Name: Linda Roberts
University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

Events this person is organising:

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

Regenerative medicine by somatic stem cells: the paradigm of epithelial stem cells
Date: 8 May 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Michele De Luca (University of Modena and Teggio Emilia, Italy)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 22 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Stem cell niches in bone marrow
Date: 22 May 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Sean Morrison (Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, Dallas, USA)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Claus Nerlov (University of Oxford, MRC Molecular Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 5 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Evasion and chromatin-mediated silencing in HIV infection
Date: 5 June 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Paul Lehner (University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Prof Vincenzo Cerundolo (MRC Human Immunology Unit, WIMM, University of Oxford)

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

Transcriptional and epigenetic control of inflammatory gene expression
Date: 12 June 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Gioacchino Natoli ( Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 26 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

The power of adoptive T cell therapy
Date: 26 June 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 10th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Thomas Blankenstein (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Mike Barnkob (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

Targeting DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy
Date: 28 June 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 (Wednesday, 10th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Alan D'Andrea (Harvard Medical School, Dana-Barber Cancer Institute, Boston)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Peter McHugh (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

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

Reconstructing Gene Regulation Networks from Single Cell Data
Date: 3 July 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 11th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Michael Stumpf (Imperial College London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Irene Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 10 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

Stroma in the evolving tumour microenvironment: modulators of immune dysfunction?
Date: 10 July 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 12th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Jacqueline Shields (University of Cambridge )
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Mike Barnkob (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 25 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

The role of miRNA haploinsufficiency in MDS pathogenesis
Date: 25 September 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Dr Aly Karan (BC Cancer Agency – Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Does evasion of innate sensing explain pandemic potential of primate lentiviruses in humans
Date: 23 October 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Professor Greg Towers (Infection and Immunity, University College London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Layal Liverpool (University of Oxford)

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The first ten hours in the life of the frog
Date: 30 October 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Sir Jim Smith (Director of Science, Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Roger Partient (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Instiute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 6 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Mitochondrial DNA disease: challenges and solutions
Date: 6 November 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Professor Sir Doug Turnbull (Professor of Neurology, Newcastle University )
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Andrew Wilkie (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Zika virus interactions with host cells and tropism
Date: 13 November 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Dr Alain Kohl (MRC Programme Leader, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Dr Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Human Immunology Unit, WIMM, University of Oxford )

Monday 4 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Synthetic genetics: beyond DNA and RNA
Date: 4 December 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Professor Philipp Holliger
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Bryan Adriaanse (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR AS BEEN CANCELLED
Date: 15 January 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Sebastian Amigorena (Institute Curie, Paris)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Prof Vincenzo Cerundolo (MRC Human Immunology Unit, WIMM, University of Oxford)

Friday 26 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A FRIDAY. Title: Morphogenesis: from whole organism integration to biophysical principles
Date: 26 January 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Professor Maria Leptin (EMBO Director)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Erdinc Sezgin (University of Oxford)

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Metabolic reprogramming in innate immunity and inflammation: prospects for new therapeutics
Date: 5 February 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Luke O’Neill (Inflammation Research Group School of Biochemistry and Immunology Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Dr Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Human Immunology Unit, WIMM, University of Oxford )

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

Toasting the genome - How alcohol and endogenous aldehydes damage stem cells
Date: 19 February 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Professor KJ Patel (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Kevin Clark (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Liz Rose (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit)

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

KEAP1-NRF2 Antioxidant Response System and Sickle Cell Anemia
Date: 5 March 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Professor Masayuki Yamamoto (Department of Medical Biochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Kevin Clark (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Liz Rose (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Roger Patient (University of Oxford, MRC, Weathrall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

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

Airway epithelia under attack: influenza, interferons and pollutants
Date: 12 March 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 9th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Kevin Clark (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Liz Rose (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Irene Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

JAK/STAT signalling, stem cell subversion
Date: 26 November 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Professaor Tony Green (Director, Wellcome Trust/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Linda Roberts (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Irene Roberts (University of Oxford)