The CPB Early Career Network has been actively supported by CPB to help early career researchers at the university who are interested in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of biological/biomedical sciences and physical sciences. We are happy to welcome advanced PhD students, postdocs, and other researchers at the early stages of their careers.
If you are interested in presenting your project as a 10-15-minute chalk talk, don't hesitate to get in touch with the organising committee.
We encourage speakers to provide a broad introduction to their research topic to get everyone on the same page and to conclude with one or more challenges they are currently trying to overcome. The CPB ECR crowd is very interdisciplinary, curious, and friendly, and would love to learn more about your work, whether it be experimental or theoretical.
New CPB ECR members are welcome to join in person, on Slack (cpb-ecr.slack.com), and on our mailing list (physbiol-early-career@lists.cam.ac.uk).
On behalf of the CPB Early Career Network organising committee:
Thomas Blake (tb459@cam.ac.uk)
Jan Huertas Martin (jh2366@cam.ac.uk)
Susie McLaren (sbm35@cam.ac.uk)
Iskra Yanakieva (iy232@cam.ac.uk)
How to get involved:
Slack (cpb-ecr.slack.com)
Mailing list (physbiol-early-career@lists.cam.ac.uk).
Next meeting
2025
Food and drinks provided. :)
If you plan to attend please fill out this Google sheet to help us plan the food and drinks.
Previous meetings
2025
3 April
Matthew Cotton (Department of Chemistry)
"Bifurcation in polymerisation kinetics"
6 February
"Modelling Growth and Elasticity in Rod-like Plant Organs"
2024
5 December
Belle Sow (Paluch Lab, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)
"Investigating the biomechanics of wound healing in skin-derived epithelioids"
3 October
Andrea Luppi (Division of Information Engineering and St John’s College)
"A synergistic architecture for human brain evolution and consciousness"
6 June
M. Julia Maristany (Collepardo Lab, Department of Physics)
"Exploring biomolecular condensates via computer simulations"
2023
7 June
Guillermo Serrano Najera (Steventon Lab, Department of Genetics)
"Synthesis of alternative gastrulation modes reveals unknown developmental constraints"
5 April
Joseph Thottacherry: 'A morphogenesis problem: How to make the gut longer but not wider?’
1 March
speakers: Jan Huertas Martin (Dept. Chemistry)
1 February
speakers: Wolfram Poenisch (PDN) and Jana Sipkova (PDN)
18 January
Pub social
2022
7 December
speakers: Euan Smithers (Sainsbury Lab) and Geraldine Jowett (PDN)
2 November
speakers: Man Zhou and Yavor Novev (Dept. Chemical Engineering)
5 October
Pub social
13 July
speakers: Thomas Blake (Gurdon) and Shuvrangsu Das (Dept. Engineering)
8 June
speaker: Enrico Sandro Collizi
11 May
networking activity
6 April
Welcome and introduction
Short talks by previous awardess of the CPB Pump Priming Grants
