Babraham Seminar


2017-01-13 13:00:  "Practical Applications of Analysing the Antibody Repertoire" (Dr Rachael Bashford-Rogers; Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge )

2017-01-23 13:00: Athena SWAN - My Life in science Seminar "There’s more to academia than research, you know"  (Dr Danny Kingsley; Head of Scholarly Communication, University of Cambridge)

2017-01-31 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Peter Cullen; Professor of Biochemistry, University of Bristol)

2017-02-20 16:00: "Investigating the mechanisms of regulatory T-cell differentiation in vivo by novel Fluorescent Timer reporters"  (Dr Masahiro Ono; Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London)

2017-02-21 13:00: “Editing the genome of human induced pluripotent stem cells” (Dr Andrew Bassett; Head of Research (Cellular Operations) Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

2017-02-28 13:00: "Regulation of X-chromosome inactivation in human development" (Dr Claire Rougeulle; The National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France)

2017-03-09 13:00: "RhoGEFs as signaling platforms of chemotactic GPCRs"  (José Vázquez-Prado; Department of Pharmacology, The Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN)  Mexico)

2017-03-09 16:00: "Defining the relationship between stem and progenitor cells in the intestinal epithelium"  (Dr Doug Winton; Cambridge Institute, CRUK)

2017-03-13 13:00: EU Life Lecture - "Genomic approaches to study chromosome architecture and function" (Prof. Bas van Steensel; The Netherlands Cancer Institute  (NKI) )

2017-03-15 13:00: "Regulatory feedback from nascent RNA to chromatin" (Dr Richard Jenner; UCL Cancer Institute, University College London)

2017-03-21 13:00: "Group 2 Innate Lymphoid cells at the interface between innate and adaptive immunity"  (Dr Tim Halim; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2017-03-27 00:00: The Ageing Cell Conference 2017 (Various)

2017-03-30 14:00: “Creating New In-Roads for Cancer-Specific T Cells” (Prof. Awen Gallimore; Cardiff University, School of Medicine, Wales, UK)

2017-03-31 13:00: EU Life Lecture - “The interplay between neuronal activity and actin dynamics in synaptic tagging and capture” (Dr Rosalina Fonseca; Cellular and Systems Neurobiology, Gulbenkian Institute of Science (IGC))

2017-04-21 13:00: Athena SWAN - My Life in Science Seminar - "An alternative route to an independent research career" (Dr Susan Campbell; Lecturer, Biomedical Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University)

2017-05-04 13:00: “Structural maintenance of chromosome complexes differentially compact mitotic chromosomes according to genomic context” (Dr Jon Baxter; Royal Society Fellow/Group Leader, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex)

2017-05-15 12:00: “Targetting Tribbles 2 pseudokinase with drugs” (Dr Patrick Eyers; Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool)

2017-05-19 13:00: Equality4Success - "My life in science seminar"  (Michaela Frye; University of Cambrudge, Department of Genetics, Wellcome Trust - Medical Research Council, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute )

2017-05-19 13:00: Equality4Success - "My life in science seminar"  (Michaela Frye; University of Cambridge, Department of Genetics, Wellcome Trust - Medical Research Council, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute )

2017-05-23 13:00: EU Life Lecture - “Rembrandt: Remodelling the brain in intellectual disability”  (Dr. Mara del Mar Dierssen Sotos; CRG-Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)

2017-06-01 13:00: "Pioneer Transcription factors in programming and reprogramming"  (Dr Abdenour Soufi; MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh )

2017-06-05 14:00: "The Circadian Clockwork and Innate Immunity" (Prof. Andrew Loudon; Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester )

2017-06-06 13:00: “Map plasticity and synthetic lethality in oncogenic PI3K signals with T cell leukemia” (Dr Jeroen Roose; Dept of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco)

2017-07-05 13:00: "The roles of alternative splicing in regulating the function of intrinsically disordered regions" (Dr Robert Weatheritt; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), University of Cambridge)

2017-07-13 13:00: Studying long-distance enhancers of Sox9 in the developing mouse gonad (Dr Nitzan Gonen; Crick Institute, London)

2017-07-18 13:00: "Generic patterns of clone dynamics in growing tissues" (Dr Steffen Rulands; Max Planck Institute, Germany )

2017-08-01 14:00: “Symmetry breaking and self-organisation in mouse development” (Dr Takashi Hiiragi; EMBL)

2017-09-05 13:00: “Meis2 activation by Kdm2b-containing complexes” (Dr Haruhiko Koseki; RIKEN Institute, Japan )

2017-09-11 15:00: “Modulating Tregs in Cancer and Autoimmunity” (Prof. Dario Vignali; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA)

2017-09-21 13:00: “In vivo and in vitro imaging of leukocyte responses during inflammation” (Prof. Aleksandar Ivetic; Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London)

2017-09-28 11:00: "miR-221 promotes precursor B-cell retention in bone marrow by amplifying the Pi3K-signaling pathway" (Dr Georg Petkau; German Rheumatism Research Centre, Berlin)

2017-10-06 13:00: "Live cell biochemistry by light" (Dr Alessandro Esposito; MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-10 13:00: "Mechanosensitive regulation of cancer epigenetics and pluripotency" (Dr Johanna Ivaska; Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku, Finland )

2017-10-12 13:00: EU LIFE Lecture - "Histone Chaperones Maintain Cell Fates and Antagonize Reprogramming in C. elegans and Human Cells"        (Dr Baris Tursun; Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Max Delbrück Center (MDC) for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association)

2017-10-17 13:00:  "Quantitative 3D-SIM imaging of chromatin domain organisation"   (Dr Lothar Schermelleh; Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

2017-11-01 13:00: "SMUG1 - A Classical DNA Glycosylase And An RNA Processing Enzyme" (Prof. Hilde Loge Nilsen, The Institute of Clinical Medicine, Norway)

2017-11-10 13:00: "Post-transcriptional regulation dictates T cell functionality in health and disease" (Dr Fiamma Salerno; Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation, Amsterdam,The Netherlands )

2017-11-14 13:00: "LARP1 a post-transcriptional driver of cancer gene expression" (Dr Sarah P Blagden; Associate Professor of Experimental Cancer Medicine & Consultant Medical Oncologist, Director of Early Phase Cancer Trials Unit & Oxford ECMC lead, University of Oxford)

2017-11-23 13:00:   "Intestinal epithelial cells: at the interface of the microbiota and mucosal immunity" (Dr Virginia Pedicord; Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Rockefeller University, New York)

2017-12-14 13:00: "RNA modifications as regulators of stem cell function" (Dr Michaela Frye; Department of Genetics, WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge)

2018-01-25 13:00: “Dissecting mutation patterns in human stem cells to study processes that cause cancer” (Dr Ruben van Boxtel; Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, The Netherlands )

2018-02-05 13:00: Interrogating T cell signalling and effector function in hypoxic environments (Dr Sarah Ross; Cell Signalling and Immunology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland)

2018-02-15 13:00: "Vectorbuilder: Revolutionising Vector Design & Custom Cloning" (25 min seminar)  followed by   "Advanced Technologies For Rapid Generation Of Custom Designed Animal Models" (25 min seminar) (Dr Matthew Wheeler; Associate Director, Cyagen)

2018-02-26 13:00: "Chronic Inflammatory Diseases and Tryptophan Catabolism"  (Prof. Andrew Mellor; Professor of Translational Immunology, Institute of Cellular Medicine, University of Newcastle )

2018-02-28 13:00: Transcriptional control of pluripotent stem cell fate by the Nucleosome Remodelling and Deacetylation (NuRD) complex (Dr Brian Hendrich; Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge)

2018-03-02 13:00: Semantic Data Integration and Knowledge Management in Life Sciences (Dr John G. Sgouros; Biomax Informatics AG, London)

2018-03-12 13:00: Genome-wide analysis of protein-DNA interactions (Prof. Jussi Taipale; Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

2018-03-15 14:00: Babraham Lecture - Deciphering the gene regulation network in human germline cells at single-cell & single base resolution (Prof. Fuchou Tang; Laboratory of Stem Cells and Epigenetics, BIOPIC, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing)

2018-03-22 13:00: Optical control of T-cell signalling dynamics (Dr John James; Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2018-03-23 15:00: Identifying new gene regulating networks in immune cells (Dr. Elke Glasmacher; Head of Immunobiology, Roche Innovation Centre, Munich, Germany)

2018-04-05 13:00: Cellular recycling: role of autophagy in aging and disease (Professor Malene Hansen; Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Program for Development, Aging and Regeneration, La Jolla, CA, USA)

2018-04-13 11:00: Spatial Positioning of Innate Cells Controls B Cell Immunity to Infection (Dr Mauro Gaya; Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, USA)

2018-04-25 14:00: Babraham Lecture - Understanding how the p53 onco-suppressor gene works: hints from the P2X7 ATP receptor (Prof. Francesco Di Virgilio; Professor of Clinical Pathology, University of Ferrara, Italy)

2018-04-26 13:00: The DNA oxygenase TET1  in mammalian embryonic development and epigenetic reprogramming (Prof. Kian Peng Koh; Associate Professor, Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Belgium)

2018-05-08 13:00: How cells regulate the dynamics of chromatin patterns (Dr Fabian Erdel; DKFZ and BioQuant, Heidelberg, Germany)

2018-05-29 11:00: The Regulation of DNA Methylation in Mammalian Development and Cancer (Dr Nicolas Veland; The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis )

2018-06-05 13:00: My Life in Science Seminar “Publishing in Science: an Inside Look" (Dr Seth Scanlon; Immunology Editor at Science (AAAS), Cambridge )

2018-06-06 14:00: Babraham Lecture - The Remote Control of Gene Expression (Prof. Wendy Bickmore; Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh)

2018-06-12 13:00: Epigenetic regulation of antibody production and the formation of B cell memory to acute and chronic infections (Dr Kim Good-Jacobson; Head, B cells and Antibody Memory Laboratory, NHMRC RD Wright Biomedical Career Development Fellow, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Australia)

2018-06-14 13:00: Investigations into the formation and re-activation of memory B cells (Dr Imogen Moran; Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)

2018-07-13 14:00: Babraham Lecture - Ras proteins as therapeutics targets (Dr Frank McCormick; UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA, USA)

2018-07-18 12:00: Viral Vectored Vaccines against Influenza (Dr Teresa Lambe; The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)

2018-07-19 13:00: Computational modeling of the CD8 T cell immune response: How mathematical models can provide insights on differentiation and heterogeneity?  (Dr Fabien Crauste; Institut Camille Jordan, University of Lyon, France )

2018-07-20 13:00: OH! The places you’ll go: Protein hydroxylation and its role in physiology and disease (Dr Mathew Coleman; Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham)

2018-07-24 14:00: Babraham Lecture - Pathology from the Molecular Scale on Up (Professor Garry Nolan; Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory, Stanford University, California, USA )

2018-07-25 13:00: Bisulfite-free, Base-resolution, and Quantitative Sequencing of Cytosine Modifications (Dr Chunxiao Song; Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

2018-07-26 13:00: Polymer Modelling of the 4D Epigenome (Dr Davide Michieletto; University of Edinburgh)

2018-07-27 13:00: Post-transcriptional gene dysregulation in human asthma as determined by Frac-seq. (Prof. Rocio T. Martinez Nunez; School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, Kings College, London)

2018-08-17 12:00: Drosophila Kinome and Genome-wide RNAi screens reveal novel regulators of epigenetic cell memory (Dr Muhammad Tariq)

2018-09-11 14:00: Babraham Lecture - Cellular responses to DNA damage: from mechanistic insights to applications in cancer therapy (Prof. Steven Jackson; Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

2018-09-13 13:00: PI3K delta-RAC2 axis controls phagosomal NADPH oxidase activity in dendritic cells and maintains gut immunity and tolerance (Dr Ezra Aksoy; Lecturer in immunobiology and biochemical pharmacology, Group leader in Mucosal Immunity and Signalling, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London)

2018-09-19 13:00: Visualization of low-level Gene Expression and Biomarker Localization within Tissue: Applications of RNAscope® and BaseScope (Gemma Hughes; Advanced Cell Diagnostics)

2018-09-26 11:00: Including sex and gender in (bio)medical research design (Prof. Sabine Oertelt-Prigione; Radboud University, Nijmegen )

2018-10-03 13:00: Cell immortalisation strategies past and present (Dr Nirmal Perera; Field Applications Specialist, LGC/ATCC)

2018-10-08 15:00: Lister Prize Lecture - "Molecular mechanisms of immunological tolerance and immunosuppression" (Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri; Group Leader, Babraham Institute)

2018-10-31 14:00: Babraham Lecture - Controlling the killers: from genes to membranes (Profesor Gillian Griffiths; Professor of Immunology and Cell Biology, FRS, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-19 12:00: Molecular mechanisms of chromosome folding (Dr Elphege Nora; The Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, UCSF, USA )

2018-11-21 14:00: Babraham Distinguished Lecture - Endoplasmic reticulum turnover via selective autophagy (Prof. Ivan Dikic; Director of the Institute of Biochemistry II (IBC2), Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)

2018-11-22 13:00: Food allergen-sensitized CCR9+ lymphocytes enhance airways allergic inflammation in mice (Dr Laure Castan; Laboratory of Antoine Magnan, Centre Hospitalier, Universitaire de Nantes, Nantes, France )

2018-11-27 12:00: Modelling the pathological long-range regulatory effects of structural variation with patient-specific hiPSC  (Dr. Alvaro Rada-Iglesias; Principal Investigator – Group Leader, Developmental Genomics Laboratory, CECAD Research Centre, University of Cologne, Germany )

2018-11-30 12:00: Chromatin binding proteins in pluripotent stem cells :Insights from single-cell Hi-C and single-molecule imaging (Dr Srinjan Basu; Trinity college Senior Postdoctoral Researcher Group Leader, Wellcome Trust- MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute )

2018-12-10 13:00: Neutrophils in the regulation of inflammation (Dr Venizelos Papayannopoulos; The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2018-12-11 14:00: EU Life Lecture - Temporal scaling of C. elegans Ageing (Dr Nicholas E. Stroustrup; Group Leader - Dynamics of Living Systems, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain)

2019-01-18 12:00: HuR vs. TTP: Who is really the Master Regulator of CD4+ T cell Differentiation?  (Prof. Ulus Atasoy; Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, University of Michigan, USA)

2019-02-20 14:00: Babraham Distinguished Lecture - MeCP2 and the causes of Rett syndrome  (Professor Sir Adrian Bird CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci; Buchanan Professor of Genetics, University of Edinburgh)

2019-03-05 13:30: Decoding a cancer-relevant splicing decision in the RON proto-oncogene using high-throughput mutagenesis (Dr Kathi Zarnack; Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences )

2019-03-07 13:00: Male germline epigenetic priming for future development (Dr Shinichi Tomizawa; Department of Histology and Cell Biology, Yokohama City University)

2019-03-08 13:00: Rewiring of mTORC1-autophagy pathways in senescence and melanoma (Dr Berni Carroll; University of Bristol )

2019-03-20 12:00: Dynamics of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell differentiation in vivo (Prof. Thomas Höfer; German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), Heidelberg)

2019-03-26 12:00: The phospholipid PI(3,4)P2 is an apical identity determinant (Dr David Bryant; Head of Epithelial Polarity Lab, Institute of Cancer Sciences / CRUK Beatson Institute, Glasgow )

2019-04-11 14:00: Babraham Distinguished Lecture - "Regulating p53 and beyond: from cell death to sudden death"  (Prof. Xin Lu; Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

2019-04-24 14:00: Babraham Distinguished Lecture - Elucidating new ways to target downstream of KRAS mutation in colorectal cancer : metabolic and microenvironment targets (Prof. Owen Sansom; Director of The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Glasgow)

2019-04-26 12:00: Liver Lipid Metabolism and Healthy Ageing: Themes from the Drug Discovery Frontline (Dr Quin Wills; Novo Nordisk Research Centre, Oxford)

2019-04-30 12:00: Precision metagenomic analysis in personalised medicine and birth cohort studies (Dr Trevor Lawley; Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Microbiotica,  Faculty Group Leader: Host-Microbiota Interactions Team, Wellcome Sanger Institute )

2019-05-03 13:00: Immune disease GWAS variants converge on regulation of cd4 T cell activation (Dr Gosia Trynka; Group Leader - Immune Genomics Group, Wellcome Sanger Institute )

2019-05-21 12:00: Genetic analysis of a conserved protein reveals an important role in Plasmodium falciparum merozoite invasion of the host red blood cell (Dr Danny Wilson; Laboratory Head - Malaria Biology, Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia)

2019-05-23 14:00: Babraham Distinguished Lecture - Selective autophagy receptors and LIR-ATG8 interactions in autophagy (Prof. Terje Johansen; The Arctic University of Norway)

2019-06-12 12:00: Proteomic analysis of cell state transitions  (Dr Tony Ly; Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Univeristy of Edinburgh )

2019-06-14 12:00: Nucleosomal Asymmetry Shapes Histone Mark Binding at Bivalent Domains (Dr Philipp Voigt; Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh)

2019-06-18 12:00: Developmental lineage mapping by genomic barcoding in the mouse  (Dr Reza Kalor; Havard Medical School, Bostom, Massachusetts, USA)

2019-06-19 14:00: Babraham Distinguished Lecture - Understanding cellular dynamics in mammalian skin  (Prof. Fiona M. Watt; Director of the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King's College London)

2019-06-24 12:00: My Life in Science Seminar -  In a straight line - with a few bends  (Dr Katrin Rittinger; Francis Crick Institute, London)

2019-06-25 12:00: Iron powers adaptive immunity (Dr Alexander (Hal) Drakesmith; Associate Professor of Immunology, MRC Weatherhall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

2019-06-28 14:00: Babraham Distinguished Lecture - "Control of B cell immunity and leukemia by the transcription factor Pax5" (Prof. Meinrad Busslinger; Scientific Deputy Director / Senior Scientist, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria)

2019-07-17 12:00: Regulation of B cell responses by distinct populations of T cells (Dr Nicolas Fazilleau; Deputy director of The Physiopathology Center of Toulouse-Purpan)

2019-07-24 12:00: The regulation and consequences of immune responses during Salmonella infections (Prof. Adam Cunningham; Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, University of Birmingham)

2019-07-29 14:00: An integrative systems genetic analysis of mammalian lipid metabolism (Dr Thomas A. Vallim; Departments of Medicine/Cardiology and Biological Chemistry, UCLA, USA )

2019-07-30 13:00: Lipid code for phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate synthesis (Dr Taki Nishimura; The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2019-07-31 15:00: Procollagen quality control at ER exit sites  (Dr Shakib Omari; National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), Rockville, Maryland, USA)

2019-08-01 12:00: All kinds of JNK: How one kinase can be an oncogene, tumour suppressor and apoptotic mediator  (Dr David Croucher; Group Leader - Network Biology, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)

2019-09-20 12:00: scSLAM-seq and GRAND-SLAM reveal core features of the intrinsic immune response in single virus-infected cells  (Prof. Lars Dölken; Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, The Julius Maximilians University (JMU), Würzburg )

2019-09-24 15:00: A rate-limiting process: T cell activation from a single-cell perspective (Dr Arianne Richard; Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge)

2019-09-27 10:30: High-Throughput Production of Human Proteins for Structural and Functional Studies (Dr Nicola Burgess-Brown; Principal Investigator, Biotechnology Group, SGC, University of Oxford)

2019-10-07 12:00: MHC-independent thymocyte selection, is it possible?  (Prof. Sylvie Lesage; The Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, Montreal, Canada)

2019-10-08 12:00: The phospholipid PI(3,4)P2 is an apical identity determinant (Dr David Bryant; Head of Epithelial Polarity Lab, Institute of Cancer Sciences/CRUK Beatson Institute, Glasgow)

2019-11-06 12:00: My Life in Science Seminar (Professor Nicole Soranzo; Senior Group Leader, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute )

2019-11-07 14:00: How chromatin is spatially reorganised during zygotic reprogramming to totipotency (Dr Kikuë Tachibana; Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Austria)

2019-11-11 12:00: “iPS Proteomes in Health and Disease" (Prof. Angus Lamond; School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee)

2019-11-12 12:00: Regulating gene expression in 3D: a view from Drosophila embryogenesis (Dr Yad Ghavi-Helm; IGFL, France)

2019-11-13 12:00: Targeting GARP on human Tregs:  a novel approach for the immunotherapy of cancer? (Prof. Sophie Lucas; The de Duve Institute, Brussels)

2019-11-20 12:00: Immunometabolims taught by patients (Prof. Christoph Hess; University of Basel)

2019-11-28 14:00: Babraham Distinguished Lecture - Antisense-mediated chromatin silencing  (Prof. Caroline Dean; Project Leader - Cell and Developmental Biology, The John Innes Centre , UK)

2019-12-03 14:00: EU Life Lecture -  Spontaneous protein crystallization as a driver of immunity  (Prof. Bart Lambrecht; VIB, Belgium)

2019-12-11 15:00: Transcription factors as sensors and modifiers of chromatin (Dr Dirk Schübeler; Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)

2020-01-23 14:00: Babraham Distinguished Lecture - Different mechanisms define lncRNA and protein coding gene transcription units in mammalian cells (Prof. Nicholas Proudfoot; Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

2020-01-31 12:00: Metabolic control of T cell function (Dr Sarah Dimeloe; Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham)

2020-02-12 12:00: The enigma of histone 3 lysine 4 methylation (Prof. Francis Stewart; Professor of Genomics & Director of the Biotechnology Center, The Technical University of Dresden, Germany )

2020-02-24 12:00: Adult hippocampal neurogenesis in health and disease  (Dr Pascal Bielefeld; Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

2020-03-06 12:00: DNA-embedded ribonucleotides: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic opportunities  (Dr Olga Murina; MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

2020-06-02 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Adrian Saurin, University of Dundee )

2020-07-03 15:00: The Senescence-Associated Innate Immune Sensors in Tumour Suppression (Dr Juan Carlos Acosta; Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine)

2020-07-14 12:00: Building industrial academic collaborations; managing the relationship (Prof Danuta Mossakowska; Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at the Babraham Institute, and  Director of the Malopolska Centre for Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)

2020-07-15 12:00: Questions around cellular plasticity:  naive pluripotency and epigenetic rejuvenation by reprogramming (Prof. Manuel Serrano; ICREA Professor, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Spain)

2020-07-20 12:00: RAC1 mutations in human neurodevelopmental disorders (Dr Siddharth Banka & Dr Thomas Millard; University of Manchester)

2020-07-21 12:00: Profiling and understanding Ras variant biology (Prof. Ian Prior; NWCR Chair of Molecular Oncology, Head of the Division of Molecular Physiology & Cell Signalling, Institute of Systems, Molecular & Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool)

2020-07-31 13:00: Supramolecular arsenal of adaptive and natural killers (Prof. Michael Dustin; Professor of Immunology and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, Director of Research - Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford)

2020-08-07 12:00: Ying and Yang of G-quadruplxes for genome stability (Prof. Katrin Paeschke; University Hospital Bonn (UKB), Germany )

2020-08-12 12:00: The protein kinase DYRK2 as a new regulator of protein homeostasis (Dr Laureano de la Vega; CRUK Fellow and Group Leader, School of Medicine, Division of Cellular Medicine, University of Dundee)

2020-09-08 12:00: Translating the Hypoxic Response – Role of Preferential Protein Translation in Cellular Response to Low Oxygen (Dr Niall Kenneth; Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool)

2020-09-17 12:00: Strategies to target senescence (Prof. Jesus Gil; Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London)

2020-09-21 10:00: The Cambridge Bioinformatics Hackathon 2020 (Babraham Bioinformatics)

2020-09-23 15:00: Explorations of N- and O-linked Glycosylation  on Extracellular and Intracellular Cell Surfaces (Prof. Catherine Costello; William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University, Boston, MA)

2020-10-08 12:00: Equality4Success Bitesize Seminar "HeLa100: the history and ethics of HeLa cells" (Elizabeth Wynn; Equality & Diversity Manager, Babraham Institute)

2020-10-14 15:00: How can academic centres perform Covid testing? Lessons from the Crick Institute (Dr Rupert Beale; Francis Crick Institute, London)

2020-10-29 14:00: CRISPR Tools for Functional Genomics and Disease Models (Dr Nick Clare; Synthego)

2020-11-04 12:00: Native ambient mass spectrometry: Latest developments for in situ protein analysis (Prof. Helen J. Cooper; Professor of Mass Spectrometry, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham)

2020-11-11 11:30: Success: what lies behind the mask? (Kate Atkin)

2020-11-18 15:00: Senescence Lifecycle in cancer and ageing (Dr Masashi Narita; Group Leader, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)

2020-11-19 12:00: The Climate crisis and its solutions - what role can scientists play? (Dr Joanne Durgan; Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Babraham Green Labs, Climate Reality Project leader )

2020-11-25 15:00: Epigenetic regulation, heterochromatin and anti-fungal resistance (Prof. Robin Allshire; Professor of Chromosome Biology, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh)

2020-12-14 11:00: Research integrity: strengthening research culture, research practice and research reproducibility (Dr Jane Alfred; Director & Co-founder, Catalyst Editorial Ltd)

2020-12-14 15:00: Putting people before projects: Everything THAT nature communications paper got wrong about scientific success and mentorship (Dr Laura M. Huckins; Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Department of Psychiatry, Department of Genetic and Genomic Sciences, Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC, USA )

2021-01-20 17:00: Quieting the Estrogen Receptor for Therapeutic Benefit in ER+ Breast Cancer (Dr Ciara Metcalfe; Senior Scientist, Translational Oncology, Genentech, San Francisco, USA )

2021-01-22 15:00: UK Autophagy Network seminar - “Molecular Mechanisms of Selective Autophagy” (Prof. Sascha Martens; Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna)

2021-02-03 15:00: Innate immune cell decision making; understanding the mechanisms that trigger inflammation (Dr Ruaidhri Carmody; Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow )

2021-02-24 15:00: Exercise-associated Neuroprotective Pathways in CNS Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease (Dr Constanza J. Cortes; The University of Alabama, Birmingham AL, USA)

2021-03-08 12:00: Gender differences in question-asking at academic seminars (Dr Gillian Sandstrom; Senior Lecturer, University of Essex)

2021-03-10 15:00: Roles of TCR signal strength and duration in driving T cell development, differentiation and function (Dr David Bending; Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham)

2021-03-15 11:00: An institutional strategy to improve the trustworthiness, usefulness, and ethics of biomedical research (Prof. Ulrich Dirnagl; Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin & Director of QUEST - Quality | Ethics | Open Science | Translation BIH Center for Transforming Biomedical Research Berlin Institute of Health, Germany )

2021-03-24 15:00: Reprogramming and plasticity of epigenetic regulation (Prof Petra Hajkova; MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS), London)

2021-03-31 15:00: The chromatin response of human cells to SARS-CoV-2 et al (Dr Ritwick Sawarkar; Group Leader, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge)

2021-04-07 15:00: The Rosalind Franklin Institute: Factor of 10 technologies (Prof. Jim Naismith; Institute Director, The Rosalind Franklin Institute)

2021-04-21 15:00: The biology of CNS progenitor ageing (Prof. Robin Franklin; Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell institute, University of Cambridge, UK)

2021-05-20 14:00: mTOR signaling in growth and metabolism (Prof. Dr. Michael N. Hall; Professor of Biochemistry Biozentrum, University of Basel)

2021-06-02 12:30: Symmetry breaking and self-organization in intestinal organoids (Prof. Prisca Liberali; SNSF Professor and Research Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI))

2021-06-17 12:30: Chromatin and Gene Transcription in Hypoxia (Prof. Sonia Rocha; Executive Dean of the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool)

2021-06-28 12:00: Ethical implications of ageing research  (Professor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care))

2021-06-30 15:00: Research Ecosystems, Cognitive Bias and Incentives  (Prof. Marcus Munafò; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol )

2021-07-14 15:00: Protein complexes subjected to tandem mass spectrometry reveal allosteric binding partners (Prof. Dame Carol Robinson; University of Oxford)

2021-07-22 14:00: Meet… Medicines Discovery Catapult (Dr Martin Main; Head of Molecular Sciences, Medicines Discovery Catapult, UK)

2021-07-28 15:00: L-selectin/CD62L: not just a lymph node homing receptor on T-cells (Professor Ann Ager; Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, University of Cardiff)

2021-09-22 15:00: 3D genome folding, unfolding, and refolding in the mammalian brain (Dr Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia USA)

2021-09-29 15:00: Secret Life of Copper: From Kinases to Cancer  (Dr Donita C. Brady; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)

2021-10-13 15:00: Heavy mice and lighter things: developing models of extracellular matrix in health and ageing (Prof. Melinda J Duer; Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2021-10-20 15:00: From Africa to Europe: A black immunologist's journey in the rough terrain of academia (Dr Yassin Elfaki; Institute of Immunity & Transplantation, Division of Infection & Immunity, University College London)

2021-11-30 12:30: My Life in Science Webinar: Gut feelings (Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga; Imperial College London)

2021-12-08 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Naama Barkai; Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

2021-12-13 15:00: RNA structure, a hidden regulator in vivo (Dr Yiliang Ding; John Innes Centre)

2022-01-12 12:00: A Tale of Two Phosphatases: The Control of Inflammation via Phosphorylation and Dephosphorylation of Tristetraprolin (Professor Andy Clark; Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham)

2022-01-27 12:30: Regulatory evolution by transcription-factor duplication (Professor Naama Barkai; Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science )

2022-02-02 13:30: Colour within the lines – a personal perspective of navigating academia as a black woman (Dr Ane Ogbe; Postdoctoral Scientist, University of Oxford)

2022-02-09 15:00: Constructing 4D molecular roadmaps of cell fate decisions (Dr Effie Apostolou; Associate Professor of Molecular Biology in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College)

2022-02-23 15:00: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms of cell diversification - lessons from C. elegans (Dr Luisa Cochella; Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA)

2022-03-02 13:30: Telling membranes where to go - the macroautophagy machinery in phagocytosis and viral envelope acquisition (Professor  Christian Münz, Viral Immunobiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland)

2022-03-08 15:00: IWD 2022 - Bias in Science: an inspirational talk on bias mitigation (Dr Claartje Vinkenburg)

2022-03-25 12:00: Exploring PhoSfomes: from basic biology to drug discovery (Prof Patrick Eyers; Head of Biochemistry and Systems Biology Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology University of Liverpool)

2022-04-20 13:30: Mitophagy: what, where, when and why (Dr Ian Ganley; University of Dundee)

2022-04-22 11:00: Earth Day 2022 - How to save our planet: Developing win-win solutions (Prof. Mark Maslin; Dept of Geography, University College London )

2022-04-22 13:30: Phosphorylation-mediated signalling – a new era? (Professor Claire Eyers; Department of Biochemistry & Systems Biology, University of Liverpool)

2022-05-10 13:30: My Life in Science Seminar: Determination in life, science and cells (Professor Kathy Niakan; Francis Crick Institute )

2022-05-17 15:00: A biophysical hypothesis for the initiation of spontaneous ALS (Dr Liam Holt; Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University)

2022-05-25 13:30: Functional dissection of the genomic enhancer landscapes controlling pleiotropic gene expression and mammalian heart development (Dr Marco Osterwalder; Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern)

2022-06-24 13:30: This Is My Life, surviving academia as a Black woman in Britain (Tomi Akingbade;University of Cambridge and the Founder of the Black Women in Science Network)

2022-07-20 13:30: Protein Kinase Regulation by the HSP90 Molecular Chaperone System (Professor Laurence Pearl; University of Sussex)

2022-07-28 13:00: Targeting altered immune-crosstalk in tissues to enhance immunity (Prof Arne Akbar; UCL Division of Biosciences)

2022-08-31 13:30: The B cell receptor and beyond: specialized functions of the BCR in the intestine (Dr Carla Nowosad; NYU Grossman School of Medicine)

2022-09-06 13:00: FUS overexpression leads to cytoskeletal, organelle and cellular homeostasis perturbations (Prof Gabriele Kaminski Schierle; University of Cambridge)

2022-09-14 13:30: Deciphering gene expression regulation in health and disease using integrative omics approaches (Prof Michiel Vermeulen; Radboud University )

2022-09-27 13:30: Towards a quantitative understanding of long-range transcriptional regulation (Dr Luca Giorgetti; Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)

2022-09-30 13:00: BYOB – Organising Appropriate Gatherings in the Lymph Node (Dr Ed Roberts; CRUK Beatson Institute)

2022-10-05 13:30: Simple solutions to complex problems: from cell cycle regulation to anti-cancer treatments (Dr Adrian Saurin; University of Dundee)

2022-10-13 13:30: Proteotoxic stress, p53 and cell competition: mechanisms and impact on tissue colonisation (Prof Eugenia Piddini; University of Bristol)

2022-10-20 14:00: Blood-stage malaria vaccine development: the impact of vaccine platform and timing of booster dosing (Dr Carolyn Nielsen; University of Oxford)

2022-11-29 13:30: Early mammalian development and its regulation (Dr Vincent Pasque; KU Leuven)

2022-12-06 13:00: Tuning of genome expression and energy metabolism during cellular proliferation, quiescence and ageing (Prof Jürg Bähler; University College London)

2022-12-07 13:00: Targeting mitochondrial nucleotide metabolism in cancer (Dr Tom MacVicar; CRUK Beatson Institute )

2023-01-19 14:00: Uncovering the role of regulatory T cells in tissue regeneration (Dr Ye Zheng; Salk Institute for Biological Studies)

2023-01-24 13:00: RNA cap regulation in cell function and fate decisions (Prof Vicky Cowling; Beatson Institute )

2023-01-27 13:30: SARS-CoV-2 Variants (Prof Ravindra Gupta; University of Cambridge )

2023-01-31 13:30: Using ‘omics to generate new insights into insulin-regulate glucose transport and insulin resistance & Don't drown your cells – considering oxygen tension in cell culture (Dr Daniel Fazakerley; Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge)

2023-02-09 13:30: Humoral immunity in the lung; spatiotemporal regulation of resident memory B cell responses to infection with influenza virus (Dr Tal Arnon; Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford)

2023-02-10 13:00: Heterotypic Amyloid Interactions and their Impact on Amyloid Assembly (Prof Frederic Rousseau; VIB SWITCH Laboratory, KU Leuven)

2023-02-23 13:00: Collective T cell behaviour in health and disease (Dr Audrey Gerard; Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford )

2023-03-17 13:30: AMPK phosphorylation of FNIP1 dictates the kinetics of lysosome and mitochondrial biogenesis (Dr Nazma Malik; Salk Institute )

2023-03-22 14:30: Maintaining diversity while maximising affinity - IL-21 and the balancing act of B cell selection (Dr Isaak Quast; Monash University )

2023-03-30 11:00: Regulation of DNA repair by monoubiquitin signals (Professor Helen Walden; University of Glasgow)

2023-04-18 13:30: The Tock Tick of Senescence (Prof Cleo Bishop; Barts and The London Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London)

2023-04-26 13:30: Genetic features controlling the specific expression of developmental genes (Dr Alvaro Rada-Iglesias; Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria)

2023-05-05 13:00: How do autophagosomes form and grow? (Dr Alex van Vliet; MRC LMB)

2023-05-09 13:00: Is Resolution the End of Inflammation? Nope! There is more, lots more…. (Professor Derek Gilroy; University College London )

2023-05-11 11:00: Accounting for Carbon Emissions - Flows, scopes and data  (Katarina McCartney; University of Cambridge )

2023-05-16 13:30: Selection Events in Germinal Centres (Dr Oliver Bannard; The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

2023-06-09 09:30: LGBTQ+ in Academia: Challenges and Prospects (Prof Ewan St John Smith; Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge)

2023-06-13 13:30: Establishing a structure-function relationship between biomolecular condensates and protein degradation (Dr Janet Kumita; Dept of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge )

2023-06-20 13:30: Activation-induced proteome re-modelling in B cells and the role of mTORC1 (Dr Andy Howden; University of Dundee)

2023-06-21 13:00: Liquid–liquid phase separation in autophagy (Dr Hong Zhang; Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2023-06-27 13:30: Epigenome Function: from molecular mechanisms to intergenerational inheritance  (Dr Jamie Hackett; EMBL)

2023-07-03 14:30: Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPases (Dr Pau Castel; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine)

2023-07-05 13:30: Science publishing and publishing in Science (Dr Stella Hurtley; Science Magazine )

2023-08-15 13:30: Culturing Change: A Journey to Māori Equity in Biomedical Research (Dr Georgia Carson; Malaghan Institute of Medical Research)

2023-09-11 13:30: Regrow with the flow: Mechanosensation in the regenerating zebrafish spinal cord (Dr Samuel Crossman; The Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University )

2023-10-10 13:30: Evading ageing: Mitochondrial and proteostatic adaptations in oocytes (Dr Elvan Böke; Centre for Genomic Regulation)

2023-10-16 14:00: Organismal Proteostasis: Collapse in Aging and Rejuvenation Approaches (Prof Rick Morimoto; Northwestern University )

2023-10-17 13:30: Cold temperature delays aging and proteostasis collapse  (Prof David Vilchez Guerrero; CECAD, University Hospital of Cologne)

2023-10-31 13:30: Degron peptides: Cancer mutation hotspots and tools for synthetic biology (Dr Andrew Wood; University of Edinburgh)

2024-03-28 13:00: Babraham Distinguished Seminar - Lipid switches in cell physiology: From nutrient signals to disease (Prof Volker Haucke; Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP))