October
16th

Speaker:  Dr Michael Hothorn, Max Planck Institute
Talk title:  The twists and turns of plant membrane signaling
Host:  Dr John Christie
URL:  http://www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/hothorn-group.html

November
9th

Speaker:  Prof Paul Freemont, Imperial College London
Talk title:  Synthetic Biology: The application of systematic design for the engineering of biological systems
Host:  Dr Susan Rosser
URL:  http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.freemont

November
13th

Speaker:  Prof David Salt, University of Aberdeen
Talk title:  Next Generation Ionomics: Integrating Functional, Population and Ecological Genomics
Host:  Dr Anna Amtmann
URL:  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci/staff/details/david.salt

November
23rd

Speaker:  Prof Robert Zorec, University of Llujliana, Slovenia
Talk title:  Regulated Exocytosis: Fusion pore regulation of peptidergic vesicles
Host:  Prof Mike Blatt
URL:  http://www.fkkt.uni-lj.si/en/?478

November
27th

Speaker: Prof Graeme Milligan
Talk title:  Free fatty acid receptors as regulators of chronic disease: the promises and the pitfalls
URL:  http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/biology/staff/graememilligan/

December
4th

Speaker:  Dr Mark Bailey, University of Glasgow
Talk title:  A cure for Rett syndrome…? - promising results using a gene therapy approach in the Mecp2 knockout mouse model of RTT
URL:  http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/lifesciences/staff/markbailey/

December
11th

Speaker:  Prof Helen Saibil, Birkbeck College
Talk title:  Molecular machines studied by electron microscopy
Host:  Prof Neil Bulleid
URL:  http://people.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/~ubcg16z/Site/Home.html

December
14th

Speaker:  Dr Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol
Talk title:  Light and Temperature Signal Crosstalk in Plant Development
Host:  Prof Gareth Jenkins
URL:  http://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/people/keara-a-franklin/index.html

January
22nd

Speaker:  Professor Darren Monckton, University of Glasgow
Talk title:  Unstable DNA, human variation and disease
URL:  http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/biology/staff/darrenmonckton/

February
8th

Speaker:  Prof John Brown, University of Dundee
Talk title:  Alternative splicing: a major regulator of gene expression in plants
Host:  Prof Hugh Nimmo
URL:  http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/john-brown

February
22nd 

Speaker:  Dr Manuel Thery, Institut de Recherche en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant
Talk title: Directed Cytoskeleton Self-organization
Host:  Dr Mathis Riehle
URL:  https://sites.google.com/site/manuelthery/

February 26th

Speaker:  Dr Brian Smith, University of Glasgow
Talk title: Natural surfactant proteins: from biophysics to cell engineering
URL:  http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/biology/staff/briansmith/

March
5th

Speaker:  Prof Shoichiro Kurata, Tohoku University
Talk title: A receptor-type guanylate cyclase mediates humoral and cellular responses in Drosophila immunity
Host:  Prof Shireen Davies
URL: http://www.pharm.tohoku.ac.jp/~seimei/seimei-e.shtml 

March
12th

Speaker:  Prof Anthony Watts, University of Oxford
Talk title:  Conformational flexibility and dynamics of membrane proteins in a functioning lipid environment
Host:  Prof Richard Cogdell
URL:  http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?pageid=603 

March
22nd

Speaker:  Prof Gwyn Gould, University of Glasgow
Talk title:  Membrane traffic in cytokinesis: placing and making the final cut
URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/biology/staff/gwyngould/

April
2nd

Speaker:  Prof Audrey McAlinden, Washington University in St Louis
Talk title:  Mis-expression of embryonic Col2a1 isoforms affects cartilage matrix assembly and long bone properties
Host:  Dr Tom Van Agtmael
URL:  http://www.orthoresearch.wustl.edu/content/Laboratories/2942/Audrey-McAlinden/McAlinden-Lab/Overview.aspx

April
12th

Speaker: Prof Paula Booth, University of Bristol
Talk title: Progress in membrane protein folding
Host: Dr Susan Rosser
URL: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/biochemistry/research/pjb.html

April
19th

Speaker:  Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, University of Glasgow
Talk title:  Material-driven fibronectin fibrillogenesis to engineer the cellular microenvironment
Host:  Dr Matt Dalby
URL:  http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering/staff/manuelsalmeron-sanchez/ 

April
30th

Speaker:  Dr Jeremy Brown, Newcastle University
Talk title:  TBA
Host:  Dr Cheryl Woolhead
URL:  http://www.ncl.ac.uk/camb/staff/profile/jeremy.brown

May
7th

Speaker:  Dr Mathis Riehle, University of Glasgow
Talk title:  TBA
URL:  http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/biology/staff/mathisriehle/
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May
14th

Speaker:  Dr Pawel Herzyk, University of Glasgow
Talk title:  TBA
URL:  http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/biology/staff/pawelherzyk/

May
21st

Speaker:  Prof Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge
Talk title:  The Chemical Biology of the Genome
Host:  Prof Richard Cogdell
URL:  http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/sb.html

May
28th

Speaker: Prof Aidan Doherty, University of Sussex
Talk title: TBA
Host: Prof Marshall Stark
URL: www.sussex.ac.uk/gdsc/ 

June
20th 

Speaker:  Professor Nicholas Hastie, MRC
Talk title:  TBA
Host:  Dr Tom Van Agtmael
URL:  http://www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/people/n.hastie.html