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Tuesday 17 February 2015 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Loss of DNA methylation drives Polycomb redistribution
  Dr. Sarah Cooper (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 24 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Transcriptional regulation of the quiescent human haematopoietic stem cell pool
  Dr. Elisa Laurenti (WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 3 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Helen Doolittle, Joanna Green, Laura Stenson
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 6 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Functions, mechanisms and therapeutic potential of chromatin looping
  Dr. Gerd Blobel (The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 17 March 2015 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - FoldSynth: A physics-based interactive visualisation platform for proteins and other molecular strands
  Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie (Goldsmiths, University of London), Stephen Todd (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 24 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Aimee Fenwick, Jon Kerry, Marta Tapia
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 9 April 2015 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Electron microscopy techniques for biomedical research: from the traditional to the cutting-edge
  Dr Errin Johnson (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 21 April 2015 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Florian Bonkhofer, Laura Godfrey, Lucas Greder
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 24 April 2015 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A career within the Innovation Triple Helix
  Dr David Hardman (CEO, Innovation Birmingham Ltd)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 28 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Population and Rare Diseases Genomics: Any lessons learned about megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation?
  Prof Willem Ouwehand (Professor of Experimental Haematology University of Cambridge & Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and NHS Blood and Transplant)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 1 May 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Career paths, work/life balance and quality/diversity (Athena Swan - Equality and Diversity Seminar)
  Athena Swan - Equality and Diversity Seminar
  Tudor Fulga (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Irene Roberts (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Professor Marella de Bruijn (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 5 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Preferentially targeting Jak2-mutant cells in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN)
  Ann Mullally (Harvard Medical School, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 12 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Akiko Hashimoto, Anthony Cheong, Christopher Booth
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 19 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - How does the embryo make haematopoetic stem cells?
  Prof Alexander Medvinsky (Institute for Stem Cell Research, Edinburgh)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 26 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of bone morphogenesis by vascular niche
  Dr. Anjali Kusumbe (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Munster, Germany)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 27 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:15 - Stem Cells, Clones and Cancer
  Dr Connie Eaves (Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 9 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Dr Petter Woll (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Dr Kerol Bartolovic (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 19 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From plasmid to patent attorney
  Robert Stephen (Partner, Olswang LLP)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 23 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - How to build the largest functional domain in the human nucleus
  Professor Brian McStay (Centre for Chromosome Biology, National University of Ireland, Galway)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 15 July 2015 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Computational Genomics - Analysis and Training (CGAT)
  Dr. David Sims (MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford), Dr Andreas Heger (MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 20 July 2015 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Defining stem cell states and regulatory networks using single cell genomics
  Dr Bertie Göttgens (Dept of Haematology, Cambridge Inst for Medical Research)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 21 July 2015 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Inferring clonal T cell fates from single-cell transcriptomes
  Dr. Mike Stubbington (EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 27 July 2015 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Hematopoietic stem cell function in stress, disease and ageing
  Professor Emmanuelle Passegué (University of California, San Francisco)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 4 August 2015 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding estrogen receptor activity in breast cancer
  Dr Jason Carroll (Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 14 August 2015 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Lgr5+ stem cells in epithelial homeostasis and cancer
  Professor Nicholas Barker (Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 25 August 2015 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Molecular investigations into -stem cell- ageing
  Professor Gerald de Haan (University Medical Center Groningen)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 1 September 2015 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The dynamic epigenome - challenges and opportunities for healthy ageing
  Professor Peter Adams (Beatson Institute for Cancer Research & University of Glasgow)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 6 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Ben Goldacre (Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 9 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Living on the outside (or life in a Biotech company)
  Dr Jonathan Silk (Adaptimmune Ltd., Abingdon)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 13 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dynamic phosphorylation patterns of RNA polymerase II CTD during transcription
  Prof Dr Dirk Eick (Dept of Molecular Epigenetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Muenchen, Germany)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 27 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Dr Bryony Graham (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM), Dr Neo Wen Hao (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 3 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Chromatin repllication and epigenome maintenance
  Dr Anja Groth (Biotech Research & Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 5 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Genetic and epigenetic roots of an autism spectrum disorder
  Professor Adrian Bird (Buchanan Chair of Genetics, University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 12 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - OIG Post Doc Day
  The event is directed at Post-docs working in immunology at Oxford, but everyone from the University is welcome. This time we have a very special set of guest speakers talking about: • Grant writing from a medical director’s perspective - Professor Alan Silman (Arthritis Research UK’s medical director for 8 years) • Career options for PhD holders: a patent attorney and a medical/scientific writer will be sharing their experiences • Techniques: genomics, CRISPR technology and imaging Registration is free and open to all: http://oig-post-doc-day.eventbrite.co.uk
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - From Russia with Love: my journey in science
  Science Career Seminar
  Dr Natalia Gromak (Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 17 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Dr Dimitris Karamitros (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM), Dr Diu Nguyen (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  TBA
  General Talks

Tuesday 24 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cohesin proteins bridge genome topology and function
  Dr Suzana Hadjur (University College London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 1 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  TBA
  General Talks
• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  TBA
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 8 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The identification and characterisastion of disease genes in craniosynostosis
  Viva Seminar
  Aimee Fenwick (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medciine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 14 December 2015 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Stimulating fetal haemoglobin expression for sickle cell disease
  Dr Mitch Weiss (St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 15 December 2015 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Analysis of transcription factor binding at cis-regulatory elements during blood development and differentiation
  Viva Seminar
  Maria Suciu (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 21 December 2015 (11th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding regulation of zeta-globin transcription as the first step towards embryonic globin induction in pateints with severe alpha-thalassaemia
  Viva Seminar
  Duantida Songdej (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 19 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Mechanisms and function of parental specific heterochromatin in mouse early embryos
  Prof Dr Antoine Peters (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 20 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Identification of critical effectors of C/EBPalpha mutant AML - Novel molecular insights and targeting strategies
  Dr. Florian Grebien (CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Vienna, Austria)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 21 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Unraveling the molecular and cellular mechanisms of fetal B cell lymphopoiesis to help understand childhood leukaemia
  Viva Seminar
  Joanna Green (Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 22 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:15 - Unravelling haematopoietic stem cell dysfunction in isolated Del(5q) myelodysplastic syndromes
  Viva Seminar
  Laura Stenson (Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 28 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Genome-wide analyses reveal new insights into MLL fusion protein recruitment mechanisms
  Viva Seminar
  Jon Kerry (Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Epigenetic dysfunction and its targeting in haematological malignancies
  Dr Brian Huntly (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 4 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How a bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur
  Dr Fiona Nelson (CEO at DNAdigest and Repositive)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How to be open about the use of animals in scientific research
  Carmel Turner (Chief Press Officer, Medical Research Council)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 9 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Lineage bias and restriction of haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells
  Viva Seminar
  Joana de Teixeira Carrelha (Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 15 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Investigating the regulatory consequences of genetics and age on primary immune cell gene expression, DNA methylation and function
  Dr Ben Fairfax (Oxford Cancer Centre, Churchill Hospital)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 18 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:15 - The large scale features of chromatin 3D organisation
  Professor Mario Nicodemi (Universita' di Napoli "Federico II", Italy)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 19 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Statistical tools based on latent variable models to understand heterogeneity in single-cell gene expression data
  Dr. Florian Buettner (EMBL, European Bioinformatics Institute)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - From bench to backside: an editor's story
  Dr Yvonne Bordon & Dr Claudio Alves (Editors, Nature Reviews)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Wednesday 24 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Single-Cell Systems Biology: The Now and The Next
  Dave Ruff (Visiting Senior Research Fellow & Principal Scientist at Fluidigm)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 25 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:15 - Genetics and pathophysiology of coronal craniosynostosis revealed by Next-Generation DNA sequencing
  Viva Seminar
  Vikram Pramod Sharma (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 26 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The function and execution of RTEL1 activities at vertebrate telomeres
  Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 4 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - "Career paths, work/life balance and equality/diversity"
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Angela Vincent ((Neurosciences/WIMM), University of Oxford), Professor Katja Simon ((Kennedy Institute) University of Oxford), Professor Paresh Vyas ((MHU/WIMM))
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 8 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Anthony Cheong; Jennifer Chambers; Lucas Greder
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 11 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Single-cell analysis of haematopoietic stem cell identity and behaviour
  Dr David Knapp (Terry Fox Laboratory, Vancouver)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 14 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Maintenance of spermatogenic stem cell pool by mitogen competition
  Professor Shosei Yoshida (Division of Germ Cell Biology, Okazaki, Japan)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 15 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Chaperones turned oncoproteins: calreticulin mutants pathologically activate TpoR and the JAK-STAT pathway in myeloid cancers
  Prof Stefan Constantinescu (Head, Signal Transduction & Molecular Hematology Unit, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brussels, Belgium)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 18 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - From bench science to a career in science policy
  Dr Georgina Drury (Programme Manager, Medical Research Council)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 22 March 2016 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Cooperative and dynamic organisation of DNA regulatory elements
  Dr Guillaume Orsi (Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche, Paris, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 5 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - DNA repair, NAD+ and mitophagy in neurodegeneration and ageing
  Dr Evandro Fang (National Institutes on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 12 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Haematopoietic flow, cell competition and T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
  Professor Hans-Reimer Rodewald (German Cancer Research Center)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 13 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Love and fear in the lab - a guitar talk on the importance of emotions in science
  Professor Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 15 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:15 - Rewards and challenges in career as a core facility manager
  Stephen Taylor (Head of Computational Biology Research Group, WIMM), Christoffer Lagerholm (Manager of Wolfson Imaging Facility, WIMM)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 19 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Julia Truch; Martin Larke; Eleni Louka
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 26 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Single cell gene expression dynamics
  Professor Jonathan Chubb (MR Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Noncoding RNA regulation of myeloid transcription factors, DNA methylation and leukaemia
  Daniel G Tenen (Cancer Science Institute, National University of Singapore)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 3 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Haematopoietic stem cells in development and disease
  Dr Katrin Ottersbach (MR Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Crosstalk between RNA processing and chromatin remodelling as a modulator of genome integrity
  Dr Andres Aguilera (Department of Genetics, University of Seville, Spain)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Single-cell analysis of Blimp1+ cell types at the maternal-foetal interface
  Dr Andrew Nelson (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - HSC developmental diversity
  Professor Elaine Dzierzak (MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 31 May 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Cristina di Genua; Florian Bonkhofer; Alexander Thomas
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 7 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Insights into inherited susceptibility to B-cell malignancies
  Professor Richard Houlston (Institute of Cancer Research, London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 14 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Novel mechanisms and therapies in acute myeloid leukaemia
  Professor Tim Somervaille (Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - A systems biology approach to identifying drug targets and predicting therapeutic outcomes in myelodysplasia and acute myeloid leukaemia
  Ass. Professor John Pimanda (Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW, Australia)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 21 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The first human immortalised cell line generated from adult erythroid cells
  Dr Jan Frayne (School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 24 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Roles of regulatory RNAs & RNA-binding proteins in (re)programming hematopoiesis and immunity
  Dr Stefan Muljo (Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA)

Tuesday 28 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Juan Pablo Ruiz; Zahra Aboukhalil; Marieke Oudelaar
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 29 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Development of the AGM region in the chick embryo
  Dr Tom Schultheiss (Dept of Genetics & Developmental Biology, Technion-Israel Inst of Technology, Haifa)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 8 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Management of Ph+ AML Current and Future
  Professor Oliver Ottman (Division of Cancer & Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 12 July 2016 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Clinical and molecular studies of congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia type 1
  Professor Hannah Tamary (Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 26 July 2016 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Cellular and gene therapy for erythroid disorders: opportunities and challenges
  Dr Raffaele Renella (Hemato-Oncologue Pediatre FMH, Lausanne, Switzerland)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 12 September 2016 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Characterising transcriptional heterogeneities during cellular differentiation
  Professor Fabian Theis (Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 4 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Introducing GSK Discovery Partnerships with Academia - Innovative Medicines from integrated industry-academia partnerships
  Dr Andrew Pearce (GSK Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Nuclear inositide pathways: Phospholipase C signalling and initiation of cancer
  Professor Lucio Cocco (Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 18 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Eavesdropping on embryonic development with multimodal imaging
  Dr Scott Fraser (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
• 13:00 - Eavesdropping on embryonic development with multimodal imaging
  Dr Scott Fraser (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Molecular mechanisms regulating human pluripotent stem cell differentiation
  Dr Siim Pauklin (Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - Single cell analysis of the bone marrow niche identifies novel regulators of haematopoietic regeneration
  Dr Lev Silberstein (Dept of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 8 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - DNMT3A in normal and malignant haematopoiesis
  Dr Margaret Goodell (Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 11 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Career paths, work/life balance and equaity/diversity
  Athena Swan - Equality and Diversity Seminar
  Dr Rui Monteiro, Dr. Lynn Quek & Professor Catherine Porcher (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 15 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - What is the reproducibility crisis in science and what can we do about it?
  Professor Dorothy Bishop (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 22 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Use of single cell transcriptomics to study blood stem cells formation
  Dr Christophe Lancrin (EMBL Monterotondo Mouse Biology Unit, Monterotondo, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 29 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Stem cell dynamics in homeostasis and cancer
  Dr Edward Morrissey (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 1 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - New approaches to the investigation of the interactions between enhancers and promoters during haemopoiesis
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Dr James Davies (Prof Doug Higgs' Group, Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 2 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Long-distance interactions in gene expression control: function and regulation by the 3D genome's architecture
  Dr Francois Spitz (Dept of Developmental Biology & Stem Cells, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 6 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Exploring the role of SCF at the onset of haematopoiesis
  POSTPONED TO THE NEW YEAR
  Emanuele Azzoni (MRC MHU, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 20 December 2016 (11th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Lineage commitment and chromatin dynamics
  Professor Frank Grosveld (Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - The role of elements binding CTCF and Cohesin in directing tissue-specific enhancer activity
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Lars Hanssen (Prof Doug Higgs' Group, Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 12 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Cell type-specific Runx1 enhancer-reporter mouse lines to study hemogenic endothelium
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Christina Rode (Prof Marella de Bruijn's Group, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 17 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - AML genetics, forward and reverse
  Dr George Vassiliou (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Genetic and epigenetic determinants of blood cells and links to human disease
  Professor Nicole Soranzo (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 30 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Structure and function of K2P and PKD ion channels, targets for pain and polycystic kidney disease
  Professor Liz Carpenter (SGC, NDM, Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 31 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How replication impediments impair epigenetic memory
  Dr. Julian Sale (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 20 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Dynamic interactions of healthy and malignant haematopoietic stem cells with the bone marrow microenvironment
  Cristina Lo Celso (Imperial College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 21 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Yavor Bozhilov; Laura Godfrey; Andrew King (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 28 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A view of haematopoietic development and disease from the Petri dish
  Dr. Andrea Ditadi (San Raffaelle Scientific Institute, Milan)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Proteomic modeling of erythropoiesis
  Dr Marjorie Brand (Sprott Center for Stem Cell Research, University of Ottawa)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 7 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Congenital dyserythropoietic anaemias: from clilnical manifestations to molecular pathogenesis
  Achille Iolascon (Dept of Molecular Medicine & Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 22 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - LMO2 protein complexes driving haematopoietic cell fate and leukaemogenesis
  Dr Trang Hoang (Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), Montreal, Canada)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 23 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:15 - "A common functional role of SCL and LYL1 in red cell and platelet production”
  Prof David Curtis (Monash University, Australia)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 28 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Computational approaches to gene expression and regulation in blood cells and cancer
  Professor David Westhead (Head of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 4 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Evolution of tissue-specific enhancers across mammals
  Dr Duncan Odom (CRUK Cambridge Institute & WT Sanger Institute, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Tomasz Dobrzycki; Akiko Hashimoto; Dominic Owens (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Assessing the effect of single nucleotide variants on the expression of key human genes
  Professor Merlin Crossley (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 28 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - CHD7 in CHARGE: the implications of neural crest specific regulation of chromatin remodeller CHD7 in CHARGE syndrome
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Günes Taylor (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dysregulated haematopoiesis in chronic inflammatory diseases
  Dr. Thibault Griseri (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 8 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Pluripotent stem cells to model human hemato-lymphoid development
  Professor Dan Kaufman (Dept of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Aberrant chromatin programming in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
  Professor Constanze Bonifer (Institute for Cancer & Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Hannah Ralph; Helen Doolittle; Helena Francis (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Towards the understanding of molecular mechanisms of epigenetic reporgramming in vivo
  Dr. Petra Hajkova (MRC Institute of Medical Sciences, London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MRC Translational Activities and Opportunities
  Dr. Alex Pemberton (Medical Research Council, London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GATA2 zinc finger interactions with DNA and FOG1 are structurally encoded
  Dr Sarah Nurmohamed (Division of Structure Biology, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 27 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Akiko Hashimoto; Michael Weinberger, Catherine Garnett, Carolline Telfer (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 11 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Christopher Booth; Alba Rodriguez Meira, Caroline Harrold (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 5 September 2017 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Metabolism, control of cell fate decisions, and stem cell renewal
  Dr Keisuke Ito (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 12 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dynamic remodelling of the haematopoietic stem cell niche
  Dr Owen Tamplin (Dept of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 19 September 2017 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The biology of ELTD1/ADGRL4: a novel regulator of tumour angiogenesis
  VIVA SEMINAR
  David Favara (Department of Molecular Oncology, MRC WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - Development, maintenance and function of tissue resident macrophages
  Dr Elisa Gomez Perdiguero (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 26 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mechanotransduction in physiology and cardiovascular disease
  Professor Ellie Tzima (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 2 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - "Identifying the key function of MeCP2 via genetic manipulation in mice"
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 3 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding regulatory variation in humans through variable chromatin modules
  Dr Bart Deplancke (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - “CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing: Defining Genome-wide Activity for Therapeutics”
  Shengdar Tsai (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The emergence of erythropoiesis from the early haematopoietic hierarchy: a single cell-RNA-seq approach
  Assoc Prof Merav Socolovsky (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - How LAB282 accelerates Oxford drug discovery
  Thomas Hank (Evotec)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Exploring the mechanisms of haematopoietic lineage progression at the single-cell level
  Professor Ana Cvejic (WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 7 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Visualisation in biology: much more than pretty pictures
  Dr. Monica Zoppe (Institute of Clinical Physiology-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 21 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Forward programming and gene editing: the tools for making blood cells with added clinical benefit
  Dr Cedric Ghevaert (Cambridge Blood Centre, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mechanisms behind mammalian early embryogenesis in vitro and in vivo
  SEMINAR POSTPONED TO THE NEW YEAR DUE TO ILLNESS
  Prof Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz (Mammalian Embryo & Stem Cell Group, University of Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 5 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Biotagging, a genetically encoded toolkit in the zebrafish, reveals novel non-coding RNA players during neural crest and myocardium development
  Vanessa Mae Ren CHONG (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - DNA methylation of transcribed CpG islands depends on their transcriptional activity during differentiation and disease
  Dr. Danuta Jeziorska (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 14 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Identification of Novel Runx1 Targets Involve in HSC Development
  Florian Bonkhofer (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Targeting splicing in myeloid neoplasms - from bench to bedside
  Professor David Steensma (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Student presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Toasting the genome - How alcohol and endogenous aldehydes damage stem cells
  Professor KJ Patel (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How chromatin organises in mammalian cells - lessons from 3D super-resolution microscopy
  Dr. Lothar Schermelleh (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Enhancers of Sonic hedgehog gene expression and making long distance relationships work
  Professor Robert Hill (MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - KEAP1-NRF2 Antioxidant Response System and Sickle Cell Anemia
  Professor Masayuki Yamamoto (Department of Medical Biochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies: where we are and future perspectives
  Professor Giuliana Ferrari (San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - “Regulating Pol II transcription for genome stability”
  Dr Taka Nojima (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 12 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Airway epithelia under attack: influenza, interferons and pollutants
  Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 13 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - Analysis of a gain-of-function mutation that produces a new transcriptional unit in the α-globin locus
  Viva Seminar
  Yavor Bozhilov (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - Student presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 20 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How do gene families evolve?
  Ed Tunnacliffe (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 13 April 2018 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The Nature of Nurture
  Professor Augustine Kong (Big Data Institute, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 19 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - “Immortal Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Their Epigenetic Regulation”
  Margaret (“Peggy”) Goodell (Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Student presentations
  Please note earlier start time for these presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Student presentations
  Please note earlier start time for these presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Charting the cellular and molecular journey of single stem cells in ageing and cancer
  Dr David Kent (Wellcome/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Novel metabolic regulators of haematopoietic stem cell biology and leukaemic transformation
  
  Kamil Kranc (MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh )
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Asynchronous T and B lineage priming condition commitment in fetal hematopoietic progenitors
  Professor Ana Cumano (Institut Pasteur, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Targeting autophagy and metabolic dependencies in leukaemic stem cells
  Vignir Helgason (Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre, University of Glasgow)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 19 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution
  Jordi Solana (Dept of Biological & Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 26 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Controlling mouse HSC function and myelopoiesis in vivo
  Claudia Waskow (TU Dresden, Germany)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 18 September 2018 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Employing CRISPR to understand neurodegenerative disease in human induced pluripotent stem cells
  Dr Andrew Bassett (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - THIS SEMINAR HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED - Mechanisms controlling homeostasis in mammalian epidermis
  THIS SEMINAR HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED 2018 Craig Jordan Lecture
  Professor Fiona Watt (Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Discovery of cellular and molecular targets to extend hematopoietic healthspan
  Dr Jennifer Trowbridge (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  TBA
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Balancing cell potency and specification in stem cells and in the early embryo
  Dr Veronique Azuara (Institute of Reproductive & Developmental Biology, Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  TBA
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 4 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding early mouse and human development
  Dr Magdalana Zernicka-Goetz (University of Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 11 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - From the immune system to cancer: 53BP1 cooperation with the Rev7-Shieldin complex underpins DNA structure-specific non-homologous end joining
  Dr Ross Chapman (Head of Genome Integrity Laboratory, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 13 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - VIVA - "Acquired Alpha Thalassaemia in Myelodysplastic Syndrome"
  Pak Leng Cheong (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:30 - VIVA - ‘The molecular and cellular basis for oncogene collaboration in acute myeloid leukaemia’
  Cristina Di Genua (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The human centromere, a paradigm in chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance
  Dr Lars Jansen (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Stem cells and differentiation in myelodysplastic syndromes
  Professor Eva Hellstrom Lindberg (Dept of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Spatial In Vivo Transcription Profiling with Single-Molecule Imaging
  Dr Antti Lignell (Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Benjamin Fairfax (Molecular Oncology, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 12 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of dormant hematopoietic stem cells
  Dr Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid (Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 19 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Exploring the role of RNA modifications in myeloid leukaemogenesis
  Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis (WT-CRUK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 26 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 2 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Repression of gene expression by Groucho/TLE family proteins during development and disease
  Dr Barbara Jennings (Dept of Biological & Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 23 April 2019 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Functional dissection of the 3D genome
  Elzo de Wit (The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Rewriting the mammalian cell ’source code’
  Professor Tudor Fulga (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Asymmetric stem cell division to tissue engineering
  Dr Shukry Habib (Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Genetic determinants of context specific gene expression and DNA methylation in primary human monocytes
  Dr Benjamin Fairfax (Dept of Oncology, WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Surveying structural variation landscapes in single cells by strand-specific sequencing reveals complex genomic rearrangements in T-ALL
  Dr Ashley Sanders (Genome Biology Unit, EMBL, Heidelberg)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 2 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Genetic engineering of human hematopoiesis for treating inherited diseases and cancer
  SEMINAR CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS OF SPEAKER
  Dr Luigi Naldini (San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 9 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Applying precision medicine to a third world country: an experience from Thailand
  Please note earlier start time of 12.30 pm
  Professor Vip Viprakasit (Professor of Paediatrics, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 29 July 2019 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - “Stem cells for studying dendritic cell development and leukaemia”
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 15 August 2019 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - "The long non-coding RNA CRNDE regulates growth of multiple myeloma cells via an effect on IL6 signalling"
  Antoine David (INSERM Unité 976, Université Pari)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 27 September 2019 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - “Ribosomopathies: Biology, Diagnosis and New Treatment Directions”
  Anu Narla (Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, CA,)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 1 October 2019 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Spatial enhancer-promoter networks in pluripotent stem cells
  Dr Stefan Schoenfelder (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 8 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Innate host defence: a playing field for the ubiquitin machinery
  Dr Mads Gyrd-Hansen (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Does nuclear size matter? Abnormal megakaryocyte polyploidization and maturation in myelofibrosis
  Rong Li (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Single-cell analysis of structural variations and complex rearrangements with tri-channel-processing
  Dr Jan Korbel (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Predicting the progression of myeloid neoplasms
  Dr Moritz Gerstung (EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Recent progress towards understanding the molecular mechanism of X chromosome inactivation
  Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - The regulation of zeta-globin
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Dr. Andrew King (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Dr Robert Beagrie (Prof D Higgs' laboratory, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit), Dr Sarah Gooding (Prof P Vyas' laboratory, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dissecting erythropoiesis in Diamond-Blackfan anaemia at single-cell resolution
  Dr Deena Iskander (Imperial College, London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 16 December 2019 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Investigating the mechanisms and elements responsible for regulatory domain formation during gene regulation
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Caroline Harrold (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 17 December 2019 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Re-configuration of chromatin structure during the mitosis-G1 phase transition
  Dr Gerd Blobel (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 7 January 2020 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Form and function of the genome: an overview of genomic editing and topology studies
  Professor Wouter de Laat (Hubrecht Institute, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Dissecting the molecular mechanisms underpinning gene dysregulation caused by a regulatory SNV
  Dr Yavor Bozhilov (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Ageing and leukemia: synergistic interplay between the hematopoietic system and the bone marrow microenvironment
  Simona Valletta (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Mining whole genome sequencing for pathogenic copy number and structural variants: the exmaple of craniosynostosis
  Dr Eduardo Calpena (Clinical Genetics, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - G-quadruplex structures in neurobiology and neuropharmacology
  Dr Norifumi Shioda (Dept of Genomic Neurology, Kumamoto University, Japan)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Genetic Engineering of Human Hematopoiesis for Treating Inherited Diseases and Cancer
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Luigi Naldini (San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Free Heme overload in DBA progenitors and HSP70/GATA1 involvement in the globin/heme dysequilibrium
  Professor Lydie da Costa (Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The role of the Chromatin Remodelling factor ATRX in genome stability and cancer
  Dr David Clynes (Dept of Oncology, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 24 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Xiying Ren, David Cruz Hernandez
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 31 March 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Too much and not enough: Balancing the scales of haematopoiesis
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Dr. Ian Hitchcock (Department of Biology, University of York)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 28 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Joe Harman, Tom Kent, Spencer Tong
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 26 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Jennifer O'Sullivan, Wei Xiong Wen, Caitlin Murnane
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 30 June 2020 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Nikolaos Sousos, Grigore Gafencu, Siyu Liu, Yuqi Shen
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 22 March 2022 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Chemical modulation of enhancers
  Dr Christopher Ott
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 21 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Immune marrow failure: New approaches in the research laboratory and clinic
  Neal Young (NIH)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Probing genome, nucleosome and transcriptome dynamics with acute protein depletion
  Elzo de Wit (Netherlands Cancer Institute)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 22 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Lister Prize Presentation James Davies - Using base pair mapping of chromatin structure to interrogate genome function
  Dr James Davies (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 22 September 2023 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - TBC
  Dr Jef Boeke (NYU Langone Medical Center)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars