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
2023
Organoids and translational genomics in cancer research
Thursday 5th October
Professor Andrew Beggs
University of Birmingham
Host: Professor Val Brunton
mtDNA mutations in cancer: context-specific drivers with therapeutic relevance
Thursday 12th October
Dr Payam Gammage
Beatson Institute, Glasgow
Host: Colin Semple
Title - TBC
Thursday 26th October
Dr Gibran Hemani
University of Bristol
Host: Chris Ponting
Title - TBC
Thursday 2nd November
Professor Lynne Regan
Centre for Synthetic & Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh
Host: Joe Marsh
Title - TBC
Thursday 9th November
Professor Matt Maurano
Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University
Host: Wendy Bickmore
Title - TBC
Thursday 16th November
Professor Adrian Bracken
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Host: Gerry Brien
Title - TBC
Thursday 23rd November
Professor Jussi Taipale
Dept of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Host: Hannah Long
2024
Title - TBC
Thursday 11th January
Professor Richard Jenner
UCL Cancer Institute, University College London
Host: Nick Gilbert
Title - TBC
Thursday 18th January
Professor Kenny Baillie
Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh
Host: Simon Biddie
Title - TBC
Thursday 25th January
Professor David Chang
Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre, Glasgow
Host: Alan Serrels
Title - TBC
Thursday 1st February
Rory Collins
University of Oxford
Host: Riccardo Marioni
Title - TBC
Thursday 8th February
Professor Alessi Ciulli
Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation, University of Dundee
Host: Andrew Wood
Title -TBC
Thursday 29th February
Davide Risso
University of Padova, Italy
Host: Catalina Vallejos
Title - TBC
Thursday 14th March
Oscar Llorca
Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid
Host: Javier Caceres
Title - TBC
Thursday 21st March
Professor Nicky Whiffin
Big Data Institute and the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
Host: Joe March
Title - TBC
Thursday 28th March
Serena Nik-Zainal
University of Cambridge
Host: Tim Aitman
Title - TBC
Thursday 18th April
Professor Christopher Vakoc
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Host: Gerry Brien
Title - TBC
Thursday 25th April
Professor Yang Shi
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford
Host: Gerry Brien
Title - TBC
Thursday 2nd May
Professor John Van Noort
Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden
Host: Nick Gilbert
Title - TBC
Thursday 16th May
Professor Sara Wickstrom
Max Planck Institute, Munster
Host: Luke Boulter
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
Title - TBC
Thursday 6th June
Dr Chris Tape
UCL Cancer Institute
Host: Kevin Myant
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 27th June
Dr Marta Shahbazi
MRC LMB, Cambridge
Host: Pleasantine Mill
Title - TBC
Thursday 29th August
Daniel Zilberman
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Host: Duncan Sproul
Title - TBC
Thursday 5th September
Ana Banito
German Cancer Research Centre
Host: Nezha Benabdallah
Title - TBC
Thursday 14th November
Professor Ivan Dikic
Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Medical Faculty, Frankfurt
Host: Professor Simon Wilkinson