The University of Sheffield
Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Guest Seminars in MBB


Firth Court The MBB Guest Seminars are presented by distinguished visitors to the Department.

 

Seminar Programme for Academic Year 2007-08

 

The Bioline Seminar
An Introduction to qPCR
    Dr Natalie Simpson
    Quantace Ltd
Wednesday October 17th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

Towards Computational Systems Biology with a Statistical Analysis Pipeline for Microarray Data
    Dr Neil Lawrence
    University of Manchester
Wednesday October 31st at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

Getting in a flap with DNA. Structure and Mechanism of flap endonucleases.
    Dr Jane Grasby
    Department of Chemistry
Wednesday November 7th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

Getting the message out of the nucleus
    Dr S Wilson
    Department of Molecular Biology
Wednesday November 14th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

Bacterial cell wall synthesis during growth and cell division
    Dr. Waldemar Vollmer
    University of Newcastle
Wednesday November 28th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

Chlorophyll-proteins: from global photosynthesis to nanopatterning
    Prof. Neil Hunter
    Department of Molecular Biology
Wednesday December 5th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

The S L S Seminar
Cell signalling, cell polarity and RNA localisation during Drosophila oogenesis
    Isabelle Palacios
    University of Cambridge
Wednesday December 12th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

Alan Roper Memorial Lecture
Insights into the molecular basis of Huntington's Disease
    Prof. Gillian Bates FRS
    King’s College London School of Medicine
Wednesday December 19th at 4:00 pm in The Auditorium, Rich Roberts' Building

 

Antibody Therapeutics: isotype and glycoform selection and optimisation for purpose
    Prof. Roy Jefferis
    University of Birmingham
Wednesday February 13th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

The StarLab Seminar
Yeast telomere replication and organisation
    Dr. Ann Donaldson
    University of Aberdeen
Wednesday February 20th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

Sialic acid metabolism in pathogenic bacteria
    Dr. Gavin Thomas
    University of York
Wednesday February 27th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

Its not size but coordination which matters
    Prof. Graham Moore
    John Innes Centre
Wednesday March 5th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

National Science and Engineering Week 2008
DNA Fingerprinting and Beyond
    Prof. Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS
    University of Leicester
Wednesday March 12th at 2:00 pm in Octagon Centre

 

The Merck Seminar
C H A N G E D to Apr 23rd
No longer on Wednesday April 9th

 

The Eppendorf Seminar
Individuality and the single stressed yeast cell
    Prof. Simon Avery
    Univeristy of Nottingham
Wednesday April 16th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

The Merck Seminar
Heat shock protein 90 – why such a hot topic?
    Prof. Peter Piper
    Department of Molecular Biology
Wednesday April 23rd at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

The importance of native disorder in crossing the bacterial outer membrane
    Prof. Colin Kleanthous
    University of York
Wednesday April 30th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

How do peroxisomes multiply?
    Dr. E. Hettema
    Dept of Molecular Biology
Wednesday May 7th at 1:10 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 2

 

Non-passive listening
    Prof Alan R. Palmer
    MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham
Friday May 9th at 2 pm in Biology Lecture Theatre 1