Shedding light on cytoskeletal mRNA transport in vivo and in vitro

Simon Bullock, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

The dinucleotide CpG as a genomic signalling module

Adrian Bird, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 04 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Tube formation during C. elegans vulval development: Linking cell fate with morphogenesis

Alex Hajnal, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Structure, function and mechanisms of dynamin-superfamily proteins

Oliver Daumke, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Towards an RNA structure of everything

Kevin Weeks, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing fidelity by the Nineteen Complex

Raymond O'keefe, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

The biochemistry & genetics of bacterial predation by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

Liz Sockett, School of Biology, University of Nottingham.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 29 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Analysis of Transcriptomes and Proteomes in Proliferating and Quiescent Cells

Jürg Bähler, Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, UCL.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Thrombospondins, Matrix and the Emerging Role of Fascin-1 in Carcinoma Metastasis

Josephine C. Adams, School of Biochemistry, Bristol.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Drugging the cancer genome

Paul Workman, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

Hans Wolf-Watz, University of Umea, Sweden.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Arrivals and departures: how Arf family G proteins organise membrane traffic at the Golgi

Sean Munro, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

The CRISPR system for prokaryotic antiviral immunity

Malcolm White, St. Andrews University, UK.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Ubiquitin signalling in immunity and inflammation - Working on the chain gang

Katrin Rittinger, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

The genetics of individuals: why would a mutation kill me, but not you?

Ben Lehner, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

New insights into old parasites - Plasmodium malariae, P. ovale spp and the mysterious process of host transition.

Colin Sutherland, London School of of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Genetic dissection of the ß-barrel assembly machine in Gram-negative bacteria

Thomas J. Silhavy, Princeton University .

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

How the INO80 and PBAF chromatin remodelling complexes function to maintain genome stability

Jessica Downs, MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Synthetic genetic polymers

Philipp Holliger, MRC LMB, Cambridge .

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Mining RNA-seq Data For Insights into Intron Splicing and Recycling

Will Fairbrother, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Brown University.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases - Successes, Failures and Lessons Learned

Alan Fairlamb, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Enjoying the sun – Macromolecular machines involved in DNA damage detection and repair

Nicolas Thoma, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Endosymbiosis, genome mosaicism, and the evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes

Prof. John Archibald, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Drugging the cancer genome

CANCELLED due to illness

Prof. Paul Workman, Institute of Cancer Research, Surrey.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Interactome Networks and Human Disease

Alkis Seraphim memorial lecture

Marc Vidal, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

The architecture and ppGpp-dependent expression of the primary transcriptome of Salmonella Typhimurium

Dr. Arthur Thompson, Institute of Food Research, Norwich.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

HOW MUCH CAN ONE SEE BY (JUST) LOOKING: the case with Heterochromatin Protein 1

Prof. Spyros Georgatos, University of Iannina, Greece.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Molecular mechanisms of the Polycomb/trithorax system

Dr. Juerg Mueller, Department of Chromatin and Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Structural basis of anaphase promoting complex assembly, substrate recognition and regulation by the mitotic checkpoint complex

Prof. David Barford, Institute of Cancer Research, London.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Protease-mediated protein processing and the "forgotten" co-translational alpha-N-acetylation revealed by positional proteomics

Please note - CANCELLED due to illness

Prof. Kris Gevaert, VIB Life Science Research Institute, Gent, Belgium.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

The Spliceosome: the machine that removes introns from pre-mRNA

Kiyoshi Nagai, MRC LMB, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Protein/Lipid Interactions in Membranes via Multiscale Simulations

Prof. Mark Sansom, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

New biological insights from single molecule experiments

Prof. David Klenerman, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Matthias Mann, Department of Proteomics and Signal transduction, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

The functional significance of the modular architecture of plant cell wall degrading enzymes

Prof. Harry J. Gilbert, School of Biomedical Sciences, Newcastle University.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Mass spectrometric analysis of lipid signalling in cancer

Prof. Michael J. O. Wakelam, Babraham Institute.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Scaffolds and adaptors in DNA-damage response signalling: a structural perspective

Dr. Stephen Smerdon, MRC National Institute of Medical Research, London.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

How do cells establish and maintain sister chromatid cohesion?

Alkis Seraphim lecture - please note the later starting time

Prof. Kim Nasmyth, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 17:00-18:00

Combining science and adventure: On the hunt for new fluorescent proteins in tropical coral reefs on the Danish Galathea 3 Expedition.

Prof. Peter Roepstorff, University of Southern Denmark.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

The road to the structure of the ribosome: A personal account

Special Postdoc seminar - please note the later starting time

Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC LMB, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Protein dynamics illuminated by studies of bacterial behaviour

Prof. Judy Armitage, University of Oxford.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Discovery of the mechanism that enables the provision of nutrients to proliferating cells

Prof. Sir Salvador Moncada, University College London.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Peptide aptamers as precision tools for dissecting signaling pathways: application to Nerve Growth Factor signaling

Prof. Brian B. Rudkin CNRS/ENS Universite' Lyon, France.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

MAL: linking the actin cytoskeleton to transcriptional regulation

Dr. Richard Treisman, CRUK London Research Institute.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 18 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cell Surface Signalling Assemblies

Prof. Yvonne Jones, University of Oxford.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

New insights into the Fanconi Anaemia Tumour Suppressor Pathway from Slime mould to Mice

Dr. KJ Patel, MRC LMB, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Mass spectrometry: A powerful tool for the biosciences

Prof. Ann Dell, Imperial College, London.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

The architecture of respiratory complex I: 'steam engine' of the cell

Leonid Sazanov, Mitochondrial Biology Unit, MRC, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Watching molecules one-by-one: in vivo and in vitro single-molecule studies of molecular machines that replicate and segregate chromosomes

Prof. David Sherratt, University of Oxford.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

The road to Executable Biology

Dr. Jasmine Fisher, Microsoft Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

The structure and organisation of photosynthetic membranes

Prof. Neil Hunter, University of Sheffield.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 13:00-14:00