Past seminars (2016-2015)

Dpt of Cell Biology

Dr Julia Fitzgerald

University of Tübingen, Germany

Mitochondrial pathways to Parkinson's Disease

3079, Sciences III

Host: Didier Picard

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Roger Williams

MRC-LMB, Cambridge (UK)

Vps34 and TOR: structural approaches to two ancient rivals

A100, Sciences II

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Nikolay Korolev

School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Nucleosome-nucleosome stacking: a basic element of chromatin structure

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thomas Schalch

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Life Science Seminar Series

Rick Morimoto

Department of Molecular Biosciences, Rice Institute for Biomedical Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

to be announced

A100, Sciences II

Host: Didier Picard

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Puisieux Alain

UMR INSERM Lyon

« EMT inducers govern cellular pliancy and cancer genome stability »

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Life Science Seminar Series

Ning Zheng

Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, United States; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, United States

"Targeting Ubiquitin Ligase: Hormones, Metabolites, & Drugs"

A100, Sciences II

Host: Michael Hothorn

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Life Science Seminar Series

Georg Halder

VIB Center for the Biology of Disease, University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; KU Leuven Center for Human Genetics, University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Mysteries in growth control and the Hippo pathway

A100, Sciences II

Host: Brigitte Galliot

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Dr. Manuel Mendoza

CRG, Barcelona

"Nuclear organization and division"

3079, Sciences III

Host: Françoise Stutz

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Sheroy Minocherhomji

University of Copenhagen

"Mitotic DNA repair synthesis: Its roles in genome stability and cancer"

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Life Science Seminar Series

Kris Niyogi

Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3102, USA

How to make a chloroplast

A150, Sciences II

Host: Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Dr Jason CARROLL

Cancer Research UK, Cambridge, UK

Understanding estrogen receptor transcription in breast cancer

A100, Sciences II

Host: Didier Picard

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Life Science Seminar Series

Miltos Tsiantis

Luis LoDepartment of Comparative Development and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany.pez-Molina

Towards understanding the genetic basis for evolutionary change in leaf form: from understanding to reconstructing

A100, Sciences II

Host: Luis Lopez Molina

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Conference

Prof. David E. James

The Charles Perkins Centre - The University of Sydney

Snapshots of Cell Behaviour using Phosphoproteomics

A100, Sciences II

Host: Howard Riezman

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Life Science Seminar Series

Andrew Millar

University of Edinburgh

Understanding life across scales, from biological clocks to daily growth rates

A100, Sciences II

Host: Theresa Fitzpatrick

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Life Science Seminar Series

Cayetano Gonzalez

Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB-Barcelona), Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig LluÌs Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain;

Drosophila as a model for malignant growth

A100, Sciences II

Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan

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Life Science Seminar Series

Johannes Kornhuber

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.

to be announced

A100, Sciences II

Host: Unknown

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Life Science Seminar Series

Richard Youle

Biochemistry Section, Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Genes mutated in Parkinson’s disease and ALS: involvement in Mitochondrial Fidelity and Selective Autophagy

A100, Sciences II

Host: Jean-Claude Martinou

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Sven Rottenberg

Institute of Animal Pathology - University of Bern

PARP inhibitor resistance in BRCA1/2-mutant mouse mammary tumors

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Life Science Seminar Series

Stefan Raunser

Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany; Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Thielallee 63, 14195 Berlin, Germany.

How to kill a mocking bug - Structural insights into Tc toxin complex action

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thomas Schalch

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Life Science Seminar Series

Felix Randow

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK; Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.

How cells defend their cytosol against bacteria

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thierry Soldati

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Manuela Moraru

EPFL in Lausanne

The role of PTPA in regulating Schizosaccharomyces pombe cytokinesis

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thomas Schalch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Professor Jiri Bartek

Danish Cancer Society Research Center - Copenhagen, Denmark

New components and pathways in genome integrity maintenance and their relevance for cancer and aging

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Life Science Seminar Series

Andrea Ballabio

Department of Translational Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Italy; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA.

to be announced

A100, Sciences II

Host: Jean Gruenberg

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Life Science Seminar Series

James Casteilli Gair Hombría

Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Sevilla, Spain.

"Collective cell migration: navigating through the embryonic turbulent waters "

A100, Sciences II

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Joan Steitz

Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMI/Yale University

Noncoding RNAs: large, small and viral

A150, Sciences II

Host: Ueli Schibler

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Life Science Seminar Series

John Lis

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, United States

"New Views of Transcription and Its Regulation in Cells & Across Genomes "

A100, Sciences II

Host: Ueli Schibler

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Life Science Seminar Series

Pierre Leopold

University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Institute of Biology Valrose, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice, France

"Growth control in Drosophila: from developmental regulations to neoplasms "

A100, Sciences II

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Life Science Seminar Series

Steve Henikoff

Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA ; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, WA 98109, USA

Genome-wide mapping of protein-DNA interaction dynamics

A150, Sciences II

Host: David Shore

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