Events this person is organising:

Monday 22 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - "Exploring mammalian X-chromosome structure and function during differentiation and in disease"
  Professor Edith Heard, FRS (Professor College de France; Chair of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory. College de France and Director, Genetics and Developmental Biology Department, Institut Curie)

Friday 31 July 2015 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Sarah Shammas (Senior Research Associate, Chemistry Department, Cambridge University)
  General Talks

Monday 21 September 2015 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - 'How rotation is generated in the catalytic and membrane domains of F-TPases'
  Professor Sir John Walker, FRS, FMedSci (MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 5 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - 'Proteome-wide profiling of protein assemblies by cross-linking mass spectrometry'
  Professor Dr. Albert Heck (Professor of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Utrecht University)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 12 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - 'Looking at proteins in live cells with atomic resolution: from Science Fiction to Science Reality'
  Dr. Phil Selenko (Group Leader, In-cell NMR Spectroscopy, Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - 'The structure and organization of photosynthetic membranes and the prospects for engineering new capabilities for utilizing solar energy'
  Followed by a Champagne Reception on the Lower Ground Floor, Biochemistry
  Professor Neil Hunter, FRS (Krebs Chair in Biochemistry, University of Sheffield)
  Joel Mandelstam Lecture

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

Monday 25 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - O-GlcNAc signalling in development and disease
  Professor Daan van Aalten, FRSE (Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Division of Molecular Microbiology, University of Dundee)
  Biochemistry Department 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

Tuesday 5 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Proteomics technologies and their application in biomedical research
  Prof. Dr. Matthias Mann (Director Dept. Proteomics and Signal Transduction, MPI, Germany)
  Biochemistry Department 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 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mechanics of the mitotic chromosome surface
  Dr. Daniel Wolfram Gerlich (Senior Research Group Leader, IMBA, Austria)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Friday 19 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Mechanism of molecular motors in mitotic spindle formation and positioning
  Dr. Julie Welburn (Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh)
  Special Seminar
• 11:05 - Chemical physiology of protein conjugates and natural products
  Dr. Gonçalo Bernardes (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)
  Special Seminar
• 11:40 - Adhesion GPCRs: from complex structures to cellular functions
  Dr. Elena Seiradake (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Special 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
• 10:20 - 'Mechanical Forces Induce Mitochondrial Fission'
  Professor Benoit Kornmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  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

Monday 4 September 2017 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Meis2 activation by Kdm2b-containing complexes
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (Group Leader, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan)
  Seminar

Saturday 16 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - The blurred boundary between coding and non-coding RNA
  Dr. Julie Aspden (Queen's 1998) (Group Leader, University of Leeds)
  Special Seminar

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

• 11:00 - 'Membrane binding, druggability and self-assembly of K-Ras'
  Dr. Alemayehu Gorfe (Associate Professor, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Texas)
  Seminar

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

• 13:00 - Antisense transcription and epigenetic switching: lessons from FLC
  Professor Dame Caroline Dean (Project Leader, John Innes Centre, Norwich)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

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

• 17:00 - Evolutionary dynamics in the fungal symmetry breaking network
  Please note change of time: now at 5pm
  Dr. Liedewij Laan (Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Structure and Assembly of an antibacterial speargun: the Type VI secretion system
  Dr. Eric Cascales (Laboratoire d'Ingenierie des Systemes Macromoleculaires, IBSM, CNRS, France)
  Joel Mandelstam Lecture

Monday 11 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - 'Using genome-wide protein tagging to uncover new flagellum biology: Proximal/distal flagellum structure asymmetry controls swimming behaviours in eukaryotic parasites'
  Dr. Richard J. Wheeler (Sir Henry Wellcome Post-doctoral Fellow, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden)
  Special Seminar

Monday 22 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Lights, Camera, Action! Antimalarial drug discovery using a microscope
  Professor Jake Baum (Professor of Cell Biology and Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - 'Inhibition and activation of Parkin, an enzyme mutated in Parkinson's Disease'
  Professor Helen Walden (Professor of Structural Biology (Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology), University of Glasgow)
  Seminar

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Development of Broadly-Neutralising Vaccines against the Blood-Stage Human Malaria Parasite
  Dr. Simon Draper (Blood-Stage Malaria Group, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
  Seminar

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

• 09:00 - Organelle contact sites: what are they, what are they good for, and how can they be bad
  Professor Benoit Kornmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  Special Seminar
• 09:35 - 3D Chromatin Conformation during early Embryonic Development
  Dr. Juanma Vaquerizas (MPI for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany)
  Special Seminar
• 10:10 - Defining Centriole Function in Centrosome and Cilium Biogenesis
  Dr. Alexander Dammermann (Max F Perutz Laboratories, Austria)
  Special Seminar
• 11:00 - Bifidobacterium: a Key Early Life Microbiota Member
  Dr. Lindsay Hall (Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich)
  Special Seminar
• 11:35 - Plant Cysteine Oxidases: Novel Targets for Future Food Security?
  Dr. Emily Flashman (Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford)
  Special Seminar

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

• 13:00 - Single cell Hi-C and single molecule imaging to study nuclear architecture
  Professor Ernest Laue (Professor of Structural Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 14 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - 'Enhancers as regulatory hubs in mammalian embryogenesis and human congenital disease'
  Dr. Alvaro Rada-Iglesias (Centre for Molecular Medicine, Cologne)
  Seminar

Monday 9 April 2018 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - 'Cell-cell interactions in microbial communities: from model systems to the microbiome'
  Professor Kevin Foster (Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Zoology, Oxford)
  Special Seminar

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

• 10:30 - ‘Probing Chaperone-assisted peptide exchange dynamics of Major Histocompatibility Complex molecules by NMR’
  Dr. Nikolaos Sgourakis (University of California, US)
  Special Seminar
• 11:05 - ‘A Phylogenetic Profiling Approach To Identifying Novel Ciliogenesis Genes’
  Professor Alexander Dammermann (University of Vienna, Austria)
  Special Seminar
• 15:00 - ‘TIE proteins: the chemical harpoons of Gram-positive bacteria’
  Dr. Ulrich Schwarz-Linek (University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews)
  Special Seminar
• 15:50 - ‘Cell shape formation controlled by cytoskeleton’
  Dr. Naoko Mizuno (MPI Fur Biochemie, Germany)
  Special Seminar
• 16:25 - ‘Biogenesis of the Bacterial Cell Envelope’
  Dr Phillip Stansfeld (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
  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 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - 'The remote control of gene expression'
  Professor Wendy Bickmore, FRS, FMedSci (Director: MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, University of Edinburgh)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - 'Emergent properties of liquid-like membraneless organelles’
  Dr. Tim Nott (Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Seminar

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - 'Chromosome morphogenesis in interphase and mitosis'
  Dr. Benjamin Rowland (Group Leader, Netherlands Cancer Institute)
  Seminar
• 16:00 - Mechanism of ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD)
  Professor Tom Rapoport (Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Cellular responses to DNA damage: translating molecular insights towards new cancer therapies
  Professor Steve Jackson, PhD, FRS, FMedSci (Frederick James Quick Professor of Biology, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

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

• 11:00 - Microbial NLP cytolysins employ plant sphingolipids for initial membrane interactions in the cytolytic process
  Professor Gregor Anderluh (Director of the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)
  Seminar
• 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

Monday 9 July 2018 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - 'Role of H3K27me3-mediated genomic imprinting in development and somatic cell nuclear transfer reprogramming'
  Professor Yi Zhang (Fred Rosen Professor, Dept. of Genetics and Dept. of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.)
  Seminar

Wednesday 26 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Centrosomes: ubiquitious organelles with tissue-specific functions?
  Dr. Fanni Gergely (Senior Group Leader, CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Friday 28 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Variant PRC1 in transcriptional phase transition"
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (Team Leader, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan)
  Seminar

Thursday 4 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Imaging spatiotemporal regulation of immune signalling at the plasma membrane"
  Dr. Erdinc Sezgin (Postdoctoral Scientist, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - ‘The Type VII secretion system in the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus’
  Professor Tracy Palmer, FRS (Professor of Microbiology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University)
  Joel Mandelstam Lecture

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 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance’
  Professor Anja Groth (Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen)
  Seminar

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - “Functional chromatin organisation in mammalian cells - lessons from 3D super-resolution microscopy"
  Dr. Lothar Schermelleh (Micron Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford)
  Seminar

Monday 15 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - “variant PCGF1-PRC1 in cellular differentiation”
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (Team Leader, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan)
  Seminar

Tuesday 10 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Keeping the genome in shape: advancing single-molecule approaches for genome biology
  Dr. Graeme King (Lecturer in Single-Molecule Biophysics, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL)
  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)

• 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
• 11:25 - "Viral manipulation of information transfer in biology: structural and functional insights"
  Dr. Chris Hill (Queen's College, Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - 'Epigenetics meets mathematics: The fusion of experiment and theory brings insights beyond intuition'
  Professor Leonie Ringrose (IRI for Lifesciences, Humboldt University, Berlin)
  Seminar

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - “New insights into altered epigenetic repression and topology: studies of chromatin remodeling in cancer”
  Dr. Benjamin Stanton (Assistant Professor, St. Baldrick's Foundation Scholar, Center for Childhood Cancer & Blood Diseases, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, the Ohio State University College of Medicine, US)
  Seminar

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

• 14:00 - "PRC2 Complexes in Development and Disease”
  Dr. Adrian Bracken (Associate Professor in Medical Molecular Genetics, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin)
  Seminar

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - "Replication and Repair: the faces of BRCA1"
  Professor Jo Morris PhD BSc (Professor of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham)
  Biochemistry Department 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 12 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - "Understanding and targeting oncogenic chromatin biology in childhood cancers"
  Dr. Gerry Brien (Irish Cancer Society Biomedical Research Fellow in Chromatin Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin)
  Seminar

Monday 16 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - 'Bottom-up assembly of bioenergetic modules in small and giant vesicles - challenges and strategies!'
  Professor Christoph von Ballmoos (University of Berne)
  Seminar

Thursday 7 July 2022 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 'Viral histones reveal the structural diversity and evolution of the nucleosome'
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr. Nicholas Irwin (Junior Research Fellow, Richards Lab, Dept. of Zoology)
  Seminar

Friday 15 July 2022 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - 'Deciphering gene expression regulation in health and disease using integrative omics approaches'
  Professor Michiel Vermeulen (Radboud University, Netherlands)
  Seminar
• 13:00 - Designing and evolving genetically-encoded fluorescent biosensors for live cell imaging
  To take place via Zoom https://medsci.zoom.us/j/99386807796?pwd=VlRaVkI5c1FoanFs WkQ4ZEhnMG14QT09 Meeting ID: 993 8680 7796 Passcode: 212627
  Professor Robert Campbell (University of Tokyo)
  Seminar

Thursday 15 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - “The role for variant PRC1 during transcriptional phase transition”.
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (M.D., Ph.D) (Riken Center for Integtrative Medical Sciences, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, Japan)
  Seminar

Friday 16 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 'The end of the message: Mechanistic insight into the mRNA polyA tail machinery'
  Dr. Lori Passmore (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Louise Johnson Memorial Lecture

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

• 13:00 - Of yeast and Man: Kinetochore Structures and Function
  Stanislau Yatskevich (LMB, Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 13 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - "Genome organization and long noncoding RNAs control the timing of Hox gene transcription during development"
  Dr. Philippe J. Batut (Levine Lab, Princeton)
  Special Seminar

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

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 'Molecular Memories in Worms'
  Dr. Oded Rechavi (Dept. of Neurobiology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
  Seminar

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - ATM- and Cohesin-dependent phosphorylation of PHC2 facilitates DNA damage responses
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (M.D., Ph.D) (Riken Center for Integtrative Medical Sciences, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, Japan)
  Seminar
• 15:30 - 'Long-read sequencing methods for studying genome organization, evolution, and function'
  Dr. Nicolas Altemose (HHMI Hannah H. Gray Fellow and Assistant Professor of Genetics, Stanford University)
  Seminar

Wednesday 13 September 2023 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Chromatin organization and behavior in living human cells revealed by single-nucleosome imaging
  Dr. Kazuhiro Maeshima (Genome Dynamics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan)
  Seminar

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 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - 'Publishing your work: an editor's perspective'
  Dr. Rebecca Eccles (Scientific Editor, Molecular Cell)
  Seminar

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - 'The origins of animal gene regulation: Insights from our closest relatives'
  Dr. James Gahan (Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Klose Lab; Visiting Researcher - Burkhardt Lab, Sars Centre, UIB, Norway)
  Seminar

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - 'Epigenetics of sex differences: Lessons from mosquitos'
  Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi (Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), Germany)
  Seminar

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - "Principles for molecular recognition of the nucleosome by chromatin enzymes and factors"
  Dr. Song Tan (Verne M. Willaman Professor of Molecular Biology, Director - Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, Penn State University)
  Seminar

Wednesday 6 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - 'Epigenetic memory through dormancy’
  Dr. Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu (Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin)
  Seminar

Wednesday 28 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - 'Fundamental principles during the egg-to-embryo transition '
  Dr. Andrea Pauli, Senior Group Leader, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
  Seminar

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

Monday 22 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - "Controlling Aurora-A kinase functions in mitosis and cancer"
  Professor Richard Bayliss (Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - 'Targeting DNA methyltransferases to chromatin: a tale of two N- terminal regions’
  Dr. Marcus Wilson (Henry Dale Fellow / Academic Lead cryo-EM Facility, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh)
  Biochemistry Department 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