Sir Brian Heap Room,  Riverside Meeting Rooms, The Babraham Institute


2011-06-23 16:00: 'Exploring the therapeutic potential of selective kinase inhibition' (Dr Gideon Bollag, Plessikon Inc, Berkeley, CA, USA)

2011-08-24 13:00: 'How to get the most out of Histology' (Cheryl Scudamore, Royal Veterinary College)

2011-09-27 13:00: 'Autophagy in the hematopoietic system: Leukaemia, Aging & T cells' (Katja Simon, University of Oxford)

2011-09-29 13:00: Title to be Confirmed (Penny Jeggo, University of Sussex)

2011-10-13 13:00: 'Transcriptional control of blood stem/progenitor cells' (Bertie Gottgens, CIMR, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-27 13:00: Title to be Confirmed (Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute, Israel)

2011-11-03 16:00: 'Global transcriptional optimization in microorganisms' (Francois Kepes, Nuclear Dynamics Project Grenoble)

2011-11-10 13:00: PcG genes in neurogenesis and brain tumours” (Prof. Silvia Marino)

2011-11-16 16:00: 'Directing Haematopoietic Stem Cells Development' (Erika Mancini PhD, Univ. of Oxford)

2011-11-17 13:00: 'Heterochromatin dynamics in early mammalian embryogenesis'. (Maria Elena Torres-Padilla, GBMC, Strasbourg)

2011-11-18 13:00: "Directing Haematopoietic Stem Cells Development: (Erika Mancini PhD, Univ. of Oxford)

2012-01-26 13:00: TBA (Prof. Dominic Withers, UCL)

2012-02-24 13:00: 'CD28, IL-2, and CD40L at the Interface of Immune Tolerance' (Jack A. Ragheb M.D  Ph.D)

2012-03-01 13:00: "Cohesin-SA1 functions in chromosome segregation and beyond" (Ana Losada, CINA, Madrid)

2012-03-01 13:00: 'Interpreting the CpG island signal’ (Rob Klose, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

2012-03-06 13:00: Endosomal clathrin drives actin accumulation at the immunological synapse" (Carmen Calabia Linares, Hospital Universitario de Santa Cristina.)

2012-03-15 12:30: 'Interpreting the CpG island signal’ (Rob Klose, University of Oxford)

2012-03-20 13:00: 'Calcium signalling and memory' (Melanie Stefan, Caltech)

2012-03-26 13:00: "Activation & repression at the nuclear periphery: nuclear pore complexes in gene regulation" (Kristine Willis, Georgetown University)

2012-03-29 13:00: 'NF-kB and Nrf2 balance in controlling leukaemia cell fate' (Professor David MacEwan, University of East Anglia)

2012-05-03 13:00: 'Endogenous antigenic lipids - A novel lipid family' (Dr Seeta Ramanjaneyulu Gundimeda, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland)

2012-05-24 13:00: 'X chromosome inactivation and infertility' (James Turner, NIMR)

2012-05-29 14:00: 'Strategies of lineage commitment in haematopoiesis'. (Cristina Pina, University College London)

2012-06-13 13:00: 'Epigenetic regulation of aging' (Anne Brunet, Stanford University)

2012-06-13 16:00: 'IP3Rs as targets for autophagy and anti-apoptotic proteins in health and disease' (Prof. Geert Bultynck (Lab. Mol. & Cellular Signaling, K.U. Leuven)

2012-06-14 13:00: "Why viruses study ubiquitin - evading the immune response" (Prof.Paul Lehner, CIMR)

2012-06-15 13:00: 'Novel interactions between two similar chromatin remodelers contribute to a phenotypical switch in the mouse salivary gland' (Professor Philippe Georgel (Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University)

2012-07-03 13:00: 'Antibody modulates immune highways and DC trafficking' (Menna Clatworthy, University of Cambridge)

2012-07-11 13:00: ‘Genome-wide Association Studies: Hype and Reality’. (Prof. Sven Bergmann, University of Lausanne)

2012-07-25 13:00: "Insights on how chromatin accessibility regulates genome stability in mice"( (Jeremy A. Daniel, University of Copenhagen)

2012-08-28 13:00: 'Putting Protein Interference Agents on the MAP Kinase: Studies of Docking and Inhibition' (Prof. Devin Dalby, University of Texas at Austin)

2012-08-29 16:00: 'An epigenetic checkpoint controls the transition from stem to progenitor cell state in mouse testis' (Kazuyuki Ohbo M.D. PhD , Yokohoama City University)

2012-09-12 13:00: TBC (Sara Buonomo, EMBL Monterotondo)

2012-09-19 11:00: "16 years of Autophagy: towards Understanding The Intracellular Self-Degradation System Sustaining Life" (Tamotsu Yoshimori, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine)

2012-09-19 13:00: 'A novel role for Wnt proteins in modulating (auto)immunity through control of regulatory T cell function' (Prof. Paul J. Coffer, Cell Growth & Differentiation Lab,University Medical Center, Lundlaan)

2012-10-09 13:00: 'Metabolic control of the Cancer cell's Warburg Effect', (Dr. Markus Ralser, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre)

2012-10-11 14:30: 'Combined loss of Rc3h1 and Rc3h2 derepresses their mRNA targets Ox40 and Icos and imposes Tfh differentiation on CD4 T cells' (Katharina Vogel, Institut für molekulare Immunologie, Munich)

2012-10-22 16:00: 'Metabolic control of the Cancer cell's Warburg Effect' (Marcus Buschbeck, Ph.D. Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer )

2012-10-25 13:00: 'Functional implications of modified bases in DNA'. (Skirmantas Kriaucionis, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research )

2012-11-23 13:00: "The RNA-binding protein Elavl1/HuR as a determinant of physiologic and pathologic cellular states".  (Dimitris Kontoyiannis, Alexander Fleming, Biomedical Sciences Research Centre)

2012-11-30 13:00: "The RNA-binding protein Elavl1/HuR as a determinant of physiologic and pathologic cellular states".  (Dimitris Kontoyiannis, Alexander Fleming, Biomedical Sciences Research Centre )

2012-12-04 13:00: "Dynamic Cellular Architecture in Bacterial Signalling and the Eukaryotic Nucleus in silico and in vivo" (Karen Lipkow, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre)

2012-12-04 13:00: "Vaccination against chronic diseases"  (Martin Bachmann, University of Zurich)

2012-12-17 13:00: 'Interaction between retroviruses and the host immune system' (George Kassiotis PhD, National Institute for Medical Research)

2013-01-17 13:00: 'Interaction between retroviruses and the host immune system'  (George Kassiotis PhD, National Institute for Medical Research)

2013-01-30 13:00: ‘A novel role for RNA-binding E3 ubiquitin ligases in the regulation of mRNA decay’ (Florencia Cano, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)

2013-02-21 13:00: 'Mechanisms underlying the activation and dual specificity kinase activity of DYRK1A, a Down syndrome candidate gene' (Prof. Walter Becker, Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Aachen, Germany)

2013-02-22 13:00: 'Cohesion stabilizes interphase chromosome structure'  (Dr. Suzana Hadjur, University College London)

2013-03-05 13:00: 'Nuts and bolts controlling Stem Cells senescence: selective targeting of the epigenetic Ezh1 player'  (Susana Gónzalez López, CNIC, Madrid)

2013-03-15 13:00: 'Influenza virus and interferons: a liaison that can be dangerous for the host'. (Andreas Wack, NIMR)

2013-05-02 13:00: 'Polycomb Cbx orthologs mediate the balance between Hematopoietic Stem Cell self-renewal and differentiation' (Prof. Gerald de Haan, UMCG, Netherlands)

2013-05-23 13:00: ‘Finding chromatin domains by searching for boundary element signatures in Drosophila’ (Bartek Wilczynski,  Inst. of Informatics, Univ. of Warsaw)

2013-09-04 13:00: "Autophagy: from cell biology to immunity" (Vojo Deretic,  University of New Mexico Medical School)

2013-09-06 13:00: 'Genome-wide studies of FOXP3 action in human Treg function' (Dr Simon Barry, University of Adelaide)

2013-09-11 13:00: 'Post-transcriptional regulation of effector molecules in T cells' (Monika Wolkers, Sanquin Blood Supply)

2013-11-20 13:00: 'The 'blur' of metabolic disease genetics: Epigenetic determinants of stochastic obesity and beta-cell fate stability' (J. Andrew Pospisilik, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics)