London Cell Cycle Club
June 17, 2015
London Cell Cycle Club
Medawar G01 Lankester Lecture Theater
University College London
June 17, 2015
In association with Abcam
Chaired By
Rob de Bruin (UCL, UK) and Peter Thorpe (The Francis Crick Institute, UK)
PROGRAMME
14.05hrs
Opening statement
Session chair: Rob de Bruin
14.10hrs
Eva Herrero/Peter Thorpe (The Francis Crick Institute, NIMR, UK).
Mechanism for regulation of kinetochore protein levels in budding yeast.
14.40hrs
Duccio Conti/Viji Draviam (University of Cambridge, UK).
How are human chromosomes captured by microtubules?
15.10hrs
Sugako Ogushi/Kim Nasmyth (University of Oxford, UK).
Cohesin cleavage by SEPARASE is a determinant of different chromosome behavior between
bivalents and dyads in mouse meiosis.
15.40 – 16:00hrs
Tea, coffee and biscuits in the MRC LMCB common room
Session chair: Peter Thorpe
16.00hrs
Spyridon Champeris Tsaniras/Stavros Taraviras (University of Patras, Greece).
Geminin ablation enhances tumorigenesis.
16:30hrs
Invited speaker:
Professor Robin Allshire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh).
Establishment and Maintenance of Specialised Chromatin States.
17.30hrs
Closing remarks by Peter Thorpe/Rob de Bruin
17:30 – 18:30hrs
Wine and nibbles in the MRC LMCB common room