Seminar

15:00 - “Supercooled water and amorphous states”
The IBM-Oxford Forum We are pleased to announce a new seminar series called the IBM-Oxford Forum. The series will provide a platform for senior scientists from IBM Research to engage with the University through stimulating seminars on their latest cutting-edge research. IBM and Oxford have a long history of scientific collaboration over many years and across multiple disciplines. This new forum will help consolidate many of the existing interactions as well as sparking new collaborative opportunities. Seminars will run termly and will be hosted by different departments across Oxford’s research centres promoting interdisciplinary research. The scheme is being run by the MSD Business Development and Partnering Teams and if you would like to find out more about the scheme please contact oliver.voss@medsci.ox.ac.uk.
Dr. Fausto Martelli (IBM Research UK)

15:00 - "Preprints: communication at the speed of science"
Dr. Richard Sever (Assistant Director of CSHL Press and Co-Founder of the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv)

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

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)

16:00 - Regulation of openings and closings of the Ryanodine Receptor ion channel by cytosolic Ca2+
Professor Dirk Gillespie (Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago)

10:00 - “Modelling Ion Permeation in the Glycine Receptor: Structure/Function & Permeation Pathways”
Dr. Marco Cecchini (Principal Investigator, Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Fonctions Moléculaires, Strasbourg)

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

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)

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

15:00 - Structural studies of human telomerase complexes by cryo-EM
Dr. Yibo Jin (Daniela Rhodes Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

14:00 - "Designing proteins to do new things: inside and outside of cells"
Professor Lynne Regan (Chair in Interdisciplinary Science, Centre for Synthetic & Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh)

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)