Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site 2017-11-02 14:00: The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa. (Dr Kirsten Bomblies, John Innes Centre, Norwich ) 2017-11-13 12:00: An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science Communication (Dr Nancy R. Gough) 2018-02-08 14:00: Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development (Dr Patrick Mueller, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany) 2018-02-15 14:00: Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescales (Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-01 14:00: Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development (Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany) 2019-01-17 14:00: Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution (Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-28 14:00: Epigenetic inheritance in mammals (Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge ) 2019-03-07 14:00: Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques (Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge ) 2019-11-21 14:00: Minimal and Ancestral Genomes (Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA ) 2020-02-13 14:00: Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation (Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics) 2020-02-20 14:00: This talk has been cancelled (Dr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) 2020-02-27 14:00: Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning (Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU))