Seminar series 2011-12
Seminars take place in the Davidson Lecture theatre and start at 1pm
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November |
Speaker: Dr Julian Hibberd, University of Cambridge Talk title: Understanding the evolution of C4 photosynthesis Host: Professor Mike Blatt URL: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/julianhibberd.html |
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| November 8th |
Speaker: Professor Colin Robinson, University of Warwick |
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| November 15th | Speaker: Professor Bambos Kyriacou, University of Leicester - CANCELLED Talk title: Molecular analysis of circadian clocks Host: Professor Julian Dow URL: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/people/kyriacou |
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| November 29th |
Speaker: Dr John Christianson, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research |
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| December 6th |
Speaker: Professor Bill Rutherford, Biochemical Imperial College London Talk title: Photosynthetic reaction centres: an evolutionary view Host: Professor Richard Cogdell URL: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.rutherford/research |
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| December 13th |
Speaker: Dr John Christie, University of Glasgow Talk title: Function and application of light-activated kinases: What's LOV got to do with it? URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/biology/staff/johnchristie/ |
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January |
Speaker: Dr John Christodoulou, UCL |
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| January 17th |
Speaker: Dr Jan De Boer, University Twente Talk title: Do cells read Braille? High throughput screening of topographical biomaterial surface libraries Host: Dr Mathis Riehle URL: http://www.utwente.nl/tnw/tr/Staff/associate_professors/jandeboer/ |
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| January 24th |
Speaker: Professor Peter Keightley, University of Edinburgh Talk title: Why sex and recombination? Host: Professor Darren Monckton URL: http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/eang33/ |
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January |
Speaker: Dr Mark Bailey, University of Glasgow |
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| February 7th |
Speaker: Professor Lars Ellgaard, University of Copenhagen Talk title: The molecular function of the selenoprotein VIMP in ER-associated degradation: another case of "disorder targets misorder"? Host: Professor Neil Bulleid URL: http://www1.bio.ku.dk/english/staff/profile/?id=294574 |
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| February 14th |
Speaker: Dr Stephen Yarwood, University of Glasgow Talk title: New modes of transcriptional regulation by cyclic AMP URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/biology/staff/stephenyarwood/ |
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| February 21st |
Speaker: Professor Simon Turner, University of Manchester Talk title: Control of orientated cell division and cell expansion during plant development Host: Professor Gareth Jenkins URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Simon.turner/ |
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| February 28th |
Speaker: Professor Catrin Pritchard, University of Leicester Talk title: RAF isoform-specific signalling in cancer Host: Dr Stephen Yarwood URL: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/biochemistry/staff/pritchard |
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| March 6th |
Speaker: Professor Tony Wilkinson, University of York Talk title: Structure of an intercellular channel in differentiating bacteria Host: Professor Gordon Lindsay URL: http://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/t-z/awilkinson/ |
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| March 13th |
Speaker: Professor Gero Miesenboeck, University of Oxford Talk title: "Optogenetics: Lighting up the brain" Host: Professor Julian Dow URL: http://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/academic_staff/gero_miesenboeck |
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| March 20th |
Speaker: Dr Manu Hedge, NICHD, USA Talk title: Membrane protein biosynthesis and quality control Host: Professor Neil Bulleid URL: http://cbmp.nichd.nih.gov/upb/index.html Sponsored by Caltag Medsystems Ltd |
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April |
Speaker: Professor Frances Brodsky, UCSF Talk title: Diversity of Clathrin function in human health and disease Host: Dr Nia Bryant URL: http://brodsky.ucsf.edu/ |
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June 12th |
Speaker: Dr Ana P Costa-Pereira, Imperial College London |
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| June 15th |
Speaker: Fiona Marshall, Heptares Therapeutics Talk title: 'New paradigms in GPCR research and drug discovery using thermostabilised proteins' Host: Prof Graeme Milligan URL: http://www.heptares.com/ |