Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic ScienceIMS-MRL seminars are primarily for staff and invited guests. External events open to a wider audience are included where appropriate.
NB: Since the Covid-19 pandemic we are running the IMS-MRL Tuesday seminar series as hybrid events or online only via Zoom. Please check the events calendar for details.
The IMS-MRL seminar series: taking place weekly during term time, with occasional seminars from visiting scientists.
- External Research Seminars (on Tuesdays at 1.15pm – invited audience only); – sponsored by Astra Zeneca
- Internal ‘Research in Progress’ Seminars (on Tuesday at 1.15pm -staff only)
- Internal ‘Hot Topics’ and ‘Technical’ Seminars (on Thursday at 2.30pm) for 1st year PhD and post-graduate students)
- Mastering Academic Excellence in Metabolic Medicine (MAXIM), sponsored by Eli Lilly. (on Fridays at 1.15pm; sandwiches available from 1.00pm)
September 2022
Danish Diabetes Academy (DDA) Post-doc Summit
DDA Post-doc Summit (formerly known as the Winter School) 25-30 September 2022, at Green Solution House, Bornholm, Denmark An immersive week-long event for early career scientists (including PhD students and postdocs) who will convene to expand their professional network with fellow and senior scientists and engage in training as well as give their perspective on highly topical themes To attend participants must submit an abstract - deadline 1 August 2022. Further details and to book a place
Find out more »Environmental Impacts on Pregnancy and Offspring Outcomes: Lessons Learned and Avenues for Intervention
Environmental Impacts on Pregnancy and Offspring Outcomes: Lessons Learned and Avenues for Intervention 29 September, 2022 Coin Street Conference Centre, London Jointly organised by Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri (IMS-MRL affiliated PI) and sponsored by the Physiological Society, this meeting showcases the latest work assessing the impact of environmental influences on maternal physiological support of offspring development. Call for abstracts open now. Further details
Find out more »October 2022
Professor Kavaljit H. Chhabra, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, USA – ‘Hypothalamic regulation of glucose homeostasis’
EXTERNAL RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES MICHAELMAS 2022 Online Seminar via Zoom Speaker: Professor Kavaljit H. Chhabra, Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, USA Title: Hypothalamic regulation of glucose homeostasis Host: Mark Evans Time: 13.15 For programme information or suggestions contact: Dr Daniel Fazakerley djf72 at medschl.cam.ac.uk, Dr Giles Yeo gshy2 at cam.ac.uk Dr Anthony Coll apc36 at cam.ac.uk
Find out more »The impact of maternal nutrition in gestational diabetes
Cambridge in Africa Webinar Programme - Diabetes in Pregnancy The impact of maternal nutrition in gestational diabetes Thursday 6th October – Dr Claire Meek, University of Cambridge 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 future topics and speakers. This webinar programme is a new venture between researchers in Uganda and Cambridge This webinar programme aims to: Encourage collaboration Increase…
Find out more »Merkle Group – ‘Predicting combination therapies for obesity from human cellular models’
INTERNAL 'RESEARCH IN PROGRESS' SEMINAR SERIES - MICHAELMAS 2022 Venue: Hybrid at the IMS-MRL Speaker: Members of the Merkle group Title: Predicting combination therapies for obesity from human cellular models Time: 13:15
Find out more »The Royal Society Scientific Meeting – Causes of obesity: theories, conjectures and evidence
Royal Society Scientific Meeting 17-19 October 2022 The Royal Society, London, SW1Y 5AG Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor John R Speakman FMedSci FRS, Professor Thorkild IA Sørensen, Dr Kevin D Hall and Professor David B Allison. Obesity has been described by the WHO as the largest health threat facing mankind. Obesity is manifestly an issue of energy balance. Yet, there is surprisingly little consensus about why such energy imbalance develops. This meeting will include presentations by world experts on…
Find out more »Professor Moffat Nyirenda, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and MRC Uganda Unit -‘Title to be confirmed’
EXTERNAL RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES MICHAELMAS 2022 Online via Zoom Speaker: Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor of Medicine (Global Non-Communicable Diseases) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); MRC Uganda Unit Title: To be confirmed Host: Albert Koulman Time: 13.15 For programme information or suggestions contact: Dr Daniel Fazakerley djf72 at medschl.cam.ac.uk, Dr Giles Yeo gshy2 at cam.ac.uk Dr Anthony Coll apc36 at cam.ac.uk
Find out more »Fat sensing and the brain control of puberty
Fat sensing and the brain control of puberty 24-26 October 2022 Baeza, Spain The overall goal of this workshop is to provide the most incisive and up-to-date overview of the current research in the fields of organismal growth, food intake control, metabolism, and puberty, with a particular focus on the mechanisms whereby metabolic signals (specially those originating from fat, as major form of energy storage) influence and shape pubertal maturation. This workshop will bring together a unique combination of fifteen…
Find out more »Anthony Coll – ‘Investigating the mediators of body weight and body composition’
INTERNAL 'RESEARCH IN PROGRESS' SEMINAR SERIES - MICHAELMAS 2022 Venue: Hybrid at the IMS-MRL Speaker: Dr Anthony Coll Title: Investigating the mediators of body weight and body composition Time: 13:15
Find out more »November 2022
Farooqi Group – Dr Agatha van der Klaauw – ‘Obesity and Covid-19’
INTERNAL 'RESEARCH IN PROGRESS' SEMINAR SERIES - MICHAELMAS 2022 Venue: Hybrid at the IMS-MRL Speaker: Dr Agatha van der Klaauw from the Farooqi group Title: Obesity and Covid-19 Time: 13:15
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