Research Seminar Series

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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

17 Sept 2019 Host DM	Colm O Dushlaine Regeneron Genetics, New York	Large-scale genomics as an aide to drug discovery
1 Oct 2019 Host AG 1pm MY243	Veit Goder University of Seville	Protein quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum
2 Oct 2019 Host ES 12:00 BMS Seminar Room	Karen Keeshan Leukaemia Research Centre Glasgow	Therapeutic approaches in acute myeloid leukaemia
29 Oct 2019 Host AS 1pm MY243	Vivek Malhotra Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona	Collagen secretion in health, cylindromas, fibrosis and other collagenopathies
5 Nov 2019 Host DM 1pm ILAS	Rick Livesey University College London	Deciphering dementia with human stem cell systems
15 Nov 2019 Host NL 12 noon ILAS	Ross Chapman Oxford University	Exploiting centrosome dysfunction to kill 17q23 amplified breast cancer cells
19 Nov 2019 Host BL 1pm ILAS	Lesley Jones Cardiff University	Genetic modifiers in Huntington's disease: an expanding tale
26 Nov 2019 Host DM 1pm ILAS	Derek Blake Cardiff University	Brain disorders: genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to biology
27 Nov 2019 Host NL 1pm BMS	Alexandre Mirnov Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare (IFOM) Milan	Correlative and other methods of modern electron microscopy. Implications for intracellular transport and cytokinesis.
14 Jan 2020 Host BL 1pm ILAS	Philippe Pasero IGH, University of Montpellier	Spontaneous replication stress as a source of genomic instability and inflammation in cancer
16 Jan 2020 Host HD 1pm Human Biology bldg B001	Jessica Downs Institute of Cancer Research, London	Loss of SWI/SNF activity and its impact on aneuploidy
21 Jan 2020 Host CS 1pm ILAS	Stefan Knapp University of Frankfurt	Selective targeting of kinase catalytic and scaffolding function
11 Feb 2020 Host CM 1pm ILAS	Francis Barr University of Oxford	Temporal and spatial regulation of human cell division by protein phosphatase
3 Mar 2020 Host NL 1pm ILAS	Andrei Budanov Trinity College Dublin	Sestrins- the guards on crossroads of the DNA-damage response and nutrient sensing


7 Apr 2020 Host NL 1pm ILAS	Aoife McLysaght TCD	Dosage sensitive genes in evolution and disease

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