Name: Yasmine Saito
Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Visualisation of Human Telomeric Complexes using Cryo-electron Microscopy
Date: 27 April 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Kelly Nguyen (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ewa Gogola (University of Oxford)

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Neuronal genome integrity and plasticity
Date: 19 May 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr. Andre Nussenzweig (Branch Chief of the Laboratory of Genome Integrity at the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ewa Gogola (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Clonal and cellular dynamics of the antibody response
Date: 25 May 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Prof Gabriel D. Victora (The Rockefeller University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Oliver Bannard (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Programmed DNA breaks drive multifaceted mutagenesis in the human germline
Date: 15 June 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Anjali Gupta Hinch (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room and via Teams
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Towards a quantitative understanding of somatic evolution in blood: missing drivers, ageing and other puzzles
Date: 22 June 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Jamie Blundell (Department of Oncology, Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room & remotely via Teams
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 26 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

Decoding the role of solute carrier proteins in health and disease
Date: 26 June 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 10th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Prof Simon Newstead (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Ketan Patel (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

Dynamic Effects of Interleukin-6 and Glucocorticoids on Cancer Host Responses
Date: 28 June 2023, 9:30 - 10:30 (Wednesday, 10th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Professor Tobias Janowitz (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 12 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Targeting ageing: from molecular mechanisms to clinical interventions
Date: 12 October 2023, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Professor Lynne Cox (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Adam Wilkinson (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

TALK CANCELLED - Rerunning cancer evolution: a genomic pathology approach
Date: 19 October 2023, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Dr Sarah Aitken (University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ewa Gogola (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Separate but Connected: Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Stability
Date: 2 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Professor Agnel Sfeir (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Mendelian genetics in a post-genomic era: insights from the smallest people in the world
Date: 9 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Professor Andrew Jackson (University of Edinburgh )
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The gut microbiome controls our health – or is it the other way around?
Date: 14 November 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Professor Klaus Kaestner (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Colorectal cancer in the 100,000 Genomes project
Date: 23 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Professor Ian Tomlinson (NDM, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room and via Teams
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Sir Walter Bodmer (Department of Oncology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Obstacles on genes & the Poll II ubiquitin code
Date: 30 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Ana Tufegdžić Vidaković (University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Holly Russel (University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and therapeutic applications
Date: 18 January 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Professor Stephen P. Jackson (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Full-length single-cell RNA-sequencing: From short to long-reads
Date: 22 January 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Vincent Hahaut (Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Maria Greco (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Spermatogenesis: a paradigm of stem cell regulation
Date: 25 January 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Professor Benjamin D Simons (University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

What determines oncogenic competence?
Date: 1 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Professor Richard White (Oxford Ludwig Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ewa Gogola (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

WIMM's LEAF Buddy Scheme & Coffee Morning
Date: 20 February 2024, 10:30 - 11:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Sustainability Working Group (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Karen Heathcote (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford), Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford), Jill Brown (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: WIMM Sustainability Committee (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Life Science and Sustainability - No Time to Waste!
Date: 21 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Sustainability Working Group (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Karen Heathcote (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford), Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford), Jill Brown (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: WIMM Sustainability Committee (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Lighting up the central dogma to dissect how sharp developmental patterns are established
Date: 22 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr Mounia Lagha (Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Edward Tunnacliffe (WIMM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

CryoEM achievements and potential
Date: 29 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr Richard Henderson, FRS (Programme Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Felix Dingler (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

The evolutionary trajectory of vertebrate adaptive immune systems
Date: 7 March 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr Thomas Boehm (The Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Munich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Oliver Bannard

Monday 18 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

Immune micro-niches shape intestinal Treg function
Date: 18 March 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 10th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr Yisu Gu (Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Adam Mead (Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Lysosomal Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Quiescence in Youth and With Age
Date: 23 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Tuesday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Saghi Ghaffari (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital)

Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Primordial Origins of RNA Therapeutics
Date: 24 April 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Wednesday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Michael Ehlers (Apple Tree Partners)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Davis (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

A break in mitochondrial endosymbiosis as a basis for inflammatory diseases
Date: 2 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Luke O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Extrachromosomal oncogene amplifications in cancer
Date: 9 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Anton Henssen (Charite Berlin)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Charlotte Brierley (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

WIMM Student Presentation Day 2024
Date: 14 May 2024, 9:00 - 17:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : WIMM Students (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Variations in 3D genome structure between homologous chromosomes and in stimulus responses
Date: 16 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Ana Pombo (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr James Davies (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Genomic instability: tumor suppressor BRCA2 and DNA breaks
Date: 20 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Maria Jasin (Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Centrosome function in health and disease: a small organelle with a big reach
Date: 23 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Fanni Gergely (Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

From Fragments to Pharmaceuticals
Date: 30 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Harren Jhoti (Astex Pharmaceuticals)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Davis (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Replication fork plasticity and its emerging role during physiological and malignant haematopoiesis
Date: 6 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Massimo Lopes (University of Zurich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Adam Wilkinson (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

How X-linked sequence variation shapes organismal development
Date: 13 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Matthias Merkenschlager (Imperial College London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Felice Tsang (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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Date: 24 October 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Isidro Cortes Ciriano (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Sumana Sharma (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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Date: 7 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Simon Buczacki (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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Date: 14 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Oliver Bannard (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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Date: 21 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Rod Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Paloma Garcia (Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Assunta Adamo (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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Date: 5 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Angelika Feldmann (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)