Molecular Biosciences Division Seminar Series 2012-13
Seminars to take place in the 6th Floor Seminar Room, Life Sciences Building (BIOSI 3)
at 13.10-14.00hrs on Mondays (except where marked). Buffet lunch provided before
external seminars at 12.30pm also in the 6th Floor Seminar Room.
Tuesday 2nd October 2012 - Law 2.27, Law Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 1 by Dr Helen White-Cooper
Title: How flies make sperm
8th October 2012
Dr George Bassel, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
Title: Uncovering regulators of plant cell shape change through integrating co-functional networks with 3D cellular morphodynamics
15th October 2012
Dr Arno Muller, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Title: Functions and mechanisms of fibroblast growth factor signalling in epithelial-mesenchymal morphogenesis
22nd October 2012
Dr Paola Borri, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title Shedding new light on cells with coherent multiphoton microscopy
29th October 2012
Stuart Hanmer, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: P2X receptors in emerging model organisms: find + pharmacology = function?
19th November 2012
Dr Gui Jie Feng, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Conditional Deletion of Axin1 Leads to Development of Liver Tumours in Mice
3rd December 2012
Dr James G. Wakefield, Cell Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter
Title: Microtubules, MAPs and mitosis: A Holistic approach to understanding Cell Division
10th December 2012
Bo Wen, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Funtional analysis of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors ICK/KRP in arabidopsis root growth
17th December 2012
Dr Anna-Rachel Gallagher, School of Medicine, Yale University, USA
Title: The Role of Wnt Signalling in Polycystic Kidney Disease
7th January 2013
Dr Jonathan Chubb, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London
Title: Imaging the birth of RNA in living cells
14th January 2013
Dr Jianqiao Jiang, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: TBA
21st January 2013
Dr Sean Sweeney, Department of Biology, The University of York
Title: Hereditary Sensory Neuropathy in Drosophila: An alternative pain model
28th January 2013
Iestyn Pope, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Differential-CARS/TPF/SHG Microscopy
Friday 1st February 2013 - John Pryde Lecture Theatre (C/-1.01), Sir Martin Evans Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 1 by Dr Mark Young
Title: Adventures in the membrane: The weird and wonderful world of ion channels
Friday 8th March 2013 - John Pryde LT (C/-1.01), Sir Martin Evans Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 2 by Dr Mark Young
Title: Adventures in the membrane: The weird and wonderful world of ion channels
11th March 2013
Natasha Spadafora, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: What happens when you slice a tomato? Wounding tomato fruit elicits ripening stage-specific changes in gene expression and production of volatile compounds.
18th March 2013
Dr Nick Kent, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Chromatin from the Caldera
Friday 22nd March 2013 - John Pryde LT (C/-1.01), Sir Martin Evans Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 2 Year 2 by Dr Helen White-Cooper
Title: How flies make sperm
25th March 2013 - CANCELLED
Dr Ross Anderson, School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol
Title: The ascent of man-made oxidoreductases
8th April 2013
Emily Sornay, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Targeting cyclin D for enhanced seed development
15th April 2013
Helen White-Cooper, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: The RNA export pathway is required for tissue specific transcriptional regulation
22nd April 2013
Dr Angharad Jones, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: TBA
29th April 2013
Kibedi Cabral, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: TBA
Details on more speakers and titles to follow shortly.