Seminar series
The Seminar Series attracts distinguished scientists from around the world working in the fields of genetics, molecular medicine and cancer research, and whose research complements that being done at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer.
Sessions are open to all within CMVM, University of Edinburgh - Please contact seminars@igc.ed.ac.uk for more information.
Unless stated, seminars take place on Thursdays at 1pm in the IGC Lecture Theatre
2022
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Thursday 27th October
Professor Kristian Helin
Institute of Cancer Research, London
Host: Wendy Bickmore
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Thursday 3rd November
Dr Carla Mulas
Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, KCL
Host: Elena Corujo Simon
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Thursday 10th November
Professor Don Rio
University of California, Berkeley
Host: Javier Caceres
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Thursday 17th November
Ruben van Boxtel
Princess Maxima Centre for Paediatric Oncology, Netherlands
Host: Martin Reijns
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Thursday 24th November
Professor John Rouse
MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, Dundee
Host: Martin Reijns
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Thursday 8th December
Harry Leitch
MRC London Institute of Medical Science
2023
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Thursday 19th January
Dr Georg Kustatscher
Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, UoE
Host: Andrew Wood
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Thursday 26th January
Dr Louise Walport
Francis Crick Institute, London
Host: Hannah Long
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Thursday 2nd February
Dr Ariel Afek
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot
Host: Martin Taylor
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Thursday 9th February
Professor Karen Liu
King’s College London
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Thursday 23rd February
Adrian Bird
Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
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Thursday 2nd March
Ewan Birney
EBI, Cambridge
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Thursday 9th March
Professor Floris Foijer
ERIBA, University Medical Centre, Groningen
Host: Martin Reijns
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Thursday 16th March
Donal O’Carrol
Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, UoE
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Tuesday 21st March 1pm (PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A Tuesday)
Marnie Blewitt
The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
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Thursday 20th April
Professor Anne Schaefer
Max Planck Institute for Biology and Ageing, Cologne
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Thursday 27th April
Professor Andrew Beggs
University of Birmingham
Host: Prof Val Brunton
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Thursday 23rd March
Professor Crispin Miller
CRUK Beatson Institute, Glasgow
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Thursday 4th May
Professor Melissa Little
Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW, Copenhagen and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne
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Thursday 11th May
Dr Jamie Hackett
EMBL, Rome
Host: Olga Stepanova
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Thursday 18th May
Gabriel Balmus
UK Dementia, Cambridge
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Thursday 25th May
Dr Ge Guo
Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Thursday 1st June
Professor Deborah BOURC'HIS
Institut Curie
Host: Duncan Sproul
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Thursday 8th June
Mariya Moosajee
UCL-Crick
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Thursday 15th June
Christine Klein
Lubeck, Germany
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Thursday 22nd June
Nathalie Spassky
IBENS-ENS, Paris
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Thursday 29th June
Kim Jenson
University of Copenhagen
Host: Kevin Myant