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Second Cell Division Biology Symposium 2018
- Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre F
- Start: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:00:00 BST
- End: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:00:00 BST
Our second Cell Division Biology summer symposium. Speakers, clockwise from top left, include Evelyn Telfer (University of Edinburgh), Andrea Musacchio (MPI, Dortmund), Helder Maiato (ICMB, Porto) and Andrew Wood (University of Edinburgh)
Programme
09:55 Welcome
10:00 James Dunce (PhD student, Owen Davies lab, ICaMB)
Molecular architecture of the meiotic telomere complex
10:20 Suzanne Madgwick (ICaMB)
Retiming prometaphase in meiosis I mouse oocytes
10:40 Mahdi Lamb (PhD student, Mary Herbert lab, IGM)
Protection and deprotection of cohesin in meiosis II in mammalian oocytes
11:00 Urszula McClurg (ICaMB)
The unexpected role of reproductive genes in cancer
11:20 Break– Tea/coffee in David Shaw LT Foyer
11:40 Evelyn Telfer, Professor of Reproductive Biology, University of Edinburgh
Growing immature human oocytes and making new ones in vitro
12:20 Andrew Wood, Wellcome/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh
Tissue-specific vulnerability to condensin II mutation
13:00 Lunch
For speakers: sandwich lunch provided.
For participants: please find lunch yourself
14:00 Andrea Musacchio, Director, Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
The kinetochore: mastermind of cell division
14:40 Helder Maiato, i3S – Institute for Investigation and Innovation in Health, University of Porto
Spatial control of time during chromosome segregation
15:20 Break– Tea/coffee in David Shaw LT Foyer
15:50 Alicia Gascon (PhD student, Josana Rodriguez lab, ICaMB)
Revealing functional interactions between PAR proteins and the cytoskeleton in the C. elegans zygote
16:10 Daniel Wood (PhD student, Endicott/Noble lab, NICR)
Distinct structural properties of CDKs aid cell cycle regulation
16:30 Sarra Ryan (Christine Harrison lab, NICR)
TBD
16:50 Junyong Huang (ICaMB)
Kinetochore-dependent and independent formation of the CDC20-MAD2 complex and its functions in HeLa cells
17:10 Diana Papini (Jonathan Higgins lab, ICaMB)
A potential new error correction mechanism for chromosome segregation in anaphase
17:30 Concluding remarks
18:00 Drinks and Dinner, The Dining Room, Old Library Building
-21:00 For registered participants only, please