Seminar:
Modelling Signalling in Cellular Nanospaces

Dr Nicola Fameli
University of British Columbia

host: Dr Alan Stewart

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:
Rethinking the Brain: An Evolutionary View

Prof Robert Barton
Durham University, School of Anthropology

http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/research/earg/earg_members/earg_profiles/?mode=staff&id=122

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Seminar:
On the trail of a Superbug: using genomics to trace the emergence and spread of a MRSA pandemic

Dr Matt Holden
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Intersection of kinase, phosphatase and membrane protein structural biology and drug discovery

Professor Michael Overduin
University of Birmingham, School of Cancer Sciences

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/cancer/overduin-michael.aspx

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Development of an IGF2R-based super-binder to target IGF2

Dr Matthew Crump
University of Bristol, School of Chemistry

http://www.bris.ac.uk/chemistry/people/matthew-p-crump/index.html

host: Dr Uli Schwarz-Linek

Seminar:
Games and Ethics in Medical Education and Assessment

Dr Pirashanthie Vivekananda-Schmidt
University of Sheffield

host: Dr Gerard Browne

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Structural studies on extensive flexible regions in the NP and P proteins and their possible role during virus transcription and replication

Prof Rob Ruigrok
Unit of Virus Host Cell Interactions (UVHCI) UMI 3265 UJF-EMBL-CNRS

http://www.uvhci.fr/index.php?edit=group_uvhci&group=ruigrok

host: Prof Richard Randall

Seminar:
Title to be confirmed

Prof Øyvind Bruland
School of Medicine

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Seminar:
Alpharadin (Radium-223) in Bone Metastatic Prostate Cancer: From Discovery to Drug

Prof. Oyvind Bruland
Norwegian Radium Hospital, Professor of Clinical Oncology

Prof. Bruland’s main clinical experience and research are devoted to primary bone and soft tissue cancers (sarcomas) and skeletal metastases from prostate cancer and breast cancer. In particular, targeted radionuclide therapy, e.g. Alpharadin (Algeta), based on Radium-223, is currently at center stage.

http://www.bruland.info/

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Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Role of conformational changes of mitochondrial complex I in hypoxia

Dr Alexander Galkin
Queens University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences

http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofBiologicalSciences/People/DrAGalkin/

host: Dr Catherine Botting

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: New access to complex glycoconjugates through engineering and evolution of glycosyltransferases and glycosynthases

Professor Steve Withers
University of British Columbia, School of Chemistry

Professor Withers has won this year's RSC Centenary Prize for
"his phenomenal contributions to our understanding and redefining of enzyme reaction mechanism and to the development and application of "designer-enzymes" for the synthesis of oligosaccharides."

http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/CentenaryPrizes/2012-Winner-Withers.asp

Professor Withers is one of the most influential carbohydrate biochemists of the last 20 years, and was elected to the Royal Society in 2012.

His lecture should appeal to anyone interested in biochemistry.

http://www.chem.ubc.ca/our-people/profiles/stephen-withers

host: Dr Tracey Gloster

Seminar:
Promoting the social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people: An evidence based approach

Dr Antony Morgan

An evidence based approach

Promoting social and emotional wellbeing is seen increasingly by policy makers as an important component of broader strategies designed to improve a broad range of health and related outcomes for children and young people. This focus has the potential to minimise the health risks and negative social outcomes associated with ‘modern’ childhood and adolescence, including anti-social behaviour, binge drinking, and lack of involvement in training and employment.

The life course approach provides a strong theoretical rationale for investing in promoting social and emotional wellbeing as evidence indicates that cumulative exposure to adverse social circumstances increases a child’s risk of emotional and behavioural problems during childhood, but also their health and social prospects in later life. Conversely, and most recently asset based approaches argue that the more opportunities we provide children and young people to accumulate a range of positive experiences the more likely they are ‘do well’ even in the face of difficult circumstances.

Over the last few years, the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has developed evidence based guidance to promote social and emotional wellbeing at 3 key life stages; early years (at home and early education), entering primary school and transitions to secondary education. The guidance defines the key features of effective programmes and the conditions necessary for their successful implementation.

 This paper describes the processes and methods used by NICE to produce evidence based guidance and the challenges faced in developing and accruing evidence that supports positive approaches to promote social and emotional wellbeing during early years, through adolescence and beyond.

host: Prof Candace Currie

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: The mammalian cell factory: engineering the shift from screening to design

Prof David C James
University of Sheffield, Chemical and Biological Engineering

The majority of new biopharmaceuticals are made in Chinese hamster ovary cells, a transformed cell type originally isolated in the 1950’s.  The adaptability and utility of CHO cell factories derives from our exploitation of their acquired genetic/functional variation using high-throughput functional screening and selection processes which enable industry to isolate and maintain cell factories with unusual and desirable properties.  However, we remain blind with respect to enabling cellular mechanisms, learning retrospectively not how to design, build and control intrinsically better cell factories, but only how to iteratively improve screening and process environments.  Can we apply the new concepts and tools of systems and synthetic biology disrupt this industrial “Groundhog Day” modus operandi, and enable application of the engineering design paradigm to the heart of the biomanufacturing process - the cell itself?

http://www.shef.ac.uk/cbe/people/staffprofiles/djames/index

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
Alzheimer's disease: the biology, chemistry and physics

Prof Frank Gunn-Moore
University of St Andrews, School of Biology

Alzheimer's is a degenerative disease that is one of the leading causes (in the top 10) of death in the UK. There is no known cure as of yet. The talk will be followed by an informal wine and cheese reception during which you can have a chat with Prof Gunn-Moore. The talk is free to all, and the reception will be free for BioSoc members, and £1 for non-members.
 

http://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/contact/staffProfile.aspx?sunid=fjg1

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Seminar:
Holistic child health: using HBSC to develop an understanding and new measures of health in children

Dr. William Pickett and Rev'd Valerie Michaelson
HBSC Canada, Queen's University and Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto, Canada

Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) is a cross-national study of the health of children, coordinated by the University of St. Andrews. Members of the Canadian HBSC team are visiting St. Andrews to discuss some new ideas that will inform their national as well as the international HBSC efforts. In this seminar, participants will be exposed to the theory of holistic child health, which suggests that composite in addition to more specific measures of health are important to understanding the health of children. Following the seminar, an open workshop will be held to discuss practical approaches to the measurement of holistic health in children. Ideas from this workshop will support ongoing HBSC research in Canada and other countries.

host: Prof Candace Currie

16th Jeeves Lecture: The Impact of Neuroscience on Society: The Neuroethics of 'Smart Drugs'

Prof Barbara Sahakian
University of Cambridge

There will be a wine reception following the Lecture, and Prof Sahakian will sign copies of her forthcoming book, "Bad Moves", which will be available for purchase at a discounted price.

http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?barbara

host: Prof Verity Brown

Seminar:
Chronic pain: a population perspective on epidemiology and management

Prof Blair Smith

host: Prof Cathy Jackson

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Pyrimidine transporters and metabolism in Trypanosoma brucei – where are the drug targets?

Dr Harry De-Koning
University of Glasgow, Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation

http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/iii/staff/harrydekoning/

host: Dr Terry Smith

Seminar:
RSC Award Lecture: Minimal artificial tissues from communicating droplet networks

Professor Hagan Bayley
University of Oxford, Department of Chemistry

Synthetic biology is being used to build devices through both top-down and bottom-up approaches.1 For example, genome engineering has been used to reprogram cells, and DNA origami has been used to produce a variety of nanodevices. While progress has been made on the assembly of minimal cells, synthetic tissues have so far received limited attention.1 We have assembled networks of aqueous droplets joined by lipid bilayers.2 The droplets in the networks can communicate with each other and with the environment through engineered protein pores3 and, like tissues, exhibit emergent properties.4 To mimic tissues, droplet networks should be endowed with various properties including the ability to store and use energy, to move and change shape, to detect signals, to carry out computations and take up and release molecules. At a certain level, these goals have been achieved.2-5 We now aim to interface droplet networks with living tissues and control them with electrical or optical signals.
 
1          Woolfson, D. N. & Bromley, E. H. C. Synthetic biology. The Biochemist February, 19-25 (2011).

2          Holden, M. A., Needham, D. & Bayley, H. Functional bionetworks from nanoliter water droplets. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 8650-8655 (2007).

3          Villar, G., Heron, A. & Bayley, H. Formation of droplet networks that function in aqueous environments. Nature Nanotechnology 6, 803-808 (2011).

4          Maglia, G. et al. Droplet networks with incorporated protein diodes show collective properties. Nature Nanotechnology 4, 437-440 (2009).

5          Villar, G., Graham, A. D. & Bayley, H. A tissue-like printed material. Science, in press (2013).
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http://bayley.chem.ox.ac.uk/

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Seminar:
Unwanted Gifts: blood, sex, and trust the limits of population based risk management.

Mike Kesby

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Chromatin: an expansive canvas for chemical biology

Dr Tom Muir
Princeton University, Department of Chemistry

http://www.princeton.edu/chemistry/faculty/profiles/muir/

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
Molecular mechanisms of hormone actions in physiological and pathophysiological conditions

Prof Esma Isenovic
Institute Vinca, University of Belgrade

host: Dr Predrag Bjelogrlic

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: CANCELLED: Going under the innate radar with HIV-1

Professor Greg Towers
University College London, Division of Infection and Immunity

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/people/show.php?personid=12385

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
To take or not to take? The economics of medicines adherence

Rachel A Elliott
Lord Trent Professor of Medicines and Health

host: Prof Cathy Jackson

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Patrick Guest and Rachel Davies
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Spoilt for choice: how targets are selected in immune-mediated disease

Prof Robert Barker
University of Aberdeen, Institute of Medical Sciences

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ims/research/immunology/profiles/r.n.barker

host: us6@st-andrews.ac.uk

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Christian Hacker
School of Medicine

“Stealing ATP from a host – New insights into parasite–host interactions”.

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Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: The role of heme iron in biology: a structural and mechanistic perspective

Prof Emma Raven
University of Leicester, Department of Chemistry

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/chemistry/people/academic-staff/professor-emma-raven

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Title TBA

Professor Gerd Materlik, FRS
CEO, Diamond Light Source

http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home.html

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: The 'ins and outs' of streptococci: how EM provides insights into pathogenicity mechanisms

Professor Manfred Rohde
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

http://www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/research/research_topics/bacterial_and_viral_pathogens/molecular_mechanisms_of_streptococci/manfred_rohde/

host: us6@st-andrews.ac.uk

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Photoreceptor Phytochrome - The machinery of a light-driven machine

Dr Joerg Matysik
Leiden University of Netherlands, Leiden Institute of Chemistry

http://www.cidnp.net

host: Dr Bela Bode

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Interfering with interferon: viral immune modulators as probes of innate immunity

Prof Steve Goodbourn
University of London, Biomedical Sciences

http://www.sgul.ac.uk/research/researchers/g-k/steve-goodbourn/biography

host: Prof Jim Naismith

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Kerry Pettigrew / Katarina Oravcova

Language impairment and dyslexia:  Quantitative genetic association analysis of ALSPAC data”

“Emergence of antibiotic resistance in pneumococcal biofilms”

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Seminar:
Towards more tailored eHealth

Prof.dr. A.M. (Sandra) van Dulmen
Professor at the Dept. of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

host: Prof Gerry Humphris

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Title to follow

Dr Edward Tate
Imperial College London

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/e.tate

host: Dr Nick Westwood

Seminar:
Addressing the long term consequences of head and neck cancer treatment

Mary Wells
University of Dundee

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Seminar:
Imaging and pathway profiling: advancing preclinical discovery toward improved clinical efficacy

PROF. NEIL CARRAGHER
Cancer Research UK Centre, Edinburgh

host: Dr Gordon Florence

Seminar:
Using Evidence to Influence Policy: What can we learn from the 'tobacco wars'?

Dr Kat Smith
University of Edinburgh

host: Prof Peter Donnelly

Seminar:
Magnetic interactions – then and now

PROF. IAN CAMPBELL FRS
University of Oxford

Honourary Graduate of the University of St Andrews (to be conferred on 30th November)

host: us6@st-andrews.ac.uk

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Diverse inhibitors of protein kinases: molecular mechanisms and use in cancer therapy

Dr Walter Ward

The human genome encodes over 500 protein kinases, which regulate specific process throughout the lifetime of the cell.  Protein kinases, therefore, are potential targets for new medicines.  I shall describe how knowledge of protein kinase structure-function relationships helps in the identification, evaluation and optimisation of inhibitors for use as drugs.  Several kinase inhibitors with different molecular mechanisms have been approved to treat cancer and I shall discuss how clinical data has improved our insight into the challenges and opportunities for kinase drug discovery.  I shall illustrate how identification of diverse kinase inhibitors, which have different chemical and biological properties, increases the chances of succes in finding new medicines.

host: Prof Garry Taylor

Seminar:
Impacts of environments on birth outcomes - findings from the Scottish Longitudinal study.

Dr Chris Dibben
School of Geography and Sustainable Development

host: Dr Anita Laidlaw

Seminar:
Gavin Francis talks about his adventures as an intrepid medical doctor

Gavin Francis

Gavin Francis has spent time living, working and exploring the Antarctic continent, as well as Bird Island and South Georgia.
 
His book would make a good Christmas gift if you're stuck for ideas.

http://www.gavinfrancis.com/pages/Empire_Antarctica.html
 
Snacks will be provided afterwards.
 

http://www.gavinfrancis.com/pages/Welcome.html

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Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Regulation of genes involved in ISGylation during chronic HCV infection and their role in the viral life cycle

Dr John McLauchlan
MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/iii/cvr/people/researchinterests/?sid=360

host: Prof Richard Elliott

Seminar:
Phylogenomics : Investigating the population diversity and epidemiology and Shigella sonnei at the local and global level

Dr Nick Thomson
Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre, Hinxton

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

Seminar:
Let's get physical: Health benefits of physical activity and approaches to increase, and sustain participation

Dr Ruth Jepson
University of Stirling

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Organising microtubule organisers

Dr Ken Sawin
University of Edinburgh, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology

http://www.wcb.ed.ac.uk/sawin

host: Dr Stuart MacNeill

Seminar:
Using an Overdose Risk Information (ORION) program with substance users in clinical settings – an EU study

Julia Neufeind
School of Medicine

host: Dr Jo Cecil

Seminar:
Viewing pneumococcal evolution through their genome sequences

Dr Stephen Bentley
Sanger Genome Campus

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Mohammed Arastoo
School of Medicine

Functional characterisation of phospholipase C-eta enzymes and their relevance to Alzheimer's disease

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Seminar:
Comparing a Patient's Test Results to a Reference Sample: Quantitative Methods Without Tears

Prof John Crawford
University of Aberdeen

host: Prof Gerry Humphris

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Title to follow

Professor Christian Ottmann
Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society

http://www.cgc.mpg.de/index.php/research-groups/rg-dr-c-ottmann

host: Dr Nick Westwood

Seminar:
What is the connection between visual guidance of movement, deep brain stimulation and dyslexia?

Prof. John Stein
University of Oxford

host: Dr Silvia Paracchini

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Robustness in biological systems: case studies in DNA replication

Professor Julian Blow
University of Dundee, Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression

http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/groups/julian_blow/BlowLabHomepage.html

host: Dr Stuart MacNeill

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Paramyxovirus entry into cells: a molecular machine at work

Prof Bob Lamb
Northwestern University (USA), Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biosciences

http://ralamb@northwestern.edu

host: Prof Richard Randall

Seminar:
Use of MRI and positron emission tomography (PET) in medical imaging research

Dr Stephen Paisey
Cardiff University

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Decoding the biology of heparan sulfates: insights and applications in neurodegeneration and neural cell transplantation

Prof Jerry Turnbull
University of Liverpool, Institute of Integrative Biology

http://www.liv.ac.uk/integrative-biology/staff/jeremy-turnbull/

host: tmg@st-andrews.ac.uk

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Prof David Harrison / Dr Maciej Antkowiak
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: RNA virus persistence in Drosophila is controlled by siRNAs produced from de novo synthesized virus

Dr Carla Saleh
Institut Pasteur

http://carla.saleh.free.fr/index.php

host: Prof Richard Elliott

Seminar:
Reducing sight loss from glaucoma: Evidence to inform health policy

Dr Jen Burr
School of Medicine

host: Prof Simon Guild

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Yuefang Zhou / Christian Paris
School of Medicine

Using the VR-CoDES to understand student response to cues and concerns / New Indications for Papillomavirus Gene Regulation

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Seminar:
Functional genomics approaches to understanding human polygenic disease

Dr Caleb Webber
University of Oxford

host: Dr Silvia Paracchini

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Alice Wright / Susana Moleirinho
School of Medicine

Exploring transition from paediatric to adult health services for young people with cerebral palsy / The role of Willin in fibroblasts within the peripheral nervous system

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Seminar:
Professionalism dilemma experienced by medical students at UK Schools: Results from an online survey

Prof Charlotte Rees

host: Dr Anita Laidlaw

WIP Talk:
MHC class I structures on Exosomes & Preventing violence in Scottish secondary school pupils: an evaluation of the Medics Against Violence programme

Elaine Campbell & Anna Gavine
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Pericyclic Rearrangements in Indole Prenyltransferase Reactions

Professor Martin Tanner
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Department of Chemistry

http://www2.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/tanner/index.shtml

host: naismith@st-andrews.ac.uk

Seminar:
Studying Blindness - There's an App for that…

Dr Andrew Bastawrous
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

host: Dr Jen Burr

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Chemical biology of O-GlcNAc - enzyme mechanisms to roles in disease

Prof David Vocadlo
Simon Fraser University, Canada

http://www.chemistry.sfu.ca/people/profiles/dvocadlo

host: tmg@st-andrews.ac.uk

Seminar:
BSRC Seminar Series: Structural insights into the malaria cytoadherence system: protein flexibility and interactions at the heart of P. falciparum pathogenicity

Dr John Vakonakis
University of Oxford, Department of Biochemistry

http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?pageid=720

host: us6@st-andrews.ac.uk

Seminar:
Health in Cultural Context

School of Medicine

http://medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/documents/HealthinCulturalContext2012.pdf

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Away Day

various

School Away Day

All day on Mon 18 June 2012

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Public Talks on Dementia: Free short talks on Alzheimer's, dementia, current treatments and latest research

Tim Parry of Alzheimer's Research UK, Prof Frank Gunn-Moore, Dr Carlos Penedo and Dr Peter Connelly

Public talk on Dementia
Free short talks on Alzheimer's, dementia, current treatments and latest research.

Monday 18th June

Medical and Biological Sciences Building, North Haugh

6:30pm - 8:30pm

A series of talks by Tim Parry of Alzheimer's Research UK, Prof Frank Gunn-Moore, Dr Carlos Penedo and Dr Peter Connelly

Tea and Coffee will be provided

All welcome!

http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/

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Seminar:
Range of Funding Schemes and Strategic Initiatives

Dr. John Williams
Wellcome Trust

host: Prof Jim Naismith

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Zoe Allen
School of Medicine

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Public Lecture: The Genius of Michael Faraday

Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS FREng
Honorary Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge

As part of the 600 anniversary celebrations for the University of St Andrews we cordially invite you to a lecture given by Sir John Meurig Thomas, Honorary Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge.

Sir John occupied the Chair of Chemistry created for Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, of which he was Director (1986-1991). Formerly he was Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge (1978-1996) and Master of Peterhouse (1993-2002).

Lord Rutherford said of Michael Faraday that he was one of the greatest experimenters ever; Albert Einstein believed that Faraday was responsible for the greatest change in the intellectual structure of physics since Newton. There is little doubt that Faraday bequeathed a greater corpus of useful knowledge than any other physical scientist. How did it come about that Faraday, a deeply religious man who left school at thirteen to become an errand boy and then an apprentice to a bookbinder (a young man who never attended high school or a university and knew no mathematics), could reach such pinnacles? In terms that are intelligible to non-scientists and interested lay persons, the speaker shall endeavour to answer the above and related questions. The tale of Faraday’s achievements and discoveries is one of the most romantic in the history of science, his character, intellect and commitment speak to us through all ages.

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Seminar:
Two pore channels represent a new class of intracellular Ca2+ - release channel that are activated by NAADP

Dr Samantha Pitt
University of Bristol

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Diet and physical activity for cancer risk reduction- opportunities for endorsing lifestyle change

Prof Annie Anderson
University of Dundee

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Seminar:
Can biologics restore tolerance in patients with autoimmunity?

Dr Clare Notley
University College London

host: Dr Winnie Dhaliwal

WIP Talk:
Wip Talk

Alex Collinson and Steve Gellatly
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
Ubiquitin and modern day mass-spec based quantitative proteomics: OMG, TMI, innit?

Dr Mike Tatham
University of Dundee

host: Dr Gordon Cramb

Seminar:
Can Raman spectroscopy have an impact on future minimally invasive clinical diagnostics?

Prof Nick Stone
NIHR Senior (Career Scientist) Research Fellow

host: Prof Andrew Riches

Seminar:
Approaching dyslexia through behavioural and molecular genetic studies of normal reading

Dr Michelle Luciano
University of Edinburgh

host: Dr Silvia Paracchini

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Christian Hacker and Alice Wright
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
Ion channel regulation by the Lkb1-AMPK signalling pathway: the key to carotid body activation by hypoxia and metabolic homeostasis at the whole body level

Dr Mark Evans

host: Dr Gordon Cramb

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Omar Kassaar and Winfried van der Sluijs
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
Invasive Nontyphoidal Salmonella disease in Malawi – an enigma

Dr Nick Feasey
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Wellcome Trust Tropical Centre in Blantyre, Malawi

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

Seminar:
Yap in skeletal muscle cells

Dr Henning Wackerhage
University of Aberdeen

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Liz Craig and Laura Aitkin
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
Measuring and assessing the effects of patient-centered care

Prof Paul Cleary
Yale University

host: Prof Peter Donnelly

Seminar:
Adolescence and the social determinants of health: a lifecourse perspective.

Prof Russell Viner
UCL Institute of Child Health

host: Prof Candace Currie

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Taciana Kasciukovic/Kimberley Stevenson
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
2012 Physiological Society GL Brown Prize Lecture; The Wonder of the Wanderer (what the vagus nerve can do for you..)

Professor Jim Deuchars
University of Leeds

The Wonder of the Wanderer (what the vagus nerve can do for you..)  

Established in the memory of Professor Sir George Lindor Brown (1903-1971), this is an annual series of lectures aimed to stimulate an interest in Physiology. The subject of this year's lecture is the vagus nerve, the 10th cranial nerve. This parasympathetic nerve originates in the brainstem, transmitting signals to and from many major organs in thebody, helping them perform their normal functions.   Prof. Deuchars will explore some of the functions of the vagus, concentrating on its involvement in disease states.Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve is currently being investigated as a treatment for a surprising diversity of diseases. The evidence for this will be examined. This will be an interactive lecture with some audience participation, but no need to be nervous as not one individual will be singled out!

host: Dr Gordon Cramb

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Maria Torres and Alison Gehring
School of Medicine

host:

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Svetlana Kalujnaia and Hannah Dale
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
Clinical Symposium - Brain Injury

Dr Andrew Blaikie

host: Dr Ruth Cruickshank

Seminar:
Zinc and age-related macular degeneration

Imre Lengyel
University College London

host: Dr Alan Stewart

WIP Talk:
WiP Talk

Kate Levin/Heather Dalgarno
School of Medicine

host:

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Jo Kirby/Andrew Lunel
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
Genome wide association studies - what are they and what have they contributed

Prof Harry Campbell
University of Edinburgh

host: Prof Peter Donnelly

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Jo Inchley/Laura McFarlane
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
The genetics of early-onset obesity

Dr Elena Bochukova
University of Cambridge

host: Dr Silvia Paracchini

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Will Linden/Arif Sheikh
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
Clostridium difficile infection

Professor Ian R Poxton
University of Edinburgh

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Dorothy Currie/Christian Paris
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
Pathways and mechanisms in adolescence that may contribute to adult health inequalities

Pernille Due
University of Southern Denmark

host: Prof Candace Currie

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Julie Struthers/Ying Zheng
School of Medicine

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Seminar:
Tuberculosis: Poverty, Progress and making change happen

Dr Andy Ramsay
TBD, World Health Organisation

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

Seminar:
Type D Personality and coronary heart disease: Is there a link?

Dr Gerry Molloy
University of Stirling

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Damien Williams/Susana Moleirinho
School of Medicine

host:

Seminar:
Evidence-based tobacco control: from molecule to policy

Prof Robert West
University College London

host: Prof Gerry Humphris

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Yuefang Zhou/Katherine Feeney
School of Medicine

host:

Seminar:
Tuberculosis: A Story of Persistence

Prof Anthony Coates
St George's University of London

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Ross Whitehead/Marcus Leung
School of Medicine

host:

Medical Education Research Group

Anite Laidlaw
School of Medicine

Discussion to be this paper : http://informahealthcare.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3109/0142159X.2011.595436  'The research compass': An introduction to research in medical education: AMEE GUide No. 56: Ringsted, Hodges and Scherpbier; 2011; Med Teacher: 33; 695 - 709

host: Dr Anita Laidlaw

Seminar:
Meeting the demand for a new clinical service: evidence-based or muddling through?

Prof Michael Steel
School of Medicine

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Anna Gavine/Catherine Adamson
School of Medicine

host:

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Gillian Forbes/Stewart Coleman
School of Medicine

host:

Seminar:
Kiss of life or kiss of death? The controversy of mouth-to-mouth ventilation

Prof Malcolm Woollard
Coventry University

host: Prof Peter Donnelly

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Helen Popple/Yoshihiko Arita
School of Medicine

host:

Welcome reception for new staff

School of Medicine

All staff and PhD students are invited to a drinks reception on Monday 3^rd October at 4.30pm in the café area. 

RSVP   Sandra (sd4) by 26^th September

host: Mrs Sandra Dye

WIP Talk:
Communication with Health Professionals after Birth

Dr Anita Laidlaw
School of Medicine

host:

WIP Talk:
WiP talk

Dr Elaine Campbell
School of Medicine

host:

Seminar:
Epstein-Barr Virus Genetics

Professor Henri Delecluse
University of Heidelberg

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

Seminar:
Paying People to Change their Behaviour: Does it work?

Prof. Theresa Marteau
King’s College, London

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Seminar:
Genetics of drug response in type2

Prof. Colin Palmer
University of Dundee

host: Dr Jo Cecil

Seminar:
The race to make pandemic influenza vaccine

Dr. Ruth Harvey
National Institutes of Biological Standards and Control

host: Dr Catherine Adamson

Seminar:
The nature of decision related activity in sensory neurons

Dr. Bruce Cumming
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

host: jh81

Seminar:
Genomics: Back to biology

Dr. Nick Thomson
Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

Seminar:
Population genomics of bacterial pathogens

Prof. Martin Maiden
Hertford College Oxford

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

Seminar:
Lessons learned in the early stage discovery and development of a new TB drug

Dr. Geoff Coxon
Strathclyde University

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

Seminar:
"A cellular memory of network activity in spinal locomotor control" and "Tapping the functions of the rodent prefrontal cortex"

HongYan Zhang and David Tait
University of St Andrews

host: Dr Gareth Miles

Seminar:
Behaviour change in cardiac rehabilitation

Dr. Falko Sniehotta
University of Newcastle

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Seminar:
Getting a genomic grip on strangles: Streptococcus equi infection

Prof. Matt Holden
Wellcome Genome Campus, Hingston

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

Seminar:
Using zebrafish to study activity-dependent regulation of nervous system development

Dr Jonathan McDearmid
University of Leicester

http://www.le.ac.uk/biology/staff/bljm.htm

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
Changing the management of long-term conditions to improve patient outcomes

Prof. Stan Newman
University College London

host: gmh4, go10

Seminar:
Mucosal immunity to enteric pathogens: Current Challenges

Dr. Mona Bajaj-Elliott
Institute of Child Health, University College London

host: Dr Winnie Dhaliwal

Seminar:
LFP-Spike Relation and the Default Activity in S1 Cortex

Dr Riccardo Storchi
Institute for Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology -

host: Dr Mario Giardini

Seminar:
Fat and lazy Mycobacterium tuberculosis cells in human sputum

Professor Mike Barer
University of Leicester

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

Seminar:
Unravelling the genetics of lung function and COPD

Professor Martin Tobin
University of Leicester

host: Prof Cathy Jackson

Seminar:
Using qualitative analysis and sequence analysis to identify iatrogenesis in GPpatient

Professor Peter Salmon
University of Liverpool

host: Prof Gerry Humphris

Seminar:
Spatial representation and decision-making in three dimensions

Prof. Kate Jeffery
UCL

host: Dr James Ainge

Seminar:
The supramolecular organisation of cells studied with quantitative electron microscopy

Dr John Lucocq
Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee

host: Prof Hugh MacDougall

Seminar:
‘Genome maintenance pathways identified by studies on Fanconi anemia and related syndromes’

Prof. J de Winter
Department of Clinical Genetics VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam

host: Dr Jo Parish

Seminar:
Hunting the molecular past.

Prof Eske Willerslev
Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen

http://snm.ku.dk/english/centres/geogenetics/

host: Prof Thomas Meagher

Seminar:
‘Communication education: Developing the evidence base’

Dr. Jo Hart
School of Medicine University of Manchester

host: Dr Anita Laidlaw

Seminar:
The CRISPR system: viral defence and Lamarckian evolution.

Prof Malcolm White
University of St Andrews

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~mfw2/lab/index.html

host: Dr Dave Ferrier

Seminar:
“Groups, Bystanders and the Informal Regulation of Violence in Public Places”

Dr. Mark Levine
School of Psychology University of Lancaster

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Seminar:
‘Stem Cells and Metabolic Diseases’

Prof. Kevin Docherty
School of Medical Sciences University of Aberdeen

host: Dr Gordon Cramb

Seminar:
“Horizontal gene transfer and antibiotic resistance in bacteria; insights into the biology of conjugative transposons”

Dr. Adam Roberts
Division of Microbial Diseases UCL Eastman Dental Institute

host: Prof Stephen Gillespie

Seminar:
Extensive regenerative ability in the basal chordate amphioxus unveils the origins of vertebrate regeneration.

Dr Ildiko Somorjai
University of Barcelona

host: Dr Dave Ferrier

Seminar:
Sex, Hormones and Blood Vessels: Keeping them Under Conrol

Prof. Hamish Fraser
MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Work in Progress Talks

Prof. Gerry Humphris/Dr. Catherine Adamson

Work in Progress Talk

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Seminar:
Chromatin, cell fate and cancer - Part 2

Vita Fedele
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
A profile of violence prevention policy in Scotland and Lithuania

Alison Gehring
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Towards automated phototransfection utilising spatial light modulators

Lani Torres
School of Biology

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Adolescent behavioural development: the role of gonadal hormones

Dr Gillian Brown
School of Psychology

host: Dr Gareth Miles

Seminar:
Cloning and expression of novel human phospholipase C genes (PLC-XD 1, PLC-XD 2, PLC-XD3)

Dr Svetlana Kalujnaia
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Controlling motor neuron development

Dr Catherina Becker
University of Edinburgh

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
Selective neuronal vulnerability in the childhood motor neuron disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Dr Tom Gillingwater
University of Edinburgh

host: Dr Gareth Miles

Seminar:
Regulation of phospholipase C-eta2 activity

Petra Popovics
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
A botanical journey through the periodic table

Prof Philip White
Scottish Crop Research Institute

host: Dr Jane Wishart

Seminar:
Rheumatological Emergencies

Dr. Helen Harris

host: Dr Ruth Cruickshank

Seminar:
Gaze stabilization by spinal locomotory commands during swimming in Xenopus

Dr John Simmers
Université Bordeaux 2

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
Changing notions of adulthood and gender in modern Scottish society: Links to aggressive and risk-taking behaviours in Kirkcaldy, Fife

Helen Popple
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors.

Dr Clare Baker
University of Cambridge

host: Dr Dave Ferrier

Seminar:
"The woman who mistook her husband for a hatstand: brain injury and visual impairment"

Dr. Andrew Blakie

host: Dr Ruth Cruickshank

Seminar:
Transformations in spinal cord function by monoamine neuromodulatory transmitters

Dr Shawn Hochman
Emory University

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
A Respiratory Puzzle

Dr. Colin Selby

host: Dr Ruth Cruickshank

Seminar:
A potential role for ChlR1 in DNA replication

Dr Katherine Feeney
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
A Renal Story

Prof. Morwenna Wood

host: Dr Ruth Cruickshank

Seminar:
Transforming properties of E6 and E7 oncoproteins from cutaneous human papillomavirus types

Dr Massimo Tommasino
International Agency for Research on Cancer-World Health Organization, Lyon

host: Dr Jo Parish

Seminar:
Potential Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Salmon Lice: Implications for Aquaculture Practise

Dr Armin Sturm
University of Stirling

host: Dr Svetlana Kalujnaia

Seminar:
Developing psychosocial and behaviour change interventions for men with cancer through systematic review and cross-sectional research

Hannah Dale
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Shouldering the problem

Mr Ivan Brenkel

host: Dr Ruth Cruickshank

Seminar:
Hummingbirds in the field: time for non-model systems of cognition

Dr Sue Healy
University of St Andrews

host: Dr Gareth Miles

Seminar:
Understanding violence in young offenders

Dr Damien Williams
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Heart Failure

Prof. Allan Struthers

host: Dr Ruth Cruickshank

Seminar:
Title to be confirmed

Prof. Debbie Smith
York University

host: Dr Terry Smith

Seminar:
Investigating cyclophilin D, ABAD and amyloid beta interations in Alzheimers disease

Laura Aitken
School of Biology

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Changes in nuclear sub domains in myotonic dystrophy type 1 eye lens epithelial cells

Stewart Coleman
School of Biology

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Exosomes derived from normal and malignant bladder and prostate cell lines

Dr Jennifer Weaver
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
A Gathering Storm: A public health approach to reducing homicide.

Will Linden
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
From bedside to bench – patient involvement in research

Dr Derek Stewart
National Institute for Health Research

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Seminar:
Scaling of diving speed in free-ranging seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles

Dr Yuuki Watanabe
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo

host: Prof Michael Fedak

Seminar:
An introduction to the violence reduction research group

Prof Peter Donnelly
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Gang members experiences of the community initiative to reduce violence: A Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship

Franzi Fettke
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Medical Education Research: rising to the challenges

Dr Jennifer Cleland
University of Aberdeen

host: Dr Anita Laidlaw

Seminar:
Amoeba for a brain? Neuropharmacology in a simple model system

Dr Robin Williams
Royal Holloway, University of London

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
The role of ChlR1 in genome integrity

Chris Wasson
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Toll-like receptors, B cell receptors and T cell programming during Salmonella infection

Prof David Gray
University of Edinburgh

host: Dr Simon Powis

Seminar:
A study of SMN in relation to nuclear architecture

Dr Allyson Clelland
School of Biology

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
HLA-B27 and inflammatory arthritis: Preliminary results of a patient based study

Dr Elaine Campbell
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
The role of Willin in the fibroblasts within the sciatic nerve

Susana Moleirinho
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
The two pore channels: A family of endo / lysosome targeted calcium release channels gated by NAADP

Dr Mark Evans
University of Edinburgh

host: Dr Gordon Cramb

Seminar:
Biochemical insights into the physiology of metal ions: Transport of zinc and amplification of calcium signals

Dr Alan Stewart
Bute Medical School, University of St Andrews

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
The evolution of reproductive control in chordates: From a few neurons to the complex vertebrate brain

Dr Javier Tello
Centre for Reproductive Biology, Edinburgh.

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Camera-related behaviours of female dental nurses and nursery school children

Dr Yuefang Zhou
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Determining the genetic underpinnings of autism - early findings from the Autism Genome Project.

Dr Louise Gallagher
Trinity College, Dublin

host: Prof Lindsey Kent

Seminar:
Fibre based cellular transfection and photoporation on CNS slices

Nan Ma
School of Biology

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Is Earth the only planet with photosynthesis?

Prof John Raven
University of Dundee

Abstract:

host: Dr Dave Ferrier

Seminar:
Expression and purification of hCHlR1

Dr Kris Okrasa
Bute Medical School

WiP Talk

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Mechanisms of cell fate choice in embryos and embryonic stem cells.

Dr Joshua Brickman
University of Edinburgh

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
"Visualizing adenovirus structure and host factor interactions by CryoEM and Crystallography."

Prof. Phoebe Stewart
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, U.S.A.

host: Prof Willie Russell

Seminar:
"Investigating the metabolism of intercellular parasites"

Prof Malcolm McConville
University of Melbourne, Australia

host: Dr Terry Smith

Seminar:
"The interplay between host and retroviruses during evolution"

Prof. Massimo Palmarini
University of Glasgow

host: Prof Richard Randall

Seminar:
PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Prof. Jamie Rossjohn
Monash University, Australia

host: Prof Garry Taylor

Seminar:
Empathy and communicating

Anita Laidlaw

WiPs

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
"Playing in Traffic : new targets to treat Cystic Fibrosis

Prof. Neil A Bradbury
Chicago Medical School

host: Dr John Ingledew

Seminar:
Osmoregulation in the European eel, Anguilla anguilla

Svetlana Kalujnaia

WiPs

host: Dr Alan Stewart

Seminar:
Colours of Life : Biosynthesis of Chlorophyll and Heme

Dr. Wolf-Dieter Schubert
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
Role of Acid-Sensing Ion Channels (ASICs) in Pain

Dr Eric Linguelia
Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/UNSA, France

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
Role of Nitric Oxide in the Mammalian Spinal Locomotor Network

Catherine Dunford

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Prof. Andrew J Thomson, University of East Anglia
TITLE TO BE CONFIRMED

host:

Seminar:
Chromatin, cell fate and cancer

Vita Fedele

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
"Electron cryotomography of enveloped viruses"

Dr David Bhella
MRC Virology Unit, Glasgow

host: Prof Richard Randall

Seminar:
Gene expression profiling in a rodent model of ADHD

Keeley Brookes

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
"Oncogenic signal transduction : lessons for Helicobacter pylori virulence factors"

Prof. Steffen Backert
University College Dublin

host: Dr Uli Schwarz-Linek

Seminar:
Glutamate Receptors and the Modulation of Spinal Locomotor Output

Noboru Iwagaki

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Viral evasion of pattern recognition receptor signalling.

Professor Andrew Bowie
Trinity College, Dublin

host: Prof Richard Randall

Seminar:
Transient transfection of mammalian cells using a violet diode laser

Lani Torres

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
"Controlling the balance between cell division and apoptosis"

Professor Paul Clarke
University of Dundee

host: Dr Jo Parish

Seminar:
"Why do we need multimodal neuroprotective and neurorestorative drugs for Alzheimer's disease"

Prof. Moussa B H Youddim
Technion-Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel

Professor Moussa Youdim

Professor Youdim holds the Finkelstein Chair in Life Sciences and Pharmacology at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and is the director of the Eve Topf and U.S. National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence for Neurodegenerative Diseases Research and Teaching. He is also Distinguished Professor at Hong Kong and Hong Kong Poly Universities. He is known internationally for his research and drug development activities in depressive illness and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.

Professor Youdim is a world expert in neurodegenerative disease research. He is named on more than 110 international patents and has been associated with the development of successful drugs during his career such as rasagiline (Azilect®), approved for treatment of Parkinson's disease in 27 European countries, Canada and the United States, and ladostigil, a candidate drug in Phase II clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed articles, 45 books and more than 300 review articles. He serves on the editorial boards of many journals of neurochemistry, pharmacology, neuropharmacology and neuropsychiatry, and has received more than 50 national and international awards.

From chemistry through crystal structures and in vivo effects to drug development for neurodegenerative diseases, this seminar will have something for everyone!

host: Dr Rona Ramsay

Seminar:
"Developing experimental systems for studying the replication biology of small insect RNA viruses : A Tale of Two Tetraviruses"

Prof. Rosemary Dorrington
University of Rhodes, South Africa

host: Prof Martin Ryan

Seminar:
'The public health implications and politics of obesity'

Dr Cecile Knai
London School of Hygeine

host: Prof Peter Donnelly

Seminar:
"Structural insights into the collagen-fibronectin interaction"

Dr Ioannis Vakonakis
University of Oxford

host: Dr Uli Schwarz-Linek

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Prof. Malcolm H Levitt
"Singlet Nueclear Magnetic Resonance"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
'Proteolysis inducing factor - Inflammation, Survival and Cancer'

Professor Jim Ross
University of Edinburgh

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
"The complexity of biofilm formation by Bacillus subtilis"

Dr. Nicola Stanley-Wall
University of Dundee

host: Prof Malcolm White

Seminar:
Hyperhomocysteinemia in models of Alzheimer's Disease

Gayle Middleton

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
"Molecular aspects of Rift Valley fever virus pathogenesis"

Dr. Michele Bouloy
Pasteur Institute, Paris

host: Prof Richard Elliott

Seminar:
Humpback whale songs: progress towards determining the function of a complex and changing signal in a challenging environment

Dr. Michael Noad
University of Queensland

host: Dr Patrick Miller

Seminar:
‘Gene Therapy for Immune Deficiencies’

Professor Christine Kinnon
UCL Institute of Child Health

host: Prof Alyson Tobin

Seminar:
Role of Topo II in DNA damage and repair

Samantha Terry

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Prof. Mark E Smith, Chemistry Department, University of Warwick
"Recent progress in Solid-State NMR at Warwick : Low-Gamma Nuclei, 170 NMR of Biomolecular Solids and Dynamic Nuclear Polarization"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
"Why have we not yet had an H5N1 bird flu pandemic"

Prof. Wendy Barclay
Imperial College London

host: Prof Richard Randall

Seminar:
Stimulus-secretion coupling mechanisms in anterior pituitary cells

Simon Guild

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Prof. Steve Lee, Physics Department, University of St. Andrews
"Using Muon Spin Rotation to Probe Classical Correlations in Superconducting Vortex Systems"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
“Sonic Hedgehog and BMP signaling in Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System Development

Dr Iain Shepherd
Emory University, USA

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
The early evolution of life on Earth

Professor Paul G. Falkowski
Institute of Marine and Coastal Studies; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

talk is co-hosted by CEGG

Please note new venue

host: Prof Thomas Meagher

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Prof. Jens Wohnert, Frankfurt
"Structure and ligand recognition of riboswitches and the ribsome assembly factor Nep1"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
“Neuromodulation of developing locomotor networks in frogs”

Professor Denis Combes
University of Bordeaux, France

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
Analysis of nuclear structures in Myotonic Dystrophy eye lens epithelial cells

Stewart Coleman

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Dr. W John Ingledew, Biology Department, St. Andrews
"Use of EPR to investigate interactions in DNA processing enzymes"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
'Motor Proteins - Novel Targets for Drugs'

Prof. John Allingham
Queen's University, Ontario

host: Dr Nick Westwood

Seminar:
Electrophysiological study of lumbar spinal cord neurons

Kelvin Agboh

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Switching gears: patterns of network activity and modulation in the spinal cord of zebrafish

Professor Dave McLean
Northwestern University, Chicago, USA

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
Association of host cell proteins with the papillomavirus genome

Katherine Feeney

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
The coevolutionary relationship between bitterling fish and freshwater mussels

Dr. Carl Smith
Department of Biology, University of Leicester

host: Prof Anne Magurran

Seminar:
"Potential of Nano Materials as drug delivery agents"

Prof. Sir Alfred Cuschieri
Institute for Medical Science and Technology, University of Dundee

host: Dr Nick Westwood

Seminar:
“Role of Glutamate Signalling in cortical development”

Dr Peter Kind
University of Edinburgh

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
"Glycosylations - from biocatalysis to medical applications"

Prof. Sabine Flitsch
University of Manchester

host: Dr Gordon Florence

Seminar:
HLA-B27 and Inflammatory Arthritis

Elaine Campbell

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Dr. David J Keeble, Physics Department, University of Dundee
"EPR and EDMR Studies of Organic Semiconductors"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
"Signaling to actin dynamics in cell migration and invasion"

Prof. Laura Machesky
Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow

host: Dr Uli Schwarz-Linek

Seminar:
Interactions of the mitochondrial enzyme amyloid-binding alcohol dehydrogenase in Alzheimer's Disease

Kirsty Muirhead

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
"Folding and activity of the S-adenosyl methionine riboswitch"

Prof. Daniel A Lafontaine
Universite de Sherbrooke, Department de biologie, Quebec, Canada

Abstract: The S-adenosyl methione (SAM) riboswitch is one of the most frequently occurring riboswitch and has been shown to control transcription and translation.  The aptamer domain is organized around a four-way junction and the global structure is characterized by the formation of two sets of coaxially helical stacks, P1-P4 and P2-P3.  Using CGE and FRET, we characterized the metal ion- and SAM-induced folding of the SAM riboswitch and found that the aptamer undergoes an ion-induced folding as well as a SAM-induced transition, which is characterized by a large P4 stem structural change.  Our findings provide a first rationale about how the riboswitch architecture is folded as observed in the crystal structure.

In the aptamer, the P4 stem is the only peripheral element for which no obvious role can be deduced from previous studies.  To understand how the P4 stem influence the SAM riboswitch activity, we characterized a variant found in Fusobacterium, which does not bear a P4 stem.  By using 2-aminopurine fluorescence, CGE, FRET and single-round in vitro transcription assays, we find that the P4 stem acts as an ligand affinity modulator, which can fine-tune the SAM affinity only by a matter of adding or removing base pairs.  This suggests that riboswitches may rely on peripheral elements as well as core variations to alter ligand affinity, which is crucial to allow specific gene regulation.  We are currently characterizing the influence of P4 on the folding dynamics using single-molecule FRET.

This Seminar is being hosted by Dr. Carlos Penedo, School of Physics and Astronomy

host: Dr Carlos Penedo-Esteiro

Seminar:
Synthetic biology : From nucleic acid redesign to engineering biosynthetic pathways

Prof. Jason Micklefield
Manchester University

host: Dr Gordon Florence

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Dr. Walter Kockenberger, Physics Department, University of Nottingham
"Solution DNP combined with fast 2D techniques"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
How does ionizing radiation damage chromosomes?

Peter Bryant

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Dr. Chandrima Pal, University of St. Andrews
"EPR studies on DNA damaged by x-ray irradiation"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Dr. David Norman, Biology Department, Dundee University
"PELDOR and CW EPR studies on the structure and dynamics of the core histone tetramer and octamer"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
Molecular biology of human papillomavirus 16 infections of the cervix

Prof Sheila Graham
University of Glasgow

host: Dr Jo Parish

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Prof. Christian Griesinger, MPI Gottingen, Germany
"Bruker Lecture Opening Lecture of the Center"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
Antioxidants in cardiovascular disease and diabetes

Prof Ian Megson
UHI Millenium Institute, Inverness

host: Dr Tony Butler

Seminar:
Health care associated infections (HCAI) - can we reduce their incidence?

Prof Curtis Gemmell

host: Dr Peter Bryant

Seminar:
Receiving a 'low-risk' assessment for breast cancer: Women's diverse personal experiences

Gozde Ozakinci

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Social information transmission in meerkat societies

Dr. Alex Thornton
Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge

host: Prof Kevin Laland

Seminar:
Finding the source of the brain's! inhibitions

Dr Simon Butt
Imperial College London

host: Dr Gareth Miles

Seminar:
PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

The influenza virus RNA polymerase : interations with the host cell
Dr. Ervin Fodor, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

host: Prof Richard Randall

Seminar:
The role of chromatin compaction and polycomb proteins in regulating Hox genes

Professor Wendy Bickmore
MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh

host: Dr Dave Ferrier

Seminar:
Practice and Progress in Structural Proteomics at St. Andrews

Ken Johnson

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Nematode comparative genomics: are nematode genomes weird?

Professor Mark Blaxter
Inst. of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh

host: Prof Mike Ritchie

Seminar:
Postponed until 4th Dec 2008

Curtis Gemmell
Bute Medical School

host: Dr Peter Bryant

Seminar:
Asthma management in the community - paddling upstream?

Cathy Jackson

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Strategic Future of Wellcome Funding

Dr Alan Schafer
Director, Science Funding, Wellcome Trust

host: Prof Jim Naismith

Seminar:
Cardiac CT – More than just a pretty picture

Dr Mark Jones
Bute Medical School.

host: Dr Susie Whiten

Seminar:
PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Dr. Steffen Backert
University of Magdeburg

This seminar has unfortunately had to be cancelled and will be re-scheduled sometime next year.

host: Dr Uli Schwarz-Linek

Seminar:
"Apoptosis - Is your research dead or dying?"

Mr Andrew Robertson
Immunosolv Limited

"An overview of the major processes of cell death, with particular reference to plasma membrane changes.  How dying cells are removed in vivo and how these processes can be recapitulated in vitro to improve cell cultures using Immunosolv's novel technology"

host: Prof Garry Taylor

Seminar:
Bladder cancer detection by Raman spectroscopy

Toni Carruthers

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
The Evolution of Speech: A Comparative, Physiological Approach

Dr. Tecumseh Fitch
School of Psychology, University of Saint Andrews

host: Dr Patrick Miller

Seminar:
Sterilizing diseases and range limits: cuckoo-bees and anther-smuts

Professor Janis Antonovics FRS, Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology
University of Virginia

host: Mrs Joyce Strachan

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Dr. David Tozer Chemistry Department, University of Durham
"Magnetic response parameters from density functional theory"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Dr Tomas Lebl, Chemistry Department, St. Andrews
"Stereochemistry and Dynamic Behaviour of Molecules in Solution"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
Development of the Drosophila brain: building a massively parallel connectivity matrix

Professor Heinrich Reichert
University of Basel

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
"hSSB1, a central player in DNA repair"

Dr. Derek Richard
Queensland Medical Institute, Brisbane, Australia

host: Prof Malcolm White

Seminar:
Could Willin (FRMD6) Function as a Tumour Suppressor?

Lotte Veldhuis

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SEMINAR

Dr Rob Hunter, Physics & Astronomy, St. Andrews
"Millimetre Wave Instrumentation for Magnetic Resonance Applications"

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
Immune regulation and parasites

Prof Rick Maizels
University of Edinburgh

host: Dr Simon Powis

Seminar:
The Role of ChlR1 in cohesin establishment and DNA damage repair

Chris Wasson

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Impact of vascular disurbances on cognition and Alzheimer's disease

Dr Karen Horsburgh
University of Edinburgh

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
The role of herpes simplex virus protein ICP0 in counteracting intrinsic and innate cellular antiviral defences

Prof Roger Everett
University of Glasgow

host: Prof Richard Randall

Seminar:
"Biosynthesis of Lovastatin, a Fungal Polyketide and Cholesterol-Lowering Agent"

Prof. John C Vederas
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

host: Prof David O'Hagan

Seminar:
"Towards the development of carbohydrate-based pharmaceuticals?"

Dr. Milton J Kiefel
Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

This seminar will present an overview of the basis of using carbohydrates as potential pharmaceuticals, and discuss how knowledge of the role of carbohydrates in specific disease processes can be used to develop novel compounds as potential drugs.  The presentation will focus on our investigations towards development antivirals and antibacterials based on simple carbohydrates and glycomimetics.

host: Prof Garry Taylor

Seminar:
"IP3Rs in programmed cell death"

Dr Geert Bultynck
Katholieke Universiteir Leuven, Belgium

Stuart Conway

host: Dr Stuart Conway

Seminar:
The Role of Neurosteroids in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Sarah Scott
(Kent lab)

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Role of polycomb proteins in breast cancer

Vita Fedele
(Reynolds lab)

WiPs

(followed by Julie Struthers - research group server database)

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
"The Revolution of the Seventies; putting molecular biology to work"

Sir Kenneth Murray, FRS., FRSE.
Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh

Ken Murray will be receiving an honorary degree at the Science Graduation this week.  His first interests were in nucleic acids and nucleoproteins and then in bacteriophages and along with his wife Noreen developed restriction enzyme technology thus playing a major role in the initiation of genetic engineering.  Ken used this experience to construct a very effective Hepatitis B vaccine which is still in worldwide use.  He was one of the original founders of Biogen.

host: Prof Willie Russell

Seminar:
Fatal Attractions? Potential interactions of Willin and their roles in cell death

Lissa Herron
(Gunn-Moore lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Cystic Fibrosis: Ironing out the problem of infection.

David Reid
University of Tasmania and Royal Hobart Hospital, Australia

host: Prof Hugh McDougall

Seminar:
"Structural basis of bacterial invasion"

Prof. Dirk Heinz
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

host: Dr Uli Schwarz-Linek

Seminar:
HLA-B27 and inflammatory arthritis

Sarah Lynch
(Powis lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Factors influencing communication skills in medical students

Anita Laidlaw

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
"Exploring the scope of biomimetic synthesis"

Prof. John E Moses
School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham

host: Dr Gordon Florence

Seminar:
Characterization of E2, a viral protein, and CHLR1, a host helicase, dynamic interaction in vivo using FRET

Anastasia Saade
(Parish Lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Virus factories, 3D EM and molecular atlases of cells

Dr Cristina Risco
Campas Universidad Autonoma, Spain

host: Prof Richard Elliott

Seminar:
Functional neuroimaging: dynamic, semi-natural, and therapeutic

Dr. Klaus Mathiak
Institute of Psychiatry, London

host: Prof Gerry Humphris

Seminar:
Transport of folded proteins by the bacterial Tat system

Prof. Tracy Palmer
Universtity of Dundee

host: Prof Malcolm White

Seminar:
Modelling Estrogen Receptor-positive Breast Cancer

Xenia Schmidt
(Iggo lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Molecular Genetics of ADHD

Dr Lyndsey Kent
Bute Medical School

host: Prof Lindsey Kent

Seminar:
Life Cycle regulation in trypanosomes: cycles, signalling, and surface antigens

Prof. Keith Mathews
University of Edinburgh

host: Dr Terry Smith

Seminar:
The interaction of Cyclophilin D and ABAD in mitochondria

Yimin Ren
(Gunn-Moore lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Regulation of the sodium pump by FXYD-proteins. A molecular handle on the most?dynamic domain of the ion-pump.

Dr Flemming Cornelius
University of Aarhus

host: Dr Gordon Cramb

Seminar:
title to be confirmed

Prof Dick Heinz
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

test

host: Ms Katherine Meacham

:
The association of the X-linked Gene Steroid Sulphatase with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Keeley Brookes
(Kent lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
How do insects produce fast but powerful movements?

Professor and Head of Department Malcolm Burrows, FRS
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
Regulation of intronless mRNA nuclear export in the oncogenic herpes viruses

Dr Adrian Whitehouse
University of Leeds

host: Dr Simon Powis

Seminar:
Proteomic study of the cohesion establishment factor ChlR1

Katherine Feeney
(Parish lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Neurosteroids: The Brain's natural "Valium"?

Professor Jerry Lambert
University of Dundee

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
Disaster Victim Identification - The UK Perspective

Professor Sue Black
University of Dundee

Professor Sue Black is head of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee. She graduated from Aberdeen University and after a spell working at St.Thomas' and Guys Medical Schools in London she returned to Scotland and joined Dundee in 2003. She was awarded an OBE for her services to forensic anthropology in Kosovo following the Balkan crisis and she has worked in Iraq, Sierra leone and Thailand. She is the founder of the Centre for International Forensic Assistance and the British Association for Human Identification. She is specialty assessor in forensic anthropology for the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

host: Dr Susie Whiten

:
A New Model for the Fight Against Prostate Cancer

Jennifer Weaver
(Riches lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
“Dementia in cats and dogs, from clinical signs to pathophysiology.”

Professor Danielle Gunn-Moore
University of Edinburgh

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
"Integrated Chemical Biophysics and Statistical Microarrays : Integrated platform technologies for changing the current paradigms of lead discovery"

Dr Manfred Auer
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Vienna

host: Prof Garry Taylor

:
LDH as a novel regulator of protein kinases

Russell Crawford

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Energy Conversion in Biology

Prof. Sir John Walker
MRC Dunn Institute Cambridge

host: Dr John Ingledew

Seminar:
Magnetic Resonance Seminar Series

Prof Michael Buehl & Dr Richard Ward
St Andrews University & Dundee University

Prof.  Buehl - Title

"The presumption of innocence? DFT analysis of 51V NMR chemical shifts"

Dr. Richard Ward - Title

"Utilising EPR distance measurements to probe structure and dynamics of the nucleosome"

host: Dr Uli Schwarz-Linek

Seminar:
“Title to be Confirmed”

Dr John Simmers
University of Bordeaux

host: Prof Keith Sillar

:
Topo II: poisoning DNA?

Samantha Terry
(Bryant lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

:
Alteration of Mammalian Nuclear Architecture During Cellular Differentiation

Judith Sleeman

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Magnetic Resonance Seminar Series

Dr. Graham Smith & Dr. David Kebble
Physics Department & University of Dundee

a Title for Dr. Smith will follow

Title for Dr. Kebble is "EPR of Materials and Devices; a focus of electrically detected magnetic resonance"

host: Dr Uli Schwarz-Linek

Seminar:
"Control of Immunodominance to Tumour Antigens by Regulatory T cells"

Dr Edd James
University of Southampton

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

:
The role of electrical coupling in the synchronization of motor output during vertebrate locomotion

Hongyan Zhang
(Sillar lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
No sex please, we’re English: Genes, Anglo-Saxon Apartheid, and the Early Medieval Settlement of Britain

Dr. Mark Thomas
Centre for Genetic Anthropology, University College London

host: Prof Kevin Laland

Seminar:
Early genetic and epigenetic changes in human mammary carcinogenesis

Dr Paul Reynolds
Bute Medical School

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

:
The latest on how GPs manage their patients with medically unexplained symptoms

Gerry Humphris

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
How Nature builds an RNA catalyst

Prof. David Lilley
University of Dundee

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
"Microsoft, Cancer and the Bowel as a Digital Ecosystem"

Professor Alistair Munro
Ninewells Hospital/University of Dundee

host: Prof Hugh MacDougall

:
HLA-B27 and its role in Inflammatory Arthritis

Elaine Campbell
(Powis lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
“How does the mother recognise her fetus? Functions of trophoblast HLA class ?I molecules”

Dr Ashley Moffett
University of Cambridge

host: Dr Simon Powis

Seminar:
Systems Virology

Dr Juergen Hass
School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh

host: Prof Garry Taylor

:
The Effects of Leptomycin B on HPV-Infected Cells

Carol Jolly
(Herrington lab)

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
"ß2-microglobulin amyloidosis"

Dr Eric Hewitt
University of Leeds

host: Dr Simon Powis

:
Microarray analysis of breast cancer

Richard Iggo

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

:
Optically guided neuron growth

David Carnegie

WiPs

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
"A structural view of AMPK"

Dr Steve Gamblin
National Institute for Medical Research

host: Dr Rupert Russell

Lunchtime Talk:
New approaches to increase Conditionally Replicative Adenovirus oncolysis

Juanjo Rojas Exposito
(Iggo Lab)

Work in Progress Talk

host: Dr Paul Reynolds

Seminar:
Magnetic Resonance Seminar Series

Dr Sharon Ashbrook & Dr Tim Craggs
Schools of Chemistry and Physics

host: Dr Uli Schwarz-Linek

Seminar:
"The structure and function of the photosystem I reaction centre, and the contribution of advanced EPR spectroscopy"

Prof Peter Heathcote
Queen Mary University of London

host: Prof Olav Schiemann

Seminar:
Magnetic Resonance Seminar Series

Dr D Philp/ Dr P Kilian
School of Chemistry

host: Dr Uli Schwarz-Linek

Seminar:
On-synaptic neuronal integrative mechanisms in circuit function and behaviour

Dr Mathew Nolan
Centre for Neuroscience Research, University of Edinburgh

host: Dr Gareth Miles

:
The maintenance of high fidelity chromosomal segregation

Dr Joanna Parish
Bute Medical School

host: Dr Jo Parish

Seminar:
Dynamics of the mammalian nucleus

Dr Judith Sleeman
School of Biology, University of St Andrews

host: Dr Judith Sleeman

Seminar:
Young tadpoles: simple animals, simple nervous systems, simple choices.

Dr Steve Soffe
University of Bristol

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
A Systems Biology Approach to Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Professor Mike Prystowsky
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

host: Prof Richard Iggo

Seminar:
Insulin stimulated glucose transport, a journey from the adipocyte to the kidney podocyte

Dr Gavin I. Welsh
Academic Renal Unit, University of Bristol

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
CD317, a protein involved in membrane traffic, actin rearrangements, lipid raft organisation and transcription factor activation

Professor George Banting
Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol

host: Dr Jo Parish

Seminar:
Heat shock proteins and neural circuit function

Dr Mel Robertson

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
Seeking Inspiration

Professor Jack Feldman
UCLA

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
Origin and evolution of the membrane model of oxygen chemoreception

Professor Constancio Gonzalez
Depto. Bioquímica y Biología, Molecular y Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

host: Dr A. Mark Evans

Seminar:
Visualising Immune Responses in Real Time in vivo

Dr Paul Garside
Division of Biophotonics, University of Strathclyde

host: Dr Simon Powis

Seminar:
Calcium-sensing receptor in physiology and disease

Dr Daniela Riccardi
Cardiff School of Biosciences, University of Cardiff

host: Dr A. Mark Evans

Seminar:
Steroid metabolism and hypertension: studies in transgenic mice

Dr Matthew Bailey
Wellcome Trust CVRI Fellow, Molecular Physiology, Centre for Cardiovascular Science, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh

host: Dr Nicholas Kinnear

Seminar:
Pro-survival and pro-death signalling from the NMDA receptor

Dr Giles Hardingham
Centre for Neuroscience Research, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
Oligodendrocytes in axonal support: role in axonal damage in Multiple Sclerosis

Dr Julia Edgar
Applied Neurobiology Group, University of Glasgow Veterinary School

host: Dr Jim Kinghorn

Seminar:
Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Cancer: Self renewal and

Professor Peter W. Andrews
Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield

host: Prof Andrew Riches

Seminar:
Discovery of an antithrombotic agent: A structure-based approach to the development of a factor 10 inhibitor

Dr Allen Miller
Formerly Head of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Wellcome Laboratories

host: Dr Tony Butler

Seminar:
Receptor-ligand interactions, signalling and trafficking that regulate vascular function

Dr Vas Ponnambalam
Leeds Institute for Genetics, Health & Therapeutics (LIGHT)

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
Molecular characterizations and functional studies of TRP channels

Dr Mike Zhu
Department of Neuroscience, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, The Ohio State University

host: Dr A. Mark Evans

Seminar:
Electrical synapses: Orchestrating networks, Organizing Circuits

Dr Sheriar G. Hormuzdi
Neurosciences Institute, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
Regulation of locomotor activity in the mammalian spinal cord

Dr Gareth Miles
School of Biology

host: gareth.miles

Seminar:
PDILT, a novel protein disulfide isomerase homolog of the testis

Dr. Adam Benham
Department of Biological Sciences

host: Dr Simon Powis

Seminar:
The Developmental Programming of Obesity

Dr. Paul Taylor
Maternal and Fetal Research Unit

host: Dr A. Mark Evans

Seminar:
TBA

Dr. Martin Dickens
Department of Biochemistry

host: Prof Frank Gunn-Moore

Seminar:
I am just going to put you to sleep: the mystery of general anaesthesia

Professor J.J. Lambert FRSE
Neuroscience Institute

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
Ontogeny of the zebrafish motor circuit

Dr Jonathan McDearmid
Department of Biology

host: Prof Keith Sillar

Seminar:
Practice Development and Research Units: Developing Practice in Partnership

Professor Roger Ellis OBE DSc PhD MSc BA TCert CPsychol ABPsS and Dr Elaine Hogard PhD MA MSc BA (Hons)
University of Chester

host: Prof Gerry Humphris

Seminar:
Function of the urea transporters: The beginning, middle and end

Dr Gordon Cooper
Department of Biomedical Science

host: Dr Gordon Cramb

Seminar:
Hypoxic chemotransduction by the carotid body: Is there a role for AMP-activated protein kinase?

Dr Christopher N. Wyatt
School of Biology

host: Dr Chris Wyatt

Seminar:
Imaging the mechanisms of cellular oxygen sensing

Professor Joachim Fandrey M.D.
Institute of Physiology

host: Dr A. Mark Evans

Seminar:
Genomic testing for breast cancer recurrence risk: The roles of conflicting

Dr. Noel Brewer
University of North Carolina

host: Dr Gozde Ozakinci

Seminar:
Integrative Medicine in Germany and Switzerland: A Model for the UK?

Dr Gunther Spahn
Switzerland

host: Dr Margaret Ritchie

Seminar:
NAADP-mediated calcium signalling: from eggs to neurons

Dr Sandip Patel
Department of Physiology University College London

host: Dr A. Mark Evans

Seminar:
Practice Development and Research Units:

Professor Roger Ellis OBE
Director of Research Policy at the University of Chester

host: Prof Gerry Humphris

Seminar:
More jobs for IP3 receptors

Dr Colin Taylor
Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge

host: ames