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If you have a question about this list, please contact: Sina Beier. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 15 upcoming talks and 312 talks in the archive. Programmed DNA elimination in insectsHost – John Welch Dr Laura Ross from Institute of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00 How the double helix was really discovered, and what Rosalind Franklin thought about itHost – Frank Jiggins Professor Matthew Cobb from University of Manchester . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00 Bacterial evolution in the lungHost – Kate Baker Dr Josie Bryant from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge . Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom. Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge RNA Club - IN PERSONDr. Emilia Arguello (Postdoc, Borodavka Lab, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Dr. Andres Ramos (PI, Ramos Lab, University College London, London, UK)). Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club. Thursday 17 October 2024, 17:00-19:00 What can butterfly hybrid zones tell us about the genomic architecture of species barriers?Host – Richard Durbin Dr Konrad Lohse from Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh. Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom. Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge RNA Club - July session ON ZOOMDr. John LaCava (University Medical Center, Groningen, NL), Dr. Alzbeta Chabronova (Institute of Life Course and Medical Science, University of Liverpool, UK). Thursday 18 July 2024, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge RNA Club - June session IN PERSONDr. Damiano Mangoni (Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, IT), Dr. Susanne Bornelov (Senior Research Associate, CRUCK, University of Cambridge, UK). Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club. Thursday 20 June 2024, 17:00-18:00 Cambridge RNA Club - May session IN PERSONDr. Joanna Krupka (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge) and Dr. Jeremy Sanford (UC Santa Cruz, USA). Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club. Thursday 23 May 2024, 17:00-18:00 RNA Collaborative Seminar Series special eventDr. Ana Tufegdžić Vidaković (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge), Dr. Kostas Tzelepis (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, University of Cambridge) . Wednesday 22 May 2024, 15:00-16:00 Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNSHost - Cahir O'Kane Professor Marc Freeman from The Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, USA. Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:00-16:00 Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scaleHost – Richard Durbin Professor Ben Lehner from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell AtlasHost - Frank Jiggins Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge RNA Club - April session ON ZOOMJasper Verwilt, Ghent University, Ghent (BE) and Dr. Jon Price, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK). Online (Zoom), https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84799950172?pwd=ZUZjK3JnSmhucm9oZEZjbnZLSmZlUT09. Thursday 18 April 2024, 17:00-18:00 E. coli and the Game of ClonesHost – Kate Baker Professor Jukka Corander from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and University of Oslo. Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 18 April 2024, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge RNA Club - March session IN PERSONDr. Bastian Fromm, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø (NW) and Dr. Miguel Vasconcelos Almeida, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK).. Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club. Thursday 28 March 2024, 17:00-18:00 Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNAHost - Charlotte Houldcroft Professor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.Host - Erik Clark Professor Shelby Blythe from Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, USA . Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00 When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticityHost - Steve Russell Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 Epigenetic InheritanceHost - Ritwick Sawarkar Dr Nicola Iovino from Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg. Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 The Mechanics of Cancer Cell DivisionHost - Ben Steventon Dr Helen Matthews from School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in DrosophilaHost - Felipe Karam Teixeira Professor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:00-14:00 An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineagesHost - Zach Baker Professor Daniel Falush from Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Wednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural developmentHost - Ben Steventon Professor Nancy Papolopulu, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 The evolution of organs and cell types.Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira from The Francis Crick Institute, London . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something newHost - Charlotte Houldcroft Dr Lucy van Dorp from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolutionHost - Erik Clark Professor Yolanda Schaerli from Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptationHost - John Welch Professor Michael Whitlock from Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of fliesHost - Erik Clark Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott from the Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Wednesday 13 September 2023, 14:00-15:00 Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South AsiansHost - Richard Durbin Dr Hilary Martin from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaksHost - Henrik Salje Professor Philippe Lemey from Clinical and Epidemiological Virology Rega Institute, K.U. Leuven . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancerHost - Cahir O'Kane Professor Serena Nik-Zainal from Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge. Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term HealthHost - Charlotte Houldcroft Dr Trevor Lawley from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-14:00 Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genomeHost - Erik Clark Dr Mounia Lagha from Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France . Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom. Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 Mechanism of neural differentiationHost – Lara Busby Professor Kate Storey from School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom. Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolutionHost - Hansong Ma Professor Heidi McBride from McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal, Quebec . Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different speciesHost - Richard Durbin Professor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 12 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegansHost – Ritwick Sawarkar Dr Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2Host – Henrik Salje Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel. Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspectiveHost – Bianca De Sanctis Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop ExtrusionHost - Marco Geymonat Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London. Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates?Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira Dr Sandra Duharcourt, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite de Paris. Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA BreaksHost - Lin Wang Professor David Liu, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA. Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?Host - Frank Jiggins Professor Michael Turelli, from Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, CA . Thursday 29 September 2022, 14:00-15:00 A system-wide quantitative map of RNA subcellular re-localization in response to UPR activationTom Smith, Research Fellow, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK. Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club. Thursday 30 June 2022, 17:00-18:00 Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira Professor Aurelio Teleman, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg. Thursday 16 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerabilityHost - Cahir O’Kane Professor Michael Coleman from Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus . Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?Host - Ben Steventon Professor Simone Reber, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big SurHost: Frank Jiggins Professor William Sullivan, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00 Unlocking lncRNA functions using an arrayed CRISPRi screening platform with cellular and molecular phenotypingFien Gysens, PhD student, OncoRNA lab, Ghent University, Belgium. Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00 Hacking the germline : how paralogs bend the rules of gene expressionPeter Andersen, Group Leader, Aarhus University, Denmark. Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00 A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell divisionHost - Marco Geymonat Dr Fernando Monje Casas, Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER), Seville. Thursday 12 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genesHost - Carol Edwards Professor Jason Wolf, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath. Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Transposons and evolutionary novelties of a symbiotic genomeAlexandra Dallaire, Future Leader Fellow, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew; Gurdon Institute; Darwin Tree of Life UK. Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club. Thursday 28 April 2022, 17:00-18:00 RNA Length has a non-trivial effect in the stability of biomoelecular condensates formed by RNA-binding proteinsIgnacio Sanchez-Burgos, PhD student, Collepardo Lab, Cambridge. Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club. Thursday 28 April 2022, 17:00-18:00 RNA Collaborative Seminar Series special eventKathryn Lilley; Alex Borodovka. Wednesday 20 April 2022, 15:00-17:30 Robust tuning of epigenetic memory by resource competitionOmer Karin, Postdoc, Simons lab, Gurdon Institute. Thursday 24 March 2022, 17:00-18:00 LINE1 biology and its interactome dynamics after drug treatmentSamira Hozeifi, Postdoc, LaCava lab, ERIBA, Netherlands. Thursday 24 March 2022, 17:00-18:00 Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesisHost - Chaitanya Dingare Dr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris. Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using DrosophilaHost - Chaitanya Dingare Dr Susumu Hirabayashi, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London. Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 Asymmetric cell division and germline immortalityHosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang Professor Yukiko Yamashita, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA. Thursday 24 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.Host: Elves Duarte Dr Johannes Köster, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Duisburg-Essen. Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:30-14:30 Investigating the evolution and development of body plans and body parts in arthropodsHost - Steve Russell Professor Alistair McGregor, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University. Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00 Mending broken hearts with neural crest cellsHost: Ben Steventon Professor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology. TBC. Monday 06 December 2021, 14:00-15:00 Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cellsHost: Cahir O'Kane Professor Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA. Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 Bacterial condensates under stressHost: Rosana Collepardo Professor Stephanie Weber, McGill University, Montreal. Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repairHost: Hansong Ma Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London. Thursday 14 October 2021, 13:30-14:30 Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism.Host: John Welch Professor Tatiana Giraud, Departement Genetique et Ecologie Evolutives, Université Paris-Saclay. Thursday 07 October 2021, 13:30-14:30 Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & StructureHost – Richard Durbin Dr Karen Miga from Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz. Thursday 27 May 2021, 17:00-18:00 The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and diseaseHost: Cahir O'Kane Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Thursday 13 May 2021, 13:30-14:30 Genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and phase-separationHost: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara Professor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco. Thursday 06 May 2021, 17:00-18:00 Human Immunity – one cell at a timeHost: Anne Ferguson-Smith Dr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton. Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:30-14:30 PP2A-B55 inhibitors Arpp19 and ENSA define the cell cycle program by controlling the temporal pattern of protein phosphorylationHosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier . Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00 This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later this year.Host: Hansong Ma Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London. Thursday 04 March 2021, 00:00-00:00 Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expressionHost: Frank Jiggins Dr Patricia Wittkopp, Biological Science Building, University of Michigan. Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.Host: Ben Steventon Professor Elly Tanaka, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna . Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:30-14:30 Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental ChallengesHost: John Welch Dr Sally Otto, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver . Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:00-17:00 Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoidsHost: Hansong Ma Dr Robert Johnston, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00 Targeting viral RNA for degradation : the ZAP antiviral systemChad Swanson, Group Leader, King's College, London. Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:00 Deciphering the RNA interactome of SARS-CoV-2Omer Ziv, Postdoc Eric Miska Lab, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge. Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:00 From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomesHost: Aylwyn Scally Professor Simon Myers, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:30-14:30 RNA uridyl transferases TUT4/7-mediated control on tumour fitnessRagini Medhi, Eric Miska Lab, Gurdon Inst., Cambridge. Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-18:00 Control of global translation by endogenous RNA G-quadruplex structuresDhaval Varshney, Shankar Balasubramanian's lab, CRUK Inst., Cambridge. Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-18:00 The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.Host: Marco Geymonat Professor Angelika Amon, MIT, Department of Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA . Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.Host: Ben Steventon Dr Timothy Saunders, Mechanobiology, Institute, National University of Singapore. Thursday 15 October 2020, 09:00-10:00 Chromosomal evolution in Nematodes, and other adventures on the Tree of LifeHost: Richard Durbin Professor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge . Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 [Cancelled] P body phase transitions govern RNA regulation during early Drosophila development[Cancelled] Sankaranarayanan Meenakshi-Sundaram, Tim Weil Lab, Dept. Zoology, University of Cambridge. Thursday 19 March 2020, 18:00-19:00 [Cancelled] Replenishing the ends : Structural Mechanism of Human Telomerase[Cancelled] Kelly Nguen, Group leader, MRC-LMB, Cambridge. Thursday 19 March 2020, 18:00-19:00 Mixing mitosis and meiosis in DrosophilaHost: Helene Rangone-Briatte Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00 Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterningHost: Ben Steventon Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU). Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 Targeting cancer stem cells while enhancing healthy tissue functions - a novel paradigm for cancer therapiesKamil Kranc - CRUK Senior Cancer Research Fellow. Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:00-19:00 A bioinformatic strategy for allele-specific RNA expression for distant tomato crossesSebastian Muller - Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:00-19:00 This talk has been cancelledDr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiationHost: Aylwyn Scally Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics. Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.Host: Michael Imbeault Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00 The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid cropsHost: Anne Ferguson-Smith Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 R-loop coupled chromatin silencing at Arabidopsis FLCPr. Caroline Dean. Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:00-19:00 How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancerHost: Hansong Ma Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomesHost: Anne Ferguson-Smith Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:15-17:15 Specialization of the Drosophila nuclear export family protein, Nxf3, for piRNA precursor exportEmma Kneuss (Hannon lab, CRUK CI). Thursday 19 December 2019, 18:00-19:00 Structural studies of ribosome-associated quality and quantity controlVish Chandrasekaran (Ramakrishnan lab, MRC-LMB). Thursday 19 December 2019, 18:00-19:00 The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexityHost: Richard Durbin Professor Nick Lane, University College London . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 Condensation propensity of TDP-43 specifies the bound and regulated RNAsMartina Hallegger - UCL and The Francis Crick Institute. Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club. Thursday 21 November 2019, 18:00-19:00 Identifying and characterising RNA viruses in publicly available high throughput sequencing dataKaty Brown - Andrew Firth lab, Dept. Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK . Gurdon Institute Tea Room - RNA Club. Thursday 21 November 2019, 18:00-19:00 Minimal and Ancestral GenomesHost: Richard Durbin Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA . Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching outHosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho Dr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time?Host: Richard Durbin Professor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brainHost: Michael Imbeault Professor Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insectsHost: Berta Verd Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells?Host: Ben Steventon Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organizationHost: Alfonso Martinez-Arias Professor Marino Zerial from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00 Deciphering the structure-function relationships of lncRNAsJohn Mattick, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Thursday 18 April 2019, 18:00-20:00 Integrating protein, RNA and RBP localisation mapsTom Smith, PhD (Kathryn Lilley's group). Thursday 18 April 2019, 18:00-20:00 Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniquesHosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge . Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 Epigenetic inheritance in mammalsHost: Sam Lewis Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge . Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 Experimental evolution in cancer cell linesHost: Jane Charlesworth Dr Louise Johnson from School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 How like begets like: lessons from RNA silencing in C.elegansAntony Jose, Group Leader, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Tuesday 22 January 2019, 18:00-20:00 Queuosine-modified tRNAs confer nutritional control of protein translationFrancesca Tuorto Frank Lyko Lab, Heidelberg, Germany . Tuesday 22 January 2019, 18:00-20:00 Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolutionHost: Chris Illingworth Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 The Structure of Poly(A) Determines Deadenylation SpecificityTerence Tang, LMB. Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:00-20:00 Single cell full length cDNA library protocol with error correctionRebecca Berrens, EMBL-EBI. Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:00-20:00 Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeastHost: Helene Rangone-Briatte Dr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in AfricaHost: Aylwyn Scally Dr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas developmentHost: Alfonso Martinez-Arias Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany. Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 SmRNA cap methylation and its role in transcriptionDhaval Varshney, Department of Chemistry. Thursday 25 October 2018, 18:00-20:00 Killing two viruses with one transposon: The doc transposable element mediates anti-viral function of genesDaniel Fabian, EMBL-EBI. Thursday 25 October 2018, 18:00-20:00 Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defenseHost: Felipe Karam Teixeira Dr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 The Genetic Basis of Clinal AdaptationHost: Frank Jiggins Professor Thomas Flatt from Department of Biology, University of Fribourg . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 18 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubulesHost: Cahir O’Kane Professor Andreas Prokop from Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 11 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 RNA modification detection and functional analysis by mass spectrometry and deep sequencingMark Helm, University of Mainz. Tuesday 21 August 2018, 10:00-11:00 SLAMseq: Thiol-linked alkylation for the metabolic sequencing of RNAStefan L. Ameres, IMBA-Vienna. Thursday 28 June 2018, 10:00-11:00 How evolution of mt-rRNA drives transformation of mitoribosomesAlexey Amunts, Stockholm University. Thursday 24 May 2018, 18:00-20:00 The structural plasticity of the Zika virus genome in human cellsOmer Ziv, Gurdon Institute. Thursday 24 May 2018, 18:00-20:00 Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancerHost: Alexis Braun Professor David Glover, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 Regulatory RNAHost: Martyna Popis Professor Eric Miska from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to NotchHost: Anne Ferguson-Smith Professor Sarah Bray from Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00 Characterisation of primary RNA methylations and their role in cancerIsaia Barbieri. Thursday 19 April 2018, 18:00-20:00 Deciphering new aspects of G-quadruplex mediated post-transcriptional controlBarbara Herdy, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Thursday 19 April 2018, 18:00-20:00 Spatially resolved transcriptomics to probe 3D RNA organizationJorg Morf (Babraham Institute). Thursday 29 March 2018, 18:00-20:00 Control of gene expression and cell cycle progression by mRNA nuclear sequestrationWeibing Yang (Sainsbury laboratory). Thursday 29 March 2018, 18:00-20:00 Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D cultureHost: Michaela Frye Dr Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-14:00 Combining tools and technologies to identify post-transcriptional modifications in RNAProf. Patrick Limbach, University of Cincinnati. Tuesday 27 February 2018, 10:00-11:00 Eukaryotic cell division and its originsHost: Alexis Braun Professor Buzz Baum, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescalesDr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 15 February 2018, 14:00-15:00 Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate developmentHost: Alfonso Martinez Arias Dr Patrick Mueller, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany. Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 08 February 2018, 14:00-15:00 Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systemsHost: Frank Jiggins Professor Andreas Wagner, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 01 February 2018, 14:00-15:00 Quantitative HCR for RNA FISHing- Have you heard of it yetVikas Trivedi. Thursday 25 January 2018, 18:00-20:00 Cryo-EM shows mechanism of 3' splice site selectionMax Wilkinson, MRC-LMB. Thursday 25 January 2018, 18:00-20:00 DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesisHost: Eric Miska Dr Déborah Bourc'his, Institut Curie, Paris . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00 Conscious coupling: DEPS-1 links PIWI to endo-siRNA production in C. elegansKin Man Suen, Gurdon Institute. Thursday 07 December 2017, 18:00-20:00 Rfam 13.0: The genome-centric sequence databaseIoanna Kalvari, EMBL-EBI. Thursday 07 December 2017, 18:00-20:00 The Translational Response to Amino Acid Starvation in S. PombeCaia Duncan, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Thursday 23 November 2017, 18:00-20:00 Functional dissection of 3'UTR and RNA cis-regulatory elements by CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineeringQianxin Wu, Sanger Institute. Thursday 23 November 2017, 18:00-20:00 An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science CommunicationHost: Sudhakaran Prabakaran Dr Nancy R. Gough. Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Monday 13 November 2017, 12:00-13:00 Capturing human axial progenitors in vitroHosts: Alfonso Martinez-Arias & Shlomit Edri Dr Anestis Tsakiridis, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 09 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa.Host: Aylwyn Scally Dr Kirsten Bomblies, John Innes Centre, Norwich . Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 02 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 Formation and disease relevance of axonal endoplasmic reticulum, a "neuron within a neuron”.Dr Cahir O’Kane, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 19 October 2017, 14:00-15:00 Visualize gene expression and genetic variants in the central and peripheral nervous systems with the RNAscope technologyCourtney Anderson, ACDBio. Thursday 12 October 2017, 18:00-20:00 piRNA-mediated regulation of transposon alternative splicing in soma and germlineFelipe Karam Teixeira, University of Cambridge. Thursday 12 October 2017, 18:00-20:00 Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential functionHost: Chris Illingworth Professor Ashleigh Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-15:00 MicroRNAs and other regulatory RNAsDavid Bartel, Whitehead Institute, MIT. Tuesday 12 September 2017, 18:00-20:00 Title to be confirmedBenita Turner-Bridge, PDN, University of Cambridge. Thursday 22 June 2017, 18:00-20:00 Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeastHost: Marco Geymonat Dr. Gislene Pereira, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00 Feedback cross-regulation between TDP-43 and paraspeckles promotes efficient exit from plutipotencyMiha Modic, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Munich. Thursday 27 April 2017, 18:00-20:00 Common genetic variation drives molecular heterogeneity in human iPSCsHelena Kilpinen, Sanger Institute. Thursday 27 April 2017, 18:00-20:00 The genetic analysis of population-scale dataHost: Aylwyn Scally Professor Gil McVean, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 27 April 2017, 14:00-15:00 Post-transcriptional mechanisms that time developmentHelge Grosshans, FMI, Basel, Switzerland.. Thursday 23 March 2017, 18:00-20:00 Major glial changes in the human aging brain: from RNA to cellsLilach Soreq, Crick Institute / UCL, London. Thursday 23 March 2017, 18:00-20:00 Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genomeHost: Aylwyn Scally Professor Peter Keightley, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 02 March 2017, 14:00-15:00 Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteriaHost: Chris Illingworth Dr Isabel Gordo, Evolutionary Biology Group, Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 23 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 Evidence for miRNA-mediated transcriptome regulation in the parasitic flatworm Schistosoma mansoniAnna Protasio (University of Cambridge). Tuesday 21 February 2017, 18:00-20:00 Sperm Mediated Transgenerational InheritanceCorrado Spadafora (Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy). Tuesday 21 February 2017, 18:00-20:00 Decoding transcriptional regulation.Host: Alexis Braun Dr Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 09 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 Non-coding solutions to developmental challengesHost: Anne Ferguson-Smith Professor Donal O’Carroll, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrierHost: John Welch Dr Nicolas Galtier, University of Montpellier . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 26 January 2017, 14:00-15:00 Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass.Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias Professor Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:00-15:00 The evolution of arthropod small RNA pathwaysSamuel Lewis, Department of Genetics. Thursday 08 December 2016, 18:00-20:00 Evaluation of Lexogen Quantseq for gene expression profiling of novel compounds in drug discoveryPhil Chapman, University of Manchester. Thursday 08 December 2016, 18:00-20:00 Stem cell control in the Drosophila gutHost: Alexis Braun Professor Bruce Edgar, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 24 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 Targeted polyA tail removal by the Ccr4-Not complexJames Stowell, MRC-LMB. Thursday 17 November 2016, 18:00-20:00 NGS techniques for challenging RNA sample typesHazel Pinheiro, Exiqon. Thursday 17 November 2016, 18:00-20:00 Defining transcription units across the human genome.Host: Michaela Frye Professor Nick Proudfoot, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 Using experimental evolution to understand adaptation from standing genetic variation.Host: Frank Jiggins Professor Christian Schlotterer, Institute of Population Genetics of Vetmeduni Vienna . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 27 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Structure of the catalytic spliceosomeWojciech Galej, MRC-LMB. Thursday 20 October 2016, 18:00-20:00 A transmissible RNA pathway in honey beesEyal Maori, Gurdon Institute. Thursday 20 October 2016, 18:00-20:00 Directing and shaping the inside-out axis of the vertebrate brainHost: Ben Steventon Professor Jon Clarke, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 20 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Towards a complete view of the genetics of gene expression variation in yeastHost: Chris Illingworth Professor Frank Albert, University of Minnesota . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Tuesday 18 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Neural mechanisms of behavioral switchesHost: Liria Masuda-Nakagawa Dr. Arantza Barrios, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 06 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Ptbp1 post-transcriptional action is essential for the formation of germinal centre B cells and the generation of high affinity antibodies.Elisa Monzon-Casanova, Babraham Institute. Thursday 23 June 2016, 18:00-20:00 Parallel reverse genetic screening in mutant human cells using transcriptomics.Bianca Gapp, Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford / invited by Lexogen. Thursday 23 June 2016, 18:00-20:00 New SHAPEs of retroviral RNAsDr Julia Kenyon, Department of Medicine (University of Cambridge). Thursday 19 May 2016, 18:00-20:00 SMall RNAs control transposons during demethylation in mouse ES cells.Rebecca Berrens (University of Cambridge), Babraham Institute. Thursday 19 May 2016, 18:00-20:00 ‘Uncovering new “lnc's” in mitosis : an RNA perspective.’Lovorka Stojic, CRUK-CI. Thursday 28 April 2016, 18:00-20:00 ‘Cell types in the mouse brain as revealed by single-cell RNA-seq.’Amit Zeisel, Molecular Neurobiology, MBB, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.. Thursday 28 April 2016, 18:00-20:00 Beyond the reference genome: inference using prior knowledge of the diversity of a species.Host: Chris Illingworth Dr Zamin Iqbal, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 28 April 2016, 14:00-15:00 Genome diversity and evolution of DNA methylation genome in the human genome.Host: Aylwyn Scally Professor Tomas Marques-Bonet, Institut Biologia Evolutiva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/CSIC), Barcelona. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 Modified RNA and grammer education for the naive immune systemVincent Kelly (Trinity College Dublin). Thursday 24 March 2016, 18:00-20:00 Role of long noncoding RNAs in hematopoiesisJoaquina Delas, CRUK-CI. Thursday 24 March 2016, 18:00-20:00 Gene and Genome Regulation in Early Fruit Fly Neurogenesis.Host: Steve Russell Dr. Robert Zinzen, Max-Delbruck-Center Berlin. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 Selective control of genome maintenance pathways by RNA processing factorsVihandha Wickramasinghe (MRC, Cancer Unit). Thursday 25 February 2016, 18:00-20:00 Introduction to RNAcentral, a non-coding RNA sequence databaseAnton Petrov (EBI). Thursday 25 February 2016, 18:00-20:00 Role of neuromesodermal progenitors in axial elongation.Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias Professor Val Wilson, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 Checkpoint and non-checkpoint functions of Drosophila Mad1 and RZZ.Host: Yuu Kimata Professor Roger Karess, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Diderot. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 Structural and functional studies of the machinery of riboregulation in E. coli.Heather Bruce. Thursday 28 January 2016, 18:00-20:00 CryoEM structure of the spliceosomal U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP at 3.7 Angstrom resolution.Kelly Nguyen (MRC-LMB). Thursday 28 January 2016, 18:00-20:00 Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a continuous spectrum of differentiation in haematopoietic cells.Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith Dr Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 28 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 An experimental assay of the genotype to phenotype connection.Host: John Welch Dr Fyodor Kondrashov, Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:00-15:00 CrPV-IRES: the dynamic tale of a molecular pirateIsrael S. Fernandez, MRC-LMB. Thursday 03 December 2015, 18:00-20:00 Using LNA enhanced oligonucleotides for elucidating microRNA and RNA functionsHazel Pinheiro, Exiqon. Thursday 03 December 2015, 18:00-20:00 Genomics approaches for the investigation of gene regulation.Host: Steve Russell Dr Jim Hughes, Hughes Genome Biology Group, Oxford . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 Breaking the silence: defense and counter-defense in antiviral RNA silencing pathways of insects.Host: Frank Jiggins Dr Ronald van Rij, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 Transcriptional regulation and downstream program of Hox and Cdx genes during axial development in the mouse embryo.Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias Dr Jacqueline Deschamps, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 Targeting Polycomb repression to the genome.Host: Steve Russell Dr Yuri Schwartz, Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University, Sweden . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 MiRNA-containing gene regulatory networks in developmentLuisa Cochella, IMP, Vienna, AUT. Thursday 15 October 2015, 18:00-20:00 SIRVs – External Spike-in Transcript Variant Controls for RNA-SeqLukas Paul, Lexogen, Vienna, AUT. Thursday 15 October 2015, 18:00-20:00 Intra-tumour heterogeneity and genomic rearrangements in solid cancers.Host: Aylwyn Scally Dr Roland Schwarz, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton . Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 15 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 Into the void: bridging the gap between risk genes and psychiatric phenotypes.Host: Cahir O' Kane Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Thursday 08 October 2015, 14:00-15:00 Mechanism and Regulation of miRNA-mediated Repression in Mammalian Cells including Retinal PhotoreceptorsWitold Filipowicz, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, CH. Thursday 03 September 2015, 18:00-20:00 Novel insights into substrate recognition and targeting of mRNA to nonsense-mediated decayKristian E. Baker, Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University, USA. Thursday 03 September 2015, 18:00-20:00 LNA GapmeRs represent a powerful alternative for knocking down mRNAs and lncRNAs.Simon Morgan - Exiqon. Thursday 11 June 2015, 18:00-20:00 Codon usage determines mRNA levels in Trypanosoma brucei.Janaina Nascimento - Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Thursday 11 June 2015, 18:00-20:00 Inhibitory activities of short linear motifs underlie Hox interactome specificity in vivo.Hosts: Steve Russell and Boris Adryan Dr Samir Merabet, IGFL France. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 11 June 2015, 14:30-15:30 Model systems to study embryonic patterning.Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias Dr Benoit Sorre, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 21 May 2015, 14:30-15:30 New dimensions of antiviral immunity in insects.Host: Frank Jiggins Dr Maria Carla Saleh, Institut Pasteur, Paris . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 07 May 2015, 14:30-15:30 Biogenesis and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs).Host: Boris Adryan Dr Sebastian Kadener, University of Jerusalem. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:30-15:30 Single-cell dynamics of the proliferation-quiescence decision.Host: Viji Draviam Dr Sabrina Spencer, Meyer Lab, Stanford University Medical Center. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 23 April 2015, 14:30-15:30 How do miRNAs work?Martin Bushell - MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester. Thursday 16 April 2015, 18:00-20:00 Small RNAs mediate trans-generational epigenetic inheritance in C. elegansAlexandra Sapetschnig (Gurdon Institute). Thursday 16 April 2015, 18:00-20:00 Post-transcriptional RNA processing in the remnant chloroplast of the malaria parasite PlasmodiumEllen Nisbet - Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Thursday 26 March 2015, 18:00-20:00 tRNA that masquerades under rRNA to promote translation of mRNA in mitochondria.Alexey Amunts - MRC-LMB. Thursday 26 March 2015, 18:00-20:00 Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again.Host: Frank Jiggins Professor Mike Brockhurst, Department of Biology, University of York . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 05 March 2015, 14:30-15:30 "HSV-1 causes widespread host-specific disruption of transcription termination"Andzrej Rutkowski, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge. Thursday 26 February 2015, 18:00-20:00 “The Nuclear Matrix Protein Matrin3 Regulates Splicing and Forms Overlapping Networks with PTB”Miguel Coelho - Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Thursday 26 February 2015, 18:00-20:00 Causes and Consequences of New Mutations.Host: Cahir O'Kane Dr Matthew Hurles, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 How dynein and its co-factors at the kinetochore ensure chromosome segregation fidelity.Host: Viji Draviam Dr Reto Gassmann, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Portugal . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 Beyond cancer genetics: dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in leukaemia.Host: Boris Adryan Professor Chi Wai Eric So, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, Department of Haematological Medicine, King's College London . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 Single cell transcriptomics.Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith Dr Steve Harvey, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Monday 09 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response.Host: Yuu Kimata Dr. Adrian Saurin, Division of Cancer Research, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 Chemical and proteomic analysis of spliceosomes and multi protein complexesAngus Lamond, Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee. Thursday 29 January 2015, 18:00-20:00 Annotation and identification of potentially functional lncRNAsWilfried Haerty, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford. Thursday 29 January 2015, 18:00-20:00 Imaging gene activity in living cells.Host: Viji Draviam Dr Jonathan Chubb, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:30-15:30 Asymmetry in Drosophila neuroblasts: centrosomes & mRNA.Host: Yuu Kimata Dr Jens Januschke, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 22 January 2015, 14:30-15:30 Using zebrafish models to identify novel alleles affecting human behaviour- a proof of principle study using smoking as an example.Host: Boris Adryan Dr Caroline Brennan, The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of London . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 15 January 2015, 14:30-15:30 Decipher the RNA structural code: A transformative platform reveals novel regulatory features.Yiliang Ding, John Innes Centre, Norwich. Thursday 04 December 2014, 18:00-20:00 Investigating the consequences of age-linked gene expression changesStephen Frenk, Babraham Institute. Thursday 04 December 2014, 18:00-20:00 COMT: from single nucleotide polymorphism to whole brain function.Host: Boris Adyran Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 27 November 2014, 14:30-15:30 Large scale genomic analyses of complex traits in human populations.Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith Dr Nicole Soranzo, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 20 November 2014, 14:30-15:30 The memory of retinal stem cells?Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias Professor Jochen Wittbrodt, COS Heidelberg, Heidelberg University. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 13 November 2014, 14:30-15:30 Regulation of Notch signalling by the endosomal pathway.Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias Professor Dr. Thomas Klein, Institute of Genetics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 06 November 2014, 14:30-15:30 Targeted Sequencing Reveals The Genome’s Fine DetailsTimothy Mercer, The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia. Thursday 30 October 2014, 18:00-20:00 Structure of Prp8 and its implications for the spliceosomal active siteWojtek Galej, MRC-LMB. Thursday 30 October 2014, 18:00-20:00 Understanding mechanisms of long-range gene regulation.Host: Boris Adyran Dr Greg Elgar, Systems Biology, MRC NIMR, London . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 30 October 2014, 14:30-15:30 Organisation and Regulation of DNA supercoiling domains in Mammalian Chromatin.Host: Boris Adryan Professor Nick Gilbert, MRC Human Genetics Unit, The University of Edinburgh. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:30-15:30 C. elegans development: getting the seams right and living a balanced life.Host: Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti Professor Alison Woollard, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:30-15:30 The impact of viral IκB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions.Host: Boris Adryan Professor Giuseppe Gargiulo from Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, University of Bologna . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:30-15:30 ‘Computational analysis of small RNA function in animals.’Anton Enright EMBL-EBI. Thursday 05 June 2014, 18:00-20:00 Regulation of microRNA expression during virus infection.Sébastien Pfeffer IBMC, Strasbourg, France. Thursday 05 June 2014, 18:00-20:00 (At least) 3 ways to publish a pigeon genome.Host: Frank Jiggins Professor Tom Gilbert from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:30-15:30 Shaping and reshaping regulatory loops in Drosophila morphogen signaling.Host: Boris Adryan Dr. Giorgos Pyrowolakis from BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies & Institute for Biology, University of Freiburg. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 15 May 2014, 14:30-15:30 Molecular mechanisms of Mediator complex recruitment by transcription factors.Hosts: Boris Adryan and Alfonso Martinez-Arias Alexis Verger from Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Université de Lille . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:30-15:30 From stripes to blood flow: cell fates of the lateral plate.Host: Boris Adryan Professor Christian Mosimann from the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences (IMLS), University of Zürich. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:30-15:30 "The end of the message: Insights into mRNA deadenylation"Lori Passmore (University of Cambridge). Thursday 24 April 2014, 18:00-20:00 Directional, amplification-free RNA-seq in for AT-rich malaria parasitesLia Chappell (University of Cambridge). Thursday 24 April 2014, 18:00-20:00 Computational insights into stem cell differentiation using dynamic hybrid modelling.Host: Steve Russell Dr Ben Hall from Microsoft Research, Cambridge . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 24 April 2014, 14:30-15:30 Origin and evolution of novel microRNAs.Host: Boris Adryan Dr Antonio Marco, University of Essex. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 13 March 2014, 12:00-13:00 'Towards the RNA structure of everything'Kevin Weeks ( University of North Carolina). Thursday 06 March 2014, 18:00-20:00 'Small RNA biogenesis in the germline of C. elegans'Eva-Maria Weick (Gurdon Institute). Thursday 06 March 2014, 18:00-20:00 Targets of T cell responses against malaria liver infection: immunology meets experimental genetics.Host: Boris Adryan Dr Julius Hafalla, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Immunology and Infection. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 06 March 2014, 14:30-15:30 A Drosophila resource to study human pathology.Host: Sarah Bray, PDN (sjb32@cam.ac.uk) Dr Shinya Yamamoto, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Wednesday 05 March 2014, 15:00-16:00 Engineering flies.Host: Cahir O'Kane (c.okane@gen.cam.ac.uk) Professor Hugo J Bellen, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Wednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 Molecular insights into the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of bat rabies.Hosts: John Welch and Ben Longdon Dr Daniel Streicker, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 27 February 2014, 14:30-15:30 Studying the invasive migration of Drosophila immune cells.Host: Boris Adryan Professor Daria Siekhaus, IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria). Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 20 February 2014, 14:30-15:30 Vaccinia virus has evolved the Bcl-2 family of proteins to thwart the host innate immune system.Host: Boris Adryan Dr Stephen Graham, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 13 February 2014, 14:30-15:30 "Structure-function analysis of non-coding human Y RNA"Torsten Krude (University of Cambridge). Thursday 06 February 2014, 18:00-20:00 Checks and Balances in Drosophila Muscle and Heart Differentiation Programs.Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias Dr Mike Taylor, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 06 February 2014, 14:30-15:30 Deconstructing Greatwall Kinase.Host: Viji Draviam Dr Helfrid Hochegger, University of Sussex . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 30 January 2014, 14:30-15:30 Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance.Host: Ian Furner Professor Jurek Paszkowski, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 23 January 2014, 14:30-15:30 Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of accurate chromosome segregation.Host: Viji Draviam Dr. A. Jeyaprakash Arulanandam, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 16 January 2014, 14:30-15:30 Immune-metabolic interaction in Drosophila.Host: Boris Adryan Dr Marc Dionne from the Peter Gorer Dept of Immunobiology, King's College London . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 28 November 2013, 14:30-15:30 Widespread translation of small Open Reading Frames from coding regions, UTRs and non-coding RNAs.Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias Professor Juan Pablo Couso, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 21 November 2013, 14:30-15:30 Motors, rulers and clocks in chromosome segregation.Host: Viji Draviam Dr Helder Maiato from Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 14 November 2013, 14:30-15:30 The evolution of the RNAi pathway and RNA viruses in DrosophilaF. Jiggins (University of Cambridge). Monday 21 October 2013, 18:00-20:00 The dynamics of Dengue virus transmission in natureJoão Marques, UFMG, Brazil. Monday 21 October 2013, 18:00-20:00 How does the kinetochore orchestrate a functional checkpoint signal?Host: Viji Draviam Professor Jakob Nilsson from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 10 October 2013, 14:30-15:30 Feedback control of the anaphase-telophase transition.Host: Viji Draviam Dr Helder Maiato, Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:30-15:30 Sibling Rivalry and Stress Tolerance: the Single-Cell Biology of Mycobacteria.Host: Viji Draviam Dr Bree Aldridge, Tufts University, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Boston . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 06 June 2013, 14:30-15:30 Epigenetic regulation of tissue growth in Drosophila.Host: Boris Adryan Dr Anne Kathrin Classen, LMU Munich . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 23 May 2013, 14:30-15:30 The evolutionary dynamics of unusual reproductive systems.Hosts: Eli Vieira Araujo Jnr and John Welch Dr Laura Ross from the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford .. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 16 May 2013, 14:30-15:30 Tracking transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens with high-throughput genomics.Host: Frank Jiggins Dr Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:30-15:30 Sequence-based discovery of transcriptional targets.Host: Boris Adryan Dr Stein Aerts, Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven University. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Wednesday 24 April 2013, 14:30-15:30 Tips at the Edge: Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics at the Cell Cortex.Professor Dr Anna Akhmanova from Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrech University . Thursday 14 March 2013, 14:30-15:30 Molecular mechanisms that mediate the adaptation to hypoxia in Drosophila.Professor Pablo Wappner from Instituto Leloir, Argentina . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:30-15:30 Linking the mitotic spindle to the plasma membrane during cytokinesis.Dr. Mark Petronczki from Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 28 February 2013, 14:30-15:30 How to maintain a stable genome: A Passenger Perspective.Dr Susanne Lens from University Medical Centre Utrecht. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 21 February 2013, 14:30-15:30 Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell FateProfessor Margaret Buckingham from Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris. Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:30-15:30 Cell specification in the mouse blastocyst inner cell mass: interplay between Nanog, Gata6 and the Fgf signalling pathway.Dr Claire Chazaud from Laboratoire GReD, France . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:30-15:30 The mitotic checkpoint - a structural perspective.Dr. Victor Bolanos Garcia, Oxford Brookes University, UK . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:45-17:30 Quantification and modeling of spindle positioning and size regulation in the C. elegans embryoDr. Akatsuki Kimura, National Institute of Genetics, Japan . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:00-16:45 Hox Control of a Drosophila Feeding Circuit.Professor Dr Ingrid Lohmann from The Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 24 January 2013, 14:30-15:30 Perspectives on Next Generation DNA Sequencing.Dr Harold Swerdlow from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 10 January 2013, 14:30-15:30 Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression during Development.Dr Barbara Jennings from the Transcriptional Regulation Group, UCL Cancer Institute . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 Systems-based, quantitative analyses of genomic function and variation.Dr Bart Deplancke from EPFL Lausanne . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model.Dr Pavel Tomancak from MPI for Cell Biology, Dresden . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 08 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 PTEN phosphatase-independent maintenance of apical membrane integrity during colorectal glandular morphogenesis.Professor F. C. Campbell from the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 01 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 A life in science: from academia to industry and back.Sir Peter Williams from The Royal Society . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 Phase-shifted gene-activity oscillations during embryo development - a real-time imaging approach.Dr Alexander Aulehla from EMBL Heidelberg . Part II Room, Department of Genetics. Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 Kick Off Meeting of the Cambridge RNA Clubno tie required, food and drink provided Miriam Llorian (Biochemistry), Antony Rodriguez (Sanger Insitute), Kin-Mei Leung (PDN), Jernej Ule (MRC-LMB). Wednesday 26 September 2007, 18:30-20:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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