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Speaker: Professor Adrian Krainer
Title: Antisense Modulation of Alternative Splicing: from the Bench to the Clinic
Time: 23rd May 2013, 1:00pm
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The University of Edinburgh
Western General Hospital
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Edinburgh, EH4 2XU
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2013

Arrangements Speaker Title
Thursday, 27th Jun 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
Dr. Amy Buck
Centre for Immunity, Immunology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh
Pathogen manipulation of microRNA regulatory pathways: from herpesviruses to helminths
Thursday, 6th Jun 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Simon Wilkinson
Professor Julian Downward
Signal Transduction Laboratory, CRUK London Research Institute
Mechanisms of transformation by RAS oncogenes: searching for novel therapeutic approaches
Thursday, 23rd May 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
Professor Adrian Krainer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Antisense Modulation of Alternative Splicing: from the Bench to the Clinic
Thursday, 16th May 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Andrew Jackson
Dr K J Patel
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
How blood stem cells protect themselves against genotoxic metabolites
Wednesday, 8th May 2013
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Host: Professor Veronica Van Heyningen
Professor Magdalena Goetz
Centre for Integrated Protein Science, Munich
How to generate bigger brains - molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurogenesis
Tuesday, 30th Apr 2013
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor David Porteous
Dr David Bentley
Chief Scientist, Illumina Inc., Cambridge
Genomics for Medicine
Thursday, 25th Apr 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Jack Satsangi
Professor Stephan Beck
University College London
EWAS: the new kid on the block for epigenome-wide association studies
Thursday, 18th Apr 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Kathy Evans
Dr Julian Knight
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford
Resolving functionally important genetic variation in human disease
Thursday, 28th Mar 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Professor Peter Ghaza
Chair of Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine, Head of Division of Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Systems investigation of infection in macrophages
Thursday, 21st Mar 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: WendyBickmore
Dr Maria Elena Torres-Padilla
Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg
TBA
Thursday, 14th Mar 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Ian Jackson
Dr Tatjana Sauka-Spengler
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
Systems level approach to decipher neural crest gene regulatory networks
Friday, 1st Mar 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Veronica van Heyningen
Dr Fiona Powrie
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford
Gut Reactions: Immune pathways that control intestinal homeostatis
Thursday, 28th Feb 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor David Fitzpatrick
Professor Hans Hilger Roper
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
On NGS in intellectual disability research and diagnosis
Thursday, 21st Feb 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Ian Adams
Dr Tilo Kunath
Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Modelling alpha-synuclein proteinopathies with human pluripotent stem cells
Thursday, 31st Jan 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Professor Rory Duncan
Heriot Watt University
Single Molecule Imaging of Exocytosis
Thursday, 24th Jan 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Professor Thomas Willnow
Max Delbrueck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
LRP2, a novel SHH receptor to regulate forebrain development
Thursday, 17th Jan 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Dr Ian Adams
Chromosomes and Gene Expression, HGU
Defending the genome from the enemy within: maintaining genetic stability through the generations

2012

Arrangements Speaker Title
Thursday, 29th Nov 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Margaret Frame
Dr Francesco Cecconi
Dulbecco Telethon Institute, Rome
Ambra1 and the clash between autophagy and cell cycle regulation
Thursday, 22nd Nov 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Mark Ditzel
Professor Alison Lloyd
University College London
Peripheral nerve regeneration - links to tumourigenesis
Thursday, 15th Nov 2012
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Veronica van Heyningen
Professor Luis Serrano
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona
Quantitative analysis of a model organism: can we fully understand a living system?
Thursday, 8th Nov 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Cathy Abbot
Dr Daniele Fanelli
The Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation, University of Edinburgh
Bias, Misconduct and Biomedical Research - Overview of the Evidence
Thursday, 18th Oct 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
Professor David Bentley
University of Colorado, Denver
Integration of transcription elongation and termination with mRNA processing
Thursday, 11th Oct 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Professor Dennis Ausiello
Harvard University
Quantitative Human Phenotyping: The Next Frontier in Clinical Care and Drug Discovery
Thursday, 4th Oct 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Duncan Sproul
Professor Peter Adams
Beatson Institute, Glasgow
Cellular Senescence – a second rate tumor
Thursday, 13th Sep 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Julia Dorin
Professor Judith Allen
The Allen Parasite Immunology Lab, University of Edinburgh
Macrophages in Th2 immunity: what worms can teach us about inflammation
Thursday, 6th Sep 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: WGH OPD 4th Floor Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Richard Meehan
Professor Adrian Bird
University of Edinburgh Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology
DNA methylation and the molecular basis of Rett Syndrome
Thursday, 30th Aug 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC HGU Seminar Room
Host: Dr Liz Patton
Dr David Lyons
University of Edinburgh Centre for Neuroregeneration
Studying neuron-glial interactions in vivo using Zebrafish
Thursday, 28th Jun 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Veronica van Heyningen
Professor Nicholas Katsanis
Duke University
Modeling the Morbid Human Genome
Thursday, 14th Jun 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Host: Dr Kathy Evans
Professor Anders Nykaer
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Sortilin receptors in neuronal plasticity and psychiatric disorders
Thursday, 24th May 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Wendy Bickmore
Professor Venki Ramakrishnan
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology
Structural basis of decoding by the ribosome
Thursday, 3rd May 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor David Porteous
Professor Hongjun Song
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore
Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Adult Neurogenesis
Monday, 26th Mar 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Cathy Abbott
Dr Rosamund Langston
University of Dundee
Novel approaches to modelling episodic memory in rodents
Monday, 19th Mar 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Alan Wright
Professor David Balding
UCL, London
TBA
Thursday, 15th Mar 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor David Fitzpatrick
Dr Hugues Roest Crollius
Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS)
Ancestral Genome Reconstructions: a new framework to study the evolution of biological functions
Thursday, 1st Mar 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Dr Kathy Evans
Dr Kevin Mitchell
Trinity College, Dublin
The miswired brain; from neurodevelopment to psychopathology
Thursday, 23rd Feb 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Professor Alfonso Martinez-Arias
University of Cambridge
Transition states and ß-catenin signalling in self renewal and differentiation of Stem Cell populations
Thursday, 16th Feb 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Dr Colin Semple
Dr Ken Wolfe
Trinity College, Dublin
Yeast genome evolution and the aftermath of polyploidization
Thursday, 2nd Feb 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Professor Sue Black
University of Dundee
Forensic Anthropology and Human Identification
Thursday, 19th Jan 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Dr Andrew Jackson
Dr John Diffley
Cancer Research UK
The mechanism and regulation of eukaryotic DNA replication

2011

Arrangements Speaker Title
Thursday, 8th Dec 2011
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
Professor Nick Proudfoot
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
Gene loops, R-loops and Non coding RNA
Thursday, 1st Dec 2011
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Dr Simon Boulton
London Research Institute
Controlling Recombination
Thursday, 24th Nov 2011
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Chris Haley
Dr Adam Eyre-Walker
University of Sussex
TBA
Thursday, 10th Nov 2011
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Host: Dr Julia Dorin
Dr Luke O’Neill
Trinity College, Dublin
TBA
Thursday, 3rd Nov 2011
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Dr Martin Reijns
Professor David Tollerveys
University of Edinburgh
TBA
Thursday, 27th Oct 2011
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor David Cameron
Professor Rob Coleman and Dr Ingunn Holen
University of Sheffield
The Tumour Microenvironment in Bone Metastases- Role in Development and Response to Therapy
Thursday, 29th Sep 2011
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Alan Wright
Professor Doug Turnbull
University of Newcastle
Mitochondrial Genetics and Disease
Thursday, 22nd Sep 2011
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Professor Claus Nerlov
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine
TBC
Thursday, 15th Sep 2011
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
Dr Victoria Cowling
University of Dundee
Communing with the mRNA methyl cap
Friday, 2nd Sep 2011
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Dr Kozo Kaibuchi
Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
A Disc1 'knock out' mouse model: characterisation and insights into DISC1 biology
Tuesday, 22nd Mar 2011
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: ECRC Seminar Room
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Professor Gillian Griffiths
Cambridge Institute of Medical Research
Immunodeficiencies and Cilia

2010

Arrangements Speaker Title
Thursday, 9th Dec 2010
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Dr Neil Carragher
Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, WGH
New strategies & platforms for drug development: bridging the academic - industry divide
Wednesday, 17th Nov 2010
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Andrew McIntosh
John Blangero and David Glahn
South West Foundation For Biomedical Research (JB) Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center in the Institute of Living and at Yale University School of Medicine (DG)
Discovering Genes Influencing Neurocognitive and Neuroimaging Endophenotypes
Wednesday, 30th Jun 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Li Sha
Medical Genetics Section
Evidence for metabolic regulation by the NPAS3 transcription factor in psychiatric illness
Wednesday, 23rd Jun 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Mariam Fida and Lowri Griffiths
Medical Genetics Section
The Role(s) of EEF1A2 & PTK6 in Breast Cancer andA role for eEF1A2 in motor neuron degeneration
Wednesday, 16th Jun 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Emmanuel Coste
Rheumatology (Bone Group)
Small molecules as anti-rheumatoid arthritis compounds
Wednesday, 9th Jun 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Ellen Grunewald
Medical Genetics Section
Orphan G Protein-coupled receptor 50 in brain functioning and mental illness
Wednesday, 19th May 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Kathy Evans
Medical Genetics Section
Identification and Investigation of genes associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
Wednesday, 12th May 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Omar Albagha
Rheumatology (Bone Group)
New advancement in the genetics of bone diseases, novel genes and pathways identified by genome wide association studies
Wednesday, 5th May 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Pippa Thomson
Medical Genetics Section
From genes to pathways: identifying genes for mental illness
Wednesday, 28th Apr 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Kirsty Millar
Medical Genetics Section
Studying DISC1 to understand brain function, and brain dysfunction in psychiatric illness
Wednesday, 21st Apr 2010
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Charles ffrench-Constant
Laura Magri
Neural Stem Cell Biology Unit
DIBIT - San Raffaele Scientific Institute Milano
Tsc1 deletion in Embryonic and Adult Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) recapitulates Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC)
Wednesday, 24th Mar 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Nerea Alonzo Lopez
Rheumatology (Bone Group)
Molecular Medicine Centre
Mouse models for Paget's Disease of Bone
Wednesday, 24th Feb 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Dr Craig Stevens
Gastrointestinal Unit
MMC
The role of autophagy in Crohn's disease
Tuesday, 23rd Feb 2010
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Nick Brandon
Pfizer
DISC1 regulation of the post-synaptic density by TNIK and kalirin
Wednesday, 10th Feb 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Dr Aymen Idris
Rheumatology (Bone Group)
MMC
Targeting Cytokine Receptors and Pathways: a rational, mechanism-based treatment for Bone Disorders?
Wednesday, 27th Jan 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Pamela Linksted
Medical Genetics Section (Generation Scotland)
MMC
Generation Scotland Update
Wednesday, 13th Jan 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Dr Elaine Nimmo
Gastrointestinal Unit
MMC
Genes and pathways involved in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

2009

Arrangements Speaker Title
Wednesday, 16th Dec 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Dr Philip Riches
Rheumatology (Bone Group)
MMC
New tricks for old diseases; insights into osteoporosis and gout
Wednesday, 2nd Dec 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Dr Chris Boyd
Medical Genetics Section (CF Group)
MMC
Translational medicine in action: cystic fibrosis gene therapy
Thursday, 7th May 2009
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Dr Peter Hohenstein
Dept. Medical & Developmental Genetics
MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh
Wt1 and the mesencymal-epithelial balance in development and disease
Monday, 27th Apr 2009
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Prof David Porteous
Dr Julian Ng
Kings College London
Insights into Axon Guidance through Drosophila Genetics
Thursday, 16th Apr 2009
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Kathy Evans
Dr Jeremy Hall
Dept of Psychiatry, Edinburgh
Genes, imaging and psychosis
Tuesday, 24th Mar 2009
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Dr William Hennah
FIMM, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland
University of Helsinki
DISC1 pathway genetics and bioinformatics
Thursday, 5th Feb 2009
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Chris Boyd
Dr Richard Wade-Martins
Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
University of Oxford
Molecular mechanisms of tau and alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disease
Thursday, 22nd Jan 2009
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Ben Pickard
Professor Jean Manson
Neuropathogenesis Division
The Roslin Institute
University of Edinburgh
From protein misfolding to neurodegeneration

2008

Arrangements Speaker Title
Thursday, 18th Dec 2008
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Dr Jens Wendland
Medical Genetics Branch, National Institute of Health
National Human Genome Research Institute
Bethesda, USA
An update on human serotonin transporter genetics and on the genetics of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Thursday, 6th Nov 2008
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Kathy Evans
Dr Sanbing Shen
Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Genetic modelling of neurodevelopmental disorders
Thursday, 23rd Oct 2008
Time: 11:00am
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Kirsty Millar
Professor John O'Neill
Department of Informatics, Edinburgh
"Clock cAMP: Novel insights into mammalian cellular circadian rhythms"
Thursday, 25th Sep 2008
Time: 11:00am
Venue: MMC seminar room
Andrew Pocklington
Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- The molecular organisation of the synapse - implications for the study of disease.
Monday, 11th Aug 2008
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
John Hardy
Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Reta Lila Weston Laboratories,
Institute of Neurology, UCL,
Genotypic Analysis of Human Gene Expression: it’s Importance in Dissecting Human Disease
Friday, 8th Aug 2008
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Bruce Winney
Dept of Clinical Pharmacology
University of Oxford
The need for a common UK Control Population
Monday, 21st Jul 2008
Time: 11:00am
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Jon Wood
Non-Clinical Lecturer in Neurology
University of Sheffield
Schizophrenia susceptibility genes in zebrafish
Thursday, 12th Jun 2008
Time: 11:00am
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Aymen Idris
Antonia Sophocleous
PhD Final Year Student
Rheumatology (Bone Research) Group
Molecular Medicine Centre
The role of cannabinoid receptor 2 in bone metabolism
Friday, 30th May 2008
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Douglas Blackwood
Ole Mors
Aarhus University Hospital
Denmark
"A population based genome wide association study of schizophrenia in the Danish population"The presentation will focus on the design of the study in its use of DNA samples from the PKU-Biobank and the possibilities for testing of gene environment interactions in schizophrenia using a combination of Danish registries.
Thursday, 29th May 2008
Time: 11:00am
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Cathy Abbott
Miriam Portela
PhD Final Year Student
Medical Genetics Section
Molecular Medicine Centre
Characterisation of translation elongation factor 1 B subunits
Thursday, 15th May 2008
Time: 11:00am
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Kirsty Millar
Nicholas Bradshaw
PhD Final Year Student
Medical Genetics Section
DISC1 and NDE1: Interactions of schizophrenia-related genes
Thursday, 1st May 2008
Time: 11:00am
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Jack Satsangi
Dr Johan Van Limbergen
Clinical Research Fellow/Hon Specialist Registrar
Gastrointestinal Unit, MMC
IBD Genetics
Tuesday, 15th Apr 2008
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Noriko Osumi
Tohoku University
Japan
Impaired neurogenesis: a risk factor for mental diseases including schizophrenia
Thursday, 3rd Apr 2008
Time: 11:00am
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Douglas Blackwood
Helen Knight
PhD Final Year Student
Medical Genetics Section
Two Candidate Genes for Psychiatric Illness: Breakpoints are just the Beginning
Thursday, 20th Mar 2008
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Dr Elizabeth Patton
Edinburgh Cancer Centre
Cancer Pathways in Zebrafish
Monday, 17th Mar 2008
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Professor Chris Ross
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neuroscience
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore
Neurogenetics: Insights into Degenerative Diseases and Approaches to Schizophrenia
Thursday, 21st Feb 2008
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Cathy Abbott
Dr Andrew Jackson
MRC Human Genetics Unit
Mutant nucleases that mimic viral infection of the brain
Thursday, 10th Jan 2008
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Jack Satsangi
Jeff Barrett
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
University of Oxford
Genome-wide association studies: a new day for complex disease genetics

2007

Arrangements Speaker Title
Thursday, 13th Dec 2007
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Gail Davies
Dr Carl Anderson
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
Identifying disease genes using genome-wide association: The Crohn's disease success story
Thursday, 29th Nov 2007
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: MRC Seminar Room adjacent to Reception
Host: Dr Philippa Thomson
Dr David Bechtold
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester
Altered metabolism in the GPR50 knockout mouse
Thursday, 21st Jun 2007
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Professor Robin M Murray
Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley, Kings College, London
Schizophrenia: no longer an enigma, merely a puzzle
Thursday, 14th Jun 2007
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Jonathan Berg
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consutant in Clinical Genetics
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
To be advised
Thursday, 7th Jun 2007
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Professor Mark Jobling
Professor of Genetics
University of Leicester
Beyond the testicle: human evolution and the weirdness of the Y
Thursday, 31st May 2007
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Cathy Abbott
Dr Andrew Jackson
MRC Clinician Scientist and Hon. Consultant Clinical Geneticist
Mutant nucleases mimicking congenital viral infection
Thursday, 19th Apr 2007
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Cathy Abbott
Dr Elizabeth Patton
Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre
University of Edinburgh
Seminar Postponed
Thursday, 22nd Mar 2007
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Dinesh Soares
School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
Large-scale modelling as a route to multiple surface comparisons of the CCP module family
Thursday, 8th Mar 2007
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Andy MacLeod
Heather Cordell
Professor of Statistical Genetics
Institute of Human Genetics
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Gene-gene and gene-environment interaction in family-based association studies
Thursday, 8th Feb 2007
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Professor Richard Baldock
MRC Human Genetics Unit
Mining The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Gene-Expression Database
Monday, 29th Jan 2007
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Dr Richard McCombie
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Mutation discovery through large scale high-throughput genome resequencing
Thursday, 25th Jan 2007
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Cathy Abbott
Dr David Fitzpatrick
Medical Genetics Section
MRC Human Genetics Unit
Developmental Biology in Humans: Hints and Allegations

2006

Arrangements Speaker Title
Thursday, 7th Dec 2006
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Melton
Dr Patrick Costello
Cancer Research UK
Lincoln's Inn Field, London
The role Ternary Complex factors in T cell development and function
Thursday, 30th Nov 2006
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Dr Chris Carter
www.polygenicpathways.co.uk
Genetic Signalling networks in Schizophrenia and other polygenic diseases
Thursday, 23rd Nov 2006
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Stuart Ralston
Dr Kathryn Ball
Cell Signalling Unit
CRUK Edinburgh
Regulation of the IRF-1 tumour suppressor protein
Thursday, 16th Nov 2006
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Jack Satsangi
Professor Stuart Forbes
The Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research
University of Edinburgh
Stem cells in liver regeneration and fibrosis
Thursday, 9th Nov 2006
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Dave Liewald
Professor Peter Clarke
Deputy Director
e-Science Institute
University of Edinburgh
The impact of the e-Science programme on research
Thursday, 2nd Nov 2006
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Julia Boyd
Professor Ian Jackson
MRC Human Genetics Unit
Edinburgh
Mouse Models of Genetic Disease: How the Mouse Genome Sequence Has Changed Genetics
Thursday, 29th Jun 2006
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Rebecca Devon
Dr Gareth Evans
Integrative Physiology
University of Edinburgh
Plasticity of synaptic vesicle cycling by protein phosphorylation
Tuesday, 27th Jun 2006
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Ben Pickard
Dr David Wyllie
Centre for Neuroscience Research
University of Edinburgh
LTP: what's needed to keep it up?
Wednesday, 21st Jun 2006
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Cathie Sudlow
Lavinia Paternoster
PhD student, Division of Clinical Neurosciences
Joint Medical Genetics/Stroke Research SeminarGenetics of carotid intima-media thickness
Thursday, 15th Jun 2006
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Stuart Ralston
Dr Kathryn Ball
Cell Signalling Unit
CRUK Edinburgh
Regulation of the IRF-1 tumour suppressor protein
Thursday, 8th Jun 2006
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Kathy Evans
Alison Coffey
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Hinxton
ExoSeq - a catalogue of human variation
Thursday, 1st Jun 2006
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Helen Newbery
Prof. Lizzy Fisher
Institute of Neurology
University College, London
An Aneuploid mouse with a human chromosome modelling Down syndrome.
Thursday, 25th May 2006
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Shona Kerr
Prof. Alan Wright
MRC Human Genetics Unit
Genetic mechanisms in Common Diseases
Thursday, 18th May 2006
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Stuart Ralston
Tim Arnett
UCL
Hypoxia and acidosis: fundamental regulators of bone cell function.
Thursday, 11th May 2006
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Prof David St Clair
Institute of Medical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Genetics of Schizophrenia
Thursday, 4th May 2006
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Chris Boyd
Julia Dorin
MRC Human Genetics Unit
Edinburgh
Strategies towards antimicrobial and cell therapies in the respiratory tract
Monday, 27th Mar 2006
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: David Porteous
Jonathan Flint
Oxford Genetics of Anxiety
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Oxford
The Genetic basis of neuroticism
Thursday, 9th Mar 2006
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Dr Miles Parkes
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Chrohn's and colitis genetics: the future is bright.

2005

Arrangements Speaker Title
Thursday, 1st Dec 2005
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Host: Jack Satsangi
Ann Walker
The Rayne Institute,
University College,
London
The Molecular Genetics of Haemochromatosis
Thursday, 13th Oct 2005
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Cathie Sudlow
Paris Workshop: Molecular and Statistical Genomic Epidemiology
Thursday, 6th Oct 2005
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: MMC seminar room
Sarah Wild
Bristol genetic epidemiology course
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