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Discipline Seminar Series

Seminars are held on Fridays at 1.00pm in the McMunn Theatre, at the Biochemistry end of the Arts and Science Concourse Building (unless otherwise indicated). Note: NCBES seminars are held in the NCBES Seminar room.
A range of national and international speakers have been invited and will present talks on a wide range of topics as outlined in the schedule below. Precise details will be publicised closer to the scheduled dates.

A list of speakers for previous years can be found here.

Seminar Dates	Speaker	Institution	Topic	Host	Details
Aug 10 2012	Almer Van der Sloot	University of Montreal	Structure-based design of novel anti-tumour agents	ES
Aug 22 2012	Michael Lisby	University of Copenhagen	Checkpoint sensing of DNA bridges in anaphase	NL	1pm Wednesday in McMunn
Sep 21 2012	Marco Foiani	IFOM Milan	Mechanisms coordinating chromosome replication and transcription	NL	Biochemistry seminar
Oct 26 2012	Remy Pedeux	Université de Rennes 1	The tumor suppressive protein ING2 is required for DNA damage response protein recruitment and promotes NHEJ	MG	Funded by IRC/ Ulysses
Nov 2 2012	Olaf Stemmann	University of Bayreuth	How separase, cohesin and shugoshin choreograph the chromosome-ballet of mitosis	CM	Biochemistry seminar NB 2pm in McMunn
Nov 9 2012	Simon Cook	Babraham Institute	That which does not kill me makes me stronger; acquired resistance to ERK1/2 pathway inhibitors in tumour cells.	AS	Biochemistry seminar
Nov 16	Lorenza Penengo	University of Piemonte Orientale	Ubiquitination and chromatin remodelling:How the ubiquitin ligase RNF168 drives the DNA damage response	SR	Biochemistry seminar
Dec 10	Iain Nicholl	University of Wolverhampton	Asprin, Inflammation, DNA repair and Colorectal Cancer	RZ	3pm in NCBES Seminar Room
Dec 11	Ram Reshef	Haifa University	Interplay Between Activin and Hox Genes Determines the Fate of Kidney Progenitor Cells and the Formation of the Kidney morphogenetic Field	UF	NCBES seminar room, Tues 1 pm

Jan 18 2013	Gaëlle Legube	CNRS Toulouse	Transcription channels DNA double-strand breaks to RAD51-dependent repair	SR/ MG	Biochemistry seminar
Jan 25 2013	Ian Hickson	University of Copenhagen	Genomic instability and cancer: lessons from analysis of Bloom's syndrome	CM	Biochemistry seminar
Feb 1 2013	Adrian Bracken	TCD	Epigenetic 'reader' proteins in stem cells and cancer	AF	Biochemistry seminar
Feb 8 2013	Emmeline Hill	UCD	The genetics of exercise adaptation in Thoroughbred racehorses	MC	Biochemistry seminar
Feb 15 2013	Peter Becker	LMU Munich	Chromosome-wide gene regulation: Lessons learned from Dosage Compensation in Drosophila	AF	Biochemistry seminar
Mar 1 2013	Grant Stewart	University of Birmingham	Ubiquitin-dependent regulation of the DNA damage response induced by replication stress	NL	12 noon in the Larmor theatre
Mar 15 2013	Karen Cawley	Supervisor Afshin Samali of NUIG	MicroRNAs: important modulators of ER stress-induced cell death	BL	Pre-viva Presenation
Mar 22 2013	Simonetta Piatti	CRBM Montpellier	Regulation of septins for cytokinesis and for coupling spindle positioning to mitotic exit	MG/NL	Biochemistry seminar
Mar 28 2013	Eric Chevet	Université Bordeaux Segalen	Endoplasmic Reticulum stress signaling in liver cancer: the AAA+ connection	AS	Apoptosis research Centre/Biochemistry seminar
Apr 19 2013	Jeremy Simpson	UCD	Genome-wide automated imaging of membrane traffic pathways in mammalian cells	AS	Biochemistry seminar
Apr 29 2013	Cynthia McMurray	Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory	Genetics and pathophysiology of Huntington's disease	BL	Biochemistry seminar
June 7 2013	Domenico Delia	Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori	Functionality and DNA damage response of neurons generated from Ataxia-telangiectasia-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells)	HPN	Biochemistry seminar
28th Jun 2013	René Medema	The Netherlands Cancer Institute	tbc	CM	Biochemistry seminar
Sept 6th 2013	Frank Kooy	University of Antwerp	tbc	BL	Biochemistry seminar
Oct 11 2013	Ken Mills	Queens University	tbc	ES & MO'D	Biochemistry seminar
Nov 15 2013	David Ron	Cambridge University	tbc	AS	Biochemistry seminar

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