IMCSB external Seminars 2015/16 #MCSBSem

Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology 

External Seminar Series 2015/16

October 2015 13th October 27th	Speaker: Professor Thomas Brand, Imperial College London Talk title: The Popeye domain containing proteins - a novel class of cAMP effector proteins modulating the structure and function of cardiac and skeletal muscle URL Speaker: Professor Nicholas Smirnoff, University of Exeter  Talk title: The evolution of vitamin C biosynthesis and its functions in plants Host: Professor John Christie  URL
November 10th	Speaker: Professor Jose Penades, University of Glasgow Talk title: dUTPases are signalling molecules Host: Dr Eirini Kaiserli URL
November  24th	Professor Ron Hay, University of Dundee SUMO as a target for ubiquitin modification Host: Dr John Bett URL
December 8th	Professor Lora Heisler, University of Aberdeen Novel neurocircuity regulating apetite Host: Professor Graeme Milligan
December 15th  February 2nd 2016	Speaker: Professor Peter Lindblad, University of Umeå: Design, engineering, and construction of photosynthetic microbial cell factories for direct solar fuel production  Host: Professor Anna Amtmann Speaker:  Professor Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh Talk title:  Using Multi-scale models to understand daily growth, from biological clock to biomass Host:  Dr Eirini Kaiserli URL
February 9th	Speaker: Professor Jean-Francois-Collet, Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, Belgium Talk title: How bacteria protect their cell envelope Host: Professor Neil Bulleid URL
February 23rd March 8th	Speaker: Dr Joe Swift, University of Manchester Talk title: Model systems to understand the response to dynamic tensile strain in ageing cells and tissues (see earlier talk here) Host: Dr Mathis Riehle  URL postponed
March 22nd	Speaker: Dr Anastasia Zhuravleva, University of Leeds Talk title: Molecular-level regulation of Hsp70 molecular chaperones: The relationship between allosteric signal transduction, evolution and function Host: Dr Brian Smith  URL
April  8th  April  19th April 26th May 10th	Speaker: Dr Radoslav Enchev ETH, Zürich Talk Title: Structural and kinetic analysis of CSN activation and the cullin–RING ubiquitin ligase deneddylation cycle Host: Thimo Kurz URL Speaker: Dr Vas Ponnambalam Talk Title: The VEGFs and Lipid Particles: Ligands that Regulate Vascular Health & Disease URL Speaker: Professor Tracy Palmer, University of Dundee Talk title: The export of proteins across the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane Host: Professor Kostas Tokatlidis URL Speaker: Professor Jan Reimer, Universität zu Köln, Germany Talk title: Thiol oxidation in respiratory chain assembly and mitochondrial calcium signalling Host: Professor Neil Bulleid URL
May 24th	Speaker: Professor Stephen Hill, University of Nottingham Talk title: TBA Host: Dr Brian Hudson & Professor Graeme Milligan URL
June 7th	Speaker: Professor Frederic Berger, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austria Talk title: Histone variants regulate genome activity and organisation Host: Professor Anna Amtmann URL