Unit Seminars Spring/Summer 2010

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The Unit seminars are open to all in the unit, IGMM and to those on the circulation list of invitees.

 

 

 

 

 

Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM) Seminars

* PLEASE NOTE: unless stated, all IGMM seminars will be held Thursday's 16.00 in the 4th Floor Lecture Theatre, Outpatient's Department, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU.

May 2010

Thursday 6 May 2010

Disruptions on the Highways of Cellular Signalling

Professor Dario Alessi

MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, Dundee Host: Andrew Jackson

 

Thursday 24 May 2010

To be announced

Professor Dame Linda Partridge

Director, Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London

Host: Professor Alan Wright

 

Thursday 3 June 2010

To be announced

Professor Elaine Ostrander

Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute

Host: to be confirmed

 

 

Spring/Summer 2010

MRC Human Genetics Unit Seminars

* PLEASE NOTE: unless stated, all unit seminars will be held at 13.00 in the Human Genetics Unit, Seminar Room, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU.

 

March 2010

Thursday 4 March 2010

The Evolution of Virulence in the Fatal Human Pathogen Cryptococcus

Dr Robin May

Birmingham University

Host: Professor Wendy Bickmore

 

Thursday 25 March 2010

Non-coding RNA and nucleolar function: Epigenetic control of rRNA genes

Professor Ingrid Grummt

German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg Host: Dr Lesley Stark

 

April 2010

Friday 16 April 2010

To be announced

Professor Lee Niswander

Howard Hughes Fellow, University of Colorado

Host: Professor Ian Jackson

 

Thursday 22 April 2010

Measuring and understanding variation in the copy number of human genes

Professor John Armour

University of Nottingham

Host: Dr Julia Dorin

 

Thursday 29 April 2010

To be announced

Dr Pat Nolan

Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell

Host: Professor Ian Jackson

 

May 2010

Thursday 27 May 2010

Bimodality in Gene Expression Levels Correlates with an Epigenetic Module

Dr Sarah Teichmann

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge

Host: Dr Pedro Coutinho

 

June 2010

Thursday 10 June 2010

Multiple congenital malformations due to microdeletions of and close to the FOX transcription factor gene cluster at 16q24.1

Dr Charles Shaw Smith

Sanger Institute

Host: Dr David FitzPatrick