College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Centre for Regenerative Medicine seminar series Spring 2014

Centre for Regenerative Medicine hosts regular external seminars in the SCRM building, Edinburgh.

Growing a Cell Therapy Industry: Opportunities and Challenges

Speaker: Prof Johan Hyliner, The Cell Therapy Catapult centre, Guys Hospital, London, UK

Thursday 3 April 2014, 3.00pm

Thursday 3 April 2014, 4.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

What are new neurons good for?

Speaker: Prof Gerd Kempermann, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Dresden, Germany

Thursday 3 April 2014, 9.00am

Thursday 3 April 2014, 10.00am

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Systems dissection of stem cells

Speaker: Prof Frank Buchholz, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Friday 28 March 2014, 12.00pm

Friday 28 March 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Spatiotemporal regulation of skin and oral epithelia stem cells in homeostasis, ageing and cancer

Speaker: Prof Salvador Aznar-Benitah, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain

Wednesday 19 March 2014, 12.00pm

Wednesday 19 March 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Using Synthetic Biology to Investigate Embryonic Stem Cell Signalling

Speaker: Dr Greg Findlay, MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, UK

Friday 14 March 2014, 12.00pm

Friday 14 March 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

A stem cell niche and its control of germline self-renewal and differentiation

Speaker: Prof Judith Kimble, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Friday 7 March 2014, 12.00pm

Friday 7 March 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Modelling human neurological disorders using patient-specific stem cell lines

Speaker: Prof Larry Stanton, Genome Institute of Singapore, Japan

Friday 28 February 2014, 12.00pm

Friday 28 February 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Generation of Multipotent Foregut Stem Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Hannan, Dept of Surgery, University of Cambridge, UK

Monday 24 February 2014, 4.00pm

Monday 24 February 2014, 5.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Epidermal stem cells in tissue homeostasis, regeneration and cancer

Speaker: Dr Kim Jensen, Biotech Research Innovation Center (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Friday 21 February 2014, 12.00pm

Friday 21 February 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Origins and regulation of gene expression heterogeneity

Speaker: Dr Jonathan Chubb, Dept of Cell & Development Biology and MRC LMCB, University College London, UK

Friday 14 February 2014, 12.00pm

Friday 14 February 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

A role for cohesin proteins in chromosome organization in non-dividing cells

Speaker: Dr Suzana Hadjur, Cancer Institute, University College London, UK

Friday 7 February 2014, 12.00pm

Friday 7 February 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Genome-wide recessive genetic screening in mammalian cells with a lentiviral CRISPR-guide RNA library

Speaker: Dr Kosuke Yusa, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

Friday 31 January 2014, 12.00pm

Friday 31 January 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

From neurogenesis to neural regeneration - novel molecular regulators

 

Thursday 30 January 2014, 2.00pm

Thursday 30 January 2014, 3.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Novel Animal and Stem Cell Models for Nervous System Disorders

Speaker: Prof Kevin Eggan, Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, USA

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 12.00pm

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Molecular mechanisms and cellular functions controlled by citrullination

Speaker: Dr Maria Christophorou, The Wellcome Trust and CR UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

Monday 20 January 2014, 12.00pm

Monday 20 January 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Transcriptional network control of blood cell development

Speaker: Prof Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research & Wellcome Trust and MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

Friday 17 January 2014, 12.00pm

Friday 17 January 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Linking transdifferentiation and iPS cell reprogramming

Speaker: Dr Thomas Graf, Center for Genomic Regulation, CRG, Barcelona, Spain

Tuesday 14 January 2014, 12.00pm

Tuesday 14 January 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

High-throughput genome engineering of human stem cells

Speaker: Dr Bill Skarnes, Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge

Friday 10 January 2014, 12.00pm

Friday 10 January 2014, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

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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