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