Unit Seminars 2013

The Unit seminars are open to all in the unit. They are held on a Monday lunchtime between 1pm and 2pm in the Seminar Room, WIMM.

MHU Department Seminars 2013

JANUARY

22nd January

Cedric Blanpain (Welbio, Interdisciplinary Research Inst, Bruxelles, Belgium)

Defining the role of stem cells during homeostasis, cancer initiation and growth

Host:Catherine Porcher

29th January

Floor meeting : Richard Gibbons / Andrew Wilkie

FEBRUARY

5th February

Roderick Beijersbergern (The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam)

Functional genomics for discovery and prediction of cancer therapy

Host:Marella de Bruijn

12th February

Andrew Perkins (Mater Medical Research Institute, Queensland, Australia)

EKLF and erythropoiesis

Host:Jim Hughes

19th February

Johannes Schulte (Universitatsklinikum Essen, Germany)

Molecular genetics of neuroblastoma

Host:Richard Gibbons

26th February

Student Presentations

Chair:Doug Higgs

THURSDAY

28th February @ 4.00 pm

Emmanuelle Passegue (California)

Host:Marella de Bruijn

MARCH

5th March

Student Presentations

Chair:Marella de Bruijn

12th March

Narcis Fernandez-Fuentes (Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University)

A computational strategy to design orthosteric peptides to modulate protein-protein interaction: validation on RAS

Host:Terry Rabbitts

19th March

Joachim G:öthert (Dept of Haematology, University Hospital of Essen, Germany)

Lysine-specific demethylase 1: an essential regulator of haematopoietic progenitor proliferation and differentiation

Host:Tom Milne

* More dates to be announced