EBRC Seminar Series - Summer 2013
Weekly seminars held at the Roslin Institute Auditorium at 3.30pm.
Wednesday 10th April 2013
Title: Challenges and Opportunities in Regenerative Medicine
Speaker: Professor Jorge Piedrahita, College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State University
Wednesday 17th April 2013
Title: Models for pattern formation: from elementary mechanisms to the generation of the primary body axes
Speaker: Professor Hans Meinhardt, Max Planc Institute for Developmental Biology, Tubingen, Germany
Wednesday 24th April 2013
Title: The Charnock Bradley Lecture: Curing Cancer
Speaker: Professor Margaret Frame Science Director, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre
Wednesday 1st May 2013
Title: Mother’s love is driven by brain oxytocin and vasopressin - insights from rodent animal models
Speaker: Dr Oliver Bosch, Department of Behavioural and Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Zoology, University of Regensberg
Wednesday 8th May 2013
Title: Biological rhythms in birds and their real-world implications
Speaker: Dr Barbara Helm, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow
Wednesday 15th May 2013
Title: Porcine models for human cancers
Speaker: Professor Angelika Schnieke, Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technische Universitat Munchen, Freising, Germany
Wednesday 22nd May 2013
Title: The regulation of muscle development in the chick embryo
Speaker: Dr Andrea Munsterberg, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
Wednesday 29th May 2013
Title: Innate responses in acute phase virus infections: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Speaker: Dr Persephone Borrow, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
Wednesday 5th June 2013
Title: Systems medicine of complex human diseases
Speaker: Dr Charles Auffray, President and Founding Director, European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine, University of Lyon
Wednesday 12th June 2013
Title: Roles of receptor activity modifying proteins in regulation of GPCR signalling, whole animal physiology and cancer biology
Speaker: Prof Tim Skerry Academic Unit of Bone Biology, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield
Wednesday 19th June 2013 - Cancelled
Title: Obesity and its detrimental effect on brain diseases
Speaker: Dr Catherine Lawrence, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester
This event has been cancelled.
Wednesday 26th June 2013
Title: New perspectives on Batten disease
Speaker: Dr Jon D Cooper, The James Black Centre, The Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
Wednesday 10th July 2013
Title: Regulation of Lymphocyte Development and Activation by RNA Binding Proteins
Speaker: Dr Martin Turner, Head, Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling & Development, Babraham Institute, Cambridge
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