• Type: Seminar Series
• Organising department: Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 23 September 2015

• 13:00 - "Mechanisms of genome propagation studied by cryo-electrol microscopy"
  Dr. Alessandro Costa (The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Monday 30 November 2015

• 15:00 - Role of the BRCA2-DSS1 Complex in Homologous Recombination
  Professor Patrick Sung (Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University)

Monday 11 April 2016

• 15:00 - Biomolecular Interaction Analytics employing MicroScale Thermophoresis
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr. Astrid Sitte (NanoTemper Technologies GmbH)

Wednesday 27 April 2016

• 12:00 - 'Beyond methyl-transfer: sequence-specific DNA modification using DNA methyltransferases'
  TBA

Monday 9 May 2016

• 13:00 - Power stroke or thermal ratchet: the mechanism of vitamin uptake by Energy Coupling Factor transporters
  Professor Dirk Slotboom (University of Groningen, Biochemistry Department)

Wednesday 9 November 2016

• 10:00 - 11th Chemistry and Biology of Peptides Meeting
  Advanced registration required
  British Peptide Society

Friday 17 February 2017

• 13:00 - Centromere specification and kinetochore assembly in vertebrates
  Professor Tatsuo Fukagawa (Laboratory of Chromosome Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan)

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 12:00 - "Super-resolution microscopy of cellular nanopores"
  Dr. Viola Mönkemöller (Bielefeld University)

Monday 24 July 2017

• 13:00 - Seven transmembrane receptors
  Professor Robert Lefkowitz (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)

Wednesday 2 August 2017

• 14:00 - From seqence to assembly: how disordered proteins influence biological phase separation and gelation
  Dr Alex Holehouse (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington Uninversity in St. Louis)

Monday 4 September 2017

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

Friday 8 September 2017

• 11:00 - Imaging life with the engineering microscopy technologies at Janelia Research Campus
  Dr Teng-Leong Chew (Centre Director, Advanced Imaging Centre, Janelia Research Campus)

Wednesday 20 September 2017

• 15:00 - Single-molecule approaches to unravel the mechanism of SMC complexes
  Jorine Eeftens (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Department of Bionanoscience, Technical University of Delft)

Monday 2 October 2017

• 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)

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 14:00 - Reversing aberrant phase transitions of RNA-binding proteins connected to ALS and FTD
  Dr James Shorter (Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 17:00 - Oxford University Biotech Society Seminar
  Andrew McLean (Principal at Oxford Sciences Innovation)

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 11:00 - LAB282: Accelerating Oxford drug discovery
  Dr Thomas Hanke (, LAB282 Expert in Residence, and Head of Academic Liaison, Evotec AG)

Monday 6 November 2017

• 13:00 - "Predatory Bdellovibrio bacteria - evolution of predation and application of predators against AMR infections"
  Professor Liz Sockett (Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham )

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 17:00 - Oxford University Biotech Society Seminar
  Mina Bekheet (Cofounder and President, Panacea Innovation)

Friday 10 November 2017

• 11:00 - The Target Landscape of Clinical Kinase Inhibitor Drugs
  Professor Bernhard Kuster (Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics, Technical University of Munich)

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 17:00 - Oxford University Biotech Society Seminar
  Hagan Bayley (Cofounder Oxford Nanopore Technologies)

Friday 24 November 2017

• 13:00 - "Mechanisms of DNA-protein crosslink proteolysis"
  Dr Julian Duxin (Associate Professor, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen)

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 17:00 - Oxford University Biotech Society
  Matthew Wood (Founder Evox Therapeutics)

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 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)

Monday 12 February 2018

• 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)

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 15:00 - 'One for sorrow, two for joy: the regulation of meiosis II'
  Dr. Wolfgang Zachariae (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martiensried, Germany)

Wednesday 14 March 2018

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

Friday 20 April 2018

• 14:00 - High-speed and super-resolution live imaging to understand mechanisms of protein trafficking from the ER and through the Golgi apparatus
  Prof Akihiko Nakano (RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and Laboratory of Developmental Cell Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 11:00 - 'chaperoning SNARE assembly to control membrane fusion'
  Professor Fred Hughson (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)
• 13:00 - 'Controlling Turing: Self-organisation within bacterial cells'
  Dr. Sean Murray (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology SYNMIKRO, Marburg, Germany)

Tuesday 1 May 2018

• 11:00 - Membrane protein insertion by the EMC: a new route opens through an ancient complex
  Dr. John Christianson (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 May 2018

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

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 13:30 - 'Chromosome morphogenesis in interphase and mitosis'
  Dr. Benjamin Rowland (Group Leader, Netherlands Cancer Institute)

Monday 2 July 2018

• 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)

Monday 9 July 2018

• 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.)

Friday 28 September 2018

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

Friday 25 January 2019

• 11:15 - Rhodopsin based Optogenetics: Basics,Applications, Chances
  Professor Dr. Ernst Bamberg (Director Emeritus, Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt)

Thursday 9 May 2019

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

Monday 13 May 2019

• 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)

Wednesday 22 May 2019

• 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)

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 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)

Monday 15 July 2019

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

Tuesday 10 September 2019

• 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)

Monday 11 November 2019

• 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)

Friday 22 November 2019

• 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)

Thursday 5 December 2019

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

Monday 20 January 2020

• 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)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

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

Thursday 6 February 2020

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

Monday 17 February 2020

• 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)

Wednesday 23 March 2022

• 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)

Thursday 28 April 2022

• 16:00 - Stem Cell Regulation in the Drosophila Intestine
  Professor Bruce Edgar (Professor of Oncological Sciences and Human Genetics, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah)

Thursday 12 May 2022

• 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)

Monday 16 May 2022

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

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 11:00 - "Basis, role, and significance of atmospheric gases as bacterial energy sources"
  Associate Professor Chris Greening (Monash University, Australia)

Thursday 7 July 2022

• 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)

Friday 15 July 2022

• 11:00 - 'Deciphering gene expression regulation in health and disease using integrative omics approaches'
  Professor Michiel Vermeulen (Radboud University, Netherlands)
• 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)

Thursday 15 September 2022

• 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)

Thursday 15 December 2022

• 16:00 - "Towards a quantitative understanding of long-range transcriptional regulation"
  Dr. Luca Giorgetti (Group Leader, FMI, Basel, Switzerland)

Wednesday 3 May 2023

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

Monday 22 May 2023

• 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)
• 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)

Monday 3 July 2023

• 09:30 - 'Understanding how cells copy and preserve their DNA'
  Rodrigo Reyes-Lamothe (Department of Biology, McGill University, Canada)
• 11:00 - 'Regulation of RNA Binding Proteins during Embryogenesis'
  Professor Olivia S. Rissland (RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado School of Medicine)

Monday 10 July 2023

• 11:00 - 'The Role of Human Condensin Cofactors in Regulating Activity'
  Dr. Erin Cutts (London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS))

Thursday 13 July 2023

• 14:00 - 'Epigenetic regulation underlying phenotypic variation and driving evolutionary trajectories’
  Dr. Amy Webster (The Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon)

Wednesday 13 September 2023

• 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)

Wednesday 18 October 2023

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

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 11:00 - 'Inflammation across Tissues'
  Professor Holm Uhlig (University of Oxford), Professor (Chris Buckley)

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 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)

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 15:00 - 'Serine-ADP-ribosylation: from a Basic Biological Discovery to a Foundational Technology for Exploring Diverse Signalling Pathways'
  Dr. Ivan Matic (ERC Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany)

Friday 10 November 2023

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

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 11:00 - 'Preventive Neurology' Learn about our research method for predicting the development of neurologic diseases
  Professor Kevin Talbot (University of Oxford), Professor Laura Parkkinen (University of Oxford), Professor Alastair Webb (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 10:00 - Native ambient mass spectrometry: In situ analysis of proteins and their complexes
  Prof. Helen Cooper (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 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)

Wednesday 6 December 2023

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

Tuesday 12 December 2023

• 15:00 - 'Exploring the free energy surface of proteins using CEST NMR experiments
  Pramodh Vallurupalli (TIFR Hyderabad)

Wednesday 10 January 2024

• 14:30 - 'Cryo Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy for Correlation with Cryo-ET’
  Rainer Kaufmann (Centre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany)

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 11:00 - Cardiovascular Medicine - Learn about our research on new therapeutic targets and diagnostic modalities in cardiovascular disease
  Professors Barbara Casadei and Claudia Monaco (NIHR, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre)

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 14:00 - ‘Therapeutic manipulations of phosphatases and kinases controlling protein quality control systems: From the bench, to the clinic and back’
  Dr. Anne Bertolotti, Ph.D., FMedSci (Joint Head of the Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 11:00 - 'Respiratory Medicine: Learn about our research for the better treatment of respiratory diseases'
  Professors Ian Pavord and Ling-Pei Ho (NIHR, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre)

Wednesday 28 February 2024

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

Wednesday 13 March 2024

• 14:00 - ‘Bacterial stress responses and surface adhesion in shear flow’
  Professor Joe Sanfilippo (School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Thursday 18 July 2024

• 11:00 - 'Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation'
  Professor Tatiana Kutateladze (Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine)

Friday 4 October 2024

• 11:00 - ‘Proteins and Enzymes and Things that Go: a single-molecule view of bacterial cell division’
  Professor Jie Xiao (John Hopkins School of Medicine)

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 11:00 - Imaging: Developing image-based disease diagnostics from concept to clinic
  Professor Michael Pavlides (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Professor Paul Leeson (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 11:00 - 'Metabolic Experimental Medicine'
  Professor Jeremy Tomlinson (Professor of Metabolic Endocrinology, Radcliffe Dept. of Medicine), Professor Leanne Hodson (Professor of Metabolic Physiology, Radcliffe Dept. of Medicine)

Monday 2 December 2024

• 11:00 - 'Outer membrane nutrient transporters and their biogenesis in gut Bacteriodes'
  Dr. Augustinas Silale (Newcastle University)

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 14:00 - Molecular Insights into DNA Replication and Genomic Stability
  Professor Christian Speck (MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences)

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 13:00 - 'How DUBs decode ubiquitin signals and how they are inhibited - Insights into USP30 and beyond'
  Dr. Malte Gersch (MPI of Molecular Physiology and TU Dortmund University, Dortmund)

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 11:30 - Influenza virus genome replication and host switching
  Prof Ervin Fodor (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 24 February 2025

• 11:00 - Bacterial actins: from single molecules to cell morphogenesis
  Rut Carballido Lopez (Université Paris-Saclay/INRAE Micalis Institute)

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 16:00 - 'On the role of liquid-liquid phase separation in establishing biomolecular condensates'
  Professor Andrea Musacchio (Director, Dept. of Mechanistic Cell Biology, MPI of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund; Honorary Professor, Centre for Medical Biotechnology, Essen)

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 11:30 - Bacterial lipid transport through envelope-spanning tunnels and bridges
  Dr Georgia Isom (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Wednesday 26 March 2025

• 14:00 - 'Epigenetic control of genome contacts'
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (Team Leader, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences)