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SUMMARY:Babraham Distinguished Lecture - Understanding cellular dynamics i
 n mammalian skin  - Prof. Fiona M. Watt\; Director of the Centre for Stem 
 Cells and Regenerative Medicine\, King's College London
DTSTART:20190619T130000Z
DTEND:20190619T140000Z
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CONTACT:Bobbie Claxton
DESCRIPTION:Fiona Watt obtained her DPhil from the University of Oxford\, 
 and carried out postdoctoral research at M.I.T\, Cambridge\, USA. She esta
 blished her first lab at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London\,
  and then moved to London Research Institute. From 2006 to 2012 she was De
 puty Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute and D
 eputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research\, Unive
 rsity of Cambridge. Professor Watt is currently on secondment as the Execu
 tive Chair of the Medical Research Council. The major research interest of
  the Watt lab is in the role of stem cells in adult tissue maintenance. Ma
 mmalian epidermis is used as a model system in many studies in the lab\, b
 oth in the context of genetically modified mice and epidermal reconstituti
 on in culture. Current projects are exploring self-renewal and lineage sel
 ection by human and mouse epidermal stem cells\, the role of stem cells in
  epidermal and oral tumour formation\, and the nature of mesenchymal cells
  in skin. Professor Watt’s lab also has active collaborations with bioen
 gineers and chemists in order to study stem cell-niche interactions in vit
 ro. Additionally\, they are collaborating with bioinformaticians and compu
 tational biologists who are helping us to explore stem cell heterogeneity 
 at single cell resolution. 
LOCATION:Babraham - The Cambridge Building - Petersfield Lecture Theatre
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