Biomedical science seminars archive

Genetic manipulation of stem cell derived red blood cells: dissecting the role of host receptor context and cytoskeletal disruption in malaria parasite invasion

Friday 23 June 2023

Dr Tim Satchwell (School of Biochemistry - University of Bristol) presents his research.

Saving your bacon: Tackling the other global outbreak

Friday 16 June 2023

Dr Amanda Warr joins us from the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh for this seminar.

Defining genetic and environmental determinants of malaria transmission

Friday 2 June 2023

Professer Matthias Marti will present and discuss data demonstrating that both environmental and genetic factors contribute to the regulation of malaria transmission.

Biochemical control of cellular decision making

Friday 26 May 2023

Dr Tony Ly (School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee) presents this seminar, discussing the work of his research group in understanding how cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK1) substrate phosphorylation is ordered during cell cycle progression.

Glioblastoma response to standard treatment stratifies patients into two responder subtypes, creating the potential for precision medicine

Friday 19 May 2023

Dr Lucy Stead, Associate Professor, Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, joins us for this seminar

Invasion and Adaptation: Exploring Trypanosoma brucei's Phenotypic Flexibility in Host Tissues

Friday 12 May 2023

Dr Luisa Miranda Figueiredo discusses the phenotypic adaptation of T. brucei parasites to adipose tissue and the initial progress in understanding tissue-specific invasion mechanisms.

Use of the cytoskeleton to control Shigella infection

Friday 5 May 2023

Dr Serge Mostowy joins us from the London School of Health and Tropical Medicine for this seminar.

Targeting b-catenin in acute myeloid leukaemia

Friday 17 March 2023

Please note this event was previously scheduled for Friday 4 November 2022. Dr Rhys Morgan (University of Sussex) joins us for an engaging seminar.

Image-based drug screening in patient biopsies for personalized systems medicine and drug discovery

Friday 10 March 2023

Professor Dr Berend Snijder joins us for this seminar to present their work in the Snijder Lab, developing Pharmacoscopy to tackle the challenge of identifying effective cancer treatments for individual patients

Genetic tools for Cryptosporidium biology and drug discovery

Friday 24 February 2023

Dr Mattie Pawlowic joins us from the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee for this seminar.

Biological timing, homeostasis and infectious disease

Friday 17 February 2023

Dr Rachel Edgar joins us from Imperial College London for this talk.

Developmental origins of blood stem cells and leukaemia

Friday 10 February 2023

My lab has a long-standing interest in how the first blood cells, particularly haematopoietic stem cells, are generated during development and how they differ from adult blood cells.

Re-programming by the YAP1 and TAZ transcription factors is essential for virus-driven transformation and stratification in cervical cancer

Friday 3 February 2023

Professor Andrew Macdonald, Chair of Tumour Virology at the University of Leeds, joins us for this seminar to discuss the re-programming by the YAP1 and TAZ transcription factors in cervical cancer.

CANCELLED: Have it my way! How intracellular parasites remodel your cells to their needs

Friday 27 January 2023

This event has been cancelled.

How the cancer associated stroma changes with disease progression, and the role of the Extracellular Matrix (ECM) in influencing chromatin interactions and transcription in Prostate Cancer cells.

Friday 20 January 2023

Dr Damien Leach of Imperial College London, joins us for this seminar discussing the changes and progression of cancer associated stroma.

AML vs T cells, what tilts the balance – and can we tamper the scale to achieve cure?

Friday 13 January 2023

Dr Constandina Pospori joins us from Imperial College, London to present her recent work proposing that the dynamic regulation of hierarchical heterogeneity in AML can serve as a tumour immunoevasion mechanism and facilitate disease progression.

The role of chromatin regulators in subverting haematopoietic stem and progenitor function

Friday 2 December 2022

Professor Brian Huntly from the University of Cambridge joins us for this seminar.

The interplay of RNA structure and protein disorder in protein-RNA condensates

Friday 18 November 2022

Dr Jernej Ule of the Francis Crick Institute joins us for this seminar.

Suppression and amplification of IL-33 responses by an intestinal nematode

Friday 11 November 2022

Dr Henry McSorley joins us from the University of Dundee

Mind the gap: Unexpected ways that blood cells talk to each other

Friday 28 October 2022

Professor Jon Gibbins joins us from the University of Reading for this seminar.

How cancer-associated fibroblasts impact tumour metastasis and therapy response in breast cancer

Friday 14 October 2022

Our research aims to identify novel strategies to target the tumour and/or stroma for the prevention or suppression of metastatic cancer

Rheology and fracture behaviour of epithelial monolayers

Friday 7 October 2022

Professor Alexandre Kabla joins us from the University of Cambridge for this talk.

Ironing out haematopoiesis and immunity

Friday 30 September 2022

Join Professor Hal Drakesmith from the University of Oxford for this illuminating talk.

Aberrant enhancer activation in leukaemia and beyond

Friday 1 July 2022

Dr Thomas Milne joins us from the University of Oxford for this seminar

Neutrophils direct T cell function during inflammation

Friday 17 June 2022

Dr Emily Gwyer Findlay (University of Edinburgh)

Reactive fragment screening for expansion of the liganded proteome

Friday 10 June 2022

Dr Jacob Bush discusses the advances in genomic analysis which enable the identification of proteins that are associated with disease.

Signalling pathways regulating cellular differentiation and survival in Trypanosoma brucei

Friday 27 May 2022

Dr Mathieu Cayla joins us for this talk.

Tissue-resident gamma delta T cells in cancer development and metastasis

Friday 27 May 2022

Dr Seth Coffelt joins us from the University of Glasgow for this talk.

How inflammatory resolution shapes tissue immunity

Friday 20 May 2022

Professor Derek Gilroy joins us from University College London (UCL) for this talk.

Molecular insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery

Friday 6 May 2022

Join the University of Cambridge's Dr Lori Passmore for this engaging talk

Molecular control of myeloid cells in inflammation: IRF5 to rule them all

Friday 29 April 2022

Professor Irina Udalova will be joining us from the University of Oxford for this event.

FAIRsharing: an ecosystem of research standards and databases for effective RDM

Tuesday 26 April 2022

Dr. Allyson Lister (Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford), will be visiting the Department to film and present this talk.

Using therapeutic viruses to understand the action of human natural killer cells

Friday 22 April 2022

Professor Graham Cook joins us from the University of Leeds.

The life and times of macrophages: only the good die young?

Friday 18 March 2022

Dr Stephen Jenkins joins us to discuss the life and times of macrophages.

Understanding the causes of epigenetic dysfunction in human disease

Friday 11 March 2022

Dr Duncan Sproul will be joining us from the University of Edinburgh

Neuroimmune crosstalk in the skin

Friday 4 March 2022

Join Dr Sophie Ugolini online for this engaging event.

Quorum sensing and competition in African trypanosomes

Wednesday 2 March 2022

Join Professor Keith R Edwards, Professor of Parasite Biology, Dean of Bioscience Partnerships, as he joins us from the University of Edinburgh.

TBC

Friday 18 February 2022

Join us for an enlightening talk with Professor Christoph Scheiermann.

How growing, flowing and sugar-coating influences the efficacy of anti-bacterial immunity in the gut

Friday 11 February 2022

Dr Emma Slack will be joining us for this enlightening seminar

Plasmodium knowlesi : Understanding the Epidemiology of a Zoonotic Malaria from a Multidisciplinary Study

Friday 4 February 2022

Professor Chris Drakeley will be joining us from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Quantitative cartography of gene silencing across trypanosome genomes in culture and in the host

Friday 4 February 2022

Dr. Catarina Gadelha will be joining us from the University of Nottingham

Neutrophils direct T cell function during inflammation

Friday 28 January 2022

Please note that this event has been CANCELLED.

Regulation of cytokinesis by cell identity in the C. elegans embryo

Friday 21 January 2022

Join Dr Tim Davies for what promises to be an enlightening event

Living with a million-year long infection

Friday 3 December 2021

Biomed seminar

Dynamics of the cutaneous mediator lipidome

Friday 26 November 2021

Biomed seminar

The bare essentials: searching for patterns in parasite genome

Friday 19 November 2021

The bare essentials: searching for patterns in parasite genome

Time for some sweet-talking: role of O-GlcNAcylation in myeloid cells in shaping Type 2 immune responses

Friday 12 November 2021

Biomed seminar

“Directing cell function decisions by RNA cap regulation”

Friday 5 November 2021

Biomed seminar

The life and times of macrophages: only the good die young?

Friday 22 October 2021

Biomed seminar

Hematopoietic Stem Cells are Central to Trained Immunity

Friday 8 October 2021

Biomed seminar