BIOCHEMISTRY PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
ACADEMIC YEAR 2013-2014
SPEAKER
INSTITUTION
TOPIC
Helder Maiato
IMCB Porto
A chromosome separation checkpoint
Lisa Prendergast
Institut Curie
Switching states: How centromeres become
mitotically competent
Constantinos Koumenis
University of Pennsylvania
The Unfolded Protein Response in
malignancy: Problems and therapeutic
opportunities
Behzad Kharabi
University Hospital RWTH,
Aachen
Don’t stress out! A lesson about ER stress
and chaperones in hematological
malignancies
Jeroen Raes
University of Leuven
Studying the gut microbiome using
metagenomics
Petr Cejka
University of Zurich
Homologous recombination: the beginning
and the end
Patrick Legembre
University of Rennes
Pro-oncogenic role of CD95 in Triple
negative breast cancers and development
of a therapeutic approach to block it
Jacqueline Jacobs
Netherlands Cancer
Institute
Control of DNA repair activity at mammalian
telomeres
Martin Leverkus
University of Heidelberg
Decisions, decisions: Regulation of
apoptotic and necroptotic cell death in skin
cancer
Doug Higgs
University of Oxford
Switching genes on and off in
haematopoiesis
Imre Berger
EMBL Grenoble
Insights into structure and assembly of a
megadalton transcription regulator, human
TFIID
Maria Carmo-Fonseca
University of Lisbon
Imaging pre-mRNA in real time
Luke O'Neill
TCD
New frontiers in inflammation research
Richard Meehan
MRC Human Genetics
Unit
Epigenetics and identity
Aidan Doherty
University of Sussex
Unraveling the roles of primasepolymerases in genome repair and
replication
ACADEMIC YEAR 2014-2015
SPEAKER
INSTITUTION
TOPIC
Mark O'Driscoll
University of Sussex
Novel human disorders of cell cycle control
and receptor-mediated signal transduction
Frank Kooy
University of Antwerp
Fragile sites and human disease
Tomoyuki Tanaka
University of Dundee
Hidden functions of kinetochores:
microtubule attachment and beyond
David
Longley
Queen's University Belfast
Targeting the inhibitors of death receptorinduces apoptosis
Ken Mills
Queen's University Belfast
Integrative genomic analysis to identify
novel therapies in myeloid malignancies
Robin Allshire
University of Edinburgh
Establishing and maintaining specialised
chromatin domains
Cathal Mahon
University of California
HIV host interactions - from systems to
mechanisms
Seamus Martin
Trinity College Dublin
Cell death and inflammation: the how and
the why
Sara Buonomo
EMBL Monterotondo
Relations between tri-dimensional nuclear
organization and DNA replication timing
Guy Poirier
Laval University Quebec
Identification of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ated
proteins complexes during DNA damage
signalling: Identification of potential
biomarkers
Fabrizio d’Adda di
Fagagna
IFOM - FIRC Institute of
Molecular Oncology, Milan
Molecular mechanisms of cellular
senescence and a novel role of RNA in
DNA damage response activation
Ivan Dikic
Goethe University
Frankfurt
Ubiquitin networks in regulation of
inflammation and autophagy
Phil Barker
University of Montreal
The p75NTR Neurotrophin Receptor: Jack
of All Trades, Master of One or Two
Simon Boulton
CRUK London Research
Institute
Genome stability and the control of
recombination
Ken Wolfe
University College Dublin
Evolutionary rearrangement of yeast
chromosomes
Edel Maria Harvey
Dublin City University
The role of histone post-translational
modifications in eukaryotic evolution
Kristian Helin
University of Copenhagen
Epigenetic regulation of transcription and
cell identity
Anja Groth
University of Copenhagen
Chromatin replication and epigenome
maintenance
Lars Jansen
Gulbenkian Institute,
Oeiras
Chromatin inheritance at the centromere
and beyond
David Ron
University of Cambridge
Protein folding homeostasis in the
endoplasmic reticulum
Eric Bullinger
University of Magdeburg
Understanding Biological Systems via
Dynamical Modelling & Signal Analysis
Gary Gorbsky
Oklahoma Medical
Research Foundation
Navigating the metaphase-anaphase
transition in mitosis
John
Greally
Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, New York.
Regulatory elements in the metaepigenome
Ross
Chapman
University of Oxford
Molecular mechanisms governing
programmed and unscheduled genomic
rearrangements
Nick Kent
Cardiff University
Sequencing chromatin architectures
Mark Petronczki
CRUK London Research
Institute
Control of cytokinesis and the dark side of
the force
ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013
SPEAKER
INSTITUTION
TOPIC
Almer Van der Sloot
University of Montreal
Structure-based design of novel antitumour agents
Michael Lisby
University of Copenhagen
Checkpoint sensing of DNA bridges in
anaphase
IFOM Milan
Mechanisms coordinating chromosome
replication and transcription
Remy Pedeux
Université de Rennes 1
The tumor suppressive protein ING2 is
required for DNA damage response
protein recruitment and promotes NHEJ
Olaf Stemmann
University of Bayreuth
How separase, cohesin and shugoshin
choreograph the chromosome-ballet of
mitosis
Simon Cook
Babraham Institute
That which does not kill me makes me
stronger; acquired resistance to ERK1/2
pathway inhibitors in tumour cells.
Lorenza Penengo
University of Piemonte
Orientale
Ubiquitination and chromatin
remodelling:How the ubiquitin ligase
RNF168 drives the DNA damage response
Iain Nicholl
University of
Wolverhampton
Asprin, Inflammation, DNA repair and
Colorectal Cancer
Ram Reshef
Haifa University
Interplay Between Activin and Hox Genes
Determines the Fate of Kidney
Progenitor Cells and the Formation of the
Kidney morphogenetic Field
Gaëlle Legube
CNRS Toulouse
Transcription channels DNA doublestrand breaks to RAD51-dependent
repair
Ian Hickson
University of Copenhagen
Genomic instability and cancer: lessons
from analysis of Bloom's syndrome
Adrian Bracken
TCD
Epigenetic 'reader' proteins in stem cells
and cancer
Emmeline Hill
UCD
The genetics of exercise adaptation in
Thoroughbred racehorses
Peter Becker
LMU Munich
Chromosome-wide gene regulation:
Lessons learned from Dosage
Compensation in Drosophila
Grant Stewart
University of Birmingham
Ubiquitin-dependent regulation of the
DNA damage response induced by
replication stress
Karen Cawley
Supervisor Afshin Samali
of NUIG
MicroRNAs: important modulators of ER
stress-induced cell death
Simonetta Piatti
CRBM Montpellier
Regulation of septins for cytokinesis and
for coupling spindle positioning to mitotic
exit
Eric Chevet
Université Bordeaux
Segalen
Endoplasmic Reticulum stress signaling in
liver cancer: the AAA+ connection
Jeremy Simpson
UCD
Genome-wide automated imaging of
membrane traffic pathways in mammalian
Marco Foiani
cells
Cynthia McMurray
Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory
Genetics and pathophysiology of
Huntington's disease
Domenico Delia
Fondazione IRCCS
Istituto Nazionale
Tumori
Functionality and DNA damage response
of neurons generated from Ataxiatelangiectasia-derived induced
pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells)
René Medema
The Netherlands Cancer
Institute
DNA damage-induced (ir)reversible cell
cycle arrests in G1 and G2