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.
In 2021 we are holding a number of mini-symposia, exploring some of our research themes from across the Institute, featuring a variety of speakers in each session within a topic.
Sessions are open to all within CMVM, University of Edinburgh - Please contact seminars@igc.ed.ac.uk for more information.
Cellular Senescence and the Immune System
Thursday 4th March, 4pm
- Professor Pingwei Li, Texas A&M University
- Professor Dan Stetson, University of Washington
- Dr Carolina Uggenti, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh
Thursday 11th March, 4pm
- Dr Alice Lepelley, Institut Imagine, Paris
- Professor Gerald Shadel, Salk Institute, La Jolla
- Professor Stephen Tait, Beatson Institute, Glasgow
Glasgow-Edinburgh Cancer Seminar Series In collaboration with the Beatson Institute, Glasgow
Thursday 18th March, 12pm
Modeling breast cancer in mice and rats
Professor Jos Jonkers
Senior Group Leader & Head of Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Professor of Molecular Experimental Ontogenetics and Cancer Therapeutics, Leiden University
Nucleic acid signalling to the innate immune system
Thursday 22nd April, 1pm
- Cytoplasmic Chromatin Fragments (CCF) Activate Immune Signaling in Senescent and Aged Cells
- Professor Peter Adams, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla
- Metabolic stressed T cells accelerate systemic senescence and aging
- Dr Maria Mittelbrunn, Center of Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa, Madrid
Cellular Mechanisms of Development and Disease
Thursday 29th April, 2pm
- How to build a ciliary sensory organelle
- Professor Vadim Arshavsky, Duke University
- CYRI, a new regulator of actin in lamellipodia and macropinosomes
- Dr Laura Machesky, Beatson Institute, Glasgow
- RPGR, actin and photoreceptor membranes
- Dr Roly Megaw, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh
Thursday 20th May, 2pm
- Cell fate patterning: The guiding hand of tissue geometry
- Dr Guillaume Blin, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Professor Yanlan Mao, University College London
- Professor Xavier Trepat, IBEC Barcelona
Thursday 27th May, 2pm
- Ecological interactions in tissue growth: maximising a cell's chance to contribute to a functional organ
- Professor Laura Johnston, University of Columbia
- The role of proteotoxic stress in cell competition
- Professor Eugenia Piddini, EMBL, Heidelberg
- Cell competition and its role as a mitochondrial purifying selection mechanism during development
- Dr Tristan Rodriguez, Imperial College London
Heterogeneity
Thursday 10th June, 12pm
- Cutting in the wrong place: transcription-associated mutagenesis causes short deletions in cancer and the human germline
- Dr Martin Reijns, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh
- RNA 5-methylcytosine regulates metabolic plasticity of cancer cells
- Dr Michaela Frye, DKFZ, Heidelberg
- Hosted by Dr Andy Bretherick, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh
Thursday 17th June, 12pm
- Cellular communication during salivary gland regeneration
- Dr Elaine Emmerson, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Mapping human tissue architecture using spatial genomics
- Dr Omer Bayraktar, Sanger Institute, Cambridge
- Hosted by Dr Jeanette Baran-Gale, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh
Thursday 24th June, 12pm
- The long and short of COVID-19: ACE2, interferons and genetics
- Dr Mila Prokunina-Olsson, National Cancer Institute, NIH
- Hosted by Dr Jonine Figueroa, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh