Lectures - 2016/2017

Meet the Authors

Jo Marchant, Tony Hey and Simon Taylor will talk about their new books and join in discussion afterwards

The world in 2050 - and beyond?

Lord Martin Rees, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, Trinity College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Astronomer Royal

Our Earth is 45 million centuries old. But this century is the first when one species - ours - can determine the biosphere's fate.

Mutational processes in the human genome

Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow & CDF Group Leader, Cancer Genome Project, Sanger Institute

How a cancer genome provides a unique opportunity to view the historic mutagenic activity that has occurred throughout the development of a tumour