Previous Seminars

NUCC Seminar - Jonathan Higgins

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Common Room
  • Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT

Jon Higgins will talk about his lab's work on "Kinases, chromosomes and cancer

Last modified: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:14:15 GMT

NUCC Seminar - Prof Jane Endicott

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Common Room
  • Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT

Jane Endicott will tell us about "Mechanistic Insights into CDK activity revealed by comparative analysis of CDK-cyclin structures"

Last modified: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:13:06 GMT

Extra Seminar - Dr Tim Davies

  • Venue: Biomedical Sciences Large Meeting Room
  • Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:00:00 GMT

Tim Davies from Durham University will talk about his work on cytokinesis

Last modified: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:27:08 GMT

Extra Seminar - Dr John Eykelenboom

  • Venue: Leech MEDL2.7
  • Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT

John Eykelenboom from Tomo Tanaka’s lab in Dundee will be giving a seminar on "Visualising the dynamics of mitotic chromosome organisation in live cells”

Last modified: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:22:33 GMT

Viva Seminar - Ben Wetherall

  • Venue: Leech Building L2.9
  • Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:30:00 GMT

Ben from Dave Lydall's lab will summarise his PhD work on "The Role of Telomeric Proteins in Regulating the Metazoan DNA Damage Response"

Last modified: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:56:21 GMT

Biosciences Seminar - Professor Ron Hay

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre F
  • Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT

Professor Ron Hay of the University of Dundee will explain “A central role for the SUMO targeted ubiquitin E3 ligase RNF4 in arsenic therapy for cancer”

Last modified: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:15:37 GMT

ICaMB Seminar - Professor Dale Wigley

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre F
  • Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:00:00 BST

Professor Dale Wigley from Imperial College London will describe the “Structure and mechanism of INO80-family chromatin remodellers”

Last modified: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:47:25 BST

IGM Seminar - Prof Stefan Mundlos

  • Venue: Room USB.1.006, Urban Sciences Building
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:00:00 BST

As part of IGM’s Research Day, Stefan Mundlos from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin will be giving a talk on “3D Genomics in Development and Disease” at the beginning of the afternoon session

Last modified: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:35:43 BST

ICaMB PI Meeting - Suzanne Madgwick

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 13:00:00 BST

Suzanne will present her latest work on mouse oocytes.

Last modified: Fri, 17 May 2019 12:09:52 BST

ICaMB Extra Seminar - Prof Jessica Downs

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 13:00:00 BST

Jessica Downs, Professor of Epigenetics and Genome Stability at The Institute of Cancer Research, will tell us about "Chromatin remodelling by SWI/SNF and the maintenance of genome stability"

Last modified: Fri, 17 May 2019 12:04:28 BST

ICaMB Seminar - Prof Tom Owen-Hughes

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 13:00:00 BST

Tom Owen-Hughes from the Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression at the University of Dundee will describe "Chromatin remodelling and cancer".

Last modified: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:44:19 BST

ICaMB Seminar - Alessandro Costa

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:00:00 BST

Dr Costa, from the Francis Crick Institute, will tell us the "Mechanism of eukaryotic DNA replication studied by cryo-electron microscopy".

Last modified: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:55:47 BST

ICaMB Postgraduate Research Symposium

  • Venue: Research Beehive Seminar Rooms 2.20 and 2.22
  • Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 10:01:00 BST

ICaMB final year students present their research to the rest of the Institute. Presenting from the CDB group are: Gurusaran Manickam (Owen's lab), Ben Wetherall (Dave's lab), Alicia Gascon (Josana's lab), Nanmao Dang (Junyong's lab).

Last modified: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:09:35 BST

ICaMB Seminar - JP Arulanandam

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 13:00:00 GMT

JP Arulanandam, visiting from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology in Edinburgh, will tell us about his progress "Towards the Structural Basis for Centromere Maintenance". Hosted by Jon Higgins.

Last modified: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:21:09 GMT

Special Seminar - Dan Booth

  • Venue: Leech Building L2.7
  • Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 11:00:00 GMT

Dan Booth, visiting from Edinburgh, will tell us about "The Chromosome Periphery: The Last Unexplored Chromosome Compartment?"

Last modified: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:50:44 GMT

ICaMB Seminar - Prof Tim Humphrey

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre D
  • Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:00:00 GMT

Prof Humphrey, visiting from the MRC/CRUK Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, aims to understand how genome stability is maintained in response to DNA double-strand breaks.

Last modified: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:40:09 BST

Special Seminar - Manu Shukla

  • Venue: FMS Boardroom
  • Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:00:00 GMT

Manu Shukla, from Robin Allshire's lab in Edinburgh, will discuss "Centromeric Chromatin Maintenance and Dynamics through the Cell Cycle".

Last modified: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:16:45 GMT

ICaMB Seminar - Stephan Uphoff

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre D
  • Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 13:00:00 GMT

Stephan Uphoff from the University of Oxford will tell us about "Single-molecule and single-cell imaging of bacterial DNA repair and mutagenesis".

Last modified: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:39:46 BST

Special Seminar - Geert Kops

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:00:00 GMT

Geert Kops, Hubrecht Institute, Professor of Molecular Tumor Cell Biology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Scientific Director, Oncode Institute, will discuss "Chromosomal instability and genomic heterogeneity in intestinal cancer"

Last modified: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:35:14 GMT

Viva Seminar - Nik Watson

  • Venue: Leech Building L2.7
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:00:00 GMT

Nik will outline his thesis research on "KiPIK Screening: A Novel Method to Identify Kinases for Phosphorylation Sites of Interest"

Last modified: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 09:26:59 GMT

ICaMB Seminar - Dr Kok-Lung (Chris) Chan

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre F
  • Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:00:00 GMT

Chris Chan, a Sir Henry Dale Fellow from the Genome Damage and Stability Centre at the University of Sussex, will explain why "Centromeres hold the secrets of faithful chromosome segregation". Hosted by Jon Higgins.

Last modified: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:38:44 BST

ICaMB Extra Seminar - Victor Bolanos-Garcia

  • Venue: RB Green Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 13:00:00 GMT

Dr Victor Bolanos-Garcia from Oxford Brookes University will tell us about “The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC): a self-monitoring system of chromosome segregation control and beyond”. Hosted by Owen Davies.

Last modified: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:16:29 GMT

Viva Seminar - Lucy Salmon

  • Venue: Leech L2.6
  • Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:00:00 GMT

Lucy from Owen's lab will present her thesis research: The molecular basis of central element assembly within the synaptonemal complex during meiosis.

Last modified: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:16:11 GMT

ICaMB Seminar - Prof Dagmara Jakimowicz

  • Venue: Room 2.21 Research Beehive
  • Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 13:00:00 GMT

Dagmara Jakimowicz, visiting from the University of Wroclaw, works on chromosome segregation and its coordination with cell division and other the function of topoisomerases and NAPs in chromosome organisation during bacterial cell cycle.

Last modified: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:36:33 BST

ICaMB PI meeting - Junyong Huang

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:00:00 BST

Junyong will tell us about his latest research

Last modified: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:07:45 BST

ICaMB PI meeting - David Lydall

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre E
  • Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:00:00 BST

Dave will update us on current work in his lab.

Last modified: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:06:51 BST

Second Cell Division Biology Symposium 2018

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre F
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:00:00 BST

Our second Cell Division Biology summer symposium. Speakers include Andrea Musacchio (MPI, Dortmund), Helder Maiato (ICMB, Porto), Evelyn Telfer (University of Edinburgh) and Andrew Wood (University of Edinburgh).

Last modified: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:42:14 BST

FMS Post-Doc Symposium

  • Venue: David Shaw Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:30:00 BST

A showcase for the outstanding contributions of post-doctoral staff across all Institutes. Keynote talk: Prof Steve Wilson, Professor of Developmental Genetics, UCL, "Breaking symmetry in the brain -­ from genes to circuits and behaviour."

Last modified: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:44:37 BST

ICaMB PI Talk - Ula McClurg

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 13:00:00 BST

Ula will tell us about her recent work on the function of synaptonemal proteins in cancer cells.

Last modified: Thu, 24 May 2018 09:22:13 BST

ICaMB Seminar - Dr Sveta Makovets

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 13:00:00 BST

Dr Sveta Makovets from the University of Edinburgh will describe “Cellular responses and adaptations to telomerase insufficiency”. Hosted by David Lydall.

Last modified: Thu, 10 May 2018 09:23:11 BST

Genome Editing Workshop 3

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 14:00:00 BST

For those using CRISPR or TALENS to perform genome engineering of any kind.

Last modified: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:59:49 BST

ICaMB Seminar - Prof Wendy Bickmore

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 13:00:00 BST

Wendy Bickmore, Director of the MRC Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh, will present her work on "Gene regulation in the context of 3D nuclear organisation".

Last modified: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:40:19 BST

CDB Spring Meeting

  • Venue: Partners' Room, Newcastle University Business School (NUBS 8.10)
  • Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:00:00 BST

Spring meeting of the CDB group, with speakers from the Davies, Herbert and Higgins labs, and from Bioimaging.

Last modified: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 09:49:51 BST

ICaMB Postgraduate Symposium 2018

  • Venue: Seminar Room 2.21 and 2.22 Research Beehive
  • Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Final year students Jianquan Li (Huang lab), Lucy Salmon and James Dunce (Davies lab) will be presenting the progress on their PhD projects.

Last modified: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:31:05 GMT

NICR Seminar - Prof Veronika Sexl

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Seminar Room
  • Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 13:00:00 GMT

Professor Veronika Sexl of the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Veterinary Medicine of Vienna will describe "CDK6 - a new role for an old kinase in leukemogenesis".

Last modified: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:22:35 BST

IGM Extra Seminar - Federico Pelisch

  • Venue: West Wing Lecture Theatre, Centre for Life
  • Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:00:00 GMT

Fede Pelisch from the University of Dundee will be talking about his work on the role of SUMO during meiosis in C. elegans, hosted by Mary Herbert

Last modified: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:40:39 GMT

ICaMB PI Talk - Owen Davies

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:00:00 GMT

Owen will tell us about his latest research

Last modified: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:35:10 GMT

ICaMB Seminar - Duncan Smith

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:00:00 GMT

Dr Duncan Smith, visiting from New York University, will give a talk entitled "DNA replication in eukaryotes: learning from the lagging strand"

Last modified: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:48:49 GMT

Viva Seminar - Svitlana Korolchuk

  • Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Paul O‘Gorman Building
  • Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:00:00 GMT

Svitlana Korolchuk, a PhD student in Jane and Martin's lab, will give her Viva Seminar entitled “Structural and functional characterisation of cyclin dependent kinase 1 containing complexes”

Last modified: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:27:21 GMT

IGM Seminar - Dr James Turner

  • Venue: Biomedicine West Wing Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, International Centre for Life
  • Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 13:00:00 GMT

Dr James Turner of the Crick Institute will talk about "Sex chromosomes and mammalian infertility".

Last modified: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:28:52 GMT

NICR Seminar - Prof Stefan Knapp

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Building Seminar Room
  • Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:00:00 GMT

Professor Stefan Knapp of Goethe-University Frankfurt Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry will discuss "Selective targeting of kinase catalytic and non-catalytic function". Hosted by Jane Endicott and Martin Noble.

Last modified: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:15:02 BST

ICaMB Seminar - Dr Ulrike Gruneberg

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:00:00 GMT

Ulrike Gruneberg will be visiting from the University of Oxford to tell us about her work on "Regulation of mammalian chromosome segragation by mitotic phosphatases: licensing the spindle assembly checkpoint". Host: Jon Higgins.

Last modified: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:25:35 BST

Viva Seminar - Victoria Torrance

  • Venue: Seminar Room L2.9 (2nd floor William Leech)
  • Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Victoria from David Lydall's group will give her viva, "The effects of Tma20 and Tma22 on gene expression and telomere function".

Last modified: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:43:16 GMT

Viva Seminar - Christopher Thomas

  • Venue: Seminar Room L2.9 (2nd floor William Leech)
  • Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:30:00 GMT

Chris from Suzanne Madgwick's group will give his viva seminar, "APC/C processivity and cell cycle regulation in meiosis I mouse oocytes".

Last modified: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:40:49 GMT

ICaMB Seminar - Prof Mohan Balasubramanian

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:00:00 GMT

Prof Mohan Balasubramanian, visiting from the University of Warwick, works on actomyosin ring formation and tension generation in eukaryotic cytokinesis and will discuss "Cytokinesis in vitro and in vivo". Host: Jon Higgins.

Last modified: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:36:58 BST

ICaMB PI Talk - Josana Rodriguez

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:00:00 GMT

Josana will tell us about the latest research in her lab.

Last modified: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 10:59:36 BST

ICaMB Away Day

  • Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:45:00 BST

The ICaMB Away Day will feature presentations from Ula McClurg and Owen Davies.

Last modified: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:11:39 BST

ICaMB PI Talk - Jonathan Higgins

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:00:00 BST

Jon will update us on current work in his lab.

Last modified: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 10:59:24 BST

Cell Division Biology Retreat 2017

  • Venue: Buchanan Room, Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats
  • Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 09:00:00 BST

The Cell Division Biology Group Retreat will be held at the Dove Marine Laboratory overlooking the beach in Cullercoats.

Last modified: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:05:53 BST

ICaMB Seminar - Dr Yuu Kimata

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:00:00 BST

Dr Yuu Kimata, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, will tell us about "Coupling cell cycle to development – Novel roles of the APC/C in the coordination between cell proliferation and differentiation". Hosted by Jon Higgins.

Last modified: Wed, 10 May 2017 10:22:19 BST

FMS Celebratory Lecture: Dr Seamus Holden

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:00:00 BST

Please join the Faculty to celebrate Seamus Holden's recent success and learn about his lab's work recently published in Science: "Breaking up is hard to do: how a dynamic protein nanomachine drives bacterial cell division"

Last modified: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:10:16 BST

ICaMB seminar - Prof Susanne Lens

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:00:00 BST

Susanne Lens is Professor of Genome Instability at the University Medical Centre Utrecht. Her research has revealed key aspects of how the Chromosomal Passenger Complex ensures chromosomal stability during mitosis. Hosted by Jon Higgins.

Last modified: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:08:26 BST

Special Seminar - Dr Binyam Mogessie

  • Venue: Leech Building L2.5
  • Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 11:00:00 BST

Binyam Mogessie (Melina Schuh lab, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen) will explain how “An actin spindle protects mammalian eggs against chromosome segregation errors"

Last modified: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:28:14 BST

Viva Seminar - Joana Pedro Rodrigues

  • Venue: Leech Building L2.6
  • Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:00:00 BST

Joana Pedro Rodrigues (Lydall lab) will be presenting her Viva Seminar, "Yeast genome-wide telomere screens and insights into cancer"

Last modified: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:29:34 BST

Special Seminar - Dr Federico Pelisch

  • Venue: Leech Building L2.5
  • Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:30:00 BST

Federico Pelisch (Ron Hay Lab, University of Dundee) will describe how "SUMO regulates meiotic chromosome dynamics in C. elegans"

Last modified: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:15:48 BST

ICaMB PI Talk - Suzanne Madgwick

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:00:00 BST

Suzanne will update us on work in her lab on the regulation of Cyclin and Securin degradation in meiosis

Last modified: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:06:52 GMT

Practicalities of Cellular Analysis: Understanding the Cell, Piece by Piece

  • Venue: David Shaw Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:15:00 BST

Practicalities 2017. Among other talks, Eugene Katrukha (Utrecht), who is particularly interested in microtubules, will describe "Single molecule microscopy for the study of intracellular transport and cytoskeletal dynamics"

Last modified: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:32:26 GMT

ICaMB Postgraduate Research Symposium 2017

  • Venue: Research Beehive 2.20 and 2.21
  • Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:00:00 BST

Victoria Torrance (Lydall lab), Chris Thomas (Madgwick lab), Nik Watson (Higgins lab) and Jonathan McClatchie (Huang lab) will be presenting the progress on their PhD projects.

Last modified: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:30:43 GMT

NICR Seminar - Prof Richard Bayliss

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Building Seminar Room
  • Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:00:00 GMT

Prof Richard Bayliss of the University of Leeds will discuss "Stabilisation of Myc by Aurora-A as a therapeutic cancer target". Hosted by Jane Endicott.

Last modified: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:42:00 GMT

High-Content Imaging Mini Symposium

  • Venue: Leech Building L2.6
  • Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 14:00:00 GMT

A mini symposium covering high content analysis in Newcastle and beyond. Nik Watson from Jon Higgins' group will speak.

Last modified: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 11:45:24 GMT

Viva Seminar - Marta Markiewicz-Potoczny

  • Venue: Leech Building Seminar Room L2.8
  • Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Marta Markiewicz-Potoczny (David Lydall lab) will be presenting her Viva Seminar, “Responding to different types of damaged telomere stress”.

Last modified: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:08:11 GMT

NEFF Meeting

  • Venue: Leech Building L2.4
  • Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 15:00:00 GMT

The North East Fungal Forum meeting includes a talk from Lakxmi Subramanian of Queen Mary College London on "Mechanisms of Centromere Assembly & Propagation by the Highly Conserved Mis18 Complex"

Last modified: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 11:40:22 GMT

ICaMB seminar - Prof Stephen Taylor

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre D
  • Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:00:00 GMT

Prof Stephen Taylor from the University of Manchester will discuss "Exploiting genomic instability”, hosted by Jon Higgins.

Last modified: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:38:48 GMT

ICaMB seminar - Paula da Fonseca

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre D
  • Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 13:00:00 GMT

Paula da Fonseca, visiting from the MRC LMB in Cambridge, will discuss "High resolution cryo-EM of eukaryotic proteasomes as an emerging tool for drug development". Hosted by Suzanne Madgwick.

Last modified: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:57:02 BST

ICaMB seminar - Prof Julie Ahringer

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:00:00 GMT

Professor Julie Ahringer, Professor of Genetics and Genomics, University of Cambridge, will tell us about "Genome architecture and transcription regulation in C. elegans", hosted by Josana Rodriguez.

Last modified: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:53:42 BST

ICaMB Seminar - Amy MacQueen

  • Venue: RB Green Dental Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 13:00:00 GMT

Dr Amy MacQueen from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, will describe "Zippers and Stitches in the Meiotic Nucleus", hosted by Owen Davies.

Last modified: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:13:47 GMT

ICaMB seminar - Prof Karim Labib

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Prof Karim Labib from the University of Dundee will be giving the ICaMB Seminar, hosted by David Lydall. His lab studies the roles and regulation of the eukaryotic replisome in preserving genome integrity and epigenetics.

Last modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:40:28 BST

Special Seminar - Ricardo Bastos

  • Venue: William Leech Building, L2.5
  • Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:00:00 GMT

Ricardo Bastos will talk about his work, carried out in Francis Barr's lab in Oxford, on "Kinase and phosphatase regulation of the KIF4 microtubule motor protein during cell division".

Last modified: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:03:28 GMT

ICaMB Seminar - Prof Robin Allshire

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre E
  • Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Professor Robin Allshire of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh, will discuss “Epigenetic Regulation: Nucleation and Dynamics of Specialised Chromatin Domains”, hosted by Jonathan Higgins.

Last modified: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:57:43 BST

ICaMB seminar - Prof Christine Harrison

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre E
  • Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Christine Harrison of the NICR will describe her work on mechanisms underlying chromosome aberrations in leukaemia. Hosted by David Lydall.

Last modified: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:43:04 BST

ICaMB Seminar - Dr Viji Draviam-Sastry

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre C
  • Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 13:00:00 GMT

In her seminar, Viji will ask "How are human chromosomes tethered to microtubules?". Viji was until recently in the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University, and has just moved to Queen Mary University of London.

Last modified: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:36:01 BST

ICaMB seminar - Dr Lisa Prendergast

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:00:00 BST

Lisa will describe her work on "Systems of Mitotic Regulation".

Last modified: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:21:04 BST

ICaMB Away Day

  • Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:00:00 BST

The annual Institute "Away Day" meeting. Lisa Prendergast and Jon Higgins will be speaking, among many other interesting talks.

Last modified: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:56:00 BST

Faculty Seminar - Prof Cees Dekker

  • Venue: Research Beehive Rooms 2.21 & 2.22
  • Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:00:00 BST

Prof Cees Dekker, Chair of the Department of Bionanoscience, Delft University of Technology, will take us "From pattern formation of cell-division proteins in shaped bacteria towards bottom up assembly of a synthetic divisome"

Last modified: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:54:54 BST

Additional ICaMB Seminar - Dr Susan Schlimpert

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Building Seminar Room
  • Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 16:00:00 BST

Dr Schlimpert from Mark Buttner's group at the John Innes Centre in Norwich will explain how "Two dynamin-like proteins stabilise FtsZ rings during sporulation-specific cell division in Streptomyces"

Last modified: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:12:45 BST

Inaugural Cell Division Biology Symposium 2016

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre F
  • Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:00:00 BST

Our first Cell Division Biology research symposium will take place on 4th July 2016, featuring internal and external speakers, sponsored by the Biochemical Society. Click the link for further details.

Last modified: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 16:55:53 BST

ChIP seq Workshop

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 10:00:00 BST

Caroline Austin of ICaMB has organised a workshop for those doing or considering ChIP-seq approaches.

Last modified: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:23:21 BST

Errington Birthday Symposium

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 09:20:00 BST

Speakers from all over the world are convening for a one-day special symposium to celebrate Jeff Errington’s birthday. Talks on bacterial cell division and Prof Adele Marston from Edinburgh discussing yeast kinetochores!

Last modified: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 12:47:24 BST

Genome Editing Workshop 2

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:00:00 BST

For those using CRISPR or TALENS to perform genome engineering of any kind.

Last modified: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 13:58:55 GMT

NICR Seminar - Paola Scaffidi

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Building Seminar Room
  • Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:00:00 BST

Paola Scaffidi (Crick Institute) studies epigenetic mechanisms involving histone modifications, higher-order chromatin structure and DNA methylation in intra-tumour heterogeneity and cancer stem cell function. Title TBA.

Last modified: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:24:52 GMT

ICaMB seminar - Prof Iain Hagan

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:00:00 BST

Prof Hagan, visiting from the CRUK Manchester Institute, will give the ICaMB seminar, “A protein phosphatase 1/protein phosphatase 2A rely controls mitotic progression”. Hosted by David Lydall.

Last modified: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 14:38:02 BST

Special Seminar - Ed Ballister

  • Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:00:00 BST

Ed Ballister, previously a PhD student in Michael Lampson's group at UPenn, and now a postdoc in Manchester, will discuss new methods for "Experimentally manipulating kinase localisation to probe mitosis".

Last modified: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 13:56:50 BST

NICR Seminar - Martin Noble and Jane Endicott

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Building Seminar Room
  • Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Martin and Jane will describe "CDK-containing macromolecular assemblies"

Last modified: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 09:54:31 GMT

ICaMB Postgraduate Research Symposium Pt I

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatres D and F
  • Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:00:00 GMT

Talks include Marta Markiewicz and Joana Rodrigues from David Lydall's group. Lunch will be provided.

Last modified: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:08:44 GMT

ICaMB Special Seminar - Sonia Rocha

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre E
  • Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Sonia Rocha from the University of Dundee will discuss "Sensing and responding to changes in oxygen availability at the cellular level", particularly influences on chromatin dynamics and the cell cycle

Last modified: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 09:13:56 GMT

NICR Seminar - Christine Harrison

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Building Seminar Room
  • Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Professor Christine Harrison of NICR will give a talk titled "Defining the genomic landscape of acute leukaemia".

Last modified: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:50:46 GMT

Practicalities of 'Omics

  • Venue: Lindisfarne Room, King's Road Centre
  • Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:00:00 GMT

The Scientific Facilities Conference this year will focus on proteomics, high-throughput screening, genomics and bioinformatics. Jon Higgins will speak.

Last modified: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 10:08:38 GMT

ICaMB PI Talk - Jun-yong Huang

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Jun-yong will give us an update on his mitotic checkpoint research

Last modified: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:00:11 GMT

MGCC Talks - Mann, Pastok and others

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:00:00 GMT

The Molecules, Genes and Cells Club will include talks from Jelena Mann on “Epigenetic reprogramming of wound healing" and Martyna Pastok (Endicott lab) on "CDK4 and CDK6 containing complexes in cell cycle regulation"

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ICaMB PI Talk - David Lydall

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:00:00 GMT

David be giving the ICaMB PI talk, details TBD.

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ICaMB Seminar - Katherine West

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Dr Katherine West from the University of Glasgow will describe "Epigenetic mechanisms in stem cell pluripotency and neuronal differentiation".

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ICM PI Seminar - Jelena Mann

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre E
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Jelena Mann will describe the "Epigenetic reprogramming of wound healing"

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NICR Seminar - Kum Kum Khanna

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Building Seminar Room
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Professor Kum Kum Khanna, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. DNA damage response pathway (DDR) from genome maintenance to therapeutic targets

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NICR Seminar - Andrew Sharrocks

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Building Seminar Room
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Professor Andrew Sharrocks of the University of Manchester will be describing ”Deregulated gene regulatory networks in oesophageal adenocarcinoma”.

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Additional ICaMB Seminar: Dr Imrich Barak

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 13:00:00 GMT

Dr. Imrich Barak, Head of Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, will describe "Asymmetric cell division during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis"

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Special Seminar - Marie MacLennan

  • Venue: Large Meeting Room, Link Corridor, Medical School
  • Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:00:00 GMT

Marie MacLennan, a postdoctoral scientist in Dr Ian Adams' group at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh, will describe "Characterising the cellular function Tex19.1 - Guardian of the germline genome"

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ICaMB PI Talk - Owen Davies

  • Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre D
  • Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:00:00 GMT

Owen will discuss his work on "The molecular basis of chromosome synapsis during mammalian meiosis"

Last modified: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 14:52:37 GMT

ICaMB seminar - Prof Francis Barr

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:00:00 GMT

Professor Francis Barr, visiting from the University of Oxford, will give the ICaMB seminar. Hosted by Jon Higgins.

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Special Seminar - Onur Sen

  • Venue: Large Meeting Room, Link Corridor, Medical School
  • Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:00:00 GMT

Onur Sen, who has just completed a PhD with Kevin Hardwick at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, will describe his work on "Phospho-regulation of the Spindle Checkpoint"

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ICaMB Seminar - Suzanne Madgwick

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:00:00 GMT

Our own Suzanne Madgwick will discuss "The Trouble with Human Oocytes".

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ICaMB Seminar - Prof Song Tan

  • Venue: Dental School Lecture Theatre D
  • Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:00:00 BST

Prof Song Tan, visiting from Penn State University, will tell us about "Structural Recognition of the Nucleosome by Chromatin Enzymes".

Last modified: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:17:49 BST

ICaMB Seminar - Eva Hoffmann

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:00:00 GMT

Eva Hoffmann, MRC Senior Research Fellow and EMBO Young Investigator at the Genome Damage and Stability Centre at Sussex University will describe “The Human MeioMap Project: Genome evolution and chromosome dynamics in the human germline”.

Last modified: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:11:57 BST

ICaMB Special Seminar - Darren Baker

  • Venue: L2.6 William Leech Building
  • Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:00:00 GMT

Dr Darren Baker from the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA, will present his work on the role of BubR1 in controlling APC/C activity, senescence and ageing.

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NICR Seminar - Wendy Bickmore

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Building Seminar Room
  • Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:00:00 GMT

Wendy Bickmore, visiting from the MRC Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh, will present her work on chromatin organisation.

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Molecular Cell Biology of Ageing Seminar - Janni Petersen

  • Venue: Lecture Theatre D, Dental School
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:00:00 GMT

Dr Janni Petersen from the University of Manchester will explain how “Target of Rapamycin (TOR) integrates environmental signals to control cell growth”

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ICaMB Seminar - Prof Jane Endicott

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:00:00 GMT

Jane will be giving the ICaMB institute seminar.

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IGM Seminar - Prof Andrew Fry

  • Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Biomedicine West, International Centre for Life
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:00:00 GMT

Andrew Fry from the University of Leicester will tell us about "NEK kinases in the mitotic spindle and primary cilia."

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IAH Seminar - Aicha Metchat

  • Venue: Great Gable Seminar Room, CARU, Campus for Ageing and Vitality
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:15:00 BST

Aicha Metchat will describe "Studying homologous chromosomes segregation in mammalian oocyte using high resolution microscopy".

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ICaMB Special Seminar - Manolis Papamichos-Chronakis

  • Venue: L2.6 William Leech Building
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 13:00:00 BST

Manolis Papamichos from the Institut Curie in Paris will discuss "Killing to survive: Chromatin regulation of the nuclear ubiquitin-proteasome system is essential for genome stability."

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ICaMB Special Seminar - Lisa Prendergast

  • Venue: L2.6 William Leech Building
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:00:00 BST

Lisa Prendergast from the Institut Curie in Paris will give a talk titled "Switching states: How centromeres become mitotically competent".

Last modified: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:10:40 BST

CBCB Symposium - Prof Jan Löwe

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Building Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:00:00 BST

Professor Jan Löwe, of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, will discuss the "Filaments of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton"

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IGM Seminar - Prof Keith Jones

  • Venue: Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor Biomedicine West, International Centre for Life
  • Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:00:00 BST

Prof Keith Jones, Head of Biological Sciences at Southampton University, and previously a member of ICaMB, will tell us "Why Women Ovulate More Aneuploid Eggs as They Get Older"

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ICaMB Seminar - Prof Jonathon Pines

  • Venue: Baddiley-Clark Seminar Room
  • Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:00:00 BST

Prof Jonathon Pines, University of Cambridge, “Understanding how cells prevent aneuploidy: towards a quantitative analysis of the spindle assembly checkpoint”

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NICR Seminar - Steve Smerdon

  • Venue: Paul O'Gorman Building Seminar Room
  • Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:00:00 BST

Prof Smerdon has solved structures of Polo-box domain complexes, among others.

Last modified: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:10:43 BST

Faculty Guest Lecture - Ruth MacKinnon

  • Venue: Lecture Theatre G.L2 Herschel Building
  • Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:45:00 BST

Dr Ruth MacKinnon of St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia will discuss her work on "Chromosomes that cause cancer: Chromosomes with two centromeres and the breakage-fusion-bridge cycle".

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