Biological Sciences

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Investigating mitochondrial glycosylation in the African Trypanosome
Samuel Duncan (University of Dundee)
Thu 10 Feb 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
online (Zoom)

Synthetic and cell biology for phage therapy
Antonia Sagona (University of Warwick)
Thu 03 Dec 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Online (Blackboard collaborate)

Gene expression dynamics during embryonic development
Hilary Ashe (University of Manchester)
Thu 19 Nov 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Online (Blackboard collaborate)

mRNA localisation, reaction centre biogenesis and thylakoid membrane targeting in cyanobacteria
Conrad Mullineaux (School of Biological & Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London)
Thu 12 Nov 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Online (Blackboard collaborate)

The Germline Genetics of Tumour Suppression and Cancer Management
Dr Gareth Bond, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham
Mon 09 Nov 2020, 12:00 - 14:30
Webinar


Monday Seminar Series - Chapman - "TBC"
Professor Ross Chapman, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medince, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
Mon 02 Nov 2020, 12:00 - 14:00
Webinar

"TBC"
TBC
Mon 26 Oct 2020, 12:00 - 14:00
Webinar


"Epithelial cell extrusion and it’s misregulation in disease"
Professor Jody Rosenblatt, King’s College London
Mon 12 Oct 2020, 12:00 - 14:00
Webinar


Investigating new functions for ancient RNA modifying enzymes in health and disease
Professor Wendy Gilbert, School of Medicine, Yale
Mon 05 Oct 2020, 14:00 - 15:30
Webinar

CANCELLED SynthSys Seminar - Joanna Kowalska (title to be confirmed)
Joanna Kowalska (University of Warsaw)
Thu 24 Sep 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Online (Blackboard collaborate)

Modus operandi of an accidental fungal pathogen
Elaine Bignell (Head of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Manchester University)
Thu 10 Sep 2020, 16:00 - 17:00
Online (Blackboard collaborate)

Following a single bacterium along the growth-curve
Somenath Bakshi (Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge)
Thu 04 Jun 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Online (Blackboard collaborate)
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Host-aware cell engineering for synthetic biology
Francesca Ceroni (Dept of chemical Engineering, Imperial College London)
Wed 20 May 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Online (Blackboard collaborate)
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TB added
Emilia Santos, Cambridge
Wed 13 May 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


What process(es) drive(s) genetic diversity?
Guillaume Achaz, Paris
Wed 06 May 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Proposed PhD Symposium
To be added later
Wed 29 Apr 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)




Evolution of germline-soma genome differences in birds
Alexander Suh, Uppsala
Wed 25 Mar 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

**SEMINAR CANCELLED** NSplit inteins for post-translational control of protein structure and function
Henning Mootz (Institute of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Germany)
Thu 19 Mar 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Genomic insights into metabolism and fitness
Florencia Camus, UCL
Wed 18 Mar 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Post-grad talk
Daniel Bolnick
Wed 11 Mar 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Sensory and cognitive adaptations in butterfly brains
Stephen Montgomery, Bristol University
Wed 04 Mar 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3

Jonna Kulmuni (University of Helsinki)
Jonna Kulmuni (University of Helsinki)
Wed 15 Jan 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

At the cusp of life and death
Dr Hyun Youk (Assistant Professor of physics and quantitative biology TU Delft)
Thu 05 Dec 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Title awaiting
Göran Arnqvist (Uppsala)
Wed 04 Dec 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Awaiting title
Stephen Montgomery (Bristol)
Wed 27 Nov 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Evolving enzymes for innovation
Prof Magali Remaud-Simeon (Head of Enzyme Molecular Engineering group Toulouse Biotechnology Institute)
Thu 21 Nov 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Title still to get
Sandra Breum Andersen (University of Copenhagen)
Wed 20 Nov 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Still to obtain title
John Skelhorn (Newcastle)
Wed 06 Nov 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3


To be confirmed at a later stage
Mirre Simmons (Sheffield)
Wed 30 Oct 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3

Pushing and pulling: Centrosome positioning in polarized cells
Dr Adriana Dawes (Associate Professor, Dept of Mathematics, Ohio State University)
Thu 24 Oct 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Still to confirm
Ariel Camp (Liverpool)
Wed 23 Oct 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3


To be confirmed
Julie Jaquiery (INRA)
Wed 16 Oct 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3

Structural studies of Rubisco: are we flogging a dead horse?
Dr Laura Gunn (Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University)
Thu 10 Oct 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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To be confirmed later
Dannie Durand (Pittsburgh)
Wed 09 Oct 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3

IEB seminar 2nd October 2019
Jacek Radwan (AMU Poznan)
Wed 02 Oct 2019, 14:10 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Title to be confirmed
Jacek Radwan (AMU Poznan)
Wed 02 Oct 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3

A mechanism to prevent transformation of the Whi3 mnemon into a prion.
Dr Fabrice Caudron (Lecturer in Microbiology, Nanchang Joint Programme, Queen Mary, University of London)
Thu 26 Sep 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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TBC in Sept
Shenna Cotter (University of Lincoln)
Wed 25 Sep 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3

TBC later
Tanja Schwander (Lausanne)
Wed 18 Sep 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3

Computational Approaches to Developmental Biology
Prof Ivo Sbalzarini (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden)
Thu 12 Sep 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Toward Natural and Engineered Microbial-Electronic Systems
Leonard M. Tender (Microbial Electronics Group US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC,)
Thu 25 Jul 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's


IEB Seminar 5th June 2019
Joana Meier (Cambridge)
Wed 05 Jun 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Still to be added
Jane McKeating, Oxford
Thu 30 May 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


IEB Seminar 29th May 2019
Marlene Zuk (Minnesota)
Wed 29 May 2019, 14:10 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3

IEB Seminar 22nd May 2019
Josh Firth (Oxford)
Wed 22 May 2019, 14:10 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3


IEB Seminar 15th May 2019
John Skelhorn (Newcastle)
Wed 15 May 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

IEB Seminar 8th May 2019
Ben Ashby (Bath)
Wed 08 May 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


To be added
Thomas Otto, Glasgow
Thu 11 Apr 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


IEB Seminar 20th March 2019
Ellie Harrison (Sheffield)
Wed 20 Mar 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

IEB Seminar 13th March 2019
Greta Bocedi (Aberbeen)
Wed 13 Mar 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Major transitions in the mating behaviour of plants
John Pannell (Lausanne)
Wed 06 Mar 2019, 14:10 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

IEB seminar 13th February 2019
Aoife McLysaght (Trinity College Dublin)
Wed 13 Feb 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Parental decision-making in poison frogs
Eva Ringler (Vienna)
Wed 23 Jan 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Genomic consequences of asexual reproduction in animals
Tanja Schwander (Lausanne)
Wed 16 Jan 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Title to be confirmed later in year
Isabel Roditi
Thu 13 Dec 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)



IEB Annual Graduate Student invite 2018
Hanna Kokko (Zurich)
Thu 22 Nov 2018, 15:00 - 16:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Talk title to be confirmed soon
Emilie Pondeville
Thu 22 Nov 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Insights into early human migrations with modern and ancient genomic data
Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas (Lausanne)
Wed 21 Nov 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Virus-host specificity and control of host systems
David Robertson (Glasgow)
Wed 14 Nov 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)





Non-coding RNAs in immunity and inflammation
Dimitris Lagos
Thu 18 Oct 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)






Title to be arranged
Amy Buck
Thu 20 Sep 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Regulating of HSC function in vivo
Claudia Waskow
Thu 13 Sep 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


IEB Seminar 13th June 2018
David Duneau (Toulouse)
Wed 13 Jun 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

To be confirmed later 31/5/18
Achim Schnaufer
Thu 31 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

The holy grail is in the castle of ARG
Jerome Kelleher (Oxford)
Wed 23 May 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Antigen processing during cross-presentation by dendritic cells
Patrycja Kozik (Cambridge LMB)
Thu 17 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Feathers and function; homology and deep homology
Mike Benton (Bristol)
Wed 09 May 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)



To be confirmed 5/4/18
Dominique Soldati (Geneva)
Thu 05 Apr 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)



To be confirmed later 29/3/18
Amy Buck
Thu 29 Mar 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

IEB Seminar 28th March 2018
Thomas Flatt (Fribourg)
Wed 28 Mar 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

To be Confirmed 22/3/18
Rose Zamoyska
Thu 22 Mar 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


To be confirmed 1/3/18
Chiara Romagnani (Berlin)
Thu 01 Mar 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Disease tolerance as a defence strategy against malaria
Miguel Soares (Gulbenkian)
Thu 22 Feb 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Zoonosis: Virus evolution at the animal - human interface
Sara Sawyer (Colorado)
Wed 14 Feb 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Novel mechanisms of tumor immune resistance
Philipp Beckhove (Regensburg)
Thu 08 Feb 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Design with living systems
Prof Carole Collet (Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures. Central St Martins)
Thu 08 Feb 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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De novo evolution of genes
Diethard Tautz (Max Plank Institute, Ploen)
Wed 07 Feb 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

IEB Seminar 31st January
Lucy Gilbert (JHI)
Wed 31 Jan 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

To be confirmed 25/1/18
Olivier Lantz (Paris)
Thu 25 Jan 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Bioprospecting for lignocellulose biorefineries
Dr Dimitris Hatzinikolaou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Thu 25 Jan 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Genomics of sexual dimorphism
Alison Wright (Sheffield)
Wed 24 Jan 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Unravelling early host intestinal epithelia interactions with whipworms
Maria Duque (NC3R Fellow from Sanger)
Mon 22 Jan 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

The robust ticking of a circadian clock
Prof Pieter Rein ten Wolde (AMOLF research lab & Department of Physics, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam)
Thu 18 Jan 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Evolution and expression of the Drosophila X chromosome
John Parsch (Munich)
Wed 17 Jan 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)



Title to be confirmed 14/12/17
Nir Gov (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Thu 14 Dec 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Ant symbioses: from parasitism to mutualism
Naomi Pierce (Harvard)
Wed 13 Dec 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

IEB Seminar 8th December
Vanessa Ezenwa (Georgia)
Fri 08 Dec 2017, 15:00 - 16:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT1)

TBC 7/12/17
Christian Kurts (Bonn)
Thu 07 Dec 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Cancelled - reschedule for 2018
Christian Kurts (Bonn)
Thu 07 Dec 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT1)

Function and execution of RTEL1 activities at vertebrate telomeres
Dr simon Boulton, Francis Crick Institute, London
Mon 04 Dec 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Daniel Rutherford G.27



Shared resources by the numbers
Andras Gyorgy (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Tue 28 Nov 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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The evolution and function of oxygen sensing in plants
Professor Mike Holdsworth, Plant and Crop Science Division, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham
Mon 27 Nov 2017, 12:05 - 13:00
Swann 7.15

Designing new tools for synthetic biology in mammalian cells
Dr Velia Siciliano (Imperial College London)
Thu 23 Nov 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings
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Meiotic recombination and chromatin landscapes in plant genomes
Dr Ian Henderson, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Mon 13 Nov 2017, 12:05 - 13:00
Swann 7.20



IEB Seminar 8th November
Luis Miguel Chevin (Montpellier)
Wed 08 Nov 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Visualising the regulation of bacterial DNA repair and mutagenesis using single-molecule and single-cell microscopy
Dr Stephan Uphoff, Department of Biochemistry, Oxford
Mon 06 Nov 2017, 12:05 - 13:00
Swann 7.15

TBC 2/11/17a
Santiago Gonzalez (Bellinzona)
Thu 02 Nov 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT1)



The impact of the host microenvironment on plant disease development
Professor Gail Preston, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
Mon 30 Oct 2017, 12:05 - 13:00
Swann 7.15



Soon to be confirmed
Professor Gary Karpen, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Berkeley, USA
Mon 23 Oct 2017, 12:05 - 13:00
Swann 7.15

TBC 19/10/17
Corrie Detweiler (Colorado)
Thu 19 Oct 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT1)

Probing host-pathogen interactions with chemical genetics
Corrie Detweiler (Colorado)
Thu 19 Oct 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT1)


To be confirmed 9/10/17
Dr Marina Lusic, Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, Universität Heidelberg
Mon 09 Oct 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Daniel Rutherford G.27



NanoBiotechnology and Synthetic Biology Design Approaches towards the Development of Smart Therapeutics Against Infectious Diseases
J.Ruben Morones-Ramirez (NanoBiotechnology Research Grp, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León)
Wed 04 Oct 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Competitive interactions in heterogeneous cell populations: a multimodal imaging, machine learning and computational modelling
Dr Alan Lowe, Institute for Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London
Mon 02 Oct 2017, 12:05 - 13:00
Swann 7.15

When African trypanosomes make your skin crawl
Brice Rotureau (Pasteur)
Thu 28 Sep 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT1)

**Seminar now cancelled**
Ricard Sole (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)
Thu 28 Sep 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings
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“Evolution and the life history of the genome”
William Etges (Arkansas)
Wed 27 Sep 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Characterization of the S locus supergene controlling heterostyly in Darwin’s Primroses
Professor Phil Gilmartin, Faculty of Science, University of East Anglia
Mon 25 Sep 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Daniel Rutherford G.27

Targeting Inclusion, Researching Change: The Stakes and Challenges of Changing Institutional Systems
Karen Salt (co-Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R), University of Nottingham)
Wed 20 Sep 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Structural basis of meiotic chromosome synapsis through SYCP1 self-assembly
Dr Owen Davies, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University
Mon 18 Sep 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Daniel Rutherford G.27

The MscS bacterial mechanosensitive channel family
Samantha Miller (University of Aberdeen)
Thu 14 Sep 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings
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Clarifying the Complexity of Adaptive Evolution
John Pool (Wisconsin)
Wed 13 Sep 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Cohesin links inflammation and cancer
Prof. Matthias Merkenschlager, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London
Mon 11 Sep 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED

Making sense of sewage
James Chong - Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of York
Mon 04 Sep 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Swann 7.15

TBC Bio 29/6
Cristina Lo Celso, Imperial College London
Thu 29 Jun 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Science publishing - behind the scenes at Nature
Francesca Cesari (Chief Biological Sciences Editor at Nature)
Tue 27 Jun 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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What transcriptional noise tells us about the cell inside
Professor Víctor de Lorenzo (National Center for Biotechnology, Madrid)
Thu 22 Jun 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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IEB Seminar 14th June 2017
Ellen Leffler (Oxford)
Wed 14 Jun 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Host behaviour and disease spread in wild mice networks
Patricia Lopes (Zurich)
Wed 07 Jun 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

IEB Extra Seminar 6th June 2017
Martina Doblin (Sydney)
Tue 06 Jun 2017, 11:00 - 12:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

TBC Bio 1/6
Georgia Perona-Wright, University of Glasgow
Thu 01 Jun 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

The Genomic History of Killer Whale Ecotypes
Andy Foote (Bangor)
Wed 31 May 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Title to be confirmed 25/5/17
Dr Thomas Howard (Newcastle University)
Thu 25 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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IEB Seminar 17th May 2017
John Davey (Oxford)
Wed 17 May 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)



TBC Bio 20/4
Andrew Mellor, Newcastle University
Thu 20 Apr 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)



Engineering cells, Building circuits
Ron Weiss (Professor of Biological Engineering and Director, Synthetic Biology Center at MIT)
Tue 04 Apr 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Frequency doubling in the cyanobacterial circadian clock
Dr Bruno Martins (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
Fri 31 Mar 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Sex-differences in senescence patterns across mammals
Jean-Francois Lemaitre (Lyon)
Wed 29 Mar 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Chemotactic bacteria as mobile biosensory devices
Prof Victor Sourjik (Max Plank Institute for Terrestial Microbiology)
Thu 23 Mar 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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IEB seminar: 'Adaptive models of growth and maturation'
Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge)
Wed 22 Mar 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Transposable element evolution in Drosophila
Andrea Betancourt (Liverpool)
Wed 15 Mar 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)




Life history trade-offs: an experimental study in wild jackdaws
Jelle Boonekamp (Groningen)
Wed 01 Mar 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

DIAGNOSTICS USING NANOBIOSENSORS
Prof Arben Merkoçi (Spain national centre for nanotechnology)
Fri 24 Feb 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Molecular evolution in parasitic flowering plants
Susann Wicke (Muenster)
Wed 22 Feb 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Title to be confirmed 16/2/17
Oliver Bannard
Thu 16 Feb 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

TBC 16/2/17
Oliver Bannard, University of Oxford
Thu 16 Feb 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)




Hormone-mediated maternal effects of the prenatal social environment
Nikolaus von Engelhardt (Plymouth)
Wed 01 Feb 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)



Chiral shells, cells and F-molecules
Angus Davison (Nottingham)
Wed 25 Jan 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Understanding cellular heterogeneity
Sarah Teichmann
Thu 19 Jan 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Active elasticity of cells
Ulrich Schwarz (Heidelberg University, BioQuant and Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Thu 12 Jan 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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The Evolution of Menopause in Killer Whales
Darren Croft (Exeter)
Thu 08 Dec 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Synchrony in phenology in space and time
Ella Cole (Oxford)
Wed 07 Dec 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Quantitative and systems analysis of RAS/MAPK signalling networks
Christina Kiel (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)
Thu 24 Nov 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's

Unravelling retrovirus and transposon evolution
Alex Hayward (Cornwall)
Wed 23 Nov 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)








What did we learn from high-coverage archaic genomes?
Kay Pruefer (Max Planck, Leipzig)
Wed 26 Oct 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds
Gavin Thomas (Sheffield)
Wed 19 Oct 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Regulation of cell size and shape in bacteria
Sven van Teeffelen Institute Pasteur
Thu 06 Oct 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's

Seasonality and cold hardiness of temperate trees
Yann Vitasse (Switzerland)
Wed 05 Oct 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)



Nucleosome positioning in vivo driven by the DNA sequence
Francisco Antequera (The Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics (IBFG) Salamanca (Spain))
Thu 22 Sep 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's

A global scale comparative study of biological invasions
Isabella Capellini (Hull)
Wed 21 Sep 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Monday Seminar Series: 'Synthetic Biology meets Structural Biology: New Perspectives and Opportunities.'
Professor Imre Berger, School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol
Mon 19 Sep 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Daniel Rutherford G.27

Introgression Across the European House Mouse Hybrid Zone
Stuart Baird (Studenec, Czech Republic)
Wed 08 Jun 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

EIG: Mathematical modelling of human CD8 CTL responses during viral infections
Becca Asquith, Imperial College London
Thu 26 May 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)



EIG: Development and Homeostasis of tissue resident myeloid cells
Elisa Gomez Perdiguero, Pasteur Institute, France
Thu 12 May 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)



EIG: How B cell sense antigen
Michael Reth, MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany
Thu 28 Apr 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


EIG: Immunology and immunopathogenesis of malaria infections
Jean Langhorne, Francis Crick Institute
Thu 14 Apr 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


EIG: Host-bacterial interactions and intestinal inflammation
Kevin Maloy, University of Oxford
Thu 31 Mar 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Protective symbiosis: does it really work in nature?
Jan Hrcek (Oxford)
Wed 09 Mar 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

EIG: Oral mucosa Immune responses
Joanne Konkel, University of Manchester
Thu 03 Mar 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


Recent changes in the phenology of UK plants and animals
Stephen Thackeray (CEH, Lancaster)
Wed 24 Feb 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

EIG: Stroke Induced Immune Depression (SIDS)
Andreas Meisel, Charite Berlin, Germany
Thu 18 Feb 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


How sexual conflict shapes insect phenotypes
Jen Perry (Oxford)
Wed 10 Feb 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

EIG: Molecular basis of fatal fungal infection
Robin May, University of Birmingham
Thu 04 Feb 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
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EIG: IL-33, an alarm signal for group 2 innate lymphoid cells
Jean-Philippe Girard, CNRS, France
Thu 21 Jan 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
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Male and female from a hermaphrodite vantage-point
Lukas Scharer (Basel)
Wed 09 Dec 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
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The mutational burden of regulatory function
Martin Taylor (Edinburgh)
Wed 02 Dec 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

EIG: NK cell receptors across species
John Hammond, The Pirbright Institute
Thu 26 Nov 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)


EIG: Tyro3/Axl/Mer receptor tyrosine kinases in the immune system
Greg Lemke, SALK Institute, USA
Thu 19 Nov 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Welcome Auditorium (QMRI)

Biased gene conversion: the dark side of recombination
Laurent Duret (Lyon)
Wed 18 Nov 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
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EIG: Lymph node stromal cells in the initiation and regulation of immune responses
Anne Fletcher, University of Birmingham
Thu 29 Oct 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
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Human disease genes and natural selection: Why do we age?
Arcadi Navarro (Barcelona)
Tue 13 Oct 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Harnessing synthetic biology for the production of high-value chemicals
Eriko Takano (Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester)
Thu 08 Oct 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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Flip/flop inversion polymorphisms in yeast evolution
Ken Wolfe (Dublin)
Wed 30 Sep 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

Designing materials and gene expression at lower cost
Dr Tom Ellis (Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation and Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London)
Thu 24 Sep 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's
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The Invisible Hand of the Black Queen: Reductive Evolution in the Ocean (and Elsewhere)
Jeff Morris (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Wed 09 Sep 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)