External Seminar Programme
The Department of Biomedical Science runs a lively and exciting external 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:
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
Dr Przemyslaw Stempor, University of Cambridge
"Gene regulation and epigenetics in model organisms and immuno-oncology: computational approach"
Host: Prof Liz Smythe
Monday 27th January 2020
1:15 - 2:15 pm
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
Tuesday 4th February 2020
10:30 am, Bateson Room, Firth Court
Dr Thorsten Boroviak, University of Cambridge
"How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis"
Host: Prof Marysia Placzek
Monday 10th February 2020
Dr Amanda-Jayne Carr, University College London
"Making the retinal pigment epithelium great again"
Host: Prof Marcelo Rivolta
Wednesday 12th February 2020
12 noon, Alfred Denny Conference Room
Dr Elena Scarpa, University of Cambridge
"Investigating how mechanical forces control cell divisions: from the Drosophila embryo to migrating neural crest cells"
Host: Prof Marysia Placzek
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Monday 24th February 2020
Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Imperial College London
"Sex differences in intestinal plasticity"
Host: Dr Kyra Campbell
Wednesday 26th February 2020
12 noon, Alfred Denny Conference Room
Dr Raman Das, University of Manchester
"Cell behaviour underlying neurogenesis in the developing spinal cord"
Host: Prof Marysia Placzek
Monday 2nd March 2020
Dr Sara Wells, MRC Harwell
"New data and ideas from broad-based pipelines to new phenotyping paradigms. What do we really know about mice?"
Host: Dr Ivana Barbaric
Monday 16th March 2020
Dr Yohanns Bellaiche, Institut Curie, Paris
"Morphogenesis of proliferative tissues: cell cycle, scaling and mechanical forces"
Host: Dr Helen Strutt
Monday 23rd March 2020
Professor Giorgio Scita, University of Milan
"Solid-to-Liquid phase transition in pathophysiology"
Host: Prof Walter Marcotti
Monday 30th March 2020
Dr Sarah McClelland, Barts Cancer Institute
"Focus on the Individual; The importance of chromosome-specific biology in generating aneuploidy patterns in cancer"
Host: Dr Ivana Barbaric
Monday 6th April 2020
Dr Colin Logie, Radboud University, Nijmegen
"Microbe-induced innate immunity training and tolerisation impact phagocyte glucocorticoid responses"
Host: Dr Martin Zeidler
Monday 20th April 2020
Dr Brigitte Dorner, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin
"Botulinum neurotoxins: New findings on receptor binding and how they translate into innovative detection approaches"
Hosts: Prof Bazbek Davletov and Dr Kai Erdmann
Monday 27th April 2020
Dr Sally Lowell, University of Edinburgh
"Mis-shapes, Mistakes, Misfits and how to avoid them: how do pluripotent cells make the right decisions?"
Host: Dr Anestis Tsakiridis
Monday 11th May 2020
Professor Hilary Ashe, University of Manchester
"Gene expression dynamics during embryonic development"
Host: Prof Marysia Placzek
Monday 18th May 2020
Dr Marie-Laure Baudet, University of Trento
"Non-coding RNAs: novel transport route and function in developing axons"
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 8th June 2020
Professor Marta Miaczynska, IIMCB Warsaw
"Inflammatory signaling from endosomes in cancer cell biology"
Host: Prof Kai Erdmann
Monday 22nd June 2020
Professor Christof Niehrs, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz
"Organismic aging and DNA demethylation"
Host: Dr Vincent Cunliffe
Monday 29th June 2020
Dr Maëva Luxey, University of Basel
"Differential response of the limb neuromuscular system to changes in dactyly"
Host: Dr Caitlin McQueen
Monday 6th July 2020
Professor Oscar Marin, King's College London
"Diversity and plasticity in the assembly of cortical circuits"
Host: Prof Andy Furley
2020/2021 Programme:
Dr Vassilis Pachnis, Francis Crick Institute
Title to be announced
Host: Dr Anestis Tsakiridis