C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's *** PAST TALKS *** Thursday 05 March 2020 **MEETING CANCELLED** SynthSys OCM 5 Mar 2020 Various Speakers Thursday 05 March 2020, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1930/show Thursday 19 March 2020 **SEMINAR CANCELLED** NSplit inteins for post-translational control of protein structure and function Henning Mootz (Institute of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Germany) Thursday 19 March 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1942/show Thursday 26 September 2019 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) Thursday 26 September 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1816/show Thursday 08 December 2016 A repeat protein links Rubisco to form the eukaryotic carbon concentrating organelle Luke Mackinder (University of York) Thursday 08 December 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/865/show Thursday 12 January 2017 Active elasticity of cells Ulrich Schwarz (Heidelberg University, BioQuant and Institute for Theoretical Physics) Thursday 12 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/886/show Thursday 09 March 2017 All the fun of the FAIR: status and prospects for research data management in Life Sciences Professor Carole Goble (University of Manchester) Thursday 09 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/982/show Thursday 05 December 2019 At the cusp of life and death Dr Hyun Youk (Assistant Professor of physics and quantitative biology TU Delft) Thursday 05 December 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1821/show Thursday 05 September 2019 Barcoding strategies for sequencing thousands of single cells at low cost Dr Lia Chappell (Sanger Institute) Thursday 05 September 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1814/show Thursday 25 January 2018 Bioprospecting for lignocellulose biorefineries Dr Dimitris Hatzinikolaou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Thursday 25 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1285/show Thursday 23 March 2017 Chemotactic bacteria as mobile biosensory devices Prof Victor Sourjik (Max Plank Institute for Terrestial Microbiology) Thursday 23 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/983/show Friday 28 October 2016 Coding potential in noncoding RNA regions of the mammalian genome Yasunori Aizawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Friday 28 October 2016, 12:00 - 12:30 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/823/show Thursday 12 September 2019 Computational Approaches to Developmental Biology Prof Ivo Sbalzarini (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden) Thursday 12 September 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1815/show Tuesday 14 November 2017 Cooperation and competition in microbes: from model systems to the microbiome Kevin Foster (University of Oxford) Tuesday 14 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1174/show Thursday 08 February 2018 Design with living systems Prof Carole Collet (Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures. Central St Martins) Thursday 08 February 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1290/show Thursday 24 September 2015 Designing materials and gene expression at lower cost Dr Tom Ellis (Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation and Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London) Thursday 24 September 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/223/show Friday 24 February 2017 DIAGNOSTICS USING NANOBIOSENSORS Prof Arben Merkoçi (Spain national centre for nanotechnology) Friday 24 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/942/show Tuesday 04 April 2017 Engineering cells, Building circuits Ron Weiss (Professor of Biological Engineering and Director, Synthetic Biology Center at MIT) Tuesday 04 April 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1012/show Thursday 21 November 2019 Evolving enzymes for innovation Prof Magali Remaud-Simeon (Head of Enzyme Molecular Engineering group Toulouse Biotechnology Institute) Thursday 21 November 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1820/show Friday 31 March 2017 Frequency doubling in the cyanobacterial circadian clock Dr Bruno Martins (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge) Friday 31 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/984/show Thursday 20 April 2017 Growing Buildings with Bacteria: An Architects approach to Synthetic Biology Dr Martyn Dade-Robertson (Newcastle University) Thursday 20 April 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/985/show Friday 18 October 2019 Growing materials that sense with engineered microbial co-cultures Prof Tom Ellis (Imperial College London) Friday 18 October 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1875/show Thursday 14 December 2017 Guided by Curvature: shaping cells by coupling curved membrane proteins and cytoskeletal forces Prof Nir Gov ((Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Thursday 14 December 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1259/show Thursday 08 October 2015 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) Thursday 08 October 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/224/show Thursday 27 October 2016 How to Transform a Project into a Research Community? A Philosophical Perspective on Scientific Change and Collaborative Research Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter) Thursday 27 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/714/show Thursday 05 March 2020 In vitro reconstitution of bacterial cell division Natalia Baranova (IST Austria) Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1941/show Thursday 28 May 2015 Modelling Pattern Formation and Waves in Active Biological Fluids Markus Baer (Berlin) Thursday 28 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/91/show Wednesday 04 October 2017 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) Wednesday 04 October 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1208/show Thursday 25 May 2017 Navigating biological complexity: application of design of experiments methodology to metabolic engineering and synthetic gene networks. Thomas Howard (Newcastle University) Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1038/show Thursday 09 February 2017 Nonlinear feedback drives homeostatic plasticity in H2O2 stress response Gilles Charvin (IGBMC) Thursday 09 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/941/show Thursday 22 September 2016 Nucleosome positioning in vivo driven by the DNA sequence Francisco Antequera (The Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics (IBFG) Salamanca (Spain)) Thursday 22 September 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/713/show Thursday 02 April 2020 Origins and consequences of partitioning in bacteria Tobias Bergmiller (University of Exeter) Thursday 02 April 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1943/show Thursday 10 November 2016 Positive and negative regulation of the actin machinery for migration and invasion. Laura Machesky (Beatson Institute, Glasgow) Thursday 10 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/835/show Thursday 24 October 2019 Pushing and pulling: Centrosome positioning in polarized cells Dr Adriana Dawes (Associate Professor, Dept of Mathematics, Ohio State University) Thursday 24 October 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1818/show Thursday 24 November 2016 Quantitative and systems analysis of RAS/MAPK signalling networks Christina Kiel (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona) Thursday 24 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/832/show Thursday 08 June 2017 Real-time control of a genetic toggle switch Jean-Baptiste Lugagne - CRI Paris Thursday 08 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1043/show Thursday 06 October 2016 Regulation of cell size and shape in bacteria Sven van Teeffelen Institute Pasteur Thursday 06 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/780/show Thursday 26 January 2017 Responsibility in practice: What does (and should) scientific responsibility mean? Dr Sarah Davies (University of Copenhagen) Thursday 26 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/907/show Tuesday 27 June 2017 Science publishing - behind the scenes at Nature Francesca Cesari (Chief Biological Sciences Editor at Nature) Tuesday 27 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1053/show Tuesday 28 November 2017 Shared resources by the numbers Andras Gyorgy (NYU Abu Dhabi) Tuesday 28 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1260/show Thursday 10 October 2019 Structural studies of Rubisco: are we flogging a dead horse? Dr Laura Gunn (Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University) Thursday 10 October 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1909/show Friday 28 October 2016 Synthesis of long DNA up to 50 kb by 2nd generation OGAB method Kenji Tsuge (Kobe University) Friday 28 October 2016, 12:30 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/824/show Thursday 07 November 2019 SynthSys OCM 07 Nov 2019 Various Speakers Thursday 07 November 2019, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1884/show Thursday 10 October 2019 SynthSys OCM 10 Oct 2019 Various speakers Thursday 10 October 2019, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1882/show Thursday 12 September 2019 SynthSys OCM 12 Sept 2019 Various Speakers Thursday 12 September 2019, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1880/show Thursday 19 March 2020 SynthSys OCM 19 Mar 2020 Various Speakers Thursday 19 March 2020, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1931/show Thursday 02 April 2020 SynthSys OCM 2 Apr 2020 Various Speakers Thursday 02 April 2020, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1932/show Thursday 20 February 2020 SynthSys OCM 20 Feb 2020 Various Speakers Thursday 20 February 2020, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1929/show Thursday 21 November 2019 SynthSys OCM 21 Nov 2019 Various speakers Thursday 21 November 2019, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1885/show Thursday 23 April 2020 SynthSys OCM 23 Apr 2020 Various Speakers Thursday 23 April 2020, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1933/show Thursday 23 January 2020 SynthSys OCM 23 Jan 2020 Various Speakers Thursday 23 January 2020, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1927/show Thursday 24 October 2019 SynthSys OCM 24 Oct 2019 Various speakers Thursday 24 October 2019, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1883/show Thursday 05 December 2019 SynthSys OCM 5 Dec 2019 Various Speakers Thursday 05 December 2019, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1886/show Thursday 06 February 2020 SynthSys OCM 6 Feb 2020 Various Speakers Thursday 06 February 2020, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1928/show Thursday 07 May 2020 SynthSys OCM 7 May 2020 Various Speakers Thursday 07 May 2020, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1934/show Thursday 09 January 2020 SynthSys OCM 9 Jan 2020 Various Speakers Thursday 09 January 2020, 09:30 - 10:30 Series: SynthSys http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1926/show Thursday 16 April 2020 Synthsys Seminar - Angel Goñi-Moreno (title to be confirmed) Angel Goñi-Moreno (Newcastle University) Thursday 16 April 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1946/show Thursday 07 May 2020 Synthsys Seminar - Luke Alphey (title to be confirmed) Luke Alphey (The Pirbright Institute) Thursday 07 May 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1945/show Wednesday 20 September 2017 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) Wednesday 20 September 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1169/show Thursday 18 January 2018 The robust ticking of a circadian clock Prof Pieter Rein ten Wolde (AMOLF research lab & Department of Physics, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam) Thursday 18 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1289/show Thursday 14 December 2017 Title to be confirmed 14/12/17 Nir Gov (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Thursday 14 December 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1179/show Thursday 25 May 2017 Title to be confirmed 25/5/17 Dr Thomas Howard (Newcastle University) Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/987/show Thursday 25 July 2019 Toward Natural and Engineered Microbial-Electronic Systems Leonard M. Tender (Microbial Electronics Group US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC,) Thursday 25 July 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1812/show Thursday 07 November 2019 Two layers of chance associated with spatially expanding populations: How demographic noise and environmental heterogeneity shape genetic diversity Dr Wolfram Mobius (Research Fellow, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter) Thursday 07 November 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1819/show Thursday 22 June 2017 What transcriptional noise tells us about the cell inside Professor Víctor de Lorenzo (National Center for Biotechnology, Madrid) Thursday 22 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: SynthSys Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1051/show Powered by http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk