Pizza Night
Date and Time: Thursday 2nd May 2024, 19:30
Location: JCR
Pizza and social as we entered exam term!
Socials – Easter 2024
July 3, 2024
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Dr David Parker
July 3, 2024
Date and Time: Wednesday 15th May, 18:00 GMT
Location: Tim Cadbury & Music Room
Dr Parker is a senior lecturer in the Cambridge PDN (Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) department studying the networks underlying sensory, motor, and cognitive functions to understand how behaviours are generated. As our Easter speaker, he gave a talk on the philosophy of science from a neuroscientist’s perspective.
Socials – Lent 2024
January 21, 2024
Start of Term social
Date and Time: Wednesday 17th January 2024, 15:00
Location: JCR
An informal social to start the term, with pizza and snacks.
Lent Pub Quiz
Date and Time: Thursday 25th January 2024, 20:00
Location: JCR
The pub quiz returns, with a mix of classic and new categories! Doughnuts and snacks provided!
Queens’ Formal Swap
Date and Time: Monday 12th February 2024, 19:30
Location: Downing
The home leg of our formal swap with Queens’.
VitaDAO and Cambridge Society of Ageing and Longevity Research
January 21, 2024
Date and Time: Monday 11th March 2024.
Location: Howard Theatre
A talk and networking event delivered by VitaDAO, a collective dedicated to funding and advancing early stage longevity science research. In conjunction with the Cambridge Society of Ageing and Longevity Research.
Mary-Ellen Lynall
January 21, 2024
Date and Time: Wednesday 28th February, 18:00 GMT
Location: Howard Building
Our long-anticipated first academic talk of the year will be delivered by Mary-Ellen Lynall, a psychiatrist investigating the immunology of psychiatric disorders, Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellow and Bye-fellow at Christ’s College.
Socials – Michaelmas 2023
December 28, 2023
Michaelmas Pub Quiz
Date and time: Friday 27th October 2023, 20:00
Location: JCR
Our first formal event of the year! Thank you to everybody for the great turnout, and congratulations to our winners (Week 5) Blue Fossils!
Queens’ Formal Swap
Date and time: Wednesday 22nd November 2023, 19:30
Location: Queens’ College
A fantastic evening with Queens’ STEM society.
Dr John Tregoning
April 28, 2022
“NATURE WANTS YOU DEAD”
Date and Time: Friday 6th May, 18:00 GMT
Location: Wilkins Room
Our speaker of Easter term, and last talk of the year, will be by Dr John Tregoning of Imperial, a respiratory infectious diseases expert who read Natural Sciences at Downing from 1995 – 1998. His work focuses on how viruses and bacteria infect the lungs and how our immune system fights them.
Socials – Lent 2022
January 16, 2022
Pub Crawl ft. Caius & Pembroke
Date and Time: Friday 28th January, 20:00
Location: To be determined
STEM Society Swap! Danby will be doing a Pub Crawl with the STEM societies of Caius and Pembroke. Look out for more details soon!
Formal Swap ft. St John’s (Still TBC)
Date and Time: Monday 1st February, 19:00
Location: St John’s College
STEM Society Swap! St. John’s college are inviting us for a formal at their college with their STEM society. We will know more information when they get back to us with the number of allowed guests.
Pub Quiz Round #2
Date and Time: Friday 4th February, 20:30
Location: JCR, (Downstairs of the Butterfield)
Join us for our next science-themed pub quiz for another chance to win a box of Kripsy Kremes. Questions may be a little less sciencey than last time…. will the Mighty Chondrias rein supreme again?
Professor Sean B Carroll
January 16, 2022
“A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of Life, Planet, and You”
Date and Time: Friday 25th February, 18:00 GMT
Location: Virtually from E Staircase
Our second speaker event this term is from biologist and author Sean B Carroll. This talk will be given virtually and screened live in the Tim Cadbury & Music Room, (E Staircase) with the option to also watch live online.
Professor Dennis Lo
January 4, 2022
“Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: From Dream to Reality”
Date and Time: Saturday 12th February, 12:00 GMT
Location: Virtually from E Staircase
This term, we will have a talk by molecular biologist Prof. Dennis Lo. The talk will be given virtually and screened live in the Tim Cadbury & Music Room, (E Staircase) with the option to also watch live online.
Dennis Lo is a chemical pathologist who is currently the Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Please look at his Royal Society Page for more information!