Computational Biology: Seminar Series
C2D3 event

Thu, 9 Oct 2025 4:00 PM - Thu, 5 Mar 2026 5:00 PM

Organiser
Computational Biology
Location
Department of Genetics, Downing Pl, Cambridge CB2 3EH

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Everyone is welcome to attend the Computational Biology seminar series. All 4th year students specialising in systems biology are required to attend.

The seminars are held on Thursdays, 16:00-17:00 in the Department of Genetics. The department is located on the Downing Site, off Tennis Court Road or walking through from Pembroke Street. The Genetics Building is D014 on the University map. Please arrive with enough time to see the receptionist who will direct you through to the seminar room, please note the host academic leading the seminar.

 

Professor Mark Isalan (9 October)

Professor of Engineering Biology, Imperial College London

Talk title: Synthetic biology for engineering Turing patterns

Hosted by: Gos Micklem

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Mark Isalan

Dr José Davila Velderrain  (23 October)

Research Group Leader, Human Technopole, Italy

Talk title: What do microbes and neurons have in common? reconstructing neuronal evolution from genomic data and single-cell atlases

Hosted by: Somenath Bakshi

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Jose Davila

Dr Helen Ray-Jones (6 November)

Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Talk title: Deciphering regulatory connections in the genome: probing variant effects on enhancer-promoter relationships

Hosted by: Valeriya Malysheva

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Helen Ray-Jones

 

Jonathan Frazer (22 January 2026)

Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain

Talk title: TBC

Hosted by: Heather Machado

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Dr Roser Vento-Torno (5 February)

Group Leader, Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge

Talk title: Gene regulation of human cell systems

Hosted by: Maria Marti-Solano

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Roser Vento-Tormo

Dr HaDi MaBouDi (19 February)

University of Sheffield

Talk title: TBC

Hosted by: Stephen Eglen

 

Dr Aleksej Zelezniak (5 March)

Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and King's College London

Talk title: tbc

Hosted by: Susanne Bornelöv

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Aleksej Zelezniak
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