• Type: Seminar Series

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 13:00 - Visualisation of Human Telomeric Complexes using Cryo-electron Microscopy
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Kelly Nguyen (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 13:00 - From Early Blood Development to Quantitative Tissue Models
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Bertie Gottgens (University of Cambridge)

Friday 19 May 2023

• 13:00 - Neuronal genome integrity and plasticity
  Please note that this is an Ad Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  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)

Thursday 25 May 2023

• 13:00 - Clonal and cellular dynamics of the antibody response
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gabriel D. Victora (The Rockefeller University)

Thursday 8 June 2023

• 13:00 - Progressing from genes to therapies in neurodevelopmental disorders
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 13:00 - Programmed DNA breaks drive multifaceted mutagenesis in the human germline
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Anjali Gupta Hinch (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University)

Thursday 22 June 2023

• 13:00 - Towards a quantitative understanding of somatic evolution in blood: missing drivers, ageing and other puzzles
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Jamie Blundell (Department of Oncology, Cambridge)

Monday 26 June 2023

• 13:00 - Decoding the role of solute carrier proteins in health and disease
  Please note that this is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Simon Newstead (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 June 2023

• 09:30 - Dynamic Effects of Interleukin-6 and Glucocorticoids on Cancer Host Responses
  Please note this is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Tobias Janowitz (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Thursday 29 June 2023

• 13:00 - Somatic mutations in normal tissues
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Peter Campbell (University of Cambridge, Sanger Institute)

Thursday 3 August 2023

• 12:00 - Biological roles of hematopoietic niches in the origination and development of leukemia
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Dengli Hong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine)

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 12:00 - Targeting ageing: from molecular mechanisms to clinical interventions
  CANCELLED - To be rescheduled
  Professor Lynne Cox (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 12:00 - TALK CANCELLED - Rerunning cancer evolution: a genomic pathology approach
  CANCELLED
  Dr Sarah Aitken (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 12:00 - Separate but Connected: Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Stability
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Agnel Sfeir (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA)

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 12:00 - Mendelian genetics in a post-genomic era: insights from the smallest people in the world
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Andrew Jackson (University of Edinburgh )

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 11:00 - The gut microbiome controls our health – or is it the other way around?
  Please note that this is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Klaus Kaestner (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 12:00 - Colorectal cancer in the 100,000 Genomes project
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Ian Tomlinson (NDM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 12:00 - Obstacles on genes & the Poll II ubiquitin code
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Ana Tufegdžić Vidaković (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 12:00 - Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and therapeutic applications
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Stephen P. Jackson (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 12:00 - Lighting up the central dogma to dissect how sharp developmental patterns are established
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Mounia Lagha (Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier)

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 12:00 - CryoEM achievements and potential
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Richard Henderson, FRS (Programme Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

Monday 18 March 2024

• 12:00 - Immune micro-niches shape intestinal Treg function
  Please note this is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Yisu Gu (Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 11:00 - Lysosomal Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Quiescence in Youth and With Age
  Please note this is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Saghi Ghaffari (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY)

Thursday 2 May 2024

• 12:00 - A break in mitochondrial endosymbiosis as a basis for inflammatory diseases
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Luke O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin)

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 12:00 - Extrachromosomal oncogene amplifications in cancer
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Anton Henssen (Charite Berlin)

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 12:00 - Variations in 3D genome structure between homologous chromosomes and in stimulus responses
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Ana Pombo (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin)

Monday 20 May 2024

• 12:00 - Genomic instability: tumor suppressor BRCA2 and DNA breaks
  Please note this is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Maria Jasin (Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute)

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 12:00 - Centrosome function in health and disease: a small organelle with a big reach
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Fanni Gergely (Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 12:00 - Replication fork plasticity and its emerging role during physiological and malignant haematopoiesis
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Massimo Lopes (University of Zurich)

Thursday 13 June 2024

• 12:00 - How X-linked sequence variation shapes organismal development
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Matthias Merkenschlager (Imperial College London)

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 12:00 - The remarkable intracellular dynamics of cytotoxic T lymphocytes
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 12:00 - Mutational order and stem cell plasticity in cancer evolution
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Simon Buczacki (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 13:00 - Deep screening for antibody discovery
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 13:00 - Impacts of childhood cancer treatment on testicular function and new approaches to preserve and restore fertility
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Rod Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 12:00 - Transient promoter interactions modulate developmental gene activation
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Angelika Feldmann (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ)

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 12:00 - The non-coding exome in rare disease: from diagnosis to therapies
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Nicky Whiffin (Big Data Institute)

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 12:00 - Large scale systematic identification of extracellular receptor-ligand interactions: case studies in host-pathogen interactions for vaccine design and the human immune system
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gavin Wright (University of York)

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 12:00 - Lung cancer initiation, metastases and immune evasion: 10 years of TRACERx
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Charles Swanton (The Francis Crick Institute)

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 12:00 - Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 14:00 - Far from equilibrium: supra-molecular mechanism of energy-driven genome regulation
  This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Sebastian Eustermann (EMBL)

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 12:00 - Cellular responses to DNA and RNA damage
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Julian Stingele (Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Kodi Ravichandran (Washington University School of Medicine)

Thursday 17 April 2025

• 12:00 - Insights into myeloid malignancies from human iPSC models
  This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Eirini Papapetrou (Mount Sinai, NY)