Events

Café Synthetique is the monthly meetup for the Cambridge synthetic and engineering biology community with informal talks, discussion and pub snacks. Speakers range from students and group leaders to industry professionals and entrepreneurs. On Monday 2 June, 6pm we have a talks from Wes Robertson, MRC LMB and Sonja Blasche...

The Milner Institute is delighted to return to the Cambridge Festival this year! Join this event to learn about big data and how we use functional genomics and AI (artificial intelligence/machine learning) to uncover new biology and find clues to new therapies. Speakers : Erica Bello , Head of Target Discovery, Milner...

This exciting new conference will bring together researchers from computer, biomedical, and biological sciences organised in collaboration with leading experts in the field, including Ben Lehner, Mo Lotfollahi, Patrick Hsu, Debora Marks, Jussi Taipale and Caroline Uhler , and features an outstanding lineup of speakers...

The International Conference on Ribosome Synthesis: from Mechanisms to Therapy will be held in Cambridge, UK, from 7-12 September 2025 and will bring together approximately 200 biomedical researchers. The researchers will share and discuss their latest investigations on how the cellular protein factories called ribosomes...

The aim of this event is to bring together PIs at Cambridge studying the interplay of conflict and cooperation at different scales across biology: between or within genes and genomes, cells and tissues, symbionts, individuals, collectives, and ecosystems. The afternoon begins with a lunch, with opportunities throughout for...

Are you an Early Career Researcher or Mid-Career Researcher looking to strengthen your research funding applications? Join us for a grant writing workshop in collaboration with the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Specialist Centre for Public Health. This interactive session will provide practical guidance on preparing...

The University of Cambridge’s Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) and the Wellcome Sanger Institute would like to invite early and mid-career biological researchers (post-PhD) to a joint policy training workshop. Through a series of talks from policymakers and academics, the workshop will equip researchers with an...

If you are an academic, researcher or PhD student based within the University of Cambridge and would like to learn how to commercialise the outcomes of your research or how to use your existing skills to make an impact, Cambridge Enterprise's Ideas to Reality programme is the place to start, with the first event: 11 March...

The Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery , offers support for researchers across the University to use AI in their research. Tuesday 4 March : An Introduction to Diffusion Models in Generative AI Tuesday 11 March : Publishing and Packaging Python Code for Research Thursday 13 March : An Introduction to Docker...