Seminars 2009
Unit Seminars Winter 2008/09
Winter 08/09 | Spring/Summer 09 | Autumn 09
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
Thursday 15 January 2009
Segmental Patterning of the Vertebrate
Axis
Professor Olivier Pourquie
Stowers Institute for Medical Research,
Kansas City
Host: Professor Veronica van Heyningen
Thursday 12 February 2009
Large Cohort Studies of Gene-Environment Interactions: The Need
for Thoughtful Designs
Professor John Frank
MRC Scottish Collaboration for Public Health
Research and Policy
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Thursday 19 February 2009
Systematic interrogation of cellular networks: from the kinome to the chemome
Dr Mike Tyers
Director of the Scottish Universities Life Sciences
Alliance, Edinburgh Host: Professor David Porteous
* PLEASE NOTE: unless stated, all seminars will be held at 16.00 Thursday's in the 4th Floor Lecture Theatre, Outpatient's Department, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU.
Winter 2008/09
MRC Human Genetics Unit Seminars
December 2008
Tuesday 9 December 2008
Discovery of dengue virus host factors in insects and humans
Prof Mariano Garcia-Blanco
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Centre for RNA Biology,
Duke University Medical Centre, USA
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
Thursday 11 December 2008
The role of the ubiquitin-like molecule NEDD8 in transcriptional regulation and
cell growth
Dr Dimitris Xirodimas
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
January 2009
Thursday 22 January 2009
Regulation of Pre-mRNA Splicing and Disease
Dr Klemens J Hertel
University of California, Irvine
Host: Javier Caceres
Thursday 29 January 2009
Cilia and Flagella in Development and
Disease
Dr Helen Dawe
Sir
William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
Host: Veronica Van Heyningen
February 2009
Thursday 5 February 2009
Imaging protection of neuromuscular synapses by modifiers of the WldS
chimeric gene: implications for MND/ALS?
Professor Richard Ribchester
Acting Director, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, University of Edinburgh
Host: Liam Keegan
Thursday 19 February 2009
Does Primary Microcephaly tell us anything about Brain Growth?
Dr Geoff Woods
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge
Host: Andrew Jackson
Tuesday 24 February 2009
Synapse Evolution and the Emergence of Plasticity and Behaviour
Professor Seth Grant
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton
Host: Veronica Van Heyningen
* PLEASE NOTE: unless stated, all seminars will be held at 13.00 in the Human Genetics Unit, Seminar Room, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU.