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
| Date | Speaker | Hosted by |
| 17 October 2019 |
Robin Franklin, WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing |
Golnar Kolahgar |
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Allan Herbison, PDN Department, Cambridge The amazing world of the GnRH neuron |
Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri |
| 14 November 2019 |
Michael O'Connor, University of Minnesota
Activin signaling and the regulation of Drosophila metabolism, body size and appendage scaling
|
Nick Brown and Sarah Bray |
| 21 November 2019 |
Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen
Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation |
Connor Ross |
| 5 December 2019 |
Guillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical maps |
Ole Paulsen |
| 16 January 2020 |
Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding |
Xuan Liang |
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23 |
Steve Harridge, King's College London Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing |
Andrew Murray |
| 6 February 2020 |
Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland
Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency
|
Matteo Molè
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| 27 February 2020 |
Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK |
Connor Ross |
| 12 March 2020 |
Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany |
Sarah Bray |
| 30 April 2020 |
Francesca Cacucci, UCL |
Elisa Galliano |
| 7 May 2020 |
Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos |
Matteo Molè and Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri |
| 14 May 2020 |
Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge Mechanobiology of cell shape control |
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