BSRC Symposium 2013: 1 year of BSRC, 600 years of St Andrews

Various
Various

Professor Varinder Aggarwal FRS, University of Bristol

"Complex Organic Synthesis Made Simple"

http://www.bris.ac.uk/chemistry/people/varinder-k-aggarwal/index.html
1.30 -2.25

Professor Jean Beggs CBE FRSE FRS, Royal Society Professor, University of
Edinburgh

"RNA splicing at the centre of gene expression"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Beggs
2.25 - 3.20

Tea and coffee 3.20 - 3.40, foyer

Professor Sir John Skehel FRS, MRC

"Cell Invasion by Influenza"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Skehel
3.40 - 4.35

Professor Sir Venki Ramakrishnan FRS, MRC-LMB

"Normal and unusual decoding in the ribosome"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venkatraman_Ramakrishnan
4.35 - 5.30

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
Modelling Signalling in Cellular Nanospaces

Dr Nicola Fameli
University of British Columbia

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Studies of genetic variation in diverse human populations using large-scale genotyping and resequencing

Chris Tyler-Smith

host: Dr Silvia Paracchini

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Title to follow

Dr Malcolm Skingle
Academic Liason, GlaxoSmithKline

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
Evolution of human-specific duplicated genes and their role in brain development

Dr Megan Dennis
University of Washington

host: Dr Silvia Paracchini

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Malarial merozoites and invasion of red blood cells

Professor Tony Holder
MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Division of Parasitology

http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/research/tony-holder/

host: Dr Terry Smith

Seminar:
Pathogen Genomics and Genetics seminar: Genetics and Genomics of Infectious Diseases Malaria and TB

Various
Various

One-day seminar - update on new developments in pathogen genomics and genetics, focussing on Malaria and TB. 

Pathogen genome research allows exquisite resolution of complete pathogen genetic information that facilitates a global and systematic approach to understanding disease progression. 

Pathogen genome sequencing is accessible to most. Outputs have broad application requiring collaboration between groups with diverse expertise.

Poster (pdf)

Programme (pdf)

Online Registration Page

Accommodation (if required)

http://medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/newsItem.aspx?ni=1689

host: Dr Janet Cox-Singh

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: The yeast ATP-synthase: from its atomic structure to its supramolecular organisation in the inner mitochondrial membrane

Dr Marie-France Giraud
IBGC-CNRS, Bordeaux

http://www.ibgc.cnrs.fr/?page=equipe&eq=systemm

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
Title to be confirmed

Anna Pearce
UCL Institute of Child Health

host: Prof Peter Donnelly

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Directing the crossover/noncrossover-decision during meiotic recombination in fission yeast

Dr Alexander Lorenz
University of Aberdeen, Institute of Medical Sciences

http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/a.lorenz/page.html

host: Dr Stuart MacNeill