IGMM Seminars SPRING/SUMMER 2013

2013 | 2012 | 2011

The IGMM seminars are open to all within IGMM and to those on the circulation list of invitees.

APRIL 2013

Thursday 18 April 2013
Resolving Functionally Important Genetic Variation In Human Disease
Dr Julian Knight
Nuffield Department Of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford
Host:  Dr Kathy Evans
Venue:  WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

Thursday 25 April 2013
EWAS: the new kid on the block for epigenome-wide association studies
Professor Stephan Beck
University College London
Host: Professor Jack Satsangi
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

MAY 2013

Thursday 2 May 2013
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Dr Omar Albagha
Rheumatic Diseases Unit, MMC
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

**Wednesday 8 May 2013**
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Professor Magdalena Goetz
Centre for Integrated Protein Science, Munich
Host: Professor Veronica van Heyningen
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

Thursday 16 May 2013
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Dr K J Patel
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Host: Dr Andrew Jackson
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

Thursday 23 May 2013
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Professor Adrian Krainer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

JUNE 2013

Thursday 6 June 2013
Mechanisms of transformation by RAS oncogenes: searching for novel therapeutic approaches
Professor Julian Downward
Signal Transduction Laboratory, CRUK London Research Institute
Host: Dr Simon Wilkinson
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

Thursday 13 June 2013
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Professor Jack Satsangi
Head of Gastroenterology Unit, MMC
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

Thursday 20 June 2013
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Professor Michel Georges
University of Liege
Host: Professor Chris Haley
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

Thursday 27 June 2013
Pathogen manipulation of microRNA regulatory pathways: from herpesvirus to helminths
Dr Amy Buck
Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, University of Edinburgh
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM) Seminars

 

* PLEASE NOTE: unless stated, all IGMM seminars will be held at 13:00 on Thursdays, at:

4th Floor Lecture Theatre

Outpatient's Department
Western General Hospital
Crewe Road South
Edinburgh EH4 2XU

 

Spring/Summer 2013

MARCH 2013

**Friday 1 March 2013 1pm**
Gut Reactions: Immune Pathways That Control Intestinal Homeostatis
Dr Fiona Powrie
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford
Host: Professor Veronica Van Heyningen
Venue:  WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

 

Thursday 14 March 2013
Systems level approach to decipher neural crest gene regulatory networks
Dr Tatjana Sauka-Spengler
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
Host:  Professor Ian Jackson
Venue:  WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

 

Thursday 21 March 2013
Epigenetic mechanisms in early mammalian development
Dr Maria Elena Torres-Padilla
Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg
Host:  Professor Wendy Bickmore
Venue:  WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

 

Thursday 28 March 2013
Systems Investigation of infection in macrophages
Professor Peter Ghazal
Chair of Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine, Head of Division of Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre

 

For more information please contact Eilidh Guild, Seminar Administrator (eilidh.guild@igmm.ed.ac.uk)