Events this person is speaking at:

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Control of cell division by the PP2A-B55 pathway: basic principles really can be a matter of life and death
  Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Thursday 28 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Supercharging cell division: how protein phosphatases define the temporal order of mitosis & cytokinesis
  Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of cell division by protein phosphatases: from mitosis to melanoma
  Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18

Events this person is hosting:

Monday 30 November 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - "Kinetochores: from microtubule attachment to spindle assembly checkpoint signalling"
  Professor Dr. Andrea Musacchio (Director of the Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology at the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 11 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - 'Atomic structure of human γ-secretase'
  Dr. Xiao-Chen Bai (MRC, LMB, Cambridge)
  Special Seminar
• 11:00 - 'Architecture of mTOR complex 1'
  Dr. Christopher Aylett (IMBB, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  Special Seminar

Tuesday 10 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 'Principles of pluripotency: from the ground state up'
  Professor Austin G Smith, FRS, FRSE (Medical Research Council Professor, Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Friday 1 July 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - "Chromosome organization by SMC complexes: linking sisters and extruding loops”
  Dr. Benjamin Rowland (Research Associate, Netherlands Cancer Institute)
  Special Seminar

Monday 17 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Gene regulation in chromatin
  Dr. Dirk Schübeler (Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - In vitro construction of a metabolic network for cell volume regulation
  Lecture followed by a champagne reception on the Lower Ground Floor of the New Biochemistry Building
  Professor Dr. Bert Poolman (Department of Biochemistry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
  Joel Mandelstam Lecture

Monday 5 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Molecular Mechanisms involved in the Regulation of Appetite and Weight
  Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci (WT Senior Clinical Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 9 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding the function and evolution of regulatory protein-RNA complexes
  Professor Jernej Ule (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, The Francis Crick Institute, Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 16 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - "Gams to go: establishing and exploiting experimentally inducible sexual development in a malaria parasite"
  Professor A.P. Waters (Professor of Molecular and Developmental Parasitology, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 6 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Mitotic Checkpoint Kinases in Cancer Development and Treatment
  Prof. Dr. Rene H. Medema (Director of Research, Chairman Board of Directors, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

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

• 16:00 - A molecular movie of the excitation and contraction coupling of skeletal muscles
  Lecture to be followed by a Champagne Reception on the Lower Ground Floor of the New Biochemistry Building - all welcome
  Professor Nieng Yan (Professor in the School of Medicine at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
  Louise Johnson Memorial Lecture

Monday 3 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A new rationale for TF paralog evolution, expression and function
  Professor Matthias Merkenschlager (Lymphocyte Development Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The cryoEM revolution in structural biology
  Lecture to be followed by a Champagne Reception on the Lower Ground Floor
  Dr Richard Henderson, FRS (Programme Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Monday 12 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Establishment and Maintenance of Specialised Chromatin Domains
  Professor Robin Allshire (Professor of Chromosome Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 3 July 2017 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Plasticity of neural circuits, from development to function
  Dr. Arantza Barrios (Research Associate, University College London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 5 July 2017 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - ‘Targeting transcription through disruption of BET complexes’
  Dr. Panagis Filippakopoulos (SGC, University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 09:35 - 'Unusual RNA/DNA structures in health and disease'
  Dr. Natalia Gromak (Group Leader, Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 10:55 - ‘Molecular Mechanisms in Brain Development’
  Dr. Elena Seiradake (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 11:30 - ‘Biology in solution: from the atomic scale to mechanistic biochemistry’
  Dr. Sylvia McLain (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford)
  Special Seminar

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - 'chaperoning SNARE assembly to control membrane fusion'
  Professor Fred Hughson (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)
  Seminar

Monday 2 July 2018 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mitosis, genome stability and cancer chemotherapy
  Professor Stephen Taylor (Leech Professor of Pharmacology, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, University of Manchester)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Friday 5 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - “Cryo-EM snapshots of the catalytic spliceosome - and RNA heart in a malleable protein body”
  Dr. Sebastian Fica (MRC, LMB, Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Tuesday 9 April 2019 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - "Towards Design of Universal Influenza Vaccines and Therapeutics"
  Professor Ian A. Wilson, D.Phil, D.Sc, FRS, FRSE (Hansen Professor of Structural Biology, Chair Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, US)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - "Preprints: communication at the speed of science"
  Dr. Richard Sever (Assistant Director of CSHL Press and Co-Founder of the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv)
  Seminar
• 15:00 - Preprints: communicating at the speed of science
  Richard Sever (Co-Founder of bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Press)

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Illuminating the Molecular Choreography of Multi-segmented Viral Genomes
  Dr Alex Borodavka (Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds)
  Special Seminar

Wednesday 11 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:45 - “Molecular Diversity in Regulating Bacterial Potassium Uptake”
  Dr. Inga Hanelt (Goethe-University, Frankfurt)
  Special Seminar
• 09:20 - “The Mycobacterium ulcerans exotoxin, mycolactone: a novel inhibitor of Sec61-dependent translocation that drives Buruli ulcer pathogenesis”
  Dr. Rachel Simmonds (University of Surrey)
  Special Seminar
• 09:55 - “Epigenetic inheritance: the curious case of the human centromere”
  Dr. Lars Jansen (Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
  Special Seminar
• 10:45 - “Sweet coats: Diverse mechanisms of microbial polysaccharide secretion”
  Professor Jochen Zimmer (University of Virginia)
  Special Seminar
• 11:20 - "To divide or not to divide: The interplay of cell cycle decision-making and post-translational modifications"
  Dr. Joerg Mansfeld (Technische Universitat Dresden)
  Special Seminar

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - “Dissecting RNA Localisation and Local Translation in Neurons”
  Dr. Marina Chekulaeva (Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Germany)
  Special Seminar
• 09:35 - “Mechanism of Nitrogenase: Electrocatalysis at a Dinuclear Active Site”
  Professor Oliver Einsle (Institute for Biochemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany)
  Special Seminar
• 10:10 - “Functional organelle remodeling during adipocyte differentiation”
  Dr. Robin Klemm (Institute of Molecular Sciences, University of Zurich)
  Special Seminar
• 10:55 - “Understanding how cellular RNA-binding proteins control virus infection”
  Dr Alfredo Castello Palomares (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 11:30 - "Regulation of vesicle acidification at the neuronal synapse"
  Professor Ira Milosevic (European Neuroscience Institute - max Planck Society and University Medical Center Gottingen Joint Initiative, Gottingen)
  Special Seminar

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 08:45 - “Tuning gears for the tubulin motor: insights from in vitro reconstitution”
  Dr. Vladimir Volkov (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
  Special Seminar
• 09:35 - “Exon-centric functional genomics uncovers splice variants underlying normal physiology & disease-related phenotypes”
  Dr. Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis (Blencowe Laboratory, University of Toronto)
  Special Seminar
• 10:35 - "Towards anti-resistance antimicrobial chemotherapeutic strategies using large-scale chemical-genetics”
  Dr. Eachan Johnson (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, US)
  Special Seminar
• 11:25 - "Viral manipulation of information transfer in biology: structural and functional insights"
  Dr. Chris Hill (Queen's College, Cambridge)
  Special Seminar
• 12:15 - “The role of mobile DNA in spreading antimicrobial resistance and virulence”
  Dr. Ana Cehovin (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 14:00 - “Modelling the dynamic organisation of complex cell membranes: from the nano to the meso scale”
  Dr Anna Duncan (University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar

Friday 25 June 2021 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - “How dynein and dynactin transport different cargos along microtubules”
  Dr. Clinton Lau (Carter Laboratory, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Wednesday 23 March 2022 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - “Coping and adapting for bacteria: How you can learn to thrive under stress”
  To commemorate Stephan’s Award for the sought after 2020 Lister Institute Research Prize (Lister Prize), this Seminar will be attended by the Lister Institute’s Chairman, Professor Sir Alex Markham, and Director, Dr. Sally Burtles, and will be followed by a presentation and drinks reception on the Lower Ground Floor atrium area, Phase 1. You are all warmly invited to attend.
  Stephan Uphoff (University of Oxford)
  Seminar

Friday 6 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 'Starting protein synthesis: How ribosomes initiate on mRNA'
  Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Thursday 16 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Functional organisation of pericentromeres in mitosis and meiosis
  Professor Adele Marston (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Monday 17 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 'High-resolution cryoEM of membrane protein complexes'
  Lecture to be followed by a drinks reception on the Phase 1, LG Floor Atrium Area - all welcome
  Professor Werner Kuehlbrandt (Director, Department of Structural Biology, MPI of Biophysics, Germany)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Monday 2 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - 'Structural Insights into the Regulation of the Gene Silencer PRC2
  Professor Eva Nogales De La Morena (Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, UC Berkeley; Investigator, HHMI; Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
  Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Lecture

Wednesday 17 April 2024 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - 'Visualising the molecular mechanisms of eukaryotic DNA replication'
  Dr. Morgan Jones (Staff Scientist, Yeeles Lab, MRC LMB Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Mechanism for Membrane Protein Insertion and Complex Assembly’
  Dr. Haoxi Wu (Postdoctoral Fellow, Hegde Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Brenda Schulman, Ph.D (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany)
  Louise Johnson Memorial Lecture

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Preprints: communicating at the speed of science
  Richard Sever (Co-Founder of bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Press)