Research Seminar Series

The Research Seminars are held at 1pm on Tuesdays in the lecture theatre in the Institute of Lifecourse and Society (ILAS), Dangan (unless otherwise indicated).
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.  Previous Seminar Speakers are found here.

Seminar Dates

Speaker

Topic

18 Sept 2018
Host SL
1pm ILAS

Stefan Marciniak
Cambridge University

 The role of endoplasmic reticulum microviscosity in alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency

25 Sept 2018
Host BM
1pm ILAS

Pavel Baranov
UCC

Genetic decoding diversity: from single genes to the entire genetic codes

1 Oct 2018
Host NL/ TR
4pm ILAS (NB: time/day)

Hans-Dieter Volk
Charité/ Berlin Centre for Regenerative Therapies

 Impact of immunoaging on regenerative processes

23 Oct 2018
Host BM
1pm ILAS

Gernot Längst
University of Regensburg

Targeting non-coding RNA to chromatin by triple helix formation

30 Oct 2018
Host AS
1pm ILAS

Jean-Ehrland Ricci
University of Nice

Deciphering the link between metabolism and anti-cancer immunosurveillance

1 Nov 2018
Host AF
1pm BMS seminar room

Pascale Quignon
University of Rennes

Like master like dog: The dog as a spontaneous genetic model

 6 Nov 2018
Host SL
1pm ILAS

 Leonie Young
RCSI

 Epigenetic and transcriptomic aberrations in advanced breast cancer

13 Nov 2018
Host NL
1pm ILAS

Patrick Harrison
UCC

Towards therapeutic gene editing for cystic fibrosis

26 Nov 2018
Host AS
3pm BMS Seminar room

Lynne-Marie Postovit
Cancer Research Institute of Northern Alberta

Cellular plasticity in cancer: mechanisms of adaptation

27 Nov 2018
Host DM
1pm ILAS

Mani Ramaswami
TCD

Mechanisms of perpetual silencing: connecting molecules and modules to cognition.

30 Nov 2018
Host CS
1pm BMS Seminar room

Anja Göder
University Medical Center Mainz

 Class I HDACs and phosphatase PP2A influence cell fate decisions upon replication stress

5 Dec 2018
Host NL
1pm BMS Seminar room
Biochemistry/NCBES

Martin Lavin
University of  Queensland

ATM, role in repair of physiologically-induced DNA DSB and in protecting against lung disease

11 Dec 2018
Host DM
1pm BMS Seminar room
Biochemistry/Maths

Jessica Mar
University of Queensland

One of these cells is not like the other – how variability of gene expression highlights regulatory control

13 Dec 2018
Host DM
3pm BMS Seminar room

Gerome Breen
King's College London

Genetic links to anxiety and depression

5 Feb 2019
Host NL
1pm ILAS

Paul Murray
UL / University of Birmingham

  The Epstein-Barr virus and the pathogenesis of B cell lymphoma

12 Feb 2019
Host ED
1pm ILAS

Geert Kops
Hubrecht Institute/ UMC Utrecht

Make no  mistake: chromosomal instability and karyotype heterogeneity in cancer

19 Feb 2019
Host DM
1pm ILAS

Paul Stothard
University of Alberta

Finding causative mutations in livestock: new bioinformatics tools for structural variant discovery and analysis

26 Feb 2019
Host SR
1pm ILAS

Mikko Taipale
University of Toronto

 Systematic phenotyping of pathogenic disease variants

19 Mar 2019
Host CS
1pm ILAS

David Shore
University of Geneva

 Replication fork barrier tolerance mechanisms in budding yeast

26 Mar 2019
Host CS
1pm ILAS

Vincenzo Costanzo
IFOM

Understanding the role of essential DNA repair proteins in vertebrates

2 Apr 2019
Host NL
1pm ILAS

Tomás Ryan
TCD

Information storage in memory engrams