Guest Seminars 09-10
The MBB Guest Seminars are presented by distinguished speakers on research in molecular biology.
Seminar Programme for Academic Year 2009-10The First Krebs Memorial LectureCommon Simplicity Behind Natural and Artificial Redox Protein Engineering Prof. Les Dutton FRS University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Wednesday September 23rd at 4:00 pm in BLT 1 The Biochemical Society LectureThe chemistry of oxygen sensing in humans Prof Chris Schofield Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford Wednesday November 4th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 The Roles and Regulation of Actin during EndocytosisProf Kathryn Ayscough MBB, University of Sheffield Wednesday November 11th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 Insights into Kinase Regulation and Selective Inhibition by Large Scale Structural ComparisonProf Stefan Knapp The Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford Wednesday November 18th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 Self-signalling and self-fusion in filamentous fungiProf Nick Read School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh Wednesday November 25th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 The Oxford Expression Technologies LectureGene silencing is mediated by H-NS and sRNAs in Salmonella Prof Jay Hinton Department of Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin Wednesday December 2nd at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 Synthetic biology from the bottom up and towards new biomaterialsProf Dek Woolfson School of Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol Wednesday December 9th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 Adaptation to extreme environments: Structure, function and stability of enzymes from the hyperthermophilic archaea.Prof Michael Danson Centre for Extremophile Research, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath Wednesday February 17th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 Controlling the bacterial immune system - structure and function of a finely tuned genetic switchDr John McGeehan Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Science, University of Portsmouth Wednesday February 24th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 Developing the next generation of anti-cancer monoclonal antibodiesProf Martin Glennie School of Medicine, University of Southampton Wednesday March 3rd at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 The Evolution of Long ncRNAs and Prdm9, a Speciation GeneProf Chris Ponting MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford Wednesday March 10th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 Biosynthesis of mycobacterial cell wall polysaccharidesProf Del Besra School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham Wednesday March 17th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 The beginning and the end of the Cell CycleDr Karim Labib Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Manchester Wednesday April 21st at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 Chromosome bi-orientation and spindle checkpoint activation in Saccharomyces cerevisiaeProf Mike Stark College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee Wednesday April 28th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 Steroid Sulfatase Inhbitors: From Concept to ClinicProf Barry Potter Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath Wednesday May 5th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 Enzymatic Transition States and Drug DesignProf Vern Schramm Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York Tuesday May 11th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 The End of the Affair: Chromosome segregation at Meiosis IDr Eva Hoffmann Sussex Centre for Genome Damage and Stability, University of Sussex Wednesday May 12th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2 |

The MBB Guest Seminars are presented by distinguished speakers on research in molecular biology.