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2016/17 Series

Departmental seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays at 12noon. All are welcome to attend. Please contact the host if you would like to meet the speaker.
Date
Speaker
Title
5 Oct 16
Christian Landry
(University of Laval)
Host: Max Reuter
"The molecular and evolutionary origins of functional compensation and dependency between duplicated genes"
19 Oct 16
Derek Smith
(Cambridge)
Host: Francois Balloux
"The antigenic evolution of influenza viruses"
2 Nov 16

Olivia Casanueva
(Babraham)
Host: Nazif Alic


"Using inter-individual variability in gene expression to infer gene network architecture during ageing"

16 Nov 16
Daniela Delneri
(Manchester)
Host: Dan Jeffares
POSTPONED
30 Nov 16
Joao Passos
(Newcastle)
Host:  Lazarof Foukas
"Powering senescence: The ugly side of mitochondria"

18 Jan 17
Matthew Cobb
(Manchester)
Host: Nick Lane
"Life's Greatest Secret - How the genetic code was cracked"
01 Feb 17

Dr Cindy Castelle

Host: Francois Balloux

"Unusual biology across massive radiations in the bacterial and archaeal domains"
22 Feb 17
Eske Willerslev (Cambridge)
Host: Francois Balloux
"What we can learn from ancient genomics"
8 Mar 17
Kevin Gaston
(Exeter)
Host: Tim Blackburn
POSTPONED

22 Mar 17
David Coomes
(Cambridge)
Host: David Murrell
"Ecology from 2000 m up:  what can airborne remote sensing tell us about life on earth?"
 26 April 17

Vivian Allen 
(RVC)
Host: Helen Chatterjee
"Funny Bones: the form and function of sesamoids"
10 May 17 CBER Seminar
Dr Stuart Wibgy
(Oxford)
Host: Duncan Greig
"Sex and violence in fruit flies"

24 May 17
Sue Hartley
(University of York)
"Pests, pathogens and unpredictable rainfall: global challenges for sustainable food production"
7 June 17
Huxley Seminar
Prof Christl Donnelly FMedSci, FRS (Imperial College London)
"An epidemiologist's life on the edge (of the science-policy interface)"