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Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology

 

Upcoming Events

 

 

co-sponsoring:

2024 Smart Condensates and Droplets Symposium

at Pembroke College, Cambridge, on 5-6 September 2024:

 

 

 

 

 

Seminar series supported by CPB

Teory of Living Matter (@TLM_Cambridge)

 

 

 

UCAM Morphogensis Series (@CamMorphoSeries)

 

 

 

 

All events


Previous Seminars & Symposia

 

CPB Seminars 


2023

Stephan Uphoff (University of Oxford)

Phenotypic heterogeneity in bacterial stress response

22 February 11:30 | Department of Engineering - James Dyson Building seminar room

 

Kazuhiro Maeshima (National Institute of Genetics and Sokendai, Japan)

Chromatin behavior during cell cycle revealed by single-nucleosome imaging/tacking

23 January | 15:00 | Wolfson Lecture Theatre in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 


2022

Kevin Foster (University of Oxford)

Competition and warfare in bacteria and the human microbiome

10 November | 14:00 | Department of Physics Small Lecture Theatre

 

Marcus Taylor (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin)

Higher-order oligomeric assembly in the innate immune system: Myddosome assembly and the induction of inflammation

14 July | 10:00 | Sainsbury Lab Auditorium 

 

Kevin Chalut (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cells Institute)

Mechanobiology of cell fate choice

23 June | 2 pm | Sainsbury Lab Auditorium 

 

Alain Chédotal (Vision Institute / INSERM, Paris)

3D analysis of human embryonic development

17th June | 5.30 pm | McCrum Lecture Theatre Benet's Street,CB2 3QN

 

Matteo Rauzi  (Université Côte d'Azur) 

Mechanisms and mechanics driving epithelial tube formation during sea urchin embryo gastrulation

10 May |  2 pm | Department of Zoology (Main Lecture Hall)

 

Iain Couzin (MPI-AB Konstanz, Germany)

The geometry of decision-making

14 April | 2 pm | Sainsbury Lab Auditorium 

 

Jonas Cremer (Sanford University)

The cell-physiological constraints of microbial growth in and out of steady-state

8 March | 17:00 (UK) | Zoom

 


2021

Sebastian Streichan (UC Santa Barbara Physics)

Physics of Living Matter: From Molecule to Embryo 

9 December | 17:00 (UK) | Zoom

 

Nicoletta Petridou (EMBL)

Rigidity phase transitions in embryo development: from identification to function

4 November | 14:00 (UK) | Zoom

 

Buzz Baum (LMB) and Andela Saric (UCL)

The mechanics and evolution of cell division

7 October | 14:00 (BST) | Zoom

 

Patricia Bassereau - Institut Curie, Paris

How filopodia locally protrude from cell plasma membrane

15 June | 14:00 (BST) | Zoom

 

Nathalie Questembert-Balaban - Hebrew University

Observation of universal dynamics in the recovery of single cells to stress

11 May | 14:00 (BST) | Zoom

 

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan FRS - Harvard University

The wisdom of hives, nests and mounds

23 April | 15:00 (BST) | Zoom

 

Timothy Russell - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 

Mathematical modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic: using a range of simple and complex models to get the most out of the available data

10 February 2021 | 14.30 | Zoom

 


2020

Matthieu Piel - Institute Curie (Paris)

The actin cortex in live cells

19 November 2020 | 14.30 | Zoom

 


CPB Symposia

Termly mini-symposia will be held based around our Research Areas

 


2022

Biomolecular Condensates 2.0 @ Cambridge

14th July | 9:00- 17:00 - Robinson College

 

CPB Annual Meeting - 2022

Keynote Lecture - Prof. Jordi Garcia Ojalvo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

29 April | 14:00 - 20:00 St Johns College - Old Divinity School

 


2021

CIN CPB joint meeting:

Experimental and Conceptual Modelling of Immunity and Disease

 8 July 2021 - 2 pm at the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre* (in-person and online)

 

CPB Single Cell Symposium

Keynote Lecture - Dr. Rahul Satija​  (New York Genome Center - NYU )

19 April 14:00 - 16:00 (BST)

 

CPB Mechanics of Epithelia Symposium

23 March 13:00 - 18:00 (GMT)

 


2020

CPB Annual Meeting 2020

Keynote Lecture - Prof. Lisa Manning  (Syracuse University)

16 December | 14:00 - 16.30 | Zoom

 

Live Imaging of Cells and Molecules

Keynote LectureProf. Achillefs Kapanidis (University of Oxford)

29 May 2020 | 14:00 - 16:30 | Zoom

 

Launch Event

Keynote LectureProf. Martin Howard (John Innes Centre - Norwhich)

20 January 2020 | 14:00 - 19:30 | Old Divinity School - St John's College 

 


Workshops

Call for proposals