College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Centre for Reproductive Health

The Centre for Reproductive Biology organises an annual programme of seminars by research scientists from around the world whose work complements that being done within MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit and University of Edinburgh Division of Reproductive and Developmental Sciences.

Seminar series 2013

All seminars will be in the Wellcome Lecture Theatre in the Queen's Medical Research Institute at 12.30pm-1.30pm, unless otherwise stated.

Attendees for seminars should be seated five minutes before the advertised start time. Mobile phones and other devices with audible alarms should be switched off when entering the Auditorium. An Induction Loop system is in operation within the Auditorium.

Monday 9th December 2013

Title: Novel pathways that regulate miRNA and mRNA gene expression and function in decidual cells and adipocytes

Speaker: Dr. Mark Christian, Metabolic and Vascular Health, University of Warwick

Monday 2nd December 2013

Title: Macrophages in central nervous system repair

Speaker: Dr. Veronique Miron, Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Centre for Reproductive Health

Monday 25th November 2013

Title: Wt1 and beta-catenin in kidney development and disease

Speaker: Dr. Peter Hohenstein, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh

Monday 18th November 2013

Title: TBC

Speaker: Jieqian Zhou, Finishing PhD student, Centre for Reproductive Health

Monday 11th November 2013

Title: The role of chemokine signaling in macrophage-mediated breast cancer metastasis in macrophage-mediated breast cancer metastasis

Speaker: Dr. Takanori Kitamura, Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Centre for Reproductive Health

Monday 4th November 2013

Title: The modulation of inflammation in human parturition

Speaker: Shalini Rajagopal, Finishing PhD student, Centre for Reproductive Health

Monday 28th October 2013

Title: Keys for the gatekeeper? Macrophages and remodelling the cervix in the process of parturitio

Speaker: Dr. Steven Yellon, Loma Linda University School of Medicine

Monday 21st October 2013

Title: QMRI SPECIAL SEMINAR: Imaging intracrinology using Mass Spectrometry

Speaker: Dr. Ruth Andrew, UoE/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science

Monday 14th October 2013

Title: The role of infection and inflammation in a mouse model of preterm labour

Speaker: Dr. Sara Rinaldi, Finishing PhD student, Centre for Reproductive Health

Monday 7th October 2013

Title: Development of non-ART treatment of human sperm dysfunction

Speaker: Professor Christopher Barratt, University of Dundee School of Medicine

Monday 23rd September 2013 - Cancelled

Title: Characterization and functional study of metastasis-associated macrophages

Speaker: Dr. BinZhi Qian, Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Centre for Reproductive Health

Friday 2nd August 2013

Title: Classical and Avant Garde MUC1- The MUC1-SEA Domain for Cancer Therapy and the MUC1-ARF Alternate Reading Frame Protein for Something New

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Wreschner, Department of Cell Research and Immunology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University

Title: The peri-conceptual immune response - new insights and implications for reproductive success

Speaker: Prof Sarah Robertson, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Co-Director, Research Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Adelaide

CHANGE OF START TIME - 1.30pm

Title: The Biology of a Simple Epithelium essential for Species Propagation

Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Pollard, Director, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health

Title: Defining the role of Wnt/β-catenin in pituitary development and tumorigenesis

Speaker: Dr. Carles Gaston-Massuet, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London

Title: tbc

Speaker: Dr. Geraldine Canny, Geneva Foundation For Medical Education and Research

Title: Endometrosis: diagnosis, modern management and perspectives

Speaker: Professor Charles Chapron, University Paris Descartes, Faculty of Medicine

Title: Podosomes: signature of the wandering cell

Speaker: Professor Gareth Jones, King’s College London

Title: Peripheral and central mechanisms of pain

Speaker: Dr. Shafaq Sikandar, Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London

Title: All About Macrophages

Speaker: Professor David Hume, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh

Monday 15th April 2013

Title: Germ Cell Cancer; its stem cell character and clinical impact

Speaker: Professor Leendert Looijenga, Laboratory for Experimental Patho-Oncology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

Monday 11th March 2013

Title: From “The Abyss”… Androgen Receptor Structure and Drug Discovery

Speaker: Professor Iain McEwan, The School of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen

Monday 25th February 2013

Title: In vitro differentiation of male germ cells - Future options for fertility preservation in boys

Speaker: Dr. Jan-Berndt Stuckenborg, Department of Women's and Children's Health Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

Monday 18th February 2013

Title: Ovarian cancer biology and choice of therapy; embracing the new science

Speaker: Professor Charlie Gourley, Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, MRC IGMM, The University of Edinburgh

Monday 4th February 2013

Title: Modulatory effects of estrogen on the sensory and sympathetic nervous system in chronic inflammation

Speaker: Dr. Maria Luisa Barcena de Arellano, Endometriosis Research Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

Monday 28th January 2013

Title: tbc

Speaker: Dr. Ian Adams, MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC IGMM, The University of Edinburgh

Thursday 24th January 2013

Title: Feto-placental defense: A macro role for microRNAs

Speaker: Professor Yoel Sadovsky, Magee-Women's Research Institute & Foundation at the University of Pittsburgh

PLEASE NOTE: Start time is 1pm

Monday 7th January 2013

Title: tbc

Speaker: Professor Wayne Tilley, Centre for Cancer Research, Hanson Institute, University of Adelaide

PLEASE NOTE: Start time is 3.30pm

Monday 7th January 2013

Title: Epigenetic regulation of the leptin gene in placenta

Speaker: Dr. Kirsten Hogg, The Child and Family Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver