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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

 

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