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Seminars are usually held in the Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge. Enquiries to: Arianna Pezzuolo (afp34@cam.ac.uk) If you have a question about this list, please contact: Nigel Smith; Arianna. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 6 upcoming talks and 153 talks in the archive. Title to be confirmedIna Sonnen, Hubrecht Institute. The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN. Tuesday 10 December 2024, 11:00-12:00 Life without HOXOlivier Pourquié, Harvard Medical School. The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN. Friday 20 September 2024, 11:00-12:00 Dynamic Interplay: Coordinating stem cell fate and states through niche interactionsDr Joo-Hyeon Lee, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN. Thursday 20 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 Control of cell fate specification and physiological maturation in the human brain by the lipid phosphatase OCRLProf Raghu Padinjat, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN. Tuesday 18 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 Our first choices: decoding cellular signals during developmental transitionsSilvia Santos, Francis Crick Institute. The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN. Tuesday 19 March 2024, 11:00-12:00 The Anne McLaren Lecture: Coordination of cell states and tissue architecture by mechanical forcesSara Wickström, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster. Wellcome Trust /CRUK Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB21QN. Tuesday 28 November 2023, 10:30-11:30 Synthetic ex utero embryogenesis: from naive pluripotent stem cells to human and mouse bona fide embryo-modelsProfessor Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute, Israel. Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 27 June 2023, 11:00-12:00 Human brain chimeroids as avatars to study inter-individual variation in brain development and diseaseTo receive the link please email communications@gurdon.cam.ac.uk Dr Paola Arlotta, Harvard, USA. Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signaling dynamics in the epitheliumProfessor Olivier Pertz, University of Bern, Switzerland. Tuesday 25 April 2023, 11:00-12:00 Imaging spatio-temporal MAPK signalling dynamics in the epitheliumProfessor Maddy Parsons, King’s College, London. Tuesday 04 April 2023, 11:00-12:00 Being a Good Neighbour: Cell Cycle, Metabolism and Cell Fate in the Drosophila Testis.Dr Marc Amoyel, UCL. Tuesday 28 March 2023, 11:00-12:00 Physics of morphogenesisTo join online, please email events@gurdon.cam.ac.uk Professor Stephan Grill, Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany. Tuesday 28 February 2023, 11:00-12:00 Taking it up a Notch, building the body planProfessor Kim Dale, University of Dundee. Tuesday 24 January 2023, 11:00-12:00 You get a methylation, and you get a methylation, everybody gets a methylationHost: GIPA, Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association Dr Pedro J Batista, NIH, Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MC, USA. Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 The Anne McLaren Lecture: Embryonic and adult neural stem cells- what underlies their differenceHosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova and Sumru Bayin Dr Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, Japan. Tuesday 01 November 2022, 09:00-10:00 Decoding transcriptional regulationHosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova & Julie Ahringer Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria. Gurdon Institute Tea Room AND on Zoom. Tuesday 07 June 2022, 11:30-12:30 Title to be confirmedHosted: Ben Simons Wolf Reik, Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Tuesday 24 May 2022, 12:30-13:30 Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Hematopoietic MalignanciesHosted by: Andrea Brand & John Gurdon Prof Robert G Roeder, The Rockefeller University, New York. Monday 09 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Title to be confirmedHosted by: Daniel St Johnston & Andrea Brand Anne-Kathrin Classen, University of Freiburg, Germany. Tuesday 12 April 2022, 11:30-12:30 Title to be confirmedHosted by: David Fernandez-Antoran & Emma Rawlins Maria Pilar Alcolea, Wellcome-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 22 February 2022, 12:15-13:15 Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repairHosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS) Magdalena Götz, Director, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Center, Munich. Tuesday 25 January 2022, 11:00-12:00 Engineering epithelial organoid developmentHosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS) Matthias Lütolf, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Tuesday 23 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 The Anne McLaren Lecture: Signalling pathways regulating cell fate allocation in the early mouse embryoHosted by: Azim Surani & Julie Ahringer Elizabeth Robertson, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK. Thursday 11 November 2021, 12:30-13:30 Symmetry breaking in gastruloids developmentHosted by: Emma Rawlins & Jenny Gallop Prisca Liberali, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel, Switzerland. Tuesday 05 October 2021, 11:00-12:00 Dicer dependent tRNA derived small RNAs promote nascent RNA silencingHosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA) Monika Gullerova, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK. Tuesday 29 June 2021, 13:00-14:00 Chromatin Replication and Epigenome MaintenanceHosted by: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska Anja Groth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Monday 14 June 2021, 11:00-12:00 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Using Fruit Flies to Understand Tissue RegenerationHosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA) Rachel Smith-Bolton, Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois, USA. Tuesday 08 June 2021, 15:00-16:00 Homeoboxes build the nervous systemHosted by: Julie Ahringer Oliver Hobert, Columbia University, USA. Tuesday 25 May 2021, 15:00-16:00 Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAsHosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer Howard Chang, Stanford University Medical Center, USA. Monday 26 April 2021, 16:00-17:00 Mechanistic basis of epigenetic switching and memoryHosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins Martin Howard, John Innes Centre, Norwich. Tuesday 17 November 2020, 13:00-14:00 The Anne McLaren Lecture: How CST protects telomeres and double-strand breaksHosted by: Steve Jackson & Hansong Ma Titia de Lange, Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, New York, USA. Tuesday 13 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 Firing up the genomeHosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA) Nadine Vastenhouw, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, Germany. Monday 27 July 2020, 10:30-11:30 Model-based explanation of cellular responseHosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA) Fabian Theis, Director, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany. Tuesday 30 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLEDHosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 26 May 2020, 11:30-12:30 THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLEDHosted by: John Gurdon & Fengzhu Xiong Andy McMahon, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Los Angeles, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Friday 03 April 2020, 11:30-12:30 Robustness and scaling in early development: the “distal pinning” mechanismHosted by: Ben Simons Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 04 February 2020, 11:30-12:30 Cell competition during development and diseaseHosted by: Gurdon Institute PhD Society (GPS) Eduardo Moreno, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:30-15:30 Stem Cells: It’s All About the NeighborhoodHosted by: Ben Simons & Emma Rawlins Elaine Fuchs, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Rockefeller University, New York, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 28 January 2020, 11:30-12:30 Mechanistic insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery and DNA repairHosted by: Philip Zegerman Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 26 November 2019, 11:30-12:30 Epigenetic memory over geological timescalesHosted by: Hansong Ma & Eric Miska Hiten Madhani, University of California, San Francisco, USA. Thursday 31 October 2019, 10:30-11:30 Human Regulator of TElomere Length Helicase 1 (RTEL1) couples nuclear envelope stability and functions to genome replicationHosted by: Emma Rawlins & Steve Jackson Arturo Londoño-Vallejo, Institut Curie, Paris, France. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 29 October 2019, 11:30-12:30 Spatio-temporal dynamics of cell fate specification and differentiation in the zebrafish embryoHosted by: John Gurdon & Philip Zegerman Philip W Ingham, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore - Imperial College London. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:30-12:30 Transposable elements as catalysts of cellular innovationHosted by: Azim Surani & Hansong Ma Cédric Feschotte, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:30-12:30 The Anne McLaren Lecture: The blastocyst and its stem cells; from mouse to human relevanceHosted by: Azim Surani & Emma Rawlins Janet Rossant, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 30 April 2019, 11:30-12:30 Chemical regulation of functional RNAsSpecial Seminar hosted by: Tony Kouzarides, Eric Miska & Cambridge RNA Club Yunsun Nam, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 05 March 2019, 11:30-12:30 Towards in vivo structural biology: solving protein structures using deep mutagenesisHosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer Ben Lehner, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:30-12:30 Generating human kidney tissue from pluripotent stem cellsHosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons Melissa Little, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Victoria, Australia. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Thursday 15 November 2018, 10:00-11:00 Role of H3K27me3-mediated genomic imprinting in development and somatic cell nuclear transfer reprogrammingHosted by: Azim Surani Yi Zhang, Dept Genetics & Dept of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 10 July 2018, 11:30-12:30 Regulators of Muscle Stem Cell Fate and FunctionHosted by: John Gurdon & Meritxell Huch Helen Blau, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 19 June 2018, 11:30-12:30 Regulatory principles in human development and evolutionHosted by: Julie Ahringer & Emma Rawlins Joanna Wysocka, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 05 June 2018, 11:30-12:30 Epigenetics: One Genome, Multiple PhenotypesHosted by: Tony Kouzarides & Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA) Danny Reinberg, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NYU Langone School of Medicine at Smilow Research Center, New York, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 15 May 2018, 12:30-13:30 Modified small RNA regulate chromosome dosage and segregationHosted by: Tony Kouzarides Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 15 May 2018, 11:00-12:00 On the function of PRDM15, a member of the PRDM family of transcriptional regulators, in development and lymphomagenesisHosted by: Meritxell Huch Ernesto Guccione, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Hess Center for Science and Medicine, New York, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Thursday 05 April 2018, 11:30-12:30 The cellular phase of Alzheimer’s DiseaseHosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA) Bart De Strooper, Director UK Dementia Research Institute, Professor at UCL, University of Leuven and VIB. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Thursday 29 March 2018, 12:00-13:00 Smart light sheet microscopes for you and meHosted by: Alex Sossick & Emma Rawlins Jan Huisken, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 20 March 2018, 11:30-12:30 The Anne McLaren Lecture: CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing: Biology, Technology and EthicsHosted by: Eric Miska & Steve Jackson Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Tuesday 06 March 2018, 11:30-12:30 Regulation of progenitor cells in adult lung and in lung cancerHosted by: Emma Rawlins & Azim Surani Carla F. Kim, Boston Children's Hospital, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 06 February 2018, 11:30-12:30 Immune evasion and metastasis in colorectal cancerHosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons Eduard Batlle, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona, Spain . Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 30 January 2018, 11:30-12:30 Imaging cancer invasion and pluripotencyHosted by: Jenny Gallop & Steve Jackson Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku, Finland. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 16 January 2018, 11:30-12:30 Growth coordination in DrosophilaHosted by: Hansong Ma & Andrea Brand Pierre Léopold, Institute of Biology Valrose (iBV), Nice, France. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 05 December 2017, 11:30-12:30 Robustness and dynamics of natural direct reprogrammingHosted by: Emma Rawlins & Julie Ahringer Sophie Jarriault, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cell Biology (IGBMC), Illkirch, France . Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 28 November 2017, 11:30-12:30 RNA Aggregation in Neurodegenerative DiseaseHosted by: Jenny Gallop & Rick Livesey Ron Vale, University of California, San Francisco, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Monday 27 November 2017, 11:30-12:30 Are RNA granules liquid organelles? Regulation of P granule dynamics by intrinsically-disordered proteinsHosts: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska Geraldine Seydoux, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 07 November 2017, 11:30-12:30 The Anne McLaren Lecture: Epigenetic regulation by histone acetylationHosted by: Tony Kouzarides & Eric Miska Asifa Akhtar, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany. Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road. Tuesday 10 October 2017, 11:30-12:30 Protecting Immortality: Germ line Development in DrosophilaHosts: Daniel St Johnston & Julie Ahringer Ruth Lehmann, Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 26 September 2017, 11:30-12:30 Liver Regeneration in the Damaged LiverHosted by: Meritxell Huch Stuart J Forbes, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road. Friday 25 August 2017, 10:45-11:45 A solid state conceptualization of information transfer from gene to message to proteinHosts: John Gurdon & Meritxell Huch Steven McKnight, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 09 May 2017, 11:30-12:30 Multi-scale models of organogenesis: Limb bud developmentHosts: Eugenia Piddini & Emma Rawlins James Sharpe, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 25 April 2017, 11:30-12:30 Embracing Complexity: A Fly-to-Bedside Approach to Cancer TherapiesHosts: Eugenia Piddini & Steve Jackson Ross Cagan, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Monday 10 April 2017, 11:30-12:30 Sex differences in organ size and plasticityHosts: Phil Zegerman & Andrea Brand Irene Miguel-Aliaga, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS). Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 28 February 2017, 11:30-12:30 Measuring and Modeling the Dynamics of Developmental Decisions in Single CellsHosts: Rick Livesey & Ben Simons Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard University, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 24 January 2017, 11:30-12:30 Cell biological mechanisms regulating vertebrate neurogenesisHosts: Daniel St Johnston & Rick Livesey Kate Storey, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee, Scotland. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 29 November 2016, 11:30-12:30 Imaging Cancer Invasion and Therapy FailureHosts: Eugenia Piddini & Tony Kouzarides Erik Sahai, Crick Institute, London. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 15 November 2016, 11:30-12:30 The Anne McLaren Lecture: Cell polarity in lymphocytesHosts: Daniel St Johnston & Phil Zegerman Gillian Griffiths, CIMR, Cambridge. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 08 November 2016, 11:30-12:30 Mobile elements, polydactyl proteins and the making of human-specific transcriptional networksHosts: Eric Miska & Azim Surani Didier Trono, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 01 November 2016, 11:30-12:30 Reading and Writing Genomes in 3D: The CTCF code and how to hack itHosts: Tony Kouzarides & Julie Ahringer Erez Lieberman Aiden, Baylor College of Medicine & Rice University, Texas, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 14 June 2016, 11:30-12:30 Understanding and manipulating cell fateHosts: Emma Rawlins & Azim Surani Konrad Hochedlinger, Harvard University, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 10 May 2016, 11:30-12:30 Principles of skin regeneration, repair and cancer by live imagingHosts: Ben Simons & Eugenia Piddini Valentina Greco, Yale University, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 19 April 2016, 11:30-12:30 Genome regulation by Polycomb proteins, between epigenetic inheritance and dynamic gene regulationHosts: Julie Ahringer & Eric Miska Giacomo Cavalli, Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, Montpellier, France. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 01 March 2016, 10:30-11:30 FANcy nucleases that cut chromosome instability and diseaseHosts: Steve Jackson & Phil Zegerman John Rouse, MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Scotland. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 09 February 2016, 11:30-12:30 Gene regulation from a distanceHosts: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer Wendy Bickmore, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 01 December 2015, 11:30-12:30 The relationships between chromosome structure and gene activity during X inactivationHosts: John Gurdon & Azim Surani Edith Heard, Institut Curie, Paris, France. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 24 November 2015, 11:30-12:30 Coordinating growth and tissue organization during developmentHosts: Eugenia Piddini & Emma Rawlins Helen McNeill, Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, Canada. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 03 November 2015, 11:30-12:30 The logic and origins of Eukaryotic cell organisation: Inside-out or Outside-in?Hosts: Jon Pines & Jenny Gallop Buzz Baum, University College London. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 20 October 2015, 11:30-12:30 New insights into aneuploidy in mammalian oocytesHosts: Phil Zegerman & Meri Huch Melina Schuh, Cell Biology Division, MRC LMB, Cambridge. Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 06 October 2015, 11:30-12:30 Imaging heart development and function in zebrafishDidier Stainier, Max Planck Institute for Heart & Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany . Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 19 May 2015, 11:30-12:30 The Anne McLaren Lecture: Stem cells in lung maintenance and repairBrigid Hogan, Duke University Medical Center, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 28 April 2015, 11:30-12:30 Stem cells in the brain: Glial Identity and NichesFiona Doetsch, University of Basel, Switzerland. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 24 March 2015, 11:30-12:30 The atomic structure of the APC/C: implications for understanding regulation and mechanism of protein ubiquitinationDavid Barford, MRC-LMB, Cambridge. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 24 February 2015, 11:30-12:30 Biological insights into mutagenesis through modern sequencing technologiesSerena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge . Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 11:30-12:30 Transcriptional regulation during developmental transitions: a view from 3DEileen Furlong, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 20 January 2015, 11:30-12:30 A Protein phosphatase 1/protein phosphatase 2A relay controls mitotic progressionIain Hagan, Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 02 December 2014, 11:30-12:30 Evolution of Cell-Cell Adhesion, and New Insight into Mechanisms in AnimalsW. James Nelson, Stanford, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 25 November 2014, 11:30-12:30 Microtubules need actin's help in large oocytes, to collect chromosomes and to break the nuclear envelopePéter Lénárt, EMBL, Heidelberg. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 21 October 2014, 11:30-12:30 Self-organization of genetic oscillators during mouse mesoderm developmentAlexander Aulehla, EMBL, Heidelberg. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 14 October 2014, 11:30-12:30 Generating neuronal diversity: stochastic or deterministic choicesClaude Desplan, Department of Biology, New York University, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 25 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Origins and consequences of (epi)genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana and its relativesDetlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 11 March 2014, 11:00-12:00 Mechanisms of centriole assemblyPierre Gönczy, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 11 February 2014, 11:00-12:00 The Anne McLaren Lecture: Cell shape and morphogenesis: sub cellular and supra-cellular mechanismsMaria Leptin, EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 28 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Stem cell dynamics during development, homeostasis and cancerCédric Blanpain, WELBIO, Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRIBHM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 21 January 2014, 11:00-12:00 Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit flyScott Waddell, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 03 December 2013, 11:00-12:00 Growth and size regulation in development and diseaseTian Xu, HHMI/Yale University, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 19 November 2013, 11:00-12:00 Self-regulatory mechanism of multicellular systems: tissue self-organization and scalingYoshiki Sasai, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 05 November 2013, 11:00-12:00 Mechanisms of cellular programming and reprogrammingKen Zaret, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 15 October 2013, 11:45-12:45 Spatial and temporal regulation of the DNA damage responseJiri Lukas, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 19 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 Mechanisms of Wnt signal transductionChristof Niehrs, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz, Germany. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 05 March 2013, 11:00-12:00 Controlling gene expression fluctuations during developmentAlexander van Oudenaarden, Hubrecht Institute-KNAW & University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 26 February 2013, 11:00-12:00 Immune regulation of vertebrate regenerationNadia Rosenthal, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London; Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University; EMBL Australia. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 05 February 2013, 11:00-12:00 The Anne McLaren Lecture: Reprogramming and cellular dominanceAmanda Fisher, Imperial College, London. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 22 January 2013, 11:00-12:00 Unlocking the secrets of scarless wound healing and appendage regenerationEnrique Amaya, University of Manchester. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 04 December 2012, 11:00-12:00 Gene punctuation in eukaryotes: roles of R-loops, gene loops and co-transcriptional cleavage in controlling transcriptionNick Proudfoot, University of Oxford. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 20 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 The Anne McLaren Lecture: Lipoproteins and signaling lipids in the Hedgehog pathwaySuzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 06 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 Covert communication in insectsRichard Benton, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 09 October 2012, 11:00-12:00 Dosage compensation: An intertwined world of RNA and chromatin remodelingAsifa Akhtar, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 06 March 2012, 11:45-12:45 Dynamics of Dpp signaling and proliferation controlMarcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, Depts of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 21 February 2012, 11:45-12:45 THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLEDSuzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden, Germany. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 07 February 2012, 11:45-12:45 Multiscale dynamics in zebrafish gastrulationNadine Peyrieras, CNRS-NED, Institute of Neurobiology, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Tuesday 24 January 2012, 11:45-12:45 Genomic encoding of shape in ascidian embryosPatrick Lemaire, CRBM, Montpellier, France. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 29 November 2011, 11:45-12:45 Stem cells, cell-cell interactions, and homeostasis in the Drosophila intestineBruce Edgar, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 15 November 2011, 11:45-12:45 Guidance mechanisms in collective cell migrationPernille Rorth, Institute of Molecular & Cell Biology, Singapore. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Tuesday 08 November 2011, 11:30-12:30 The genetics of cell competition and synthetic speciesEduardo Moreno, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Tuesday 18 October 2011, 11:30-12:30 Reproductive organ development in the mouseRichard Behringer, Dept of Genetics, University of Texas, USA. Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site. Tuesday 04 October 2011, 11:30-12:30 The developmental biology toolbox in basic and translational studiesChris Wylie. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 03 May 2011, 11:30-12:30 Aurora B kinase regulates chromosome architecture and chromosome segregationYoshinori Watanabe, Laboratory of Chromosome Dynamics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Japan. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Friday 08 April 2011, 11:30-12:30 Modeling malignant growth in DrosophilaCayetano Gonzalez, Cell Division Laboratory, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 01 March 2011, 11:30-12:30 Reprogramming the code of lifeJason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 15 February 2011, 11:45-12:45 Cancer as developmental disease: chance and necessity in networks dynamics during somatic evolution of cancer cellsSui Huang, Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary, Canada. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 01 February 2011, 11:45-12:45 Moving stem cell discoveries into translationAlan Trounson, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, San Francisco, USA. Gurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 01 February 2011, 10:00-10:45 The Anne McLaren Lecture: The genetics and cell biology of mammalian Hedgehog signalingKathryn Anderson, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 18 January 2011, 11:30-12:30 Evolution of Cerebral Cortical DevelopmentZoltan Molnar (DPAG, Oxford). level 2 seminar room, Gurdon Institute Tennis Court Road. Friday 14 January 2011, 16:00-17:00 Title to be confirmedSpecial Lecture - note unusual day/time Marc Kirschner, Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Wednesday 08 December 2010, 16:00-17:00 TBAYohanns Bellaiche (Institut Curie, Paris, France). Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 11:30-12:30 Human disease in a dish: modelling premature aging and neurological disorders using induced pluripotent stem cellsAlan Colman (Stem Cell Research, King’s College London, UK, Singapore Stem Cell Consortium and A*Star Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore). Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 09 November 2010, 11:30-12:30 Does epigenetic gene regulation extend beyond histone modifications?Wendy Bickmore (MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK). Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 02 November 2010, 11:30-12:30 Using switchable genetically engineered mice to model cancer therapiesGerard Evan (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK). Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 19 October 2010, 11:30-12:30 The mechanism of mRNA transport and localized translation in Drosophila oocytes and neuronsIlan Davis (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK). Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 05 October 2010, 11:30-12:30 The Anne McLaren Lecture: Remodeling the nucleus through developmentSusan Gasser (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland). Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 04 May 2010, 11:30-12:30 Cell cycle machinery in mouse development and in cancerPeter Sicinski (Harvard Medical School Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Boston, USA). Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 23 March 2010, 11:30-12:30 TBAAndrew Lumsden (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology King's College London UK). Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 09 March 2010, 11:30-12:30 Mitotic entry following a DNA damage-induced arrestRene Medema (Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, UMC Utrecht The Netherlands). Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 09 February 2010, 11:30-12:30 Feedback control of mitosisAndrea Musacchio (Department of Experimental Oncology, IFOM-IEO Milan, Italy). Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 26 January 2010, 11:30-12:30 VHL tumor suppressor mechanisms: from maintenance of the primary cilium to promotion of error-free mitosisWilhelm Krek (ETH-Hönggerberg, Institute of Cell Biology Zurich, Switzerland ). Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 12 January 2010, 11:30-12:30 “Colour vision in flies”Claude Desplan, Department of Biology, New York University. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Thursday 11 June 2009, 11:30-12:30 C. elegans in an evolutionary context: natural populations and vulva development variationsMarie-Anne Félix, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 11:30-12:30 DNA replication and cancer: lessons from budding yeastJohn Diffley, CRUK LRI, Clare Hall Laboratories. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 24 February 2009, 11:30-12:30 The Anne McLaren Lecture: Gene regulatory networks during development: Is there a code ?Eileen Furlong, Developmental Biology & Gene Expression Programmes, EMBL. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 10 February 2009, 11:30-12:30 (cancelled due to speaker's illness) Role of polarized cell divisions in morphogenesis and neurogenesis in the zebrafish neural tubeJonathan Clarke, Department of Anatomy & Human Science, King’s College, London, UK. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 27 January 2009, 11:30-12:30 Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissuesBen Simons, The Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics Cambridge, UK. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 02 December 2008, 11:30-12:30 The asymmetric dance of the microtubules at the end of mitosisFrançois Nédélec, Structural & Computational Biology Unit, EMBL. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 11 November 2008, 11:30-12:30 Analysis of signal transduction pathways involved in cancer and control of blood pressureDario Alessi FRSE, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit University of Dundee, UK. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 21 October 2008, 11:30-12:30 Origins and organization of synapse complexitySeth Grant, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 14 October 2008, 11:30-12:30 Building asymmetry in the brain - from genes to circuitsProfessor Steve Wilson, University College London. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 04 March 2008, 11:30-12:30 Breaking Abbe's barrier: diffraction-unlimited resolution in far-field optical microscopyProfessor Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen. Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road. Tuesday 19 February 2008, 11:30-12:30 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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