Seminars
Scheduled seminars in Biosciences are listed below. University staff and students are welcome to attend any of the seminars.
Please note that all seminars will be held online for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Topics presented represent the wide range of research interests within the departments and are presented by experts in particular areas.
Every effort is made to keep to the scheduled programme, but changes do have to be made sometimes.
Animal and Plant Sciences
- Departmental seminars: aimed everyone in the Dept, and any staff or students outside who might be interested
- Research Group seminars: two seminar series (Ecology, Evolution and Environment & Robert Hill Institute) usually on current research work, by both internal and external speakers.
- Graduate Seminars: current postgraduate students presenting their own research work. Usually two shorter seminars together.
| Date | Series | Title | Speaker | Venue and time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16th November | Departmental | TBC | Sam Giles - University of Birmingham | TBC |
| 8th February 2021 | Departmental | Limits of plasticity and capacity for adaptation to global warming in marine phytoplankton | Gabriel Yvon-Durocher - University of Exeter | 1.00pm TBC |
Biomedical Science
Seminars will be presented via Blackboard. Please join all sessions via the link below:
Join Blackboard sessionsIf you have any questions regarding our programme, please contact Wendy Howard.
| Date | Time | Title | Speaker / Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 October 2020 | 2pm | Multiple roles of phosphoinositides in phagocytosis and micropinocytosis | Professor Sergio Grinstein, University of Toronto / Dr Dan Williams |
| Mon 19 October 2020 | 12pm | Non-coding RNAs: novel transport route and function in developing axons | Dr Marie-Laure Baudet, University of Trento / Dr Andrew Lim |
| Weds 21 October 2020 | 12pm | Glypicans shield the lipid moiety of Wnts to enable signalling at a distance |
Dr Ian McGough, The Francis Crick Institute / Prof Marysia Placzek *Please note, this talk is open to BMS staff only |
| Mon 26 October 2020 | 2pm | Real-time microscopy of invasive cancer cells in tumor microenvironment context | Dr Bojana Gligorijevic, Temple University College of Engineering, Philadelphia / Dr Elena Rainero |
| Mon 9 November 2020 | 12pm | Strategies to target senescence | Professor Jesus Gil, Imperial College London / Mr Mohammed El Ghazaly |
| 16 November 2020 | 12pm | Organismic ageing and DNA demethylation | Professor Christof Niehrs, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz / Dr Vincent Cunliffe |
| Weds 18 November 2020 | 12pm | The mechanics of cancer cell division |
Dr Helen Matthews, University College London / Prof Liz Smythe *Please note, this talk is open to BMS staff only |
| Mon 23 November 2020 | 12pm | How is sound location encoded in the auditory cortex? |
Dr Katherine Wood, University of Pennsylvania / Prof Walter Marcotti *Please note, this talk is open to BMS staff only |
| Mon 30 November 2020 | 12pm | “Regulation of microtubule organization and dynamics: seeing proteins and drugs in action” | Professor Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University / Dr Miguel Ramirez Moreno |
| Mon 7 December 2020 | 12pm | “Epithelial-Mesenchymal Plasticity in Carcinoma Metastasis” | Dr Jing Yang, UC San Diego / Dr Kyra Campbell |
| Mon 18 January 2021 | 12pm | “Patterns of mutagenesis in human cells” | Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge / Dr Zoe Hewitt |
| Mon 25 January 2021 | 12pm | Title to be announced | Dr Marcel Schaaf, Leiden University / Dr Freek Van Eeden |
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
We host, on average three or four seminars each month, usually on a Wednesday at 1pm during term.
We invite a range of guest speakers with expertise covering all areas of molecular bioscience.
All students, academics and staff are welcome to attend.
Other bioscience seminars are hosted by the Imagine: Imaging Life project and the Florey Institute.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue and time |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBC | Upcoming seminars to be announced | TBC | TBC |