Pathophysiology and Repair Division Seminar Series 2011-12
Seminars to take place at 13.10hrs-14.00hrs on Tuesdays, 6th Floor Seminar Room, Life Sciences Building (BIOSI 3) (except where marked).
When there is an external speaker, a buffet lunch will be provided from 12.45-1.10pm and a coffee/tea session for discussion with the speaker will take place every week from 2.00-2.30pm in the 6th Floor Seminar Room.
Wednesday 31st August 2011 at 12 noon in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Biomedical Sciences Building
Professor Tony Poole, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Title: Primary Cilia, Mechanobiology and Disease
20th September 2011
Dr Julia Gerasimenko, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Pathological calcium signalling in pancreatic acinar cells
27th September 2011
Ladislav Andera, Laboratory of Cell Signaling and Apoptosis, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
Title: Harnessing apoptosis as an anti-cancer strategy: sensitizing cells to death-inducing ligands
4th October 2011
Prof Frank Barry, Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI), Galway, Ireland
Title: Stem Cells for Tissue Repair - The Host Response
Friday 7th October 2011 - Now to be held in 6th Floor Seminar Room, Life Sciences Building, Museum Avenue
Llewelyn Roderick, Signalling and Cell Fate, Babraham Institute, Cambridge
Title: IP3-Stimulated Calcium Signalling in Cardiac Hypertrophy
11th October 2011
Dr Fancesco Dell'Accio, Centre for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology, Barts, London
Title: Wnt signalling in cartilage homeostasis
18th October 2011
Dr Douglas Winton, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute
Title: Clonality is the key to understanding intestinal stem cell and tumour biology
25th October 2011
Professor Ziad Mallat, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge
Title: Adaptive Immune response in Atherosclerosis
25th October 2011 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 2 - Dr Richard Clarkson
Title: Stem cells in breast cancer - Destroying the mythological beast
1st November 2011
Dr Alison Gartland, Department of Human Metabolism, Sheffield University
Title: ATP: The energy of life… and the life of the skeleton!
8th November 2011
Prim Singh, Institute for Cell and Neurobiology, Charite-Universitatmedizin, Berlin
Title: Heterochromatin, epigenetics and age reprogramming
15th November 2011
Bruce Caterson, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: The Glycobiology of the Stem/Progenitor Cell Niche: Its expression during development and in musculoskeletal diseases
15th November 2011 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 1 - Dr Emyr Lloyd-Evans
Title: I'on acid - Lysosomes, more than just cellular suicide bags?
22nd November 2011
Title: Molecular pathways of motor neuron injury and prospects for neuroprotection in ALS/MND
29th November 2011
Professor Jo Price, Veterinary School, Bristol University
Title: The adaptation of bone to mechanical loading; new approaches to an age old problem
Friday 2nd December 2011 at 1.10pm in W/0.12 (Buffet lunch at 12.30pm in the West Wing Foyer, Biomedical Sciences Building)
Professor Ted Burdyga, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Liverpool University
Title: Two and three-dimensional imaging of microvascular networks in situ: morphology, Ca signalling and tone in precapillary arterioles and postcapillary venules
6th December 2011
Dr Grant Churchill, Oxford University, Department of Pharmacology
Title: The development and use of biologist-friendly chemical probes to reveal new calcium biology
13th December 2011 - Physiology Lecture Theatre A, Biomedical Sciences Building
Dr Ros John, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Genomic imprinting: It’s not just your genes!
17th January 2012
Dr Alexey Ruzov, Wolfson Centre for Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering and Modelling (STEM), University of Nottingham
Title: A novel epigenetic mark, 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, in animal development: comparing different vertebrate models
24th January 2012
Dr Martin Knight, Centre for Materials Research, Queen Mary College, London
Title: The role of primary cilia in cartilage health and disease
31st January 2012
Professor Jan Parys, University of Leuven, Belgium
Title: The regulation of IP3-induced Ca2+ signalling in the determination of cell fate
7th February 2012
Professor Derek Mann, Biosciences, University of Newcastle
Title: Transcriptional and Epigenetic Control of Wound Healing and Regeneration in the Liver
14th February 2012
Dr Debbie Mason, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Glutamatergic signalling: a link between mechanical loading, pain and pathology in arthritis
21st February 2012
Professor Mark Hanson, Institute of Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton
Title: Fat, Fate and Disease
28th February 2012
Dr Arwyn Jones, Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University
Title: Segregating endocytic pathways to study entry mechanisms for cell penetrating peptides and other drug delivery vectors.
13th March 2012
Sarah Brennan, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Amino acid sensing by the calcium-sensing receptor
Friday 16th March 2012 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 1 - Dr William Wilkinson
Title: Carbon Monoxide; it doesn't just kill you
20th March 2012
Professor David Critchley, Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester
Title: Integrin-mediated cell adhesion; the cytoskeletal connection
Friday 23rd March 2012 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 2 - Dr Emma Blain
Title: Feeling the Pressure: the chondrocyte's perspective
27th March 2012
Professor Steve Walkley, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA
Title: The Art of the Soluble: Cyclodextrin and Niemann-Pick Type C Disease
17th April 2012
Dr William Wilkinson, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: "Regulation of channels & receptors: Jack-of-all-trades - summarising the multiple projects of 6 years as a postdoc in Cardiff"
1st May 2012
Title: Fine-tuning proliferation signals – a requirement for tissue homeostasis
4th May 2012 - Joint Neuroscience & Pathophysiology & Repair Seminar
Professor Alexej Verkhratsky, School of Life Sciences, University of Manchester
Title: General physiology and pathophysiology of neuroglia
8th May 2012
PPR Research Afternoon
19th June 2012
Professor Aaron Zorn, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, USA
Title: Generation of the digestive system: from frog embryos to human stemcells
More speakers and titles to follow shortly.