Genetics Seminar Series

“Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.

Host : Cahir O'Kane

Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Postdoc Seminar

The Story of FigShare and how to use FigShare in your work and publications.

Host: Dr Peter McQuilton (FlyBase)

Mark Hahnel, CEO & Founder of FigShare .

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 12:30-13:30

Genetics Postdoc Seminar

The Story of FigShare and how to use FigShare in your work and publications.

Mark Haenel, FigShare CEO and founder.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Postdoc Seminar

Publishing in Nature

Magdalena Skipper, Genetics Editor at Nature.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Postdoc Seminar

ECR fellowship opportunities.

Elizabeth Benson and colleagues, Wellcome Trust.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Provisional Title - A Life in Science : from academia to industry to political decision making and back

Sr Peter Williams CBE FREng FRS (The Royal Society).

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Alexander Aulehla - EMBL Heidelberg.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Rapid evolution of mammalian genomes and transcriptomes

Chris Ponting, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics and adaptive benefits of emergency and modular rearrangements of protein domains

Prof. Erich Bornberg-Bauer PhD, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity School of Biol.Sciences, University of Muenster.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

“New Insights into the Mechanisms and Selectivity of Protein Degradation by the Proteasome Pathway”

Alfred Lewis Goldberg - Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School ( guest of St Johns College).

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 10:30-12:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Cancer, Development & Adult Tissue Maintenance

Prof. Nicholas Hastie MRC HGU and the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Monday 14 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit fly

Scott Waddell Ph.D Professor of Neurobiology, University of Oxford.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

“Target site recognition of Hox transcription factors by means of rapid, “trial-and-error” interactions with chromatin.”

Dimitros Papdopoulos, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Forks and Factories: Coordination and control of mammalian DNA replication

Dr Catherine Green, Department of Zoology.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Genome-wide RNAi and HCS Microscopy approaches to dissect membrane traffic pathways

Professor Jez Simpson, University College Dublin.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

“The mosquito immune response against malaria parasites”

Dr George K Christophides, Imperial College, London.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

The development and structure of the insect cuticle

If you wish to talk to the speaker please contact the Host, Boris Adryan on b.adryan@gen.cam.ac.uk

Bernard Moussian, University of Tubingen.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

The sperms’ hidden cargo; a distinctive epigenetic signature for the egg?

Dr David Miller, University of Leeds.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Molecular regulation of Wallerian axonal degeneration

Dr Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring the origin of leaves

Dr Jill Harrison, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

The family of mitochondrial transport proteins

Edmund R.S. Kunji - The Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Exploring epistasis maps of cellular processes

Professor Michael Boutros, DKFZ Heidelberg.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Mechanisms and regulation of DNA recombination during meiosis

Matthew Neale - MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Changes in cell and tissue architecture in early stages of colorectal cancer

Professor Inke Näthke - Dundee Cancer Centre, University of Dundee.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

The shape of things to come: from small G-proteins to cell polarity, cell-shape dynamics and cell-cell signalling

Veronica Grieneisen (The John Innes Centre, Norwich).

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Post-transcriptional regulation of human mitochondrial gene expression

Michal Minczuk - MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

A genome-wide screen for developmental regulators of airway maturation regulators in Drosophila

Professor Christos Samakovlis - The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Integration of RNA- and ChIP-sequencing reveals two major gene expression levels in metazoa

Daniel Hebenstreit - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

A Drosophila Model for the role of ApoE in Alzheimer’s Disease

Paul Hopkins, King’s College London.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 05 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Transthyretin and Alzheimer's amyloid beta peptide - do two wrongs make a right?

Joel Buxbaum, MD PhD, Scripps Research Institute.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 28 June 2011, 11:00-12:00

Genetics Seminar Series

''Deciphering Mechanisms of Endoderm Development and Disease''

Dr Heiko Lickert - Institute of Stem Cell Research, German Research Centre for Enviromental Health, Munich.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

''How SUMO talks to ubiquitin''

Professor Ron Hay - Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

''How Cells Defend Their Cytosol Against Bacterial Invasion''

Dr Felix Randow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Many ways to make ends meet: orchestration of DNA double-strand break repair processes by the NHEJ pathway

Prof. Aidan Doherty - Genome Damage & Stability Centre, University of Sussex..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

Dr Elizabeith Murchison - Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Gene Regulatory Networks for Vertebrate Mesoderm Specification

Dr Matt Loose, School of Biology, University of Nottingham.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Comparative logical models of signalling networks in normal and transformed hepatocytes

Dr Julio Saez-Rodriguez - Group Leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). joint appointment at EMBL-Heidelberg, Genome Biology Unit, Cambridge..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic approaches to metabolic disease

Dr Ines Barroso - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Embryo environment restricts the developmental plasticity of epiblast precursors

Dr Berenika Plusa - University of Manchester..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Integrating complex genomic datasets and high-throughput cancer cell line screens: linking drug response to molecular signatures

Dr Ultan McDermott - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

The 4-dimensional E.coli chromosome: how a temporal programme can be encoded in a 2D genetic map.

Dr Andrew Travers - Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, Paris..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Mind the Gap (phase): kinase signalling cascades in mitotic control in fission yeast.

Prof. Iain Hagan - Paterson Institute, Manchester.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Post-translational regulation of division versus differentiation in the embryonic nervous system.

Dr Anna Philpott - Hutchinson, MRC Cambridge..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Rab protein evolution and the history of the eukaryotic endomembrane system

Prof. Mark Field - Dept of Pathology, Cambridge..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Stars and sequences - Genomics as a public science

Dr Simone Roedder, Institute of Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld, Germany.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Single cell genomics reveals chromosome instability in human cleavage stage embryogenesis

Dr Thierry Voet - Centre for Human Genetics, Leuven..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Silencing chromosomes with Xist in embryonic and adult stem cells.

Dr Anton Wutz - Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 07 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

'The UK Ladybird Survey: A model citizen science project'

Dr Remy Ware.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 July 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Epithelial morphogenesis: the role of polarity and adhesion during Drosophila tracheal system development"

Dr Marta Llimargas.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Genetic analysis of organelle-specific unfolded protein responses".

Prof. David Ron.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Small RNA and epigenetics in plants"

Prof. Sir David Baulcombe.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Finding the middle ground: achieving a perfect metaphase plate"

Prof. Patrick Meraldi.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Sums and products in beetleworld: fitness landscapes in Tribolium-Nosema interactions".

*****Please note that due to the current travel delays this talks could be postponed - we will keep you informed.

Dr Mathias Wegner.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Oversight of Stem Cell Research and Gene Therapy in Clinic"

Dr John Connolly - Head of Cell & Gene Therapies, Dept of Health, London.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

' The mechanics of tissue morphogenesis '

Dr Thomas Lecuit - Developmental Biology Institute, Marseilles..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Genetics of common obesity - what have we learned from genome-wide association studies?"

Dr Ruth Loos - MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Stem Cells in Mammalian epidermis"

Prof. Fiona Watt - Wellcome Trust for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Insights into the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington's disease"

Prof. Gillian Bates - King's College London School of Medicine.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Organising microtubule organisers (and some new proteomics tools)

Dr Ken Sawin, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Cell-Cell Communication during Fertilization in Arabidopsis: a Surprising Link to Disease Resistance

Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus - Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Cell fate specification and tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila mesoderm"

Prof. Manfred Frasch - Developmental Biology, University of Erlangen - Nuremberg.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Modelling human neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila"

Dr Aaron Voigt.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Initiation of Centrosome separation in G2 phase requires concerted actio of Plk1, Aurora A kinase and Eg5, but occurs independently of Cdk1

Dr Helfrid Hochegger - Sussex centre for Genome damage and Stability.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early Drosophila embryos"

Dr Benedicte Sanson - PDN.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Systems Genetics of complex Traits in Drosophila"

Note unusual time - Seminar will be held at 16:00pm

Prof. Trudy Mackay - NC State Univeristy.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 September 2009, 16:00-17:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

"Living complexity: evolution in the XXI century "

James A Shapiro (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The University of Chicago, Chicago (USA)).

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Monday 29 June 2009, 15:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Chromatin control in development and disease"

Prof. Peter Verrijzer - Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Watching transcription in living cells"

Dr Jonathan Chubb - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Integrated analysis of memory phase dynamic in Drosophila

Dr Thomas Preat - CNRS, Paris.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Tales from Irish genetics: from Milesius to Niall of the Nine Hostages.

Prof. Dan Bradley - Trinity College, Dublin.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Evolution of embryonic pluripotency and the early lineages of the mammalian blastocyst".

Dr Miguel Manzanares - CNIC, Madrid.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 14:30-16:30

All Talks (aka the CURE list)

Multipotency and cell fate decisions: Three neglected principles towards understanding the epigenetic landscape

Sui Huang, Institute for Biocomplexity and informatics, University of Calgary, Canada.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 02 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics of Living Matter lectures

Do cells care about physics

Dr. Jochen Guck, Cavendish Lab (University of Cambridge).

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 17 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

What soft matter physics can give and take from cell biology

Dr Pietro Cicuta - Cavendish Lab (University of Cambridge).

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

How does centralspindlin form microtubule bundles and accumulate on them during cytokinesis.

Dr Masanori Mishima - Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

What does a living cell know of itself

Dr Dennis Bray, PDN Cambridge University.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 03 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Phospho-dependent Activation and Silencing of the Spindle Checkpoint"

Dr Kevin Hardwick - WTC for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

Physics of Mulitcellularity

Prof Ray Goldstein ( DAMTP, Cambridge).

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Systems biology of genetic interactions in yeast"

Dr Balazs Papp - Biological Research Center, Szeged..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

Magnificent pas de deux: Spindle orientation in yeast - ACT I

Dr Marisa Segal - Genetics, Cambridge University..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Molecular mechanisms of microtubule associated protein tau and alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disease"

Dr Richard Wade-Martins - University of Oxford..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

The interplay of Notch with Shh and Wnt signalling in mesoderm development.

Dr Kim Dale - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

Cell movements in reshaping tissues

Dr Alexandre Kabla - Engineering, Cambridge University..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Building bridges between genes, brains and language.

http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1512

Dr Simon Fisher - WTC for Human Genetics, University of Oxford..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

Mapping Morphogenesis

Dr Richard Adams - PDN, Cambridge University.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

"Stem cell and daughter fate control in the fly intestine: Notch signaling and beyond"

Allison Bardin (Institute Pasteur, Paris, France).

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Monday 26 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Gene-lifestyle interaction in type 2 diabetes

Prof. Nick Wareham - Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

Precision and exploration in assembling neural circuits

Prof. Michael Bate - Zoology, Cambridge University.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Function of SRF and Mef2 transcription factors homologues during development of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum".

Dr Leandro Sastre - CSIC/UAM, Madrid..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

Special workshop on "Heterogeneity and transcriptional noise in cell popuations"

Organised by the Department of Genetics in association with the PLM initiative. (www.gen.cam.ac.uk/plm) Please note this is on a Monday.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Monday 15 December 2008, 09:00-19:00

Physics of Living Matter lectures

"Biology in five dimensions - the evolution of development"

Prof. Michael Akam - Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Lost connections: a tale of wandering centrosomes.

Fanni Gergely, Cancer Research Uk Cambridge Research Institute..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

"Network Biology"

Dr Madan Babu Mohan - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Mechanisms of synaptic communication: Vesicle traffic and Neuronal disease"

http://www.vib.be/Research/EN/Research+Departments/Department+of+Molecular+and+Developmental+Genetics/Patrik+Verstreken

Dr Patrik Verstreken, Dept of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, K.U. Leuven..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

"Stochasticity in stem and progenitor cell fate"

Prof. Ben Simons - TCM the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"DNA repair in archaea: insights into mechanisms of homologous recombination"

www.nottingham.ac.uk/genetics/people/allers/index.php

Dr Thorsten Allers, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

"Molecular bases and function of cellular heterogeneity in development"

Prof. Alfonso Martinez-Arias - Department of Genetics, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

'Intimate Encounters and Dangerous Liaisons: Spatial Organization of Transcription in the Mammalian Nucleus'

www.babraham.ac.uk/pjl_pages/osborne/osborne.html

Cameron Osborne, Babraham Institute..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

"Transcriptional noise in gene rregulatory networks"

Dr Lawrence Wernisch - MRC Biostatistical Unit.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Engineering Self-Orgonization and electical signaling in Bacteria using standardized Genetic Parts"

www.gen.cam.ac.uk/About/iGEM2008-Genetics.htm

iGem, International Genetically Engineered Machine, Cambridge Genetic Department..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

"Biophysics of behaviourally defined neurocircuits"

Dr Dennis Burdakov.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Transcriptional Silencing and lineage commitment in Pluripotent cells"

www.cscr.cam.ac.uk/research/bhendrich.html

Dr Brian Hendrich, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

Physics of Living Matter lectures

"How plasmids cope with noise in the bacterical cell"

Dr David Summers.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

"Worms on Prozac: A genetic dissection of neuronal signalling pathways"

www.ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/research-groups/nurrish.htm

Dr Stephen Nurrish, MRC Lab of Molecular Cell Biology, University College, London..

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 14:30-16:30

Genetics Seminar Series

“TGF-beta/Dpp signalling in epithelial morphogenesis and cell death”

Christian Dahmann – MPI-CBG Dresden.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Switching and Interlocking: a computational look at genome regulation”

Thomas down – Gurdon Institute.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“A cellular perspective on sensory-organ regeneration in the zebrafish”

Hernan Lopez-Schier – Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

“Love at First Light”

Gero Miesenboeck – Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"The love and hate affaire between Wingless and Notch in Drosophila wing development"

Marco Milan, ICREA and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB).

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar Series

'Cell fate decisions and establishment of pluripotency'

Jennifer Nichols - Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

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Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic Dissection of the Homeostatic Signaling: Systems that Stabilize Neural Function

Graeme Davis, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics - UCSF.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

What drives recombination hotspots in humans?

Gil McVean, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Genome Instability and Cancer: lessons from analysis of Bloom's syndrome

Ian Hickson, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Genomic imprinting: a model for the epigenetic control of genome function

Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

The role of miRNAs and piRNAs in C.elegans development

Eric Miska, Gurdon Institute.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic studies in Drosophila identify a novel pathologic mechanism for Parkinson disease.

Alex Whitworth, University of Sheffield.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Small open reading frames: new, abundant, important

Juan Pablo Couso.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Toxin-antitoxin pairs in biotechnology and therapy

Guillermo de la Cueva Mendez - MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Genetic variation in Salmonella Typhi

John Wain- Molecular Microbiology, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 14:30-16:00

Genetics Seminar Series

Mechanism of epidermal maintenance of mice and men

Ben Simons - Cavendish Laboratory, TCM, Cambridge.

Part II room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 14:30-16:00