Centre for Regenerative Medicine seminar series 2012
Centre for Regenerative Medicine hosts regular external seminars in the SCRM building, Edinburgh.
Shared University Research Facilities: SuRF@ QMRI
Speakers: Pamela Brown: Lentiviral vectors, Bob Morris: Routine Histology & Mike Millar: Immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence and RNAscope
Friday 7 December 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 7 December 2012, 2.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Developmental Programming of Emerging Haematopoietic Stem Cells
Speaker: Dr Aldo Ciau-Uitz, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
Monday 3 December 2012, 1.00pm
Monday 3 December 2012, 2.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
The Jackson Laboratory and Charles River Fall Tour
Speakers are Vicky Murray-Tait (Account Manager, Charles River) and Barbara Witham (Senior Manager, Int. Opportunity Development, Jackson Laboratory).
Friday 30 November 2012, 1.30pm
Friday 30 November 2012, 5.30pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Vascular Injury, repair and regeneration
Speaker: Dr Nick Mills, CMVM, University of Edinburgh
Friday 30 November 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 30 November 2012, 2.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Neural Cells for Therapy
Speaker: Dr Mahendra Rao, NIH Center for Regenerative Medicine, USA
Monday 26 November 2012, 1.30pm
Monday 26 November 2012, 2.30pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Resolution of cell fate decisions revealed by single-cell gene expression analysis from zygote to blastocyst (Provisional Title) - CANCELLED
Speaker: Prof Paul Robson, Developmental Cellomics Lab, Genome Institute of Singapore. SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Friday 23 November 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 23 November 2012, 2.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Generation and regeneration of pancreatic beta cells
Speaker: Prof HongKui Deng, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, China
Friday 9 November 2012, 5.00pm
Friday 9 November 2012, 6.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Life Technologies Seminar
Speakers: Beverley Cork (Pluripotent Stem Cell Research; Challenges and Solutions for Reprogramming, Culture, Differentiation and Characterization) and Ann MacDonald (Flow Cytometry; making the most of your violet laser).
Friday 9 November 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 9 November 2012, 2.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Cambridge Bioscience
Speakers: Dr. Terri Gaskell (Chief Scientific Officer) from Cell Guidance Systems and Kay Samuel, Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Adult Cell Therapy Group, Centre for Regenerative Medicine.
Monday 5 November 2012, 11.30am
Monday 5 November 2012, 2.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Culture Adaption in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture: Oncogenesis in vitro
Speaker: Prof Peter Andrews, Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield, UK
Friday 26 October 2012, 12.00pm
Friday 26 October 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
The mammalian piRNA pathway, from transposon silencing to germ line maintenance
Speaker: Dr Donal O'Carroll, Genome Biology Unit, EMBL Monterotondo, Italy
Tuesday 23 October 2012, 4.00pm
Tuesday 23 October 2012, 5.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Transcription reduction and transcript modification as treatment strategies for Huntington disease
Speaker: Dr Willeke van Roon, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
Friday 19 October 2012, 12.00pm
Friday 19 October 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Trains, Planes and Lipid Rafts: Tales of Trafficking in Mammalian Cilia
Speaker: Dr Pleasantine Mill, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK
Monday 15 October 2012, 12.00pm
Monday 15 October 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Liver formation: progenitor specification and beyond
Speaker: Dr Elke Ober, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
Friday 12 October 2012, 1.15pm
Friday 12 October 2012, 2.15pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC): a Paradigm Shift for Human Disease Modelling and Therapy
Speaker: Prof Gustavo Mostoslavsky, CReM Boston University School of Medicine, USA
Monday 1 October 2012, 4.00pm
Monday 1 October 2012, 5.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Living with Two X Chromosomes: of Mice and Women Studies on the initiation mechanisms of X chromosome inactivation in stem cells and mouse models, and the role of RNG12 herein
Speaker: Dr Stefan Barakat, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Friday 28 September 2012, 1.15pm
Friday 28 September 2012, 2.15pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Defining the cellular and molecular determinants of breast cancer heterogeneity
Speaker: Dr Matt Smalley, European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute, Cardiff University, UK
Tuesday 25 September 2012, 12.00pm
Tuesday 25 September 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Uncovering transcriptional regulatory principles of early human embryonic development
Speaker: Dr Alvaro Rada-Inglesias, Dept of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, USA
Monday 10 September 2012, 12.00pm
Monday 10 September 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Conditional expansion of neural stem cells in the mammalian brain
Speaker: Dr Federico Calegari, CRTD, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Friday 7 September 2012, 12.00pm
Friday 7 September 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Hibernation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Bone Marrow Niche
Speaker: Prof Hiro Nakauchi, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, IMSUT, Tokyo, Japan. (Hiro Nakauchi is Director of newly established Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo (IMSUT) http://stemcell-u-tokyo.org/en/)
Wednesday 5 September 2012, 12.00pm
Wednesday 5 September 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Functions of Tumor Necrosis Factor produced by distinct cellular sources
Speaker: Prof Sergei Nedospasov, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Department of Immunology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Tuesday 4 September 2012, 3.00pm
Tuesday 4 September 2012, 4.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
The molecular genetics of frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Speaker: Prof Stuart Pickering-Brown, University of Manchester
Friday 27 July 2012, 12.00pm
Friday 27 July 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Development of novel stable gene transfer vector and its application for stem cell engineering
Speaker: Dr Ken Nishimura, Laboratory of Gene Regulation, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Tuesday 24 July 2012, 12.00pm
Tuesday 24 July 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
A paracrine component of the senescence response
Speaker: Dr Jesus Gil, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
Friday 20 July 2012, 12.00pm
Friday 20 July 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Urogenital System Biology - From Development to Inheritance and Disease Mechanisms
Speaker: Prof Seppo Vainio, Biocenter Oulo, Finland
Monday 2 July 2012, 12.00pm
Monday 2 July 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Imparting regenerative capacity to limbs by progenitor cell transplantation
Speaker: Prof Jonathan Slack, Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, USA
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 12.00pm
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Autologous progenitor cells in a hydrogel form a supernumerary and functional muscle
Speaker: Dr Cesare Gargioli, Department of Biology, Tor Vergata Rome University
Monday 25 June 2012, 4.00pm
Monday 25 June 2012, 5.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Geometrical boundary conditions turns cytoskeleton self-assembly into self-organisation
Speaker: Dr Manuel Thery, iRTSV, Life Sciences Division, CEA, France
Friday 8 June 2012, 12.00pm
Friday 8 June 2012, 1.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Hematopoietic stem cell development: Endothelial to hematopoietic transition
Speaker: Prof Elaine Dzierzak, Erasmus Stem Cell Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Thursday 17 May 2012, 4.00pm
Thursday 17 May 2012, 5.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Bioinformatic analysis of transcriptional control mechanisms in blood and ES cells
Wednesday 9 May 2012, 1.00pm
Wednesday 9 May 2012, 2.00pm
Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent
Tuesday 8 May 2012, 12.00pm
Tuesday 8 May 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 4 May 2012, 12.00pm
Friday 4 May 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 20 April 2012, 12.00pm
Friday 20 April 2012, 1.00pm
Wednesday 18 April 2012, 12.00pm
Wednesday 18 April 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 13 April 2012, 12.00pm
Friday 13 April 2012, 1.00pm
Wednesday 4 April 2012, 1.00pm
Wednesday 4 April 2012, 2.00pm
Friday 30 March 2012, 12.00pm
Friday 30 March 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 23 March 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 23 March 2012, 2.00pm
Friday 16 March 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 16 March 2012, 2.00pm
Tuesday 6 March 2012, 1.00pm
Tuesday 6 March 2012, 2.00pm
Friday 10 February 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 10 February 2012, 2.00pm
Friday 3 February 2012, 1.00pm
Friday 3 February 2012, 2.00pm
Monday 23 January 2012, 5.00pm
Monday 23 January 2012, 6.00pm
Thursday 19 January 2012, 4.30pm
Thursday 19 January 2012, 5.30pm
All interested are welcome to attend.
The SCRM is a secure building. Please ensure you have your university or NHS ID card with you as you will be asked to present it when signing in. Thank you for your co-operation
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