A master list for all seminar series in The Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI).
If you have a question about this list, please contact:
Each talk has an organiser. Please contact them in the first instance if you have a query about a particular talk. Only contact one of the people below if you have a question about the list, such as whether your talk or series could be added.
| “Type 2 Diabetes: Reversing to Enlightenment” |
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| Prof Roy Taylor, Newcastle University |
| Tue 30 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC BHF 16/5 |
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| Prof Rick Dijkhuizen, Utrecht University |
| Tue 16 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| TBA QMRI 2/5 |
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| Prof Ziad Mallat, University of Cambridge |
| Tue 02 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| ‘Targeting the immune response in cardiovascular disease’ |
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| Prof Ziad Mallat, University of Cambridge |
| Tue 02 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| TBA QMRI 28/3 |
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| Prof Keith Channon, University of Oxford |
| Tue 28 Mar 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Nitric Oxide Synthases: Not all NO |
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| Prof Keith Channon, University of Oxford |
| Tue 28 Mar 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| “Distinguishing VEGF signalling pathways for angiogenesis, arteriogenesis and vascular permeability” |
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| Prof Cristina Rurhberg, University College London |
| Tue 14 Mar 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| New treatment strategies for cardiovascular diseas: a development and stem cell biology approach |
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| Dr Sanjay Sinha, University of Cambridge |
| Tue 07 Mar 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC BHF 28/2 |
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| Prof Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen |
| Tue 28 Feb 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| TBA BHF 28/2 |
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| Prof Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen |
| Tue 28 Feb 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED |
| “Wnt signalling in regulation of cardiomyocyte differentiation: insights from Xenopus embryos and hESC differentiation” |
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| Prof Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen |
| Tue 28 Feb 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED |
| TBA - 21/2/17 |
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| Dr Rebecca Burton, University of Oxford |
| Tue 21 Feb 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| The role of genomic instability in cardiovascular dysfunction |
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| Dr Anton Roks, University of Rotterdam |
| Tue 07 Feb 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Understanding cell-matrix adhesion in the kidney to identify new treatment targets |
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| Dr Rachel Lennon, University of Manchester |
| Tue 31 Jan 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC 24/1/17 |
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| Dr Elisabeth Binder, Max Planck Insitute of Psychiatry |
| Tue 24 Jan 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Dr Elizabeth Binder, Max Planck Institute, "The importance of gene x environment interactions in stress associated epigentic changes: relevance for disease risk" |
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| Dr Elisabeth Binder, Max Planck Institute |
| Tue 24 Jan 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC 10/1/17 |
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| Dr Tim Chico, University of Sheffield |
| Tue 10 Jan 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Dr Tim Chico, University of Sheffield, "Imaging and manipulating flow sensitive vascular development in zebrafish" |
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| Dr Tim Chico, University of Sheffield |
| Tue 10 Jan 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| The impact of bone on whole organism physiology |
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| Prof Gerard Karsenty, Columbia University |
| Tue 13 Dec 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC 29/11/16 |
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| Dr Helen Phillips, University of Newcastle |
| Tue 29 Nov 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC - 25th November |
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| Dr Pleasantine Mill, Medical and Developmental Genetics, MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM |
| Fri 25 Nov 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC 22/11/16 |
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| Prof Matt Whiteman, University of Exeter |
| Tue 22 Nov 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC 22/9/16 |
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| Prof Matt Whiteman, University of Exeter |
| Tue 22 Nov 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Reversing the odds of drug development success: from genes to medicines |
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| Prof Aroon Hingorani, University College London |
| Tue 15 Nov 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| ‘Pro-resolving mediators at the intersection between the brain and immune system’ |
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| Dr Jesmond Dalli, Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Lipid Mediator Unit Director, William Harvey Research Institute, Bart's and the London |
| Fri 04 Nov 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC - 28th October |
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| Dr Christopher Chiu, Respiratory Infections Section, NHLI, Imperial College London |
| Fri 28 Oct 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC 25/10/16 |
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| Prof Debbie Lawlor |
| Tue 25 Oct 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC 25/10/16a |
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| Prof Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol |
| Tue 25 Oct 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Title TBC - 21st October |
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| Dr Pierre Bruhns, Director, Unit of Antibodies in Therapy & Pathology, INSERM, Deputy Director, Department of Immunology, Pasteur Institute |
| Fri 21 Oct 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Role of Wnt signalling in determining human fat distribution |
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| Prof Costas Christoulides, University of Oxford |
| Tue 18 Oct 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Welcome Auditorium (QMRI) |
| New tricks for an old dog: Citrullination goes from inflammation to pluripotency |
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| Dr Maria Christophorou, The Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh |
| Fri 14 Oct 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Melanocortin receptor accessory proteins (MRAPs) in adrenal disease and obesity |
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| Dr Li Chan, Queen Mary University of London |
| Tue 11 Oct 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| ‘Neutrophil signalling in autoimmune inflammation’ |
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| Professor Attila Mocsai, Department of Physiology, Semmelweis University School of Medicine, Budapest |
| Fri 07 Oct 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| ‘TGF-beta, lymphocytes and microbiota: a perfect cocktail to control spontaneous inflammation and colorectal cancer transformation’ |
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| Dr Julien Marie, Helmholtz Association Investigator, Department of Immunology, Virology and Inflammation, C R C L, Lyon |
| Fri 30 Sep 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| When birth comes early: effects on the immature kidneys, heart and blood vessels |
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| Prof Jane Black, Monash University, Australia |
| Thu 15 Sep 2016, 10:00 - 11:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| Uncontrolled Inflammation in Large Vessel Vasculitis |
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| Prof Cornelia Weyand, Standford University Medical School |
| Fri 09 Sep 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Trust Auditorium, QMRI |
| The role of neuroimmune interactions in persistent pain |
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| Prof. Dave Bennet, University of Oxford |
| Mon 14 Dec 2015, 12:30 - 13:30 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Adipose tissue and type 2 diabetes |
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| Julia Muenzker |
| Thu 10 Dec 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Mary Kinross Room, QMRI |
| Signals and factors regulating stem cell activity in the adult brain |
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| Prof Francois Guillemot, Francis Crick Institute, London UK |
| Thu 10 Dec 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| HSCs and MSCs: A trip through the blood vessel wall |
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| Mihaela Crisan |
| Tue 08 Dec 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Oncogene-induced metabolic stress – mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities |
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| Dr Andy Finch, IGMM, University of Edinburgh |
| Mon 07 Dec 2015, 12:30 - 13:30 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Catheter-based drug delivery + imaging |
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| John Hossack |
| Tue 01 Dec 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Ovarian cancer : incorporating genomics, metabolomics, datasets and algorithms into diagnostic trials |
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| Sudha Sundar, University of Birmingham |
| Mon 30 Nov 2015, 12:30 - 13:30 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Bioengineering approaches to guide stem cell-based organogenesis |
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| Prof Matthias Lutolf, Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Thu 26 Nov 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| The challenges of predicting and preventing pre-eclampsia |
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| Dr Lucy Chappell, Kings College, London |
| Mon 23 Nov 2015, 12:30 - 13:30 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Defining Stem Cell State and Regulatory Networks using single Cell Genomics |
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| Prof Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK |
| Thu 19 Nov 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| Vascular Regenerative Medicine |
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| Marianne Verhaar |
| Tue 17 Nov 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Can High Degree of Nuclear Reprogramming be Achieved in Cells Undergoing Reprogramming to non-Pluripotent Cells? |
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| Dr Yossi Buganim, Institute for Medical Research-Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel |
| Thu 12 Nov 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| A Physiological Role of Nox4 in Homocysteine and Cysteine Metabolism |
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| Alison Brewer |
| Tue 10 Nov 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| The dynamic epigenome - a challenge to healthy ageing and suppression of cancer |
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| Prof Peter Adams, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK |
| Thu 05 Nov 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| MicroRNAs, small but mighty regulators of renal function |
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| Laura Denby |
| Tue 27 Oct 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Brain circuits controlling appetite |
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| Lora Heisler |
| Tue 13 Oct 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Hyperinsulinemia as a causal factor in insulin resistance, obesity, cancer and aging |
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| James (Jim) Johnson |
| Tue 06 Oct 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Centrosomes, DNA repair and genome replication: determinants of organism and brain size? |
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| Prof Andrew Jackson, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Thu 01 Oct 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| NADPH oxidases and cardiac stress responses |
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| Ajay Shah |
| Tue 29 Sep 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI |
| Oncogenic mechanisms and putative therapies an AML |
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| Dr Tim Somervaille, Institute of Cancer Research, University of Manchester, UK |
| Thu 17 Sep 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| Ronin Influences Neural Progenitor Proliferation through Transcriptional Regulation of Mitochondrial Function |
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| Dr Ross A Poché, Dept of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA |
| Thu 20 Aug 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| TBA 17/7/15 |
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| Dr Alexandre Dufour, Unité d’Analyse d'Images Biologiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| Fri 17 Jul 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| Bioimage Informatics – From microscopy to quantitative biology |
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| Dr Alexandre Dufour, Unité d’Analyse d'Images Biologiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| Fri 17 Jul 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| The challenge of immunogenicity for cell replacement therapies |
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| Prof Paul Fairchild, Oxford Stem Cell Institute, University of Oxford, UK |
| Thu 02 Jul 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| Epigenetic regulation in early embryo development and somatic cell reprogramming |
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| Prof Shaorong Gao, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China |
| Mon 29 Jun 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| Reciprocal signalling between epidermal stem cells and their neighbours |
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| Prof Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London, UK |
| Fri 05 Jun 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| VEGF, blood vessels and stem cell niches |
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| Prof Eli Keshet, School of Medicine, Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Thu 04 Jun 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| TBA 28/5/18 |
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| Dr David Vetrie, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK |
| Thu 28 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| Epigenetic reprogramming in CML renders leukaemic stem cells dependent on EZH2 and H3K27me3 for survival |
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| Dr David Vetrie, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK |
| Thu 28 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| TBA 26/5/15 |
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| Dr Connie Eaves, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada |
| Tue 26 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |
| A novel paradigm for the contribution of tissue-specific stem cells to tumorigenesis |
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| Dr J P Martinez-Barbera, ICH Developmental Biology & Cancer Programme, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK |
| Thu 30 Apr 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| SCRM Seminar Room, SCRM Building, 5 Little France Drive |