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School of Medicine Science Seminar Series

Weekly seminar series hosted by the School of Medicine

Hosted by
School of Medicine Research
Venue
Henry Wellcome Building
Heath Park
Cardiff CF14 4XN
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Location
UG16

Forthcoming science seminars

Previous science seminars

  • The Core Bioinformatics Team (Dr Ian Brewis, Dr Tim Stone and Dr Imtiaz Khan)
    An introduction to the MEDIC Core Bioinformatics Team
    23rd May, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor John Chester (Professorial Inaugural Lecture)
    New treatments for old? The Aladdin's cave of 21st-century cancer therapies?
    9th May, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Paul Brenchley (University of Manchester)
    Membranous Nephropathy: an opportunity to create a paradigm shift in understanding autoimmunity
    2nd May, 13.00‑14.00
  • Prof Paul Garside (Glasgow University)
    Imaging Cellular Interactions In Vivo
    18th April, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Quentin Sattentau (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford)
    The HIV-T Cell-Macrophage Dance
    11th April, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Ken Mills
    Integrative analysis to identify novel therapies in myeloid malignancies
    14th March, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Ashley Moffett
    NK cells and Reproductive Success
    7th March, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor John Henderson (Newcastle University)
    Mechanisms of mutagenesis in leukaemia pathogenesis
    24th January, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor John Henderson (University of Bristol)
    Can epidemiology unravel the complexities of asthma in children?
    17th January, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Peter Parham (Stanford University)
    Diverse NK-cell receptors and HLA class I ligands in human immunity, reproduction and evolution
    10th January, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Mike Robling (South East Wales Trials Unit)
    Translational research in SEWTU: what we do and how we do it
    29th November 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Richard Coward (University of Bristol)
    Insulin and insulin-like growth factor signalling in the renal glomerulus: insights from knock-out mouse models
    22nd November 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Alan Fraser (Professorial Inaugural Lecture)
    The art of diagnosis in the age of the internet
    15th November 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Ruth Luthi-Carter (University of Leicester)
    The transcriptomics of Huntington's disease and its relevance to neurodegenerative disease mechanisms and therapeutics
    1st November 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Marian Ludgate (Professorial Inaugural Lecture)
    LATS, FATS and CATS
    25th October 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr William Dobyns (Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle)
    The genetic basis of human megalencephaly: size matters
    18th October 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr David Sheppard (University of Bristol)
    Cystic Fibrosis: Targeting the Root Cause with Small-Molecules
    4th October 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr. Martin Bushell (University of Leicester?)
    microRNAs: from mechanisms to biology function
    6th July 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Nicholas Timpson (University of Bristol)
    Potential of genetic epidemiology to study biological processes: Lessons from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
    28th June 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Ernest Choy (Professorial Inaugural Lecture)
    Moving the Goalpost and Proofing the Pudding—CREATE a Vision for Curing Inflammatory Arthritis
    21st June 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Sophie Polo (Institut Curie, Paris)
    How cells cope with DNA damage: the role of chromatin structure, histone variants and the epigenetic code
    14th June 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Rosemary Barnes (Professorial Inaugural Lecture)
    My foray with fungi
    31st May 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Andrew C Newby (University of Bristol)
    Metalloproteinases—a matter of life and death
    24th May 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Mike Ladomery (University of the West of England)
    Wilm’s tumour-1 mutants, angiogenesis and alternative splicing of VEGF
    17th May 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Eric Alton (Imperial College, London)
    Gene therapy for cystic fibrosis
    10th May 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Anna-Katharina Simon (University of Oxford)
    Autophagy in the hematopoietic system
    3rd May 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Eileen McNeill (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford)
    Targeting Leukocytes and inflammation in cardiovascular disease
    26th April 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Rodrigo Young (UCL)
    Wnt signalling at the core of self organising centres of zebrafish organs
    19th April 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Tony Day (University of Manchester)
    TBC
    29th March 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Tony Perry (University of Bath)
    To begin at the beginning: the egg-to embryo translation in animals
    15th March 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Sarah George (University of Bristol)
    The Winter Wonderland: a novel regulator of cardiovascular disease
    1st March 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Mark Cannell (University of Bristol)
    Looking at signal transduction problems with biophotonics
    23rd February 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Richard Gibbons (John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford)
    TBC
    16th February 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Matthew Hardman (Queen's University, Belfast)
    Networks and nodes altered by epigenetic therapies in myeloid malignancies
    9th February 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Matthew Hardman (Manchester University)
    Sexual healing: estrogen’s beneficial role in wound repair
    2nd February 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr John Gallacher (Cardiff University)
    UK Biobank is open for business: data access principles and procedures
    26th January 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Nick Timpson (Bristol University)
    TBC
    19th January 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Edgar Hartsuiker (Bangor University)
    The role of MRN and CtIp in resistance to topoisomerase inhibitors and nucleoside analogues
    12th January 2012, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Alan Lehman, FRS (University of Sussex)
    Replication of damaged DNA and cancer protection
    8th December 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Karen Dib (Queen’s University Belfast)
    Regulation of the monomeric GTPase Rap1 by cyclic nucleotides in human neutrophils
    1st December 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Kate Cuschieri (Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh)
    Testing for Human Papillomavirus in clinical practice
    24th November 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Julian R Marchesi (Cardiff University)
    Integrating the human microbiome into host biology: a new challenge for clinicians
    17th November 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr John Hancock (Harwell Science and Innovation Campus)
    From mouse phenotype to human disease
    3rd November 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Vicent Piguet (Professorial Inaugural Lecture)
    Severe skin diseases: Integrating new concepts of basic research into a clinical perspective
    27th October 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Llewelyn Roderick (Cambridge & Babraham Institute)
    Calcium signaling in induction and pathology of cardiac hypertrophy
    6th October 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Dewi M Lewis (CERN)
    Particle Physics to Patients
    5th October 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Leon Mullenders (Leiden University Medical Centre)
    Nucleotide excision repair: DNA damage recognition, complex assembly and its regulation
    22nd September 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Colin Dayan (Professorial Inaugural Lecture)
    From Graves to the Cradle- Insights into Human Autoimmunity
    23rd June 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Sam Griffiths-Jones (University of Manchester)
    miRBase, deep sequencing data, and arm switching
    16th June 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Ana Costa-Pereira (Imperial College London)
    Novel aspects of JAK/STAT signalling
    9th June 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Anton Gartner (University of Dundee)
    About Knives and Worms: Nucleases Involved in Homologous Recombination and DNA Damage Signaling
    2nd June 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Iain Hagan (University of Manchester)
    The importance of Spatial organization in the control of cell division
    19th May 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Stuart Cobb (University of Glasgow)
    The neurobiology of Rett syndrome
    12th May 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Richard Harrop (Oxford Biomedica)
    Development of a Cancer Vaccine: The Trials and Tribulations
    14th April 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Kathy Triantafilou (Dept. Child Health)
    Toll-Like Receptors, NOD-Like Receptors and RIG-Like Receptors: The holy trinity of pathogen sensors
    31st March 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Peter Snijders (VU University, Amsterdam)
    HPV and cervical cancer: towards novel screening options
    24th February 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor A Neil Barclay (University of Oxford)
    Macrophage paired receptors—structure, interactions and evolution
    17th February 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Irina Stancheva (University of Edinburgh)
    The role of chromatin remodelling in DNA methylation and repair
    10th February 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor James Morgan (Cardiff University)
    The eye: new insights, new treatments
    3rd February 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Lorna Harries (University of Exeter)
    Messenger RNA processing and its role in diabetes
    27th January 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Dorothy Crawford (University of Edinburgh)
    Cytotoxic T cell therapy for Epstein Barr Virus-associated tumours
    20th January 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Ian Dransfield (MRC Centre for Inflammation Research)
    What makes an apoptotic neutrophil attractive to macrophages?
    13th January 2011, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Derek Gilroy (Centre for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University College of London)
    Soluble mediators and specialised cells types in the resolution of acute inflammation
    2nd December 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Kathleen Gillespie (Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol)
    Autoimmune diabetes; genes, chromosomes and chimerism
    25th November 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr David Whitmore (Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College of London)
    Circadian clocks in tissues and cells: what do they regulate?
    18th November 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Susan Wong (Centre for Endocrine & Diabetes Sciences, Cardiff University)
    Type 1 diabetes - genes, environment and the immune system
    11th November 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Maurice Van Steensel
    The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible
    5th November 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Kevin Hiom (Biomedical Research Institute & Dundee cancer centre)
    Biochemical functions of the breast cancer associated tumour suppressor, BRCA1
    4th November 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Daniela Riccardi (Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University)
    The calcium sensing receptor in health and disease
    28th October 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Federica Sallusto (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland)
    - title to be confirmed - (sponsored by Meso Scale Discovery)
    21st October 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Jon Lane (School of Biochemistry, Bristol)
    Molecular regulation of apoptosis and autophagy
    14th October 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr Tanja Stankovic (School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham)
    Ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) inactivation in Chronic Lymphoid Leukaemia: Searching for Achilles' Heel to devise tumour specific treatment”
    7th October 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr. Mark Gurnell (University of Cambridge)
    A multisystem selenoprotein disorder with a thyroid signature
    1st July 2010, 13.00
  • Professor Sarah Rowland Jones (University of Oxford)
    Protective immunity in HIV infection? Lessons from rural Africa and China
    24th June 2010, 13.00
  • Professor Vic Duance (Cardiff University)
    Connective Tissue Biology
    17th June 2010, 13.00
  • Dr Stephen C. West (Cancer Research UK)
    Defects in DNA strand break repair and links to human disease
    3rd June 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr John Doorbar (MRC National Institute for Medical Research)
    Understanding the Biology of Human Papillomavirus Infection and Disease
    27th May 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Julian Halcox (Professorial Lecture)
    Beating Coronary Artery Disease: A Lifetime's Work!
    20th May 2010, 13.00
  • Professor Rose Zamoyska (University of Edinburgh)
    The Influence of T cell Avidity on the Differentiation of Effector and Memory T Cells
    13th May 2010, 13.00
  • Professor Nicholas Wood (UCL)
    Parkinson's disease: simple answers for complex traits?
    6th May 2010, 13.00
  • Professor Jan Parys (University of Leuven)
    Regulation of the inositol trisphosphate receptor in life and death processes
    29th April 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Jo Adams (University of Bristol)
    Mechanisms of function of Fascin-1, a clinically relevant mediator of carcinoma cell migration and metastasis
    22nd April 2010, 13.00
  • Dr John Parrington (Oxford University)
    Two-pore channels: a novel family of endo-lysosomal calcium channels with key roles in important physiological processes.
    19th April 2010, 13.00
  • Professor Doug Fearon
    A Stromal Cell Accounting for Tumoral Immune Suppression
    15th April 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Alicia El-Haj (Keele University)
    Engineering cells for clinical therapies
    11th March 2010, 13.00
  • Dr Menna Clatworthy (University of Cambridge)
    Immune inhibition - infection versus autoimmunity
    10th March 2010, 13.00
  • Professor Simon Jones (Cardiff University)
    Professorial Lecture: Inflammation and the cytokine network
    4th March 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Jannie Borst (Netherlands Cancer Institute)
    25th February 2010, 13.00
  • Dr Silvia Deaglio (University of Torino Medical School & Research Center for Experimental Medicine )
    Nucleotide metabolizing (ecto)-enzymes in the maintenance and progression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia
    18th February 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Adrian Harwood (Cardiff University)
    Chemotaxis: Drug action and cell biochemistry
    4th February 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr. Peter J. McHugh (Oxford)
    DNA cross-link repair - from yeast to humans
    28th January 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Professor Ole H. Petersen CBE FRS (University of Liverpool)
    Ca2+ signalling in pancreatic acinar cells: from physiology to pathology
    21st January 2010, 13.00‑14.00
  • Dr. Mark Gurnell (University of Cambridge)
    A multisystem selenoprotein disorder with a thyroid signature
    14th January 2010, 13.00‑14.00