Seminars 2010/11
Unit Seminars Winter 2010/11
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Winter 09/10 | Spring/Summer 10 | Autumn 10
| Winter 10/11| Spring/Summer 2011
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.
October 2010
*Friday 8 October 2010* 13.00
Signalling hypoxia by protein hydroxylation
Professor Peter Ratcliffe
Nuffield Professor of Medicine
University of Oxford
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Venue: Human Genetics Unit, Seminar Room, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU.
* PLEASE NOTE: day and venue change for October IGMM seminar
January 2011
Thursday 27 January 2011
The New Science of Ageing
Professor Dame Linda Partridge
UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing
Host: Professor Alan Wright
Winter 2010/11
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.
November 2010
Thursday 11 November 2010
Interplay between Polycomb repression and RNA polymerase II regulation genome-wide in murine ES cells
Dr Ana Pombo
MRC Clinical Sciences Centre
Host: Professor Wendy Bickmore
Thursday 18 November 2010
Coupling of transcription and splicing in yeast
Professor Jean Beggs
University of Edinburgh
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
December 2010
Thursday 2 December 2010
Developmental plasticity and systemic signalling in the control of shoot branching
Professor Ottoline Leyser
University of York
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
January 2011
Thursday 13 January 2011
Epigenetic engineering: Using a synthetic chromosome to determine the role of transcription in human kinetochore function
Professor Bill Earnshaw
The University of Edinburgh
Host: Dr Andrew Jackson
Thursday 20 January 2011
Human African Sleeping Sickness: basic biology and drug discovery
Professor Mike Ferguson
Wellcome Trust Biocentre
University of Dundee
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
February 2011
Thursday 3 February 2011
The piRNA pathway in the Drosophila germline - an RNA based genome immune system
Dr Julius Brennecke
IMBA
Host: Judith Recihmann
Thursday 17 February 2011
Mutagenesis, Mice and Malaria along with Platelets, Porphyria and Parasites (or the genetics of the host response to malaria)
Professor Simon Foote
Menzies Research Institute, Tasmania
Host: Dr Sally Cross
Thursday 24 February 2011
How SUMO talks to ubiquitin
Professor Ron Hay
Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression
University of Dundee
Host: Dr Colin Gordon