Seminars

Friday 1st September

12.00 noon

The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre

EXTERNAL SEMINAR
Christopher Lord, Head, CRUK Gene Function Labortory, Reader in Cancer Genomics and Therapeutics, Deputy Director, The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Breast Cancer Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Synthetic lethality, BRCA and beyond

Thursday 9th September

12.00 noon

The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre

EXTERNAL SEMINAR
Chris Madsen, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Targeting metastasis - understanding cell plasticity and the tumour niche

Thursday 14th September

12.00 noon

The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre

EXTERNAL SEMINAR
Brent Derry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Functional analysis of Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM) proteins in C. elegans

Thursday 21st September

12.00 noon

The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre

EXTERNAL SEMINAR
Lluis Montoliu, Investigador Cientifico - Research Scientist CSIC, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
New animal models for research on rare diseases generated with CRISPR tools

Wednesday 27th September

12.00 noon

The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre

GUEST SEMINAR
Frank Winkler, Research Group Experimental Neuro-oncology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
"A brain in the brain": novel insights into cellular mechanism of progression and resistance in gliomas

Thursday 28th September

12.00 noon

The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre

EXTERNAL SEMINAR
Evan Reid, University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and Department of Medical G enetics, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Coupling ER-endosome contacts to lysosome function reveals a unifying pathway for axonal degeneration

Thursday 19th October

12.00 noon

The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre

EXTERNAL SEMINAR
Rob Snelgrove, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
The dual roles of leukotriene A4 hydrolase in regulating pulmonary inflammation and remodelling

Thursday 26th October

12.00 noon

The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre

EXTERNAL SEMINAR
Ernst Lengyel, The University of Chicago Medicine, USA
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