External and Internal Seminar Programme 2017/2018
The Department of Biomedical Science runs a lively and exciting external and internal departmental seminar programme. Topics presented represent the wide-range of research interests within the department and are presented by experts in particular areas.
Seminars are held on Mondays at 12.00 noon (unless stated) in the Conference Room (room A225), A Floor, Alfred Denny building.
If you have any questions regarding our programme, please contact Wendy Howard.
Monday 2nd July 2018
Dr Jenny Gallop, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
"Control of the actin cytoskeleton by membranes"
Host: Prof Kathryn Ayscough
Monday 9th July 2018
Dr Tobias Zech, University of Liverpool
"Actin on trafficking: How WASH coordinates endosomal transport"
Host: Dr Jason King
2018/2019 Programme:
Friday 14th September
10.00 - 1100 am, A225 Conference Room, Alfred Denny Building
Dr Tina Mukherjee, InStem, Bangalore, India
"Olfactory control of immune competency by odors in Drosophila"
Host: Dr Iwan Evans
Monday 24th September 2018
Prof Luis Toledo, University of Copenhagen
"Inhibition of Polymerase alpha reveals unexpected features of DNA replication in mammals"
Host: Miss Angela Ibler
Monday 1st October 2018
Dr James Briscoe, Francis Crick Institute
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Anestis Tsakiridis
Monday 8th October 2018
Dr Isabel Palacios, University of Cambridge
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Natalia Bulgakova
Monday 15th October 2018
Dr Anna Andreou, King's College London
Title to be announced
Host: Prof Bazbek Davletov
Friday 26th October 2018
3.00 pm, Richard Roberts Auditorium
Physiological Society GL Brown Prize Lecture 2017-18
Professor Andrew Parker, University of Oxford
"Seeing depth with two eyes: the binocular physiology of 3D space"
Host: Dr Anton Nikolaev
Monday 29th October 2018
Dr James Wakefield, University of Exeter
Title to be announced
Host: Prof David Strutt
Monday 12th November 2018
Professor Nancy Papalopulu, University of Manchester
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Andy Furley
Monday 19th November 2018
Dr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon
Title to be announced
Host: Prof Mikko Juusola
Monday 26th November 2018
Dr James Sharpe, EMBL Barcelona
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Matthew Towers
Monday 3rd December 2018
Dr Emily Eden, University College London
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Andrew Peden
Monday 14th January 2019
Professor Sarah Walmsley, University of Edinburgh
Title to be announced
Host: Mr Jonathon Coates
Monday 21st January 2019
Professor Bruce Turnbull, University of Leeds
"Re-engineering bacterial toxins for new purposes"
Host: Prof Bazbek Davletov
Monday 11th February 2019
Dr Neil Vargesson, University of Aberdeen
Title to be announced
Host: Miss Holly Stainton
Monday 25th February 2019
Professor David Bennett, University of Oxford
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Liz Seward
Monday 4th March 2019
Professor Catherina Becker, University of Edinburgh
"Successful Spinal Cord Repair in Zebrafish"
Host: Dr Vincent Cunliffe
Monday 18th March 2019
Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London
"Local and global neural correlates of vision, action, and reward"
Host: Dr Andrew Lin
Monday 17th June 2019
Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Imperial College London
"Sex differences in intestinal plasticity"
Host: Dr Kyra Campbell