BIRMINGHAM CANCER RESEARCH UK CENTRE
SCHOOL OF CANCER SCIENCES
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
External Seminar List – Winter Term 2013
DATE
SEMINAR
Tuesday 8th January
Professor Claire Lewis
Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield
“Macrophages: From Villains to Heroes in Anti-Cancer Therapy”
Host: Dr Graham Taylor
Tuesday 15th January
Tel: 0121 414 7458
Dr Edgar Hartsuiker
School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University
“The role of DNA repair in resistance to topoisomerase inhibitors and
nucleoside analogues”
Host: Dr Eva Petermann
Tuesday 22nd January
Tel: 0121 414 9165
Professor Ian Zachary
Division of Medicine, University College London
“Neuropilin signalling in Angiogenesis and Cancer”
Host: Professor Roy Bicknell
Tuesday 29th January
Tel: 0121 414 4085
Dr Luise Florin
Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Mainz, Germany
“Tetraspanins and other host-cell factors involved in papillomavirus
infection”
Host: Dr Fedor Berditchevski
Tuesday 5th February
Tel: 0121 414 2801
Professor Charlie Swanton
Cancer Research UK London Research Institute
“Intratumour Heterogeneity: evolution through space and time”
Host: Professor Gary Middleton
Tel: 0121 415 8237
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Wednesday 6th February
Professor Roberio Pinto
Head of Education, Brazilian National Cancer Institute
“Molecular mechanisms of tumour development in the upper
aerodigestive tract – the transition to transcriptome sequencing and
methylation”
Host: Professor Hisham Mehanna
Tuesday 12th February
Tel: 0121 414 6547
Dr Taija Makinen
Cancer Research UK London Research Institute
“Molecular regulation of lymphatic vascular morphogenesis"
Host: Professor Roy Bicknell
Tuesday 19th February
Tel: 0121 414 4085
Dr Sophie Papa
Cancer Studies, Kings College London
“CAR immunotherapy for solid tumours: "You were only supposed to blow
the bloody doors off!"
Host: Professor Nick James
Tuesday 26th February
Tel: 0121 414 4097
Professor Graham Packham
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
“Clinical and Biological Significance of B-cell Receptor Signalling in
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia”
Host: Professor Tanja Stankovic
Tuesday 5th March
Tel: 0121 414 4496
Professor Christian Ottensmeier
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
“What do you think of: 'targeted Cancer immunotherapy - ready for prime
time?”
Host: Dr Steve Lee
Tuesday 12th March
Tel: 0121 414 2803
Professor Greg Rubin
School of Pharmacy and Health, University of Durham
“Early diagnosis of cancer: current research and service development in
primary care”
Host: Professor Paul Moss
Tel: 0121 414 4628
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Tuesday 19th March
Professor Massimo Lopes
Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich
“Structural and Molecular Insights into DNA Replication Stress”
Host: Dr Eva Petermann
Tuesday 26th March
Tel: 0121 414 9165
Dr Helfrid Hochegger
Genome Centre, University of Sussex
“A new look at interphase chromatin”
Host: Dr Grant Stewart
Tel: 0121 414 9168
ALL SEMINARS ARE HELD AT 1PM IN THE SEMINAR ROOM (S104), CANCER SCIENCES, UNLESS
OTHERWISE STATED.
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