IGMM Seminars Spring/Summer 2012

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

May 2012

Thursday 3 May 2012
Molecular mechanisms regulating adult neurogenesis
Professor Hongjun Song
John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore
Host: Professor David Porteous
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room

Thursday 24 May 2012
Structural basis of decoding by the ribosome
Professor Venki Ramakrishnan
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology
Host: Professor Wendy Bickmore
Venue: MRC Seminar Room

June 2012

Thursday 14 June 2012
Sortilin receptors in neuronal plasticity and psychiatric disorders
Professor Anders Nykaer
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Host: Dr Kathy Evans
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room

**Tuesday 19 June 2012** 13.00
To be announced
Professor Kevin Hiom
University of Dundee
Host: Dr Ian Adams
Venue: MRC Seminar Room

Thursday 28 June 2012
Modeling the Morbid Human Genome
Professor Nicholas Katsanis
Duke University
Host: Professor Veronica van Heyningen
Venue: MRC Seminar Room

Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM) Seminars

 

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* PLEASE NOTE: unless stated, all IGMM seminars will be held at 13.00.

March 2012

Thursday 1 March 2012
The miswired brain; from neurodevelopment to psychopathology
Dr Kevin Mitchell
Trinity College, Dublin
Host: Dr Kathy Evans
Venue: MRC Seminar Room

Thursday 8 March 2012
Quantitative analysis of a model organism: can we fully understand a living system?
Professor Luis Serrano
Centre Regulcaio Genomica, Barcelona
Host: Veronica van Heyningen
Venue: MRC Seminar Room

Thursday 15 March 2012
Ancestral Genome Reconstructions: a new framework to study the evolution of biological functions
Dr Hugues Roest Crollius
Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS)
Host: Professor David Fitzpatrick
Venue: MRC Seminar Room

Thursday 22 March 2012
Immunodeficiencies and Cilia

Professor Gillian Griffiths
Cambridge Institute of Medical Research
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Venue: MRC Seminar Room

April 2012

Thursday 19 April 2012
Kinship, Heritability and Genetic Effect Sizes
Professor David Balding
UCL, London
Host: Professor Alan Wright
Venue: MRC Seminar Room

Thursday 26 April 2012
Novel approaches to modelling                 episodic memory in rodents      
Dr Rosamund Langston
University of Dundee
Host: Professor Cathy Abbott
Venue: MRC Seminar Room