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Research Seminar Series

The Research Seminars are held at 1pm on Tuesdays (from Sept '17) 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

26 Sept 2017
Host CS
1pm ILAS

Luca Pellegrini
University of Cambridge

Molecular mechanisms of eukaryotic DNA replication, as revealed by structural studies.

3 Oct 2017
Host ES
1pm ILAS

Olivier Micheau
INSERM, Dijon

Targeting TRAIL-R1 or TRAIL-R2 for cancer therapy, a cornelian choice!

27 Oct 2017
Host BL
1pm BS Seminar Room

Eric Alani
Cornell

Identifying novel roles for DNA mismatch repair proteins in genetic recombination and repair.

7 Nov 2017
Host SR
1pm ILAS

 Jop Kind
Hubrecht Institute

 Untangling spatial genome organization: new insights from single-cell genomics

 14 Nov 2017
Host KFS
1pm ILAS

Ludovic Orlando
Natural History Museum of Denmark
University of Copenhagen

 The genomic history of horse domestication.

 17 Nov 2017
Host UF
1pm BSB Seminar room

 Aziz Aboobaker
University of Oxford

 What can we learn from immortal worms? Planarians as model system for animal stem cell biology

20 Nov 2017
Host MG
AS203 River Room
(Not a BI446 Seminar)

Noah Filkenstein
Centre for STEM learning
University of Colorado

 Preserving the promise of Higher education: our critical roles in excellence and access.

21 Nov 2017
Host BL
1pm ILAS

 John Schwabe
University of Leicester

 Unravelling the complexities of Histone Deacetylase complexes - a structural and functional approach to understanding mechanisms of gene repression

28 Nov 2017
Host CM
1pm ILAS

Travis Stracker
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) Barcelona

Characterization of novel replication stress mediators in development and disease

16 Jan 2018
Host DM
1pm ILAS

Daniel Gaffney
Sanger Institute

 TBC

23 Jan 2018
Host SL
1pm ILAS

Fabio Martinon
University of Lausanne

TBC
 

30 Jan 2018
Host MC
1pm ILAS

Tracy Robson
RCSI

 Harnessing the anti-angiogenic and anti-cancer stem cell properties of FKBPL; discovery to clinic.

 13 Feb 2018
Host CS
1pm ILAS

 Massimo Lopez
University of Zurich

 TBC

27 Feb 2018
Host CM
1pm ILAS

Zuzana Storchová
TU Kaiserslautern

 TBC