The PDN Foster talks is a seminar series that involves high profile internal and external speakers, who are experts in fields relevant to research interests in the Department.
We welcome people from the wider scientific community of Cambridge University as well as from within the Department to join us for these seminars. The talks are aimed for a broad audience, from all career stages, undergraduates to PIs.
This seminar series also provides an invaluable opportunity for staff and students to discuss with the guest speaker both before and after the talk, and often helps to foster collaborations.
Talks will be hosted at 4pm in the Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room. All talks will be followed by Q&A.
Calendar
| Date | Speaker | Hosted by |
Event Archive
| Date | Speaker | Hosted by |
| 6 June 2024 |
Colleen Deane, University of Southampton Identifying mechanisms of, and countermeasures to, muscle decline in aging |
Andrew Murray |
| 23 May 2024 |
Stefanie Wculek, IRB (Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona) How innate immune cells adapt to environment and function: diverse tales of mitochondria |
Albert Cardona and Milka Sarris |
| 9 May 2024 |
Shankar Srinivas, Oxford University Behavioural and mechanical heterogeneitis underpin cell migration essential for mouse anterior patterning |
Kathy Niakan |
| 25 April 2024 |
Laura Machesky, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge Eating and walking - how cells manage their energy budget during migration and invasion |
Ewa Paluch |
| 14 March |
Miguel Torres, Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblast |
Alberto Rosello-Diaz |
| 29 February 2024 |
Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge Nutritional programming by maternal over-nutrition: A developing obesity crisis. |
Students & Postdocs, Cindy Xin Wen Zhang |
| 15 February 2024 |
Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo. RIKEN BDR Towards human systems biology of sleep/ wake cycles: Phosphorylation hypothesis of sleep |
Keita Tamura and Christian Wood |
| 18 January 2024 |
Buzz Baum, MRC LMB, Cambridge Our archael ancestry: Cell division from archaea to eukaryotes |
Ewa Paluch |
| 7 December 2023 | Emma Rawlins, PDN, University of Cambridge | |
| 23 November 2023 | Keita Tamura, PDN, University of Cambridge | |
| 9 November 2023 |
Alberto Rosello-Diez Going out on a limb to study mechanisms controlling organ size and proportions |
Courtney Hanna & |