External and Internal Seminar Programme 2018/2019
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.
2018/2019 Programme:
Monday 1st April 2019
Please note that the talk due to be given by Dr Bénédicte Sanson has been cancelled and will now take place later in the year.
Monday 8th April 2019
Dr Sara-Jane Dunn, Biological Computation, Microsoft Research Ltd
"Uncovering the Biological Program that Governs Naïve Pluripotency"
Host: Dr Zoe Hewitt
Monday 15th April 2019
Professor Andreas Thum, University of Leipzig
"Learning and Memory in Drosophila Larvae: Behavioural, Neuronal, and Molecular Fundamentals"
Host: Dr Anthi Apostolopoulou
Monday 29th April 2019
Dr Juan Burrone, King's College London
"Mapping Synaptic Contacts: From Dendrites to the Axon Initial Segment"
Host: Dr Anton Nikolaev
Monday 13th May 2019
Professor Paul Luzio, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
"The lysosome-endosome kissing, fusion and regeneration cycle"
Host: Dr Andrew Peden
Monday 20th May 2019
Professor Liz Miller, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
"Policing secretion: structure and assembly of the COPII coat"
Host: Prof Liz Smythe
Monday 3rd June 2019
Dr Benjamin Housden, University of Exeter
"Accelerating drug discovery using novel genetic screening methods in Drosophila"
Host: Dr Stephen Brown
Monday 10th June 2019
Dr Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
"Mechanics and mechanisms of tube formation"
Host: Dr Kyra Campbell
Monday 17th June 2019
Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Imperial College London
"Sex differences in intestinal plasticity"
Host: Dr Kyra Campbell
Monday 1st July 2019
Dr Joanna Loizou, Research Center for Molecular Medicine (Ce-M-M), Austria
"Safeguarding the human genome"
Host: Miss Angela Ibler
Monday 8th July 2019
Dr Lucia Prieto-Godino, The Francis Crick Institute
"Evolution of olfaction in Drosophilds: from receptors to networks"
Host: Dr Anton Nikolaev
Thursday 18th July 2019
Dr Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"The function of motile-cilia driven flow in the nervous system"
Host: Prof Tanya Whitfield
2019/2020 Programme:
Monday 7th October 2019
Professor Suzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
"Tissue mechanics and the control of wing shape in Drosophila"
Host: Prof David Strutt
Monday 14th October 2019
Professor Kate Storey, University of Dundee
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Anestis Tsakiridis
Monday 28th October 2019
Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London
"Local and global neural correlates of vision, action, and reward"
Host: Dr Andrew Lin
Monday 4th November 2019
Dr Bénédicte Sanson, University of Cambridge
"Mechanisms of developmental morphogenesis"
Host: Dr Natalia Bulgakova
Monday 11th November 2019
Dr Robert Pinnock, RDP Life Sciences
"Drug discovery - minimizing risk of failure - maximizing patient benefit"
Host: Prof Bazbek Davletov
Monday 18th November 2019
Dr Steven Farber, Carnegie Institute, Baltimore
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Vincent Cunliffe
Monday 2nd December 2019
Professor Helen Skaer, University of Cambridge
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Kyra Campbell
Monday 9th December 2019
Professor David Price, University of Edinburgh
Title to be announced
Host: Prof Andy Furley
Monday 13th January 2020
Dr Cynthia Andoniadou, King's College London
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Carl Harrison
Monday 20th January 2020
Professor Oscar Marin, King's College London
Title to be announced
Host: Prof Andy Furley