The seminars are open to all University staff and students.
Upcoming seminars
April 2026
Division Talk, Life Sciences: Evolutionary Science
Dr Peter Long
- Speaker: , Oxford Brookes University
- Title: TBC
- Date: 22 April 2026
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: 5 West, 2.3
- Hosts: and
Division Talk, Life Sciences: Systems Medicine
Dr Harriet Forbes
- Speaker: , London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Title: 'Dementia risk among cancer survivors: a matched cohort study using linked electronic health records from England'
- Date: 29 April 2026
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host: [Dr Helen McDonald(https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/helen-mcdonald/)
June 2026
Professor Sam Butterworth
- Speaker: , University of Manchester
- Title: TBC
- Date: 10 June 2026
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host:
Previous seminars
October 2025
Dr Brian Lam
- Speaker: , University of Cambridge
- Title: 'Spatio-cellular mapping of the hypothalamus in mice and humans'
- Date: 8 October 2025
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host:
Professor Alessio Ciulli
- Speaker: , University of Dundee
- Title: 'Protein degraders: New insights and twists of molecular mechanism and drug design'
- Date: 15 October 2025
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host:
Geofrey Phutietsile
- Speaker: , Â鶹´«Ã½
- Title: 'Machine Learning in Anticholinergic Burden Quantification and Validation on Healthcare Dataset'
- Date: 22 October 2025
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host: N/A
Jessica Taylor
- Speaker: , Â鶹´«Ã½
- Title: 'Epigenomic regulation of immune gene activation dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana'
- Date: 22 October 2025
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host: N/A
Dr Tim Craig
- Speaker: , University of the West of England
- Title: 'Your Brain is What You Eat - fatty acids, diabetes and Neurodegeneration'
- Date: 29 October 2025
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: 5W 2.3
- Host:
Dr Lucy Crompton
- Speaker: , University of the West of England
- Title: 'The pathological role of astrocytes in Parkinson’s disease'
- Date: 29 October 2025
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: 5W 2.3
- Host:
November 2025
Professor Christoph Klein
- Speaker: , University of Regensburg
- Title: 'Insights into the invisible phase of systemic cancer: Genomic evolution and phenotypic plasticity of the metastatic seed'
- Date: 12 November 2025
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: 5W 2.3
- Host:
Dr Michael Parsons
- Speaker: , University of California, Irvine
- Title: 'Sox9b Is Required to Prevent Microbiome-Induced Pancreatic Inflammation'
- Date: Monday 17 November 2025
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host:
Professor Banafshe Larijani
- Speaker: , Consortium for Precision Health (CPH-Bath), Â鶹´«Ã½
- Title: 'Fusion of Quantitative Molecular Proteomics and Immune-Oncology: A Step Towards Precision in Cancer Therapeutics'
- Date: 19 November 2025
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host: N/A
Professor Arthur Kaser
- Speaker: , University of Cambridge
- Title: 'FAMIN meets energy metabolism: How electrons and protons predispose for Crohn’s disease and autoimmunity'
- Date: 26 November 2025
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: 5W 2.3
- Host:
December 2025
Dr Elena Scarpa
- Speaker: , University of Cambridge
- Title: 'In vivo tissue-scale confinement regulates collective migration and nuclear dynamics of neural crest cells'
- Date: 10 December 2025
- Time: 12.15pm - 1.05pm (please note the change of time)
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room (please note the change of venue)
- Host:
January 2026
Meg Sambrook, PhD student, Â鶹´«Ã½
- Speaker:
- Title: 'Presynaptic Opioid Receptor Function '
- Date: 14 January 2026
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host: N/A
Kian Cotton, PhD student, Â鶹´«Ã½
- Speaker:
- Title: 'Elucidating the role of Lipid Droplets in Medullablastoma '
- Date: 14 January 2026
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host: N/A
Ella Rimmer, PhD student, Â鶹´«Ã½
- Speaker:
- Title: 'Utilising an organoid model of Barrett's metaplasia'
- Date: 21 January 2026
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host: N/A
Dr Soly Ismail
- Speaker: , Francis Crick Institute
- Title: 'Targeting the RAS/PI3K Signalling Axis in Cancer Using Multiple Modalities: Cyclic Peptides, Small Molecules, Affinity-Based and Covalent Inhibitors'
- Date: 28 January 2026
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host: and
February
Professor Geoff Gobert
- Speaker: , Queen's University Belfast
- Title: 'Molecular insights into intermediate snail hosts and helminth disease: Their biology and microbiomes, and as disease risk indicators within environmental DNA'
- Date: 11 February 2026
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host:
Division Talk, Life Sciences Education
Dr Rose Murray
- Speaker: , University of Bristol
- Title: 'Empowering student agency in assessment and feedback in Biological Sciences'
- Date: 25 February 2026
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
- Host:
March
Annual AWERB Lecture
Dr Penny Hawkins
- Speaker: , Head of RSPCA Animals in Science Department
- Title: 'Ethical blind spots: what we can miss when we think we’re 'doing ethics''
- Date: 11 March 2026
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.15pm
- Location: Chancellor’s Building, CB 1.12
- Host: The Animal Research Liaison Officer on behalf of the AWERB
March 2026
Division Talk, Life Sciences Infection, Immunity and AMR
Dr William Matlock
- Speaker: , Â鶹´«Ã½
- Title: 'Conjugation structures plasmid populations through host-lineage restriction'
- Date: 25 March 2026
- Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
- Location: 5 West 2.3
- Host: