Strubi seminars - Oxford Talks

Strubi seminars

Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Agata Krupa (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics)
Organising department: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

Friday 10 April 2015 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Model lipid systems and biophysical approaches for studying protein-membrane interactions
Dr Gregor Anderluh (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)

Friday 8 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - A life in pieces: fragments for drug discovery and chemical biology
Professor Rod Hubbard (University of York)

Friday 12 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Cryomicroscopy of cellular and viral architecture
Prof Peter Rosenthal (The Francis Crick Institute )

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

Friday 10 July 2015 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - "Structures and Mechanisms of RNA Polymerase Inhibition by Sigma54"
Prof Xiaodong Zhang (Imperial College London )

Friday 11 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

10:00 - Using Kinematics and modeling to decipher how Toxoplasma parasites apply force to invade host cells
Dr Isabelle Tardieux ( Institut Cochin, Paris Descartes University)

Friday 9 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Assembly and regulation of the DNA damage checkpoint
Prof Laurence Pearl (University of Sussex)

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Recent advances in Cryo-EM structure determination
Dr Sjors Scheres (MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, Cambridge )

Wednesday 9 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

10:30 - Zooming in on cellular and molecular structures with correlative light and electron microscopy
Prof Bram Koster (Leiden University Medical Center)

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - "Machinery of drug transport in Escherichia coli and related bacteria"
Prof Ben Luisi (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

Friday 11 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Rare events and increasing opportunities: Towards combatting amyloid disease
Prof Sheena Radford (Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds)

Friday 8 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Membrane pore-forming proteins in the arms race between host and pathogen
Helen Saibil (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Friday 6 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

13:30 - Surface dynamics of ion channels
Dr. Martin Heine (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology)

Wednesday 8 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

12:00 - Proteus mirabilis copper resistance protein is a shape-shifting redox foldase
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Prof Jennifer Martin (The University of Queensland in Australia)

Friday 12 August 2016 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Structural insights into primary microRNA processing
Dr Jae-Sung Woo (Seoul National University )

Wednesday 31 August 2016 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Visualizing fast 3D dynamics of biological samples using light-sheet microscopy
Prof Pablo Loza (Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain)

Friday 9 September 2016 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

15:00 - Mechanisms of Cortical Development: Migration, Circuit Formation and Synaptic Plasticity
Prof Mary E Hatten (The Rockefeller University )

Friday 16 September 2016 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Structures of Dengue and Zika viruses
Prof Shee-Mei Lok (Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore)

Tuesday 10 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Beauty and Benefits of cryo-EM; our new endeavors in vitrification of proteins and cells
Prof Peter Peters (Maastricht University)

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

13:30 - Integrative 3D imaging: From coral reefs to single cells
Prof Emmanuel Reynaud (UCD Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Dublin, Ireland)

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Protein structure determination to atomic accuracy from cryoEM density using Rosetta
Prof Frank Dimaio (University of Washington)

Friday 31 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

14:15 - "INSIGHTS INTO LIGAND RECOGNITION AND DESENSITIZATION FROM THE X-RAY STRUCTURE OF A NICOTINIC RECEPTOR"
Asst. Prof Ryan Hibbs (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - Structure-assisted Design of Universal Vaccines and Therapeutics against Influenza Virus
Dr Ian Wilson (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

10:30 - Democratising live-cell high-speed super-resolution microscopy
Dr Ricardo Henriques (UCL)

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Finding new effectors of the bacterial cell cycle by X-ray crystallography
Prof Rick Lewis (Newcastle University)

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

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - "Intranuclear Movement of Viruses through the Chromatin Network"
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MAIJA VIHINEN-RANTA (University of Jyväskylä in Finland)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - "An RNA-encoded virus assembly manual: mechanisms and consequences for viral evolution and therapy"
Prof Reidun Twarock (University of York)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - "Structure and assembly in the order Picornavirales"
Dr Shabih Shakeel (MRC LMB in Cambridge)

Thursday 28 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - "Structural insights into Potato Virus Y - a bad guy and a good guy"
Assist. Prof Marjetka Podobnik (Department of Molecular Biology and Nanobiotechnology, National Institut of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Wednesday 19 September 2018 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

10:30 - AURKA KINASE ACTIVITY FRET BIOSENSOR: HCS-FLIM FOR DRUG SCREENING AND OTHER REFINEMENTS
Dr Marc Tramier (Institute of Genetics & Development Rennes, France)

Friday 21 September 2018 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - "Catch me if you can: understanding innate immune evasion by HIV and how to drug it"
Professor Greg Towers (University College London )

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Determining the energy dependence of radiation damage in electron cryo-microscopy of biological specimens
Dr Christopher Russo (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK)

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Probing the mechanism of the SAMHD1 HIV-1 restriction factor
Dr Ian Taylor (The Francis Crick Institute)

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - "Cell shape formation controlled by cytoskeleton"
Dr Naoko Mizuno (Max Planck Institue of Biochemistry)

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - "CHEMICAL-GENETIC HYBRID BIOSENSORS FOR FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY"
Dr Alison G. Tebo (Department of Chemistry, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)

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

11:00 - THE STRUCTURAL BASIS FOR RELEASE FACTOR ACTIVATION DURING TRANSLATION TERMINATION REVEALED BY TIME-RESOLVED CRYOGENIC ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Dr Ziao Fu (Columbia University of New York)

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - "From Fragments to Pharmaceuticals"
Dr Harren Jhoti (Astex Therapeutics Ltd)

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - “Challenges and Opportunities for Automated Cryo Electron Microscopy”
Adj Prof Bridget Carragher (EM Co-Director at New York Structural Biology Center, Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center)

Friday 5 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - "Mechanistic and structural insights into protein complexes that regulate DNA repair and mRNA stability"
Dr Lori Passmore (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge)

Wednesday 10 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 4 October 2019 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - From the structure of vertebrate and invertebrate rhodopsins to new applications in optogenetics
Prof Gebhard F.X. Schertler (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Dr Ilaria Ferlenghi "An Integrated structural and digital approach for vaccine identification and pathogenesis insight"
TBA

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - "Erythrocyte membrane remodelling and destruction by malaria parasites"
Helen Saibil (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - "Cryo-EM structure of a poly(A) RNP bound to the Pan2-Pan3 deadenylase"
Dr Ingmar B Schäfer (Department of Structural Cell Biology, MPI of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany)

Wednesday 15 January 2020 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - "Peptides and protons: How pH gradients link transport and trafficking in the cell."
Professor Simon Newstead (University of Oxford,)

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - “Structure-guided steps towards a rational malaria vaccine'"
Prof Matthew Higgins (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - "Membrane Protein Interactions with Lipids as Viewed by Molecular Simulations"
Prof Mark Sansom (University of Oxford)

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Editor: Agata Krupa

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