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.
2019/2020 Programme:
Tuesday 24th September 2019
F02 Lecture Theatre, Firth Court
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Dr Thomas Kim, Johns Hopkins University
"Development of the mouse hypothalamus: single cell RNA seq analysis"
Host: Prof Marysia Placzek
Monday 21st October 2019
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Dr Joanna Loizou, Research Center for Molecular Medicine (Ce-M-M), Austria
"Safeguarding the human genome"
Host: Dr Angela Ibler
SPONSORED BY THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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
Unfortunately the talk due to be given by Dr Bénédicte Sanson has been cancelled.
Monday 11th November 2019
Dr Chris Toseland, Department of Oncology & Metabolism, University of Sheffield
"Nuclear myosins in transcription and DNA repair"
Monday 18th November 2019
Dr Steven Farber, Carnegie Institute, Baltimore
"Fishing for regulators of cellular lipid flux using LipoGlo in live zebrafish"
Host: Dr Vincent Cunliffe
Monday 2nd December 2019
Professor Helen Skaer, University of Cambridge
"Signalling regulates organ size and shape: lessons from Drosophila Malpighian tubules"
Host: Dr Kyra Campbell
SPONSORED BY THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Monday 9th December 2019
Professor David Price, University of Edinburgh
"How developing cerebral cortical cells stay on course to become glutamatergic excitatory neurons"
Host: Prof Andy Furley
Monday 16th December 2019
Dr Joe Swift, University of Manchester
"Response to mechanical demand: from nucleus to matrix”
Host: Mr Ben Stevenson and Prof Steve Winder
Monday 13th January 2020
Dr Cynthia Andoniadou, King's College London
"Novel aspects of stem cell involvement during anterior pituitary homeostasis and disease"
Host: Dr Carl Harrison
Monday 20th January 2020
Please note: the seminar due to be given by Professor Oscar Marin, King's College London has been rescheduled and will now take place in July.
Monday 27th January 2020
Professor Andreas Prokop, University of Manchester
"How to make or break a neuron: microtubules in axon growth and degeneration"
Host: Dr Stephen Brown
Monday 3rd February 2020
Dr Nathan Goehring, Francis Crick Institute
"Design principles of a cell polarity network"
Host: Prof David Strutt
SPONSORED BY THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Monday 24th February 2020
Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Imperial College London
"Sex differences in intestinal plasticity"
Host: Dr Kyra Campbell
Monday 2nd March 2020
Dr Sara Wells, MRC Harwell
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Ivana Barbaric
Monday 16th March 2020
Dr Yohanns Bellaiche, Institut Curie, Paris
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Helen Strutt
Monday 23rd March 2020
Professor Giorgio Scita, University of Milan
Title to be announced
Host: Prof Walter Marcotti
Monday 6th April 2020
Dr Colin Logie, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Martin Zeidler
Monday 20th April 2020
Dr Brigitte Dorner, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin
Title to be announced
Hosts: Prof Bazbek Davletov and Dr Kai Erdmann
Monday 27th April 2020
Dr Sally Lowell, University of Edinburgh
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Anestis Tsakiridis
Monday 11th May 2020
Professor Hilary Ashe, University of Manchester
Title to be announced
Host: Prof Marysia Placzek
Monday 18th May 2020
Dr Marie-Laure Baudet, University of Trento
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Andrew Lin
Monday 1st June 2020
Dr Robert Pinnock, RDP Life Sciences
"Drug discovery - minimizing risk of failure - maximizing patient benefit"
Host: Prof Bazbek Davletov
Monday 22nd June 2020
Professor Christof Niehrs, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Vincent Cunliffe
Monday 6th July 2020
Professor Oscar Marin, King's College London
"Diversity and plasticity in the assembly of cortical circuits"
Host: Prof Andy Furley