WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Please see the upcoming WIMM Monday Seminars.

For each seminar you are welcome to attend online (via Teams), or in-person, in the WIMM Seminar Room.

To attend online, please see the respective emails containing a Teams’ link (no registration required).
To attend in-person, please email seminar.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk to register your place (this is only necessary for Dr Martincorena and Dr Vinuesa’s talks).

Meetings with the Speakers are possible in most cases, but will occur on an invitation/ first-come, first-served basis. Please see the respective Seminar emails, or email seminar.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for more information.

Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Karen Brown (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Organising department: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

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

Monday 9 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Control of stem cell fate in mammalian epidermis
Fiona Watt (Kings College, London)

Monday 16 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Chemotaxis using self-generated gradients - planning your own route works better than waiting for a signal
Prof Robert Insall (CR-UK Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow)

Monday 23 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Signalling, cell biology, and rhomboids
Prof Matthew Freeman (Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 6 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Regulation of lymphocyte development by RNA binding proteins
Martin Turner (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

Monday 13 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Meiosis, recombination, and the origin of a species
Peter Donnelly

Monday 20 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Title TBC
Martin Pule (Cancer Institute, UCL)

Monday 27 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Inflammasomes dysbiosis and human disease
Richard Flavell (Yale University School of Medicine)

Monday 4 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Chromosome DNA strand break repair and genetic disease
Keith Caldecott (Deputy Director, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex )

Monday 11 July 2016 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Genome structure, gene expression and phenotypes
Alex Reymond (Director, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Monday 3 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Molecular Instruments
Professor Niles Pierce (California Institute of Technology)

Monday 10 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Regulation of distinct states of stem cells during development and regeneration
Shahragim Tajbakhsh (Institut Pasteur, Paris)

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

13:00 - En route to mending broken hearts
Paul Riley (Dept of Physiology, Oxford)

Monday 31 October 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Delivering precision medicine: are we ready yet?
Richard Marais (Cancer Research UK, Manchester Institute)

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Light on the dark side of the genome - lessons from T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Marc Mansour (UCL)

Monday 14 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Characterising genetic causes of bone marrow failure
Tom Vulliamy (Queen Mary University of London)

Monday 21 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Control of B cell immunity and leukaemia by the transcription factor Pax5
Meinrad Busslinger (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna)

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

13:00 - 3D Chromatin Folding Determines Pathogenicity of Structural Variations
Stefan Mundlos (Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin )

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

13:00 - Transcriptional programmes of leukaemic fusion genes: from “omcis” to drugs
Olaf Heidenreich (Newcastle University)

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)

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

13:00 - The challenge of translating new therapies to patients for Parkinson's Disease
Roger Barker (University of Cambridge)

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)

Monday 27 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Chromosome 21: its critical role in childhood leukaemia (other than Down Syndrome)
Christine Harrison (Newcastle University)

Monday 13 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Identification of a novel DNA replication protein mutated in microcephalic primordial dwarfism
Professor Grant Steward (University of Birmingham)

Monday 24 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - The A to Zika of Guillain-Barre syndrome
Hugh Willison (University of Glasgow)

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

13:00 - Regenerative medicine by somatic stem cells: the paradigm of epithelial stem cells
Michele De Luca (University of Modena and Teggio Emilia, Italy)

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

13:00 - Stem cell niches in bone marrow
Sean Morrison (Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, Dallas, USA)

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

13:00 - Transcriptional and epigenetic control of inflammatory gene expression
Gioacchino Natoli ( Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan)

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

16:00 - Targeting DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy
NB: this meeting will take place on a Wednesday instead of a Monday
Alan D'Andrea (Harvard Medical School, Dana-Barber Cancer Institute, Boston)

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

13:00 - The role of miRNA haploinsufficiency in MDS pathogenesis
Dr Aly Karan (BC Cancer Agency – Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver)

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

13:00 - Regulation of Inflammation by non-coding RNAs and nucleic acid binding proteins
Please note this is a Litchfield Lecture
Professor Kate Fitzgerald (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)

Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - How efficient is modern medicine
Professor Peter Rothwell (Action Research Chair of Neurology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital)

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Laboratory of Angiogenesis and Vascular Metabolism,Vesalius Research Center, Leuven
Professor Peter Carmeliet (Laboratory of Angiogenesis and Vascular Metabolism, (former) Vesalius Research Center, now VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology)

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

13:00 - Does evasion of innate sensing explain pandemic potential of primate lentiviruses in humans
Professor Greg Towers (Infection and Immunity, University College London)

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

13:00 - The first ten hours in the life of the frog
Sir Jim Smith (Director of Science, Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London)

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

13:00 - Mitochondrial DNA disease: challenges and solutions
Professor Sir Doug Turnbull (Professor of Neurology, Newcastle University )

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

13:00 - Zika virus interactions with host cells and tropism
Dr Alain Kohl (MRC Programme Leader, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research)

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

13:00 - Synthetic genetics: beyond DNA and RNA
Professor Philipp Holliger

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

13:00 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR AS BEEN CANCELLED
Sebastian Amigorena (Institute Curie, Paris)

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

13:00 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A FRIDAY. Title: Morphogenesis: from whole organism integration to biophysical principles
PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A FRIDAY
Professor Maria Leptin (EMBO Director)

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

13:00 - Metabolic reprogramming in innate immunity and inflammation: prospects for new therapeutics
Luke O’Neill (Inflammation Research Group School of Biochemistry and Immunology Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute Trinity College Dublin)

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)

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)

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)

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Fine Tuning the CTL response: from genes to membranes
Prof Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Novel mechanisms of tumour-stroma crosstalk
Prof Erik Sahai (Crick Institute)

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Origins, Evolution and treatment of childhood leukaemia
Professor Tariq Enver (Stem Cell Laboratory, University College London Cancer Institute)

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

13:00 - Exploring non-coding variants at two loci associated with developmental abnormalities of the macula
Prof Veronica van Heyningen (UCL)

Monday 18 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - New Levels of complexity in Arp2/3 driven actin polymerisation
Dr Michael Way (The Crick Institute, London)

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

13:00 - Interpreting the CpG island signal
Prof Rob Klose (University of Oxford)

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - RAS, from cancer to development (and back)
Prof Hélène Cavé (Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie, Hôpital Robert Debré )

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Salmonella persisters during infection
Dr Sophie Helaine (Imperial College, London)

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - The Genomic Epidemiology of Emerging Viruses: Disease X, Yellow Fever, and Zika
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Prof Oliver Pybus (Zoology Department, University of Oxford)

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Molecular mechanisms to cope with endoplasmic reticulum stress
Prof David Ron (CIMR, University of Cambridge)

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - The Role of Protein Complexes in Human Genetic Disease
Dr Joe Marsh (University of Edinburgh)

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

13:00 - JAK/STAT signalling, stem cell subversion
Professaor Tony Green (Director, Wellcome Trust/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

Monday 3 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Detoxifying and improving doxorubicin for different and better anti-cancer treatment
Prof Jacques Neefjes (LUMC, Leiden NL)

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Reconstructing the immune system using single cell RNA sequencing
Prof Muzlifah Haniffa (Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Chromosome Replication: From Mechanism to Misregulation in Cancer
Prof John Diffley (The Francis Crick Institute)

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Sex chromosome functions in development and disease
Status: This talk has been cancelled
TBA

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Utilising the totality of mutagenesis for clinical purposes
Dr Serena Nik-Zainal (Sanger Institute, Cambridge)

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Cellular plasticity, cellular heterogeneity and single cell sequencing
Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

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

09:15 - Regulation of endogenous retroviruses
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Prof Akiko Iwasaki (Yale University School of Medicine)

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Neurodegeneration: mechanism to medicines
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Prof Giovanna Mallucci (University of Cambridge)

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

13:00 - A genetic and structural basis for immune variation and the implications for vaccination
Prof Adrian Hayday (King's College London)

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Engineering genomes, karyotypes and the dark matter of the human genome
Dr Jef Boeke (NYU Langone Medical Center)

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Changing Neighbours: bone marrow remodeling during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders
Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge)

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - How human cells defend their cytosol against bacterial invasion
Dr Felix Randow (University of Cambridge)

Monday 24 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Cytokine interference in immunity to infection with a focus on tuberculosis
Prof Anne O'Garra (The Francis Crick Institute)

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Human immune systems are shaped by environmental exposures early in Life
Assoc Prof Petter Brodin (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - C1q in health and disease – roles outside the complement system
Prof Marina Botto (Imperial College, London)

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

13:00 - Phase separation and formation of condensates in physiology and disease
Tony Hyman (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden)

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Applying chemistry in regenerative medicine: from small molecule discovery to mechanism elucidation
Prof Angela Russell (OxSTEM )

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Using single cell RNA sequencing to investigate mechanisms of liver fibrosis and regeneration
Prof Neil Henderson (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Using genetic association to understand human biology
Professor Gil McVean (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - The “dark side” of the genome: how histone H3K9 methylation stabilizes repeats
Prof Susan Gasser (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)

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

12:00 - Precision and Plasticity in Animal Transcription
Assoc Prof Angela DePace (Blavatnic Institute, Harvard Medical School)

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

13:00 - New Targeted Therapeutics to Enhance the Radiation Response of Tumours
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Amato Giaccia (University of Oxford)

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Reverse engineering of the global Neural Crest Gene Regulatory Network in vivo
Professor Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Progressive irreversible DNA methylation programming facilitates identification of lineage restriction points in hematopoisis
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Michael Milsom (German Cancer Research Centre)

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Deciphering T cell evolution in lung cancer
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Sergio Quezada (University College London)

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - New Targeted Therapeutics to Enhance the Radiation Response of Tumours
Professor Amato Giaccia (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease
Prof Patrick Chinnery (University of Cambridge)

Monday 16 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Quorum sensing and competition in African trypanosomes
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Prof Keith Matthews (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 27 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Deconstructing Down Syndrome
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Prof Victor Tybulewicz (The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Monday 4 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Mechanistic insights into cellular reprogramming by transcription factors
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Abdenour Soufi (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 11 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Spinal Muscular Atrophy : How a lethal genetic disease of children is slowly disappearing (in Southern Belgium and North Westphalia)
ZOOM Only available to Oxford University email addresses
Prof Laurent Servais (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Improved genetic understanding of rare and common immune mediated diseases through information-borrowing and informed dimension reduction
Zoom - Only available to Oxford University email addresses
Dr Chris Wallace (University of Cambridge)

Monday 1 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - From basic bone physiology to breast cancer prevention
Litchfield Lecture without Title
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Prof Joseph Penninger (Professor of Genetics, University of Vienna)

Monday 8 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Prof Stefan Constantinescu (Ludwig Cancer Research Brussels)

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Cyclin B1 and the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint: a 15 year odyssey
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Prof Jon Pines (ICR, Chester Beatty Labs, London)

Monday 12 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Identification of points of lineage commitment in hematopoiesis using DNA methylome analysis
Zoom
Dr Michael Milsom (German Cancer Research Centre)

Monday 2 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Quorum sensing and competition in African trypanosomes
Zoom
Dr Keith Matthews (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 9 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Human aldehyde accumulation – from DNA damage to anorexia
Zoom
Prof KJ Patel (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Mechanisms to medicines in neurodegeneration
Zoom
Prof Giovanna Mallucci (University of Cambridge)

Monday 18 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Postponed
Dr James Davies

Monday 1 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Human type I interferonopathies
Prof Yanick Crow (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Alterations to genome structure and function in human developmental disorders
Michael Talkowski (Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Harvard Medical School)

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

15:30 - Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 after COVID-19
Prof Shane Crotty (La Jolla Institute for Immunology, California, USA)

Monday 1 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - POSTPONED
Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Monday 8 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - RANKL-bone loss, breast cancer and pregnancy (VIA ZOOM)
Prof Josef Penninger (Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Canada)

Monday 26 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Charting normal and malignant differentiation topologies with single-cell multi-omics
Dr Dan Landau (New York Genome Center)

Monday 10 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Misregulation of Polycomb Repressive Complexes in Gliomas
Prof Peter Lewis (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

15:00 - Telomeres and cancer: tumor suppression and genome instability
Prof Titia De Lange (Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University)

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

13:00 - Time to reflect: sex, clocks and age
Prof Garret FitzGerald (University of Pennsylvania)

Monday 14 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Adapative and maladaptive immunity to the microbiota
Professor Yasmine Belkaid (The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Monday 21 June 2021 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Role of intraepithelial lymphocytes in colon cancer
Prof Daniel Mucida (The Rockefeller University)

Monday 11 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Ex vivo haematopoietic stem cell expansion technologies
Adam Wilkinson (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Massively Multiplexed Analysis of Immunobiology
Asssistant Professor Sean Bendall (Stanford University)

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Chromosome and chromatin dynamics at DNA double strand breaks
Gaelle Legube (University of Toulouse)

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Defining genome architecture at base pair resolution
Dr James Davies (Prof Doug Higgs' Group, Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Chromatin-based modulations underlying gene regulation and pathogenesis
Prof Greg Wang (University of North Carolina)

Monday 6 December 2021 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - The biology of human appetite and weight regulation
Sadaf Farooqi (University of Cambridge)

Monday 13 December 2021 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Transcriptional deregulation in multiple myeloma
Anastasios Karadimitris (Imperial College)

Monday 17 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Regulatory T Cells as Purveyors of Immune Tolerance
Alexander Rudensky (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Integrated analysis and reference mapping of single-cell multimodal data
Yuhan Hao (New York University)

Monday 31 January 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Hematopoietic stem cells in stress, disease and aging
Dr Emmanuelle Passegue (Columbia University, New York)

Monday 7 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Disordered regions in transcription factors: a role in directing genomic binding
Professor Naama Barkai (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Monday 14 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Mechanistic insights into controlling cell identity by OCT4
Dr Abdenour Soufi (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Repairing DNA double-strand breaks - mechanisms governing programmed and unscheduled genome diversification
Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Monday 25 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Somatic mutations and clonal expansions in normal tissues
Dr Inigo Martincorena (Wellcome Sanger Institute)

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - DNA repair through the lens of mouse genetics – from NHEJ to PARP
This is a hybrid event with the Speaker on Teams.
Professor Shan Zha (Columbia University)

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

13:00 - Insights into human autoimmune disease pathogenesis
University colleagues not from the WIMM may join via this Teams Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MGRlZDY1NjAtNjA4OS00ZTc5LWI4YTEtNGVmYzA0NGYyMDgy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d4d96453-6bcc-4308-8ddf-1e3e7e04fbed%22%7d
Professor Carola Vinuesa FRS (The Francis Crick Institute)

Monday 23 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

15:00 - Scientific and Clinical Development of Malaria Monoclonal Antibodies for Prevention
This is a hybrid event with the Speaker on Teams. Please note the timing difference to other WIMM Monday Seminars.
Dr Robert Seder (Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH)

Monday 30 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - CryoEM imaging of virus infection in cells
Professor Peijun Zhang (University of Oxford)

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Using structural biology to target synthetic lethal targets for new cancer therapeutics
Dr Joseph Newman (Centre for Medicines Discovery)

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms controlling hematopoietic precursor entry into the T-cell program
Professor Ellen V. Rothenberg (California Institute of Technology)

Monday 22 August 2022 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

12:00 - Chromatin regulators in cancer : molecular medicines and therapeutic opportunities
This is a hybrid event with the Speaker on Teams.
Professor Mark Dawson (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre)

Monday 10 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Using whole genome sequencing in sporadic immunodeficiency to understand common disease: TRAF3 and beyond
This is a hybrid event.- with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Ken Smith (Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge)

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Single-cell Signalling Analysis of Tumour Microenvironment Organoids
This is a hybrid event.- with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Chris Tape (University College London, Cancer Institute)

Monday 24 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Chromatin conformation during early embryonic development
This is a hybrid event.- with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Juan M Vaquerizas (Imperial College, London)

Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Dealing with DNA lesions during mitosis
This is a hybrid event.- with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Marcel van Vugt (University of Groningen)

Monday 14 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Gene expression during stress and DNA damage
This is a hybrid event with the Speaker on Teams.
Professor Jesper Q Svejstrup (University of Copenhagen)

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

13:00 - TBC
This is a hybrid event with the Speaker on Teams.
Dr Michael Diamond (Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis)

Monday 28 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Cancer evolution in time and space
This is a hybrid event.- with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Samra Turajlic (Cancer Dynamics Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute)

Monday 16 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Insights into epigenetic mechanisms through evolutionary analyses
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Prof Peter Sarkies (Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - SARS-CoV-2 Variants
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Ravi Gupta (University of Cambridge)

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Using complex models of colorectal cancer to study tumour initiation and progression
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Owen Sansom (Beatson Institute for Cancer Research)

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Combined single-cell and spatially-resolved approaches to dissect pathomechanisms of hematological malignancies
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Simon Haas (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany)

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Learning about inflammation from the tubercle bacillus
CANCELLED due to illness. We'll notify the mailing lists when rescheduled. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan (CITIID, University of Cambridge)

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Harnessing tumour metabolism to overcome immunosuppression
The speaker will be conducting the seminar remotely. A Teams link will be sent to relevant mailing lists.
Prof Massimiliano Mazzone (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology)

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Understanding and managing acquired leukocyte dysfunction in critical illness
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor John Simpson (Director of the NIHR-Newcastle In Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative)

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