aaf23's list


2006-01-11 13:00: Moving Colours (Annette Werner, Centre for Vision, University of Tbingen)

2006-01-24 13:00: Bees' colour vision: lessons from understanding visual capabilities and cognition possible with the mini brain. (Adrian Dyer)

2006-01-25 14:00: Mathematical Models of Tumour Dormancy (Dr Karen Page, Department of Computer Science, UCL)

2006-02-01 14:00: TBC (Prof. David Balding, Department of Epdemiology and Public Health, Imperial College)

2006-02-07 13:00: The Trefethen Effect (David J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2006-02-08 14:00: Disease in a changing landscape (Professor Chris Gilligan, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2006-02-15 14:00: To be confirmed (Daniel Crowther)

2006-02-22 14:00: To be confirmed (Daniel Wolpert)

2006-02-23 13:00: Do frogs smell under water? The role of Na+-Ca2+ exchanger in amphibia olfactory receptor neurons (Salome Antolin, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge)

2006-03-01 14:00: Modelling equine influenza (James Woods, CIDC, Cambridge Veterinary School, University of Cambridge)

2006-03-08 14:00: Phase transitions in biopolymers: statistical mechanics of interacting loops (David Mukamel, The Weizmann Institute of Science)

2006-03-16 13:00: Colour responses in the human LGN and visual cortex measured with fMRI (Kathy Mullen, McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University)

2006-03-21 13:00: Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes (Alexandre Pouget, University of Rochester)

2006-04-04 13:00: On the Neural Machinery for Face Processing (Winrich Freiwald, Centers for Advanced Imaging & Cognitive Sciences, Bremen University; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School)

2006-05-24 09:30: CCBI 2nd Annual Symposium (http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_06.php)

2006-05-24 13:00: Learning and recall of  visuomotor transformations (John Krakauer, Columbia University)

2006-05-30 13:00: Perception of pitch by normally hearing and hearing-impaired people (Brian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2006-06-28 17:00: Ligand detection and discrimination by spatial relocalisation: the complexities of T cell activation (Nigel Burroughs (Dept of Mathematics, University of Warwick))

2006-07-03 13:00: Absolute Pitch: Genetics & Perception (Jane Gitschier, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California, San Francisco)

2006-07-07 13:00: Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic (Bruno Laeng, Department of Psychology, University of Tromso)

2006-08-16 13:00: Dark adaptation of human retinal rod bipolar cells (Trevor Lamb, Division of Neuroscience JCSMR, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Australian National University, Canberra)

2006-09-11 14:00: Describing drug toxicity using functional data analysis and the model-driven clustering of gene-expression  bio-markers (Dr. Quin Wills SimuGen)

2006-10-02 16:30: PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS OF CORTICAL CIRCUITS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE (Prof. Sacha Nelson, Brandeis University USA)

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

2006-10-09 16:30: High resolution models of genome regulatory events (Prof. David Gifford (MIT))

2006-10-11 14:00: DESCRIBING DRUG TOXICITY USING FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS AND THE MODEL-DRIVEN CLUSTERING OF GENE EXPRESSION BIOMARKERS. (HOW TO TURN YOUR MPHIL INTO A PAYCHEQUE) (Dr Quin Wills (CSO, Simugen Ltd))

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)

2006-10-18 14:00: Linear Separability of Gene Expression Dataset (Dr. Benny Chor (University of Tel-Aviv))

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

2006-10-23 16:30: THE ANALYSIS OF VISUAL MOTION (Prof. Tony Movshon New York University USA)

2006-10-24 13:00: The Hungry Eye: energy, information and retinal function (Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-25 14:00: Evolution and dynamics of transcription factor repertoires (Sarah Teichmann (LMB))

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)

2006-10-31 15:00: *ectopic seminar* Evidence for the existence of organism-specific regulatory elements that are linked to RNAi (Isidore Rigoutsos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, U.S.A.)

2006-11-01 14:00: Cell signalling and oscillations (Dr. Kojiro Kano, DAMTP and PDN, University of Cambridge)

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)

2006-11-06 16:30: A MOTOR CORTICAL NETWORK FOR VISUALLY GUIDED GRASP IN PRIMATES (Prof. Roger Lemon Institute of Neurology London)

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)

2006-11-13 13:00: Is the code in ferret V1 a 'sparse code'? (David Tolhurst, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-13 16:30: CORTICAL CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN HUMAN PREMOTOR, MOTOR AND PARIETAL CORTEX EXPLORED WITH TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (Prof. John Rothwell Institute of Neurology London)

2006-11-15 14:00: Microarrays and molecular biology: beyond gene expression profiling (Dr. Paul Bertone, EBI)

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

2006-11-17 13:00: Watching brain circuitry in action: two-photon imaging of neural activity (Simon R. Schultz, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London)

2006-11-20 16:30: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE NON-LINEAR:  CHARACTERISING AUDITORY CORTICAL RESPONSES TO COMPLEX SOUNDS (Dr. Jennifer Linden Ear Institute London)

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

2006-11-22 14:00: Genome Informatics at the Sanger Institute (Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

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)

2006-11-27 16:30: GREY MATTER(S) (Prof. Bert Sakmann, Max-Planck Institute, Heidelberg Germany)

2006-11-29 14:00: Machine Learning Methods for Uncovering cis-Regulatory Modules (Dr Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin)

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)

2006-12-01 13:00: Sensorimotor and perceptual representations engaged when performing and observing object manipulation tasks (Randy Flanagan, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada)

2006-12-04 16:30: Potassium channel diversity at the synaptic interface: Fast EPSCs and delayed rectification (Prof. Ian Forsythe University of Leicester)

2006-12-12 13:00: Motion Perception -  from visual arts to neural processing (Johannes M. Zanker, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London)

2006-12-14 17:00: Craik Club Christmas Lecture: Selective attention, multisensory integration and spatial neglect (Jon Driver, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2006-12-15 13:00: A neural mechanism for decision-making, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bound (Michael Shadlen, Physiology and Biophysics Department, University of Washington)

2007-01-15 16:30: BEFORE AND AFTER GRANDMOTHER CELLS (Professor Horace Barlow, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2007-01-17 14:00: Protein structure determination using NMR chemical shifts (Michele  Vendruscolo)

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

2007-01-22 16:30: THE CEREBELLAR BASIS OF MOTOR LEARNING (Prof. Peter Thier, University of Tübingen, Germany)

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)

2007-01-29 14:00: "Identifying deletions and duplications from PCR data" (Dr. Andy Lynch, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge)

2007-01-30 16:30: CHOICE AND CHANCE: LIMITATIONS AND EXTENSIONS OF THE LATER MODEL (Dr. Roger Carpenter, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2007-01-31 14:00: Identifying deletions and duplications from PCR data (Dr. Andy Lynch (Department of Oncology))

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)

2007-02-05 16:30: THE HUNGRY BRAIN: ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND NEURAL FUNCTION (Professor Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology)

2007-02-07 14:00: Identifying novel therapies for breast cancer using Independent Component Analysis (Andrew E Teschendorff (Cancer Research Institute, University of Cambridge))

2007-02-13 13:00: Biophysics of wiring the brain (Aldo Faisal, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-14 14:00: Monkeys on Trees: A Bayesian Approach to Inferring Primate Divergence Times
 (Richard Wilkinson, Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

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

2007-02-19 16:30: THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANISATION OF THE BASAL GANGLIA (Prof. Paul Bolam, University of Oxford)

2007-02-21 14:00: Modelling Epidemics (Pietro Lio, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

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

2007-02-23 13:00: The concatenation of factors of change in perception (Donald MacLeod, UCSD)

2007-02-26 16:30: WHY BASSO IS MACHO: FROM COCHLEA TO CORTEX, SIZE MATTERS IN HEARING (Professor Roy Patterson, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2007-02-28 14:00: The FlyMine/ InterMine Project (Gos Micklem, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute)

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

2007-03-05 16:30: HUMAN PERCEPTION OF CHANGES IN NATURAL VISUAL SCENES, AND A VISUAL-CORTEX BASED MODEL OF VISUAL DISCRIMINATIONS (Dr. David Tolhurst, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2007-03-07 14:00: Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology (Professor Simon Tavare and Dr. Stephen Eglen)

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)

2007-03-14 14:00: Automated image analysis for high-throughput cell-based microscopy assays with R and Bioconductor ( Dr. Oleg Sklyar, European Bioinformatics Institute-EMBL)

2007-03-19 13:00: Date and Title to be confirmed (Stephen Scott, Queen's University, Canada)

2007-03-19 16:30: “CELLULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING HIPPOCAMPAL GAMMA-FREQUENCY ("40 HZ") NETWORK OSCILLATIONS” (Dr. Ole Paulsen University of Oxford)

2007-04-04 11:00: Colour Vision Meeting (Speakers include: R. A. Weale, D. van Norren, J. Bowmaker, H. Cooper, G. Jordan, H. Smithson, J. Barbur and D. Tolhurst)

2007-04-12 13:00: Variational free energy and the brain (Karl Friston, UCL)

2007-04-23 16:30: “CIRCADIAN RHYTHM AND SLEEP DISRUPTION IN HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE:  DOES IT PLAY A ROLE IN NEUROLOGICAL DECLINE?” (Dr. Jenny Morton, Department of Pharmacology)

2007-04-24 13:00: Visual discrimination of interacting human agents (Peter Neri, City University, London)

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

2007-04-27 13:00: On the task-dependency and flexibility of bimanual coordination (Jörn Diedrichsen, University of Wales, Bangor)

2007-04-30 16:30: “A HOLISTIC MODEL OF BINAURAL HEARING IN MAMMALS” (Professor David McAlpine Ear Institute London)

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)

2007-05-07 16:30: “PHEROMONAL SIGNALLING IN MICE” (Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology)

2007-05-10 13:00: The ageing eye - Lifestyle vs Genes (Ruth Hogg, University of Melbourne)

2007-05-14 16:30: "SHIFTING VIEWS OF FRONTO-STRIATAL FUNCTION: NEUROMODULATORY MECHANISMS" (Professor Trevor Robbins, Deptartment of Experimental Psychology)

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)

2007-05-22 13:00: Illusory multisensory interactions in synaesthesia (Gary Bargary, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Dublin)

2007-05-23 09:30: Modelling the hidden world of protein activities (Lorenz Wernisch, MRC Biostatistics Unit)

2007-05-23 10:15: Epidemics on Networks (Ken Eames, CCBI, DAMTP)

2007-05-23 11:30: Oscillators and sychronisation in circadian rhythms (Jorge Goncalves, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2007-05-23 12:15: Lies, damn lies and metabolomics - statistical approaches for processing metabolomic data. (Jules Griffin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

2007-05-23 14:00: Learning from the worm: predicting phenotype from genotype (Andrew Fraser (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute))

2007-05-23 14:45: Genome regulation: a sequence-gazer's view. (Thomas Down, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

2007-05-23 16:00: The biology of common disease from a genome-wide perspective: susceptibility genes as nodes for pathways and systems (John Todd, The Cambridge Institute of Medical Research (CIMR))

2007-05-23 16:45: A human protein atlas (Anja Persson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)

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)

2007-06-05 13:00: How do we perceive motion direction? (Linda Bowns, Nottingham Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology)

2007-06-07 13:00: The effect of color and motion changes on attentional capture (Adrian von Mühlenen, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick)

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)

2007-06-11 16:30: “SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS UNDERLYING SIGNAL PROCESSING WITHIN THE INPUT LAYER OF THE CEREBELLAR CORTEX” (Professor Angus Silver, University College London)

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)

2007-06-18 16:30: “PROBABILISTIC MODELS OF HUMAN SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL” (Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering)

2007-06-19 10:00: Measuring and predicting complexity (Dr. Sebastian Ahnert, Cavendish Laboratory)

2007-06-19 10:50: The physics of protein folding (Dr. Patricia Faisca, Universadade Nova de Lisboa)

2007-06-19 11:40: Simulations of phase transitions: from colloids to proteins (Dr. Stefan Auer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2007-06-19 13:30: Quadruple stranded DNA: cancer, gene regulation and evolution (Dr. Julian Huppert, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2007-06-19 14:20: Insight into ion channel biophysics via computer simulations (Dr. Carmen Domene, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford)

2007-06-19 15:10: DNA-binding computation at large and small scales (Dr. Marco Consentino-Lagomarsino, Institut Curie, Paris)

2007-06-21 17:15: Report from Apple WWDC07 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2007-06-21 17:15: Linux on the Playstation3 (David Fox, JPY Ltd.)

2007-06-26 13:00: Decoding consciousness (Geraint Rees, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2007-07-03 13:00: Uncomfortable images and spatial periodicity in nature, in art, and in text (Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

2007-07-06 16:30: Computational genomics of structural RNAs (Sean Eddy, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus)

2007-07-13 09:30: Individual variation identifies evolutionary patterns between species (Paul Flicek, European Bioinformatics Institute)

2007-07-13 09:30: Worldwide distribution of human genetic diversity (Francois Balloux, Department of Genetics)

2007-07-13 09:30: Worldwide distribution of human phenotypic diversity (Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology)

2007-07-13 09:30: The systems biology of influenza (Derek Smith, Department of Zoology)

2007-07-13 09:30: Disease dynamics at different scales (Julia Gog, Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics)

2007-07-13 09:30: Evolving mechanisms of pattern formation:  Segmentation in arthropods (Michael Akam, Department of Zoology)

2007-07-13 09:30: Developmental and evolutionary dynamics of the gap gene system. (Johannes Jaeger, Department of Zoology)

2007-07-13 09:30: Disease in a changing landscape (Chris Gilligan, Department of Plant Sciences)

2007-07-13 09:30: A systems approach to understand the condition dependency of genetic interactions (Balázs Papp, University of Manchester & BRC Szeged)

2007-07-13 09:30: Genomic approaches to speciation and fitness: old wines in new bottles (Steve Oliver, University of Manchester & Department of Biochemistry)

2007-07-26 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2007-07-27 14:00: Bootstrapping cluster analysis: assessing the reliability of conclusions (Jules Griffin ( Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge))

2007-08-23 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2007-08-31 14:00: Centering, scaling, and transformations: improving the biological information content of metabolomics data (Kian Kai Cheng (Biochemsitry Department, Uni of Cambridge))

2007-09-12 13:00: Alternative splicing in the human transcriptome: Functional and structural influence on proteins (Dr. Kei Yura, Quantum Bioinformatics Team, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto, Japan)

2007-09-20 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2007-09-21 09:15: Joint EBI/ Cambridge University Research Symposium (Multiple speakers from the EBI and across Cambridge University)

2007-09-28 14:00: Assessing the probability that a positive report is false: an approach for molecular epidemiology studies. (Gregor McCombie (Biochemistry Department, Cambridge University))

2007-10-03 15:00: Toxicogenomics - helping reshape drug discovery (?) (Quin Wills (Simugen Ltd.))

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

2007-10-17 15:00: Some questions that can be answered by molecular dynamics (Daniel Barsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory))

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

2007-10-18 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2007-10-24 15:00: Some questions that can be answered by molecular dynamics (Daniel Barsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory))

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)

2007-10-26 14:00: A new type of stochastic dependence revealed in gene expression data. (Marcelo Segura, Biochemistry Department)

2007-10-31 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Vincent Plagnol (CIMR))

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)

2007-11-08 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)

2007-11-14 15:00: Approximate Bayesian Computation and the fossil record (Simon Tavare (DAMTP/Oncology))

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

2007-11-15 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2007-11-21 15:00: Complex relationships: modelling epidemics on human social networks (Ken Eames, CCBI, DAMTP)

2007-11-26 16:30: “From Single Neuron Activity to Visual Cognition: A Bridge Too Far?” (Prof. Nikos Logothetis, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)

2007-11-28 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Richard Adams (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2007-11-30 14:00: The use of a power law global error model for the identification of differentially expressed genes in microarray data (Matthew Russell, Biochemistry Department)

2007-12-03 09:05: Tea/ coffee from 9.05 + Introduction (9.30) (Gos Micklem (Cambridge))

2007-12-03 09:40: The iGEM competition: Building with biology (James Brown (Cambridge) and Cambridge iGEM team)

2007-12-03 10:20: Computational Design in Synthetic Biology (Alfonso Jaramillo (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris))

2007-12-03 11:30: Towards large-scale integrated nucleic acid logic circuits (Georg Seelig (Caltech))

2007-12-03 12:10: Exploiting Scaffold Proteins to Generate Diverse I/O Dynamics in MAPK Pathways (Caleb Bashor (UCSF))

2007-12-03 14:00: Biological Engineering of Plant Systems (Jim Haseloff (Cambridge))

2007-12-03 14:40: Synthetic Biology: DNA version 2.0 (Jeremy Minshull (DNA2.0))

2007-12-03 15:50: Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells (Ron Weiss (Princeton))

2007-12-03 16:30: General Discussion Session (All)

2007-12-07 13:00: The machinery of colour vision (Professor P. Lennie)

2007-12-13 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-01-10 13:00: Normalizing colour vision (Michael A. Webster, Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada)

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))

2008-01-21 16:30: How the brain decides where and when to look (Prof. Jeffrey Schall, Vanderbilt University)

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

2008-01-25 14:00: Harnessing naturally randomized transcription to infer regulatory relationships among genes (Phil Charles, Cambridge Centre for Proteomics)

2008-01-28 16:30: Relating brain and behaviour in Drosophila (Prof. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg)

2008-01-30 15:00: tba (Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

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

2008-02-04 09:30: Introduction and Overview (Prof. Janet Thornton (Director, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute))

2008-02-04 10:00: ChemoGenomics (Prof. Andrew Hopkins (University of Dundee))

2008-02-04 10:30: DrugBank2 (Prof. David Wishart (University of Alberta))

2008-02-04 11:30: ChEBI: Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (Paula de Matos (ChEBI Group, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute))

2008-02-04 12:00: BindingDB (Prof. Michael Gilson (University of Maryland))

2008-02-04 12:30: Druggable targets - the need for fresh thinking in neglected disease . (Dr. Tim Wells (Medicines for Malaria Venture))

2008-02-04 16:30: Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from impulsive actions to compulsive habits. (Prof. Barry Everitt, University of Cambridge)

2008-02-06 14:00: Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology (Various)

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

2008-02-13 15:00: A Programming Language for Biology (Andrew Phillips  (Microsoft Research))

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))

2008-02-18 16:30: Attentional modulation of visual motion processing: Space, feature and objects (Prof. Stefan Treue, University of Göttingen)

2008-02-20 14:00: Computational methods to analyse large-scale
and high-dimensional gene perturbation screens (Florian Markowetz (University of Princeton))

2008-02-21 13:00: Tracking, Memory, and Dynamic Icons (Dr. Srimant P. Tripathy, Department of Optometry, University of Bradford)

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))

2008-02-21 17:30: Python Tools for software development (Oliver Stegle (University of Cambridge))

2008-02-25 16:30: Beyond Localization: What Brain Imaging Can Tell Us (Prof. Dick Passingham, University of Oxford)

2008-02-26 13:00: Modelling motion from 1888 to 2008:  How far have we come? (Dr. Peter Thompson, University of York)

2008-02-27 14:00: Spatial point process modelling and its applications in ecology (Dr. Janine B. Illian, University of St. Andrews)

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))

2008-02-29 14:00: Using biological ontologies in databases: where do GO terms come from? (Susan Tweedie,  Department of Genetics)

2008-03-05 15:00: tba (Irene Papatheodorou (Cancer Research Institute) University of Cambridge)

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

2008-03-12 15:00: A comparison of background correction methods for two-colour microarrays (Matt Ritchie (Cancer Research Institute, University of Cambridge))

2008-03-20 17:30: SciComp minitalks (tbc)

2008-03-26 14:00: Molecular arms race between host and parasite leads to evolution of robustness against gene loss in signaling networks (Dr Orkun Soyer, CoSBi)

2008-04-07 14:15: Wolfgang Huber from the EBI will be talking on the vsn method. (Wolfgang Huber, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

2008-04-16 17:00:  Four decades of spatial frequency channels: a scale-space view of spatial vision (Professor Mark Georgeson)

2008-04-17 17:30: Functional Programming (Various Speakers)

2008-04-24 14:00: A robustness-based approach to systems-oriented drug design (Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories)

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)

2008-04-25 14:00: FlyMine, InterMine and databases for biology. (Richard Smith, Flymine,  Dept of Genetics)

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)

2008-05-05 16:30: Learning to localize sound (Prof. Andrew King, University of Oxford)

2008-05-06 13:00: Spatial vision in the periphery (Professor Roger Anderson, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology)

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: The mammalian Y chromosome and infertility. (Dr Paul Burgoyne, NIMR, MRC, London)

2008-05-15 17:30: Provisional: Productivity Applications (tbc)

2008-05-19 16:30: Dendritic recordings in vivo - the role of inhibition in shaping dendritic activity (Prof. Matthew Larkum, University of Bern)

2008-05-21 09:30: Determinants of tissue-specific transcriptional regulation in a transplanted
chromosome (Duncan Odom (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute))

2008-05-21 10:15: Signals, Gradients and Cellular Architecture (Karen Lipkow (Cambridge Systems Biology Centre & Biochemistry Department))

2008-05-21 11:20: Collective Hydrodynamics of Swimming Micro-Organisms (Tim Pedley (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics))

2008-05-21 12:05: Quantum Mechanical Simulations of Biochemistry (Gabor Csanyi (Engineering Department, University of Cambridge))

2008-05-21 13:00: The importance of cortical and subcortical visual pathways for attention and eye movements (Dr. Petroc Sumner, Cardiff University)

2008-05-21 13:50:  Evolution of protein complexes and protein interaction networks (Sarah Teichmann (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology))

2008-05-21 14:35:  Biological learning and memory from a theoretical perspective (Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department, University of Cambridge))

2008-05-21 15:40: Mapping quantitative traits in mice and plants (Richard Mott (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford))

2008-05-21 16:25: Genomic Regulatory Network Models for Developing Blood Stem Cells (Dr. Bertie Gottgens (Haematology))

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)

2008-05-26 16:30: Relating Brain and Behaviour in Drosophila (Prof. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg)

2008-05-28 14:00: Structural analysis of cellular networks (Prof. Jörg Stelling, ETH Zürich)

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

2008-06-02 16:30: Functions of Electrical Junctions in the Thalamocortical System (Prof. Barry Connors, Brown University.)

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)

2008-06-09 16:30: The Economy of the Mind (Prof. Michael Platt, Duke University)

2008-06-19 09:30: Registration and Tea/Coffee (There is no Registration Fee but pre-registration is requested)

2008-06-19 10:15: Wellcome and Background to Meeting (Prof. Janet Thornton  & Dr. Dominic Clark (EMBL-EBI))

2008-06-19 10:30: Ontologies for Biologists – The Promise and the Reality (Prof. Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridge (and former joint head of EMBL-EBI))

2008-06-19 10:50: The OBO Foundry and PATO (Prof. Michael Ashburner (University of Cambridge))

2008-06-19 11:10: Towards an Open Source Disease Ontology (Prof. Warren Kibbe (Northwestern University) & Prof. Lynn Schriml (U. Maryland School of Medicine))

2008-06-19 12:20: Mouse Genome Informatics Database: Phenotypes and Phenotype Ontology (Prof. Janan Eppig, The Jackson Laboratory)

2008-06-19 17:30: Provisional: Workflow processing (Speakers to be confirmed)

2008-06-25 13:00: Grandmother cells in the human brain? (Professor Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester)

2008-06-25 14:00: Modelling and simulation of biological systems with COPASI (Prof. Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester)

2008-06-26 13:00: Identifying novel boundaries within cognitive architecture via repetition suppression brain imaging (Scott Grafton, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara)

2008-07-15 13:00: The influence of expectation on deciding where to look next (Dr. Andrew Anderson, University of Melbourne)

2008-07-16 13:00: A Computational Theory of Visual Attention to Time, Space, and Features (George Sperling, University of California, Irvine)

2008-07-17 13:00: "The Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye" (Professor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University)

2008-07-17 17:30: Provisional: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (Speakers to be confirmed)

2008-08-26 09:30: MPhil in Computational Biology - Student Project Presentations (MPhil Students)

2008-08-27 09:30: MPhil in Computational Biology - Student Project Presentations (MPhil Students)

2008-09-18 14:00: Uncovering design principles of bacterial biochemical networks and biofilm self-organization (Oleg Igoshin (Rice University))

2008-09-18 17:30: Development tools for mobile devices (Alexander Griekspoor (mekentosj.com), Alistair de B Clarkson (nCipher))

2008-09-30 13:00: RNA editing in plant organelles: Correlation between editing sites and protein three-dimensional structures (Kei Yura (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo))

2008-10-01 10:45: Systems Biology: from models (and model organisms) to medicines (Professor Steve Oliver, Centre for Systems Biology)

2008-10-01 11:15: Collagen mechanics: from basic understanding to clinical applications	 (Dr Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering)

2008-10-01 11:45: Health Technologies KTN: working together to accelerate innovation in healthcare (Professor Mehdi Tavakoli, Health Technologies KTN)

2008-10-01 13:30: Closing on closed-loop insulin delivery: Artificial Pancreas - where we are and where we go (Dr Roman Hovorka, Institute for Metabolic Sciences)

2008-10-01 13:30: Molecular assembly lines for drug biosynthesis (Professor Peter Leadley (Department of Biochemistry))

2008-10-01 14:00: Strategies for bringing back function to the damaged nervous system (Professor James Fawcett, Centre for Brain Repair)

2008-10-01 14:00: Tools for Engineering Morphogenesis in Plants (Dr Jim Haseloff, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-10-01 14:30: Materials for Medical Engineering (Dr Ruth Cameron, Centre for Medical Materials, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy)

2008-10-01 14:30: Reconstructing the Bacterial Cell Factory (Dr David Summers, Department of Genetics)

2008-10-01 15:30: Applications of physical science to biological systems: droplets and fragments (Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry)

2008-10-01 16:00: Cambridge Physics of Medicine Initiative (Professor Athene Donald, Director, Centre for Physics of Medicine)

2008-10-01 16:30: Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative (Professor Roger Pedersen, Centre for Regenerative Medicine)

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

2008-10-13 16:30: Grid cells and spatial representation in the entorhinal cortex (Prof. May-Britt Moser, Kavli Institute, Trondheim)

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

2008-10-16 17:30: Title to be confirmed (Speakers to be confirmed)

2008-10-21 14:00: Computational analysis of the connection between cell cycle and circadian rhythm (Judit Zámborszky, CoSBi)

2008-10-22 14:00: What makes cellular decisions irreversible? (Prof. Béla Novák, University of Oxford)

2008-10-23 13:00: Recent developments in the chemical senses:  a tutorial for visual and auditory scientists (Professor Barry Keverne, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Dept of Zoology, Cambridge)

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

2008-10-27 16:30: Neurotransmitter signalling to oligodendrocytes and their precursors: its role in oligodendrocyte development and white matter disease (Prof. David Attwell, University College London)

2008-10-29 15:00: Simultaneous Determination of Protein Structure and Dynamics (Dr. Michele Vendruscolo, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

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)

2008-11-05 15:00: Type 1 Diabetes research, before and after association studies (Vincent Plagnol, CIMR, University of Cambridge)

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)

2008-11-12 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Kojiro Yano)

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

2008-11-13 17:30: Title to be confirmed (Speakers to be confirmed)

2008-11-17 16:30: Making an effort to listen: mechanical amplification by myosin molecules and ion channels in hair cells of the inner ear (Prof. James Hudspeth, Rockefeller University)

2008-11-18 14:00: Colonies of Synchronizing Agents: Computability and Robustness (Radu Mardare, CoSBi)

2008-11-19 11:00: Exactness and Approximation of the Stochastic Simulation Algorithm (Ivan Mura, CoSBi)

2008-11-19 15:00: " The dynamics of parasite-mediated competition" (Olivier Restif, CIDC, The Veterinary School, University of Cambridge)

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)

2008-11-24 16:30: Building Neural Representations of Habits (Prof. Ann Graybiel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2008-11-26 15:00: "Studying human variation from whole genome sequence data". (Richard Durbin, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre)

2008-11-27 13:00: Going with the flow:  Visually guided flight and navigation in honeybees (Professor Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Queensland Brain Institute)

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

2008-12-01 16:30: Parallel Processing in the Mammalian Retina (Prof. Heinz Waessle, Max-Planck-Institut, Frankfurt)

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

2008-12-08 16:30: SNAREs, synaptotagmin, and fusion pores (Meyer Jackson, Dept. of Physiology, University of Wisconsin)

2008-12-11 17:30: Provisional: Christmas Quiz (Speakers to be confirmed)

2009-01-06 13:00: The Perception of Colour Seen in Context (Dr Steve Shevell, University of Chicago)

2009-01-12 13:00: What do the Colour-Blind see? -- And if it's more than we thought, how do they do it? (Dr Justin Broackes, Department of Philosophy, Brown University)

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

2009-01-19 13:00: Perception, action and uncertainty (Prof. Laurence Maloney, Department of Psychology, NYU)

2009-01-19 16:30: A genetic approach to understanding the molecular basis of auditory function (Prof. Karen Steel, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

2009-01-21 11:00: BlenX, a language based approach for modelling biological systems (Roberto Larcher, CoSBi)

2009-01-21 14:00: On Automatic Quantitative Verification of Biological Systems (Paolo Ballarini, CoSBi)

2009-01-21 15:00: Pathogen Genome Sequencing at the Sanger Institute (Dr. Arnab Pain)

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

2009-01-28 15:00: Better multiple sequence alignment by being phylogeny-aware, and better base calling from next-generation sequencers (Nick Goldman (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute))

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

2009-02-02 16:30: From Cell Signaling to Function in Large-Scale Neural Networks (Prof. Jorn Hounsgaard, University of Copenhagen)

2009-02-04 14:00: Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology (Various speakers)

2009-02-09 16:30: Measuring and modelling the development of ordered nerve connections (Prof. David Willshaw, University of Edinburgh)

2009-02-11 16:00: On the relevance of cortico-spinal synchrony for motor control (Andreas Daffertshofer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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

2009-02-16 15:00: Linked Oscillators in Circadian Biology (Dr. Alex Webb (Plant Sciences))

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

2009-02-23 16:30: Useful signals from motor cortex (Prof. Andrew Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh)

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

2009-03-02 16:30: Amazing TRP channels: from Aristotle´s five senses to TRPpathies (Prof. Bernd Nilius, University of Leuven)

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 13:00: The neural code and knowledge representation: a bridge too far? (Dr Peter Foldiak, St Andrews University)

2009-03-10 14:00: Visual systems biology: design, understand, organize (Lorenzo Dematté, CoSBi)

2009-03-11 11:00: Evolutionary computation: optimization and inference (Michele Forlin, CoSBi)

2009-03-17 13:00: Statistically optimal inference and learning: from behavior to neural representations (Professor József Fiser, Brandeis University)

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

2009-03-24 14:00: On the deduction of chemical reaction rate constants from measurements of time series of concentration (Paola Lecca, CoSBi)

2009-03-25 11:00: A Framework study of the NF-kB signalling pathway (Adaoha Ihekwaba, CoSBi)

2009-03-30 13:00: What reflected light tells the eye about the content of the world (Prof. David H. Foster, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester)

2009-03-31 14:00: KInfer and BetaWB: tools for supporting the modeling workflow of Biological Systems (Alida Palmisano, CoSBi)

2009-04-01 11:00: A parallel perspective of the dynamics of biological reactive systems (Tommaso Mazza, CoSBi)

2009-04-21 14:00: Exploiting non-Markovian Bio-Processes within BlenX (Davide Prandi, CoSBi)

2009-04-22 11:00: Dynamics of cell cycle transitions (Attila Csikasz-Nagy, CoSBi)

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)

2009-04-27 16:30: Synaptic mechanisms of neocortical sensory processing (Prof. Carl Petersen, Lausanne)

2009-04-30 13:00: Living optical elements in the vertebrate retina (Dr. Jochen Guck (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

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)

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

2009-05-11 16:00: The Code Underlying Tissue-Regulated Splicing (Brendan Frey, University of Toronto)

2009-05-11 16:30: TRPV1: hot new channels in the hippocampus (Prof. Julie Kauer, Brown University)

2009-05-12 14:00: Chemotaxis. Do we understand it all? (Orkun Soyer, CoSBi)

2009-05-13 11:00: Model Abstraction Methodology for Temporal Behavior Analysis of Multiscale Biological Systems (Hiroyuki Kuwahara, CoSBi)

2009-05-13 13:00: Bird vision and egg mimicry by cuckoos (Dr. Martin Stevens, Department of Zoology, Cambridge)

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)

2009-05-18 08:45: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Registration (Organisers)

2009-05-18 09:15: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 1: Data Production (Rory Stark (Lead))

2009-05-18 10:15: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Keynote 1: Computational issues in ancient genomics (Dr Ed Green, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)

2009-05-18 11:30: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 2: Alignment (Mario Caccamo (Lead))

2009-05-18 12:30: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Lunch & Flip Chart Session (Lunch)

2009-05-18 13:30: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 3: Assembly / Structural variation (Aylwyn Scally (Lead))

2009-05-18 15:15: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 4: Counting and comparing (Dr Krys Kelly (Lead))

2009-05-18 16:15: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Future Steps (Dr Gos Micklem)

2009-05-18 16:30: Delays and coincidences in spatial hearing (Prof. Philip Joris, University of Leuven)

2009-05-18 16:45: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Keynote 2: Dark matter and the dark arts (Professor David Baulcombe, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-18 17:30: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Drinks & Flip Chart Session (Organisers)

2009-05-19 14:00: Stochastic simulation algorithms and analysis of biological systems (Sean Sedwards, CoSBi)

2009-05-20 11:00: Study disease-causing genes based on protein-protein interaction networks (Phuong Nguyen, CoSBi)

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

2009-06-08 16:00: The Executable Pathway to Biological Networks (Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2009-06-09 14:00: Complexity and Robustness in Colonies of Agents:  A Formal Languages and a Game Theory Approach (Matteo Cavaliere, CoSBi)

2009-06-10 11:00: Topological keystone species: network analysis in modern systems ecology (Ferenc Jordán, CoSBi)

2009-06-16 14:00: Analyzing the effect of noise on various models of Circadian Clock and Cell Cycle coupling (Alessandro Romanel, CoSBi)

2009-09-07 16:00: Towards a transcriptional taxonomy of in vitro stem cell preparations (Franz-Josef Müller (University of Kiel / The Scripps Research Institute))

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

2009-10-05 16:00: Cancer Tumour/Normal Pair Analysis with the Illumina Genome Analyzer (Dirk Evers and Keira Cheetham  (Illumina Cambridge Ltd.))

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

2009-10-12 16:30: Computational modeling of long-range connections in superficial layers of visual cortex V1 (Steven Zucker, Yale University)

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

2009-10-16 13:00: Russian Blues: Effects of Language Categories on Colour Discrimination (Professor Galina Paramei, Hope University)

2009-10-19 16:30: Investigating the firing properties of motoneurones with dynamic clamp and modelling (Claude Meunier René Descartes University, Paris.)

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

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)

2009-11-02 16:00: Biochemical network reconstruction from data (Jorge Goncalves, Department of Engineering)

2009-11-02 16:30: “Modeling synaptic plasticity across multiple time scales”. (Wulfram Gerstner EPFL.)

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

2009-11-09 16:30: “Nociception and pain in early life: the emergence of endogenous control systems”. (Maria Fitzgerald, UCL.)

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

2009-11-16 16:30: “Olfaction as a model for brain organization: from Adrian to the present”. (Gordon Shepherd, Yale University.)

2009-11-19 13:00: Colour vision across the life span: perception and brain imaging (Dr. Sophie Wuerger, University of Liverpool)

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

2009-11-23 16:30: “How experience changes the circuitry of the brain”. (Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried.)

2009-11-25 13:00: Fate determination of retinal neurons: Lineage relationships and the inhibitory master switch Ptf1a (Dr. Patricia Jusuf)

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

2009-11-27 13:00: Experimental tests of the theory that V1 creates a bottom-up visual saliency map for attentional guidance (Professor Zhaoping Li, Computer Science, UCL)

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: 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 13:00: The effect of contextual motion on perceived speed, plaid direction and binocular rivalry (Dr. Daniel H. Baker, Aston University)

2009-12-07 16:00: New Approaches to Biomedical Data Modelling: An Introductory Tutorial (Christopher M. Bishop (Microsoft Research, Cambridge))

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

2010-01-25 16:30: The ins and outs of hearing: amplification and coding in the mammalian cochlea (Jonathan Ashmore, UCL.)

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

2010-02-01 16:00: Analysing the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs in vivo by upgrading in vitro data based on mathematical modelling (Wilhelm Huisinga, National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

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

2010-02-15 16:00: Next generation computing for next generation sequencing (Arndt von Haeseler (Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna))

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

2010-02-22 16:30: CANCELLED "Wiring the brain: how axons are guided to their targets" (Prof. Christine Holt, PDN.)

2010-02-24 13:00: “Dependence of visual evoked potentials on discrimination task difficulty and stimulus presentation time” (Tatiana Selchenkova, I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg)

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

2010-03-01 16:30: It’s all about context: How the auditory system helps us notice change (Katrin Krumbholz, University of Nottingham.)

2010-03-03 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Ed Bullmore, Department of Psychiatry)

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

2010-03-08 13:00: "Bioinformatics in the Pharmaceutical Industry" (Various speakers from GSK)

2010-03-10 15:00: Characterization of 1000 breast cancer genomes and transcriptomes (Dr Christina Curtis (University of Cambridge))

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

2010-03-15 16:00: Learning the structure of graphical models with latent variables (Zoubin Ghahramani (University of Cambridge))

2010-03-25 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Francesca D. Ciccarelli Professor of Cancer Genomics | King’s College London| The Francis Crick Institute)

2010-04-06 09:30: Title to be confirmed (Nicholas le Novere (EBI))

2010-04-06 11:15: Ultrasound elastography (Dr Graham Treece (University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering))

2010-04-19 16:00: A global map of human gene expression (Alvis Brazma (EBI))

2010-04-19 16:30: “Auditory processing in a "simple" nervous system: Lessons learned from crickets”. (Bertold Hedwig, Dept. of Zoology.)

2010-05-04 16:00: Deep sequencing reveals differential expression of microRNAs in favorable versus unfavorable neuroblastoma (Sven Rahmann (TU Dortmund))

2010-05-10 16:30: “Building the cognitive map - integration of metric and non-metric inputs by entorhinal and hippocampal neurons”. (Kate Jeffery, UCL.)

2010-05-17 16:00: Dynamics of molecular clocks expose the lineage relations of cells (Shalev Itzkovitz (MIT))

2010-05-17 16:30: “To switch, or not to switch: how the brain answers the question”. (Angela Roberts, PDN.)

2010-05-19 09:00: Title to be confirmed (Gos Micklem, (CCBI, Genetics, CSBC))

2010-05-19 10:30: Title to be confirmed (Paul Sternberg (Caltech))

2010-05-19 11:45: Gene Expression in Aneuupoid Drosophila (Brian Oliver (NIH))

2010-05-19 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Matthew Hurles)

2010-05-19 14:30: Quantifiying Adaptive Evolution in the Drosophila Immune System (Frank Jiggins (Department of Genetics))

2010-05-19 15:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Michele Vendruscolo ( Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

2010-05-19 16:30: From phenotypes to pathways: inferring  genetic architecture from perturbation maps (Florian Markowetz ( Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute))

2010-05-26 13:00: Credit Assignment, State Representations, & Time Scales in Motor Learning (Prof. Maurice Smith, Harvard University)

2010-06-07 16:00: ChIP-Seq in six Drosophila species reveals a highly similar binding landscape for the developmental transcription factor Twist. (Alexander Stark (IMP Vienna))

2010-06-21 16:00: A quantitative view of gene expression levels and epigenetic modifications (Sarah Teichmann (University of Cambridge))

2010-07-02 14:30: Accelerated substitution rates in non-coding sequence: Gene duplication, transcription factor binding site turnover and biased gene conversion. (Dennis Kostka, Gladstone Institute, UCSF)

2010-07-05 16:00: Uncovering signaling differences between normal and transformed hepatocytes using cell-specific pathway models (Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EBI))

2010-09-06 16:00: Unexpected complex dynamics of cellular transcriptional response (Amit Zeisel (Weizmann Institute of Science))

2010-09-20 16:00: Evolutionary Signatures of Strand Specific Mutagenic Processes (Paz Polak (MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin))

2010-10-04 16:00: Transcriptional characterization of glioma stem cells using high-throughput tag sequencing (Paul Bertone (EBI))

2010-10-13 14:00: Why is genomics now unfashionable in drug discovery? (Quin Wills (SimuGen))

2010-10-18 16:00: Deconvolving the epigenome (Thomas Down (Gurdon Institute))

2010-10-18 16:30: RNA based therapies for neurological and muscle disease (Matthew Wood, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)

2010-10-25 16:30: Synaptic processing of visual information in the retina of zebra fish (Leon Lagnado, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

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)

2010-11-01 16:00: Finding interesting clusters using Bayesian data fusion (Richard Savage (University of Warwick))

2010-11-03 14:00: Executable Strategies for Cellular Decision Making (Jasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research Europe))

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

2010-11-08 16:30: The role of temporal fine structure in the perception of pitch and speech; influences of hearing loss and age (Brian Moore, Dept of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University)

2010-11-10 14:00: Decoding Genetic Switches in T Helper Cell Differentiation (Sarah Teichmann (LMB))

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

2010-11-15 16:00: The evolution and regulation of gene expression levels in mammals (John Marioni (EBI))

2010-11-17 14:00: Modelling epidemics: mixing patterns, changing behaviour, and swine flu (Ken Eames (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine))

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

2010-11-22 16:30: Optogenetics: development and application (Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University)

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

2010-11-29 16:00: Integrative Network Biology and Cellular Information Processing (Rune Linding (ICR))

2010-11-29 16:30: From reward to Punishment and Invigoration to Inhibition (Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UC London)

2010-12-01 14:00: Mathematical models of signaling networks  and their application to disease (Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EBI))

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

2010-12-06 16:00: Using association-based genetics to understand basic biology (Ewan Birney  (EBI))

2010-12-06 16:30: Neural Circuits for rapid perceptual decisions under uncertainty (Zach Mainen, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal)

2011-01-18 13:00: 'Arctic reindeer and their adaptation to extreme changes in environmental light' (Professor Glen Jeffery, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL)

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)

2011-01-24 16:30: Dynamics of population activity in visual cortex (Matteo Carandini, Institute of Ophthalmology, UC London)

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

2011-01-31 16:30: What it takes to become an auditory relay synapse (Gerard Borst, Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam)

2011-02-02 14:00: Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology (Various speakers associated with the course)

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)

2011-02-07 16:00: Theoretical models of the development of the nervous system (Stephen Eglen (University of Cambridge))

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 13:00: Conserved principles of movement generation (Mark Churchland, Stanford University)

2011-02-14 16:30: Brain neurons switch each other into pacemaker mode to drive locomotion (Wen-Chang-Li, School of University Sciences, University of St. Andrews)

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

2011-02-18 13:00: Brief temporal buffering of successive visual inputs (Dr Hannah Smithson, University of Durham)

2011-02-21 16:00: Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins: Regulation and Disease (Madan Babu (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology))

2011-02-21 16:30: Temporal co-operation of distinct neuronal types in the hippocampus (Peter Somogyi, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford)

2011-02-21 16:30: Temporal co-operation of distinct neuronal types in the hippocampus (Peter Somogyi, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford:)

2011-02-28 16:30: The ‘in’ and ‘out’ of hippocampal GABAergic interneurons (Peter Jonas, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Vienna)

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

2011-03-07 16:00: Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests  a risk management strategy for bacterial evolution (Nicholas Luscombe (EBI))

2011-03-07 16:30: Neural circuits co-ordinating sleep, feeding and reward (Denis Burdakov, Dept of Pharmacology, Cambridge University)

2011-03-09 14:00: Persistence and control of bTB in Great Britain (Andrew Conlan (Vet School))

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

2011-03-14 16:30: Making sense of scents, the mammalian olfactory system (Stuart Firestein, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York)

2011-03-25 17:00: 'The locus of the neural mechanism underlying the Craik Effect' (Professor Steve Shevell)

2011-03-28 16:00: From data to bench to bedside - prognostic markers and therapeutic targets in breast cancer (Gyan Bhanot (Rutgers))

2011-04-04 16:00: Do modules or pathways help predict breast cancer outcome? (Gunnar Klau (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam))

2011-04-18 09:00: CRUK computational biology day (Speaker to be confirmed)

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)

2011-05-04 13:00: Navigational guidance systems in the human brain (Hugo Spiers, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience)

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

2011-05-09 16:30: The adaption of rod photoreceptors to light (Gordon Fain, Department of Physiological Science, University of California, 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)

2011-05-16 16:00: Allele specific expression design using short read DNA sequencing and application to the genetics of autoimmune disorders (Vincent Plagnol (UCL))

2011-05-19 13:00: Understanding and optimizing human motor learning (Dr. Amy Bastian, John Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute)

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

2011-05-23 13:00: The effects of early visual deprivation (Dr Ione Fine, University of Washington)

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

2011-05-27 13:00: Visual cortical architecture and subjective perception (Dr. Sam Schwarzkopf, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neural Imaging)

2011-05-31 13:00: Decision-making computations within prefrontal cortex: so many interesting neuronal signals but how do we make sense of them? (Dr. Steve Kennerley, UCL, Institute of Neurology)

2011-06-20 16:00: Phylogenetic Inference of Multidomain Evolution (Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh))

2011-06-29 15:00: Perturbation Biology of Cancer Cells (Chris Sander (MSKCC))

2011-09-12 13:00: Drawing in reverse perspective, ancient and modern (Professor Ian Howard, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto)

2011-09-19 16:00: Adult stem cell fate: a laboratory for statistical physics (Ben Simons (University of Cambridge))

2011-09-29 09:30: CCBI Annual Symposium (Various speakers)

2011-10-03 16:00: Chromatin-mediated regulation of gene expression in mouse ES cells (Helle Jørgensen (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-05 13:00: The Problem with Colour (Dr. Simon J. Cropper, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne)

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

2011-10-24 16:30: Optogenetics and Other Neural Circuit Analysis Tools (Ed Boyden MIT, Cambridge, USA)

2011-10-25 13:00: Seeing in the dark:  single-photon signals in the retina (Professor John Robson, Gonville and Caius College)

2011-10-26 14:00: From batch effects and randomness to personalised stratified medicine (John Todd (CIMR))

2011-10-26 16:00: Inferring mechanisms of gene regulation from patterns of evolutionary divergence (Itay Tirosh (Weizmann Institute))

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

2011-10-31 13:00: Which psychophysical colour vision test to use for screening in 3-9 year olds? (Dr Manca Tekavčič Pompe)

2011-11-02 14:00: tba (Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute))

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)

2011-11-09 14:00: Approximate Bayesian Computation for evolution in a test tube (Professor Simon Tavare ( CCBI, CRI-CRUK, DAMTP, University of Cambridge))

2011-11-18 13:00: How do context and attention affect S-cone signals in human V1? (Professor Alex Wade, University of York)

2011-11-21 16:00: RNAi-based molecular computing for cancer cell detection (Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson (ETH Zurich BSSE))

2011-11-21 16:30: Oscillations and Neural Syntax (Gyorgy Buzsaki, Rutgers, Newark, USA)

2011-11-30 14:00: Multi-scale studies on Drosophila transcription factors (Boris Adryan (CCBI,Genetics))

2011-12-05 16:00: RNAi libraries for high throughput phenotyping and drug resistance screening in the African trypanosome (David Horn (LSHTM))

2011-12-09 17:00: A musical gift for Horace Barlow on his ninetieth birthday (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-01-11 10:00: One-day meeting on visual perception in memory of Professor C. R. Cavonius ( G. Jordan, J. D. Mollon,  M.J. Morgan, G. Paramei, A. Reeves, T. van den Berg.)

2012-01-13 16:00: Increased methylation variation across cancer types (Kasper Daniel Hansen (Johns Hopkins))

2012-01-16 16:00: The Search for Organizing Principles in Cancer Systems Biology (Olaf Wolkenhauer (University of Rostock, www.sbi.uni-rostock.de))

2012-01-17 13:00: Colour Categories in Language and Thought (Dr. Anna Franklin, University of Sussex)

2012-01-23 16:30: Oscillatory dynamics in the hippocampus: a model system to study information routing in the brain (Dimitri Kullman, Queen Square, London)

2012-01-30 16:30: Physicians as Scientists: Abnormal eye movement seen in the clinic can teach us how the brain works (David Zee, Johns Hopkins University,  Baltimore, Maryland, USA & John Leigh, Case Western Reserve University, CLeveland, Ohio, USA)

2012-02-01 14:00: Genome-Based Drug Discovery and Re-Purposing: a new golden age for DNA microarrays? (Dr. Francesco Iorio, EMBL-EBI)

2012-02-06 16:00: Model Based Target Identification from Expression Data (Neil Lawrence (University of Sheffield))

2012-02-06 16:30: Wiring the brain: RNA-based mechanisms in guiding axon growth (Christine Holt, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-08 14:00: Open Afternoon for the MPhil in Computational Biology (Various Speakers)

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

2012-02-13 15:30: Brain maps for space (Edvard Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway)

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

2012-02-20 16:30: Biological precursors of the number sense (Andreas Nieder, University of Tubingen, Germany)

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)

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

2012-03-05 16:00: Modelling in systems genetics: computational approaches for discovering disease networks (Tom Michoel (FRIAS Freiburg))

2012-03-05 16:30: Dynamic regulation of dopamine transmission in the striatum (Stephanie Cragg, University of Oxford)

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

2012-03-09 13:00: "Genetic correlates of visual biases" (Patrick Goodbourn, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University)

2012-03-12 16:30: Nonlinear dendritic processing in-vitro and in-vivo (Jackie Schiller, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Tecnion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)

2012-03-19 16:00: Evolution of developmental gene expression programs (Itai Yanai (Technion))

2012-03-21 13:00:  A Step-by-Step Guide to Phylogenetic Analysis (Sebastian Mueller)

2012-04-02 14:00: ShrinkSeq: a flexible and powerful method for Bayesian analysis of RNAseq data (Mark van de Wiel (VU University Medical Center))

2012-04-16 14:00: Machine learning applications in genetic regulation and cancer (David Westhead (Leeds))

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

2012-04-30 13:00: "Visual crowding: Basic mechanisms and abnormalities associated with schizophrenia " (Professor Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, London)

2012-04-30 16:30: Near-optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat. (Prof. Carlos Brody. Neuroscience Institute & Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)

2012-05-01 13:00: "Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli" (Eero Simoncelli, New York University)

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

2012-05-04 16:30: Introduction to Metabolomics (Dr Matthew Davey, Plant Metabolism Group, Department of Plant Sciences.)

2012-05-08 16:00: Modeling stem cell differentiation on multiple scales (Fabian Theis (Helmholtz Center Munich))

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

2012-05-14 16:00: The evolution of mammalian tissue transcriptomes (Henrik Kaessmann (Lausanne))

2012-05-14 16:30: Hippocampal interneuron types specifically related to complex behaviours (Tamas Freund. Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary)

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)

2012-05-21 11:00: Biological Image Analysis Made Easy (Fred Hamprecht (Heidelberg))

2012-05-24 09:00: Eighth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute (Various Speakers)

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

2012-05-25 13:00: Perceptual learning: Improving letter recognition and reading speed (Dr Susana Chung, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley)

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

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

2012-06-19 13:00: A new look at human motor control (Dr. Dana Ballard, University of Texas at Austin)

2012-06-21 13:00: The wonder of hue:  the non-monotonic contribution of S-cones to blueness (Sungmi Oh, Joshibi University, Japan)

2012-06-25 16:00: The life histories of 21 breast cancers (Peter van Loo (Sanger Institute))

2012-06-26 13:00: A new look at gating: selective integration of sensory signals through network dynamics (Professor Bill Newsome, Stanford)

2012-06-28 13:00: Vision for reading (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

2012-07-02 16:00: Variational Methods in 3+Dimensional Biomedical Imaging (Martin Burger (Uni Münster))

2012-07-06 13:00: Characterising the evolutionary trajectories generating C4 photosynthesis through inference of phenotypic transition networks (Ben Williams, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2012-07-25 13:00: Perception of motion blur during eye movement (Professor Harold Bedell, University of Houston College of Optometry)

2012-09-10 16:00: From protein networks to disease mechanisms (Roded Sharan (Tel-Aviv University))

2012-09-28 10:30: Network biology of cancer (Andrea Califano (Columbia University, New York))

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

2012-10-12 12:00: The Dog That Didn't Bark: How Computational Analysis of Complex Cell Signaling Data Can Find Surprising Critical Regulatory Nodes (Doug Lauffenberger (MIT))

2012-10-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

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 13:00: How many cortical weighting functions does your brain use to see? (Denis Pelli (NYU), Horace Barlow (Cambridge), Martin Barlow (UBC))

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

2012-11-12 16:30: Genetic Dissection of the Fly Visual Course Control (Axel Borst)

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.)

2012-11-19 16:30: Adrian Lecture Cancelled (Eve Marder. Brandeis University, Mass. USA)

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

2013-01-07 13:00: Individual differences in human perception (Dr. Jeremy Wilmer, Wellesley College, MA)

2013-01-14 13:00: Disturbing vision:  neural efficiency, haemodynamics and homeostasis (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

2013-01-16 14:00: Evolution of post-translational networks (Dr. Pedro Beltrao, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute)

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

2013-01-21 16:30: Inhibition and Odour discrimination in mice (Andreas Schaefer Heidelberg)

2013-01-23 14:00: Integration of functional genomics and pathway information to elucidate deregulation of signal transduction and drugs' mode of action (Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute)

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)

2013-01-28 16:00: Circulating tumour DNA as a biomarker of genetics alterations in cancer  (Florent Mouliere (IRCM U896 Inserm, Montpellier, France))

2013-01-28 16:30: Memory codes and their transformation in bee brain (Randolf Menzel, Frieie University of Berlin)

2013-01-30 14:00: Ecological niche modeling and infectious disease ( Dr. Daniel Henk, University of Bath)

2013-02-04 16:00: Evolution of cellular networks: from interactions to phenotypes (Pedro Beltrao (EMBL-EBI))

2013-02-04 16:30: Neuropharmacology of visual attention in visual cortex (Alex Thiele University of Newcastle)

2013-02-06 14:00: Genome-wide approaches to study alternative splicing using RNA-seq data (Dr. Kathi Zarnack, London Research Institute and EMBL-EBI)

2013-02-06 14:00: MPhil in Computational Biology Open Afternoon (various)

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

2013-02-11 16:30: Circuit mechanisms of oscillations and representation of space in the entorhinal cortex (Matt Nolan, University of Edinburgh)

2013-02-13 14:00: Methodological Challenges in the Pursuit of the Tree of Life (Dr. Christophe Dessimoz, EMBL-EBI)

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.)

2013-02-18 16:00: Metabolic regulation of the stress response and the cancer cell's Warburg effect (Markus Ralser (University of Cambridge, Dept of Biochemistry))

2013-02-18 16:30: On the Evolution of Reward Signals: A Computational Just-So Story (Andy Barto, University of Massachusetts)

2013-02-20 14:00:  Machine learning approaches to predicting protein-ligand binding (Dr. Pedro J. Ballester, MRC Methodology Research Fellow and EMBL-EBI)

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. )

2013-02-25 16:30: Tools for the Brain: Using neural interfaces to restore motor function (Andrew Jackson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Insitute of Neuroscience)

2013-02-27 14:00: Genome sequencing of transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils (Elizabeth Murchison (Sanger) )

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

2013-03-04 16:00: The logic and variation in genomic regulatory networks (Mikhail Spivakov (Babraham Institute))

2013-03-06 14:00:  Computational analyses of high-throughput spatial proteomics data (Dr. Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry)

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

2013-03-11 16:30: Imaging Tools To Reverse Engineer The Brain (Winfried Denk. Director of Max Planck Institute for Medical Research)

2013-03-18 16:00: Inferring causal mediators from omics data in the context of genetic and environmental variations (Oliver Stegle (EBI))

2013-04-22 16:30: The self-tuning neuron- homeostatic plasticity in visualcortical circuitry (Gina Turrigiano. Brandeis University, Massachusetts)

2013-04-24 09:00: The Ninth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute (various speakers)

2013-04-29 16:00: Mapping tumor heterogeneity and developmental trajectories using 40 markers at single cell resolution: (Dana Pe'er (Columbia University, NYC))

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

2013-05-13 16:00: Genome-wide association studies: Lessons from studying a large clinical cohort (Sven Bergmann (Lausanne))

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

2013-05-20 16:00: Petri nets as semi-quantitative modeling method to explore systems behavior of disease-related pathways (Ina Koch (Frankfurt University))

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

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

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)

2013-06-25 17:00: Global microRNA level regulation of EGFR-driven cell-cycle protein network in breast cancer (Stefan Wiemann (DKFZ Heidelberg))

2013-07-04 16:00: Platinum Genomes (Michael Eberle (Illumina))

2013-09-16 16:00: Colon CSCs are sensitized by HDACinhibitors in a FOXO-dependent fashion (Jan Paul Medema (Amsterdam Medical Center))

2013-10-14 16:30: Imaging Neuronal and Behavioural Activity in the Freely Moving Animal: What are they looking at? (Jason Kerr, Max Planck Institute of Biological Sciences)

2013-10-15 13:00: Plasticity, and its limits, in the adult visual system:  Contrast adaptation from 4 minutes to 4 days  (Stephen Engel, University of Minnesota)

2013-10-21 16:00: Analysis of a large cancer gene screen in myelodysplastic syndromes (Moritz Gerstung (Sanger))

2013-10-21 16:30: Functional Modules: How do we get them and what good are they? (Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School)

2013-11-01 13:00: The sensitivity of the human eye to the polarisation of light (Dr Juliette McGregor, University of Bristol)

2013-11-04 16:30: Peripheral Pain Mechanisms (John Wood, University College Londaon (UCL) )

2013-11-06 14:00: Physical constraints can encode bacterial promoter regulatory logic (Daphne Ezer (Department of Genetics))

2013-11-11 16:00: Measuring within-tumour diversity as a universal biomarker for cancer prognosis (Trevor Graham (Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary Univ London))

2013-11-25 16:30: Sifting Circuits for Motor Control.  (Tom Jessell. Columbia University, New York City)

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

2013-12-02 16:00: Incorporating Prior Biological Knowledge into Genetic Association Studies (David V. Conti (USC))

2013-12-11 13:00: Topographic processing of numerosity in the human brain (Dr. B. M. Harvey, University of Utrecht)

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)

2014-01-20 16:00: Systems biology of stem cell fate (Ben MacArthur (University of Southampton))

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)

2014-01-27 16:00: Profiling the Subclonal Copy Number Architecture from Whole Genome Sequencing of Heterogeneous Tumours (Gavin Ha, BC Cancer Research Centre)

2014-01-27 16:30: The first steps in vision: computation and repair.  (Botond Roska. Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland.)

2014-01-28 13:00: Functional architectonics of local masking in three dimensions (Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute))

2014-02-03 16:00: Using time-resolved genetic data to study the evolution of drug resistance. (Ville Mustonen (Sanger Institute))

2014-02-03 16:30: It takes two to tango: The cerrebellum simplified into two types of modules with two encoding schemes (Professor Chris de Zeeuw. Erasmus MC, Rotterdam and the Netherands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam)

2014-02-10 16:30: Choice and value: a behavioural ecologist's perspective on animal preferences (Alex Kacelnik. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2014-02-17 16:00: The Resistant Cancer Cell Line (RCCL) collection – cancer cell lines with acquired drug resistance as a pre-clinical and basic science model (Martin Michaelis (University of Kent))

2014-02-17 16:30: Ten Ways To A Better Brain (Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

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

2014-02-24 16:30: The different perceptual worlds in which we live (Prof. John Mollon, Department of Psychology, 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)

2014-03-03 16:30: Brain power: where does it come form and how is it used. (David Attwell, University College, London)

2014-03-06 13:00: Neuronal mechanisms for perceptual organization (Dr Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)

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

2014-03-10 16:30: Adaptive Coding in the Auditory System (Andrew King, University of Oxford)

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)

2014-03-31 16:00: Single molecule approaches for studying gene expression in intact mammalian tissues. (Shalev Itzkovitz (Weizmann Institute))

2014-04-07 16:00: Variations in genetic and phenotypic diversity during breast cancer progression. (Vanessa Almendro (Harvard University))

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

2014-04-30 13:00: Inferring neural tuning from visual aftereffects (Katherine Storrs (Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Department, UCL))

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

2014-05-12 16:30: Insights into the moecular basis of of neurodegenerative disease. (Prof. Graham Collingridge, University of Bristol)

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.)

2014-05-27 13:00: Perception, Plasticity and Prediction: how the brain learns from experience (Professor Zoë Kourtzi, 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 13:00: A binocular contribution to perceived speed of self-motion perception. (Prof Albert van den Berg (Donders Institute, Nijmegen) )

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)

2014-06-13 12:00: The Cancer Genome Atlas: oncogenic signature classes and the design of combinatorial therapy (Chris Sander (MSKCC))

2014-09-15 16:00: Therapeutic landscape of cancer drivers (Nuria Lopez-Bigas)

2014-09-22 16:00: Discovery and allele frequency estimation of somatic twilight zone insertions and deletions (Alexander Schönhuth (CWI Amsterdam))

2014-09-29 09:30: CASIM VI: Discussion 1 - Local Computational Resources and Issues (Led by Misha Kapushesky (Genestack), Aylwyn Scally (Genetics), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute))

2014-09-29 11:00: CASIM VI: Discussion 2 - Long Read / New Technologies (Led by Rory Stark (CRUK Cambridge Institute), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute))

2014-09-29 11:45: CASIM VI: Rising stars 1 - Data Analysis and Data Sharing Methods (Chaired by Richard Smith-Unna)

2014-09-29 13:30: CASIM VI: Discussion 3 - Single Cell Sequencing (Led by Simon Andrews (Babraham Institute), Boris Adryan (CSBC), Misha Kapushesky (Genestack))

2014-09-29 14:15: CASIM VI: Rising stars 2 - Sequencing Applications in Health and Disease (Chaired by Jelena Aleksic, WT/MRC Stem Cell Institute)

2014-09-29 15:30: CASIM VI: Keynote Address - Using Hi-C to Determine 3-D Structures of Whole Genomes in Single Cells (Tim Stevens, Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2014-09-30 13:00: Testing the Bayesian confidence hypothesis (Wei Ji Ma (New York University))

2014-10-01 13:00: Color Transformations Across the Life Span:  Two Hypotheses about Modulation by Light (Professor John S. Werner, University of California, Davis)

2014-10-06 16:00: Modelling the transcriptional response to ER signalling in breast cancer cells (Magnus Rattray (Manchester))

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)

2014-10-13 16:30: The neuroeconomics of complex social valuation (Colin Camerer. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

2014-10-14 13:00: Evolution of vertebrate photoreception and retinoid cycle:  Clues from the eye transcriptome of basal vertebrates (Professor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University, Canberra)

2014-10-15 14:00: Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants (Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory)

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)

2014-10-20 16:00: Dissecting translation efficiency through lab evolution, genome engineering and inspection of the cancerous genome (Yitzhak Pilpel (Weizmann Institute, Israel))

2014-10-20 16:30: Inhibition and adaptationin the outer retina - Intiguing synaptic mechanisms with unexpected molecular players (Maarten Kamermans, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)

2014-10-22 14:00: Population genetic models of evolution (Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, Cambridge)

2014-10-27 13:00: Conjoint Measurement for assessing the contributions of different stimulus dimensions within a signal detection framework. (Dr Kenneth Knoblauch, Inserm, Bron)

2014-10-27 16:00: Targeting the brain tumour stem cell phenotype with small molecules (Heiko Wurdak (Leeds))

2014-10-29 13:00: Fading and Filling-in (Professor Lothar Spillmann, Freiburg)

2014-10-29 14:00:   Computational analyses of high-throughput spatial proteomics data (Dr Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.)

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

2014-11-03 16:00: Whole-genome sequencing of cell-free DNA in maternal plasma (Dineika Chandrananda )

2014-11-05 14:00: High-content microscopy: big-data biology goes spatio-temporal (Dr Anatole Chessel, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.)

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)

2014-11-12 14:00: Using human genome variation to study history and cellular function (Dr Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.)

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)

2014-11-19 14:00: Biological Databases: More than just stamp collections. (Dr Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute.)

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)

2014-11-24 16:30: The Philippe Wiener Lecture. "From Human pluripotent stem cells to cortial circuits: towards brain disease modeling and repair." (Pierre Vanderhaeghen. Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Brussels, Belgium)

2014-11-25 13:00: ‘I can get that song out of your head: Decoding perceptual representations with retinotopic and tonotopic maps.’ (Geoffrey M. Boynton, Jessica Thomas, and Ione Fine, University of Washington)

2014-11-26 11:00: STFC collaborative R&D funding (Dr Vlad Skarda, STFC External Innovations)

2014-11-26 14:00: Multi-scale studies on transcription factors  (Dr Boris Adryan, Department of Genetics)

2014-12-01 16:30: The Annual Adrian Lecture. "The flow of information underlying a tactile decision." (Dr Karel Svoboda. Janelia Farm, USA.)

2014-12-03 13:00: Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity (Professor Jochen Braun, University of Magdeburg)

2014-12-03 14:00:  Simulation Approaches to Biomolecular Recognition and Assembly  (Dr Peter J Bond, Bioinformatics Institute (BII) A*STAR, Singapore.)

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)

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

2015-01-19 16:30: How developmental origin determines microcircuit function in the hippocampus.  (Rosa Cossart Institute for Neuroscence, Montpellier)

2015-01-21 14:00: There is no medicine except in the light of models  (Dr Pietro Lio, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory)

2015-01-26 16:30: Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Branching and Synoptogenicsm in Fly and Frog CNS (Dietmar Schmucker. VIB Vesalius Research Centre, KULeuven)

2015-01-28 14:00: Mathematical Image Analysis for Cancer Research (Joana Grah, DAMTP)

2015-01-29 13:00: Material matters: the brain knows the binocular statistics of gloss (Dr Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology)

2015-02-02 16:30: Dissecting computations in the dopamine reward circuit (Naoshige Uchinda, Harvard University)

2015-02-04 14:00: Genomics of transcription factor redundancy (Professor Steve Russell, Department of Genetics, Cambridge)

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

2015-02-09 16:30: Adaptive Codes for flexible behaviour in the human brain. (Zoe Kourtzi. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-10 14:00: MPhil in Computational Biology Open Day (Professor Simon Tavaré and Dr Stephen Eglen)

2015-02-11 14:00: Image analysis tools for cancer biology: how could we make it better? (Patrice Mascalchi. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.)

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

2015-02-18 14:00: Towards a molecular psychophysics of decision making in neuro-development and repair (Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London)

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

2015-02-25 14:00: Transcriptional Network Control of Blood Cell Development (Professor Bertie Göttgens, Department of Haematology)

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)

2015-03-02 16:30: Local Transcriptomes and proteomes in neurons (Erin Schuman. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)

2015-03-04 14:00: Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils (Dr Elizabeth Murchison. Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge)

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

2015-03-09 16:30: New perspectives on cochlear nerve degeneration in acquired sensorineural hearing loss (Charles Liberman. Harvard Medical School)

2015-03-11 14:00: Decoding 3-D vision in the human brain (Dr Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology)

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)

2015-04-13 16:00: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of tumours (Prof Quaid Morris (Toronto))

2015-04-17 13:00: Perceptual Organization of Shape (Dr James Elder, York University, Toronto)

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)

2015-04-27 16:30: Neural circuits underlying operant learning in larval zebrafish. (Prof. Florian Engert. Harvard University)

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)

2015-05-11 16:30: NMDA receptors: diversity, molecular mechanisms and synaptic regulation. (Prof. Pierre Paoletti. École Normale Supérieure, Paris.)

2015-05-19 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Illés Farkas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences))

2015-05-21 09:00: Tenth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute (Details of speakers on registration webpage)

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)

2015-07-03 12:00: A  Horizontal Transfer from Bacteria to Fungi Enhances Fungal Pathogenicity (Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University))

2015-07-15 15:00: Discovering enhancer sequences with a role in vertebrate left-right patterning (Dennis Kostka (University of Pittsburgh))

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 )

2015-07-27 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Sean Grimmond (Glasgow))

2015-08-21 13:00: Visual perceptual learning:  A new perspective (Professor Cong Yu, Peking University)

2015-08-24 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Olivier Gevaert (Stanford University))

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)

2015-10-12 16:30: Distilling the true neural correlate of consciousness: have we looked in all the wrong places? (Melanie Wilke, University of Gottingen, Germany)

2015-10-14 14:00: Mapping the sub-cellular proteome (Dr Laurent Gatto ( Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.))

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))

2015-10-21 14:00: Bioinformatics to support cancer therapeutics (Dr Dennis Wang and  Dr. Manasa Ramakrishna, AstraZeneca. )

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

2015-10-26 16:30: Biophysics of the inner ear and beyond (Tobias Reichenbach, Imperial College London)

2015-10-28 14:00: Decoding 3-D vision in the human brain (Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology.)

2015-10-29 14:30: Mining the root causes, driver mutations snd therapeutic opportunities from recalcitrant cancers (Sean Grimmond (Glasgow))

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

2015-11-02 16:30: Light Sleep (Gero Miesenboek University of Innsbruck)

2015-11-04 13:00: Methods and mechanisms of motion dazzle (Anna Hughes, PDN Cambridge)

2015-11-04 14:00: Spatio-temporal organization of replication: On genome evolution and large-scale chromatin folding (Benjamin Audit, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France)

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

2015-11-09 16:30: Contrasting roles of prefrontal cortical areas in reward-guided learning and decision making. (Matthew Rushworth.  University of Oxford)

2015-11-11 14:00: Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants (Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory.)

2015-11-16 15:30: Adventures in structural variation and evolution in cancer (Tony Papenfuss (WEHI + Peter Mac Melbourne))

2015-11-18 14:00: Defining Transcription factor specificity and redundancy in Drosophila (Professor Steve Russell, Department of Genetics.)

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

2015-11-23 16:30: Molecular and Cellular Architecture of Social Behavior Circuits in the Mouse (Catherine DuLac, Harvard University)

2015-11-26 13:00: Specular surfaces improve colour constancy (Dr. Robert Lee (Lincoln))

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

2015-11-30 16:30: Temporal Expectations in the Human Brain (Professor Kia Nobre)

2015-12-02 14:00: Integrating Chemical and Biological Data for Drug Discovery (Dr Andeas Bender, Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge University. )

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

2016-01-13 14:00: Defining cell states and regulatory networks by single cell expression profiling (Professor Bertie Gottgens)

2016-01-14 13:00: Eye movements for sampling and calibrating visual information (Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner)

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

2016-01-18 16:30: Human cerebral cortex development and disease in stem cell systems (Dr Rick Livesey, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

2016-01-20 14:00: Understanding tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma (Professor Simon Tavaré)

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

2016-01-25 16:30: "Plastic Transcriptomes and Proteomes at Synapses" (Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)

2016-01-27 14:00: Mining scientific diagrams for semantic information (Dr Peter Murray-Rust)

2016-02-01 13:00: Probing Visual System Organization after Injury with fMRI  (Dr Stelios Smirnakis, Baylor College of Medicine)

2016-02-03 14:00: Cellular Systems Biology of Chromosome Dynamics (Dr Karen Lipkow, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre)

2016-02-08 16:30: "Function and modulation of sensory TRP channels" (Thomas Voets, Laboratory of Ion Channel Research, University of Leuven, Belgium)

2016-02-10 14:00: Comparative genomics of RNA viruses (Dr Andrew Firth, Department of Pathology, University of 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)

2016-02-17 10:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Misha Kapushesky)

2016-02-17 13:00: Colour perception in synaesthesia (Professor Katsuaki Sakata, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan)

2016-02-17 14:00: Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils (Dr Elizabeth Murchison)

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

2016-02-22 16:30: "Breaking symmetry in the brain –  from genes to circuits and behaviour" (Steve Wilson, University College London)

2016-02-24 14:00: Circulating tumour cells: a model from breast cancer to bone metastasis (Dr Gianluca Ascolani)

2016-02-29 16:30: "Neurobiology of Economic Decisions" (Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Washington University, St Louis)

2016-03-02 14:00: Using C. elegans to learn principles of eukaryotic chromatin regulation (Julie Ahringer, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

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

2016-03-07 16:30: "Pathways specifying cell fates in the Drosophila CNS”.  (Stefan Thor, Linkoping University, Sweden)

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

2016-04-11 09:30: CASIM VIII: Reproducibility Workshop follow up (Gord Brown (CRUK) and Ines de Santiago (CRUK))

2016-04-11 10:00: CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 1 - Buggy science: improving bioinformatics software quality (John Davey (Zoology) and Gord Brown (CRUK) with Jennifer Liddle (WTSI) and Irina Colgiu (WTSI))

2016-04-11 11:30: CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 2: 3D genomics (Tim Stevens, with Robert Beagrie (MDC Berllin), Paula Freire Pritchitt (Babraham Intstitute))

2016-04-11 12:30: CASIM VIII: RISING STARS TALKS - Emergence and progression of naive pluripotency in mammalian embryogenesis (Thorsten Boroviak (WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute))

2016-04-11 12:45: CASIM VIII: RISING STARS TALKS - A landscape of pharmacogenomics interactions in cancer (Francesco Iorio (EBI))

2016-04-11 14:00: CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 3 - Hot topics in transcriptomics (Irene Papatheodorous and Catalina Vallejos, with Angela Goncalves (WTSI), Davis McCarthy (EBI))

2016-04-11 15:00: CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 4 - Analysis of cancer genomes (Geoff Macintyre (CRUK))

2016-04-11 16:30: CASIM VIII: KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Ebola to Zika: portable nanopore sequencing for outbreak surveillance (Josh Quick (University of Birmingham))

2016-04-14 13:00: Natural statistics and human perception of shape and gloss (Wendy J. Adams, Southampton University)

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

2016-04-26 13:00: Flight, flow and gaze control:  Design principles of fly stabilization reflexes (Professor Holger G. Krapp, Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial College, London)

2016-04-29 13:00: Sensory receptor diversity and colour vision range in butterflies and diptera (Dr Mike Perry, NYU)

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)

2016-05-09 16:30: "Hijacking of NMDA receptor signalling by tumors" (Professor Douglas Hanahan, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

2016-05-16 16:00: Gene-drug interaction screens in cancer (Sebastian Nijman (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Oxford))

2016-05-18 13:00: “Why are rods more sensitive than cones?”  (Professor Gordon Fain (UCLA and PDN))

2016-05-20 12:00: Perception as a closed-loop convergence process (Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute))

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)

2016-06-13 16:00: Sex chromosomes in development and disease (James Turner (The Francis Crick Institute))

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)

2016-06-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Sergio Bacallado)

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

2016-07-06 13:00: Wings inform:  mechanosensing in insect flight control. (Tom Daniel (U. Washington, USA))

2016-07-08 16:00: Decision making in hierarchical multi-label classification (HMC) problems (Haiyan Huang (UC Berkeley))

2016-07-18 13:00: Attention filters for features (Professor George Sperling, University of California at Irvine)

2016-08-22 16:00: A Bayesian ordination method for 16S microbiome profiling data (Dr Sergio Bacallado)

2016-09-19 16:00: Non-coding genome function in pancreatic islets and diabetes (Professor Jorge Ferrer)

2016-10-03 16:00: The Long-legged mouse and the Impossible Hybrid – the genetics of genome evolution in the mouse from stem cells to whole organisms  (Dr Yingguang Frank Chan)

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

2016-10-10 16:30: "How to sample a reliable neural estimate of the variable world" (Mikko Juusola, Professor of Systems Neuroscience, University of Sheffield)

2016-10-12 14:00: Using evolutionary sequence variation to build predictive models of protein structure and function. (Lucy Colwell (University of Cambridge))

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

2016-10-19 14:00: Transcriptional and phenotypic variability in response to temperature in plants (Dr Sandra Cortijo)

2016-10-19 16:00: Evolution, genomics and mode of action of long noncoding RNAs in mammalian cells (Dr. Igor Ulitsky)

2016-10-24 16:30: "Sound encoding in the cochlea: from molecular physiology to optogenetic restoration" (Tobias Moser, Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, University Medical Center Gottingen, Germany)

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

2016-11-02 14:00: Genome architecture and chromatin regulation in C. elegans (Professor Julie Ahringer, The Gurdon Institute)

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

2016-11-15 16:00: Transposable elements and epigenome evolution (Prof. Ting Wang)

2016-11-16 14:00: Mapping the sub-cellular proteome (Dr Laurent Gatto)

2016-11-16 14:00: Mapping the sub-cellular proteome (Dr Laurent Gatto)

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

2016-11-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Christopher Yau)

2016-11-21 16:30: Adrian Seminar Series - Annual Lecture "How Do You Feel? Ion channels that sense mechanical force" (Ardem Patapoutian, The Scripps Research Institute, California)

2016-11-23 14:00: Mining scientific diagrams for semantic information (Dr. Peter Murray-Rust (University of Cambridge))

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

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

2016-12-05 16:30: "Negative-feedback control of cortical activity by the neuromodulator adenosine" PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE (Magnus Richardson, University of Warwick)

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

2016-12-14 13:00: Neural mechanisms supporting the development of visual perception (Dr Lynne Kiorpes  (NYU))

2016-12-16 13:00: When efficient encoding meets Bayesian decoding (Alan Stocker (University of Pennsylvania))

2017-01-12 13:00: "Multimodal 3D perception: From binocular disparity to generic depth processing" (Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute))

2017-01-13 14:00: A new perspective from Information Theory on genetic sequences (Omri Tal, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences)

2017-01-13 16:15: Modeling cancer evolution from genomic data (Beerenwinkel, Niko, Prof. Dr.)

2017-01-23 16:30: "The visual cortex as a cognitive blackboard" (Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for 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)

2017-01-30 16:00: The blind watch-breaker: evolution at regulatory sites in cancer (Prof. Colin Semple)

2017-02-01 14:00: Ribosome profiling and virus infection (Dr Andrew Firth  Division of Virology ( University of Cambridge, UK))

2017-02-08 14:00: Computational Biology and Drug Discovery (Philippe Sanseau - GSK R&D)

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

2017-02-13 16:30: "Turning glia into neurons - from scar formation to repair" (Magdalena Goetz, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen)

2017-02-15 14:00: Integrating Chemical and Biological Data for Drug Discovery (Dr Andreas Bender)

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)

2017-02-20 16:30: "Modeling others during social exchange: neuroimaging and neuromodulatory correlates" (Read Montague, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and University College London)

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

2017-02-27 16:30: "Molecular regulation of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity" (Oscar Marin, King's College London)

2017-03-01 13:00: “How does melanopsin help us to see?“ (Dr Annette Allen, Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester)

2017-03-01 14:00: Two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils (Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine )

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

2017-03-06 16:30: "Variability, robustness and modulation in neurons and networks" (Eve Marder, Brandeis University USA)

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

2017-03-13 16:00: Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors? (Dr Laurent Duret)

2017-03-13 16:00: Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors? (Dr Laurent Duret)

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)

2017-03-21 13:00: "The koniocellular visual pathway" (Dr Samuel Solomon, Reader in Visual Neuroscience, Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2017-04-03 16:00: Functional variation in the human genome: lessons from the transcriptome (Prof. Tuuli Lappalainen)

2017-04-24 16:00: Building a bigger brain: genetic bases for the evolution of the human neocortex (Prof. Gregory A. Wray)

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

2017-05-03 13:00: Explorations in computing motion and their implications for motion processing in monkey and man. (Professor Alan Johnston, University of Nottingham)

2017-05-08 16:30: Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation (Andreas V.M. Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Munich and Faculty of Biology, LMU Muenchen)

2017-05-15 16:00: To be confirmed (Dr Paz Polak)

2017-05-15 16:30: "Circular Inference in schizophrenia...and all of us" (Sophie Deneve, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Paris)

2017-05-22 16:00: Statistical Bioinformatics at Scale (Prof. Alexander Schliep)

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

2017-06-15 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))

2017-06-26 13:00: Investigating the residual visual pathways following damage to primary visual cortex (Dr Holly Bridge (FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford))

2017-08-14 16:00: Coding and non-coding cancer mutations (Prof. Dr Núria López-Bigas, ICREA Research Professor, IRB Barcelona)

2017-09-04 13:00: Towards a whole brain model of perceptual learning (Dr Aaron Seitz, University of California, Riverside)

2017-09-25 16:00: To be confirmed (Prof. Tomas Marques Bonet)

2017-10-02 13:00: Retinal mechanisms of non-image-forming vision (Dr Manuel Spitschan, Oxford University)

2017-10-09 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Brain dynamics in a firefly catching task" (Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas)

2017-10-11 14:00: Personal Genomics (Professor Julian Gough, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

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)

2017-10-18 14:00: Chemical and Biological Data - from Compound Selection to Mode of Action Analysis (and Back Again) (Andreas Bender, PhD, Department of Chemistry)

2017-10-23 16:00: Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research (Dr Timothy Errington)

2017-10-25 14:00: Data-driven approaches to drug target identification (Dr Alex Gutteridge Director,Computational Biology TSci Computational Biology(UK) GSK)

2017-10-30 16:00: Mutational heterogeneity in promoter regions in melanoma (A/Prof. Dr Erik Larsson Lekholm, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden )

2017-10-30 16:30: TODAY: Adrian Seminar - "Functional heterogeneity of astrocytes in the mammalian CNS" - David Rowitch (David Rowitch, University of Cambridge)

2017-11-01 14:00: Evolution while you wait: population genetic modelling of rapid evolutionary processes (Dr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge))

2017-11-06 16:30: TODAY: Adrian Seminar - Corinne Houart "Modulation of embryonic signalling activities controls forebrain size and complexity" (Corinne Houart, King's College London)

2017-11-07 13:00: The role of the oculomotor system in visual attention and visual short-term memory (Dr. Daniel T. Smith, Durham University)

2017-11-08 14:00: Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants (Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory 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)

2017-11-15 14:00: Mathematical Modelling in Early Drug Discovery (Dr Domingo Salazar, AstraZeneca UK Limited )

2017-11-21 13:00: Crowding and the disruptive effect of clutter throughout the visual system (Dr John Greenwood, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL)

2017-11-22 14:00: Mapping the sub-cellular proteome (Dr Laurent Gatto,  Department of Biochemistry)

2017-11-23 13:00: Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Brain (Dr Samatha Strong, School of Optometry and Visual Science, Bradford)

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

2017-11-27 16:00: Inferring the Evolutionary History of Cancers: Statistical Methods and Applications (Dr Andrew Roth, Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford )

2017-11-27 16:30: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience - ANNUAL LECTURE Rachel Wilson "Neural correlates of orienting behaviors and latent action biases"  (Rachel Wilson, Harvard Medical School)

2017-11-28 13:00: Neuroimaging studies of binocular vision: States, traits, debates. (Dr Janine Mendola (McGill))

2017-11-29 14:00: Deciphering the origins of gene expression bursts at dawn, using computer-aided experimental design (Dr Daphne Ezer, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2017-12-04 16:00: Enhancers as regulatory hubs in mammalian embryogenesis and human congenital disease (Dr Alvaro Rada-Iglesias, CMMC - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Germany)

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)

2018-01-16 13:00: Dissecting Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Networks by Quantitative Phosphoproteomics  (Prof. Jesper V. Olsen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

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)

2018-01-22 16:30: TODAY! Adrian Seminar - "Plasticity of the adult visual cortex in human" - Concetta Morrane, University of Pisa, Italy (Concetta Morrone, University of Pisa)

2018-01-24 14:00: Multiple mouse reference genomes defines subspecies specific haplotypes and novel coding sequences (Dr Thomas Keane, Sanger Institute)

2018-01-29 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - A remarkable combination of skills in hunting archerfish   (Stefan Schuster, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)

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

2018-02-05 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Synaptic plasticity and memory" (Tim Bliss, University College London)

2018-02-12 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Starting new actions and learning from it" (Rui Costa, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia)

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)

2018-02-16 13:00: Adaptive auditory cortical coding of speech (Milena Bonte, University of Maastricht)

2018-02-21 13:00: Gaze and Locomotion in Natural Terrains (Professor M. Hayhoe, University of Texas)

2018-02-21 14:00: Ribosome profiling and virus infection (Dr Andrew Firth, Department of Pathology)

2018-02-26 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Functional synaptic architecture of visual cortex" (David Fitzpatrick, Research Group Leader & Scientific Director, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience)

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)

2018-03-05 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Physiological and genetic heterogeneity in hearing loss" (Karen Steel, King's College London)

2018-03-12 16:30: Adrian Seminar: Ensemble coding in amygdala circuits (Andreas Luthi, Friedrich Miescher Institute Basel, Switzerland)

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)

2018-04-24 13:00: Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics (Mehrdad Jazayeri)

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

2018-05-09 13:00: You don't have to use 'motion energy' to compute velocity:  a biologically inspired and implemented motion model (Dr Linda Bowns, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute)

2018-05-16 09:00: CCBI Annual Symposium (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)

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

2018-05-29 13:00: Development of a chemical retinal prosthesis (John B. Troy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A.)

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)

2018-09-10 13:00: Patient-past based precision medicine: multi-morbidities in a life-course perspective (Professor Soren Brunak from  University of Copenhagen)

2018-09-13 15:00: Dynamics of HIV Intra-Patient Drug Resistance Evolution through Space and Time (Dr Alison Feder from University of California, Berkeley, USA )

2018-09-21 13:00: Gone fishing. Machine-learning guided discovery from public data. (Professor Casey Greene from the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania )

2018-10-08 13:00: Exploring the role of ion channels in cancer using executable modelling (Dr Benjamin Hall from MRC Cancer Unit in Cambridge )

2018-10-08 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Neural motion" (Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)

2018-10-10 14:00:  Exploiting stochastic fluctuations to understand cellular processes and infer biochemical kinetics (Dr Andreas Hilfinger (University of Toronto))

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

2018-10-15 13:00: Cortical mechanisms underlying integration of local visual cues to form global representations (Dr Wei Wang)

2018-10-15 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Probing computations in neural circuits using single-neuron perturbations" (Chris Harvey, Harvard Medical School)

2018-10-17 14:00: Data-driven approaches to drug target identification (Dr Alex Gutteridge (GSK))

2018-10-22 16:30: Adrian Seminar Series - ANNUAL LECTURE - "Transforming thought into action using bidirectional brain-machine interfaces (Richard Andersen, California Institute of Technology)

2018-10-24 14:00: Mapping the sub-cellular proteome (Dr Laurent Gatto (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics))

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

2018-10-29 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Probing the molecular basis of extreme physiology using African mole-rats" (Gary Lewin, Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin)

2018-10-31 14:00: Personal Genomics (Dr Julian Gough (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology))

2018-11-07 14:00: Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger (Dr Katherine Lawler (MRC Institute of Metabolic Science))

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

2018-11-12 13:00: Cancer Genome Evolution and Immune Escape (Dr Nicholas McGranahan from Francis Crick Institute in London)

2018-11-12 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "The neuromodulatory connectome: wired and wireless networks". (William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2018-11-14 14:00: How space constrains evolution: lessons from bacteria and bacteriophage (Dr Diana Fusco)

2018-11-19 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Circuit principles of memory-based behaviour choice". (Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-19 16:30: Non invasive detection of tissue specific cell death via methylation patterns of circulating DNA (Prof Yuval Dor from The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School)

2018-11-21 14:00: Mathematical modelling of rapid evolutionary processes (Dr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge))

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)

2018-11-26 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Computational model of rapid learning in hippocampus". (Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London)

2018-11-28 13:00: Optimising the design of text using simple algorithms (Professor Arnold J. Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2018-11-28 14:00: Mathematics for mechanistic biology and drug discovery (Dr Rahuman Sheriff (EMBL-EBI))

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

2018-12-11 13:00: "Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision" (Professor Givago Souza, Federal University of Para, Brazil)

2018-12-17 13:00: Cell-of-origin of prostate cancer and clinical heterogeneity (Dr Esther Baena from CRUK Manchester Institute )

2019-01-17 13:00: Visual categorization of simple stimuli  (Professor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University)

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

2019-01-21 16:30: Probing the neural processes that underlie biased perceptual decisions by humans and monkeys (Kristine Krug, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)

2019-01-23 14:00: Computational approaches to Immuno-Oncology drug development (Dr Ben Sidders (Astrazeneca))

2019-01-25 13:00: Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies (Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen)

2019-01-28 16:30: Brain dynamics during tactile discrimination behavior ( Fritjof Helmchen,  Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich)

2019-01-30 14:00: Replacing pathologists with next generation diagnostics: use of artificial intelligence to analyse image and DNA sequencing data (Dr Elizabeth Sollieux (Dept of Pathology), Dr Matt Thorpe (DAMTP) and Oliver Crook (MRC Biostatistics Unit/DAMTP))

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

2019-02-04 16:30: Cellular dissection of visual cortex reveals dedicated pathways for multisensory computations (Troy Margrie)

2019-02-11 16:30: Mechanisms of memory revaluation in Drosophila (Scott Waddell, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)

2019-02-13 13:00: Adaptation Produces Change-Salience (Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London)

2019-02-13 14:00: Prioritization of mutations in coding and noncoding regions of the human genome using machine learning approaches (Dr Sudhakaran Prabakaran (Dept of Genetics))

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

2019-02-18 13:00: Learning Engines for Healthcare:  Using Machine Learning to Transform Clinical Practice and Discovery (Prof Mihaela van der Schaar from 	Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-20 14:00: Ribosome profiling and virus infection (Dr Andrew Firth (Dept of Pathology))

2019-02-25 16:30: The computational physiology of the basal ganglia and of their disorders and therapy (Hagai Bergman, Department of Medical Neurobiology (Physiology) Institute of medical research – Israel Canada (IMRIC), The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC))

2019-02-27 14:00: Chemical and Biological Data - from Compound Selection to Mode of Action Analysis (and Back Again) (Dr Andreas Bender (Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept of Chemistry))

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

2019-03-06 14:00: Statistical Approaches to Personalised Medicine in Breast Cancer (Dr Oscar Rueda (CRUK - CI))

2019-03-07 16:30: Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration (Frank Bradke, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany.)

2019-03-11 13:00: Regulatory Genomics: From Basic Biology to Disease Mechanisms and Ageing (Dr Judith Zaugg from EMBL in Heidelberg)

2019-03-13 14:00: Towards the high-level sequence code of gene regulation (Dr Aleksandr Sahakyan (MRC WIMM, Oxford))

2019-03-14 13:00: "Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."  (Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck)

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

2019-03-25 13:00: A systems biology approach to identify perturbed processes driving cancer (Professor Francesca D. Ciccarelli from King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute)

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

2019-04-24 13:00: Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms (Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

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

2019-05-07 13:00: Binocular vision and the control of hand movements (Dr Simon Watt, Bangor University)

2019-05-15 09:00: CCBI Annual Symposium 2019 (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)

2019-05-16 13:00: The neurobiology of perceptual and value based decisions: A memorable connection (Michael Shadlen MD, PhD, Columbia University)

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)

2019-05-20 16:30: The mechanics and biophysics of getting in touch (   Miriam Goodman, Beckmann Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford University, California, USA)

2019-06-13 13:00: First steps in experimentally exploring human visual and auditory development in utero (Professor Vincent Reid, University of Lancaster)

2019-06-17 16:30: New ideas on the organization of neural circuitry (Larry Swanson, University of Southern California)

2019-07-01 13:00:  Deriving a Theory of the Perceived Motion Direction of Plaids (Professor George Sperling (Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine))

2019-10-14 16:30: Towards a brain architecture for visual behavior selection (Gwyneth Card, HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Virginia, USA)

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

2019-10-28 16:30: Synapse specific homeostatic responses to sensory deprivation (Tara Keck, Division of Biosciences, University College London)

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)

2019-11-18 16:30: In search of the molecules of memory - ANNUAL LECTURE (Roger Nicoll, University of California San Francisco)

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

2019-11-25 16:30: Circuit dynamics of a memory representation in the hippocampus and beyond (David Dupret, Oxford Neuroscience)

2019-12-02 16:30: The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale (Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto, Marseille, France)

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

2019-12-09 18:30: Blood is thicker than water (Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

2020-01-09 13:00: Single Trial Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision-Making (Chand Chandrasekaran (Boston University))

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)

2020-01-27 16:30: The mammalian circadian clock: genes, cells and circuits (Mick Hastings, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Neuroscience)

2020-02-03 16:30: Study of sensory "prior distributions" in rodent models of working memory and decision making (Athina Akrami, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)

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

2020-02-10 16:30: Where does value come from? (Chris Summerfield, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2020-02-17 13:00: Image-based quantitative morphology with geometrical models (Dr Virginie Uhlmann from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton)

2020-02-24 13:00: Dissecting context dependent cancer signalling processes using CRISPR-based approaches (Dr Evangelina Petsalaki from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton)

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

2020-03-09 10:00: Visual Exploration of Longitudinal Oncology Data - CANCELLED (Professor Nils Gehlenborg from Harvard Medical School )

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

2020-03-16 13:00: Statistical challenges posed by heterogeneous data from immunology and microbiology- CANCELLED (Professor Susan Holmes from Stanford University )

2020-03-30 13:00: CANCELLED (Professor Valentina Boeva from Institute for Machine Learning in Zurich)

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

2020-05-04 13:00: CANCELLED (Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute in London)

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)

2020-06-01 13:00: “Focus on the Individual; The importance of chromosome-specific biology in generating aneuploidy patterns in cancer” (Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London )

2020-06-15 10:00: Statistical challenges posed by heterogeneous data from immunology and microbiology (Professor Susan Holmes from Stanford University )

2020-07-20 11:30: Understanding regulatory systems and mechanisms of genetic interactions: from yeast to pediatric cancer (Dr Patrick Kemmeren from Princess Maxima Center in Utrecht, Netherlands )

2020-09-28 10:30: Characterizing and forecasting tumour evolution (Dr Robert Noble from City, University of London)

2020-10-14 14:00: Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger (Dr Katherine Lawler (IMS, Cambridge))

2020-10-19 16:30: Cancer Genetics Through the Lens of Mutational Signatures and the Two-Hit Hypothesis. (Dr Paz Polak from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York)

2020-10-28 14:00: A multi-'omics graph convolutional network analysis for prediction of cancer survival (Dr Paul Schofield (University of Cambridge))

2020-11-04 14:00: Computational Approaches to Drug Design and Computational Toxicology (Dr Andreas Bender (Centre for Molecular Informatics))

2020-11-09 10:00: Computational analysis of cancer genomes (Prof Nuria Lopez-Bigas from Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona  )

2020-11-11 14:00: Can machines understand the scientific literature? (Dr. Peter Murray-Rust (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

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

2020-11-18 14:00: Computational Morphodynamics - a quantitative description of multicellular development (Prof. Henrik Jönsson (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

2020-11-25 14:00: AstraZeneca Oncology Bioinformatics case studies and the skill sets we value (Miika Ahdesmäki & Dimitris Polychronopoulos (AstraZeneca))

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

2020-11-30 16:00: Two brains in action: Neural mechanisms in frontal and paietal cortex of monkeys (Alexandra Battaglia Mayer - SAPIENZA - Università di Roma)

2020-12-14 15:00: Deep learning in medical imaging - successes, pitfalls and challenges (Prof Lena Maier-Hein from DKFZ in Heidelberg )

2020-12-21 19:00: The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis – Gut Feelings About the Brain (John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland )

2021-01-20 14:00: Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity (Dr Elizabeth Soilleux (University of Cambridge))

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

2021-01-25 16:00: Restless engrams: the origin of continually reconfiguring neural representations (Tim O'Leary, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2021-01-27 14:00: Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis (Dr Julian Gilbey (University of Cambridge))

2021-02-01 16:00: From visual representation of space to schemas in the primate hippocampus (Sylvia Wirth)

2021-02-03 14:00: Computational Biology in Drug Discovery (Philippe Sanseau (GSK))

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

2021-02-08 15:00: Visualizing Spatial Single-Cell Data with Vitessce (Prof  Nils Gehlenborg from Harvard Medical School )

2021-02-08 16:00: Tools for Analyzing and Repairing the Brain (Ed Boyden, MIT Department of Biological Engineering)

2021-02-15 16:00: Visual learning and attention in mice: behavioural strategies and neural circuit change (Jasper Poort, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2021-02-17 14:00: Regulation of gene expression and genome organisation (Prof. Julie Ahringer (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge))

2021-02-22 16:00: Chandelier cells: shining a light on the emergence and plasticity of GABAergic synapses (Juan Burrone ( MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College, London) )

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

2021-03-03 14:00: The genomes of transmissible cancers (Prof. Elizabeth Murchison (University of Cambridge))

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

2021-03-08 16:00: The real-time formation of the hippocampal cognitive map (Julija Krupic, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-15 16:00: Adaptive brain computations for perceptual decisions (Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

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

2021-04-19 17:00: Determining the age of Barrett’s esophagus using stochastic multiscale modeling and epigenetic clocks  (Dr Kathleen Curtius from UCSD  in San Diego )

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

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

2021-05-10 16:00: Functions of the primate amygdala in decision-making and social cognition (Fabian Grabenhorst, PDN, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-12 09:00: CCBI Annual Symposium 2021 (Programme and registration: https://bit.ly/ccbisymp21)

2021-05-17 16:00: The social brain in adolescence (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-24 15:00: Engineering model-based systems to monitor and steer subclonal dynamics (Dr Noemi Andor, Moffitt Cancer Center)

2021-10-04 09:30: Artificial intelligence for prediction of genetic alterations directly from histology images (Prof Jakob Kather is a physician/scientist and assistant professor at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) with additional affiliations at the NCT Heidelberg (Germany) and the University of Leeds (UK). )

2021-10-11 16:15: Neuronal heterogeneity and plasticity in the olfactory bulb (Elisa Galliano (University of Cambridge))

2021-10-13 14:00: Understanding DNA Replication with Nanopore Sequencing, Deep Learning, and Mathematical Modelling (Dr. Michael A. Boemo (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) )

2021-10-18 16:15: Synchrony and synaptic signaling in the cerebellar circuit (Indira Raman, Dept Neurobiology, Northwestern Univ, Evanston IL)

2021-10-20 14:00: Computational Oncology at AstraZeneca (Ben Sidders (AstraZeneca))

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

2021-10-25 16:15: Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge))

2021-10-25 16:15: Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge))

2021-10-25 16:15: Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge))

2021-10-27 14:00: Buffering genetic variation in populations (Dr. Ritwick Sawarkar (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge))

2021-11-01 16:15: Using the marmoset prefontal cortex to understand psychiatric symptoms: schizophrenia and hippocampal-prefrontal circuitry (Dr Hannah Clarke - BCNI ( Departmn))

2021-11-03 14:00: A multidimensional perspective on immune-mediated diseases: using genetic feature engineering to study shared risk factors in a reduced dimension space (Guillermo Reales (Dept. of Medicine, University of Cambridge))

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

2021-11-08 16:15: Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity (Nathalie Rochefort, Centre for discovery, Brain Sciences, Edinburgh)

2021-11-08 16:15: Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity (Nathalie Rochefort)

2021-11-10 14:00: Elucidating inter-species interactions in microbial communities using metabolic models (Kiran R. Patil (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge))

2021-11-15 16:15: Striatal circuits for learning and decision making (Ilana Witten)

2021-11-16 10:00: MAGNATM, a novel single molecule platform to analyze genetic variation and epigenetic modifications on native RNA and DNA molecules (Dr Jimmy Ouellet, Depixus SAS)

2021-11-17 14:00: Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination (Michele Vendruscolo (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

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

2021-11-22 16:15: Striatal circuits for learning and decision making (Ilana Witten)

2021-11-24 14:00: An Introduction to Machine Learning in AstraZeneca (Domingo Salazar (AstraZeneca))

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

2021-11-29 16:15: Emergence of organization and computation in neural circuits (Julijana Gjorgjieva (University of Cambridge))

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

2021-12-06 18:00: How does the brain figure out the structure of problems? (Tim Behrens, University of Oxford)

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

2022-01-19 14:00: Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity (Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, MA, MB BChir, PhD, FRCPath, PGDipMedEd University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology, University of Cambridge)

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

2022-01-26 14:00: Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis (Dr Jim Denholm, Postdoctoral visitor Dept. Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge)

2022-01-31 14:00: Genomic and digital pathology approaches to elucidate cancer dormancy (Maria Secrier, UCL Genetics Institute)

2022-02-02 14:00: Machine learning with biomedical ontologies: applications in precision health (Robert Hoehndorf)

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

2022-02-07 16:15: Neural control of innate behaviors and internal states (David J Anderson, Calthech, Pasadena, CA)

2022-02-09 14:00: Drug Discovery in the era of large-scale genetics and genomics data (Philippe Sanseau (Glaxo SmithKline))

2022-02-14 16:15: Control limited perceptual decision making (Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal)

2022-02-16 14:00: Seeing the unseen: informatic approaches to find, characterise and drug conserved regions of nucleic acid in RNA viruses (Jordan Skittrall (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge))

2022-02-21 16:15: Neurodegeneration and repair in a novel human organoid neuraxis model (Andras Lakatos, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge)

2022-02-23 14:00: Mining for meaning in electronic health records; deep semantic normalisation for precision medicine and discovery. (Paul Schofield)

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

2022-02-28 14:00: Accelerating drug discovery with the power of microscopy & AI (Anne E Carpenter, PhD, Senior Director of the Imaging Platform, Institute Scientist, Broad Institute )

2022-03-02 14:00: Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents (Elizabeth Murchison)

2022-03-07 16:15: Inhibitory control of dopaminergic neurons - dendrites, soma and axons (Zayd Khaliq, NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD)

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

2022-03-14 16:15: Striatal circuits underlying sensorimotor functions (Gilad Silberberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)

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)

2022-03-28 14:00: Causality, Perturbations, Gene Regulation, and Drug Repurposing (Caroline Uhler, Co-Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

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)

2022-04-25 14:00: Drug response and tolerance in normal and cancer cells (Klaas Mulder, Molecular Developmental Biology, Radboud University)

2022-04-25 16:15: Cell-type-specific vulnerability, degeneration and repair  in a novel human organoid neuraxis model (András Lakatos, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2022-05-02 16:15: Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair (Magdalena Götz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)

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)

2022-05-09 16:15: Aversive cognition: inference, learning and control  of aversive states in the human brain (Flavia Mancini, Department of Engineering)

2022-05-16 16:15: On the neural language of the cerebellum (Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,  Baltimore, MD, USA)

2022-05-18 10:00: CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2022 (Various)

2022-05-23 14:00: The Genomic Evolution of Cancer (David Wedge, University of Manchester)

2022-05-23 16:15: Control limited perceptual decision making (Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal)

2022-06-20 14:00: Deciphering Shared Intratumor Transcriptional Heterogeneity of Human Tumors (Valentina Boeva, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

2022-07-11 14:00: Combining multi-omics and biological knowledge to extract disease mechanisms (Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, Director of the Institute of Computational Biomedicine and Group Leader at the EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU))

2022-10-10 16:15: Anterior Insula and Prospect Theory (Veit Stuphorn,  Department of Neuroscience, Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.)

2022-10-12 14:00: An introduction to counts-of-counts data  (Simon Tavaré PhD Herbert and Florence Irving Director Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics & Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences Columbia University)

2022-10-17 16:15: Representation and computation in visual working memory (Paul Bays, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge)

2022-10-19 14:00: A semantics knowledge commons for climate change (Peter Murray-Rust, Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry)

2022-10-24 14:00: TALK POSTPONED (Francesca Buffa)

2022-10-24 16:15: Prefrontal Mechanisms for Group Behaviour (Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, and  German Primate Center, Göttingen)

2022-10-26 14:00: Buffering genetic variation in populations (Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology Unit)

2022-11-02 14:00: Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination (Michele Vendruscolo, Co-Director, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry)

2022-11-07 16:15: Reconsolidation-based approaches for the treatment of mental health disorders (Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge)

2022-11-09 14:00: Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents? (Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine.)

2022-11-16 14:00: Knowledge Graphs for Precision Oncology (Krishna C Bulusu Director, Early Data Science Oncology Data Science, Oncology R&D AstraZeneca)

2022-11-28 14:00: On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic Cancer (Kamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre)

2022-11-28 16:15: The enigmatic and integrative claustrum (Adam Packer, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford)

2022-11-30 14:00: Motile behaviour and evolution of bacteria in antibiotic landscapes  (Nuno Miguel Oliveira, DPhil, BBSRC Discovery Fellow & Teaching Bye-Fellow in Zoology (Christ's College))

2022-12-05 18:30: Neuroscience in artistic cartoons (Paul Apicella,  Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France  )

2022-12-12 14:00: Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision:  Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated (Cynthia Rudin, Duke University)

2023-01-09 14:00:  Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics (Dan Landau, New York Genome Center | Weill Cornell Medicine)

2023-01-18 14:00: Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity  (Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology)

2023-01-23 16:15: The paths to compulsion: new insights into the factors that shape the vulnerability to develop compulsive disorders (David Belin, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge)

2023-01-25 14:00: Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis (Ben Schreiber, Image Analysis Team, Dept of Pathology)

2023-01-30 16:15: Of odour plumes and synchrotrons -  structure and function in neural circuits (Andreas Schaefer, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2023-02-01 14:00: Does computational biology explain Fibonacci numbers in plants? (Jonathan Swinton)

2023-02-06 16:15: Homo Cyberneticus: Neurocognitive embodiment of artificial limbs (Tamar Makin, MRC-CBSU, Cambridge )

2023-02-08 14:00: Research in the Goldman group: pandemic-scale phylogenetics, and optimizing new sequencing technologies (Nick Goldman and Nicola De Maio, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute)

2023-02-13 14:00: Mammalian Synthetic Biology – Biomolecular Circuits as Medicine (Xiaojing Gao, Stanford University)

2023-02-13 16:15: Visual information processing in mice –  from the retina to cortex (Katrin Franke, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, U.S.A)

2023-02-15 14:00: Mapping DNA replication stress in parasites and cancer cells with long-read sequencing and AI   (Dr. Michael A. Boemo, Research Group Leader, Department of Pathology)

2023-02-20 16:15: ADRIAN LECTURE: Region-selective hippocampus contributions to altered cognition in aging (Carol Barnes, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)

2023-02-22 14:00: Seeing the Unseen  (Jordan P. Skittrall, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Virology and Honorary Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Medical Virology, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology)

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

2023-02-27 16:15: Myelin plasticity - a mechanism for learning and repair? (Thora Karadottir, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge)

2023-03-01 14:00: Computational Biology in Drug Discovery (Philippe Sanseau, GSK Senior Fellow, Head In Silico Target Biology, Computational Biology, Genomic Sciences)

2023-03-08 14:00: Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger (Katherine Lawler, Research Associate Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital)

2023-03-15 14:00: Finding Target-Disease-Drug evidences from Literature and supporting curators. Please note: the details of this talk have changed (Matthew Jeffryes and Santosh Tirunagari, EMBL-EBI)

2023-03-20 16:15: Local and global aspects of sleep homeostasis (Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford)

2023-03-27 14:00: Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers (Jason Sheltzer, Yale School of Medicine)

2023-05-09 16:15: Neural mechanisms for credit assignment and model building (Nathaniel Daw, Princeton University )

2023-05-15 16:15: Advanced optical approaches to reveal the neural code underlying sensory perception (Tommaso Fellin, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova)

2023-05-17 09:45: CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium (multiple)

2023-05-22 14:00: OpenFold: Lessons learned and insights gained from rebuilding and retraining AlphaFold2.    (Mohammed AlQuarishi, Columbia University)

2023-07-04 14:00: Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPases (Pau Castel,  NYU School of Medicine)

2023-10-02 13:00: A new approach to understanding eye design (Professor Simon Laughlin (Department of Zoology, Cambridge))

2023-10-09 16:15: Cortical Layers in Context and Learning (Randy Bruno, DPAG, University of Oxford)

2023-10-16 16:15: Central representation of protein availability  regulates metabolism and behaviour (Clémence Blouet, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit and  Dept of Clinical Biochemistry, Cambridge)

2023-10-23 14:00: TBC (Fernando Santini, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

2023-10-23 16:15: From Modulation of Neurons and Small Networks to Climate Change (Eve Marder, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, U.S.A.)

2023-10-30 16:15: The dynamics of motivation: The neural and computational  mechanisms of effort when treated as a cost or a benefit (Matt Apps, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham )

2023-11-06 16:15: Anti-obesity drug validation and discovery  using human neuronal models (Florian Merkle, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge)

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)

2023-11-24 12:00: Exploring the Mechanisms of Associative Plasticity  within and between Hippocampal Areas CA1 and CA2 (Sreedharan Sajikumar, Dept of Physiology, NUS, Singapore)

2023-11-27 12:30: Exploring cell heterogeneity in health and disease using single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics (Erwin Schoof, Technical University of Denmark (DTU))

2023-11-27 16:15: The many faces of stress: from developmental impacts to  stress-related brain disorders  (Jeff Dalley, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge)

2023-12-04 18:30: Adrian Christmas Lecture: Wiring the Brain and Local Translation (Christine Holt, PDN, 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)

2024-02-05 12:30: Functional studies of genetic variation using precision genome editing (Dr Francisco J Sanchez-Rivera, Koch Institute at MIT)

2024-02-05 16:15: The Impact of Individual GABA Cells  in Developing and Adult Cortex (Rosa Cossart, INMED, Marseille, France)

2024-02-08 16:00: Horizonal gene transfer in transmissible cancers (Prof. Elizabeth Murchison)

2024-02-12 16:15: Using brain organoids to understand cell fate (Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB, Cambridge)

2024-02-13 13:00: Competition between predictive processes and prefrontal cortex functions: from non-invasive brain stimulation to local sleep ( Dezső Németh (Chaire Professeur, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), INSERM, France))

2024-02-15 16:00: Modelling Blood Cell Development across Molecular and Tissue Scales (Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

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)

2024-02-19 16:15: Cortical integration of vestibular and visual signals for self-motion perception and spatial navigation (Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Dept of PDN, Cambridge)

2024-02-22 16:00: Mapping DNA replication stress in cancer cells and parasites with long-read sequencing and AI (Dr Michael Boemo)

2024-02-26 12:30: Cell size - A new hallmark of aging? (Jette Lengefeld, University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institute)

2024-02-26 16:15: ANNUAL LECTURE: Saving the Synapse in Development and Alzheimer’s Disease (Carla Shatz, Stanford University, U.S.A. )

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)

2024-03-04 16:15: Estradiol feedback on the reproductive neuroendocrine system (Sue Moenter, University of Michigan, U.S.A. )

2024-03-07 16:00: Mathematical modelling to develop insights into cancer evolution (Dr Weini Huang)

2024-03-11 16:15: Structuring experience in cognitive spaces (Christian Doeller, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany )

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

2024-03-18 12:30: Screening Approaches for the Identification of Covalent Peptide Inhibitors (Scott Lovell, University of Bath)

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)

2024-04-29 12:30: Programmed evolution: Using asexual gene drives to sculpt tumor populations and combat genetic diversity (Justin Pritchard, Penn State College of Engineering)

2024-04-29 16:15: Egocentric and allocentric representations in cortical structures (Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)

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)

2024-07-01 12:30: Digital Cancer Twins: From Mechanistic Insights to Therapeutic Applications (Professor Jasmin Fisher, UCL Cancer Institute)

2024-09-30 12:00: Quantitative Biology Seminar  (Dr Mohammed Lotfollahi, Wellcome Sanger Institute)

2024-10-07 12:30: Protein genetic architecture is simple, and epistasis can facilitate the evolution of new functions (Assistant Professor Brian Metzger, Purdue University )

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)

2024-10-14 16:15: Networks in action: the crucial role of dynamics in networks neuroscience (Petra Vértes, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

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

2024-10-21 16:15: Neural representations of learned spatial behaviours (Matthew Nolan, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS),  University of Edinburgh )

2024-10-28 16:15: Different dynamics of learning  in entorhinal and hippocampal cortices (Charlotte Boccara, Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo)

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

2024-11-18 16:15: Towards understanding adaptive intelligence (Mackenzie Mathis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland )

2024-11-25 12:30: Protein Evolution in Sequence Landscapes - From Data to Models and Back (Professor Martin Weigt, Institute of Biology, Paris)

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)

2024-12-11 14:00: How to Fold Every Protein: (Mission Accomplished?) (Stephen D Fried, John Hopkins University)

2024-12-16 18:30: Camouflage and Sleep, two behaviors to study brain evolution (Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany  )

2025-01-27 12:30: The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5 (Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London)

2025-01-27 16:15: The noradrenergic locus coeruleus, gatekeeper of the mammalian NREM-REM sleep cycle (Anita Lüthi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

2025-02-03 12:30: Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time ( Jeffrey West, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Integrated Mathematical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute)

2025-02-03 16:15: Principles of learning in distributed neural networks (Andrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)

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

2025-02-10 16:30: ANNUAL LECTURE: Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment (Botond Roska, Institute of Molecular and  Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland )

2025-02-17 16:15: Ancestral Sight (Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge )

2025-02-24 12:30: Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations  (Mohammad Lotfollahi)

2025-03-03 16:15: Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control (Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge )

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)

2025-03-10 16:15: Simple principles underlying complex neural responses (Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge )

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)

2025-03-17 16:15: How to overwrite an instinct:  neural circuits for learning to suppress fear responses (Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London)

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)

2025-03-31 12:30: Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research (Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine)

2025-04-28 12:30: QBS (Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg)

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

2025-05-12 16:15: Normalisation, adaptation, and the balance of excitation and inhibition (Yashar Ahmadian, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

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

2025-05-19 12:30: Quantitative Biology Seminar  (David Savage, UC Berkeley)

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

2025-06-16 12:30: Quantitative Biology Seminar  (Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health)

2025-09-15 13:00: Multi-modal modeling in precision medicine: from data imputation to synthetic data​ (Dr. Olivier Gevaert​ -​ Associate Professor, Depts of Medicine & Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University​ ​)

2025-09-29 12:30: Cells, Tissues & Organs: assembling the Human Cell Atlas (Professor Sarah Teichmann - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

2025-10-13 16:15: Plasticity of the Parental Brain (Jonny Kohl, The Francis Crick Institute London)

2025-10-20 12:30: Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins using neural networks (Nicholas Polizzi)

2025-10-20 16:15: Visual cortex gamma reflects stimulus experience and stimulus reward value (Pascal Fries, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany)

2025-10-27 16:15: Conscious visual perception, perceptual organization and how to restore it in blindness (Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

2025-11-24 12:30: Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling (Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School )

2025-11-24 12:30: Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling (Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School )

2025-11-24 16:15: Brainstem peptides: for better for worse, in sickness and in health (Simon Luckman, University of Manchester)

2025-12-01 16:15: Seeing in three dimensions: how the visual cortex uses motion to parse 3D scenes (Petr Znamenskiy, The Francis Crick Institute London)

2025-12-02 16:00: Hard numbers—physicochemical models of a mitotic signalling organelle​ (Kevin A. Janes, Ph.D.​ Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia​)

2025-12-08 15:30: Expanding the kinome​ (Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D.​ - UT Southwestern Medical Center​)

2025-12-15 18:30: A fishy study: from ecology to cognition to brains (Adrian Christmas lecture) (Redouan Bshary, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

2026-01-26 16:15: Chemogenetic and optogenetic approaches to studying visual memory (Mark Eldridge, Newcastle University)

2026-02-02 16:15: Building deep internal models during periods of rest and sleep (Helen Barron, University of Oxford)

2026-02-09 16:15: Learning to perceive what is important: An olfactory optimisation story (Jamie Johnston, University of Leeds)

2026-02-16 16:15: Brainwide sequences of neural activity (Matteo Carandini, University College London)

2026-02-23 12:30: The role of Selenoprotein O in mitochondrial signaling (Anju Sreelatha Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research)

2026-02-23 16:15: The emergence of perception through subcortico-cortical loops (Livia de Hoz, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-02 16:15: A cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation (Dan Bendor, University College London)

2026-03-09 16:15: The function of the top-down processes in the visual cortex: contextual processing and scene segmentation (Matthew Self, University of Glasgow)

2026-03-16 16:15: Targeting AD-related pathophysiology with non-invasive brain stimulation (Sam Barnes, Imperial College London)

2026-03-23 12:30: How life finds a way: resilience in mammalian embryogenesis (Sarah Bowling, PhD. Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine​)

2026-04-27 12:30:  Life, death, and the discovery of PDAR: the Pol II Degradation-dependent Apoptotic Response  (Mike Lee PhD, Associate Professor Department of Systems Biology, UMass Chan Medical School)

2026-05-11 16:15: Task performance predicts the substitution of feedforward by feedback drive in visual cortex (Andreas Keller, University of Basel)

2026-05-18 12:30: TBC (Luke Gilbert, PhD, Associate Professor of Urology, University of California, San Francisco)