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Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

 
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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
15th February 2024 Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo

Keita Tamura and Christian Wood

29th February 2024 Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge Students and postdocs, Cindy Xin Wen Zhang
14th March 2024 Miguel Torres, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research Alberto Rosello-Diez
25th April 2024 Laura Machesky, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge Ewa Paluch
9th May 2024 Shankar Srinivas, Oxford University Kathy Niakan
23rd May 2024 Stefanie Wculek, IRB (Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona) Albert Cardona and Milka Sarris
6th June 2024 Colleen Deane, University of Southampton Andrew Murray

 

Event Archive

Date Speaker Hosted by
21 October
2021

David Sheppard, Bristol University

Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines

Stewart Sage

4
November 2021

Anne Brunet, Stanford University

Mechanisms of Aging

Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri

18
November 2021

Fiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge

Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis

Eleanor Raffan

25
November 2021
Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin
 
Imaging inflammation and wound repair in situ
Milka Sarris
2
December
2021

Riccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge

What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex

Sarah Bray

9
December
2021

Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian

 

3
February
2022

Wendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia

Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools

Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri

24
February
2022

Marcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY

Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesity’

Andrew Murray

3 March

2022

Dr Richard Tyser, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics at Oxford

Form and function in the developing heart

Golnar Kolahgar
10
March
2022

Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai

Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafish

Sudipta Mukherjee

17
March
2022

Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY

Development of interneurons in visual cortex

Elisa Galliano

24
March
2022

Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris

Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

Golnar Kolahgar

7
April
2022

Manohar Bance, University of Cambridge

Cochlear implants for deafness: how cochlear anatomy interacts with implant function

Cecilia Brassett

Wednesday 20
April
2022

Jay Shendure, University of Washington

Global Views of Mammalian Development

'Please note the change of date'

Antonia Weberling

5
May
2022

Elisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona

Title tbc

Xuan Liang

9 November 2023

Alberto Rosello-Diez

Going out on a limb to study mechanisms controlling organ size and proportions

Courtney Hanna & 
Ann Cloos

23 November 2023  Keita Tamura  
7 December 2023 Emma Rawlins