Pathophysiology and Repair Division Seminar Series 2012-13
Seminars to take place in the 6th Floor Seminar Room on Wednesdays at 13.10hrs -14.00hrs (except where marked).
When there is an external speaker, a buffet lunch will be provided from 12.45hrs -13.10hrs and a coffee/tea session for discusion with the speaker will take place every week from 14.00hrs-14.30hrs in the 6th Floor Seminar Room.
25th September 2012 - Joint Seminar with Neuroscience
Dr Thorsten Hornemann, University Hospital Zurich
Title: About sugar, sushi and sphingolipids
9th October 2012 - Law 2.27, Law Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 2 by Dr Richard Clarkson
Title: Stem Cells in breast cancer - Destroying the mythological beast
23rd October 2012
Prof Patrick WB Derksen, Department of Pathology, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Title: Context-dependent Roles for p120-catenin in Metastatic Breast Cancer
6th November 2012 - Joint Seminar with Neuroscience
Dr Alex Gourine, Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
Title: Astroglial control of the respiratory and autonomic activities
13th November 2012 - Law 2.27, Law Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 1 by Dr Emyr Lloyd-Evans
Title: I'on acid - Lysosomes, more than just cellular suicide bags?
20th November 2012
Dr Marco van Eijk, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title: Glycosphingolipids in pathology: Gaucher disease versus obesity
4th December 2012
Dr Chrissy Hammond, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol
Title: Fishing for clues into the genetics of osteoarthritis
18th December 2012 - Joint seminar with Neuroscience
Dr Rob Wykes, Department of Clinical & Experimental Epilepsy, University College London
Title: Optogenetic and potassium channel gene therapy in a rodent model of focal neocortical
epilepsy
29th January 2013
Professor David Ron, Institute of Metabolic Science,University of Cambridge
Title: Cellular adaptations to protein load in the early secretory pathway
12th February 2013
Professor Mark Lindsay, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath
Title: Overview of non-coding RNAs and their role in the innate immune response
Friday 22nd February 2013 - John Pryde Lecture Theatre
(C/-1.01), Sir Martin Evans Buidling at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 2 by Dr Emma Blain
Title: Feeling the Pressure: the chondrocyte's perspective
12th March 2013
Dr Jason Johnson, Cardiac, Anaesthesia and Radiological Sciences, Bristol University
Title: Macrophages, Matrix Metalloproteinases & Atherosclerosis
Friday 15th March 2013 - John Pryde Lecture Theatre
(C/-1.01), Sir Martin Evans Buidling at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 1 by Dr William Wilkinson
Title: Carbon Monoxide; it doesn't just kill you
24th April 2013 at 1.10pm in the 6th Floor Seminar Room
Dr Margaret Smith, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Australia
Title: Stem Cells & Tendon Regeneration
7th May 2013
Professor Ray Boot-Handford, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, The
University of Manchester
Title: Stresses, strains and rhythms in chondrocytes. Dissecting mechanisms related to
tissue homeostasis and disease
21st May 2013
Professor Laura Bull, UCSF Liver Center, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Title: When lipids don't flip in: ATP8B1 deficiency in people and mice
More speakers and titles to follow shortly.