"Life Sciences Masterclass" 


2014-11-12 18:30: Super-resolution imaging: Getting and understanding microscopy images with more details (Leila Muresan, Martin Lenz (Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre))

2014-11-26 18:30: Creating transparent intact animal organs for high-resolution 3D deep-tissue imaging (Keith Siew (Centre for Clinical Investigation), Filipe Lourenco (Cancer Research UK))

2014-12-10 18:30: Apptimistic research: Studying well-being and behaviour change using sensor data from mobile phone apps (Gillian Sandstrom (Dept. Psychology), Neal Lathia (Dept. Computer Science), Felix Naughton (Dept. Public Health and Primary Care)  )

2015-03-04 18:30: Peptides as drugs and tools to study biological systems (Emma Cahill (Dept Psychology) & Albert Isidro-Llobet (GSK))

2015-03-18 18:30: Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) – from data acquisition to results interpretation (Natalia Bulgakova (Gurdon Institute))

2015-04-15 18:30: Genetic screening of the human kinome identifies a cellular signalling network predictive of brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease & Circadian abnormality in Alzheimer's disease: insights from animal models (Becky Inkster (Dept Psychiatry) & Ko-Fan Chen (Dept Genetics))

2015-06-10 18:30: Exome Sequencing Methods (James Hadfield & Oscar Rueda (Cancer Research UK))

2015-07-01 18:30: Remote control of cell signalling using chemogenetics (Johan Alsio & Bianca Jupp (Department of Psychology))

2015-07-08 18:30: How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly) (Florian Markowetz & Gordon Brown (Cancer Research UK) & Stephen Eglen (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics))

2015-12-02 18:30: Reverse Thinking: First Image Analysis then Immunostaining Protocol (Dr Hélène Gautier (PDN) and Dr Leila Muresan (CAIC))

2016-01-20 18:30: Ensuring data are Understood (Dr Jenny Grant Rankin ((Illuminate Education) and Dr Margie L. Johnson (Metropolitan Nashville Public School))

2016-02-03 18:30: Science Volunteering in Africa (Dr Jelena Aleksic and Dr Nicola Yates)

2016-02-17 18:30: Analysing the transcriptome of cells: computational challenges and applications of single cell RNA-sequencing (Dr Catalina Vallejos (MRC Biostatistics Unit & EMBL-EBI) & Dr Antonio Scialdone (EMBL-EBI))

2016-03-02 18:30: Sequencing Ebola virus in an insect filled tent; how real-time next generation sequencing aided the epidemic response. (Professor Ian Goodfellow (Division of Virology, Department of Pathology) and Dr Matt Cotten (Sanger Centre))

2016-03-16 18:30: Geneses. How frequently does life emerge? (Markus Ralser and Amaury Triaud)

2016-04-13 18:30: Mind the Gap: Nanotechnology for Molecular Sensing and Nanomedicine (Dr Jennifer Hare (AstraZeneca) and Dr Seti Kasera (Dept. Of Chemistry))

2016-04-27 18:30: Open Data and Reproducibility (Dr. Marta Teperek and Dr. Kirstie Whitaker)

2016-05-25 18:30: Resource Sharing, Organization, and Databases (Chris Wilkinson and Tibor Auer)

2016-06-08 18:30: Cancer: Finding New Targets and Novel Therapies (Dr Molly Taylor (Astra Zeneca), Dr Chiranjeevi Sandi (Astra Zeneca) & Dr James Lynch (Astra Zeneca) )

2016-06-22 18:30: CRISPR/Cas9 – the good, the bad and the ugly! (Dr Aisling Redmond (CRUK CI), Dr Florian Merkle (Stem Cell Institute) & Dr Alasdair Russell (CRUK CI))

2016-07-06 18:30: Using Brain Imaging to Evaluate Nutritional Intervention Strategies in Resource Poor Settings (Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (University of London) and Dr Sophie E. Moore (MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge))

2016-07-20 18:30: Zebrafish as a model to understand development and disease (Ana Lopez Ramirez and Helena Khaliullina (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2016-10-05 18:30: The importance of Bioinformatics in studying a wide range of diseases (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-10-26 18:30: Inner and outer wellbeing: A double perspective on the processing of thoughts and environment (Dr Keri Wong and Dr Laurie Palmer (Dept. of Psychology))

2016-11-09 18:30: Translating research: commercialisation of ideas and products from University laboratories by life scientists (Dr Rachel Atfield (Cambridge Enterprise) Dr Paulina Chilarska (Cambridge Biolabs) Dr Jelena Aleksic (Geneadviser) Dr Tim Guiliams (Healx))

2016-11-23 18:30: An overview of molecular imaging: from macroscopic to  microscopic level (Bangwen Xie (Cancer Research Uk C.I.) and Jerome Boulanger (MRC L.M.B))

2016-12-07 18:30: Developing tools to map the brain at synaptic resolution (Marta Costa (Dept. Genetics) and Philipp Schlegel (Dept. Zoology / L.M.B))

2017-01-25 18:30: Flow Cytometry: from immunodiagnostics to chemical biology (Lorinda Turner (Dept. of Medicine) and Maria Matos (Dept. of Chemistry))

2017-02-08 18:30: Modelling the human brain: Psychometric and neurodevelopmental perspectives (Dr Roger Kievit (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) & Dr Lizanne Schweren (Department of Psychiatry))

2017-02-22 18:30: Organoids - making organs in  a dish (Meri Huch (Gurdon Institute) & Iva Kelava (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology))

2017-03-08 18:30: Time, space and disorder in the expanding protein universe (Chris Taylor (CRUK) & David Minde (Cambridge Centre for Proteomics))

2017-03-22 18:30: Single Cell Nucleic Acid Techniques (Dr. Stephen Clark and Dr Wendi Bacon)

2017-04-05 18:30: Transcriptional response to environment in plants: how to deal with variability and redundancy (Dr. Sandra Cortijo and Dr. Daphne Ezer (Sainsbury Laboratory))

2017-04-26 18:30: Sheep models in neuroscience research: Opportunities and challenges (Dr Nicholas Perentos and Dr Franziska Knolle - Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2017-05-10 18:30: Next Generation Gravimetric Biosensing Using FBARs (Dr. Mario De Miguel Ramos and Dr. Ewelina Wajs, Department of Engineering)

2017-05-24 18:30: The birth of a memory in wakefulness and sleep (Dr. Aya Ben-Yakov (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) and Dr. Anat Arzi (Dept. of Psychology))

2017-06-07 18:30: Epigenomics: When high-throughput sequencing met epigenetics (Melanie Eckersley-Maslin and Christel Krueger (Babraham Institute))

2017-06-21 18:30: Comparative genomics to understand the roots of antibiotic resistance in bacteria: find ways to address it (Prof. Stephen D. Bentley: Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Dr. Florent Lassalle: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Dr. Marco Galardini: EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus)

2017-10-04 18:30: Developing ways to image single proteins in living cells (Srinjan Basu (Dept of Biochemistry) and Aleks Ponjavic (Dept of Chemistry))

2017-10-18 18:30: How to Share Research Data + Tour of CERN with Higgs Boson Physicist (Jenny Grant Rankin and Stephen Goldfarb)

2017-11-01 18:30: Protein misfolding and aggregation, from test tube to disease (Tessa Sinnige and Karen Stroobants (Dept. of Chemistry))

2017-11-15 18:30: Biomaterials for tissue engineering (Sasha Berdichevski (Dept of Engineering) and Dan Bax (Dept of Material Science))

2017-11-29 18:30: Mindfulness Training: Effects on Psychological Distress and Immune Cell Activation Patterns (Julieta Galante and Lori Turner)

2017-12-06 12:30: Translation, Partnership and Impact (lunchtime seminar) (Dr. Paula Frampton (CATS)  &  Dr. Vibhuti Patel (Bioscience Impact Team))

2018-01-24 18:30: Using NanoBiT® Technology to Study Protein-Protein Interactions in Living Cells (Mr. Andrei Smid (Dept of Medicine) &  Dr. Jacek Mokrosinski (IMS))

2018-02-07 18:30: Intravital Imaging – Applications and Image Analysis/ Information session on Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowships (Justyna Rak and Reema Khorshed)

2018-02-21 18:30: Magnetic Resonance on Two Scales for Research into Cell Cycle and Stroke (Dr. Samuel Furse (Dept of Biochemistry) Dr. Zhongzhao Teng (Dept of Radiology))

2018-03-07 18:30: Dive into the Lives of Flies and Ants (Erika Dona & Danielle Mersch )

2018-03-21 18:30: Miniguts: A System to Understand Intestinal Pathologies (Dr. Fernanda Schreiber (Sanger) & Dr. Maria Duque (Sanger))

2018-04-11 18:30: Modelling Complex Behaviours in Rodents (Julija Krupic (PDN) & Bianca Jupp (Psychology))

2018-04-25 18:30: Organic Bio-Electronic systems: from tissue engineering to drug discovery (Anna-Maria Pappa and Dr. C. Pitsalidis)

2018-05-09 18:30: Network analysis of large-scale human neuroimaging data (Rezvan Farahibozorg and Sarah Morgan)

2018-05-23 18:30: Targeted sequencing for in-depth characterisation of the disease phenotypes (Kousik Kundu and Tom McKerrel)

2018-06-06 18:30: Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Journey to the Clinic (Thomas Moreau and Daniel Ortmann )

2018-06-20 18:30: Using Human Studies in Health Research (Ulla Sovio and Sarah Jackson)

2018-10-03 18:30: AI-driven	Automated Image Analysis of Biological	Data  (Andrea Dimitracopoulos (PDN))

2018-10-17 18:00: The role of early-career researchers in changing the culture of scholarly communication (Dr. Avasthi (Hemenway Life Sciences Innovation Center at the University of Kansas), Dr Brown and Dr. Palfy (preLights) )

2018-10-31 18:30: In vivo Analysis of Gene Regulatory Network in Physiological and Pathological Conditions (Dr. Luca Pellegrinet & Dr. Jessica Hitchcock)

2018-11-14 18:30: New, Intelligent Systems for Disease Surveillance and Diagnosis ( Dr Nicole Wheeler (Sanger) and Dr Joshua Kaggie (Radiology))

2018-11-28 18:30: Building with DNA:   From DNA Crystals to Designer Proteins and Enzymes (Dr Ryan Brady (Cavendish) and Dr Alexander Ohmann (Cavendish) )

2019-01-23 18:30: The Journey of Human Early Development: from Gametes to Embryos and the Germline Specification (Dr. Marta Shahbazi (PDN)  &  Dr. Naoko Irie (Gurdon))

2019-02-20 18:30: From Stars to Life (Dr. Paul B Rimmer (Cavendish, LMB) and Dr Claudia Bonfio (LMB))

2019-03-06 18:30: Creating predictable gene knock-outs at scale with CRISPR/Cas9 (Dr. Luca Crepaldi (Sanger) & Dr. Felicity Allen (Sanger))

2019-03-20 18:30: Single Cell Multi-Omics  Technologies and Applications (Dr Lia Chappell (Sanger)  &  Mr Ricard Argelaguet (EMBL-EBI))

2019-04-10 18:30: A 3D cell model for developmental biology: Using gastruloids to study early developmental events (Dr. Peter Baillie-Johnson (SCI), Dr Naomi Moris (Genetics) and Dr David Turner (Genetics))

2019-05-08 18:30: Making sense of the world of scents (Dr. Kelsey J.R.P. Byers (Zoology) & Dr. Erika Pinheiro de Castro (Zoology))

2019-05-22 18:30: 3D Organoid Cultures to Study Tissue Development and Diseases (Dr. Roberta Azzarelli (MRC) & Dr. Laura Pellegrini (LMB))

2019-06-19 18:30: Chromatin and Cell Cycle in Cell Fate Decision (Dr. Clara Novo (Babraham) & Dr. Rodrigo Grandy (SCI))