Molecular Biosciences Division Seminar Series 2011-12
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.
9th September 2011
Dr Daniel Dickinson, Stanford University, California, USA
Title: The evolution and biology of α-catenin in epithelial cell polarity
19th September 2011
Professor Guruswamy Krishnamoorthy, Chemical Physics Group, Tata Institiute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Title: Functional Dynamics in Proteins and Nucleic Acids Revealed by Time-Domain Fluorescence
Tuesday 4th October 2011 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 1 - Dr Walter Dewitte
Title: The difference between a Mermaid's wine glass and an oak
10th October 2011
David Newman, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Stimulation of formative divisions and subsequent S-phase in guard cells, a balancing act during stomatal ontogeny in Arabidopsis by the D-type cyclins
17th October 2011
Dr Ian Moore, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
Title: Organising and evolution of the secretory pathway in land plants
24th October 2011
Prof John Harwood, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Regulation of lipid synthesis in plants; oil crops for the 21st Century
31st October 2011
Professor Adrian Harwood, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Spatial and temporal control of PIP3 during Dictyostelium chemotaxis: from phospho-inositides to chromatin re-modelling
7th November 2011
Professor Christine Foyer, Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds
Title: Redox regulation of growth and stress tolerance
14th November 2011
Dr Elisabetta Canetta, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Biochemical and nanomechanical fingerprints as a potential tool for investigating carcinogenesis and differentiation of stem cells
21st November 2011
Dr Ewan Main, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
Title: Towards functional nanostructures: the self assembly of designed linear repeat proteins
28th November 2011
Lilian Kisiswa, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Reverse TNFα signaling in sympathetic neuron development
5th December 2011
Dr Jessica Downs, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex
Title: How chromatin remodelling enzymes prevent genome instability
12th December 2011
Dr Glen Sweeney, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Molecular studies of flatfish metamorphosis
9th January 2012
Dr Eric Miska, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Title: The complex life of small RNA
23rd January 2012
Prof Luke Alphey, Oxitec Ltd and Oxford University
Title: Genetic control of pest insects
30th January 2012
Sam Reddington, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Introducing novel protein functionality via incorporation of unnatural amino acids
Friday 3rd February 2012 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 1 - Dr Sonia Lopez de Quinto
Title: Sex, flies and microscopes - The secret life of RNA
6th February 2012
Dr Anna Philpott, Cambridge Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Title: Regulation of division versus differentiation during neurogenesis by multi-site post-translational modification
13th February 2012
Alex Murison, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Analyzing Gene Regulatory Networks in the Arabidopsis Shoot Apical Meristem
20th February 2012
Professor Richard Evans, Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Leicester
Title: Molecular basis of ATP binding and gating at P2X1 receptor channels
Friday 24th February 2012 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 2 - Dr Sonia Lopez de Quinto
Title: Sex, flies and microscopes - The secret life of RNA
27th February 2012 - Postponed until later in the year
Felicity Rudge, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: TBA
5th March 2012
Dr Lyle Zimmerman, Developmental Biology, NIMR, London
Title: Forward and Reverse Genetic Analysis of Xenopus Development
Friday 9th March 2012 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 2 - Dr Walter Dewitte
Title: The difference between a Mermaid's wine glass and an oak
12th March 2012
Dr Jodie Wren, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Olfaction in Drosophila
19th March 2012
Professor Kevin Flynn, School of the Environment and Society, Swansea University
Title: Plankton functional types; where do we start and stop?
26th March 2012
Claire Gibson, School of Biosciences, Cardiff
Title: Development of novel microcarriers for expansion of mesenchymal stem cells
23rd April 2012
Professor Jeff Rosen, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Title: Wnt/Fgf interactions in mammary stem cells and breast cancer
30th April 2012
Bethan Lloyd-Lewis, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: High content screening for novel regulators of Beta-catenin in Wnt signalling
14th May 2012
Jon Reddy, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Suppression of PIP3 signalling induces autophagy
21st May 2012
MCB-Romisa Asadi, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Development of genetic control technology for Tephritid pests
28th May 2012
Dr Hilary Rogers, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Life is stressful and then you die: the short life of cut flowers, and a bit of rocket science
11th June 2012
Prof Buzz Baum, University, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, College London
Title: TBA
18th June 2012
Professor Michael Ehrmann, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisberg, Essen
Title: TBA
2nd July 2012
Dr Jonathan Chubb, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London
Title: TBA
Details on more speakers and titles to follow shortly.