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Differential tissue deformability underlies fluid pressure driven shape divergence of the embryonic brain and spinal cord

User Susannah McLaren, Gurdon Institute.

Friday 26 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas

Host - Frank Jiggins

User Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

E. coli and the Game of Clones

Host – Kate Baker

User Professor Jukka Corander from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and University of Oslo.

Thursday 18 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

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A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

User Dr Omer Bayraktar.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

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A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

User Omer Bayraktar, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

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Controlling the cell cycle

User Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute.

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA

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User Professor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen .

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

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The development and evolution of the mammalian jaw joint

User Neil Anthwal, Kings College London.

Friday 01 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Shelby Blythe from Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, USA .

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

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The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

User Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

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Drosophila AP patterning: networks, dynamics, evolution, and robustness

User Erik Clark, Department of Genetics.

Friday 09 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity

Host - Steve Russell

User Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge .

Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

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User Hansong Ma, University of Birmingham.

Friday 02 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Epigenetic Inheritance

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User Dr Nicola Iovino from Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division

Host - Ben Steventon

User Dr Helen Matthews from School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield .

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Professor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA .

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineages

Host - Zach Baker

User Professor Daniel Falush from Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences .

Wednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

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New models to study human embryo implantation and early development

User Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute.

Friday 01 December 2023, 13:00-14:00

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User Dr. Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London.

Friday 24 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Nancy Papolopulu, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester .

Thursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

The evolution of organs and cell types.

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User Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira from The Francis Crick Institute, London .

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Circuit basis of learning and decision-making

User Dr. Marta Zlatic, MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 10 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Dr Lucy van Dorp from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London .

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Zebrafish trunk neural crest: an in vivo model to understand cell migration under physiological mechanical stress

User Dr. Elena Scarpa, Department of Phhysiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Friday 03 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

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The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

User Dr. Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Friday 27 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolution

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Yolanda Schaerli from Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne .

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Physical patterning of the cytosol in giant cells

User Prof. Amy Gladfelter, Duke University.

Friday 13 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation

Host - John Welch

User Professor Michael Whitlock from Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies

Host - Erik Clark

User Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott from the Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago .

Wednesday 13 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3B

User Dr. Courtney Hanna, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosience.

Friday 09 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians

Host - Richard Durbin

User Dr Hilary Martin from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Molecular mechanisms of oocyte specification in female germline cysts

User Dr. Dmitry Nashchekin, Gurdon Institute .

Friday 02 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Progenitor niches in the developing pancreas: regulation of cell fate and beyond

User Prof. Francesca Spagnoli, Kings College London.

Friday 26 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Temporal development and maturation of CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids

User Dr. Laura Pellegrini, Kings College London/ MRC LMB.

Friday 19 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Sticky proteins and moving genomes: a single-molecule perspective of pluripotent cell differentiation

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Friday 12 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks

Host - Henrik Salje

User Professor Philippe Lemey from Clinical and Epidemiological Virology Rega Institute, K.U. Leuven .

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Decision making without genes?

User Prof Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory For Molecular Cell Bology UCL.

Friday 05 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancer

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User Professor Serena Nik-Zainal from Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Form and function during early heart development

User Richard Tyser, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 10 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

User Dr Trevor Lawley from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Tumor initiation through aberrant differentiation

User Walid Khaled, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 03 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome

Host - Erik Clark

User Dr Mounia Lagha from Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France .

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Encoding and decoding morphogen gradients

User Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute, London.

Friday 24 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Mechanism of neural differentiation

Host – Lara Busby

User Professor Kate Storey from School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

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New tricks for Rac and Rho, even after 30 years

User Denise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara, US.

Friday 17 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

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Human fetal cortex tissue models to understand human brain development and injury

User Katie Long, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London.

Friday 27 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution

Host - Hansong Ma

User Professor Heidi McBride from McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal, Quebec .

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Influence of antidepressants on craniofacial development

User Marcia Gaete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

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User Professor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA .

Thursday 12 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

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Epigenetic resetting during human germline development

User Wolfram Gruhn, Gurdon Institute.

Friday 02 December 2022, 13:15-14:00

Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans

Host – Ritwick Sawarkar

User Dr Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Fit for this world - cellular properties are set during critical periods of development

User Matthias Landgraf, Department of Zoology.

Friday 18 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2

Host – Henrik Salje

User Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective

Host – Bianca De Sanctis

User Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Spatio-temporal control of microtubule mechanics during epithelial morphogenesis

User Maja Matis, University of Muenster, Germany.

Friday 04 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion

Host - Marco Geymonat

User Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Timescales in development: the tempo across and within species

User Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute.

Friday 28 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates?

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Dr Sandra Duharcourt, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite de Paris.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Biofabrication and material interfaces for life science applications

User Yan Yan Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks

Host - Lin Wang

User Professor David Liu, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Adherens junctions, mechanotransduction and intra-epithelial communication

User Alpha Yap, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Friday 07 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?

Host - Frank Jiggins

User Professor Michael Turelli, from Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, CA .

Thursday 29 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Professor Aurelio Teleman, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell Level

User Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 10 June 2022, 13:15-14:00

Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability

Host - Cahir O’Kane

User Professor Michael Coleman from Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus .

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

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Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?

Host - Ben Steventon

User Professor Simone Reber, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Neurogenic transcription factors in development and cancer

User Roberta Azzarelli Wellcome, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor William Sullivan, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-18:00

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Dynamic buffering of extracellular chemokine to enable robust adaptation during directed tissue migration

User Mie Wong, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London.

Friday 13 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell division

Host - Marco Geymonat

User Dr Fernando Monje Casas, Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER), Seville.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Cells in gels: identification of Plakoglobin as an evolutionary conserved mechanosensitive regulator of naïve pluripotency

User Timo Kohler, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes

Host - Carol Edwards

User Professor Jason Wolf, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain

User Sumru Bayin, Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 29 April 2022, 13:15-14:00

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Cellular mechanisms of embryonic development and embryo-maternal interactions during implantation

User Ivan Bedzhov, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany.

Friday 18 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

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Mechanisms of organismal stress resistance in C. elegans

User Rebecca Taylor, Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

User Dr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Coordinating cell fate decisions and tissue shape changes during mammalian development

User Marta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila

Host - Chaitanya Dingare

User Dr Susumu Hirabayashi, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

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Dynamics of starvation-induced and selective autophagy in mammalian cells

User Nicholas Ktistakis, Babraham Institute.

Friday 25 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality

Hosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang

User Professor Yukiko Yamashita, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

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In vivo exploration of biomolecular condensates in early Drosophila development

User Tim Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

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Signalling dynamics of neutrophil migration at sites of tissue damage

User Milka Sarris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

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Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting

User Kevin Chalut, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 04 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.

Host: Elves Duarte

User 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 arthropods

Host - Steve Russell

User 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 cells

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology.

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Monday 06 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

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Asymmetric nuclear division in neural stem cells generates sibling nuclei that differ in size, envelope composition, and chromatin organization

User Chantal Roubinet, Postdoctoral Fellow Buzz Baum Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 19 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cells

Host: Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

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Towards a cellular and molecular understanding of mammalian anterior patterning

User Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford.

Friday 12 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

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Zooming into the sarcomere: from single molecules to molecular forces

User Frank Schnorrer, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille.

Friday 05 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

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Wnt gradients: how they form and their role in tissue morphogenesis

User Ian McGough, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

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A finger on the pulse of regeneration

User Mekayla Storer, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Bacterial condensates under stress

Host: Rosana Collepardo

User Professor Stephanie Weber, McGill University, Montreal.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

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Building the human lungs: lessons from organoids

User Dr Emma Rawlins (University of Cambridge).

Friday 15 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair

Host: Hansong Ma

User 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

User Professor Tatiana Giraud, Departement Genetique et Ecologie Evolutives, Université Paris-Saclay.

Thursday 07 October 2021, 13:30-14:30

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Genetic and developmental basis of morphological variation in cichlid fishes

User Emília Santos, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

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CANCELLED: Replication control during the cell cycle and development

User Philip Zegerman, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 04 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

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Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function

User Snezhana Oliferenko, The Francis Crick Institute.

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure

Host – Richard Durbin

User Dr Karen Miga from Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

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From Signals to Chromatin: Germ layer specification in mouse

User Sebastian Arnold, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.

Friday 21 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

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Human hypothalamic neurons for studying obesity and its relevance to neurodegeneration

User Florian Merkle, WT-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease

Host: Cahir O'Kane

User Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 13:30-14:30

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New roles for Golgi-derived PI(4)P-containing vesicles in mitochondrial division

User Julien Prudent, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Friday 07 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and phase-separation

Host: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara

User Professor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 17:00-18:00

Human Immunity – one cell at a time

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Dr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:30-14:30

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Gut induced vascular plasticity drives stem cell adaptation during intestinal regeneration

User Julia Cordero, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Friday 12 March 2021, 13:15-13:55

PP2A-B55 inhibitors Arpp19 and ENSA define the cell cycle program by controlling the temporal pattern of protein phosphorylation

Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover

User Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

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Continued development: the plasticity of adult organs

User Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London.

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:15-13:55

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Host: Hansong Ma

User Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

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Understanding the structure-function relationships in asymmetric stem cell division

User Mayu Inaba, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut.

Friday 26 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

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Antagonistic effects of ionising radiation in cell competition

User David Fernandez-Antoran, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 19 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Patricia Wittkopp, Biological Science Building, University of Michigan.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

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Fluorogenetic Interrogation of Chromatin Position Effects

User Iva Tchasovnikarova, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 12 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Elly Tanaka, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:30-14:30

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Mechanisms of membrane protein biogenesis

User Ramanujan S. Hegde, MRC Labortory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:15-13:55

Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges

Host: John Welch

User 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 organoids

Host: Hansong Ma

User Dr Robert Johnston, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

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Enhancers get ERKed around by chromatin remodellers during lineage commitment

User Brian Hendrich, MRC Stem Cell Institute, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomes

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Simon Myers, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:30-14:30

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Re-generating the principles of appendage regeneration in the single-cell era

User Can Aztekin, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

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Chromatin remodelling determines cell-type specific Notch activity in the developing mouse brain

User Jelle van den Ameele, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Friday 13 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Epithelial-mesenchymal cell plasticity during normal development and cancer progression

User Kyra Campbell, Dept. of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Imaging and reconstructing mouse development at the cellular level using light-sheet microscopy

User Kate McDole, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 30 October 2020, 13:15-13:55

The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.

Host: Marco Geymonat

User 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

User 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 Life

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

User Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

User Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris .

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

User Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

User Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

This talk has been cancelled

User Dr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The mechanical regulation of brain development

User Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells

User Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Michael Imbeault

User Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis

User Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

User Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomes

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:15-17:15

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

CANCELLED: Epithelial cell plasticity during tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis

User Kyra Campbell Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield.

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London .

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo

User Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Minimal and Ancestral Genomes

Host: Richard Durbin

User Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA .

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dendritic Cell Migration at Various Scales

User Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Friday 15 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out

Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

User Dr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

"CAPs in the niche" A new in vivo labelling system reveals parenchymal cells in the lung metastatic niche with stem cell features

User Luigi Ombrato The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

User Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epigenetic remodelling enables adult liver regeneration and organoid formation

User Luigi Aloia The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanical scaling in blood platelets

User François Nédélec Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time?

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York .

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain

Host: Michael Imbeault

User Professor Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden .

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis

User Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 October 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Timing of the first lineage segregation in the early mouse embryo

User Meng Zhu, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 31 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Study of pioneer factor concentration, chromatin binding kinetics & cell-to-cell variability during genomeawakening

User Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 24 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Linking physical gut remodelling to stem cell divisions in Drosophila

User Golnar Kolahgar, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Stem cell dynamics define clone fixation and spread in human colonic epithelium

User Doug Winton, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Friday 10 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects

Host: Berta Verd

User Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cyclin B1 and the spindle assembly check point: A 15 year odyssey

User Jonathon Pines, The Institute of Cancer Research, University of London.

Friday 03 May 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells?

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh .

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Marino Zerial from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics

User Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

User Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary

User Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Epigenetic inheritance in mammals

Host: Sam Lewis

User Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate

User Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Using phosphoproteomics to study context-specific signalling

User Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

RNA methylation as a new epigenetic mark in cancer

User Isaia Barbieri, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 08 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Gastruloids: a pluripotent stem cell-based model of early mammalian development

User Naomi Moris, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines

Host: Jane Charlesworth

User Dr Louise Johnson from School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading .

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: what have we learnt?

User Petra Hajkova, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

User Dr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Escape from pluripotency

User Austin Smith, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Dr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Polarized endosome dynamics during asymmetric cell division

User Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Time to wake up: Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Reactivation

User Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Constructing the mammalian embryo in vitro: from single stem cells to gastrulation

User Berna Sozen, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense

Host: Felipe Karam Teixeira

User Dr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter .

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Using Drosophila to understand mitochondrial biology and mechanisms of neurodegeneration

User Alex Whitworth, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Friday 19 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

The Genetic Basis of Clinal Adaptation

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Thomas Flatt from Department of Biology, University of Fribourg .

Thursday 18 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanisms controlling homeostasis in mammalian epidermis

User Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London.

Friday 12 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubules

Host: Cahir O’Kane

User Professor Andreas Prokop from Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester .

Thursday 11 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Building and Breaking Epithelial tubes: an Optogenetic approach

User Clare Buckley, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Hedgehog signalling in immune cells

User Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Friday 25 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Signals regulating cell fates and cell movements in the vertebrate embryo

User Sergei Sokol, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York.

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Self-organization and patterning of sensory organs in Drosophila

User François Schweisguth, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Friday 11 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer

Host: Alexis Braun

User Professor David Glover, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Tracing the Transitions from Pluripotency to Germ Cell Fate with CRISPR Screening

User Ufuk Günesdogan, University of Göttingen, Germany.

Friday 04 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Regulatory RNA

Host: Martyna Popis

User Professor Eric Miska from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Sarah Bray from Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Organoid systems to study the maternal-fetal dialogue of early pregnancy

User Margherita Turco, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 09 March 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The genetic framework of germline stem cell development

User Karam Teixeira, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 March 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture

Host: Michaela Frye

User Dr Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

A unifying theory of branching morphogenesis

User Edouard Hannezo, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.

Friday 23 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Eukaryotic cell division and its origins

Host: Alexis Braun

User Professor Buzz Baum, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Primary liver tumor organoids: a new pre-clinical model for drug sensitivity analysis

User Laura Broutier, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescales

User Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Modulating developmental signals allows establishment of cultures of expanded potential stem cells

User Liu Pentao, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Friday 09 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development

Host: Alfonso Martinez Arias

User Dr Patrick Mueller, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cell polarity remodelling by the RASSF protein family

User Nic Tapon, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 02 February 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Andreas Wagner, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesis

Host: Eric Miska

User Dr Déborah Bourc'his, Institut Curie, Paris .

Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanisms of filopodia regulation

User Jenny Gallop, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

Friday 24 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Decoding the Notch signal

User Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science Communication

Host: Sudhakaran Prabakaran

User Dr Nancy R. Gough.

Monday 13 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cartilage by 3D bioprinting of iPS cells

User Stina Simonsson, Institute of Biomedicine, Göteborg (Sweden).

Friday 10 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Capturing human axial progenitors in vitro

Hosts: Alfonso Martinez-Arias & Shlomit Edri

User Dr Anestis Tsakiridis, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield .

Thursday 09 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Detecting death and damage: understanding macrophage migration in Drosophila

User Will Wood, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol.

Friday 03 November 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Dr Kirsten Bomblies, John Innes Centre, Norwich .

Thursday 02 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Building a young brain on Old shoulders: A story on the most primitive ventricular brain

User Elia Benito-Gutiérrez, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates

User Andrew Gillis, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Formation and disease relevance of axonal endoplasmic reticulum, a "neuron within a neuron”.

User Dr Cahir O’Kane, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cell polarity and local condensation of biomolecular condensates

User Anthony A. Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (Germany).

Friday 13 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Professor Ashleigh Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford .

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

A battle for mitochondrial DNA transmission

User Hansong Ma, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 09 June 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Ascl1 control of neural stem cell homeostasis in the developing and adult brain

User Noelia Urban, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 02 June 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Assembly of embryonic and extra-embryonic stem cells to mimic embryogenesis in vitro

User Sarah Harrison, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 26 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Bridging Crumb-mediated polarity and Hippo-mediated growth by Spectrin-bound PP2A

User Graham Thomas, Center for Celluar Dynamics, PennState.

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting the functional heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells

User Elisa Laurenti, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 12 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Variable epigenetic silencing of the repeat genome: implications for non-genetic inheritance

User Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 05 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast

Host: Marco Geymonat

User Dr. Gislene Pereira, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg .

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

The genetic analysis of population-scale data

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Gil McVean, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford .

Thursday 27 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Human embryogenesis and the first trimester intrauterine environment

User Graham Burton, Centre for Trophoblast Research, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 10 March 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Transcription as a driver of epigenetic transitions during oocyte development

User Gavin Kelsey, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 03 March 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genome

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Peter Keightley, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh .

Thursday 02 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Highlights from the “Deciphering the Mechanisms of Developmental Disorders (DMDD) consortium” – novel insights into gene function during embryogenesis

User Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 24 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteria

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Dr Isabel Gordo, Evolutionary Biology Group, Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon .

Thursday 23 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Exploring the mechanisms of haematopoietic lineage progression at the single-cell level

User Ana Cvejic, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Pluripotency at the multicellular level

User Marta Shahbazi, PDN, University of Cambridge .

Friday 10 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Decoding transcriptional regulation.

Host: Alexis Braun

User Dr Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

Thursday 09 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in brain development and cancer

User Eugene Makeyev, Dept. of Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London.

Friday 03 February 2017, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Non-coding solutions to developmental challenges

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Donal O’Carroll, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrier

Host: John Welch

User Dr Nicolas Galtier, University of Montpellier .

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

User Professor Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Coping with a stressful start in life

User Alex Gould The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 02 December 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Lung Stem Cell Niche in Health and Disease

User Joo-Hyeon Lee Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 November 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Stem cell control in the Drosophila gut

Host: Alexis Braun

User Professor Bruce Edgar, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah .

Thursday 24 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

"Why is the intestinal epithelia particularly susceptible to transformation by oncogenic APC mutations?"

User Marc de la Roche, Biochemistry department, Cambridge.

Friday 18 November 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Domain architecture in the Drosophila genome

User Rob White PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 November 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

"Shaping cell contacts during tissue morphogenesis"

User Pierre-Francois Lenne, IBDM, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, France.

Friday 04 November 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Defining transcription units across the human genome.

Host: Michaela Frye

User Professor Nick Proudfoot, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford .

Thursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

"Patterns and logic of actomyosin planar polarisation during Drosophila axis extension"

User Benedicte Sanson, PDN department, Cambridge.

Friday 28 October 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Using experimental evolution to understand adaptation from standing genetic variation.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Christian Schlotterer, Institute of Population Genetics of Vetmeduni Vienna .

Thursday 27 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

“Shaping Cells and Tissues: from Embryonic Development to Synthetic Biology”

User Stefano de Renzis, EMBL, Heidelberg.

Friday 21 October 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Directing and shaping the inside-out axis of the vertebrate brain

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Jon Clarke, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London .

Thursday 20 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Towards a complete view of the genetics of gene expression variation in yeast

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Professor Frank Albert, University of Minnesota .

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Neural mechanisms of behavioral switches

Host: Liria Masuda-Nakagawa

User Dr. Arantza Barrios, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London .

Thursday 06 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cell fate imbalance in the Oesophageal Epithelium: mutant cell competition

User Maria Alcolea Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge .

Friday 03 June 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Balancing forces during mitosis: from molecular motors up to tissue mechanics

User Sarah Woolner, Faculty of life sciences, University of Manchester.

Friday 27 May 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Building integrin adhesions in development and evolution

User Nick Brown Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 May 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting mammalian 3D genome architecture with Capture Hi-C

User Stefan Schoenfelder (Fraser lab) Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 13 May 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Division versus differentiation in development and disease

User Anna Philpott, Dept. of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/ MRC Research Centre, Cambridge .

Friday 06 May 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Beyond the reference genome: inference using prior knowledge of the diversity of a species.

Host: Chris Illingworth

User Dr Zamin Iqbal, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford .

Thursday 28 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Genome diversity and evolution of DNA methylation genome in the human genome.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Tomas Marques-Bonet, Institut Biologia Evolutiva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/CSIC), Barcelona.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Pair-rule patterning in Drosophila: how does it work, and what does it tell us about short-germ segmentation

User Erik Clark (Akam lab) Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2016, 13:15-13:55

Gene and Genome Regulation in Early Fruit Fly Neurogenesis.

Host: Steve Russell

User Dr. Robert Zinzen, Max-Delbruck-Center Berlin.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Live imaging and genetic analyses of transformed cell extrusion from the zebrafish embryonic epithelium

User Masazumi Tada Dep. of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London.

Friday 26 February 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Period and pattern in the embryo

User Andrew Oates The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 19 February 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Role of neuromesodermal progenitors in axial elongation.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Val Wilson, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh .

Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Two for the price of one: twinning – the ultimate regeneration

User Claudio Stern, Dep. of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London.

Friday 12 February 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Checkpoint and non-checkpoint functions of Drosophila Mad1 and RZZ.

Host: Yuu Kimata

User Professor Roger Karess, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Diderot.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Using outbred genetics to explore Drosophilia development

User Ewan Birney, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge.

Friday 05 February 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

TF-mediated epigenetic memory in ES cells

User Pablo Navarro, Institut Pasteur Dep. of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Paris, France.

Friday 29 January 2016, 13:15-13:55

Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a continuous spectrum of differentiation in haematopoietic cells.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Dr Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Roles and mechanisms of the drivers of reprogramming

User Jose Silva, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 January 2016, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

An experimental assay of the genotype to phenotype connection.

Host: John Welch

User Dr Fyodor Kondrashov, Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona .

Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Comparative analyses of neuromesodermal progenitor dynamics in vivo

User Ben Steventon, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 November 2015, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Building a Platform for Cell Division

User Paul Conduit, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 November 2015, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Genomics approaches for the investigation of gene regulation.

Host: Steve Russell

User Dr Jim Hughes, Hughes Genome Biology Group, Oxford .

Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The origin of Metazoa, a genomics and cell biology approach…or why things are never ever so simple

User Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, CSIC-UPF and Univeristy of Barcelona.

Friday 13 November 2015, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Breaking the silence: defense and counter-defense in antiviral RNA silencing pathways of insects.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Ronald van Rij, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands .

Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The 6th element of DNA: Identification of methyl deoxyadenosines in higher eukaryotes

User Magdalena Koziol (Gurdon lab), Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 06 November 2015, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cerebral organoids: human brain development modelled in a dish

User Madeline Lancaster, MRC LMB, Cambridge.

Friday 30 October 2015, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Transcriptional regulation and downstream program of Hox and Cdx genes during axial development in the mouse embryo.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Dr Jacqueline Deschamps, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Inflammation in repair and cancer

User Paul Martin Department of Physiology & Biochemistry, Bristol University.

Friday 23 October 2015, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Targeting Polycomb repression to the genome.

Host: Steve Russell

User Dr Yuri Schwartz, Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University, Sweden .

Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Statistical models of gene regulation in the fly embryo

User Nicholas Luscombe The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Friday 16 October 2015, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Intra-tumour heterogeneity and genomic rearrangements in solid cancers.

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Dr Roland Schwarz, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton .

Thursday 15 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Into the void: bridging the gap between risk genes and psychiatric phenotypes.

Host: Cahir O' Kane

User Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Inhibitory activities of short linear motifs underlie Hox interactome specificity in vivo.

Hosts: Steve Russell and Boris Adryan

User Dr Samir Merabet, IGFL France.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Converting temporal information into spatial information in an early vertebrate embryo

User Caroline Hill, The Francis Crick Institute - Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London.

Friday 29 May 2015, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Plant Developmental Plasticity: How and Why?

User Ottoline Leyser, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 May 2015, 13:15-13:55

Model systems to study embryonic patterning.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Dr Benoit Sorre, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

On growth and form: gastrulation and axis formation by stem cells in the Amniote embryo

User Octavian Voiculescu, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 May 2015, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Navigating through tissue mazes: how leukocytes find their way to functional destinations

User Milka Sarris, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 08 May 2015, 13:15-13:55

New dimensions of antiviral immunity in insects.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Maria Carla Saleh, Institut Pasteur, Paris .

Thursday 07 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Trafficking and regulation of Wnt proteins in developing epithelia

User Jean-Paul Vincent, The Francis Crick Institute - NIMR, London.

Friday 01 May 2015, 13:15-13:55

Biogenesis and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs).

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Sebastian Kadener, University of Jerusalem.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cellular strategies for airway epithelial maintenance

User Emma Rawlins, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 April 2015, 13:15-13:55

Single-cell dynamics of the proliferation-quiescence decision.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Sabrina Spencer, Meyer Lab, Stanford University Medical Center.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 14:30-15:30

Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Mike Brockhurst, Department of Biology, University of York .

Thursday 05 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Programming and reprogramming to the trophoblast lineage

User Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 27 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Causes and Consequences of New Mutations.

Host: Cahir O'Kane

User Dr Matthew Hurles, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Thursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Transcriptional networks in the developing Xenopus embryo

User Jim Smith, MRC National Institute for Medical Research London.

Friday 20 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

How dynein and its co-factors at the kinetochore ensure chromosome segregation fidelity.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Reto Gassmann, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Portugal .

Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The collective cell biology of organ formation

User Darren Gilmour, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany.

Friday 13 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Beyond cancer genetics: dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in leukaemia.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Professor Chi Wai Eric So, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, Department of Haematological Medicine, King's College London .

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Single cell transcriptomics.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Dr Steve Harvey, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Monday 09 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Capturing pluripotency form early mammalian embryos

User Jenny Nichols, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response.

Host: Yuu Kimata

User Dr. Adrian Saurin, Division of Cancer Research, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee .

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Genome-wide loss-of-function screening using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

User Kosuke Yusa Wellcome, Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.

Friday 30 January 2015, 13:15-13:55

Imaging gene activity in living cells.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Jonathan Chubb, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cell-based modelling of epithelial morphogenesis: towards an integrative approach

User Alexander Fletcher, Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford.

Friday 23 January 2015, 13:15-13:55

Asymmetry in Drosophila neuroblasts: centrosomes & mRNA.

Host: Yuu Kimata

User Dr Jens Januschke, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

Thursday 22 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Polarization of ciliated node cells along the anterior-posterior axis by graded expression of Wnts and their inhibitors

User Hiroshi Hamada, Osaka University, Japan.

Friday 16 January 2015, 13:15-13:55

Using zebrafish models to identify novel alleles affecting human behaviour- a proof of principle study using smoking as an example.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Caroline Brennan, The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of London .

Thursday 15 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Hedgehog signalling and cell polarity in killer lymphocytes

User Gillian Griffiths, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 05 December 2014, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Single molecule studies of mRNA localisation and motor activation

User Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 28 November 2014, 13:15-13:55

COMT: from single nucleotide polymorphism to whole brain function.

Host: Boris Adyran

User Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Order out of chaos - how does membrane traffic help organise the cell?

User Sean Munro, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 21 November 2014, 13:15-13:55

Large scale genomic analyses of complex traits in human populations.

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Dr Nicole Soranzo, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Unreliable organizers: Canalization and robustness in C. elegans vulva development

User Jeroen van Zon, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam.

Friday 14 November 2014, 13:15-13:55

The memory of retinal stem cells?

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Jochen Wittbrodt, COS Heidelberg, Heidelberg University.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

A blueprint for cell fate: Network biology applied to stem cell engineering

User Samantha Morris (George Daley lab), Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Friday 07 November 2014, 13:15-13:55

Regulation of Notch signalling by the endosomal pathway.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Dr. Thomas Klein, Institute of Genetics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The Zebrafish Mutation Project

User Derek Stemple, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.

Friday 31 October 2014, 13:15-13:55

Understanding mechanisms of long-range gene regulation.

Host: Boris Adyran

User Dr Greg Elgar, Systems Biology, MRC NIMR, London .

Thursday 30 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Bridging cell-cell contact and cell fate in the early mouse embryo

User Chuen Yan Leung (Zernicka-Goetz lab), PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 October 2014, 13:15-13:55

Organisation and Regulation of DNA supercoiling domains in Mammalian Chromatin.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Professor Nick Gilbert, MRC Human Genetics Unit, The University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

C. elegans development: getting the seams right and living a balanced life.

Host: Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti

User Professor Alison Woollard, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

The impact of viral IκB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Professor Giuseppe Gargiulo from Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, University of Bologna .

Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Good night and good luck: the role of sleep in dementia

User Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 30 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanisms controlling primary germ layers specification in human

User Ludovic Vallier, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 23 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

(At least) 3 ways to publish a pigeon genome.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Professor Tom Gilbert from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen .

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

A bistable transcriptional switch modulated by signalling drives the choice between embryonic and extraembryonic cell fate

User Christian Schroeter, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Shaping and reshaping regulatory loops in Drosophila morphogen signaling.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr. Giorgos Pyrowolakis from BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies & Institute for Biology, University of Freiburg.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Going round in circles: development of the zebrafish vestibular system

User Tanya Whitfield, MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield.

Friday 09 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Molecular mechanisms of Mediator complex recruitment by transcription factors.

Hosts: Boris Adryan and Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Alexis Verger from Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Université de Lille .

Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Liver and pancreas Stem/progenitor cells and organoid cultures

User Meritxell Huch, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

From stripes to blood flow: cell fates of the lateral plate.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Professor Christian Mosimann from the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences (IMLS), University of Zürich.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Getting in Shape: in vivo and in silico studies of tissue mechanics in growth control

User Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Friday 25 April 2014, 13:15-13:55

Computational insights into stem cell differentiation using dynamic hybrid modelling.

Host: Steve Russell

User Dr Ben Hall from Microsoft Research, Cambridge .

Thursday 24 April 2014, 14:30-15:30

Origin and evolution of novel microRNAs.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Antonio Marco, University of Essex.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Arc stress: a novel mechanism for epithelial bending

User Jeremy Green, Department of Craniofacial Development, King’s College London.

Friday 07 March 2014, 13:15-13:55

Targets of T cell responses against malaria liver infection: immunology meets experimental genetics.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Julius Hafalla, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Immunology and Infection.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 14:30-15:30

A Drosophila resource to study human pathology.

Host: Sarah Bray, PDN (sjb32@cam.ac.uk)

User Dr Shinya Yamamoto, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 15:00-16:00

Engineering flies.

Host: Cahir O'Kane (c.okane@gen.cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Hugo J Bellen, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The role of pituitary stem cells in homeostasis and tumour formation

User Cynthia Andoniadou, Department of Craniofacial Development, King’s College London.

Friday 28 February 2014, 13:15-13:55

Molecular insights into the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of bat rabies.

Hosts: John Welch and Ben Longdon

User Dr Daniel Streicker, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Molecular mechanisms of Wnt signalling

User Mariann Bienz, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 21 February 2014, 13:15-13:55

Studying the invasive migration of Drosophila immune cells.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Professor Daria Siekhaus, IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria).

Thursday 20 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Extrinsic forces and cell shape changes in gastrulation

User Bénédicte Sanson, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2014, 13:15-13:55

Vaccinia virus has evolved the Bcl-2 family of proteins to thwart the host innate immune system.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Stephen Graham, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 13 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors

User Clare Baker, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2014, 13:15-13:55

Checks and Balances in Drosophila Muscle and Heart Differentiation Programs.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Dr Mike Taylor, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Axis specification in Drosophila: mRNA transport and translational control

User Timothy Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 31 January 2014, 13:15-13:55

Deconstructing Greatwall Kinase.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Helfrid Hochegger, University of Sussex .

Thursday 30 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

CANCELLED: Getting in Shape: in vivo and in silico studies of tissue mechanics in growth control

User Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Friday 24 January 2014, 13:15-13:55

Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance.

Host: Ian Furner

User Professor Jurek Paszkowski, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 23 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of accurate chromosome segregation.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr. A. Jeyaprakash Arulanandam, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 16 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Molecular alchemy: How to make one cell type into another

User David Tosh, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath.

Friday 29 November 2013, 13:15-13:55

Immune-metabolic interaction in Drosophila.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Marc Dionne from the Peter Gorer Dept of Immunobiology, King's College London .

Thursday 28 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The sins of your maternal grandparents: Transgenerational epigenetic effects of folate metabolism on development

User Erica Watson, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 November 2013, 13:15-13:55

Widespread translation of small Open Reading Frames from coding regions, UTRs and non-coding RNAs.

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

User Professor Juan Pablo Couso, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex .

Thursday 21 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Patterning ensembles of mouse ES cells: the embryo redux

User Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 November 2013, 13:15-13:55

Motors, rulers and clocks in chromosome segregation.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Helder Maiato from Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Drosophila p53, growth control and metabolism

User Marco Milan, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona.

Friday 08 November 2013, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Nuclear actin and nuclear actin-binding protein as new players in embryonic development and reprogramming

User Kei Miyamoto, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2013, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Chiefs call in the Reserves: Differentiated Troy+ Chief cells act as ‘Reserve’ stem cells to generate all lineages of the stomach epithelium

User Bon-Kyoung Koo, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 October 2013, 13:15-13:55

How does the kinetochore orchestrate a functional checkpoint signal?

Host: Viji Draviam

User Professor Jakob Nilsson from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen .

Thursday 10 October 2013, 14:30-15:30

Feedback control of the anaphase-telophase transition.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Helder Maiato, Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto .

Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Sibling Rivalry and Stress Tolerance: the Single-Cell Biology of Mycobacteria.

Host: Viji Draviam

User Dr Bree Aldridge, Tufts University, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Boston .

Thursday 06 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Self-organization of pluripotent cells to establish the mouse embryo

User Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 31 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

A genomic survey of the machineries that control & link cell shape, microtubules & cell cycle progression

User Rafael Carazo Salas, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

Epigenetic regulation of tissue growth in Drosophila.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Anne Kathrin Classen, LMU Munich .

Thursday 23 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Organ morphogenesis: Cell movement and communication in liver development

User Elke Ober, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.

Friday 17 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

The evolutionary dynamics of unusual reproductive systems.

Hosts: Eli Vieira Araujo Jnr and John Welch

User Dr Laura Ross from the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford ..

Thursday 16 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Nutrient sensing in the central brain of Drosophila larvae controls feeding behavior

User Pierre Léopold, Institute of Biology Valrose, University of Nice, France.

Friday 10 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

Tracking transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens with high-throughput genomics.

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute .

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

A fine balance: Self-renewal and differentiation of single stem cells amidst tumour heterogeneity

User David Kent, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 03 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Regulation of neural and intestinal stem cell differentiation

User Axel Behrens, CR-UK London Research Institute, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London.

Friday 26 April 2013, 13:15-13:55

Sequence-based discovery of transcriptional targets.

Host: Boris Adryan

User Dr Stein Aerts, Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven University.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre.

Tips at the Edge: Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics at the Cell Cortex.

User 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.

User Professor Pablo Wappner from Instituto Leloir, Argentina .

Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Chromatin organisation in embryonic stem cells

User Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2013, 13:15-13:55

Linking the mitotic spindle to the plasma membrane during cytokinesis.

User Dr. Mark Petronczki from Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories .

Thursday 28 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Using bacterial pathogens to explore immunity and development in the nematode C. elegans

User Jonathan Hodgkin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Friday 22 February 2013, 13:15-13:55

How to maintain a stable genome: A Passenger Perspective.

User Dr Susanne Lens from University Medical Centre Utrecht.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Coping with life changing events: Stem cells, regeneration, and plasticity

User Robin Lovell-Badge, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.

Friday 15 February 2013, 13:15-13:55

Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Fate

User Professor Margaret Buckingham from Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cytoplasmic streaming in the female germline and stem cell fate in the male germline of Drosophila

User Isabel Palacios, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 08 February 2013, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Transcriptional Control of Cell Fate Choice in Blood Stem Cells

User Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 February 2013, 13:15-13:55

Cell specification in the mouse blastocyst inner cell mass: interplay between Nanog, Gata6 and the Fgf signalling pathway.

User Dr Claire Chazaud from Laboratoire GReD, France .

Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

The mitotic checkpoint - a structural perspective.

User Dr. Victor Bolanos Garcia, Oxford Brookes University, UK .

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:45-17:30

Quantification and modeling of spindle positioning and size regulation in the C. elegans embryo

User Dr. Akatsuki Kimura, National Institute of Genetics, Japan .

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:00-16:45

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Spindle orientation and cell division in Drosophila epithelial cells

User Dan Bergstrahl, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 January 2013, 13:15-13:55

Hox Control of a Drosophila Feeding Circuit.

User Professor Dr Ingrid Lohmann from The Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg .

Thursday 24 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting the role of stem cells in tissue development and maturation

User Kim Jensen, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 January 2013, 13:15-13:55

Perspectives on Next Generation DNA Sequencing.

User Dr Harold Swerdlow from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute .

Thursday 10 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Functional nuclear organization of the genome: from cell populations to single cell analyses

User Peter Fraser, Babraham Institute.

Friday 23 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression during Development.

User Dr Barbara Jennings from the Transcriptional Regulation Group, UCL Cancer Institute .

Thursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Decoding the Notch signal

User Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

Systems-based, quantitative analyses of genomic function and variation.

User Dr Bart Deplancke from EPFL Lausanne .

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

How variable clones build an invariant retina

User Benjamin Simons, Cavendish Laboratory/ Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 09 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model.

User Dr Pavel Tomancak from MPI for Cell Biology, Dresden .

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The role of Dicer and miRNAs in regulating neural stem cell multipotency

User Therese Andersson, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge..

Friday 02 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

PTEN phosphatase-independent maintenance of apical membrane integrity during colorectal glandular morphogenesis.

User Professor F. C. Campbell from the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast .

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissection of the cellular and molecular hierarchy of the bronchioalveolar epithelium in homeostasis and disease

User Juan-Jose Ventura, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 26 October 2012, 13:15-13:55

A life in science: from academia to industry and back.

User Sir Peter Williams from The Royal Society .

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Balancing cell potency and specification in stem cells and in the early embryo

User Veronique Azuara, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London.

Friday 19 October 2012, 13:15-13:55

Phase-shifted gene-activity oscillations during embryo development - a real-time imaging approach.

User Dr Alexander Aulehla from EMBL Heidelberg .

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Deciphering gene regulatory circuitry underlying early steps of neural crest development

User Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

Friday 12 October 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

A quantitative view of gene expression levels

User Sarah Teichmann, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 25 May 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Finding the correct pairing partner during meiosis: events inside and outside the nucleus

User Enrique Martinez-Perez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London.

Friday 18 May 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms regulating epidermal stem cell fate

User Michaela Frye, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 May 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Molecules of touch and taste sensation

User William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 04 May 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Interactions between stem cells and their niche in mammalian epidermis

User Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 April 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Roles of ADAM family metalloproteases in cardiovascular development

User Atsuko Sehara-Fujisawa, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan.

Friday 20 April 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The roles of the interaction between the APC/C and the centrosome in the cell cycle and development in Drosophila

User Yuu Kimata, Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 March 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mapping Morphogenesis

User Richard Adams, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

A histone marks embryonic differentiation and acts as an epigenetic barrier to reprogramming

User Vincent Pasque (Gurdon lab), Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Nanoscale Tools for the Silencing of Genes in the Brain

User Kostas Kostarelos, The School of Pharmacy, University of London.

Friday 10 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

SHiPSCs, Naïve Human Pluripotent Stem Cells?

User Pentao Liu, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.

Friday 03 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Embryonic enigmas: geminin regulation and function in stem cells

User Ron Laskey, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge.

Friday 27 January 2012, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Heart development and ageing

User Thomas Brand, Heart Science Centre, Imperial College London.

Friday 25 November 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Anterior-posterior axis specification in the mammalian embryo

User Tristan Rodriguez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London.

Friday 18 November 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

What does smooth muscle development tell us about vascular disease susceptibility?

User Christine Cheung, Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 November 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Regulation of neuronal growth in a developing motor system – a Drosophila dendrite perspective

User Matthias Landgraf, Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 04 November 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

A fly's-eye view of epithelial polarity

User Franck Pichaud, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Friday 28 October 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Understanding cell shape: reconstituting actin polymerisation at the membrane-cytosol interface

User Jenny Gallop, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 21 October 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Taking shape: morphogenesis of Drosophila renal tubules

User Helen Skaer, Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 October 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Map3k4 and Sry in mammalian sex determination

User Andy Greenfield, MRC Harwell.

Friday 10 June 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Actin + oocyte: Old love - new affairs

User Melina Schuh, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 03 June 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Coincidence, cause & consequence: How can we know in developmental gene regulation?

User Boris Adryan, Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 May 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Genomics and development of the myriapod Strigamia maritima: an outgroup for comparison with insects and crustaceans

User Michael Akam, Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 May 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cilia in development and disease

User Dominic Norris, MRC Harwell.

Friday 13 May 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting mRNA localisation mechanisms during Drosophila development

User Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 06 May 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Exploring the origin of leaves

User Jill Harrison Plant, Sciences University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The Planar Cell Polarity pathway in lung development and disease

User Charlotte Dean, MRC Harwell.

Friday 04 March 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Morphogenesis of the adult abdominal epidermis of Drosophila: A matter of constriction and migration

User Marcus Bischoff, Zoology University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 February 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Different flavours of myosin function drive tubulogenesis in the fly embryo

User Katja Röper, PDN University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 February 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Transcriptional control of stem cell fate: keeping cells in the zone

User Brian Hendrich, Centre for Stem Cell Research University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 February 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The complex life of small RNAs

User Eric Miska, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge.

Friday 04 February 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Control of tissue growth by the Hippo signalling pathway in Drosophila

User Nic Tapon, LRI Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories London.

Friday 28 January 2011, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Your inner frog - Can clues from evolution unlock the molecular development of the cerebellum?

User Richard Wingate, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London.

Friday 26 November 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Regulation of chromatin organization and epigenetic modifications in embryonic stem cells

User Anton Wutz, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 19 November 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The regulation of skeletal muscle development by signaling molecules and microRNAs

User Andrea Münsterberg, Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Friday 12 November 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Coordinated regulation of cell divisions, migration and differentiation in the developing mouse brain

User Francois Guillemot, Division of Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 05 November 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Hox targets in Drosophila

User Rob White, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 29 October 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Tracking cell and cytoskeletal behaviour to understand tissue morphogenesis in fish and fly embryos

User Guy Blanchard, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 October 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Modelling early human cell fate decisions using pluripotent stem cells

User Roger Pedersen, The Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 October 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cell wars: competition through growth factor signalling

User Eugenia Piddini, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge.

Friday 04 June 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Region-specific regulation of neurogenesis by mir-9

User Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

Friday 28 May 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Control of tissue size and shape in Drosophila

User Barry Thompson, LRI Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories London.

Friday 21 May 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: the repair connection

User Petra Hajkova, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre Imperial College London.

Friday 14 May 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epigenetic mechanisms in mammalian neurogenesis

User Rick Livesey, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge.

Friday 07 May 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting the role of signalling inhibition during the induction of pluripotency

User Jose Silva, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research University of Cambridge.

Friday 30 April 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Fine-tuning BMP signaling during cell fate specification

User Kristi Wharton, Brown University.

Friday 23 April 2010, 13:15-13:55

Making your mark on the world: Jolien Veldwijk and her active involvement in peace-building processes in war-torn countries

User Jolien Veldwijk, Concordis International.

House Castlereagh Room in the Fisher Building, St. John's College.

Monday 15 March 2010, 18:00-19:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Coupling organelle capacity to the cell's needs

User David Ron, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Friday 05 March 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Lung epithelial progenitor cells in development and repair

User Emma Rawlins, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 26 February 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Shaping and patterning the embryo: Gastrulation in higher vertebrates

User Octavian Voiculescu, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 19 February 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The development of brain asymmetry - from genes to circuits

User Steve Wilson, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London.

Friday 12 February 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The role of Gata3 in the emergence of hematopoietic stem cells - a link between the hematopoietic and sympathetic nervous system

User Katrin Ottersbach, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 05 February 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epigenetic signatures of stem-cell identity - CANCELLED

User Veronique Azuara, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College.

Friday 29 January 2010, 00:00-00:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

What are the cells in the developing vertebrate retina doing?

User Bill Harris, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 January 2010, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Molecular control of axon pathfinding in the visual system

User Robert Hindges, MRC Neurobiology Unit, King's College London.

Friday 27 November 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Establishing and manipulating pluripotency in the early embryo

User Jenny Nichols, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 November 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Developmental programming of the placenta

User Abby Fowden, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 November 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Balancing self-renewal and differentiation in the Drosophila nervous system

User Andrea Brand, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 November 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The role of transcriptional regulators in extraembryonic cell-fate decisions

User Kathy Niakan, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge.

Friday 30 October 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The long and short of Hox non-coding RNAs

User Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

Friday 23 October 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Hedgehog signalling and myogenesis in the zebrafish

User Philip Ingham, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Singapore.

Friday 16 October 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The imprinted atypical Notch ligand Dlk1 and the regulation of adult neurogenesis

User Anne Ferguson-Smith - PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 05 June 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Insect gut feelings: development and function of visceral neurons in Drosophila

User Irene Miguel-Aliaga - Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 29 May 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Division versus differentiation in the embryonic nervous system

User Anna Philpott - Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 May 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Taking a Shot at neuronal growth in Drosophila

User Andreas Prokop - Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester.

Friday 15 May 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Genetic Specification of Neuronal Circuitry: How Are Different Types of Neurons Made in the Vertebrate Spinal Cord?

User Katharine Lewis - PDN University of Cambridge.

Friday 08 May 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Integrins: force-responsive connectors for morphogenesis

User Nick Brown, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 May 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

How does smell turn into behaviour?

User Gregory Jefferis - Division of Neurobiology LMB Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Regulatory logic for cell specification during early embryogenesis

User Paola Oliveri - University College London.

Friday 27 February 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Sex Determination Mechanisms in Zebrafish

User John Postlethwait - Institute of Neuroscience University of Oregon.

Friday 20 February 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Differential chromatin marking of introns and expressed exons by H3K36me3

User Julie Ahringer - The Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 February 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Molecular basis of development and degeneration of sensory hair cells in deafness

User Karen Steel - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hinxton, Cambridge.

Friday 06 February 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Intercellular signalling and intracellular transport during axis specification in Drosophila

User Isabel Palacios - Department of Zoology University of Cambridge.

Friday 30 January 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Regulation of Dpp signalling in Drosophila

User Hilary Ashe - Faculty of Life Sciences University of Manchester.

Friday 23 January 2009, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Transcriptional networks in vertebrate mesoderm formation

User Fiona Wardle - Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge.

Friday 28 November 2008, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

In vivo analysis of morphogenesis in cultured imaginal discs: A new role for Myosin II

User Luis M. Escudero - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge.

Friday 21 November 2008, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

How to build a bridal chamber: development of the thalamus

User Steffen Scholpp - MRC Centre for Developmental Biology King’s College Londo.

Friday 14 November 2008, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Non-catalytic roles for the maintenance methyltransferase, XDnmt1, in development and disease

User Richard Meehan - MRC Human Genetics Unit Western Gen Hospital Edinburgh.

Friday 07 November 2008, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Wnt signalling and cell fate decisions in stem cell populations

User Penny Hayward - Dept of Genetics University of Cambridge.

Friday 31 October 2008, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Modelling the vertebrate melanocyte - how exactly do neural crest cells go black?

User Robert Kelsh - Dept of Biology and Biochemistry University of Bath.

Friday 24 October 2008, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanisms controlling cell fate specification of pluripotent stem cells

User Ludovic Vallier - Dept of Surgery Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 October 2008, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Genetic regulation of musculoskeletal development in zebraﬁsh

User Henry Roehl - Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield.

Friday 06 June 2008, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Pax genes and neurogenic placode identity

User Clare Baker - PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 30 May 2008, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

How to tinker a haltere instead of a wing: probing downstream targets of Hox genes in Drosophila

User Tassos Pavlopoulos - University of Cambridge, Dept. Zoology.

Friday 23 November 2007, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting the molecular basis of cranial muscle development in the zebrafish

User Robert Knight - Kings College London.

Friday 16 November 2007, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Rosalind Franklin Seminar: Transcriptional networks during development - dissecting the logics

User Eileen Furlong - EMBL, Heidelberg.

Friday 09 November 2007, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Neural induction requires simultaneous inhibition of both Smad1 and Smad2 signals during gastrulation

User Chenbei Chang - University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Friday 02 November 2007, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Combining classical and modern techniques in C. elegans to solve mechanisms of morphogenesis

User Bob Goldstein - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Friday 26 October 2007, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Semaphorins, glia and keeping motor neurons in position

User Matthieu Vermeren - University of Cambridge, Dept. Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

Friday 19 October 2007, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Getting to the bottom of the Drosophila posterior

User Daniel St. Johnston - University of Cambridge, The Gurdon Institute.

Friday 12 October 2007, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The homeobox gene Hex has essential roles during liver development.

User Clifford Bogue, Yale University/ Gurdon Institute..

Friday 09 March 2007, 13:15-13:55

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Conserved mechanisms regulating lineage commitment during vertebrate gastrulation.

User Josh Brickman, Institute for Stem Cell Research, Edinburgh..

Friday 02 March 2007, 13:15-13:55