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Today 8:00AM - 5:00PM on Fri 16 October

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9:00AM - 5:00PM

James Faure Walker - painting and digital works

Painting and digital media exhibition by London based artist James Faure Walker

11:00AM - 4:00PM

Brass Rubbing - Cambridge - Great St. Mary'

Brass Rubbing at the centre of Cambridge including replicas of Sir Roger de Trumpington and St. George and the Dragon

11:00AM - 8:00PM

Highlight Sculpture in the close - free exhibition of contemporary sculptors

Jesus College is showcasing contemporary British and Irish sculptors in a free outside exhibition this summer.

4:00PM - 5:00PM

Get free yoga lessons and help scientists

Are you curious about yoga but never got round to trying it? Take part in the one of the largest psychological experiments on the effects hot yoga has on wellbeing, and get rewarded with six weeks of free 'hot yoga' lessons!

4:30PM - 5:30PM

BioAnth seminar series: Homo naledi, a new hominin species

John Hawks from the University of Wisconsin-Madison will give a talk on hominin remains that were discovered in October 2013 in South Africa, which included a previously undiscovered hominin species: Homo neledi.

5:45PM - 8:30PM

Equity, attainment and core curriculum

Cambridge Assessment is privileged to be hosting one of three lectures as part of Dr E D Hirsch’s tour of the UK this September. Dr Hirsch will be sharing his views on equity, attainment and core curriculum in secondary education at the evening event.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Making an embryo: polarity, position and prejudice

Celebratory public lecture by Dr Janet Rossant, Senior Scientist, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program and Chief of Research, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Public lecture by Professor Azim Surani, Director of Germline and Epigenomics Research, the Gurdon Insitute, University of Cambridge. 'Germline: The eternal link between all generations'

A public lecture to celebrate the research work of Martin H Johnson. Germ cells are immortal as they alone can perpetuate the species. Recent advances allow derivation of primordial germ cells (and potentially gametes) from pluripotent stem cells from embryos and skin cells in culture. These advances provide insights on the origin and the unique properties of mouse and human germline.