Research Seminar Series

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The Research Seminars are held at 1pm on Tuesdays, unless otherwise indicated. The seminars are to be held remotely this year.

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.
Seminar Dates	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic



Oct 13 2020	Ingrid Tessmer	U. Wuerzburg	Alkyltransferase-like protein clusters scan DNA rapidly over long distances and recruit Nucleotide Excision Repair to alkyl-DNA lesions
Oct 27 2020	Kumar Somyajit	U. Copenhagen	Dynamic coupling between metabolic signalling and DNA replication

Nov 10 2020	Jordi Solana	Oxford Brooks	Using single-cell analysis and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution
Nov 17 2020	Yukiko Yamashita	MIT	Function of junk: satellite DNA in Drosophila spermatogenesis
Nov 24 2020	Julian Sale	MRC LMB Cambridge	Sequences that stall replication
Dec 1 2020	Elsa Logarinho	i3S/ IBMC Porto	Inhibition of age-associated genomic instability: emerging strategy to delay cellular senescence and aging
Dec 8 2020	Tom McWilliams	U. Helsinki	Regulation of mammalian mitochondrial destruction by mitophagy

Feb 9 2021	Titia Sixma	NKI Amsterdam	TBD
Feb 16 2021	Simona Polo	IFOM/ FIRC Milan	Ubiquitin HECT E3 ligases: A tale with multiple facets
Feb 23 2021	Mark van Breugel	QMUL	The centriolar CEP164-TTBK2 complex in health and in disease
Mar 2 2021	Kok-Lung Chan	U.Sussex	The importance of replication machinery control for mitotic chromosome stability

Mar 16 2021	Suliana Manley	EPFL	TBD

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