January 2012
Monday 9 January 2012
Investigating the hereditary component of prostate cancer risk and outcomes through familial and
case-control datasets
Dr Liesel FitzGerald
Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Centre, Seattle
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Thursday 19 January 2012
The mechanism and regulation of eukaryotic DNA replication
Dr John Diffley
Cancer Research UK
Host: Dr Andrew Jackson
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
February 2012
Thursday 2 February 2012
To be announced
Professor Sue Black
University of Dundee
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Thursday 16 February 2012
Yeast genome evolution and the aftermath of polyploidization
Dr Ken Wolfe
Trinity College, Dublin
Host: Dr Colin Semple
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Thursday 23 February 2012
Transition states and ß-catenin signalling in self renewal and differentiation of Stem Cell
populations
Professor Alfonso Martinez-Arias
University of Cambridge
Host: Professer Nick Hastie
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
November 2011
Thursday 3 November 2011
Lighting up RNA Interactions in Living Cells
Professor David Tollervey
University of Edinburgh
Host: Dr Martin Reijns
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Thursday 10 November 2011 ***12-1pm***
To be announced
Dr Luke O’Neill
Trinity College, Dublin
Host: Dr Julia Dorin
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Thursday 24 November 2011
To be announced
Dr Adam Eyre-Walker
University of Sussex
Host: Professor Chris Haley
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
December 2011
Thursday 1 December 2011
Controlling recombination
Dr Simon Boulton
London Research Institute
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Thursday 8 December 2011
Gene punctuation in eukaryotes: Gene loops, R-loops and Non coding RNA
Professor Nick Proudfoot
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
October 2011
Thursday 13 October 2011
Immunodeficiencies and Cilia
Cambridge Institute of Medical Research
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Thursday 20 October 2011
To be announced
Professor Kevin Hiom
University of Dundee
Host: Dr Ian Adams
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Thursday 27 October 2011
The tumour microenvironment in bone metastases- role in development and response to therapy
Professor Rob Coleman and Dr Ingunn Holen
University of Sheffield
Host: Professor David Cameron
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
September 2011
Thursday 15 September 2011
Communing with the mRNA methyl cap
Dr Victoria Cowling
University of Dundee
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Thursday 22 September 2011
To be announced
Professor Claus Nerlov
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Thursday 29 September 2011
Mitochondrial Genetics and Disease
Professor Doug Turnbull
University of Newcastle
Host: Professor Alan Wright
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
July 2011
Thursday 7 July 2011
Unraveling transcriptional regulation with ENCODE data
Dr Jim Kent
University of California Santa Cruz
Host: Dr Colin Semple
June 2011
Thursday 9 June 2011
How does the hair bundle process sound? The ongoing dialogue between Genetics of deafness and
Hearing Physiology
Professor Christine Petit
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Host: Professor Veronica van Heyningen
Thursday 16 June 2011
Immunodeficiencies and cilia
Professor Gillian Griffiths
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
May 2011
Wednesday 4 May 2011
Modulating cellular clearance to treat human disease
Professor Andrea Ballabio
Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine
Naples
Host: Professor Veronica van Heyningen
Thursday 26 May 2011
Toll-like receptors and NOD-like receptors: fine-tuning the response to infection and inflammation
Professor Luke O'Neill
School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College
Host: Dr Julia Dorin
April 2011
Thursday 14 April 2011
Modeling tumour-related inflammation and colorectal cancer in Drosophila
Dr Marcos Vidal
Beatson Institute, Glasgow
Host: Professor Nick Hastie and Professor Margaret Frame
Thursday 28 April 2011
Genomic imprinting and its implications for the epigenetic control of gene dosage
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Host: Dr Sally Cross
March 2011
Thursday 3 March 2011
Designing chemical tools with the cellular machinery in mind
Dr Asier Unciti-Broceta
(CRUK) Cancer Research UK
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Thursday 10 March 2011
Tissue Fibrosis: making sense of inflammation and repair
Professor John Iredale
Director, Centre for Inflammation Research
Host: Dr Julia Dorin
Thursday 17 March 2011
Telomeres and telomerase: RNA-dependent machines at chromosome ends
Dr Joachim Lingner
Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research
Host: Dr Mary O'Connell
Thursday 24 March 2011
Regulation of BMP signalling and cell fate specification in Drosophila
Dr Hilary Ashe
University of Manchester
Host: Professor David FitzPatrick
February 2011
Thursday 3 February 2011
The piRNA pathway in the Drosophila germline - an RNA based genome immune system
Dr Julius Brennecke
IMBA
Host: Judith Recihmann
Thursday 17 February 2011
Mutagenesis, Mice and Malaria along with Platelets, Porphyria and Parasites
(or the genetics of the host response to malaria)
Professor Simon Foote
Menzies Research Institute, Tasmania
Host: Dr Sally Cross
Thursday 24 February 2011
How SUMO talks to ubiquitin
Professor Ron Hay
Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression
University of Dundee
Host: Dr Colin Gordon
January 2011
Thursday 13 January 2011
Epigenetic engineering: Using a synthetic chromosome to determine the role of transcription in
human kinetochore function
Professor Bill Earnshaw
The University of Edinburgh
Host: Dr Andrew Jackson
Thursday 20 January 2011
Human African Sleeping Sickness: basic biology and drug discovery
Professor Mike Ferguson
Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
December 2010
Thursday 2 December 2010
Developmental plasticity and systemic signalling in the control of shoot branching
Professor Ottoline Leyser
University of York
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
November 2010
Thursday 11 November 2010
Interplay between Polycomb repression and RNA polymerase II regulation genome-wide in murine
ES cells
Dr Ana Pombo
MRC Clinical Sciences Centre
Host: Professor Wendy Bickmore
Thursday 18 November 2010
Coupling of transcription and splicing in yeast
Professor Jean Beggs
University of Edinburgh
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
October 2010
IGMM SEMINAR *Friday 8 October 2010* 13.00
Signalling hypoxia by protein hydroxylation
Professor Peter Ratcliffe
Nuffield Professor of Medicine
University of Oxford
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
September 2010
Thursday 9 September 2010
Pathogenesis and Management of Paget's Disease
Professor Stuart Ralston
University of Edinburgh
Host: Dr Colin Gordon
Thursday 23 September 2010
Making a commitment: signaling pathways regulating cell allocation and axis patterning in the
early mouse embryo
Liz Robertson
Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
Host: Dr Kirstie Lawson
Thursday 30 September 2010
Epigenetic control of retrotransposons in human pluripotent cells
Dr Jose Luis Garcia-Perez
Andalusian Stem Cell Bank, University of Granada
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
June 2010
Thursday 10 June 2010
Multiple congenital malformations due to microdeletions of and close to the FOX transcription
factor gene cluster at 16q24.1
Dr Charles Shaw Smith
Sanger Institute
Host: Dr David FitzPatrick
May 2010
Thursday 27 May 2010
Bimodality in Gene Expression Levels Correlates with an Epigenetic Module
Dr Sarah Teichmann
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Host: Dr Pedro Coutinho
IGMM Seminars May/June 2010
Thursday 6 May 2010
Disruptions on the Highways of Cellular Signalling
Professor Dario Alessi
MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, Dundee
Host: Andrew Jackson
Thursday 24 May 2010
To be announced
Professor Dame Linda Partridge
Director, Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London
Host: Professor Alan Wright
Thursday 3 June 2010
To be announced
Professor Elaine Ostrander
Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute
Host: to be confirmed
April 2010
Friday 16 April 2010
To be announced
Professor Lee Niswander
Howard Hughes Fellow, University of Colorado
Host: Professor Ian Jackson
Thursday 22 April 2010
Measuring and understanding variation in the copy number of human genes
Professor John Armour
University of Nottingham
Host: Dr Julia Dorin
Thursday 29 April 2010
To be announced
Dr Pat Nolan
Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell
Host: Professor Ian Jackson
February 2010
Thursday 4 February 2010
Autophagy and Neurodegeneration
Professor David Rubinzstein
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Host: Dr Mary O’Connell
Thursday 11 February 2010
Chromatin Structure and Regulation of it's Compaction
Dr Daniela Rhodes
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Host: Professor Veronica van Heyningen
January 2010
Thursday 21 January 2010
Visualisation of oskar mRNP assembly and transport
Dr Anne Ephrussi
Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
Thursday 28 January 2010
Conditional mouse models of breast cancer
Dr Jos Jonkers
Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
Host: Dr Peter Hohenstein
November 2009
Thursday 19 November 2009
How useful are stem cells for regenerative neurology
Dr Siddarthan Chandran
Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, University of Edinburgh
Host: Dr Sally Cross
Thursday 26 November 2009
The complex life of small RNAs
Dr Eric Miska
Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
IGMM SEMINARS February 2010
Thursday 25 February 2010
Genetics of type 2 diabetes: the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?
Professor Mark McCarthy
University of Oxford
Host: Dr Jim Wilson
IGMM SEMINARS December 2009
Friday 4 December 2009 *12.30pm*
BRAF and RAS signalling in melanoma: biology and therapies
Professor Richard Marais
Institute of Cancer Research
Host: Professor Margaret Frame