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External Seminar Magdalena Bezanilla TBC

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• Speaker: Professor Magdalena Bezanilla, Dartmouth College
• Wednesday 25 February 2026, 14:00-15:00
• Venue: Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .
• Series: Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars; organiser: Sainsbury Laboratory.

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External Seminar Christine Faulkner TBC

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• Speaker: Professor Christine Faulkner, John Innes Centre
• Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00
• Venue: Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .
• Series: Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars; organiser: Sainsbury Laboratory.

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Cell edges: from polarity to growth control

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Please contact the events team at Events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for the online Zoom link.

• Speaker: Dr Charlotte Kirchhelle - ENS de Lyon
• Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00
• Venue: Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .
• Series: Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars; organiser: Sainsbury Laboratory.

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External Seminar Bénédicte Charrier TBC

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• Speaker: Dr Bénédicte Charrier, Institute of Functional Genomics at Lyon (IGFL)
• Wednesday 25 March 2026, 14:00-15:00
• Venue: Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .
• Series: Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars; organiser: Sainsbury Laboratory.

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Cell edges: from polarity to growth control

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Please contact the events team at Events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for the online Zoom link.

• Speaker: Charlotte Kirchhelle - ENS de Lyon
• Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00
• Venue: Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .
• Series: Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars; organiser: Sainsbury Laboratory.

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External Seminar - Monica Garcia Gomez TBC

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• Speaker: Dr Monica Garcia Gomez, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
• Wednesday 30 April 2025, 14:00-15:00
• Venue: Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .
• Series: Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars; organiser: Sainsbury Laboratory.

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External Seminar Christian Fankhauser TBC

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• Speaker: Professor Christian Fankhauser, University of Lausanne
• Wednesday 29 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
• Venue: Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .
• Series: Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars; organiser: Sainsbury Laboratory.

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Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Today's Challenges

From uranium enrichment to the management of radioactive waste, please join the Nuclear Energy Master programme as we explore the challenges faced in managing the nuclear fuel cycle, presented by Urenco Global’s Louie Swallow and Sellafield Ltd.’s Jennifer Humphries

• Speaker: Jennifer Humphries and Louie Swallow
• Thursday 27 February 2025, 16:30-18:00
• Venue: CUED, LT 6.
• Series: Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars; organiser: Helene Jones.

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External Seminar - Monica Garcia Gomez TBC

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• Speaker: Dr Monica Garcia Gomez, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
• Wednesday 30 April 2025, 14:00-15:00
• Venue: Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .
• Series: Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars; organiser: Kennedy Ikpe.

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Cell edges: from polarity to growth control

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Please contact the events team at Events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for the online Zoom link.

• Speaker: Charlotte Kirchhelle - ENS de Lyon
• Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00
• Venue: Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .
• Series: Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars; organiser: Sainsbury Laboratory.

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U.N. panel meets for first time without U.S. leadership

Phosphorus leached from volcanic rocks in warm waters could have triggered reactions needed to launch biochemistry

The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific community in the United States. The dramatic events are ...

Spatio-temporal Melt and Basal Channel Evolution on Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf from CryoSat-2

Ice shelves buttress the grounded ice sheet, restraining its flow into the ocean. Mass loss from these ice shelves occurs primarily through ocean-induced basal melting, with the highest melt rates occurring in regions that host basal channels – elongated, kilometre-wide zones of relatively thin ice. While some models suggest that basal channels could mitigate overall ice shelf melt rates, channels have also been linked to basal and surface crevassing, leaving their cumulative impact on ice-shelf stability uncertain. Due to their relatively small spatial scale and the limitations of previous satellite datasets, our understanding of how channelised melting evolves over time remains limited. In this study, we present a novel approach that uses CryoSat-2 radar altimetry data to calculate ice shelf basal melt rates, demonstrated here as a case study over Pine Island Glacier (PIG) ice shelf. Our method generates monthly Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and melt maps with a 250 m spatial resolution. The data show that near the grounding line, basal melting preferentially melts a channel’s western flank 50% more than its eastern flank. Additionally, we find that the main channelised geometries on PIG are inherited upstream of the grounding line and play a role in forming ice shelf pinning points. These observations highlight the importance of channels under ice shelves, emphasising the need to investigate them further and consider their impacts on observations and models that do not resolve them.

• Speaker: Katie Lowry, British Antarctic Survey
• Wednesday 12 March 2025, 14:00-15:00
• Venue: BAS Seminar Room 2.
• Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Dr Birgit Rogalla.

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Reactions in Porous Rocks

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• Speaker: Sam Clarke, IEEF
• Thursday 06 March 2025, 11:30-12:30
• Venue: Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.
• Series: Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF); organiser: Catherine Pearson.

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Green Carbon for the Chemical Industry: Decoupling Polymers from Fossil Resources

Reducing reliance on fossil carbon is central to the concepts of sustainable development and material stewardship. Whereas decarbonization of the energy sector is feasible through the development of renewable energy, the chemicals sector needs carbon as a building block. The lasting and growing demand for this embedded carbon, especially for production of polymers, must be met in the future through utilization of renewable feedstocks such as biomass, CO2 and recycling of carbon-containing waste. In this context, the transition from fossil to renewable polymers provides a major challenge. Advances in renewable polymers will be exemplified through case studies of two of the most promising bio-based platforms for plastics: lactic acid (LA) and hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF).

• Speaker: Professor Matthew Davidson, Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change
• Thursday 27 February 2025, 11:30-12:30
• Venue: Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.
• Series: Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF); organiser: Catherine Pearson.

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Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

Spacecraft with gather and analyze infrared light in new ways to explain why our universe is “boring”

Rodent and monkey facilities imperiled by Trump plan to cut overhead payments

Evolvability—the capacity to generate adaptive variation—is a trait that can itself evolve through natural selection. However, the idea that mutation can become biased toward adaptive outcomes remains controversial. In this work, we report the evolution ...