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28th October 2024: Multi-faceted roles of retrotransposons in cancer genomes
Featuring: Dr Ozgen Deniz (QMUL)
30th September 2024: Mitochondria at neuronal presynapses in health and disease
Featuring: Dr Mike Devine (Francis Crick Institute)
Host: Prof Tom Carter
10th June 2024: MHRA proposed new regulatory framework in the UK following Brexit
Featuring: Dr Ian Rees (Regulatory Consultant for the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)
Host: Dr Brigette Bax
13th May 2024: The role of mitochondrial transcriptional processes in modulating human health and disease
Featuring: Prof. Alan Hodgkinson (Kings College London)
Host: Dr Chris Carroll
15th April 2024: Using deep learning models to solve important problems in genetics
Featuring: Dr Clare Bycroft (Deep mind)
Host: Dr Laura Southgate
11th March 2024: Genetic analysis of Cardiomyopathies
Featuring: Dr Flavie Ader (Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié Salpêtrière Paris, France)
Host: Dr Daniel Osborne
4th March 2024: Glia-neuronal interactions in health and disease
Featuring: Prof Giles Hardingham (Edinburgh University)
Host: Prof. Tom Carter
19th February 2024: Intestinal biology of naked mole rats and clues to longevity
Featuring: Dr Shazia Irshad (Radcliff Dept of Medicine, Oxford Uni)
Host: Dr Chris Carroll
5th February 2024: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly in Fluorescence Microscopy
Featuring: Dr Sian Culley (Kings College London)
Host: Prof. Tom Carter
22nd January 2024: Defining Satellite Cell-opathies: Neuromuscular Disorders Caused by Muscle Stem Cell Dysfunction
Featuring: Prof Peter Zammit (Kings College London)
Host: Prof. Tom Carter
23 January 2023: The ins and outs of cellular quiescence
Featuring: Dr Alexis Barr (Imperial College London)
Host: Tom Carter
6 February 2023: Exercise, Sleep and Nutrition: mechanistic dissection of how lifestyle controls muscle growth
Featuring: Professor Simon Huges (Kings College London)
Host: Dan Osborne and Tom Carter
6 March 2023: The impact of brain endothelial cell senescence on adult neurogenesis
Featuring: Professor Isabel Fariñas (University of Valencia)
Host: Tom Carter
20 March 2023: Searching for patterns in chaos: How vascular patterning regulates tissue fibrosis
Featuring: Dr Neil Dufton (Queen Mary, University of London)
Host: Tom Carter
7 February 2022: Targeting anti-apoptotic pathways in senescent cells, implications for ageing and disease
Teams
Dr Jaskaren Kohli (KCL)
21 February 2022: Germline epistasis in short telomere syndrome dyskeratosis congenita
Teams
Dr Hemanth Tummala (QMUL)
7 March 2022: Heart disease: What goes wrong inside the cells?
Teams
Professor Elisabeth Ehler (KLC)
21 March 2022: Single molecule force spectroscopy for studying DNA-protein interactions and DNA repair
Dr Nike Bell (Francis Crick Institute)
4 April 2022: Fish and whips: using zebrafish to investigate how cellular waste disposal affects cilia
Dr Christoper Wilkinson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
11 July 2022: Regulation of lymphatic endothelial cell gene expression and lymphangiogenesis by the transcription factor ERG
Teaching Room J1.8
Dr Graeme Birdsey (ICL)
28 November 2022: 100,000 Genomes Study on Rare-Disease Diagnosis in Healthcare
Professor Shamima Rahman (GOSH and Institute of Child Health, UCL)
12 December 2022: Platelet priming in haemostatsis and immunothrombosis
Dr Isabelle Salles-Crawley (St George's, University of London)
11th January 2021 The happy tale of an orphan connexin
MS Teams
Professor Jon Gibbins (Reading University)
Host: Tom Carter
25th January 2021 Organelle remodelling during cell division and viral assembly
MS Teams
Dr Jeremy Carlton (Francis Crick Institute, London)
Host: Tom Carter
8th February 2021 Modulating transcription to delay ageing in the fruit fly
MS Teams
Dr Nazif Alic (UCL)
Host: Tom Carter
22nd February 2021 Molecules, Modules and Models of Pregnancy
MS Teams
Professor Michael Taggart (Newcastle University)
Hosts: Tom Carter/Guy Whitley
8th March 2021 The EMMAC project: impact of missense mutations in genetic disease
MS Teams
Dr Dagan Jenkins (UCL)
Hosts: Tom Carter/Soo-Hyun Kim
22nd March Synaptic glutamate release and uptake in Huntington's disease
MS Teams
Prof. Dr (med) Rosemarie Grantyn (Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin)
Hosts: Tom Carter/Kati Torok
19th April 2021 Mechanosensing in placental vascular function
MS Teams
Dr LC Morley (Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds)
Host: Tom Carter
17th May 2021 Molecular Scale Imaging of Cardiac Ca2+ handling and EC coupling
MS Teams
Prof. Christian Soeller (Exeter University)
Hosts: Tom Carter/ Mary Sheppard
28th June 2021 The evolution of organ development
Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira (Francis Crick Institute)
Host: Tom Carter
12th July 2021 Targeting the cardiac lymphatics to optimize heart repair
Paul Riley (Oxford University)
Hosts: Tom Carter / Pia Ostergaard
27th September 2021 Structures of Influenza Haemagglutinin Fusion Intermediates
Dr Donald Benton (Francis Crick Institute)
Host: Tom Carter
11th October 2021 Pro-survival role of ISR signalling in mitochondrial cardiomyopathy acts via OMA1 protease
Dr Sofia Ahola (Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing)
Host: Chris Carroll
25th October 2021 To degrade or not to degrade - Protein quality control of tail-anchored membrane proteins by co-chaperone SGTA
Dr Janina Muench (Kings College London)
Host: Katalin Torok
8th November 2021 Nanopipette biosensors for single-cell analysis
Professor Yuri Korchev (ICL Division of Medicine)
Host: Elena Sviderskaya
22nd November 2021 Tales from the Dark Side: Insights into rare genetic disease from melanosome biogenesis
Professor Michael Marks (Penn Uni USA)
Host: Elena Sviderskaya
6th December 2021 Cytonemes regulate Wnt transport in development and disease
Dr Steffen Scholpp (University of Exeter)
Host: Tom Carter
6th January 2020 Snail coiling: CRISPR editing of a single gene turns righties into lefties
J1.4 Professor Dr. Reiko Kuroda (Chubu University, Japan)
Host: Professor Mark Fisher
27th January 2020 Novel sources of endothelial cells for blood vessels and lymphatics
Dr Christiana Ruhrberg (UCL)
Host: Pia Ostergaard
10th February 2020 The role of biomechanical stress signalling in inherited cardiac diseases
J1.5 Dr. Katja Gehmlich
(University of Birmingham)
Host: Yalda Jamishidi
24th February 2020 Junctional control of endothelial cell migration
J1.4 Dr Tom Nightingale
(William Harvey Institute, Guys Uni)
Host: Tom Carter
9th March 2020 Rab46 integrates GTPase and Ca2+ signals for stimuli-dependent Weibel-Palade body trafficking
J1.5 Dr Lynn McKeown (University of Leeds).
Host: Tom carter
23th March Exploiting the mechanisms of DNA topoisomerases to develop antibacterial agents Postponed
J1.5 Professor Tony Maxwell (John Innes Center)
Host: Tom Carter/Mark Fisher
20th April A decade of demented mice: from brainwaves to blood flow
Prof. Andrew Randall (Exeter University) Postponed
Host: Atticus Hainsworth
J1.5
15 June
Dr Robin Walters
(Oxford Uni)
Host: Andrew Walley
29 June Piecing together the human cilium – genetics of rare motile ciliopathies
MS Teams
Prof. Hannah Mitchison
(UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)
Host: Tom Carter
28th January 2019 Von Willebrand factor release from Weibel-Palade bodies: How to unpack a vascular emergency kit
J1.14 Dr Ruben Bierings
(Erasmus Medical centre, Rotterdam)
Host: Tom Carter
11th February 2019 Ciliogenesis and cell polarity using zebrafish models
J1.12 Dr Jarema Malicki (cancelled due to tragic death of speaker)
(Sheffield University)
Host: Tom Carter
25th February 2019 Dissecting the secretory pathway using functional genomics
J1.12 Dr Andrew Peden
(Sheffield Uni)
Host: Tom Carter
11th March 2019 Genetics and Genomics of the China Kadoorie Biobank
J1.12 Dr Robin Walters
(Oxford University)
Host: Andrew Walley
25th March 2019 Molecular control of endosomal protein sorting/trafficking
J1.12 Prof. Pete Cullen
(Bristol University)
Host: Tom Carter
10th June 2019 Short telomeres and age-related disease: innocent bystanders or guilty culprits?
J1.12
Dr Jess Buxton (Kingston University)
Host: Andrew Walley
24 June 2019 Phosphoinositide lipids and congenital disorders of membrane trafficking
J1.14
Dr Laura Swan (Sheffield University)
Host: Yalda Jamshidi
8 July 2019 Genetic architecture of rare developmental disorders
J1.12
Dr Hilary Martin (Sanger Institute)
Host: Yalda Jamshidi
22 July 2019 Musculoskeletal tissue engineering: Biomechanics and bioreactors
J1.12
Dr James Henstock (Liverpool University)
Host: Caroline Copeland
16 September 2019 The role of the dynein-2 microtubule motor in cilia assembly and function
J1.5
Professor David Stephens (Bristol Uni)
Host: Soo-Kim
30th September 2019 Of mice and man: disease mechanisms of Col4a1 cerebrovascular, eye and kidney disease
J1.1
Dr Tom Van Agtmael (Glasgow University)
Host: Atticus Hainsworth
14 October 2019 Tethered exosomes and their roles in health and disease
LTB
Dr James Edgar (Cambridge University)
Host: Tom Carter
11th Nov 2019 Novel sources of endothelial cells for blood vessels and lymphatics
J1.4
Dr Christiana Ruhrberg (UCL)
Host: Pia Ostergaard
25th Nov 2019 Targeting the microvasculature as a therapy for polycystic kidney disease
J1.4
Professor David Long (UCL)
Host: Pia Ostergaard
9 December 2019 The dialogue between mitochondria and calcium signalling in cell life and death
J1.4
Professor Michael Duchen (UCL)
Host: Tom Carter
15th January 2018 Fios Genomics - Discovering the Biology in your Data
J1.13 Dr Emma Behjat
(Fios Genomics, Edinburgh)
Host: Ingrid Dumitriu
29th January 2018 Policing secretion: quality control of protein biogenesis in the endoplasmic reticulum
J0.7 Prof. Liz Miller
(MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
Host: Tom Carter
12th February 2018 What is ageing? Lessons from C. elegans
J1.5 Prof. David Gems.
(University College London)
Host: Tom Carter
26th February 2018 Insulin signalling at the intersection of metabolism and ageing
J0.8 Prof. Lazaros Foukas
(University College London)
Host: Tom Carter
12th March 2018 The Breathless Genes: lung function genetics and risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
J0.8 Dr Louise Wain (University of Leicester)
Host: Yalda Jamshidi
26th March 2018 Targeting protein aggregation in neurodegenerative conditions using rationally designed antibodies.
J0.8 Dr Francesco Aprile (University of Cambridge)
Host: Atticus hainsworth
16th April 2018 Gonadotropin-releasing hormone signalling: dynamics, noise and information
Prof Craig McArdle
J1.8 (University of Bristol)
Host: Kim Jonas
30th April 2018 Coated vesicles and what happens next
J0.8 Professor Scottie Robinson (Cambridge University)
Host: Tom Carter
14th May 2018 Modelling human brain development and evolution in cerebral organoids
J0.7 Dr Madeline Lancaster
(MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
Host: Tom Carter
11th June 2018 The nuclear lamina and vascular ageing
J0.8 Professor Catherine Shanahan
(King's College London)
Host: Laura Southgate
25th June 2018 Metabolite-mediated regulation of inflammation.
J0.8 Dr Claudio Mauro
(University of Birmingham)
Host: Soo-Kim
16th July 2018 Development of therapies for mitochondrial DNA replication defects
J0.8 Dr Caterina Garone
(Welcome trust/MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge)
Host: Bridget Bax
17th September 2018 Seeing and believing at super-resolution
J1.12 Dr Susan Cox
(Randall Centre of Cell & Molecular Biophysics, KCL)
Host: Tom Carter
24th September 2018 Regulation of Retinoic Acid Availability in Cardiac Development and Disease
J1.13 Dr Catherine Roberts
(Imperial College Hospital)
Host: Paris Ataliotis
8th October 2018 Mechanisms of connexin-related lymphatic dysfunction and lymphedema
LTC Prof Michael J. Davis
(Medical Pharmacology & Physiology, University of Missouri)
Host: Pia Ostergaard
22nd October 2018 Using super-resolution imaging to understand protein organisation in diverse structures: from primary cilia to muscle Z-discs
LTC Prof Michelle Peckham
(Leeds University)
Host: Tom Carter
19th November 2018 Exploring positive and negative regulation of cancer cell migration and invasion
LTB Dr Matthias Kraus
(Randell Institute, Kings College London)
Host: Ferran Valderrama
3rd December 2018 On the Origins of blood vessels and lymphatics
J1.13 Dr Oliver Stone
(Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), Oxford)
Host: Pia Ostergaard
30 January 2017 Automatic tracking of biological objects using light microscopy: from cells to molecules.
J0.8 Dr Gregory Mashanov (Francis Crick Institute)
Host: Tom Carter
13 February 2017 CRISPR gene editing for cystic fibrosis.
J0.8 Dr Patrick Harrison
(Dept. Physiology, University College Cork)
Host: Tom Carter/Vanessa Ho (Physiological Society funded seminar
27 February 2017 Effect of Thyroid hormone pathway modulation on stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte maturation
Lecture Theatre C Dr Nicola Hellen
(Imperial College, London)
Host: Tom Carter
13 March 2017 The biomechanics of B cell activation
J0.8 Dr Pavel Tolar
(Francis Crick Institute, UK)
Host: Tom Carter
27 March 2017 Mitochondria and telomeres: partners in cellular senescence
J0.8 Teaching Room Dr Joao Passos Rescheduled to Autumn 2017
(Newcastle University)
Host: Dorothy Bennet
10 April 2017 Reverse Engineering Microtubule Cytoskeleton Dynamic and Function
J0.7 Teaching Room Dr Thomas Surrey
(Francis Crick Institute, UK)
Host: Tom Carter
15 May 2017 Modelling remodelling: Investigating genetic control of angiogenesis and vascular integrity using zebrafish
Lecture Theatre B Dr Robert Wilkinson
(Sheffield University)
Host: Tom Carter
12 June 2017 Holographic Light Shaping for Monitoring and Manipulating Neuronal Connectivity
Lecture Theatre B Dr Amanda Foust
(Imperial College London)
Host: Caroline Copeland
26 June 2017 Using the nematode C. elegans to understand ageing
Lecture Theatre C Dr Jennifer Tullet
(University of Kent)
Host: Kim Jonas
10 July 2017 Lysosomes, endolysosomes and lysosome related organelles: the dynamics of the late endocytic pathway
J0.7 Teaching Room Professor Paul Luzio
(University of Cambridge)
Host: Tom Carter
11th September 2017 Mitochondria and telomeres: partners in cellular senescence
Lecture Theatre A Dr Joao Passos (Newcastle University)
Host: Dot Bennett
25th September 2017 SNARE trafficking: a structural biology approach
J0.7 Prof. David Owen (Cambridge University)
Host: Tom Carter
9th October 2017 Neutrophil vesicles to promote tissue protection and repair
J1.5 Professor Mauro Perretti (Queen Mary University of London)
Host: Tom Carter
23rd October 2017 Nrf2-Keap1 regulated redox signalling in human endothelial cells under physiological oxygen tension
J0.7 Prof Giovanni E. Mann (King's College London, BHF Centre of Research Excellence)
Host: Tom Carter
6th November 2017 Adams-Oliver syndrome: a window into the multigenic regulation of limb, scalp and heart development
J0.7 Dr Laura Southgate
(TBC)
20th November 2017 Membrane contact sites between the ER and endocytic pathway: their role in lipid transport and endosomal sorting
LT A Prof. Clare Futter
(Inst Ophthalmology, UCL)
Host: Tom Carter
4th December 2017 Understanding the systemic regulation of the Unfolded Protein Response and its role in ageing
J1.5 Dr Rebecca Taylor
(MRC LMB Cambridge)
Host: Tom Carter
12th September 2016 Cryomicroscopy of biological architecture in situ: influenza virus membrane fusion and von Willebrand factor storage
Room H2.7 Board Dr Peter Rosenthal
(Francis Crick Institute)
Host: Tom Carter
26th September Protecting the heart from Ischaemia and Reperfusion Injury – from mitochondria to exosomes
J0.8 Dr Sean Davidson
(Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, UCL,)
Host: Tom Carter
24th October Role for extracellular vesicles in diabetic vascular inflammation
J0.7 Dr Charlotte Lawson
(Royal Vet College, London)
Host: Tom Carter
7th November Next Generation Sequencing studies of Inherited Retinal Disease
J0.8 Dr Gavin Arno
(UCL Institute of Ophthalmology)
Host: Pia Ostergaard
21st November A trip around a plasmid: the dynamics and mechanism of rolling circle plasmid replication
Room H2.7 Dr Martin Webb
(Francis Crick Institute, UK)
Host: Tom Carter
5th December Exome-wide evaluation of mechanisms of splicing in 8000 families with severe developmental disorders
Room H2.6 Dr Jenny Lord
(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
Host: Pia Ostergaard
24th October How the Neocortex Enables the Detection of Novelty
J0.7 Dr Sam Cooke
(Kings College London)
Host: Tom Carter