Comms@PDN

Events	Public Engagement
PDN organises key events throughout the year to share information with its members and the University, including PI lunches and PI Coffee Mornings Monthly Early PI meeting Postdoc coffee chalk talks (Fridays 10am, to volunteer email ad865@cam.ac.uk) Postdoc & Graduate Student annual Symposium Adrian seminars in Neuroscience with drinks reception (Mondays 4:30pm) Foster seminars with drinks reception (Thursday 4pm) Happy Hours (Fridays 5pm) Welcome Coffee for Newcomers and Visitors – (last Friday of each month at 9.30 am)	We organise a number of public engagement activities throughout the year, including Science Festival (March): one of the largest science festivals in the UK, with hundreds of visitors coming to PDN every year for talks and hands-on Festival of Ideas (October): University-run festival of lectures in science and humanities Pint of Science (May): science talks delivered in local pub If you would like to volunteer to any of these activities please email Roberto, our Communications Officer, at comms@pdn.cam.ac.uk
In the works	Useful links
In 2019 we will aim to organise some new events and activities, including Science-Art social event Pop up museum exhibition, with public lectures series Departmental brochure Graduate student coffee mornings	What's on Further training: Personal and Professional Development & Institute of Continuing Education Working with the media

The Communications Committee
The Communications Committee was set up in 2014 with the purpose of facilitating internal and external communication and to ensure all members of PDN have access to relevant information If you would like to get involved or provide feedback about any of the communications activities of PDN, please get in touch with the Communications Committee.

Noticeboard

Congratulations to Elisa Galliano who has received a prize for best Undergraduate Supervisor by the Cambridge University Student Union.
Reminder of the Welcome Coffee for Newcomers and Visitors – last Friday of each month at 9.30 am: we have been running these welcome events for at least a couple of years and it’s a great way for us to meet new starters and for the new starters to get to know each other. Everyone is welcome to come along.
Congratulations to our Green Team on being awarded another Excellence award! Thanks to all members of the team, and especially to Sarah Foster who really drove things forward. They will be awarded the prize on Friday 21st June, Old Museums Site. Follow them on twitter to keep up with their work!

Registrations open for the 14th edition of the Physics of Living Matter Symposium, which will take place again in Cambridge on September 2-3.
Registrations are open for the 2019 Postdoc Neuroscience Network (PNN) Symposium on 27th June, Newnham College

News from our Green Team: PDN related travel has produced more than 200 metric tons of CO2 emissions. Please consider the environmental impact of your travel and alternative means of transport.
We have launched a new travel related section. If you plan on travelling for work related reason, please consult this page and complete the risk assessment form.

Aug 19, 2019

Study from the Bray lab makes the cover of the journal Developmental Cell