09 13:10: Can enzymes help address the climate crisis? (Sam Cobb)

2023-03-14 13:15: Rare books and Anglo-Irish collecting in nineteenth century Cambridge (Nora Moroney, Bibiography)

2023-04-27 13:10: Weathering the Storm: Aeroelasticity of Civil Structures (Igor Kavrakov)

2023-05-04 13:10: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Porous material (Ratul Das)

2023-05-09 13:15: The Trade-Sustainable Development Nexus (Julien Miéral (Law))

2023-05-11 13:10: Tissue-specific tuning of the protein production machinery (Katy Grobicki)

2023-05-16 13:10: CANCELLED! Asking your mother: race, gender and positionality in remote oral history interviews (Saffron East (Adrian Research Fellow, Black and Asian British and Irish history))

2023-05-18 13:10: The rise of a new syndemic: Characterising the interactions between dementia, infections and socio-economics (Angelique Mavrodaris)

2023-05-23 13:10: Breaking Rules: Motivation and Morality in Intimate Partner Violence (Sarah Carlo (Criminology))

2023-05-25 13:10: Recreating the Basics of Life by Bottom-Up Construction of a Cell (Leanne Milburn)

2023-05-30 13:10: ‘Giving it back - restitution, repatriation and the deconstruction of the world museum’ (Libby Howie)

2023-06-06 13:10: Chiles in Mexico: History, Flavour, and Belonging (Daniela Sclavo (History of Science, Ethnography))

2023-06-13 13:10: Asking your mother: race, gender and positionality in remote oral history interviews (Saffron East (Adrian Research Fellow))

2023-11-21 18:30: The Green Transition: New Frontiers of Extractivism (Christine Schwöbel-Patel, CRASSH/Warwick Law School)

2023-11-23 18:30: Revealing the tales of post-Viking migration between UK and Denmark through 1 million personal genomes (Xiaolei Zhang)

2024-01-25 13:10: Measuring chaos: ongoing chromosomal instability in cancer through the lens of single-cell DNA sequencing (Michael Schneider)

2024-05-07 13:10: The neuro-ethics of brain-computer interface tool use (Dvija Mehta, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)

2025-05-01 13:00: Opening the Box of Chocolates: a Tasting Introduction to Studies of Cacao and Chocolate (Mika Hyman, History and Philosophy of Science)

2025-10-14 13:10: Being a Person in the Age of Slop and Super-Tools (Professor Alan Blackwell, Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, Fellow, Darwin College)

2025-10-23 13:00: Golgi Bodies in Drosophila Somatosensory Neurons (Shubham Kumar, MRC Molecular Biology)