2009

October 16th
Large Board Meeting Room, Newcastle University

Jonathan Rand, Morgan Lab, Newcastle University

"Stressed out... need a doughnut?" 

Nick Watkins, Newcastle University

"A global analysis of box C/D snoRNPs, RNA-protein complexes that catalyse the methylation of ribosomal RNA"

July 17th
Ageing Research Laboratories, Newcastle University

Rob Panting, Rutherford Lab, Newcastle University

"The Role of Nickel in the Survival of Cryptococcus neoformans" 

Jindriska Fiserova, Goldberg Lab, Durham University

"Nucleocytoplasmic transport in Yeasts" 

Julian Rutherford, Newcastle University

"Yeast metal reductases"

April 24th
Large Board Meeting Room, Newcastle University

Yuan Xue, Maringele Lab, Newcastle University

"Rif1 is a band-aid for telomere damage, essential for cell proliferation in the absence of repair" 

Iglika Ivanova, Maringele Lab, Newcastle University

"Telomeres with a pinch of salt: prevention of cell swelling during cellular senescence activates anti-senescence mechanisms" 

Darren Wilkinson, Newcastle University

"Quantifying genetic interactions in yeast using genome-wide robotic experiments"

January 23rd
Ageing Research Laboratories, Newcastle University

Stephanie Merchan, Lydall Lab, Newcastle University

"A genome-wide screen for sensitivity or resistance to the G quadruplex binding porphyrin TMPyP4 in budding yeast" 

Frances Purtill, Morgan Lab, Newcastle University

"The regulation of cell cycle-dependent gene expression in Schizosaccharomyces pombe" 

Miranda Patterson, Quinn Lab, Newcastle University

"Regulation of the oxidative stress response in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans."

2008

October 16th
Large Board Meeting Room, Newcastle University

Amanda Greenall, Lydall Lab, Newcastle University

"The genome-wide transcriptional response to telomere uncapping in budding yeast" 

Vicki Doronina, Brown Lab, Newcastle University

"Recruitment of Release Factors to a Sense Codon as a First Step in an unusual 'Stop-Carry-On' Translational Recoding Event"

June 12th
Ageing Research Laboratories, Newcastle University

Janni Peterson, University of Manchester

"Environmental control of cell size at division in fission yeast" 

Catherine Millar, University of Manchester

"Dynamic chromatin: histone variants and acetylation"

March 14th
Research Beehive, Newcastle University

Alison Day, Veal Lab, Newcastle University

"Conserved Cysteine residues in the Sty1 MAPK are important for resistance to oxidative stress" 

Alessandra Dantas, Quinn Lab, Newcastle University

"The role of the thioredoxin system in regulating stress responses and morphogenesis in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans" 

Stephen Addinall, Lydall Lab, Newcastle University

"A Genome-Wide Screen for Novel Genes Involved in Telomere Function"

January 7th
Durham University

Mike Stark, University of Dundee

"Roles and regulation of Ipl1p kinase in chromosome biorientation and spindle checkpoint activation" 

Mick Tuite, University of Kent

"How yeast cells replicate the [PSI+] prion, a novel epigenetic determinant"

2007

July 
Isabelle Morin, Lydall Lab, Newcastle University
Eileen Leung, Brown Lab, Newcastle University 

April 
Adele Marston, University of Edinburgh
Martin Schroeder, Durham University 

February 
Kathryn Ayscough, University of Sheffield
Jill Cheetham, Quinn Lab, Newcastle University 

2006

November 
Iain Hagan, University of Manchester
Al Brown, University of Aberdeen
Julian Rutherford, Newcastle University

October 
Emma Williams, Whitehall Lab, Newcastle University
Vaso Sapountzi, Lydall Lab, Newcastle University 

April 
Judy Berman 

January 
Martin Schroeder, Durham University
Steve Foster, Lydall Lab, Newcastle University 

2005

November 
Luis Aragon, Imperial College London
Caroline Wilkinson, University of Manchester 

September 
Kathryn Doris, Morgan Lab, Newcastle University
Amanda Greenall, Whitehall Lab, Newcastle University 

July 
Debbie Smith Quinn Lab, Newcastle University
Rob van Nues, Brown Lab, Newcastle University 

May 
Misha Zubko, Lydall Lab, Newcastle University
Alison Day, Veal Lab, Newcastle University 

February 
Ray Waters, Cardiff University
Ken Haynes, Imperial College London 

2004

July 
Vicki Doronina, Brown Lab, Newcastle University
Laura Maringele, Lydall Lab, Newcastle University