Caroline Newnham

Name:	Caroline Newnham
Affiliation:	University of Cambridge
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Public lists managed by Caroline Newnham

• Genetics Postdoc Seminar
• Genetics Seminar
• Genetics Seminar Series
• Saunders Genetics Lecture

Talks given by Caroline Newnham

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Talks organised by Caroline Newnham

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• Tissue-scale communication in cancer development
• Fun experiments you can only do with frogs
• Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast
• Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics
• Where do we stand on the origin of eukaryotic cells?
• CANCELLED - Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation
• How personalised is your immune system?
• Small RNAs in Epigenetic Inheritance: a lesson from worms
• Molecular bases of Shigella virulence and host immune response
• 21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology
• Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development
• Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour
• Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?
• Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare
• Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI
• CANCELLED - News from the Palaeolithic: ancient genomes and Neandertal-human interactions
• Programmed DNA elimination in insects
• How the double helix was really discovered, and what Rosalind Franklin thought about it
• Bacterial evolution in the lung
• What can butterfly hybrid zones tell us about the genomic architecture of species barriers?
• Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS
• Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale
• Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas
• E. coli and the Game of Clones
• Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA
• Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.
• When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity
• Epigenetic Inheritance
• The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division
• Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila
• An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineages
• Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development
• The evolution of organs and cell types.
• Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new
• Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolution
• Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation
• Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies
• Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians
• Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks
• Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancer
• Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health
• Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome
• Mechanism of neural differentiation
• Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution
• Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species
• Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans
• Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2
• Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective
• Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion
• Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates?
• Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks
• Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common?
• Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite.
• Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability
• “Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”.
• How does complexity arise from molecular interaction?
• Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur
• A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell division
• The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes
• Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis
• Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila
• Asymmetric cell division and germline immortality
• Transparency, reproducibility, and adaptability in data analysis.
• Investigating the evolution and development of body plans and body parts in arthropods
• Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells
• Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cells
• Bacterial condensates under stress
• Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair
• Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism.
• Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure
• The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease
• Genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and phase-separation
• Human Immunity – one cell at a time
• PP2A-B55 inhibitors Arpp19 and ENSA define the cell cycle program by controlling the temporal pattern of protein phosphorylation
• This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later this year.
• Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression
• Defining intrinsic determinants of regeneration ability and inability.
• Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges
• Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids
• From genomes to genealogies: mapping the history of humans and their genetic variation using ancient and modern genomes
• The role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.
• Shaping tissues: the role of mechanics across different scales.
• Chromosomal evolution in Nematodes, and other adventures on the Tree of Life
• Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila
• Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning
• This talk has been cancelled
• Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation
• Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.
• The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops
• How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer
• A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomes
• The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity
• Minimal and Ancestral Genomes
• Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out
• What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time? 
• Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain
• A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects
• Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells?
• Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization
• Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques
• Epigenetic inheritance in mammals
• Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines
• Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution
• Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast
• Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa
• Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development
• Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense
• The Genetic Basis of Clinal Adaptation
• How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubules
• Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer
• Regulatory RNA
• Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch
• Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture
• Eukaryotic cell division and its origins
• Dynamics of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution in a Long-Term Experiment with E. coli
• Viral evolution on sub-phylogenetic timescales
• Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development
• Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems
• DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesis
• An Editor’s Guide to Effective Science Communication
• Capturing human axial progenitors in vitro
• The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa.
• Formation and disease relevance of axonal endoplasmic reticulum, a "neuron within a neuron”.
• Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function
• Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast
• The genetic analysis of population-scale data
• Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genome
• Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteria
• Decoding transcriptional regulation.
• Non-coding solutions to developmental challenges
• Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrier
• Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass.
• Stem cell control in the Drosophila gut
• Defining transcription units across the human genome.
• Using experimental evolution to understand adaptation from standing genetic variation.
• Directing and shaping the inside-out axis of the vertebrate brain
• Towards a complete view of the genetics of gene expression variation in yeast
• Neural mechanisms of behavioral switches
• Beyond the reference genome:  inference using prior knowledge of the diversity of a species.
• Genome diversity and evolution of DNA methylation genome in the human genome.
• Gene and Genome Regulation in Early Fruit Fly Neurogenesis.
• Role of neuromesodermal progenitors in axial elongation.
• Checkpoint and non-checkpoint functions of Drosophila Mad1 and RZZ.
• Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a continuous spectrum of differentiation in haematopoietic cells.
• An experimental assay of the genotype to phenotype connection.
• Genomics approaches for the investigation of gene regulation.
• Breaking the silence: defense and counter-defense in antiviral RNA silencing pathways of insects.
• Transcriptional regulation and downstream program of Hox and Cdx genes during axial development in the mouse embryo.
• Targeting Polycomb repression to the genome.
• Intra-tumour heterogeneity and genomic rearrangements in solid cancers.
• Into the void: bridging the gap between risk genes and psychiatric phenotypes.
• Inhibitory activities of short linear motifs underlie Hox interactome specificity in vivo.
• Model systems to study embryonic patterning.
• New dimensions of antiviral immunity in insects.
• Biogenesis and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs).
• Single-cell dynamics of the proliferation-quiescence decision.
• The Story of FigShare and how to use FigShare in your work and publications.
• Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again.
• The Story of FigShare and how to use FigShare in your work and publications.
• Causes and Consequences of New Mutations.
• How dynein and its co-factors at the kinetochore ensure chromosome segregation fidelity.
• Beyond cancer genetics: dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in leukaemia.
• Single cell transcriptomics.
• Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response.
• Publishing in Nature
• Imaging gene activity in living cells.
• ECR fellowship opportunities.
• Asymmetry in Drosophila neuroblasts: centrosomes & mRNA.
• Using zebrafish models to identify novel alleles affecting human behaviour- a proof of principle study using smoking as an example.
• COMT: from single nucleotide polymorphism to whole brain function.
• Large scale genomic analyses of complex traits in human populations.
• The memory of retinal stem cells?
• Regulation of Notch signalling by the endosomal pathway.
• Understanding mechanisms of long-range gene regulation.
• Organisation and Regulation of DNA supercoiling domains in Mammalian Chromatin.
• C. elegans development: getting the seams right and living a balanced life.
• The impact of viral IκB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions.
• (At least) 3 ways to publish a pigeon genome.
• Shaping and reshaping regulatory loops in Drosophila morphogen signaling.
• Molecular mechanisms of Mediator complex recruitment by transcription factors.
• From stripes to blood flow: cell fates of the lateral plate.
• Computational insights into stem cell differentiation using dynamic hybrid modelling.
• Origin and evolution of novel microRNAs.
• Targets of T cell responses against malaria liver infection: immunology meets experimental genetics.
• A Drosophila resource to study human pathology.
• Engineering flies.
• Molecular insights into the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of bat rabies.
• Studying the invasive migration of Drosophila immune cells.
• Vaccinia virus has evolved the Bcl-2 family of proteins to thwart the host innate immune system.
• Checks and Balances in Drosophila Muscle and Heart Differentiation Programs.
• Deconstructing Greatwall Kinase.
• Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance.
• Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of accurate chromosome segregation.
• Immune-metabolic interaction in Drosophila.
• Widespread translation of small Open Reading Frames from coding regions, UTRs and non-coding RNAs.
• Motors, rulers and clocks in chromosome segregation.
• How does the kinetochore orchestrate a functional checkpoint signal?
• Feedback control of the anaphase-telophase transition.
• Sibling Rivalry and Stress Tolerance: the Single-Cell Biology of Mycobacteria.
• Epigenetic regulation of tissue growth in Drosophila.
• The evolutionary dynamics of unusual reproductive systems.
• Tracking transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens with high-throughput genomics.
• Sequence-based discovery of transcriptional targets.
• The mitotic checkpoint - a structural perspective.
• Quantification and modeling of spindle positioning and size regulation in the C. elegans embryo
• Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression during Development.
• Systems-based, quantitative analyses of genomic function and variation.
• Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model.
• PTEN phosphatase-independent maintenance of apical membrane integrity during colorectal glandular morphogenesis.
• A life in science: from academia to industry and back.
• Phase-shifted gene-activity oscillations during embryo development - a real-time imaging approach.