2007 seminars & events

January 2007

31 January

• Tom Pratt, 'Sulphated sugars help to guide retinal axons into the brain'
• Tammy Lannagan, 'The neurotrophin receptor, TrkB, and basement membrane formation in early ovary development'
• Thomas Becker, 'Extracellular matrix molecules in successful axon regeneration in the CNS of zebrafish'

Prof Jerry L Turnbull (University of Liverpool)

• 'Heparan sulphate - decoding a dynamic multifunctional cell regulator'

Host: Dr John Mason

February 2007

2 February

• 'Neuronal exocytosis – a tale of SNAREs and vesicles'

Host: Dr Mike Cousin

March 2007

14 March

• Prof Johan Ericson (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
• 'Identification of intrinsic determinants of midbrain dopamine neurons'

Host: Dr Thomas Theil

• Sally Lowell (Institute for Stem Research), 'Notch coordinates lineage choice in pluripotent embryonic stem cells'
• Megan Davey (Roslin Institute), 'Patterning in talpid3 embryos indicates Gli function is abnormal'
• Vassiliki Fotaki (CIP, University of Edinburgh), 'Re-examining the effects of Gli3 loss in the developing mouse forebrain'

29 March

• Dr Adrian Moore (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan)
• 'Individual members of a neuron class-specific transcription factor code control different aspects of dendrite cytoskeleton and synergize to define final arbor shape'

Host: Prof Andrew Jarman

April 2007

• Dr Geraint Thomas (University College London)
• 'Is the constitutive secretory pathway regulatable?'

Host: Prof Mike Shipston

27 April - PhD talks

• Raphie Kitson-Pantano, 'The conservation and divergence of function in the SIX family of homeodomain transcription factors'
• Catherine Carr, 'The role of Pax6 at the pallial-subpallial boundary'
• Wen-Chin Lee, 'Dacts in mouse kidney development'
• Vlad Ivaniutsin, 'APC and cortical development'

May 2007

4 May - PhD talks

• Nils Lindstrom, 'Branching morphogenesis with Rac and Rho'
• Petrina Georgala, 'Cortical progenitor proliferation and lamination defects in mice overexpressing PAX6'
• Anne Ellwood, 'Proteins involved in development of the barrel corex'
• Chris Conway, 'Defining the role Heparan sulphate sulphation has on axon guidance in the developing murine visual system'

June 2007

• 'Genes involved in the formation of the earliest cortical circuits'

Host: Prof David Price

September 2007

26 September

Prof Jeremy Henley (University of Bristol)

• 'SUMOylation regulates kainate receptor endocytosis and synaptic transmission'

Host: Dr Mike Cousin

November 2007

 

• 'Contribution of glial cells to NMDA receptor activity in the rat supraoptic nucleus'

Host: Prof Mike Ludwig

28 November - Seminar morning: Probing Molecular Networks

• Cameron Wyatt (Edinburgh University), 'Mechanisms of axon growth and regeneration in zebrafish'
• Kerstin Hasenpusch-Theil 9Edinburgh University), 'Gli3 and its role in cortical neuronal differentiation'
• Dirk-Jan Kleinjan (MRC Human Genetics Unit), Title to be announced
• Pedro Coutinho (MRC Human Genetics Unit), 'A combined approach to identify Pax6 targets'
• Dr Rick Livesey (University of Cambridge), 'Pax6 target genes in the developing cortex: roles for Pax6 in stem cell maintenance and priming of neuronal gene expression'

Host: David Price

December 2007

5 December - Inaugural Edinburgh Vesicle Trafficking Consortium Seminar Series

• Claire Medine, 'A pathway for t-SNARE cluster formation'
• Sutherland Maciver, 'The role of the actin cytoskeleton in secretion'
• Ian Dransfield, 'Control of macrophage phagocytosis of apoptotic cells'
• Iain Robinson (University of Plymouth), 'Genetically dissecting membrane trafficking in drosophila'

13 December

• Dr Nicholas Justice (Salk Institute, San Diego, USA)
• 'Mechanisms underlying corticotropin releasing factor modulation of endocrine, autonomic and behavioral stress responses'

Host: Prof Mike Shipston