MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit
Speaker: Dr Siobhan Quenby, Reader/Honorary Consultant, Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Host: Professor Henry Jabbour
Division of Reproductive and Developmental Sciences
Autumn term seminar programme 2009
uNK cells from laboratory bench to clinical trial
Speaker: Dr Siobhan Quenby, Reader/Honorary Consultant, Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Host: Professor Henry Jabbour
Monday 5 October 2009, 12.30pm
Monday 5 October 2009, 1.30pm
The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Lecture Theatre, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh
Apoptosis in tissues, tumours and T-flasks: a new biology of cell death?
Speaker: Professor Christopher Gregory, Centre for Inflammation Research and ImmunoSolv Ltd. Host: Professor Henry Jabbour
Monday 12 October 2009, 12.30pm
Monday 12 October 2009, 1.30pm
The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Lecture Theatre, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh
Myometrial potassium channels – novel targets for the treatment of preterm labour?
Speaker: Dr Rachel Tribe, Maternal and Fetal Research Unit, Department of Women’s Health, St Thomas’ Hospital, London. Host: Dr Simon Riley
Monday 26 October 2009, 5.45pm
Monday 26 October 2009, 5.45pm
The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Lecture Theatre, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh
Management of infertility - evidence, intuition and financial reality
Speaker: Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya, Head, Section of Applied Clinical Sciences, Division of Applied Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital. Host: Dr Fiona Denison
Monday 2 November 2009, 1.30pm
Monday 2 November 2009, 2.30pm
The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Lecture Theatre, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh
The role of ETS gene alterations in the development of human prostate cancer
Speaker: Professor Colin Cooper, The Institute for Cancer Research, Male Urological Cancer Research Centre, London. Host: Dr Axel Thomson
Monday 9 November 2009, 1.30pm
Monday 9 November 2009, 2.30pm
The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Lecture Theatre, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh
Early life programming of reproductive competence
Speaker: Professor Cheryl Ashworth, Division of Developmental Biology, The Roslin Institute. Host: Dr Simon Riley
Saturday 14 November 2009, 1.30pm
Saturday 14 November 2009, 2.30pm
The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Lecture Theatre, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh
The boygirl mutant: a study of gonadal sex reversal in the mouse
Speaker: Dr Andy Greenfield, Mammalian Genetics Unit, MRC Harwell, Oxfordshire. Host: Dr Lee Smith
Monday 23 November 2009, 1.30pm
Monday 23 November 2009, 2.30pm
The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Lecture Theatre, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh
Fetal growth restriction. Is what’s good for the lung, good for the brain?
Speaker: Professor Euan Wallace, Carl Wood Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, Australia. Host: Professor Jane Norman
Monday 30 November 2009, 1.30pm
Monday 30 November 2009, 2.30pm
The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Lecture Theatre, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh
Genes, androgens and polycystic ovaries
Speaker: Professor Stephen Franks, Institute of Reproductive & Developmental Biology, Imperial College, London Hammersmith Hospital. Host: Dr Colin Duncan
Monday 7 December 2009, 1.30pm
Monday 7 December 2009, 2.30pm
The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Lecture Theatre, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh
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