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Dr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier.
Thursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00
Genetics Seminar
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Contact: Caroline Newnham
2 upcoming talks View 211 archived talks
Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast
โ ๏ธ Host - Marco Geymonat
Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics
โ ๏ธ Host - Charlotte Houldcroft
Where do we stand on the origin of eukaryotic cells?
โ ๏ธ Host โ Antoine Hocher
CANCELLED - Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation
โ ๏ธ Host - Aylwyn Scally
How personalised is your immune system?
โ ๏ธ Host - Lin Wang
Small RNAs in Epigenetic Inheritance: a lesson from worms
โ ๏ธ Host - Ritwick Sawarkar
Molecular bases of Shigella virulence and host immune response
โ ๏ธ Host โ Kate Baker
21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology
โ ๏ธ Host - Aylwyn Scally
Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development
โ ๏ธ Host - Ben Steventon
Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour
โ ๏ธ Host - Erik Clark
Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?
โ ๏ธ Host - Kate Baker
Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare
โ ๏ธ Host - Cahir O'Kane
Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI
โ ๏ธ Host - Michael Boemo
CANCELLED - News from the Palaeolithic: ancient genomes and Neandertal-human interactions
โ ๏ธ Host โ Alex Cagan
Programmed DNA elimination in insects
โ ๏ธ Host โ John Welch
How the double helix was really discovered, and what Rosalind Franklin thought about it
โ ๏ธ Host โ Frank Jiggins
Bacterial evolution in the lung
โ ๏ธ Host โ Kate Baker
What can butterfly hybrid zones tell us about the genomic architecture of species barriers?
โ ๏ธ Host โ Richard Durbin
Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS
โ ๏ธ Host - Cahir O'Kane
Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale
โ ๏ธ Host โ Richard Durbin
Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas
โ ๏ธ Host - Frank Jiggins
E. coli and the Game of Clones
โ ๏ธ Host โ Kate Baker
Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA
โ ๏ธ Host - Charlotte Houldcroft
Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.
โ ๏ธ Host - Erik Clark
When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity
โ ๏ธ Host - Steve Russell
Epigenetic Inheritance
โ ๏ธ Host - Ritwick Sawarkar
The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division
โ ๏ธ Host - Ben Steventon
Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila
โ ๏ธ Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira
An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineages
โ ๏ธ Host - Zach Baker
Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development
โ ๏ธ Host - Ben Steventon
The evolution of organs and cell types.
โ ๏ธ Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli
Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new
โ ๏ธ Host - Charlotte Houldcroft
Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolution
โ ๏ธ Host - Erik Clark
Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation
โ ๏ธ Host - John Welch
Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies
โ ๏ธ Host - Erik Clark
Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians
โ ๏ธ Host - Richard Durbin
Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks
โ ๏ธ Host - Henrik Salje
Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancer
โ ๏ธ Host - Cahir O'Kane
Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health
โ ๏ธ Host - Charlotte Houldcroft
Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome
โ ๏ธ Host - Erik Clark
Mechanism of neural differentiation
โ ๏ธ Host โ Lara Busby
Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution
โ ๏ธ Host - Hansong Ma
Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species
โ ๏ธ Host - Richard Durbin
Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans
โ ๏ธ Host โ Ritwick Sawarkar
Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2
โ ๏ธ Host โ Henrik Salje
Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformaticianโs perspective
โ ๏ธ Host โ Bianca De Sanctis
Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion
โ ๏ธ Host - Marco Geymonat
Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates?
โ ๏ธ Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira
Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks
โ ๏ธ Host - Lin Wang
Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?
โ ๏ธ Host - Frank Jiggins
Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.
โ ๏ธ Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira
Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability
โ ๏ธ Host - Cahir OโKane
How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?
โ ๏ธ Host - Ben Steventon
Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur
โ ๏ธ Host: Frank Jiggins
A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell division
โ ๏ธ Host - Marco Geymonat
The evolution of polychromatic โgreenbeardโ genes
โ ๏ธ Host - Carol Edwards
Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis
โ ๏ธ Host - Chaitanya Dingare
Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila
โ ๏ธ Host - Chaitanya Dingare
Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality
โ ๏ธ Hosts - Hansong Ma and Ason Chiang
Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.
โ ๏ธ Host: Elves Duarte
Investigating the evolution and development of body plans and body parts in arthropods
โ ๏ธ Host - Steve Russell
Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells
โ ๏ธ Host: Ben Steventon
Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cells
โ ๏ธ Host: Cahir O'Kane
Bacterial condensates under stress
โ ๏ธ Host: Rosana Collepardo
Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair
โ ๏ธ Host: Hansong Ma
Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism.
โ ๏ธ Host: John Welch
Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure
โ ๏ธ Host โ Richard Durbin
The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease
โ ๏ธ Host: Cahir O'Kane
Genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and phase-separation
โ ๏ธ Host: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara
Human Immunity โ one cell at a time
โ ๏ธ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
PP2A-B55 inhibitors Arpp19 and ENSA define the cell cycle program by controlling the temporal pattern of protein phosphorylation
โ ๏ธ Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover
This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later this year.
โ ๏ธ Host: Hansong Ma
Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression
โ ๏ธ Host: Frank Jiggins
Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.
โ ๏ธ Host: Ben Steventon
Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges
โ ๏ธ Host: John Welch
Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids
โ ๏ธ Host: Hansong Ma
From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomes
โ ๏ธ Host: Aylwyn Scally
The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.
โ ๏ธ Host: Marco Geymonat
Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.
โ ๏ธ Host: Ben Steventon
Chromosomal evolution in Nematodes, and other adventures on the Tree of Life
โ ๏ธ Host: Richard Durbin
Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila
โ ๏ธ Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte
Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning
โ ๏ธ Host: Ben Steventon
Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation
โ ๏ธ Host: Aylwynย Scally
Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.
โ ๏ธ Host: Michael Imbeault
The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops
โ ๏ธ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer
โ ๏ธ Host: Hansong Ma
A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomes
โ ๏ธ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity
โ ๏ธ Host: Richard Durbin
Minimal and Ancestral Genomes
โ ๏ธ Host: Richard Durbin
Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out
โ ๏ธ Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho
What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time?ย
โ ๏ธ Host: Richard Durbin
Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain
โ ๏ธ Host: Michael Imbeault
A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects
โ ๏ธ Host: Berta Verd
Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells?
โ ๏ธ Host: Ben Steventon
Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization
โ ๏ธ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques
โ ๏ธ Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark
Epigenetic inheritance in mammals
โ ๏ธ Host: Sam Lewis
Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines
โ ๏ธ Host: Jane Charlesworth
Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution
โ ๏ธ Host: Chris Illingworth
Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast
โ ๏ธ Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte
Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa
โ ๏ธ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development
โ ๏ธ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense
โ ๏ธ Host: Felipe Karam Teixeira
The Genetic Basis of Clinal Adaptation
โ ๏ธ Host: Frank Jiggins
How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubules
โ ๏ธ Host: Cahir OโKane
Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer
โ ๏ธ Host: Alexis Braun
Regulatory RNA
โ ๏ธ Host: Martyna Popis
Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch
โ ๏ธ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture
โ ๏ธ Host: Michaela Frye
Eukaryotic cell division and its origins
โ ๏ธ Host: Alexis Braun
Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development
โ ๏ธ Host: Alfonso Martinez Arias
Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems
โ ๏ธ Host: Frank Jiggins
DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesis
โ ๏ธ Host: Eric Miska
An Editorโs Guide to Effective Science Communication
โ ๏ธ Host: Sudhakaran Prabakaran
Capturing human axial progenitors in vitro
โ ๏ธ Hosts: Alfonso Martinez-Arias & Shlomit Edri
The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa.
โ ๏ธ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function
โ ๏ธ Host: Chris Illingworth
Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast
โ ๏ธ Host: Marco Geymonat
The genetic analysis of population-scale data
โ ๏ธ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genome
โ ๏ธ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteria
โ ๏ธ Host: Chris Illingworth
Decoding transcriptional regulation.
โ ๏ธ Host: Alexis Braun
Non-coding solutions to developmental challenges
โ ๏ธ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrier
โ ๏ธ Host: John Welch
Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass.
โ ๏ธ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Stem cell control in the Drosophila gut
โ ๏ธ Host: Alexis Braun
Defining transcription units across the human genome.
โ ๏ธ Host: Michaela Frye
Using experimental evolution to understand adaptation from standing genetic variation.
โ ๏ธ Host: Frank Jiggins
Directing and shaping the inside-out axis of the vertebrate brain
โ ๏ธ Host: Ben Steventon
Towards a complete view of the genetics of gene expression variation in yeast
โ ๏ธ Host: Chris Illingworth
Neural mechanisms of behavioral switches
โ ๏ธ Host: Liria Masuda-Nakagawa
Beyond the reference genome: ย inference using prior knowledge of the diversity of a species.
โ ๏ธ Host: Chris Illingworth
Genome diversity and evolution of DNA methylation genome in the human genome.
โ ๏ธ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Gene and Genome Regulation in Early Fruit Fly Neurogenesis.
โ ๏ธ Host: Steve Russell
Role of neuromesodermal progenitors in axial elongation.
โ ๏ธ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Checkpoint and non-checkpoint functions of Drosophila Mad1 and RZZ.
โ ๏ธ Host: Yuu Kimata
Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a continuous spectrum of differentiation in haematopoietic cells.
โ ๏ธ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
An experimental assay of the genotype to phenotype connection.
โ ๏ธ Host: John Welch
Genomics approaches for the investigation of gene regulation.
โ ๏ธ Host: Steve Russell
Breaking the silence: defense and counter-defense in antiviral RNA silencing pathways of insects.
โ ๏ธ Host: Frank Jiggins
Transcriptional regulation and downstream program of Hox and Cdx genes during axial development in the mouse embryo.
โ ๏ธ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Targeting Polycomb repression to the genome.
โ ๏ธ Host: Steve Russell
Intra-tumour heterogeneity and genomic rearrangements in solid cancers.
โ ๏ธ Host: Aylwyn Scally
Into the void: bridging the gap between risk genes and psychiatric phenotypes.
โ ๏ธ Host: Cahir O' Kane
Inhibitory activities of short linear motifs underlie Hox interactome specificity in vivo.
โ ๏ธ Hosts: Steve Russell and Boris Adryan
Model systems to study embryonic patterning.
โ ๏ธ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
New dimensions of antiviral immunity in insects.
โ ๏ธ Host: Frank Jiggins
Biogenesis and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs).
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
Single-cell dynamics of the proliferation-quiescence decision.
โ ๏ธ Host: Viji Draviam
Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again.
โ ๏ธ Host: Frank Jiggins
Causes and Consequences of New Mutations.
โ ๏ธ Host: Cahir O'Kane
How dynein and its co-factors at the kinetochore ensure chromosome segregation fidelity.
โ ๏ธ Host: Viji Draviam
Beyond cancer genetics: dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in leukaemia.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
Single cell transcriptomics.
โ ๏ธ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response.
โ ๏ธ Host: Yuu Kimata
Imaging gene activity in living cells.
โ ๏ธ Host: Viji Draviam
Asymmetry in Drosophila neuroblasts: centrosomes & mRNA.
โ ๏ธ Host: Yuu Kimata
Using zebrafish models to identify novel alleles affecting human behaviour- a proof of principle study using smoking as an example.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
COMT: from single nucleotide polymorphism to whole brain function.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adyran
Large scale genomic analyses of complex traits in human populations.
โ ๏ธ Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith
The memory of retinal stem cells?
โ ๏ธ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Regulation of Notch signalling by the endosomal pathway.
โ ๏ธ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Understanding mechanisms of long-range gene regulation.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adyran
Organisation and Regulation of DNA supercoiling domains in Mammalian Chromatin.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
C. elegans development: getting the seams right and living a balanced life.
โ ๏ธ Host: Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti
The impact of viral IฮบB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
(At least) 3 ways to publish a pigeon genome.
โ ๏ธ Host: Frank Jiggins
Shaping and reshaping regulatory loops in Drosophila morphogen signaling.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
Molecular mechanisms of Mediator complex recruitment by transcription factors.
โ ๏ธ Hosts: Boris Adryan and Alfonso Martinez-Arias
From stripes to blood flow: cell fates of the lateral plate.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
Computational insights into stem cell differentiation using dynamic hybrid modelling.
โ ๏ธ Host: Steve Russell
Origin and evolution of novel microRNAs.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
Targets of T cell responses against malaria liver infection: immunology meets experimental genetics.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
A Drosophila resource to study human pathology.
โ ๏ธ Host: Sarah Bray, PDN (sjb32@cam.ac.uk)
Engineering flies.
โ ๏ธ Host: Cahir O'Kane (c.okane@gen.cam.ac.uk)
Molecular insights into the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of bat rabies.
โ ๏ธ Hosts: John Welch and Ben Longdon
Studying the invasive migration of Drosophila immune cells.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
Vaccinia virus has evolved the Bcl-2 family of proteins to thwart the host innate immune system.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
Checks and Balances in Drosophila Muscle and Heart Differentiation Programs.
โ ๏ธ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Deconstructing Greatwall Kinase.
โ ๏ธ Host: Viji Draviam
Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance.
โ ๏ธ Host: Ian Furner
Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of accurate chromosome segregation.
โ ๏ธ Host: Viji Draviam
Immune-metabolic interaction in Drosophila.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
Widespread translation of small Open Reading Frames from coding regions, UTRs and non-coding RNAs.
โ ๏ธ Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Motors, rulers and clocks in chromosome segregation.
โ ๏ธ Host: Viji Draviam
How does the kinetochore orchestrate a functional checkpoint signal?
โ ๏ธ Host: Viji Draviam
Feedback control of the anaphase-telophase transition.
โ ๏ธ Host: Viji Draviam
Sibling Rivalry and Stress Tolerance: the Single-Cell Biology of Mycobacteria.
โ ๏ธ Host: Viji Draviam
Epigenetic regulation of tissue growth in Drosophila.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
The evolutionary dynamics of unusual reproductive systems.
โ ๏ธ Hosts: Eli Vieira Araujo Jnr and John Welch
Tracking transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens with high-throughput genomics.
โ ๏ธ Host: Frank Jiggins
Sequence-based discovery of transcriptional targets.
โ ๏ธ Host: Boris Adryan
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