Guest Seminars 2011-12
The Krebs Lecture
The amazing ribosome, its tiny enemies, and hints about its origin
Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate
Weizmann Institute, Israel
Wed Oct 5, 5 pm, Richard Roberts Auditorium
CO2-sensing and interkingdom-signalling pathways in yeast
Fritz Mühlschlegel
University of Kent
Wed Oct 12, 1 pm, F2
How cells help proteins to acquire the correct metals
Nigel Robinson
Durham University
Wed Oct 19, 1 pm, F2
Adenylyl cyclases - much more than makers of cAMP
Dermot Cooper
University of Cambridge
Wed Oct 26, 1 pm, F2
2nd MBB Krebs Memorial Lecture
How do bacteria know where to go? Rotary motors and protein dynamics drive bacterial behaviour
Judy Armitage
University of Oxford
Wed Nov 2, 1 pm, F2
On membrane curvature, protein rings, and the proton motive force in bacterial cell division
Leendert Hamoen
University of Newcastle
Wed Nov 9, 1 pm, F2
Microbial communication and virulence: lessons from evolutionary theory
Steve Diggle
University of Nottingham
Wed Nov 16, 1 pm, F2
Dysregulation of protein kinase signalling in lung cnacer: can we teach an old dog new tricks?
Jeremy Tavaré
University of Bristol
Wed Nov 23, 1 pm, F2
Molecular mechanisms underlying insulin-regulated trafficking of the facilitative glucose transporter GLUT4
Nia Bryant
University of Glasgow
Wed Nov 30, 1 pm, F2
A role for protein dynamics? New insights into catalysis from studies of an 'old' enzyme
Ruedi Allemann
Cardiff University
Wed Dec 7, 1 pm, F2
Stopping the traffic: targetting chemokine receptors in disease
James Pease
Imperial College London
Wed Dec 14, 1 pm, F2
Resistance is futile: the molecular basis of drug resistance in the protein kinase superfamily
Pat Eyers
YCR Inst Cancer Studies, Sheffield
Wed Jan 25, 1 pm, F2
MBB Society Seminar
Genetic fingerprinting and the turbulent genome
Sir Alec Jeffreys
University of Leicester
Wed Feb 8, 1 pm, Biology Lecture Theatre 2
Wrapping and unwrapping the bad news: the multiple roles of genomic RNA within ssRNA virus particles
Peter Stockley
University of Leeds
Wed Feb 15, 1 pm, F2
4th Roper Lecture
DNA strand breakage and repair in human disease
Keith Caldecott
University of Sussex
Wed Feb 22, 1 pm, F2
A new family of cancer marker genes: diagnostic, therapeutic and oncogenic potential
Ramsay McFarlane
North West Cancer Research Fund Inst
We Mar 7, 1 pm, F2
Endothelial cell modulation by P. falciparum-infected erythrocyte cytoadherence
Alister Craig
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Wed Mar 14, 1 pm, F2
2nd West Riding Lecture
Bacterial gang culture: We're all in this together
George Salmond
University of Cambridge
Wed Mar 21, 1 pm, F2
Regulating actin and myosin function in yeast
Dan Mulvihill
University of Kent
Wed Apr 25, 1 pm, F2
The cytokinetic phragmoplast: cytoskeleton, modelling and proteomics
Patrick Hussey
Durham University
Wed May 9, 1 pm, F2