EBRC Seminar Series - Summer 2012
Weekly seminars held at the Roslin Institute Auditorium.
Mate selection for implementing breeding programs: Managing optimal contributions, genomic coancestries, gEBVs, trait distributions, genetic defects, MOET, costs and logistical constraints, all in a single framework
Speaker: Professor Brian Kinghorn, University of New England
Wednesday 15 August 2012, 4.00pm
Wednesday 15 August 2012, 5.00pm
What do enhancers do?
Speaker: Professor Doug Vernimmen, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University
Tuesday 24 July 2012, 4.00pm
Tuesday 24 July 2012, 5.00pm
Alzheimer’s disease through the looking glass: Protein aggregation and synapse loss
Speaker: Professor Tara Spires-Jones, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 4.00pm
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 5.00pm
Life in the balance with Wt1 and beta-catenin
Speaker: Peter Hohenstein, PhD, Dept Medical & Developmental Genetics MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday 4 July 2012, 4.00pm
Wednesday 4 July 2012, 5.00pm
Sexual differentiation of the song control system and singing in birds
Speaker: Professor Manfred Gahr, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 4.00pm
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 3.00pm
Cell meets Textile ? fibre-reinforcement in cardiovascular tissue engineering
Speaker: Professor Stefan Jockenhovel, Dept of Tissue Engineering & Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering & Institut of Textile Technology, The Helmholtz Institute Aachen, University of Aachen.
Thursday 21 June 2012, 4.00pm
Thursday 21 June 2012, 5.00pm
Purinergic signalling and bone cell function
Speaker: Dr Isabel Orriss, Bone Biology Laboratory, University College, London
Wednesday 13 June 2012, 4.00pm
Wednesday 13 June 2012, 5.00pm
Epigenetics and human health; a true gene-environment interaction
Speaker: Professor Paul Haggarty, Rowett, Aberdeen
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 4.00pm
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 5.00pm
Ticks put the bite on Texas - re-emergence of equine and bovine babesiosis in the US
Speaker: Dr Patricia Holman, Research Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, USA
Tuesday 29 May 2012, 2.00pm
Tuesday 29 May 2012, 3.00pm
How arsenic activates the ubiquitin proteosome pathway to cure cancer
Speaker: Dr Ron Hay, University of Dundee
Wednesday 23 May 2012, 4.00pm
Wednesday 23 May 2012, 5.00pm
Primary cilia as the cell's antennae: defective ciliary signalling underlies diverse human diseases
Speaker: Dr Jeremy Reiter, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 1.00pm
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 2.00pm
Locking-down prion infections
Speaker: Dr David Westaway, University of Alberta, Canada
Monday 7 May 2012, 1.00pm
Monday 7 May 2012, 2.00pm
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