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.
All talks will take place in the Hodgkin Huxley seminar room, Physiology Building, at 4:00 pm.
Calendar (provisory)
| Date | Speaker | Hosted by |
| 12 October 2017 |
Professor Bill Harris, PDN, Cambridge Promises of a polychrome retina redux: partial fulfilment with spectrum of fates |
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| 9 November 2017 |
Professor Richard Benton, EPFL Lausanne Switzerland Evolution of olfactory receptors, circuits and behaviours |
Clare Baker |
| 23 November 2017 |
Professor Wolfram Schultz, PDN, Cambridge How my brain is getting me the best reward |
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| 7 December 2017 |
Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PDN, Cambridge Self-assembly of the mammalian embryo in vitro |
Sarah Bray |
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18 |
Dr Rachel Tribe, King's College London How to expect the unexpected. Prediction and prevention of preterm birth NOTE: this talk will take place in the Physiology Lecture Theatre. |
Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri |
| 1 February 2018 |
Dr Meritxell Huch, Group Leader, The Gurdon Institute
Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Trust Fellow
Hepatic organoids for the study of liver regeneration and disease |
Sarah Bray |
| 15 February 2018 |
Dr Christoph Ballestrem, Welcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research, University of Manchester |
Kristain Franze |
| 1 March 2018 |
Dr Jernej Ule, The Francis Crick Institute, London |
Randall Johnson and Iosofina Foskolou |
| 15 March 2018 |
Professor Ifat Levy, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neuroscience, Yale University, USA |
Wolfram Schultz |
| 3 May 2018 |
Professor Akhilesh Reddy, Frances Crick Institute, London, Linacre Medal 2015 Redox oscillations in the circadian clockwork |
Steve Edgley |
| 17 May 2018 |
Prof Christine Holt, PDN, Cambridge Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiring |
Sarah Bray |
| 14 June 2018 |
Dr Ingo Greger, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Integrating structural and functional approaches to decipher AMPA receptor signaling in synaptic transmission and plasticity |
Ole Paulsen and Susanna Mierau |