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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