Seminar series
The Seminar Series attracts distinguished scientists from around the world working in the fields of genetics, molecular medicine and cancer research, and whose research complements that being done at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer.
Sessions are open to all within CMVM, University of Edinburgh - Please contact seminars@igc.ed.ac.uk for more information.
Unless stated, seminars take place on Thursdays at 1pm in the IGC Lecture Theatre
2024
The Spliceosome in Health and Disease
Tuesday 16th April - PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS ON A TUESDAY
Dan Larson
NIH
Host: Javier Caceres
A catalytic co-dependency of YAP/TAZ in human cancer
Thursday 18th April
Professor Christopher Vakoc
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Host: Gerry Brien
Chromatin Regulation and Cancer
Thursday 25th April
Professor Yang Shi
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford
Host: Gerry Brien
IGC Inaugural Lecture – CMVM Showcase event 1 “From Mutations to Medicine”
Monday 29th April - PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS ON A MONDAY AND AT 5PM
Barry Laird – Palliative Medicine, Cancer
Martin Taylor – Evolutionary Genomics
Grzegorz Kudla – Genetics and bioinformatics, genetic engineering
Unveiling Chromatin Organization with Single-Molecule Approaches (in silico, in vitro, in vivo)
Thursday 2nd May
Professor John Van Noort
Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden
Host: Nick Gilbert
Computational Optics of the Tumour Microenvironment
Friday 3rd May - PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS ON A FRIDAY
Dr Kevin Eliceiri
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Pete Bankhead
Mechanical regulation of cell states
Thursday 16th May
Professor Sara Wickstrom
Max Planck Institute, Munster
Host: Luke Boulter
IGC Inaugural Lecture – CMVM Showcase event 2: "Skin: Discover a world beneath the surface"
Thursday 16th May - PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS AT 5PM
Sara Brown – Inflammatory skin disease atopic eczema
Liz Patton – Skin Cancer
Richard Weller – IRR – Medical dermatology, the effect of ultraviolet on systemic health
Title - TBC
Thursday 23rd May
Steve Horvath
Altos Labs, California – moving to Cambridge
Host: Riccardo Marioni
Title - TBC
Thursday 30th May
Professor Alexander Stark
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna
Host: Wendy Bickmore and Elias Friman
Aberrantly spliced surface proteoforms in normal development and cancer immunotherapy
Monday 3rd June - NOTE THIS IS A MONDAY
Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Host: Javier Caceres
Title - TBC
Thursday 6th June
Dr Chris Tape
UCL Cancer Institute
Host: Kevin Myant
Title - TBC
Wednesday 12th June - NOTE THIS IS A WEDNESDAY
Professor Joe Gleeson
Host: Andrew Jackson
Title - TBC
Thursday 13th June
Dr Itay Tirosh
Weizmann Institute
Host: Martin Taylor
Title - TBC
Thursday 20th June
Dr Benoit Bruneau
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, UCSF
Host: Pleasantine Mill
Title - TBC
Thursday 29th August
Daniel Zilberman
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Host: Duncan Sproul
Title - TBC
Thursday 12th September
Ana Banito
German Cancer Research Centre
Host: Nezha Benabdallah
Title - TBC
Thursday 28th November
Professor Ivan Dikic
Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Medical Faculty, Frankfurt
Host: Professor Simon Wilkinson