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Centre for Regenerative Medicine seminar series 2012

Centre for Regenerative Medicine hosts regular external seminars in the SCRM building, Edinburgh.

Shared University Research Facilities: SuRF@ QMRIFriday 7 December 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speakers: Pamela Brown: Lentiviral vectors, Bob Morris: Routine Histology & Mike Millar: Immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence and RNAscope
Developmental Programming of Emerging Haematopoietic Stem CellsMonday 3 December 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Aldo Ciau-Uitz, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
The Jackson Laboratory and Charles River Fall TourFriday 30 November 2012, 12.30pm - 4.30pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speakers are Vicky Murray-Tait (Account Manager, Charles River) and Barbara Witham (Senior Manager, Int. Opporunity Development, Jackson Laboratory).
Vascular Injury, repair and regenerationFriday 30 November 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Nick Mills, CMVM, University of Edinburgh
Neural Cells for TherapyMonday 26 November 2012, 12.30pm - 1.30pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Mahendra Rao, NIH Center for Regenerative Medicine, USA
Resolution of cell fate decisions revealed by single-cell gene expression analysis from zygote to blastocyst (Provisional Title) - CANCELLEDFriday 23 November 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Prof Paul Robson, Developmental Cellomics Lab, Genome Institute of Singapore. SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Generation and regeneration of pancreatic beta cellsFriday 9 November 2012, 4pm - 5pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Prof HongKui Deng, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, China
Life Technologies SeminarFriday 9 November 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speakers: Beverley Cork (Pluripotent Stem Cell Research; Challenges and Solutions for Reprogramming, Culture, Differentiation and Characterization) and Ann MacDonald (Flow Cytometry; making the most of your violet laser).
Cambridge BioscienceMonday 5 November 2012, 10.30am - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speakers: Dr. Terri Gaskell (Chief Scientific Officer) from Cell Guidance Systems and Kay Samuel, Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Adult Cell Therapy Group, Centre for Regenerative Medicine.
Culture Adaption in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture: Oncogenesis in vitro Friday 26 October 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Prof Peter Andrews, Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield, UK
The mammalian piRNA pathway, from transposon silencing to germ line maintenanceTuesday 23 October 2012, 4pm - 5pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Donal O'Carroll, Genome Biology Unit, EMBL Monterotondo, Italy
Transcription reduction and transcript modification as treatment strategies for Huntington diseaseFriday 19 October 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Willeke van Roon, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
Trains, Planes and Lipid Rafts: Tales of Trafficking in Mammalian CiliaMonday 15 October 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Pleasantine Mill, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK
Liver formation: progenitor specification and beyondFriday 12 October 2012, 1.15pm - 2.15pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Elke Ober, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC): a Paradigm Shift for Human Disease Modelling and TherapyMonday 1 October 2012, 4pm - 5pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Prof Gustavo Mostoslavsky, CReM Boston University School of Medicine, USA
Living with Two X Chromosomes: of Mice and Women Studies on the initiation mechanisms of X chromosome inactivation in stem cells and mouse models, and the role of RNG12 hereinFriday 28 September 2012, 1.15pm - 2.15pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Stefan Barakat, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Defining the cellular and molecular determinants of breast cancer heterogeneityTuesday 25 September 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Matt Smalley, European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute, Cardiff University, UK
Uncovering transcriptional regulatory principles of early human embryonic developmentMonday 10 September 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Alvaro Rada-Inglesias, Dept of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, USA
Conditional expansion of neural stem cells in the mammalian brainFriday 7 September 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Federico Calegari, CRTD, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Hibernation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Bone Marrow NicheWednesday 5 September 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Prof Hiro Nakauchi, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, IMSUT, Tokyo, Japan. (Hiro Nakauchi is Director of newly established Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo (IMSUT) http://stemcell-u-tokyo.org/en/)
Functions of Tumor Necrosis Factor produced by distinct cellular sourcesTuesday 4 September 2012, 3pm - 4pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Prof Sergei Nedospasov, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Department of Immunology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
The molecular genetics of frontotemporal lobar degenerationFriday 27 July 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Prof Stuart Pickering-Brown, University of Manchester
Development of novel stable gene transfer vector and its application for stem cell engineeringTuesday 24 July 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Ken Nishimura, Laboratory of Gene Regulation, University of Tsukuba, Japan
A paracrine component of the senescence responseFriday 20 July 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Jesus Gil, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
Urogenital System Biology - From Development to Inheritance and Disease MechanismsMonday 2 July 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Prof Seppo Vainio, Biocenter Oulo, Finland
Imparting regenerative capacity to limbs by progenitor cell transplantationWednesday 27 June 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Prof Jonathan Slack, Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, USA
Autologous progenitor cells in a hydrogel form a supernumerary and functional muscleMonday 25 June 2012, 4pm - 5pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Cesare Gargioli, Department of Biology, Tor Vergata Rome University
Geometrical boundary conditions turns cytoskeleton self-assembly into self-organisationFriday 8 June 2012, 12pm - 1pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Dr Manuel Thery, iRTSV, Life Sciences Division, CEA, France
Hematopoietic stem cell development: Endothelial to hematopoietic transitionThursday 17 May 2012, 4pm - 5pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Prof Elaine Dzierzak, Erasmus Stem Cell Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Bioinformatic analysis of transcriptional control mechanisms in blood and ES cellsWednesday 9 May 2012, 1pm - 2pmSeminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Tuesday 8 May 2012, 12pm - 1pm
Friday 4 May 2012, 12pm - 1pm
Friday 20 April 2012, 12pm - 1pm
Wednesday 18 April 2012, 12pm - 1pm
Friday 13 April 2012, 12pm - 1pm
Wednesday 4 April 2012, 1pm - 2pm
Friday 30 March 2012, 12pm - 1pm
Friday 23 March 2012, 12pm - 1pm
Friday 16 March 2012, 12pm - 1pm
Tuesday 6 March 2012, 12pm - 1pm
Friday 10 February 2012, 12pm - 1pm
Friday 3 February 2012, 12pm - 1pm
Monday 23 January 2012, 4pm - 5pm
Thursday 19 January 2012, 3.30pm - 4.30pm

All interested are welcome to attend.

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