Seminars

Upcoming seminars

CIP seminars are held on Fridays at 12.30pm, in the Hugh Robson lecture theatre, unless otherwise indicated.

Our seminars are sponsored in part by The Physiological Society.

February 2012

Tuesday 14th February

Pituitary PlasticityTuesday 14 February 2012, 1pm - 2pmDr Paul le Tissier (MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London)
Host: Dr John Menzies

Friday 17th February

Seeing in depth: axon guidance mechanisms controlling the development of the binocular visual pathwaysFriday 17 February 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmDr Lynda Erskine (University of Aberdeen)
Host: Dr Tom Pratt

Wednesday 22nd February

New kidneys for old: a challenge for surgery and tissue engineeringWednesday 22 February 2012, 5.30pm - 6.30pmProf Jamie Davies (and Mr John Casey)
This talk is part of the 'Let's talk about Healthy Futures' Series, and will be held in The Queens Medical Research Institute, 47 Little France Crescent.
For further information and booking

Friday 24th February

Specification, maintenance and elimination of neuromesodermal axial progenitorsFriday 24 February 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmDr Val Wilson (MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine)

March 2012

Friday 2nd March

GABAergic interneurons in circuit function and behaviourFriday 2 March 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmProf Peer Wulff (University of Aberdeen)
Host: Dr Matt Nolan

Friday 9th March

Old hormones - new insightsFriday 9 March 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmProf Mike Ludwig (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

Friday 16th March

What are you looking at? Changing a visual cortex neuron’s viewFriday 16 March 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmDr Jason Kerr (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)
Host:Prof Peter Kind

Friday 23rd March

Receptor Signalling Pathways Regulating Melanocyte Development and FunctionFriday 23 March 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmDr Ian Jackson (MRC Human Genetics Unit)
Making blood from stem cells: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applicationsFriday 23 March 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmDr Lesley Forrester (MRC Centre for Inflammation Research)

Friday 30th March

Extrasynaptic GABA-A receptors as a therapeutic drug target.Friday 30 March 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmDr Stephen Brickley (Imperial College, London)
Host: Dr Ian Duguid

April 2012

Friday 13th April

Synaptic plasticity in hippocampal inhibitory interneuronsFriday 13 April 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmDr Karri Lamsa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ian Duguid

Friday 20th April

Regulation of morphogen production and signalling: A Role for the Ubiquitin-Protein-Ligase Hyperplastic DiscsFriday 20 April 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmDr Mark Ditzel (Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre)
A twist in the tail: ligand-induced selective signalling at the 5-HT2A receptorFriday 20 April 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmDr Rory Mitchell (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

Friday 27th April

TBCFriday 27 April 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pm

May 2012

Friday 4th May

Living in the balance with WT1 and beta-cateninFriday 4 May 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmDr Peter Hohenstein (MRC Human Genetics Unit)
NMDAR subtypes: pharmacology and functionFriday 4 May 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmProf David Wyllie (Centre for Integrative Physiology)

Friday 11th May

TBCFriday 11 May 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Friday 18th May

Joint seminar with the Informatics ForumFriday 18 May 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmProf Erin Schuman (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany)
Prof David Wyllie
Joint seminar with the Informatics ForumFriday 18 May 2012, 4pm - 5pmProf Gilles Laurent (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany)
Dr Matt Nolan

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