Seminars 2011
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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.
March 2011
To be announced
Spring/Summer 2011
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 2011
Thursday 3 March 2011
Designing chemical tools with the cellular machinery in mind
Dr Asier Unciti-Broceta
(CRUK) Cancer Research UK
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Thursday 10 March 2011
Tissue Fibrosis: making sense of inflammation and repair
Professor John Iredale
Director, Centre for Inflammation Research Host: Dr Julia Dorin
Thursday 17 March 2011
Telomeres and telomerase: RNA-dependent machines at chromosome ends
Dr Joachim Lingner
Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research Host: Dr Mary O'Connell
Thursday 24 March 2011
Regulation of BMP signalling and cell fate specification in Drosophila
Dr Hilary Ashe
University of Manchester
Host: Professor David FitzPatrick
April 2011
Thursday 14 April 2011
Modeling tumour-related inflammation and colorectal cancer in Drosophila
Dr Marcos Vidal
Beatson Institute, Glasgow
Host: Professor Nick Hastie and Professor Margaret Frame
Thursday 28 April 2011
Genomic imprinting and its implications for the epigenetic control of gene dosage
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Host: Dr Sally Cross
May 2011
*Wednesday 4 May 2011*
Modulating cellular clearance to treat human disease
Professor Andrea Ballabio
Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine
Naples
Host: Professor Veronica van Heyningen
*PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOW ON A WEDNESDAY*
Thursday 26 May 2011
Toll-like receptors and NOD-like receptors: fine-tuning the response to infection and inflammation
Professor Luke O'Neill
School of Biochemistry and Immunology
Trinity College
Host: Dr Julia Dorin
June 2011
Thursday 9 June 2011
How does the hair bundle process sound? The ongoing dialogue between Genetics of deafness and Hearing Physiology
Professor Christine Petit
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Host: Professor Veronica van Heyningen
Thursday 16 June 2011
Immunodeficiencies and cilia
Professor Gillian Griffiths
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
July 2011
Thursday 7 July 2011
Unraveling transcriptional regulation with ENCODE data
Dr Jim Kent
University of California Santa Cruz
Host: Dr Colin Semple