The Childhood Obesity: An inter-disciplinary approach to prevention and treatment course aims to expand participants’ knowledge on obesity research including physiology, epidemiology and social sciences as well as promote collaboration between experienced and early-stage researchers from Denmark and Cambridge.
Technology and biomedicine: a Cambridge showcase A half-day collaborative online symposium and networking event Date: Monday 27 September 2021 (09.00-14.00 BST) Venue: Online via Zoom Co-chairs: Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and Professor Roisin Owens, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge This was a collaborative event between the University’s Metabolic […]
Friday 11 March 2022, St Catherine’s College, Cambridge This collaborative event was specifically tailored for Metabolic and Cardiovascular early career researchers (ECRs) and the programme content informed by the results of a survey highlighting the career pathways they would be most interested in learning about. The event was attended by over 40 ECRs (including post-docs […]
Croonian Prize Lecture 2022 - Nutrient sensing by the brain in health and disease 14 April 2022, 6.30pm – 7.30pm In-person and online event This year's Croonian Prize Lecture 2022, Nutrient sensing by the brain in health and disease, is given by Sir Stephen O'Rahilly FMedSci FRS and Professor Sadaf Farooqi FMedSci FRS from […]
EXTERNAL RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES EASTER 2022 Venue: Virtual Seminar - via Zoom Speaker: Professor Annette Schürmann, Department of Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam Rehbruecke, Germany Title: "Genetic and epigenetic alterations contributing to obesity, NAFLD and type 2 diabetes" Host: Dr Daniel Fazakerley Time: 13.15 Contact Angela Lumsdon for Zoom details
Cambridge in Africa Webinar Programme - Diabetes in Pregnancy Diabetes in pregnancy – the scale of the issue in Uganda Thursday 28th April – Prof Moffat Nyirenda, MRC Uganda 13.00 (UK) and 16.00 (Uganda) Please contact clm70@cam.ac.uk in advance for a Zoom link, to be added to the mailing list, or to suggest […]
EXTERNAL RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES EASTER 2022 Venue: Virtual Seminar - via Zoom Speaker: Professor David James, The Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia Title: "Tracking Insulin Action – have we lost the scent?" Host: Daniel Fazakerley Time: 11.00 Contact Angela Lumsdon for […]
EXTERNAL RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES EASTER 2022 Venue: Virtual Seminar - via Zoom Speaker: Professor John Rawls, Departments of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology & Medicine, Microbiome Center, Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA Title: "Integrative physiology of host-microbe interactions in the vertebrate intestine" Host: Frank Reimann and Fiona Gribble Time: 13.15 Contact […]
EXTERNAL RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES EASTER 2022 Venue: Virtual Seminar - via Zoom Speaker: Dr Caroline Gorvin, Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham Title: "Deciphering complexities in GPCR signalling in endocrine & metabolic disease" Host: Giles Yeo Time: 13.15 Contact Angela Lumsdon for Zoom details
EXTERNAL RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES EASTER 2022 Venue: Virtual Seminar - via Zoom Speaker: Dr Katsu Funai, Diabetes & Metabolism Research Center, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah Title: "Mitochondrial membrane lipids and respiratory efficiency" Host: Sam Virtue Time: 15.15 Contact Angela Lumsdon for Zoom details
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