SynthSys Centre for Synthetic & Systems Biology
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| Synthetic and cell biology for phage therapy |
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| Antonia Sagona (University of Warwick) |
| Thu 03 Dec 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Online (Blackboard collaborate) |
| Gene expression dynamics during embryonic development |
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| 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 |
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| Conrad Mullineaux (School of Biological & Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London) |
| Thu 12 Nov 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Online (Blackboard collaborate) |
| Repurposing bacterial organelles for new applications as vaccines, nanobioreactors and drug delivery particles |
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| Stephanie Frank (UCL) |
| Thu 05 Nov 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Online (Blackboard collaborate) |
| Physical principles of cell polarization: From symmetry breaking to fate specification |
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| Nathan Gohring (Francis Crick Institute) |
| Thu 22 Oct 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Online (Blackboard collaborate) |
| Reconstructing regulation – towards the rational engineering of plant metabolism |
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| Nicola Patron (Earlham Institute) |
| Thu 08 Oct 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Blackboard collaborate:https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/adf47e90391d45da8c8711773ed99826 |
| CANCELLED SynthSys Seminar - Joanna Kowalska (title to be confirmed) |
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| Joanna Kowalska (University of Warsaw) |
| Thu 24 Sep 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Online (Blackboard collaborate) |
| Modus operandi of an accidental fungal pathogen |
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| 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 |
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| Somenath Bakshi (Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge) |
| Thu 04 Jun 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Online (Blackboard collaborate) |
| Host-aware cell engineering for synthetic biology |
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| Francesca Ceroni (Dept of chemical Engineering, Imperial College London) |
| Wed 20 May 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 |
| Online (Blackboard collaborate) |
| Synthsys Seminar - Luke Alphey (title to be confirmed) |
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| Luke Alphey (The Pirbright Institute) |
| Thu 07 May 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Synthsys Seminar - Angel Goñi-Moreno (title to be confirmed) |
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| Angel Goñi-Moreno (Newcastle University) |
| Thu 16 Apr 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Origins and consequences of partitioning in bacteria |
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| Tobias Bergmiller (University of Exeter) |
| Thu 02 Apr 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| **SEMINAR CANCELLED** NSplit inteins for post-translational control of protein structure and function |
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| 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 |
| In vitro reconstitution of bacterial cell division |
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| Natalia Baranova (IST Austria) |
| Thu 05 Mar 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| At the cusp of life and death |
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| 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 |
| Evolving enzymes for innovation |
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| 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 |
| Two layers of chance associated with spatially expanding populations: How demographic noise and environmental heterogeneity shape genetic diversity |
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| Dr Wolfram Mobius (Research Fellow, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter) |
| Thu 07 Nov 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Cybergenetics : real time control of gene expression and biological circuits |
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| Dr Pascal Hersen (Paris Diderot University) |
| Fri 01 Nov 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 |
| Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.15, King's Buildings |
| Pushing and pulling: Centrosome positioning in polarized cells |
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| 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 |
| Growing materials that sense with engineered microbial co-cultures |
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| Prof Tom Ellis (Imperial College London) |
| Fri 18 Oct 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Structural studies of Rubisco: are we flogging a dead horse? |
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| 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 |
| A mechanism to prevent transformation of the Whi3 mnemon into a prion. |
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| 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 |
| Computational Approaches to Developmental Biology |
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| 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 |
| Barcoding strategies for sequencing thousands of single cells at low cost |
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| Dr Lia Chappell (Sanger Institute) |
| Thu 05 Sep 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Toward Natural and Engineered Microbial-Electronic Systems |
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| 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 |
| (Laser) lights, camera, action: discovering new gene-expression mechanisms by filming single molecules |
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| Achillefs Kapanidis (Dept of Physics, Oxford) |
| Tue 02 Jul 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Roger Land Building, Seminar Room G:02 (King's Buildings Campus) |
| Design with living systems |
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| 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 |
| Bioprospecting for lignocellulose biorefineries |
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| 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 |
| The robust ticking of a circadian clock |
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| 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 |
| Guided by Curvature: shaping cells by coupling curved membrane proteins and cytoskeletal forces |
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| Prof 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 |
| Title to be confirmed 14/12/17 |
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| 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 |
| Shared resources by the numbers |
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| 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 |
| Designing new tools for synthetic biology in mammalian cells |
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| Dr Velia Siciliano (Imperial College London) |
| Thu 23 Nov 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings |
| Cooperation and competition in microbes: from model systems to the microbiome |
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| Kevin Foster (University of Oxford) |
| Tue 14 Nov 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| The dynamics of bacteriophages associated with gut microbiota |
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| Martha Clokie (University of Leicester) |
| Thu 09 Nov 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings |
| Understanding and manipulating cyanobacteria, a phylum of environmental and biotechnological importance |
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| David Lea-Smith (University of East Anglia) |
| Thu 26 Oct 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings |
| Stochasticity and robustness in plant morphogenesis |
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| Arezki Boudaoud (RDP, ENS Lyon) |
| Thu 12 Oct 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings |
| NanoBiotechnology and Synthetic Biology Design Approaches towards the Development of Smart Therapeutics Against Infectious Diseases |
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| 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 |
| **Seminar now cancelled** |
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| Ricard Sole (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) |
| Thu 28 Sep 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings |
| Targeting Inclusion, Researching Change: The Stakes and Challenges of Changing Institutional Systems |
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| 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 |
| The MscS bacterial mechanosensitive channel family |
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| Samantha Miller (University of Aberdeen) |
| Thu 14 Sep 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings |
| Science publishing - behind the scenes at Nature |
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| 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 |
| What transcriptional noise tells us about the cell inside |
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| 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 |
| Real-time control of a genetic toggle switch |
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| Jean-Baptiste Lugagne - CRI Paris |
| Thu 08 Jun 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Navigating biological complexity: application of design of experiments methodology to metabolic engineering and synthetic gene networks. |
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| Thomas Howard (Newcastle University) |
| Thu 25 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Title to be confirmed 25/5/17 |
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| 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 |
| Growing Buildings with Bacteria: An Architects approach to Synthetic Biology |
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| Dr Martyn Dade-Robertson (Newcastle University) |
| Thu 20 Apr 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Engineering cells, Building circuits |
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| 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 |
| Frequency doubling in the cyanobacterial circadian clock |
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| 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 |
| Chemotactic bacteria as mobile biosensory devices |
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| 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 |
| All the fun of the FAIR: status and prospects for research data management in Life Sciences |
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| Professor Carole Goble (University of Manchester) |
| Thu 09 Mar 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| DIAGNOSTICS USING NANOBIOSENSORS |
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| 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 |
| Nonlinear feedback drives homeostatic plasticity in H2O2 stress response |
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| Gilles Charvin (IGBMC) |
| Thu 09 Feb 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Responsibility in practice: What does (and should) scientific responsibility mean? |
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| Dr Sarah Davies (University of Copenhagen) |
| Thu 26 Jan 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Active elasticity of cells |
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| 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 |
| A repeat protein links Rubisco to form the eukaryotic carbon concentrating organelle |
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| Luke Mackinder (University of York) |
| Thu 08 Dec 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Quantitative and systems analysis of RAS/MAPK signalling networks |
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| 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 |
| Positive and negative regulation of the actin machinery for migration and invasion. |
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| Laura Machesky (Beatson Institute, Glasgow) |
| Thu 10 Nov 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Synthesis of long DNA up to 50 kb by 2nd generation OGAB method |
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| Kenji Tsuge (Kobe University) |
| Fri 28 Oct 2016, 12:30 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Coding potential in noncoding RNA regions of the mammalian genome |
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| Yasunori Aizawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| Fri 28 Oct 2016, 12:00 - 12:30 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| How to Transform a Project into a Research Community? A Philosophical Perspective on Scientific Change and Collaborative Research |
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| Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter) |
| Thu 27 Oct 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |
| Regulation of cell size and shape in bacteria |
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| 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 |
| Nucleosome positioning in vivo driven by the DNA sequence |
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| 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 |
| Harnessing synthetic biology for the production of high-value chemicals |
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| 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 |
| Designing materials and gene expression at lower cost |
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| 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 |
| Modelling Pattern Formation and Waves in Active Biological Fluids |
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| Markus Baer (Berlin) |
| Thu 28 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's |