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
12 Nov 2019 Host CM 1pm ILAS	Francis Barr University of Oxford	TBC
15 Nov 2019 Host NL 12 noon ILAS	Ross Chapman Oxford University	TBC
19 Nov 2019 Host BL 1pm ILAS	Lesley Jones Cardiff University	TBC
26 Nov 2019 Host DM 1pm ILAS	Derek Blake Cardiff University	TBC




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
21 Jan 2020 Host CS 1pm ILAS	Stefan Knapp University of Frankfurt	Selective targeting of kinase catalytic and scaffolding function


24 Mar 2020 Host NL 1pm ILAS	Ian Chambers University of Edinburgh	Transcription factor function in pluripotent and primordial germ cells

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