Monday 3 November 2025

• 16:00 - Out on a limb: How and why computer modelling helps unravel the beautiful complexity of organogenesis
  Professor James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona)

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 15:00 - A rat, a starling, a goldfish and a dog walk into a pub…or on using time, choice and movement as windows into cognition​
  Dr Tiago Monteiro (University of Vet Med Vienna & Univ of Aveiro, Portugal)

Monday 10 November 2025

• 13:30 - Host-pathogen interactions in the diseased lung
  Dr Josie Bryant (Wellcome Sanger Institute)

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 15:00 - From clonal fish and biomimetic robots to Mexican waves of the Sulphur mollies - How individual differences are linked to large scale collective processes. ​
  Dr David Bierbach (Humboldt University Berlin)

Monday 17 November 2025

• 13:30 - A Life Identification Number Barcoding (LIN Code) System for Neisseria meningitidis: High resolution multi-level typing of meningococci
  Please note: for navigation to the department, google maps will still show OX1 3PS for the Life and Mind Building; however, the new and correct post code is OX1 3EL
  Dr Kasia Parfitt (University of Oxford)

Monday 24 November 2025

• 13:30 - The evolution of rabbits and the myxoma virus: invasions, pandemics and resistance
  Prof Frank Jiggins (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 15:00 - The neural basis of the honey-bee dance language
  Prof Barbara Webb (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 2 February 2025

• 13:30 - Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?
  Dr John Lees (Welcome Genome Campus Hinxton)