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Events

EBRC Seminar Series - Summer 2012

Weekly seminars held at the Roslin Institute Auditorium.

Mate selection for implementing breeding programs: Managing optimal contributions, genomic coancestries, gEBVs, trait distributions, genetic defects, MOET, costs and logistical constraints, all in a single frameworkWednesday 15 August 2012, 4pm - 5pm
Speaker: Professor Brian Kinghorn, University of New England
What do enhancers do?Tuesday 24 July 2012, 4pm - 5pm
Speaker: Professor Doug Vernimmen, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University
Alzheimer’s disease through the looking glass: Protein aggregation and synapse lossTuesday 10 July 2012, 4pm - 5pm
Speaker: Professor Tara Spires-Jones, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Life in the balance with Wt1 and beta-cateninWednesday 4 July 2012, 4pm - 5pm
Speaker: Peter Hohenstein, PhD, Dept Medical & Developmental Genetics MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh
Sexual differentiation of the song control system and singing in birdsWednesday 27 June 2012, 4pm - 3pm
Speaker: Professor Manfred Gahr, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
Cell meets Textile ? fibre-reinforcement in cardiovascular tissue engineeringThursday 21 June 2012, 4pm - 5pm
Speaker: Professor Stefan Jockenhovel, Dept of Tissue Engineering & Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering & Institut of Textile Technology, The Helmholtz Institute Aachen, University of Aachen.
Purinergic signalling and bone cell functionWednesday 13 June 2012, 4pm - 5pm
Speaker: Dr Isabel Orriss, Bone Biology Laboratory, University College, London
Epigenetics and human health; a true gene-environment interactionWednesday 30 May 2012, 4pm - 5pm
Speaker: Professor Paul Haggarty, Rowett, Aberdeen
Ticks put the bite on Texas - re-emergence of equine and bovine babesiosis in the USTuesday 29 May 2012, 2pm - 3pm
Speaker: Dr Patricia Holman, Research Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, USA
How arsenic activates the ubiquitin proteosome pathway to cure cancerWednesday 23 May 2012, 4pm - 5pm
Speaker: Dr Ron Hay, University of Dundee
Primary cilia as the cell's antennae: defective ciliary signalling underlies diverse human diseasesWednesday 16 May 2012, 1pm - 2pm
Speaker: Dr Jeremy Reiter, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Locking-down prion infectionsMonday 7 May 2012, 1pm - 2pm
Speaker: Dr David Westaway, University of Alberta, Canada

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This article was published on Sep 6, 2012


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