Monday 2 March 2015

• 13:00 - Blocking cell signalling with recombinant antibodies
  Professor John McCafferty (TBA)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Thursday 5 March 2015

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Ben Morris (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 6 March 2015

• 11:00 - Molecular mechanisms in brain development
  Elena Seiradake
  LMB Seminars

Thursday 12 March 2015

• 14:00 - Fitting and Assessment of Atomic Models in 3D Electron Microscopy Maps of Macromolecular Assemblies
  Dr Maya Topf (TBA)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 13 March 2015

• 11:00 - LMB seminar
  Jose Ortega-Roldan (Schnell group)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Thursday 26 March 2015

• 14:00 - Characterising Lipid-Protein Interactions through Computational Modelling
  George Hedger (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 27 March 2015

• 13:00 - Careers Seminar: Creating your best CV and cover letter
  Claire Conway (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 April 2015

• 14:00 - Proton Oligopeptide Transporters: Insights from Computer Modelling
  Firdaus Samsudin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 27 April 2015

• 13:00 - Shaping mitotic chromosomes
  Dr Christian Haering (EMBL)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Friday 8 May 2015

• 12:00 - Memory Codes and Their Transformations In the Brain of the Honeybee
  Randolf Menzel (Freie Universität Berlin)

Monday 11 May 2015

• 13:00 - Mechanism of protein transport into the endoplasmic reticulum
  Dr Ramanujan S. Hegde (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Tuesday 12 May 2015

• 12:00 - Julian's Talk
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Mr Julian Jordan
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Wednesday 13 May 2015

• 11:00 - 'The ER stress pathway: an immunologist's perspective'
  Dr Jane Goodall (University of Cambridge)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 May 2015

• 12:00 - Graduate Poster Symposium
  TBA

Friday 22 May 2015

• 11:00 - Cellular solid-state NMR spectroscopy on membrane
  Dr Marie Renault (TBA)
  LMB Seminars

Wednesday 27 May 2015

• 11:00 - 'Dissecting the regulation and dynamics of malaria parasite egress from its host red blood cell'
  Mike Blackman (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 28 May 2015

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Antreas Kalli (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 12 June 2015

• 12:00 - Studying premature ageing Werner Syndrome in Caenorhabditis elegans
  Thibault Teissier
  CBDG
• 12:00 - Hiding in plain sight; peptidoglycan recycling and immune evasion in a Gram positive bacterium
  Jack Dorling
  CBDG

Thursday 18 June 2015

• 14:00 - The porous nature of DNA-origami nanotubes revealed by atomistic simulations
  Vishal Maingi
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 22 June 2015

• 13:00 - "Exploring mammalian X-chromosome structure and function during differentiation and in disease"
  Professor Edith Heard, FRS (Professor College de France; Chair of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory. College de France and Director, Genetics and Developmental Biology Department, Institut Curie)
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Edith Heard, FRS (Professor College de France; Chair of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory. College de France and Director, Genetics and Developmental Biology Department, Institut Curie)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 25 June 2015

• 14:00 - Studying the architecture of the Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor signalling complex
  Santiago Manrique Zuniga
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 16 July 2015

• 14:00 - Interaction of peripheral proteins with phosphatidylinositol lipids
  Fiona Naughton (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 24 July 2015

• 14:00 - The fragment molecular orbital method for quantum-mechanical calculations of proteins and other large molecular systems
  Dr Dmitri Federov (NRI, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 30 July 2015

• 14:00 - Dynamic Pharmacophore Models from Coarse Grain MD Simulations
  Nicholas Michelarakis (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 31 July 2015

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Sarah Shammas (Senior Research Associate, Chemistry Department, Cambridge University)
  General Talks

Thursday 6 August 2015

• 14:00 - Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the TREK-2 Channel in a Lipid Bilayer
  Viwan Jarerattanachat (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 13 August 2015

• 14:00 - Ligand Hydration and their Role in Binding Conformation
  Akshay Sridhar (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 20 August 2015

• 14:00 - High Throughput Simulation and Analysis of Intrinsic Membrane Proteins
  Tom Newport (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Serial Crystallography at LCLS and PETRAIII
  Dr Dominik Oberthür (CFEL Hamburg)
  LMB Seminars

Wednesday 2 September 2015

• 15:00 - Lipid-dependent conformational dynamics underlie the functional versatility of T-cell receptor
  Professor Chenqi Xu (Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS )

Thursday 3 September 2015

• 14:00 - Veni, Vidi, Voronoi: Attacking Viruses with Spherical Voronoi Diagrams
  Dr Tyler Reddy (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 4 September 2015

• 11:00 - Unwrapping the function of histones during mitosis
  Professor Hironori Funabiki (Rockefeller University, New York)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 7 September 2015

• 12:00 - DNA single-strand breaks and human genetic disease
  Professor Keith Caldecott
• 12:00 - Taste Processing in Drosophila
  Prof Kristin Scott (University of California, Berkeley)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 9 September 2015

• 12:00 - Dynamics of double-strand break repair in Caulobacter
  Dr Anjana Badrinarayanan (Department of Biology, MIT, USA)

Friday 11 September 2015

• 10:30 - Rational GPCR Drug Design?
  Dr Zara Sands (UCB BioPharma)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 17 September 2015

• 14:00 - Biasing of the Human delta-type Opioid Receptor, Ligand Binding in a Heteromeric GABA-A Receptor
  Helen Langley (UCL), Naushad Velgy (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 21 September 2015

• 13:00 - 'How rotation is generated in the catalytic and membrane domains of F-TPases'
  Professor Sir John Walker, FRS, FMedSci (MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 23 September 2015

• 13:00 - "Mechanisms of genome propagation studied by cryo-electrol microscopy"
  Dr. Alessandro Costa (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  Seminar
• 14:00 - Women in Science
  Professor Kathryn S. Lilley (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)
  Women in Science

Thursday 24 September 2015

• 14:00 - Protein druggability: the JEDI approach
  Dr Remi Cuchillo (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 25 September 2015

• 12:00 - CBDG: Marcus Glittenberg (Ligoxygakis group) Talk title: TBA Anne Wilkins (Hodgkin group) Talk title: Don't eat me! Give me a ride.
  TBA

Wednesday 30 September 2015

• 11:00 - Epigenetic impacts on cell cycle regulation
  Professor Haruhiko Koseki (RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences)
• 13:00 - Careers Seminar
  Micheal Fiebig
  Careers Seminars

Thursday 1 October 2015

• 11:00 - Tackling Tough Targets in Malaria: Fragment-Based Drug Discovery and Vaccines Against Disordered Antigens
  Prof Ray Norton (Monash University, Australia)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 14:00 - Disgreement in structural evidence for glutamate receptor desensitisation motions?
  Dr Maria Musgaard (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - TRICK or TREAT: Imaging the lives of mRNAs in living cells
  Dr Jeffrey Chao (Friedlich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)

Friday 2 October 2015

• 01:25 - Graduate DPhil Symposium
  Various (See programme)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 5 October 2015

• 13:00 - 'Proteome-wide profiling of protein assemblies by cross-linking mass spectrometry'
  Professor Dr. Albert Heck (Professor of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Utrecht University)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 8 October 2015

• 14:00 - Molecular dynamics studies of lipase-surface interactions
  Natalie Willems (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 12 October 2015

• 13:00 - 'Looking at proteins in live cells with atomic resolution: from Science Fiction to Science Reality'
  Dr. Phil Selenko (Group Leader, In-cell NMR Spectroscopy, Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:00 - Looking at proteins in live cells with atomic resolution: from Science Fiction to Science Reality
  Dr. Phil Selenko (Group Leader, In-cell NMR Spectroscopy, Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 14 October 2015

• 11:00 - New insights into disease pathogenesis provided by enhanced bioluminescence imaging of experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infections
  Professor John Kelly (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 15 October 2015

• 14:00 - Membrane Simulations: from nanopores to viruses with several stops en route
  Professor Mark Sansom (Department of Biochemistry)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 16 October 2015

• 11:00 - SBMB Series
  Verity Jackson, Nicola Steinke
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 19 October 2015

• 13:00 - "Salmonella intracellular persisters and TA modules"
  Dr. Sophie Helaine (MRC Research Fellow, Imperial College)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 21 October 2015

• 11:00 - Veni, Vidi, Voronoi: Attacking Viruses with Spherical Voronoi Diagrams
  Dr Tyler Reddy (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Careers Seminar: From Pharmacology to Pharmaceuticals
  Alex Lewis
  Careers Seminars

Thursday 22 October 2015

• 14:00 - Computational Biochemistry for Drug Design
  Assoc Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Solution: a novel synthetic biology approach hijacking E. coli secretion pathways to export biofilm-disrupting and antimicrobial proteins
  Oxford iGEM 2015
  General Talks

Friday 23 October 2015

• 11:00 - SBMB Series
  Dr. Teresa Paramo, Dr Anna Duncan (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Tuesday 27 October 2015

• 10:30 - "Modeling the Control of Quiescence Heterogeneity by an RB-E2F Network Switch"
  Dr. Guang Yao (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)
  General Talks

Wednesday 28 October 2015

• 11:00 - Protein export by the malaria parasite
  Andrew Osborne (UCL/Birkbeck)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 29 October 2015

• 09:00 - Independent Career Development Fellowships: Special Seminar
  Grace Ma (UCSF, USA), Stephan Uphoff (University of Oxford), Tim Nott (University of Oxford), John Labbadia (Northwestern University)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Wednesday 4 November 2015

• 11:00 - Spatial epidemiology: the importance of mapping in infectious disease research
  Dr Jane Messina (University of Oxford)
  General Talks

Thursday 5 November 2015

• 14:00 - Computational Studies of Bacterial Membrane Proteins
  Dr Phillip Stansfeld (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 6 November 2015

• 11:00 - SBMB Theme Meeting
  Professor Jason Schnell (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 9 November 2015

• 13:00 - Image Reconstruction and Transcription Imaging in C. elegans
  Dr Stephan Preibisch (Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB))
• 14:00 - How neurons communicate adhesion and repulsion to their surroundings during development
  Professor Rüdiger Klein (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
  OUBS

Wednesday 11 November 2015

• 09:40 - Postgraduate OPEN DAY
  Various Speakers
• 16:30 - “Responding to the West African Ebola Outbreak: the Médecins Sans Frontières Experience”
  Dr Armand Sprecher (Médecins Sans Frontières)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 12 November 2015

• 14:00 - Do proteins and cholesterol alter the stiffness of membranes?
  Dr Philip Fowler (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 13 November 2015

• 11:00 - SBMB Series
  Ric Gillams, Daniel Yin
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Wednesday 18 November 2015

• 11:00 - Host and vector regulate malaria chronicity and virulence
  Jean Langhorne (Crick Institute)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 19 November 2015

• 14:00 - Elucidating a Potential Mechanism for the Dok7/MuSK/Membrane Complex
  Amanda Buyan (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - 'The structure and organization of photosynthetic membranes and the prospects for engineering new capabilities for utilizing solar energy'
  Followed by a Champagne Reception on the Lower Ground Floor, Biochemistry
  Professor Neil Hunter, FRS (Krebs Chair in Biochemistry, University of Sheffield)
  Joel Mandelstam Lecture

Friday 20 November 2015

• 11:00 - SBMB Series
  Elspeth Garman, Roslin Adamson
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 23 November 2015

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Stefan Heldt, Sheng-Wen Chiu
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 25 November 2015

• 11:00 - Dengue therapeutics: current state and future directions
  Jamie Whitehorn (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Careers Seminar: A day in the life of a Science Communications Officer
  Dr Emma O’Brien
  Careers Seminars

Thursday 26 November 2015

• 14:00 - Interaction of the human Band 3 anion exchanger protein with lipids: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations
  Dr Antreas Kalli (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 27 November 2015

• 11:00 - SBMB Series
  Gurdeep Minhas, Jonny Brooks-Bartlett
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 12:00 - Fu-Sheng Chang (Pears group); Lihui Wang (Ligoxygakis group)
  TBA
  CBDG

Monday 30 November 2015

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Barbara Mertins, Katarzyna Ginda
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - "Kinetochores: from microtubule attachment to spindle assembly checkpoint signalling"
  Professor Dr. Andrea Musacchio (Director of the Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology at the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 15:00 - Role of the BRCA2-DSS1 Complex in Homologous Recombination
  Professor Patrick Sung (Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University)
  Seminar

Wednesday 2 December 2015

• 11:00 - The impact of Immunogenetics on human disease
  Mary Carrington (Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor in Medical, Biological and Chemical Sciences)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 3 December 2015

• 14:00 - Simulating biological membranes and leaving academia
  Dr Jean Helie (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 4 December 2015

• 11:00 - SBMB Series
  Patricia Dijkman, Praf Aryal
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 12:00 - Hayley Lees (Woollard/Cox group) Talk title: Synthetic superviability: combining detrimental mutations can have unexpected lifespan enhancing consequences. Huajiang Xiong (Woollard group) Talk title: Toxicity assays to test developmental effect of
  TBA
  CBDG

Wednesday 9 December 2015

• 11:00 - The anti-filoviral drug U18666A increases lysosome pH and disrupts glycolipid transport.
  Dan Sillence (De Montfort University)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 10 December 2015

• 14:00 - Characterising lipid-protein interactions through computational modelling
  George Hedger (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 11 December 2015

• 12:00 - Slippery Substances: Getting a grip on lipid inhibition of glycine transporters
  Dr Jane Carland (University of Sydney)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 14 December 2015

• 13:00 - "Staphylococcus aureus - A Super Bug! "
  Professor Simon Foster (Professor of Molecular Microbiology, University of Sheffield)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Tuesday 15 December 2015

• 11:00 - Molecular mechanisms of microtubule tip tracking
  Professor Michel Steinmetz (University of Basel)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Wednesday 13 January 2016

• 11:00 - "Vaccine design insights from pre-fusion RSV and HIV-1 glycoprotein trimer structures"
  Dr Guillaume Stewart-Jones, Dr Guillaume Stewart-Jones (Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 21 January 2016

• 14:00 - From eukaryotic receptors to bacterial porins: modeling complex membrane systems
  Dr Matthieu Chavent (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 22 January 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Nathalie Willems (Sansom Group), Felipe Ossa (Schnell Group )
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 28 January 2016

• 15:30 - The intrinsically disordered Plasmodium falciparum proteins PfEMP1 and KAHRP interactions with host erythrocyte spectrin
  Erin Cutts (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 29 January 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Jan Frank Lennartz (Higgins Group), Andrew Johnston (McLain Group)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Wednesday 3 February 2016

• 11:00 - 'Broad Neutralization of Influenza Virus & Implications for a Universal Vaccine and Therapy’
  Professor Ian Wilson (Scripps Research Institute in San Diego)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 4 February 2016

• 15:30 - Predicting ligand selectivity and water stability with free energy calculations
  Matteo Aldeghi (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 5 February 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Vishal Maingi (Sansom Group), Charlie Bury (Garman Group)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 11 February 2016

• 15:30 - Molecular Dynamics Simulations of type A GABA receptors; Bacterial membrane lipoprotein modifications and transfer: A molecular dynamics tale of the (lipid) tails
  Shanlin Rao (University of Oxford), Chrissie Yoon (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 12 February 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Erin Cutts (Vakonakis & Stansfeld Groups), Antonio Biasutto (Redfield Group)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 12:00 - Hans Dias (Handford group) Talk title: Investigating the interaction between LTBP-1 and Fibrillin-1. Dhruv Jayanth (Ligoxygakis group) Talk title: Suppression of the IMD pathway in Drosophila leads to an extension of lifespan.
  TBA
  CBDG

Friday 19 February 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Akshay Sridhar (Biggin Group), Juan Munoz-Garcia (Watts Group)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 22 February 2016

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Sophie Joliffe, Grace Segall
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Tuesday 23 February 2016

• 10:00 - OUBS Careers Day
  Christine Whyte (Senior Technology Transfer Manager, ISIS Innovation, Oxford), David McCormick (Managing Director Interactivepharma), Ann Le Good (Senior Editor, Springer Nature Publishing Group), Emma Palmer Foster (EJ Palmer Consulting – Corporate Strategy, Investor Relations & Communications), Sarah Faircliffe (Legal Director, Bird & Bird’s International Life Science Group), Katy Gearing (Director, Head Biological Sciences Department, GlaxoSmithKline), Bridget Harris (Head of Finance, Academy of Medical Sciences), Edward Norris-Cervetto (Doctor with A&E, John Radcliffe and Air Ambulance), David Lancaster (Patent Lawyer), Robert Wicks (Founder and Managing Director, Westerham Brewery Co. Ltd)
  OUBS

Friday 26 February 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Christina Redfield (Redfield Group)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 14:00 - "Divorcing chromosomes still need rings: the role of an SMC protein in chromosome segregation in Caulobacter crescentus"
  Dr Tung Le (Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich)
  Special Seminar

Monday 29 February 2016

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Aditya Jain, Corinna Oswald
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 2 March 2016

• 11:00 - GNT-V TARGETING BY THE PHOSTINE PST3.1a INHIBITS GBM STEM CELLS STEMNESS AND THEIR IN VIVO PROLIFERATION AND INVASIVENESS
  Professor Norbert Bakalara (The Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Friday 4 March 2016

• 11:00 - Biochemistry Part II Talks
  SBMB Part IIs (Biochemistry)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 7 March 2016

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Katie Robinson, Hayley Brien
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Studying gene machines inside living cells, one molecule at a time
  OUBS is proud to have Professor Achillefs Kapanidis of the Department of Physics to come give a talk as part of Biophysics Week. This event has been kindly sponsored by the British Biophysical Society.
  Professor Achillefs Kapanidis (University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Tuesday 8 March 2016

• 16:00 - Global analysis of the maternal-to-zygotic transition in Drosophila embryos
  Prof. Howard Lipshitz (University of Toronto)
• 16:00 - "Global analysis of the maternal-to-zygotic transition in Drosophila embryos"
  Professor Howard Lipshitz (University of Toronto)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Friday 11 March 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Theme Meeting
  Professor Jason Schnell (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 14:00 - Biochemistry Part II Talks
  TBA
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 17 March 2016

• 11:00 - "Linking histone and DNA recognition to the epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation"
  Professor Brian Strahl (Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
  Special Seminar
• 14:00 - Potassium channel structure-function and dynamics: tales from computational necromancy.
  Dr Prafulla Aryal (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 18 March 2016

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Christina Redfield (Redfield Group)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 7 April 2016

• 14:00 - Protein clustering and lipid complexity: using molecular dynamics simulations to study biological membranes
  Dr Anna Duncan (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 11 April 2016

• 10:00 - 'Atomic structure of human γ-secretase'
  Dr. Xiao-Chen Bai (MRC, LMB, Cambridge)
  Special Seminar
• 11:00 - 'Architecture of mTOR complex 1'
  Dr. Christopher Aylett (IMBB, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  Special Seminar
• 15:00 - Biomolecular Interaction Analytics employing MicroScale Thermophoresis
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr. Astrid Sitte (NanoTemper Technologies GmbH)
  Seminar
• 16:00 - Introduction to new the Affinity Analysis software and discussion of user data
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr. Astrid Sitte (NanoTemper Technologies GmbH)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Thursday 14 April 2016

• 14:00 - Direct comparison of lipid bilayer structures between simulations and experiments
  Dr Samuli Ollila (Aalto University, Finland)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 21 April 2016

• 14:00 - Targeting the Hedgehog Pathway in disease: a structural biology approach
  Lea Sefer (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 25 April 2016

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Connor Sharp, Emma Sadler
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Connor Sharp, Emma Sadler
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - O-GlcNAc signalling in development and disease
  Professor Daan van Aalten, FRSE (Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Division of Molecular Microbiology, University of Dundee)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 27 April 2016

• 12:00 - 'Beyond methyl-transfer: sequence-specific DNA modification using DNA methyltransferases'
  TBA
  Seminar

Thursday 28 April 2016

• 13:00 - "Mechanism of protein transport to the endoplasmic reticulum"
  Dr Rebecca Voorhees (University of Cambridge)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Friday 29 April 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Katharina Jungnickel, Remi Cuchillo
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 14:00 - "Organizing chromosomes for segregation: the dynamic structure of the bacterial SMC complex"
  TBA
  Special Seminar

Thursday 5 May 2016

• 14:00 - DNA nanotube-membrane interactions at coarse-grain and atomic resolutions: a molecular dynamics simulation tour
  Vishal Maingi (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 6 May 2016

• 11:00 - Structural features and signalling mechanisms of transmembrane chemoreceptors identified utilizing Nanodiscs
  Gerald Hazelbauer (University of Missouri)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 9 May 2016

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Tom Brown, Katarina Jansen
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Tom Brown, Katarina Jansen
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Power stroke or thermal ratchet: the mechanism of vitamin uptake by Energy Coupling Factor transporters
  Professor Dirk Slotboom (University of Groningen, Biochemistry Department)
  Seminar

Tuesday 10 May 2016

• 16:00 - 'Principles of pluripotency: from the ground state up'
  Professor Austin G Smith, FRS, FRSE (Medical Research Council Professor, Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Thursday 12 May 2016

• 14:00 - From Biological Self-Assembly to Novel Peptide Nanostructures with Unique Mechanical, Optical, Piezoelectric and Semiconductive Properties
  Prof. Ehud Gazit (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 13 May 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Tom Newport, Natasha Rhys
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 16 May 2016

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Marie-Louise Francis, Scott Rata
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Stefan Heldt, Marie-Louise Francis
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 19 May 2016

• 14:00 - Through the atomistic looking glass: Interactions between proteins and other macromolecules
  Laura Domicevica (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 20 May 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Pietro Roversi
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 23 May 2016

• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Alberto Merchante Gonzales, Sejeong Lee
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 11:00 - Microbiology and Systems Biology seminar
  Alberto Merchante Gonzales, Sejeong Lee
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - D-Peptide Therapeutics: Empowering Nature’s Fragile Warriors
  Michael S. Kay, M.D., Ph.D. (University of Utah)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Friday 27 May 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Naushad Velgy (University of Oxford), Steven Lavington
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 13:00 - PH, PIPs and parasols: Investigating peripheral protein-membrane interactions using Umbrella Sampling
  Fiona Naughton (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 2 June 2016

• 14:00 - Toward dynamic pharmacophore models by coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations
  Nicholas Michelarakis (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 June 2016

• 11:00 - Identification of protective carbohydrate epitopes for the development of fungal glycoconjugate vaccines"
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Stefan Oscarson (University College Dublin)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 9 June 2016

• 14:00 - TREK-2 in lipid bilayers : the multiscale-simulation insight
  Viwan Jarerattanachat (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 10 June 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Juan Bada, Jan Domanski (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 16 June 2016

• 14:00 - Bringing membrane proteins to life with MemProtMD
  Tom Newport (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 17 June 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Fiona Naughton (University of Oxford), Jolyon Claridge
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 23 June 2016

• 14:00 - Sampling challenges in membrane protein-lipid and protein-protein binding
  Jan Domanski (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Writing for success: positioning and engaging in the publication jungle
  Maria Cerrato Lara (Oxford Brookes University)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Friday 24 June 2016

• 11:00 - "Understanding the molecular logic of Adhesion GPCRs in mechanosensation"
  Professor Tobias Langenhan (University of Wuerzburg)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Tuesday 28 June 2016

• 11:00 - "The PCGF6-PRC1 complex suppresses premature activation of meiosis and germ cell related genes in ES cells"
  Professor Haruhiko Koseki (Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 30 June 2016

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Qinrui Wang (University of Oxford), Susan Leung (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 1 July 2016

• 14:30 - "Chromosome organization by SMC complexes: linking sisters and extruding loops”
  Dr. Benjamin Rowland (Research Associate, Netherlands Cancer Institute)
  Special Seminar

Tuesday 5 July 2016

• 13:00 - Lunch for students doing a Dphil in Biochemistry with Prof Dr Matthias Mann
  Prof. Dr. Matthias Mann (Director Dept. Proteomics and Signal Transduction, MPI, Germany)
  OUBS
• 14:00 - Proteomics technologies and their application in biomedical research
  Prof. Dr. Matthias Mann (Director Dept. Proteomics and Signal Transduction, MPI, Germany)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 7 July 2016

• 13:00 - "Intrinsic disorder controls the function of p53 and other cancer-associated IDPs"
  Gary Daughdrill (University of South Florida)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 14:00 - Back to breaking SAS-6 dimerisation and loopy interactions - work in progress
  Julia Busch (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 14 July 2016

• 14:00 - Ligand hydration and binding conformations
  Akshay Sridhar (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 21 July 2016

• 14:00 - Anomalous fluctuating diffusivity of a peripheral membrane protein on a lipid membrane surface
  Dr Eiji Yamamoto (Keio University)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 July 2016

• 14:00 - Physical chemistry in biological membranes: resolving the chemical details of cell signaling
  Dr Adam W Smith (University of Akron, Ohio, USA)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 28 July 2016

• 14:00 - Interactions of membrane proteins with lipids: Insights from multi-scale molecular dynamics simulations
  Dr Antreas Kalli (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 29 July 2016

• 14:00 - Molecular structure and function from genomic sequences
  Debora Marks (Harvard Medical School, Systems Biology ), Chris Sander (Harvard Medical School, Cell Biology)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 15 August 2016

• 15:00 - “Towards a structural understanding of dual-pumping membrane-integral pyrophosphatases”
  Dr Nita Shah (Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 24 August 2016

• 14:00 - Cohesin in motion: single molecule imaging of the human cohesin complex on DNA
  TBA
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 1 September 2016

• 14:00 - Unravelling the inhibitory mechanism of alpha-1 antitrypsin using accelerated molecular dynamics
  Dr Ole Juul Andersen (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 2 September 2016

• 11:00 - Multi-scale modeling of chromosomal DNA from the base pair to the genome
  Dr Andrew Spakowitz (Stanford University)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 8 September 2016

• 14:00 - Homology Modelling and Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a ClC-5 `Gating' Mutation
  Linus Conrad (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 15 September 2016

• 14:00 - Multiscale simulations of peripheral membrane proteins: unravelling the details of how PIP kinases recognise and bind to their lipid substrates
  Sarah-Beth Amos (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 19 September 2016

• 11:00 - Ess1: Traffic Cop of the Transcription Cycle
  Steven Hanes (SUNY-Upstate Medical University)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:00 - CANCELLED !!! Mind the gap: synaptic protein networks to learn and remember
  CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Radu Aricescu ((Division of Structural Biology) University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Thursday 22 September 2016

• 14:00 - Opioids in their pocket
  Naushad Velgy (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 26 September 2016

• 13:00 - Novel roles for autophagy in cellular differentiation
  Professor Katja Simon ((Kennedy Institute) University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Thursday 29 September 2016

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Various Speakers
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 30 September 2016

• 13:00 - DPhil Symposium 2016
  Various Speakers

Monday 3 October 2016

• 13:00 - Molecular Structures and Machinery from DNA
  Prof Andrew Turberfield ((Department of Physics) University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Thursday 6 October 2016

• 14:00 - How simulation can complement experiments
  Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 10 October 2016

• 13:00 - Watching complex motors remodel in living bacteria
  Judy Armitage (Biochemistry)
  OUBS

Thursday 13 October 2016

• 14:00 - Membrane protein interactions with lipids; cell surface receptors; ion channels; & nanopores: an overview of membrane simulation studies
  Professor Mark Sansom (Department of Biochemistry)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 14 October 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Dr Sarah Shammas, Dr Oleg Sitsel
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 17 October 2016

• 11:00 - MSB seminar - "Single-Molecule Imaging of Electroporated Chemotaxis and Motility Proteins in Live Bacteria" and "Mathematical modelling of double-negative feedback loops in spindle assembly checkpoint signalling"
  Diana Di Paolo, Michael Hopkins
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Gene regulation in chromatin
  Dr. Dirk Schübeler (Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 11:00 - New ways to combat the multidrug resistant bugs - targeting the metallo-β-lactamases
  Dr Jurgen Brem (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminars

Thursday 20 October 2016

• 14:00 - Five years of computational virology
  Dr Tyler Reddy (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 21 October 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Jonny Brooks-Bartlett, Dr Matthieu Chavent
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 24 October 2016

• 13:00 - Bacterial superglues to fish for cancer cells and tickle immune cells
  Prof Mark Howarth (University of Oxford Department of Biochemistry)
  OUBS

Wednesday 26 October 2016

• 11:00 - WD40 domain of Apc1 is critical for the coactivator-induced allosteric transition that stimulates APC/C catalytic activity
  Dr Beatrice Li (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminars

Thursday 27 October 2016

• 14:00 - Deregulation of Osmoregulatory Machinery Controls Cellular Transformation in Cancer and Disease
  Dr David Shorthouse (MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 28 October 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Dr Rosana Inacio dos Reis, Dr Georgios Gerogiokas
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 31 October 2016

• 11:00 - MSB seminar, "Modelling gene regulation" and "Protein antibiotic import through the iron receptor FpvAI from Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
  Andrew Angel, Paul White
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Transcription and the control of RNA fate
  Professor Jane Mellor (University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 13:00 - Special D. Phil Thesis Seminar
  Lukas Hutter
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars
• 16:30 - The 11th Unither Baruch Blumberg Lecture in Virology. Dengue and Zika: Unravelling mechanisms of pathogenesis
  Professor Eva Harris (University of California, Berkeley)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminars

Thursday 3 November 2016

• 14:00 - Bridging the gap: Explaining and guiding experiments on ligand-gated ion channels using computational modelling
  Dr Maria Musgaard (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 4 November 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  George Hedger (University of Oxford), Matthieu Chavent (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 7 November 2016

• 11:00 - MSB seminar, "Re-engineering riboswitches" and "In vivo Mutagenesis Studies on the Interaction Between the Cytochrome c maturation proteins CcmC and CcmE"
  Thomas Folliard, Shevket Shevket
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - One for all and all for one - In pursuit of a broad spectrum antiviral
  Prof Nicole Zitzmann ((Biochemistry) University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Wednesday 9 November 2016

• 10:00 - 11th Chemistry and Biology of Peptides Meeting
  Advanced registration required
  British Peptide Society
  Seminar
• 11:00 - Structure based inhibitor design targeting glycogen phosphorylase: potential treatment for type 2 diabetes
  Dr Natassa Kantysadi (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminars

Thursday 10 November 2016

• 09:45 - Postgraduate Open Day
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Characterising lipid-protein interactions through computational modelling
  George Hedger (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - In vitro construction of a metabolic network for cell volume regulation
  Lecture followed by a champagne reception on the Lower Ground Floor of the New Biochemistry Building
  Professor Dr. Bert Poolman (Department of Biochemistry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
  Joel Mandelstam Lecture

Friday 11 November 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Nicholas Michelarakis, Peter Judge
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 14 November 2016

• 13:00 - Sensing and Restricting: Innate Immune Control of Virus Infection
  Prof Jan Rehwinkel ((Radcliffe Department of Medicine) University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Tuesday 15 November 2016

• 09:30 - Special D. Phil Thesis Seminar: Probing the cohesin loading reaction using forward genetics and quantitative ChIP-seq
  TBA
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 11:00 - Perforin-like proteins in health and disease.
  Prof Rev Robert Gilbert (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminars

Thursday 17 November 2016

• 14:00 - From the nano to the mesoscale: filling the gap between computations and experiments
  Dr Matthieu Chavent (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 18 November 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Theme Meeting
  SBMB Theme Meeting
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 21 November 2016

• 11:00 - MSB seminar, "How a cell decides whether to proliferate or to repair its genome" and "d1 heme biosynthesis puzzle: finding the pieces and putting them together"
  Stefan Heldt, Shilpa Bali
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Cancelled !!! Polycomb recruitment by Xist RNA
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
  OUBS

Tuesday 22 November 2016

• 09:00 - Protein signalling in genome maintenance pathways
  Ian Gibbs-Seymour (University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 09:45 - Measure, Model, Manipulate: single cell imaging to understand proliferation in health and disease
  Alexis Barr (Institute of Cancer Research, UK)
  Special Seminar
• 11:00 - Single molecular imaging approaches to study SMC function in vitro
  Iain Davidson (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna)
  Special Seminar
• 11:45 - Molecular mechanisms and organization of membranes from synthetic endosomes
  David Murray (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
  Special Seminar
• 12:30 - Regulation of Met1 (linear) linked polyubiquitin chains
  Paul Elliott (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 24 November 2016

• 14:00 - MD Simulations of the Glycine Receptor
  Marc Daemgen (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 25 November 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Tom Rowntree, Nicola Steinke (McLain Lab)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 28 November 2016

• 11:00 - MSB seminar, "High resolution structure of the TatBC complex - a (never) ending story" and "Peptidoglycan recycling in the Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and its potential role during infection"
  Barbara Mertins, Jack Dorling
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - CANCELLED !!!
  Cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Elena Seiradake (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Friday 2 December 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Philipp Braeuer, Marc Damgen
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 5 December 2016

• 13:00 - Molecular Mechanisms involved in the Regulation of Appetite and Weight
  Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci (WT Senior Clinical Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 8 December 2016

• 13:00 - Regulatory feedback from nascent RNA to transcription and chromatin modification
  TBA
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 14:00 - Modelling and Dynamics of Molecular Processes at the Membrane
  Dr Phillip Stansfeld (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 9 December 2016

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Felipe Ossa (Schnell Group ), Tom Dixon
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 12 December 2016

• 11:00 - MSB seminar
  George Wadhams, Christopher Jones
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Monday 9 January 2017

• 11:00 - MSB seminar
  Professor Colin Kleanthous (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford), Axel Nystrom
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Understanding the function and evolution of regulatory protein-RNA complexes
  Professor Jernej Ule (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, The Francis Crick Institute, Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 11 January 2017

• 11:00 - New insight into the structure, function and dynamic of bacterial cell divisiion
  Professor Jie Xiao (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 12:00 - Kinetic UV cross-linking and analyses of cDNAs (xCRAC) reveals high-resolution dynamics of protein-RNA interactions in vivo
  Sander Granneman (Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology (SynthSys), University of Edinburgh)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 12 January 2017

• 15:30 - The molecular mechanism and functional significance of GPS auto-proteolysis of adhesion-GPCRs: stories of EMR2/ADGRE2 and GPR56/ADGRG1
  Prof. Hsi-Hsien Lin (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 16 January 2017

• 13:00 - "Gams to go: establishing and exploiting experimentally inducible sexual development in a malaria parasite"
  Professor A.P. Waters (Professor of Molecular and Developmental Parasitology, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 18 January 2017

• 11:00 - Investigating potential drug targets to prevent vascular leak in acute dengue
  Professor Neelika Malavig (University of Sri Jayawardanapura)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Orchestrating mRNA processing in sex determination, neuronal development and function
  Dr Matthias Soller (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 19 January 2017

• 14:00 - Confirm or deny: converged association energies for membrane helix-helix dimers
  Jan Domanski (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 20 January 2017

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Dr Sylvia McLain (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 12:00 - Early developmental program shapes colony morphology in bacteria
  Gideon Mamou (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 23 January 2017

• 11:00 - MSB seminar: "The E. coli twin-arginine translocation channel is not assembled via a charge zipper mechanism", and "Imaging colicin translocation across the E. coli cell envelope"
  Felicity Alcock, Marie-Louise Francis
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Cell biology of intercellular signalling
  Professor Matthew Freeman (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 14:00 - Molecular Dynamics Studies of the GABAA Ion Channel Receptor
  Dr Ole Juul Andersen (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 27 January 2017

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Charlie Bury (Garman Group), Lea Sefer (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 30 January 2017

• 11:00 - MSB seminar: "Dynamics of cell cycle transitions" and "Interactions of Colicin E9 at the E. coli outer membrane"
  Bela Novak, Nick Housden
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Neonatal diabetes and type 2 diabetes: insights from studies of the KATP channel
  Frances Ashcroft (University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Thursday 2 February 2017

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar - Talks for Biophysics
  Various Speakers
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 3 February 2017

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Seb Zoll (Higgins Group), Ashley Gillum (Newstead Group)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 6 February 2017

• 13:00 - Mitotic Checkpoint Kinases in Cancer Development and Treatment
  Prof. Dr. Rene H. Medema (Director of Research, Chairman Board of Directors, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• 11:00 - Antibody Responses in Dengue and Zika Infection
  Professor Gavin Screaton (Imperial College London)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 February 2017

• 11:00 - How HIV gets around
  Professor Quentin Sattenau (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Friday 17 February 2017

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Richard Payne (Newstead Group), Verity Jackson (Seiradake Group)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 13:00 - Centromere specification and kinetochore assembly in vertebrates
  Professor Tatsuo Fukagawa (Laboratory of Chromosome Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan)
  Seminar

Monday 20 February 2017

• 13:00 - The mechanics of semaphorin-plexin cell guidance signalling
  Prof E.Yvonne Jones (University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Tuesday 21 February 2017

• 13:30 - Biochemistry Careers Day 2017
  Various Speakers
  OUBS

Thursday 23 February 2017

• 10:30 - Super-Resolution Microscopy of Nuclear Structure
  Prof Christoph Cramer (Institute of Molecular Biology)
• 14:00 - Part II talks
  Various Speakers
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 24 February 2017

• 11:00 - Structure and function of membrane transporters involved in organic compound export
  Ryuichiro Ishitani (Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 27 February 2017

• 13:00 - ADP-ribosylation signalling in regulation of genome stability
  Dr Ivan Ahel (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Tuesday 28 February 2017

• 16:00 - A molecular movie of the excitation and contraction coupling of skeletal muscles
  Lecture to be followed by a Champagne Reception on the Lower Ground Floor of the New Biochemistry Building - all welcome
  Professor Nieng Yan (Professor in the School of Medicine at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
  Louise Johnson Memorial Lecture

Wednesday 1 March 2017

• 18:00 - Inspiring Innovation: Bringing Academia and Industry at The Royal Society
  Katy Gearing (Head of Industry Engagement, Royal Society), Alasdair Taylor (Industry Programme Manager at the Royal Society)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 2 March 2017

• 14:00 - P-glycoprotein interactions with drugs and lipids
  Dr Laura Domicevica (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 3 March 2017

• 11:00 - Structure and Dynamics of Water In Biomolecular Systems
  David Huggins (University of Cambridge)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 6 March 2017

• 09:00 - TBA
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Chromosomal and RNA biology (CRBG) seminar series
• 13:00 - Lipid transport in the gram negative cell envelope
  Ian Henderson (University of Birmingham)
  OUBS

Thursday 9 March 2017

• 14:00 - Mechanosensation: from MscL to TREK-2
  Viwan Jarerattanachat (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 10 March 2017

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Prof Robert Gilbert (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 13 March 2017

• 12:00 - Stochasticity of lineages and histories in growing cell populations
  Philipp Thomas (Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London)
• 13:00 - Dissecting the molecular composition and assembly of the centriole.
  Paul Guichard (University of Geneva)
  OUBS
• 17:30 - Enterprising Oxford: The Inside Story
  Anne Miller (MPLS), Leah Thompson (MPLS Division)
  Special Seminar

Monday 20 March 2017

• 13:00 - Towards understanding role of the phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II in transcription termination
  Lidia Vasilieva (University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Tuesday 21 March 2017

• 18:00 - Meet the CEO
  Hosted by Science Innovation with permission from the Department of Biochemistry. Access to the building will granted by hosts at the door.
  Catherine Bottrill (Pilio), Ekaterina Damer (Prolific Academic Ltd.), John Stuart (Bounts Ltd.)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 23 March 2017

• 14:00 - A new web interface for the MemProtMD database
  Tom Newport (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 30 March 2017

• 11:00 - Bacterial lipid trafficking and outer membrane homeostatis
  Shu-Sin Chng (National University of Singapore)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 14:00 - On the lesser known uses of umbrellas: investigating interactions of PH domains with membranes through umbrella sampling
  Fiona Naughton (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 3 April 2017

• 13:00 - A new rationale for TF paralog evolution, expression and function
  Professor Matthias Merkenschlager (Lymphocyte Development Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 6 April 2017

• 14:00 - "Molecular dynamics investigation of prolipoprotein Diacylglyceryl Transferase (Lgt)" and "Hydrogen bonds and water bridges: How does PepThom stabilise Valacyclovir in its binding pose"
  Zhiyi Wu (University of Oxford), Mabel Wong (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 10 April 2017

• 13:00 - Structure and function of staphylococcal proteins involved in biofilm infections
  Jennifer Potts (University of York)
  OUBS
• 17:00 - Alternative Careers: A Roundtable Discussion with Naturejobs
  Hosted by Science Innovation Union with permission from Department of Biochemistry
  Jack Leeming (Nature Publishing Group)
  Special Seminar

Friday 21 April 2017

• 11:00 - Part II Talks
  Mabel Wong, Kyle Bennett, Tanadet Pipatpolkai, Kathryn Shelley
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 24 April 2017

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar Series
  Professor David Sherratt (University of Oxford), Tom Brown
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Protein antibiotic import in bacteria
  Professor Colin Kleanthous (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Thursday 27 April 2017

• 14:00 - Anomalous Diffusion in Artificial Lipid Bilayers
  Dr Matthew Cheetham (King's College London)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 28 April 2017

• 11:00 - Part II Talks
  Ella Wells, Katie Nichols, Amrit Bal, Sophie Rennison
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 11:00 - “The way is the goal: recognition and targeting of proteins by the Sec translocation machinery in bacteria”
  Dr Damon Huber (University of Birmingham)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 4 May 2017

• 14:00 - Combining functional and computational approaches to describe the GluK2/GluK5 heterotetramer gating mechanism
  Dr Teresa Paramo Prieto (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 5 May 2017

• 11:00 - Part II Talks
  Rachel McCann, Imogen Duffy, Lizzy Hamilton, Mark Hamblin, Michael Horrell
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 8 May 2017

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar Series
  Emma Sadler, Frederic Lauber (University of Oxford)
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - From antibiotics to oxygen sensing and back again
  Chris Schofield (University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 11:00 - The structure and mechanism of human anion exchanger 1
  Dr Alex Cameron (University of Warwick)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 14:00 - 'Understanding cohesin's role in genome organization'
  Dr Suzana Hadjur (UCL)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Wednesday 10 May 2017

• 13:00 - Mechanics of the mitotic chromosome surface
  Dr. Daniel Wolfram Gerlich (Senior Research Group Leader, IMBA, Austria)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 11 May 2017

• 14:00 - Towards Dynamic Pharmacophore Models Through the Use of CG-MD Simulations. Are We Nearly There Yet?
  Nicholas Michelarakis (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 15 May 2017

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar: "Protein exchange in bacterial machines" and "Two interlinked bistable mechanisms generate a robust M phase"
  Judy Armitage (Biochemistry), Scott Rata
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - EGF receptor structure-function relationships in the cell nano-environment.
  Marisa Martin Fernandez (University of Oxford)
  OUBS
• 16:00 - "ADP-ribosylation Site Identification: Discovery from Cancer to Virus"
  Professor Anthony Leung (MBiochem, Oxon) (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 17:30 - Meet the CEO
  The seminar is hosted by Science Innovation Union (science-union.org) with permission from Department of Biochemistry
  Riham Satti (MeVitae), John Stuart (Bounts Ltd.), Ekaterina Damer (Prolific Academic Ltd.)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 18 May 2017

• 14:00 - Nonspecific porins: the passive regulators on Gram-negative bacteria outer-membranes
  Dr Wanling Song (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 19 May 2017

• 10:30 - Mechanism of molecular motors in mitotic spindle formation and positioning
  Dr. Julie Welburn (Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh)
  Special Seminar
• 11:05 - Chemical physiology of protein conjugates and natural products
  Dr. Gonçalo Bernardes (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)
  Special Seminar
• 11:40 - Adhesion GPCRs: from complex structures to cellular functions
  Dr. Elena Seiradake (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar

Monday 22 May 2017

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar Series
  Jarno Makela, Katarina Jansen (Kleanthous group)
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Proteomics of adult stem cells and organoids
  Professor Shabaz Mohammed (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 16:00 - The cryoEM revolution in structural biology
  Lecture to be followed by a Champagne Reception on the Lower Ground Floor
  Dr Richard Henderson, FRS (Programme Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 14:00 - Dynamic organisation of crowded and complex cell membranes
  Dr Anna Duncan (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 26 May 2017

• 11:00 - Structural basis of myelin-associated glycoprotein adhesion and signalling
  Dr Matti Pronker (LMB, Cambridge)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 1 June 2017

• 14:00 - Protein engineering of SAS-6: from spirals to cartwheels
  Jodie Ford (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 5 June 2017

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar Series
  Stuart Ferguson, Onno Akkermans
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Radiation damage and metal identification in Structural Biology: why do we care?
  Prof Elspeth Garman (University of Oxford)
  OUBS

Thursday 8 June 2017

• 14:00 - Multiscale Simulations of Membrane Recognition by Lipid Kinases
  Sarah-Beth Amos (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 12 June 2017

• 11:00 - MSB Seminar Series
  Alberto Merchante Gonzales, Sam Hickman
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Establishment and Maintenance of Specialised Chromatin Domains
  Professor Robin Allshire (Professor of Chromosome Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 12:00 - "Super-resolution microscopy of cellular nanopores"
  Dr. Viola Mönkemöller (Bielefeld University)
  Seminar

Thursday 15 June 2017

• 14:00 - DNA nanotubes and their interaction with membranes: Insights through multiscale molecular dynamics simulations
  Dr Vishal Maingi (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 19 June 2017

• 13:00 - Targeting endothelial BMP signalling for treating pulmonary arterial hypertension: A structural biologist's perspective
  Dr. Wei Li (University of Cambridge)
  OUBS
• 16:00 - “Recruitment of peptidoglycan synthesis to the midcell of bacterial cocci drives cell envelope constriction independent of FtsZ tread milling”
  Professor Mariana Pinho (ITQB Portugal)

Thursday 22 June 2017

• 14:00 - Using contact maps to drive GPCR conformation
  Naushad Velgy (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 26 June 2017

• 13:00 - The mystery of suicidal enzymes: thiamin biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  Professor Tadhg Begley (Texas A&M University)
  OUBS

Wednesday 28 June 2017

• 12:00 - 'Chromatin-based Epigenetic Inheritance'
  Dr. Lars E.T.Jansen (Laboratory for Epigenetic Mechanisms, Portugal)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 29 June 2017

• 14:00 - Closed, open, or 'maybe open': Annotating ion channel structures by molecular simulation
  Shanlin Rao (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 15:30 - "Role of MatP in post-replicative cohesion of E. coli ter"
  Dr Estelle Crozat-Brendon (Biological and Soft Systems, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Monday 3 July 2017

• 13:00 - Plasticity of neural circuits, from development to function
  Dr. Arantza Barrios (Research Associate, University College London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 5 July 2017

• 09:00 - ‘Targeting transcription through disruption of BET complexes’
  Dr. Panagis Filippakopoulos (SGC, University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 09:35 - 'Unusual RNA/DNA structures in health and disease'
  Dr. Natalia Gromak (Group Leader, Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 10:20 - 'Mechanical Forces Induce Mitochondrial Fission'
  Professor Benoit Kornmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  Special Seminar
• 10:55 - ‘Molecular Mechanisms in Brain Development’
  Dr. Elena Seiradake (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 11:30 - ‘Biology in solution: from the atomic scale to mechanistic biochemistry’
  Dr. Sylvia McLain (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 6 July 2017

• 14:00 - SBCB Seminar
  Daniel Quetschlich (University of Oxford), Georgia Oakley (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 7 July 2017

• 11:00 - Rhenium Reactivity – exploring strategies for radiopharmaceuticals
  Dr Alice Brink
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Friday 14 July 2017

• 11:00 - Structural Basis of Nitrogenase Resistance to Oxygen
  Dr James Murray (Imperial College London)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 20 July 2017

• 11:00 - A tale of two M’s – Mannose and Microbiome
  Dr Vandana Sharma
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 14:00 - Determining the mechanism of action of bispyridinium compounds for the treatment of nerve agent exposure
  Max Epstein (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 21 July 2017

• 11:00 - Interactions of lipid headgroups with various co-solvents
  Dr Chris Lorenz (Kings College London)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 11:00 - ‘Sensing and responding to respiratory virus infections’
  Professor Patrick Reading (Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Monday 24 July 2017

• 13:00 - Seven transmembrane receptors
  Professor Robert Lefkowitz (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)
  Seminar

Wednesday 2 August 2017

• 14:00 - From seqence to assembly: how disordered proteins influence biological phase separation and gelation
  Dr Alex Holehouse (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington Uninversity in St. Louis)
  Seminar

Thursday 3 August 2017

• 14:00 - Functional Annotation of Ion Channel Structures by Molecular Dynamics Simulation
  Gianni Klesse (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 24 August 2017

• 14:00 - Building a pore: Apicomplexan pore forming proteins and their interactions with membranes
  Sophie Williams (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 4 September 2017

• 13:00 - Meis2 activation by Kdm2b-containing complexes
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (Group Leader, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan)
  Seminar

Wednesday 6 September 2017

• 12:00 - Dissecting a Three-Protein Brain: The Chemosensory Array of E. coli
  Prof John S (Sandy) Parkinson (Department of Biology, University of Utah)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Thursday 7 September 2017

• 14:00 - A multi-pronged approach to targeting GPR40 for diabetes
  Dr Jennifer Johnston (Merck, USA)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 8 September 2017

• 11:00 - Imaging life with the engineering microscopy technologies at Janelia Research Campus
  Dr Teng-Leong Chew (Centre Director, Advanced Imaging Centre, Janelia Research Campus)
  Seminar

Monday 11 September 2017

• 11:30 - "Modulation of innate immunity by dengue virus: feeling the STING"
  Professor Ana Fernandez-Sesma (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Saturday 16 September 2017

• 11:00 - The blurred boundary between coding and non-coding RNA
  Dr. Julie Aspden (University of Leeds)
  Special Seminar

Wednesday 20 September 2017

• 15:00 - Single-molecule approaches to unravel the mechanism of SMC complexes
  Jorine Eeftens (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Department of Bionanoscience, Technical University of Delft)
  Seminar

Thursday 21 September 2017

• 14:00 - Modelling bacterial lipoproteins
  George Bates (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 22 September 2017

• 11:00 - New approaches for MX at Diamond: from smaller, hotter beams to serial delivery.
  TBA
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 28 September 2017

• 14:00 - A PIP2 Binding Site on a Human TRP Channel: Simulation Studies of PKD2
  Qinrui Wang (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 29 September 2017

• 12:00 - 'From single molecules to single cells: Imaging nucleic acid enzymes at work'
  Professor David Rueda (Imperial College London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:25 - DPhil Symposium
  Various Speakers
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 2 October 2017

• 11:00 - 'Membrane binding, druggability and self-assembly of K-Ras'
  Dr. Alemayehu Gorfe (Associate Professor, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Texas)
  Seminar
• 13:00 - Computational Biochemistry of Biological Membrane Systems
  Dr Phillip Stansfeld (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18

Thursday 5 October 2017

• 14:00 - Characterising Drug Binding to the Cardiomyocyte K+ Ion Channel, hERG (Kv11.1)
  Matt Raybould (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 9 October 2017

• 11:00 - Bacterial chemotaxis: Investigating the diffusion of CheY6 in photoheterotrophic and aerobic Rhodobacter sphaeroides using single molecule tracking
  Jia Hui Khoo
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - The expanding universe of RNA-binding proteins
  Dr Alfredo Castello Palomares (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 14:00 - Oil and Water: simulations of membranes, lipids, channels etc.
  Professor Mark Sansom (Department of Biochemistry)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 16 October 2017

• 11:00 - "Modelling the Effects of Antisense Transcription" and "Response of the P. aeruginosa flagella motor to changing load"
  Andrew Angel, Sam Tusk
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - The dynamic extracellular matrix and its regulation of cell behaviour
  Professor Penny Handford (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 11:00 - Arboviruses in Cameroon: history, current status, challenges and perspectives"
  Professor Maurice Demanou (Centre Pasteur, Cameroun)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Reversing aberrant phase transitions of RNA-binding proteins connected to ALS and FTD
  Dr James Shorter (Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania)
  Seminar

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 14:00 - Are simulations predictive? Some recent case studies on iGluRs and Bromodomains
  Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Oxford University Biotech Society Seminar
  Andrew McLean (Principal at Oxford Sciences Innovation)
  Seminar

Friday 20 October 2017

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Juan Bada, Gianni Klesse (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 23 October 2017

• 11:00 - Cooperation and competition in microbes: from model systems to the microbiome
  Kevin Foster
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Antisense transcription and epigenetic switching: lessons from FLC
  Professor Dame Caroline Dean (Project Leader, John Innes Centre, Norwich)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:00 - Antisense transcription and epigenetic switching: lessons from FLC
  Professor Dame Caroline Dean (Project Leader, John Innes Centre, Norwich)
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 11:00 - “Recombinant vaccines for emerging and reemerging viruses”
  Professor Ian Jones (University of Reading)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 14:00 - Towards multiscale modelling of virus-cell interactions at the membrane
  Elizabeth Jefferys (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 27 October 2017

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Joe Bluck, Jo Parker
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 30 October 2017

• 11:00 - "How do bacteria navigate through biofilms?" and "Does MukBEF transport DNA?"
  James Wheeler, Florence Wagner
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Evolutionary dynamics in the fungal symmetry breaking network
  Dr. Liedewij Laan (Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18
• 17:00 - Evolutionary dynamics in the fungal symmetry breaking network
  Please note change of time: now at 5pm
  Dr. Liedewij Laan (Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 11:00 - LAB282: Accelerating Oxford drug discovery
  Dr Thomas Hanke (, LAB282 Expert in Residence, and Head of Academic Liaison, Evotec AG)
  Seminar
• 14:00 - Computational Biochemistry of Biogenesis, Assembly & Transport at the Membrane
  Dr Phillip Stansfeld (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 3 November 2017

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Max Epstein (University of Oxford), Katharina Jungnickel
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 6 November 2017

• 11:00 - "TBA" and "Cell size control in budding yeast"
  Stefan Heldt, Will Smith
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - "Predatory Bdellovibrio bacteria - evolution of predation and application of predators against AMR infections"
  Professor Liz Sockett (Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham )
  Seminar

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 16:30 - “The Philosophical Virus: What Viruses Tell Us About What It Means To Be Alive And What It Means To Be Human”
  Carl Zimmer (New York Times Columnist )
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 14:00 - How to Rank a Set of Homology Models and Work in Progress on How to Accelerate Simulations of Ligand-Induced Conformational Changes
  Dr Ole Juul Andersen (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 10 November 2017

• 11:00 - The Target Landscape of Clinical Kinase Inhibitor Drugs
  Professor Bernhard Kuster (Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics, Technical University of Munich)
  Seminar
• 11:00 - The Target Landscape of Clinical Kinase Inhibitor Drugs
  Prof Bernhard Kuster (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 13 November 2017

• 13:00 - Why do cancer cells move? Lessons from melanoma
  Prof Colin Goding (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 14:00 - Simulations of the Glycine Receptor: protein-ligand and protein-lipid interactions
  Marc Daemgen (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 17 November 2017

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Dr Oleg Sitsel, Javier Vinals Camallonga
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 16:00 - Structure and Assembly of an antibacterial speargun: the Type VI secretion system
  Dr. Eric Cascales (Laboratoire d'Ingenierie des Systemes Macromoleculaires, IBSM, CNRS, France)
  Joel Mandelstam Lecture

Monday 20 November 2017

• 10:00 - Computing the Bacterial Brain: Molecular dynamics simulations of chemosensory arrays.
  Dr Keith Cassidy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - "Exploring the Structure and Import Mechanism of Protein Antibiotic Pyocin S5" and "Cell wall aminosugar recycling and pathogenesis in the Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus"
  Hannah Behrens, Jack Dorling
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Does cohesin mediate sister chromatid cohesion by a mechanism distinct from loading, translocation and loop extrusion?
  Professor Kim Nasmyth (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 13:00 - Exploring Plasma Membrane Organization - A Super-Resolution Microscopy Study
  Prof Christian Eggeling (University of Oxford)
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 14:00 - Linking proton sensors and channel motions in acid-sensing ion channels
  Dr Maria Musgaard (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 24 November 2017

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Naushad Velgy (University of Oxford), Shanlin Rao (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 13:00 - "Mechanisms of DNA-protein crosslink proteolysis"
  Dr Julian Duxin (Associate Professor, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen)
  Seminar

Monday 27 November 2017

• 11:00 - "Towards a cryo-EM structure of the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) substrate receptor" and "Interference competition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during chronic infection"
  Justin Deme, Daniel Unterweger
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Regulation of cell division by protein phosphatases: from mitosis to melanoma
  Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 14:00 - The allosteric modulation of lipid on GPCR revealed by MD simulations using in vivo-mimetic membranes
  Dr Wanling Song (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 1 December 2017

• 11:00 - Exploring protein sequence information across nature’s hot and cold habitats to understand the functional dynamics in the glutamate transporter family
  Gerard Huysmans
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 4 December 2017

• 11:00 - “The E. coli MatP - MukB - ParC interplay” and “The tortoise and the hare: how mutations of twitching motility affect bacterial collective behaviours”
  Karthik Rajasekar, Oliver Meacock
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 7 December 2017

• 14:00 - Dynamic organisation of cell membranes from nanoscale to mesoscale
  Dr Anna Duncan (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 11 December 2017

• 10:00 - 'Using genome-wide protein tagging to uncover new flagellum biology: Proximal/distal flagellum structure asymmetry controls swimming behaviours in eukaryotic parasites'
  Dr. Richard J. Wheeler (Sir Henry Wellcome Post-doctoral Fellow, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden)
  Special Seminar
• 11:00 - "TBA" and "Quitters and persisters: How can E. coli survive ciprofloxacin treatment?"
  Nicolas Delalez, Mathew Stracy
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Catch me if you can – Illuminating the onset of adaptive immunity
  Professor Robert Tampé (Goethe University Frankfurt)
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18

Friday 15 December 2017

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Verity Jackson (Seraidake Lab), Felipe Ossa (Schnell Group )
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 18 December 2017

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Peijun Zhang (Strubi, University of Oxford)
  OUBS/Biochemistry Department Seminar Series 2017-18

Monday 15 January 2018

• 11:00 - Title 1:"Fungal and bacterial membrane proteins as drug targets", title 2: "Towards function of a Radical SAM Enzyme, NirJ of d1-heme biosynthesis pathway"
  Various Speakers
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Friday 19 January 2018

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Henry Sawczyc, Nick Michelarakis
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Sunday 21 January 2018

• 11:00 - Talk 1: "The MukBEF complex: reconstitution of its loading onto DNA and exploration of the role of conformational dynamics "; Talk 2: "The nuclease bacteriocins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumonia"
  Various Speakers
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Monday 22 January 2018

• 13:00 - Lights, Camera, Action! Antimalarial drug discovery using a microscope
  Professor Jake Baum (Professor of Cell Biology and Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 14:00 - 'Inhibition and activation of Parkin, an enzyme mutated in Parkinson's Disease'
  Professor Helen Walden (Professor of Structural Biology (Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology), University of Glasgow)
  Seminar

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 14:00 - How does Ytterbium Chloride interact with DMPC bilayers? A computational study
  Dr Miguel A Gonzalez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 26 January 2018

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Fiona Naughton (University of Oxford), Ole Anderson
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 29 January 2018

• 11:00 - Dr Stephan Uphoff: "Visualizing the regulation of mutagenesis in single cells", Scott Rata: "Two interlinked bistable mechanisms generate a robust M phase"
  Various Speakers
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 14:00 - The interplay of sodium and voltage in the regulation of G-protein coupled receptors
  Dr Owen Vickery (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 2 February 2018

• 11:00 - Closely related, yet unique: Different association patterns for G protein coupled chemokine receptors and their fine-tuning by cholesterol
  Stefan Gahbauer
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 5 February 2018

• 11:00 - MSB seminar: "Structural Studies of DNA Import in Naturally Competent Bacteria" and "Pause, rewind, go! - Investigating polymerase dynamics via stochastic models"
  August (Silale), Tom (Brown)
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 14:00 - Practice talks for Biophysical Society Annual meeting
  Various Speakers
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 12 February 2018

• 11:00 - Mathew Stracy (Sherratt group): “Quitters and persisters: How can E. coli survive ciprofloxacin treatment?", Alberto Merchante González (Angel group): "The Yeast Metabolic Cycle: Understanding Gene Expression through Statistical Analysis"
  Various Speakers
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Development of Broadly-Neutralising Vaccines against the Blood-Stage Human Malaria Parasite
  Dr. Simon Draper (Blood-Stage Malaria Group, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
  Seminar

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 15:00 - 'One for sorrow, two for joy: the regulation of meiosis II'
  Dr. Wolfgang Zachariae (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martiensried, Germany)
  Seminar

Wednesday 14 February 2018

• 11:00 - Ultra-precise Time-lapse Phenotyping of Single-cells in Genome-scale
  Dr Somenath Bakshi (Harvard Medical School)

Monday 19 February 2018

• 11:00 - Dr Ravinash Krishna Kumar: ‘Spatially positioning bacteria using a 3D droplet printer’, Michael Hopkins: 'Mathematical modelling of the mitotic checkpoint'
  Various Speakers
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Friday 23 February 2018

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Naoko Mizuno
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 11:00 - Cell shape formation controlled by cytoskeleton
  Dr Naoko Mizuno (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)

Monday 26 February 2018

• 11:00 - Samuel Bannon: "Purification and structural studies of the lipid II flippase, MurJ", Isabelle Pickett: TBC, Emma Jones: TBC
  Various Speakers
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 09:00 - Organelle contact sites: what are they, what are they good for, and how can they be bad
  Professor Benoit Kornmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  Special Seminar
• 09:35 - 3D Chromatin Conformation during early Embryonic Development
  Dr. Juanma Vaquerizas (MPI for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany)
  Special Seminar
• 10:10 - Defining Centriole Function in Centrosome and Cilium Biogenesis
  Dr. Alexander Dammermann (Max F Perutz Laboratories, Austria)
  Special Seminar
• 11:00 - Bifidobacterium: a Key Early Life Microbiota Member
  Dr. Lindsay Hall (Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich)
  Special Seminar
• 11:35 - Plant Cysteine Oxidases: Novel Targets for Future Food Security?
  Dr. Emily Flashman (Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 14:00 - Investigations of the molecular mechanisms driving adenine nucleotide interactions with the cardiac ryanodine receptor
  Chris Lindsay (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 5 March 2018

• 11:00 - Jethro Lundie Brown: “Towards the structural characterisation of the lipid-modifying multiple peptide resistance factor”; George Bates: "Investigating the role of GldJ in gliding motility”
  Various Speakers
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 11:30 - Martin Vesely: "Pyocin Translocation across the Iron receptor FpvAI in P. aeruginosa"; Paul Guy: “Investigating the Type IX Secretion System Targeting Domain”
  Various Speakers
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 14:00 - Part II student presentations
  Amy Kidd (University of Oxford), Benjamin Mynors-Wallis (University of Oxford), Karan Bali (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 12 March 2018

• 13:00 - Single cell Hi-C and single molecule imaging to study nuclear architecture
  Professor Ernest Laue (Professor of Structural Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 14 March 2018

• 14:00 - 'Enhancers as regulatory hubs in mammalian embryogenesis and human congenital disease'
  Dr. Alvaro Rada-Iglesias (Centre for Molecular Medicine, Cologne)
  Seminar

Thursday 15 March 2018

• 14:00 - Part II student presentations
  Amy Clarke (University of Oxford), Tilly Ansell (University of Oxford), Tom Dyer (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 22 March 2018

• 14:00 - Pre-protein secretion throught the bacterial Sec translocon
  Dr Robin Corey (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 23 March 2018

• 11:00 - Investigating the binding interactions of Vrg4, a nucleoside sugar transporter.
  Wei Teh
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 5 April 2018

• 14:00 - Probing conformational landscapes using swarm-enhanced sampling molecular dynamics
  Dr Irfan Alibay (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 6 April 2018

• 11:00 - Mechanism or X-ray Damage? A Case Study with Xylose Isomerase
  Helena Taberman
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 9 April 2018

• 11:00 - 'Cell-cell interactions in microbial communities: from model systems to the microbiome'
  Professor Kevin Foster (Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Zoology, Oxford)
  Special Seminar

Wednesday 11 April 2018

• 12:00 - Science communication & public engagement
  Alison Brindle (Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford), Naomi Gibson (Medical Sciences Division)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 12 April 2018

• 14:00 - Calculating NMR Parameters Using Density Functional Theory
  Dr Charlotte Lynch (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 13 April 2018

• 11:00 - Part II Talks
  Amy Clarke, Nino Harris, Karan Bali
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 19 April 2018

• 10:30 - ‘Probing Chaperone-assisted peptide exchange dynamics of Major Histocompatibility Complex molecules by NMR’
  Dr. Nikolaos Sgourakis (University of California, US)
  Special Seminar
• 11:05 - ‘A Phylogenetic Profiling Approach To Identifying Novel Ciliogenesis Genes’
  Professor Alexander Dammermann (University of Vienna, Austria)
  Special Seminar
• 14:25 - 'Single molecule imaging of nucleosome dynamics during DNA replication in Xenopus egg extracts'
  Dr. Dominika Gruszka (Crick Institute, London)
  Special Seminar
• 15:00 - ‘TIE proteins: the chemical harpoons of Gram-positive bacteria’
  Dr. Ulrich Schwarz-Linek (University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews)
  Special Seminar
• 15:50 - ‘Cell shape formation controlled by cytoskeleton’
  Dr. Naoko Mizuno (MPI Fur Biochemie, Germany)
  Special Seminar
• 16:25 - ‘Biogenesis of the Bacterial Cell Envelope’
  Dr Phillip Stansfeld (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
  Special Seminar

Friday 20 April 2018

• 11:00 - Part II Talks
  Amy Kidd, Charlie Woodhouse, Jack Brocklehurst
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 14:00 - High-speed and super-resolution live imaging to understand mechanisms of protein trafficking from the ER and through the Golgi apparatus
  Prof Akihiko Nakano (RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and Laboratory of Developmental Cell Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan)
  Seminar

Monday 23 April 2018

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Emma Sadler, Will Smith
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 11:00 - 'chaperoning SNARE assembly to control membrane fusion'
  Professor Fred Hughson (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)
  Seminar
• 13:00 - 'Controlling Turing: Self-organisation within bacterial cells'
  Dr. Sean Murray (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology SYNMIKRO, Marburg, Germany)
  Seminar

Friday 27 April 2018

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Janet Deane (University of Cambridge)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 30 April 2018

• 11:00 - "Dynamics of cell cycle surveillance mechanisms"; "Investigating stator dynamics in Rhodobacter sphaeroides"; "Characterising sRNAs as tunable regulators for synthetic biology applications"
  Bela Novak, June Han, Katie Paul
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 11:00 - Prof Béla Novák: 'Dynamics of cell cycle surveillance mechanisms', June Han: 'Characterising sRNAs as tunable regulators for synthetic biology application', Katie Paul: 'Investigating stator dynamics in Rhodobacter sphaeroides'
  Various Speakers
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - 'The remote control of gene expression'
  Professor Wendy Bickmore, FRS, FMedSci (Director: MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, University of Edinburgh)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Tuesday 1 May 2018

• 11:00 - Membrane protein insertion by the EMC: a new route opens through an ancient complex
  Dr. John Christianson (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)
  Seminar

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 11:00 - 'Emergent properties of liquid-like membraneless organelles’
  Dr. Tim Nott (Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Seminar
• 14:00 - Mechanosensitive and intracellular pH sensitive of TREK channel
  Viwan Jarerattanachat (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 4 May 2018

• 11:00 - Part II Talks
  Ben Mynors-Wallis, Tom Dyer, Tilly Ansell
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 11:00 - Mechanistic Relationships in the TMEM16 family of Calcium-activated Chloride Channels and Lipid Scramblases.
  Prof Raimund Dutzler (UZH)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 13:30 - 'Chromosome morphogenesis in interphase and mitosis'
  Dr. Benjamin Rowland (Group Leader, Netherlands Cancer Institute)
  Seminar
• 16:00 - Mechanism of ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD)
  Professor Tom Rapoport (Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 11:00 - “Border patrol: mechanisms of membrane protein quality control”
  Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 10 May 2018

• 14:00 - Using molecular dynamics to add value to cryo-EM structures
  Michael Horrell (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 17 May 2018

• 16:00 - Hydrophobic gating in ion channels: A molecular dynamics investigation
  Shanlin Rao (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 18 May 2018

• 11:00 - Cryo-EM shows how dynactin recruits two dyneins for faster movement
  Clinton Lau
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 13:00 - Conformational dynamics controls the 3Rs of genome maintenance: the story of RAD52
  Prof. Maria Spies (University of Iowa, College of Medicine)

Monday 21 May 2018

• 11:00 - "Protein secretion by Flavobacterium johnsoniae" and "Super-resolution microscopy to study folded protein translocation across membranes in E. coli"
  Frederic Lauber (University of Oxford), Sam Hickman
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 24 May 2018

• 14:00 - In Touch with Mechanically Activated Piezo Channels via Molecular Dynamics
  Che Chun Tsui (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 25 May 2018

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Andrzej Szewczak (University of Cambridge)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 11:00 - Cryo-EM reconstruction of AlfA from Bacillus subtilis reveals the structure of a simplified actin-like filament at 3.4-Å resolution
  Andrzej Szewczak-Harris (LMB, University of Cambridge)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Thursday 31 May 2018

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Tom Dixon
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 4 June 2018

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Patrick Inns, Jarno Makela
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 14:00 - Molecular dynamics study of biomembrane interactions with biologically active polymers
  Dr Afroditi-Maria Zaki ( University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 8 June 2018

• 11:00 - Markov state models of disordered loops and new perspectives on peripheral membrane binding events
  Sarah-Beth Amos
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 11 June 2018

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Helen Miller, Jonathan Goult
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - Cellular responses to DNA damage: translating molecular insights towards new cancer therapies
  Professor Steve Jackson, PhD, FRS, FMedSci (Frederick James Quick Professor of Biology, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 09:00 - Department of Biochemistry Wellbeing Day
  Various Speakers

Thursday 14 June 2018

• 14:00 - Exploring Dynamic Transitions in an Arginine Transporter
  Zhiyi Wu (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 18 June 2018

• 11:00 - "Assembling a transporter for folded proteins" and "Single-molecule approaches to study MukBEF translocation on DNA"
  Man Zhou, Felicity Alcock
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 28 June 2018

• 14:00 - Integrating SAXS, NMR and MD simulations - towards an improved understanding of biophysical systems
  Tone Bengtsen (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 29 June 2018

• 11:00 - Transport through Nanopores: Preparation of Biomimetic Voltage-Gated Channels and Circuits.
  Zuzanna Siwy (UCIrvine)
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)

Monday 2 July 2018

• 11:00 - Microbial NLP cytolysins employ plant sphingolipids for initial membrane interactions in the cytolytic process
  Professor Gregor Anderluh (Director of the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)
  Seminar
• 13:00 - Mitosis, genome stability and cancer chemotherapy
  Professor Stephen Taylor (Leech Professor of Pharmacology, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, University of Manchester)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 5 July 2018

• 14:00 - What Would Water Do? - Hydrophobic Gating of Ion Channels Studied through Atomistic and Polarisable Molecular Dynamics
  Gianni Klesse (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 9 July 2018

• 13:00 - 'Role of H3K27me3-mediated genomic imprinting in development and somatic cell nuclear transfer reprogramming'
  Professor Yi Zhang (Fred Rosen Professor, Dept. of Genetics and Dept. of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.)
  Seminar

Thursday 19 July 2018

• 14:00 - Study of cyclic peptide nanotubes in a membrane environment via Molecular Dynamics Simulations
  Martin Calvelo (University of Santiago de Compostela)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 26 July 2018

• 14:00 - Re-engineering SAS-6: from spirals to rings
  Jodie Ford (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 6 September 2018

• 14:00 - Membrane Recognition by a Multidomain Protein: A Molecular Simulation Study of PTEN and its Constituent Domains
  Laura John (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 September 2018

• 15:00 - Biochem to billions Introduction event: (anyone can attend)
  Prof Mark Howarth (University of Oxford Department of Biochemistry), Professor Jane Mellor (University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 13 September 2018

• 14:00 - Multiscale molecular dynamics simulation to explore voltage-gated sodium channel oligomerisation
  William Glass (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 20 September 2018

• 14:00 - Molecular Dynamics to aid medicinal chemistry: a case study on bromodomains
  Joseph Bluck (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 21 September 2018

• 13:00 - Correlative soft-X ray cryo-tomography and super resolution fluorescence microscopy imaging for the life sciences at Diamond Light Source beamline B24.
  Maria is the acting Principle Beamline Scientist for beamline B24. Previously she was a group leader at the Structural biology laboratory at the Nuffield department of Medicine of the University of Oxford. Maria undertook her graduate studies at YSBL, York, and was awarded her PhD in 2002.
  Dr Maria Harkiolaki (Diamond Light Source)

Wednesday 26 September 2018

• 10:30 - Centrosomes: ubiquitious organelles with tissue-specific functions?
  Dr. Fanni Gergely (Senior Group Leader, CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge)
  Special Seminar
• 14:00 - Biochem to billions Pitching and investing event: (only members of the Department can attend)
  Various Speakers
  Special Seminar

Thursday 27 September 2018

• 08:30 - Graduate Student Induction
  Various Speakers
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 14:00 - Towards Investigating the Role of the Membrane Environment on the Structure and Function of a Bacterial Potassium Channel
  Daniel Quetschlich (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 28 September 2018

• 11:00 - "Variant PRC1 in transcriptional phase transition"
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (Team Leader, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan)
  Seminar
• 13:30 - DPhil Symposium
  Various Speakers
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 4 October 2018

• 11:00 - "Imaging spatiotemporal regulation of immune signalling at the plasma membrane"
  Dr. Erdinc Sezgin (Postdoctoral Scientist, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 14:00 - Molecular determinants of non-oxime bispyridinium activity at adult muscle nAChR
  Max Epstein (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 8 October 2018

• 11:00 - Bacterial navigation without a canonical chemotaxis system
  James Wheeler, Jia Hui Khoo
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 14:00 - Proteins, lipids, water: an overview of research in sansomgroup
  Professor Mark Sansom (Department of Biochemistry)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 12 October 2018

• 11:00 - Codon choice is the dominant determinant of mRNA levels in trypanosomes
  Prof. Mark Carrington (University of Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Monday 15 October 2018

• 11:00 - Common design principles of size control in proliferating cells & Quantifying self-lysis in colicin-producing bacteria
  Stefan Heldt, Elisa Granato
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 14:00 - Simulations of channels, transporters and drugs
  Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 19 October 2018

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Dr Sarah Shammas (University of Oxford), Prof Christina Redfield (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Monday 22 October 2018

• 11:00 - How the protein antibiotic pyocin S5 enters Pseudomonas aeruginosa & Demixing with motility: defect-mediated segregation of bacterial populations
  Hannah Behrens, Oliver Meacock
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 14:00 - Biogenesis Processes within the Bacterial Cell Envelope
  Dr Phillip Stansfeld (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 26 October 2018

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Prof Elspeth Garman (University of Oxford), Prof Anthony Watts (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Monday 29 October 2018

• 11:00 - Dimerize or die? The functional role of Escherichia coli kleisin MukF
  Sandip Kumar (University of Oxford ), Rachel Bakers (University of Oxford )
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 09:45 - Graduate OPEN DAY
  Various Speakers
• 11:00 - Adaptive and maladaptive antibody responses in hepatitis C infectio
  Prof Lynn Dustin (NDORMS)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminars

Friday 2 November 2018

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Prof Jason Schnell (University of Oxford), Prof Simon Newstead (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Monday 5 November 2018

• 11:00 - Quitters and persisters: How do non-resistant E. coli survive antibiotic treatment? & Elucidating the spatiotemporal organization of outer membrane proteins
  Mathew Stracy, Gideon Mamou
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 11:00 - Iminosugars for immune modulation, ant-diabetic and anti-inflammatory applications
  TBA
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminars

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 14:00 - Hunting the open state of the glycine receptor
  Marc Daemgen (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 9 November 2018

• 11:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Prof Elena Seiradake (University of Oxford), Dr Paul Elliott (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 16:30 - Influenza: Past and Future Pandemics?
  Professor Wendy Barclay (Department of Medicine, Imperial College London )

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 14:00 - Towards Dynamic Pharmacophore Models Through the Use of Coarse Grained Molecular Dynamic Simulations
  Nick Michelarakis
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 19 November 2018

• 11:00 - structural snapshots of the Type 9 secretion system translocon reveal a new protein transport mechanism & The role of Tol-Pal system in stabilizing outer membrane
  Justin Deme, Joanna Szczepaniak
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 11:00 - The circadian clock components BMAL1 and REV-ERBα regulate flavivirus replication
  TBA
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminars
• 15:00 - Generating Genetic Diversity
  Dr Alexander Lorenz (The Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen)

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 14:00 - Chasing the dragon
  Naushad Velgy (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - ‘The Type VII secretion system in the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus’
  Professor Tracy Palmer, FRS (Professor of Microbiology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University)
  Joel Mandelstam Lecture

Monday 26 November 2018

• 11:00 - Structural characterisation of the fungal proton pump Pma1 & Bacterial Weapons: Studies of Colicin Translocation
  Sabine Heit, Ruth Cohen Khait
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 15:00 - CANCELLED (Due to flight delays) Merging Computation and Experiment to Uncover a Molecular Mechanism of Ligand Binding in the Malarial M1 Aminopeptidase
  Dr Irina Tikhonova (Queen's University, Belfast)

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 11:00 - Structural and related studies on Mycobacterial RecA & LexA
  Dr Anu Chandran (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 November 2018

• 14:00 - GPCR-lipid interactions revealed by MD simulations in in vivo-mimetic membranes
  Dr Wanling Song (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 17:00 - “Carrying out nano-molecular surgery in virtual reality
  Dr David Glowacki (University of Bristol)
  Comp Chem Kitchen

Thursday 6 December 2018

• 14:00 - Lipid interactions and ion permeation of a ciliary membrane TRP channel, Polycystin-2
  Qinrui Wang (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 13 December 2018

• 10:00 - CCK-14: Hackathon-2
  Cambridge Structural Database (CCDC)
  Comp Chem Kitchen
• 14:00 - Adventures in the modelling of bacterial chemosensory arrays
  Keith Cassidy (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 December 2018

• 15:00 - Determining the mechanism behind cholesterol-dependent GPCR signaling: Simulation and experiment
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 14 January 2019

• 11:00 - Characterisation of klebicin translocation pathways
  Nick Housden, Rory Hennell-James
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 16 January 2019

• 10:00 - Looking forward, looking back: a strategic overview of research in SBMB
  Professor Mark Sansom (Department of Biochemistry)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 14:00 - Computational and native MS studies of β-barrel outer membrane protein and LPS biogenesis pathways: emerging structural targets for novel antibiotics
  Josh Sauer (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 18 January 2019

• 11:30 - Chemically-Induced Protein Aggregates to Study Protein Quality Control
  Dr Anne Jannsen (Biology Department, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

Monday 21 January 2019

• 11:00 - "The T9SS outer membrane translocon - an update" & "Dynamic architecture of the Escherichia coli Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) complex, MukBEF"
  Frederic Lauber (University of Oxford), Karthik Rajasekar
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Philipp Braeuer (University of Oxford), Nicholas Michelarakis (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 14:00 - Structural and computational insights into mechanisms of Apicomplexan perforin-like proteins
  Sophie Williams (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 25 January 2019

• 11:15 - Rhodopsin based Optogenetics: Basics,Applications, Chances
  Professor Dr. Ernst Bamberg (Director Emeritus, Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt)
  Seminar

Monday 28 January 2019

• 11:00 - The quest for a single-molecule assay that recapitulates DNA organisation by MukBEF and The T9SS outer membrane translocon - an update
  Dr Gemma Fisher (University of Oxford), Frederic Lauber (University of Oxford)
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 30 January 2019

• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Qinrui Wang (University of Oxford), Tanadet Pipatpolkai (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Innate Immunity in atherosclerosis
  Professor Claudia Monaco (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminars

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Owen Vickery (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 4 February 2019

• 11:00 - Investigation of the DNA uptake machinery in naturally competent bacteria and Delayed adaptation to oxidative stress cause mutagenesis pulse in E. coli
  August (Silale), Valentine Lagage (University of Oxford )
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Dr Mikhail Kuravsky (University of Oxford), Daniel Quetschlich (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Using a human challenge model to characterise the early host response to enteric fever
  Amber Barton (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 7 February 2019

• 14:00 - Influenza A/M2 clustering causes curvature: an insight to the underlying interactions
  Iris Kalenderoglou (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 11 February 2019

• 11:00 - "Imaging the organization of the DNA mismatch repair pathway using single-molecule tracking" and "Investigation of Bacteroidetes Gliding Motility"
  Nehir Banaz, Andreas Kjaer
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 13 February 2019

• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Sarah-Beth Amos (University of Oxford), Dr Javier Vinals Camallonga (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Rotavirus infection: immune responses, correlates of protection, and factors involved in differences of vaccine effectiveness by country
  Dr Ulrich Desselberger (University of Cambridge)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Elizabeth Jefferys (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 14:00 - Introduction to the Molecular Biophysics Suite
  Dr David Staunton (Department of Biochemistry)
  Special Seminar

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Dr Afroditi-Maria Zaki ( University of Oxford), Dr Peter Judge (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Part II Talks
  Bora Guloglu (University of Oxford), Katie Hammond (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 21 February 2019

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Max Epstein (University of Oxford), Dr Anna Duncan (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 25 February 2019

• 11:00 - "The Escherichia coli SMC complex, MukBEF, compacts the chromosome lengthwise by forming a ring-shaped axial filament" and "Translocation Dynamics of Protein Antibiotics across the Outer Membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
  Jarno Makela, Jonathan Goult
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 27 February 2019

• 10:00 - Part II Talks
  Mateusz Kotowski (University of Oxford), Amber Stewart (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Max Epstein (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 14:00 - SBCB part II practice talks
  Various Speakers
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 4 March 2019

• 11:00 - "Characterisation of the Type IX Secretion System attachment complex", "Developing an assay for the identification of antibiotic targets using photoactivated single-molecule tracking","The dynamics and spatial organisation of mutagenesis in E. coli"
  Alex Mingjun Xu, Hannah Glover, Madeleine Hooper
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 6 March 2019

• 10:00 - Part II Talks
  Lucy Britton (University of Oxford), Jonathan Machin (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Joseph Bluck (University of Oxford), Dr Felipe Ossa (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Monday 11 March 2019

• 11:00 - "Towards 3D tracking of electroporated, fluorescently labelled CheY proteins" & "Single molecule assays recapitulate mechanism of chromosome organization by E.coli SMC: MukBEF - Approach to unified model of all SMC proteins"
  Helen Miller, Man Zhou
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 13 March 2019

• 16:00 - Ubiquitin Club meeting
  Various Speakers

Thursday 14 March 2019

• 14:00 - SBCB part II practice talks
  Various Speakers
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 18 March 2019

• 11:00 - Capturing protein transport in bacteria using ultra-long single-molecule tracking & The organization and dynamics of OmpF in E.coli
  Sam Hickman, Patrick Inns
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Thursday 21 March 2019

• 14:00 - SBCB ACS practice talks
  Dr Wanling Song (University of Oxford), Dr Charlotte Lynch (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Early events in dengue and chikungunya virus infection
  Prof. Jolanda Smit (University of Groningen)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 28 March 2019

• 14:00 - Molecular Dynamics of a Bacterial S-layer
  Dimitrios Kolokouris (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 4 April 2019

• 14:00 - Assessment of a crystallographic fragment screen using unbiased molecular dynamics simulations
  Harold Grosjean (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 5 April 2019

• 11:00 - “Cryo-EM snapshots of the catalytic spliceosome - and RNA heart in a malleable protein body”
  Dr. Sebastian Fica (MRC, LMB, Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Monday 8 April 2019

• 15:00 - CryoEM structures of membrane protein ion channel sensors
  Prof Andrew Ward (Scripps Research)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 April 2019

• 15:00 - "Towards Design of Universal Influenza Vaccines and Therapeutics"
  Professor Ian A. Wilson, D.Phil, D.Sc, FRS, FRSE (Hansen Professor of Structural Biology, Chair Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, US)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Thursday 11 April 2019

• 14:00 - Insights into Membrane Protein-Lipid Interactions from Free Energy Calculations
  Dr Robin Corey (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 25 April 2019

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Jodie Collingridge (University of Oxford), Mina Moniri (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2019

• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Tongran Zhang (University of Oxford), Joshua Dickerson (University of Oxford), Shu En Lee (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Thursday 2 May 2019

• 14:00 - Cholesterol orientation-dependant modulation of Patched1 extracellular domain conformation.
  Bertie Ansell (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 6 May 2019

• 16:00 - Breaking symmetry — Cell Polarity Signaling in Axon Guidance and Synapse Formation
  Professor Yimin Zou (Division of Biology, Section of Neuroscience, La Jolla, California, USA)

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 11:00 - Refuelling the cell: how ADP and ATP are transported across the mitochondrial inner membrane.
  Edmund Kunji (MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge)
• 16:00 - Chemical and mechanical interrogation of biological systems…and beyond
  FREE pizza after the talk.
  Periklis Pantazis (Laboratory of Advanced Optical Precision Imaging, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London )

Wednesday 8 May 2019

• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Stephen Deane (University of Oxford), Peter Woodcock (University of Oxford), Josie Elliott (University of Oxford), Isabelle Hughes (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Thursday 9 May 2019

• 11:00 - Directed evolution of the bacterial flagellar motor
  Dr Matt Baker (School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney and EMBL Australia Node for Single Molecular Science at UNSW Sydney.)
• 13:00 - ‘Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance’
  Professor Anja Groth (Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen)
  Seminar
• 14:00 - Effects of lipid complexity in biological membranes: from the nano to the mesoscale
  Dr Anna Duncan (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 13 May 2019

• 13:00 - “Functional chromatin organisation in mammalian cells - lessons from 3D super-resolution microscopy"
  Dr. Lothar Schermelleh (Micron Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford)
  Seminar

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 11:00 - Of channels and transporters - potassium uptake in bacterial survival
  Dr Inga Hanelt (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)

Wednesday 15 May 2019

• 10:00 - Modelling how proteins traffic lipids inside cells
  Prof Tim Levine (UCL)
  SBMB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Re-engineering SAS-6: from spirals to rings
  Jodie Ford (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Seeing and believing at super-resolution
  Dr Susan Cox (Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics, King's College London)
• 14:00 - Mammalian twinfilins regulate actin filament dynamics by promoting filament barbed end uncapping and depolymerization.
  Markku Hakalla (Laboratory of Pekka Lappalainen, Helsinki Institute of Life Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Thursday 16 May 2019

• 14:00 - Analytical and computational tools to determine the solution structure of protein complexes by small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering
  Andreas Larsen (University of Copenhagen)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 May 2019

• 11:00 - The Laos Central Nervous System Infection study
  Dr Audrey Dubot-Peres (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement and LOMWRU)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
• 15:00 - “Supercooled water and amorphous states”
  The IBM-Oxford Forum We are pleased to announce a new seminar series called the IBM-Oxford Forum. The series will provide a platform for senior scientists from IBM Research to engage with the University through stimulating seminars on their latest cutting-edge research. IBM and Oxford have a long history of scientific collaboration over many years and across multiple disciplines. This new forum will help consolidate many of the existing interactions as well as sparking new collaborative opportunities. Seminars will run termly and will be hosted by different departments across Oxford’s research centres promoting interdisciplinary research. The scheme is being run by the MSD Business Development and Partnering Teams and if you would like to find out more about the scheme please contact oliver.voss@medsci.ox.ac.uk.
  Dr. Fausto Martelli (IBM Research UK)
  Seminar

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 11:00 - Biogenesis of Prion Aggregates and Cytoskeletal-Molecular Motor Dynamics in Neurons.
  Professor Sandra E. Encalada (The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular Medicine, Department of Neuroscience La Jolla, CA, USA)
• 14:00 - Modelling the action of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on macrophage membrane: one mycobacterial lipid at a time
  Matthieu Chavent (Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology, Toulouse)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 15:00 - "Preprints: communication at the speed of science"
  Dr. Richard Sever (Assistant Director of CSHL Press and Co-Founder of the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv)
  Seminar
• 15:00 - Preprints: communicating at the speed of science
  Richard Sever (Co-Founder of bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Press)

Friday 24 May 2019

• 14:00 - vertebrate Platform for a 3RsApproach to Assessment of Developmental And Reproductive Toxicity (DART)
  Huajiang Xiong (Woollard/Pears lab, University of Oxford)
• 14:30 - Cracking the Ubiquitin Code in the Fanconi Anaemia DNA Repair Pathway
  Ganesha Pitchai (Cohn lab, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 29 May 2019

• 11:00 - DPhil Talk
  Natalie Barber (Univeristy of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 30 May 2019

• 14:00 - Developing a pipeline for coarse grained simulations of nanodiscs
  Michael Horrell (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 June 2019

• 11:00 - DPhil Talks
  Thomas Harrison (University of Oxford), Samuel Gerard (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Illuminating the Molecular Choreography of Multi-segmented Viral Genomes
  Dr Alex Borodavka (Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 6 June 2019

• 10:30 - Epigenetic, genetic, and structural features driving centromere identity and function
  Professor Ben Black (Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• 14:00 - From computational to clinical : The story of PIP2 and neonatal diabetes
  Tanadet Pipatpolkai (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 7 June 2019

• 11:00 - Sybodies and NestLink: synthetic nanobodies targeting membrane proteins in their cellular context
  Professor Markus Seeger (University of Zurich)
• 11:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Professor Markus Seeger (University of Zurich)
  SBMB Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 June 2019

• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Dr Gurdeep Minhas (University of Oxford), Dr Wanling Song (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - DPhil Talks
  Juli Brun (University of Oxford), Re'em Moskovitz (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 13 June 2019

• 14:00 - Annotating ion channel pores: structures, hydrophobicity, and the threshold for permeation
  Shanlin Rao (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 17 June 2019

• 11:00 - The coevolution of host selectivity in the microbiome
  Microbiology & System Biology seminr series
  Connor Sharp (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 June 2019

• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Oliver Adams (University of Oxford), Joshua Sauer (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - DPhil Talks
  Tehmi Bharucha (University of Oxford), Mario Hensen (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 27 June 2019

• 14:00 - Towards coarse-grained simulations of membrane-membrane interfaces
  Victor Everett (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 11 July 2019

• 14:00 - An Unusual Hydrogen-Bond in the KDEL Receptor
  Zhiyi Wu (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 15 July 2019

• 11:00 - “variant PCGF1-PRC1 in cellular differentiation”
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (Team Leader, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan)
  Seminar

Thursday 18 July 2019

• 14:00 - Effect of MprF-modified lipids on the adbsorbtion of Antimicrobial Pepties to the Membrane Surface
  Patrick Simcock (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 22 July 2019

• 11:00 - Investigating the structure and function of a di-iron protein recruited as an Fe[II] and oxygen sensor for bacterial chemotaxis
  Alise Muok ((Leiden U., Ariane Briegel Lab))
• 11:30 - Repurposing a macromolecular machine: Architecture and evolution of the F7 chemosensory system
  Davi Ortega (Caltech, Grant Jensen Lab)

Tuesday 10 September 2019

• 14:00 - Keeping the genome in shape: advancing single-molecule approaches for genome biology
  Dr. Graeme King (Lecturer in Single-Molecule Biophysics, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL)
  Seminar

Wednesday 11 September 2019

• 08:45 - “Molecular Diversity in Regulating Bacterial Potassium Uptake”
  Dr. Inga Hanelt (Goethe-University, Frankfurt)
  Special Seminar
• 09:20 - “The Mycobacterium ulcerans exotoxin, mycolactone: a novel inhibitor of Sec61-dependent translocation that drives Buruli ulcer pathogenesis”
  Dr. Rachel Simmonds (University of Surrey)
  Special Seminar
• 09:55 - “Epigenetic inheritance: the curious case of the human centromere”
  Dr. Lars Jansen (Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
  Special Seminar
• 10:45 - “Sweet coats: Diverse mechanisms of microbial polysaccharide secretion”
  Professor Jochen Zimmer (University of Virginia)
  Special Seminar
• 11:20 - "To divide or not to divide: The interplay of cell cycle decision-making and post-translational modifications"
  Dr. Joerg Mansfeld (Technische Universitat Dresden)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 12 September 2019

• 14:00 - How to learn from inconsistencies: integrating molecular simulations with experimental data
  Andreas Larsen (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 September 2019

• 14:00 - Lessons in technology development from Steve Jobs to Chairman Mao
  Professor Mark Howarth (Department of Biochemistry)

Thursday 19 September 2019

• 14:00 - Investigations of protein-lipid interactions in the P-Type ATPase family
  Maxwell Geurts (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 September 2019

• 14:00 - Regulation of the DNA interstrand crosslink repair throught FANCD2 phosphorylation
  Marian Kupculak (Cell Biology, Development and Genetics,University of Oxford)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 14:30 - Expanding the utility of peptide for dual function in purification and conjugation
  Irsyad Khairil Anuar (Cell Biology, Development and Genetics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 15:00 - Revealing Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight: Advances in Multi-scale Multi-modal Imaging
  Mark H. Ellisman (Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences; Director, the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR), UC San Diego)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Tuesday 1 October 2019

• 14:00 - Extensive Non-redundancy in a Recently Duplicated Developmental Gene Family
  Emily Baker (Woollard Lab, Department of Biochemistry)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars
• 14:30 - Investigation of Cell Fate Decisions in Dictyostelium discodieum
  Yuntao Wang (Pears Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Thursday 3 October 2019

• 09:00 - Biochemistry Graduate Induction
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Transmembrane signalling in the E. coli Serine receptor
  Keith Cassidy (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 4 October 2019

• 13:00 - DPhil Symposium 2019
  Various Speakers

Monday 7 October 2019

• 14:00 - Dissecting the Three-Protein Brain of a Bacterium: E. coli's Chemosensory Array
  Distinguished Professor John S. Parkinson (University of Utah)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 October 2019

• 14:00 - Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation regulate the Fanconi Anaemia DNA repair pathway
  Di Yang (Cohn Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars
• 14:30 - Guiding a bacterial warhead for endogenous protein conjugation
  Arne Scheu (Howarth Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Thursday 10 October 2019

• 14:00 - Insights into membrane proteins and drug actions from simulations
  Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 14 October 2019

• 11:00 - Quantifying self-lysis in colicin-producing bacteria
  Elisa Granato
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 10:00 - Versatile Tools Towards Real-time, Single- molecule and Single-Cell Biology
  Dr. Aida Llauró-Portell (LUMICKS)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 14:00 - The Fanconi Anemia DNA repair pathway and cancer
  Dr Martin Cohn (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  CBDG
• 14:30 - Dictyostelium development
  Professor Catherine Pears (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  CBDG

Wednesday 16 October 2019

• 11:00 - Regulation of chronic inflammation by the circadian clock
  Dr Julie Gibbs (The University of Manchester)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Professor Mark Sansom (Department of Biochemistry)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 21 October 2019

• 11:00 - "Commitment issues: regulation of the proliferation-quiescence decision in eukaryotic cell" and "The bow and the sword: the evolution of bacterial weapon systems"
  Stefan Heldt, Will Smith
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 16:00 - World Synthetic Biology championships- the Oxford team's experience, and their project "Empowering probiotics with quorum sensing abilities to treat C. difficile infection"
  Oxford iGEM team (University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 09:00 - “Dissecting RNA Localisation and Local Translation in Neurons”
  Dr. Marina Chekulaeva (Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Germany)
  Special Seminar
• 09:35 - “Mechanism of Nitrogenase: Electrocatalysis at a Dinuclear Active Site”
  Professor Oliver Einsle (Institute for Biochemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany)
  Special Seminar
• 10:10 - “Functional organelle remodeling during adipocyte differentiation”
  Dr. Robin Klemm (Institute of Molecular Sciences, University of Zurich)
  Special Seminar
• 10:55 - “Understanding how cellular RNA-binding proteins control virus infection”
  Dr Alfredo Castello Palomares (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 11:00 - Structural and functional studies of the antiviral target proteins HCV p7 and ER alpha-glucosidase II
  Mario Hensen (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
• 11:30 - "Regulation of vesicle acidification at the neuronal synapse"
  Professor Ira Milosevic (European Neuroscience Institute - max Planck Society and University Medical Center Gottingen Joint Initiative, Gottingen)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 14:00 - Biophysical studies of the pLGIC 9' Leucine gate & determinants of stoichiometric assembly at the adult muscle nAChR
  Max Epstein (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - TALK CANCELLED Mapping mammalian brain architecture using large-scale spatial genomics
  Cancelled due to the speakers sickness
  Dr Omer Bayraktar (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge )

Friday 25 October 2019

• 16:00 - Oxford Chromosome Biology Club
  Madhu Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Marieke Oudelaar (University of Oxford)

Monday 28 October 2019

• 11:00 - "Imaging organisation in the Escherichia coli outer membrane" and "Macromolecular crowding in Rhodobacter sphaeroides"
  Sandip Kumar (University of Oxford ), Jia Khoo
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 30 October 2019

• 10:00 - Michelaɴɢʟo: sculpting protein views on webpages without coding
  Dr Matteo Ferla (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Pills, Germs and Iron: From membrane protein structure to mechanistic insights
  Dr Petra Lukacik (Diamond Light Source, Research Complex)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Monday 4 November 2019

• 08:45 - “Tuning gears for the tubulin motor: insights from in vitro reconstitution”
  Dr. Vladimir Volkov (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
  Special Seminar
• 09:35 - “Exon-centric functional genomics uncovers splice variants underlying normal physiology & disease-related phenotypes”
  Dr. Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis (Blencowe Laboratory, University of Toronto)
  Special Seminar
• 10:35 - "Towards anti-resistance antimicrobial chemotherapeutic strategies using large-scale chemical-genetics”
  Dr. Eachan Johnson (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, US)
  Special Seminar
• 11:25 - "Viral manipulation of information transfer in biology: structural and functional insights"
  Dr. Chris Hill (Queen's College, Cambridge)
  Special Seminar
• 12:15 - “The role of mobile DNA in spreading antimicrobial resistance and virulence”
  Dr. Ana Cehovin (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar
• 14:00 - “Modelling the dynamic organisation of complex cell membranes: from the nano to the meso scale”
  Dr Anna Duncan (University of Oxford)
  Special Seminar

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 10:00 - SBMB Seminar
  Professor Mark Sansom (Department of Biochemistry)
  SBMB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - (Dr Mohamad): Magnetically aligned bilayers as a novel tool for membrane protein crystallisation; (Dr Margolin): Leafing cell culture behind: making viral glycoprotein vaccines in plants
  Dr Nada Mohamad (University of Oxford), Emmanuel Margolin (University of Cape Town)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 14:00 - Investigating LPS insertion in the OM: using molecular dynamics simulations to complement MS data
  Josh Sauer (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 8 November 2019

• 14:00 - Geroscience drug discovery at the interface of autophagy and cellular senescence
  Sebastian Aguiar (Cox Lab, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford)
  CBDG
• 14:30 - The role of the deubiquitinase Trabid in Drosophila ageing and neurodegeneration
  Jingu Xia (Ligoxygakis lab, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford)
  CBDG

Monday 11 November 2019

• 16:00 - Regulation of openings and closings of the Ryanodine Receptor ion channel by cytosolic Ca2+
  Professor Dirk Gillespie (Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago)
  Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2019

• 16:30 - 14th Unither Baruch Blumberg Lecture: How viruses outsmart our immune system-a masterpiece of evolution
  Drinks reception to follow at 5.30pm
  Professor Robert Tampé (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 14:00 - Deep Learning Scoring Function for Flexible Molecular Docking
  Rocco Meli (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 15 November 2019

• 15:00 - Playing the hits: From biochemical discovery to biophysical analysis of novel anti-viral compounds
  Dr. Blair Strang (St George’s, University of London)

Monday 18 November 2019

• 11:00 - "Investigating Salmonella-microbiome interactions" and "Determining the mechanism of ColicinE9 import into host cells"
  Olivier Cunrath, Melissa Webby
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 11:00 - Host-virus interactions: It's about time
  Dr Rachel Edgar (Imperial College)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 14:00 - Self-Assembled Floating Supported Membranes - A New Tool for in vitro Studies on Accurate Model Membranes
  Laura John (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 22 November 2019

• 10:00 - “Modelling Ion Permeation in the Glycine Receptor: Structure/Function & Permeation Pathways”
  Dr. Marco Cecchini (Principal Investigator, Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Fonctions Moléculaires, Strasbourg)
  Seminar

Monday 25 November 2019

• 11:00 - "Investigating the Fitness Effects of Mobile Colistin Resistance" and "Combining Structured Illumination with Solid Immersion Lens to investigate MipZ ‘rings’ in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides"
  Lois Ogunlana, Stephen Maughan
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 27 November 2019

• 10:00 - What can solution-state NMR spectroscopy tell you about your protein?
  Prof Christina Redfield (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of centriole assembly and polarity
  Dr Anastasia Kantsadi (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 14:00 - Part I: GPCR oligomerization: our canonical paradigm of GPCR signalling may require an evolution. Part II: PyLipID: a versatile analysis toolkit for protein-lipid interactions
  Dr Wanling Song (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 2 December 2019

• 11:00 - "Colicins: Where do they go?" and " Understanding human gut bacteria ecology"
  Ruth Cohen Khait, Holly Wang
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Tuesday 3 December 2019

• 14:00 - Exploring a gut-brain axis when immunity is constitutively active
  Srishti Arora (Ligoxygakis group, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  CBDG

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 10:00 - Dreaming of structure-guided design of malaria immunotherapeutics
  Prof Matt Higgins (University of Oxford)
  SBMB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - A novel system to study dengue/zika virus replication organelle biogenesis independent from viral RNA replication
  Dr Berati Çerikan (University of Heidelberg)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 10:30 - 'Epigenetics meets mathematics: The fusion of experiment and theory brings insights beyond intuition'
  Professor Leonie Ringrose (IRI for Lifesciences, Humboldt University, Berlin)
  Seminar

Tuesday 10 December 2019

• 16:00 - RNA binding proteins in cancer progression (TALK CANCELLED)
  Talk CANCELLED, will be postponed at the later date.
  Dr Fatima Gebauer (Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Thursday 12 December 2019

• 14:00 - Free energy simulations of micromolar binders
  Dr Irfan Alibay (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 16 January 2020

• 14:00 - Structural insights into a mechanosensitive ion channel in carnivorous plants
  Alex Tsui (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 20 January 2020

• 11:00 - “New insights into altered epigenetic repression and topology: studies of chromatin remodeling in cancer”
  Dr. Benjamin Stanton (Assistant Professor, St. Baldrick's Foundation Scholar, Center for Childhood Cancer & Blood Diseases, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, the Ohio State University College of Medicine, US)
  Seminar

Thursday 23 January 2020

• 14:00 - Learning from Nature through Computation: From Fundamental Chemistry to Biological Systems
  Fernanda Duarte Gonzalez (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 24 January 2020

• 12:00 - Top tips on careers & fellowship applications for early career researchers
  Dr Candace Hassall, Head of Researcher Affairs (Wellcome Trust)
  Special Seminar

Wednesday 29 January 2020

• 10:00 - Structural studies of Plasmodium variant surface antigens, and their interactions with the host immune system
  Thomas Harrison (University of Oxford)
  SBB Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Daniel Quetschlich (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 14:00 - "PRC2 Complexes in Development and Disease”
  Dr. Adrian Bracken (Associate Professor in Medical Molecular Genetics, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin)
  Seminar

Wednesday 5 February 2020

• 10:00 - SBB Seminar
  Dr Mikhail Kuravsky (University of Oxford)
  SBB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Thomas Harrison: Structural basis for RIFIN-mediated activation of an inhibitory immune receptor in malaria, Patryk Ludzia: Structural characterisation of unconventional kinetochore protein: KKT4
  Thomas Harrison (University of Oxford), Patryk Ludzia (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 15:00 - Structural studies of human telomerase complexes by cryo-EM
  Dr. Yibo Jin (Daniela Rhodes Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  Seminar

Monday 17 February 2020

• 14:00 - "Designing proteins to do new things: inside and outside of cells"
  Professor Lynne Regan (Chair in Interdisciplinary Science, Centre for Synthetic & Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh)
  Seminar

Wednesday 19 February 2020

• 10:00 - SBB Seminar
  Samuel Gerard (University of Oxford)
  SBB Seminar Series

Friday 21 February 2020

• 10:00 - Wellcome Structural Biology course: Introduction to facility. Characterisation and Stability
  Dr David Staunton (Department of Biochemistry)
  Special Seminar
• 11:15 - Wellcome Structural Biology course: Affinity and kinetics
  Dr David Staunton (Department of Biochemistry)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 14:00 - Predicting Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using Alchemical Free Energy Methods
  Alice Brankin (Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 March 2020

• 10:00 - SBB Seminar
  Prof Radu Aricescu ((Division of Structural Biology) University of Oxford)
  SBB Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Honglin Chen "Elucidating the impact of interferon signalling in the cellular proteome " and Wael Kamel “Discovering the composition of viral ribonucleoproteins using “Viral RNA interactome capture""
  Hoglin Chen (University of Oxford), Wael Kamel (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 12:00 - OBS Seminar: Protein Synthesis Control in Health and Disease
  Students are also welcome to join Anne for an exclusive lunch after the talk. If you are interested to join the (free) informal lunch, please sign up by email to oubs@bioch.ox.ac.uk. First come first served.
  Prof. Anne Willis OBE (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge)
  OUBS Seminar Series 2020
• 14:00 - Could Patched1 function as a cholesterol transporter?
  Bertie Ansell (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 10:00 - SBB Seminar
  Zhiyi Wu (University of Oxford)
  SBB Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB Wellcome Rotation Student talks
  Suzanne Letham (University of Oxford), Bora Guloglu (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 March 2020

• 14:00 - How to make the most of your Biacore instrument?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Annete Persson (GE Healthcare)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 30 April 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB part II talks
  To be held virtually, contact host for information
  Various Speakers
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 7 May 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB part II talks
  To be held virtually, contact host for information
  Various Speakers
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 14 May 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB part II talks
  To be held virtually, contact host for information
  Various Speakers
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 21 May 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  To be held virtually, contact host for information
  Michael Horrell (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 28 May 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  To be held virtually, contact host for information
  Professor Syma Khalid (University of Southampton)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 11 June 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  To be held virtually - contact organiser for more details
  Tanadet Pipatpolkai (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 18 June 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  To be held virtually - contact organiser for more details
  Zhiyi Wu (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 25 June 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  To be held virtually - contact organiser for more details
  Suleyman Cinaroglu (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 24 September 2020

• 14:00 - From atomic-resolution ensembles of disordered proteins to simulations of tau biomolecular condensates
  Dr Lukas Stelzl (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 8 October 2020

• 14:00 - Molecular dynamics simulations of the SERCA mutant E340A
  Held over zoom, contact Robin Corey for details
  Maxwell Geurts (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 15 October 2020

• 14:00 - Influence of Hydrophobicity on Anion Selectivity in Nanopores
  Held over zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81191734541?pwd=TUVsRm9NVTEvQVRaRGUwb2IvTUFiZz09 contact Robin Corey for more details
  Linda Phan (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 14:00 - Computing free energy changes upon protein mutation for protein design, drug resistance, and mechanism elucidation
  Held over zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81191734541?pwd=TUVsRm9NVTEvQVRaRGUwb2IvTUFiZz09 contact Robin Corey for more details
  Dr Matteo Aldeghi (Vector Institute and University of Toronto)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 29 October 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Held over zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81191734541?pwd=TUVsRm9NVTEvQVRaRGUwb2IvTUFiZz09 contact Robin Corey for more details
  Charlie Cook (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 14:00 - cancelled: SBCB seminar
  Mina Moniri (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 12 November 2020

• 14:00 - Computational study of dynamics and catalysis of self-assembled metallocages.
  Held over zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81191734541?pwd=TUVsRm9NVTEvQVRaRGUwb2IvTUFiZz09 contact Robin Corey for more details
  Dr Tomasz Piskorz (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 November 2020

• 12:00 - The Impact of DNA damage and nutrition on transcription, ageing and neurodegeneration in mice and patients
  Those who are interested in meeting Prof. Hoeijmakers virtually after the talk may get in touch with Amy Chu at amy.chu@hertford.ox.ac.uk.
  Prof. Jan Hoeijmakers (Erasmus University Medical Center)
  OUBS Seminar Series 2020

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Held over zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81191734541?pwd=TUVsRm9NVTEvQVRaRGUwb2IvTUFiZz09 contact Robin Corey for more details
  Professor Mark Sansom (Department of Biochemistry)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 26 November 2020

• 14:00 - Development and Application of Computational Biochemistry
  Held over zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81191734541?pwd=TUVsRm9NVTEvQVRaRGUwb2IvTUFiZz09 contact Robin Corey for more details
  Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 14:00 - Towards coupling structure with function for acid-sensing ion channels: initial explorations using the computational microscope
  Held over zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81191734541?pwd=TUVsRm9NVTEvQVRaRGUwb2IvTUFiZz09 contact Robin Corey for more details
  Dr Maria Musgaard (University of Ottowa)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 10 December 2020

• 14:00 - Molecular determinants of cardiolipin signalling in mitochondria
  Held over zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81191734541?pwd=TUVsRm9NVTEvQVRaRGUwb2IvTUFiZz09 contact Robin Corey for more details
  Dr Sarah Rouse (Imperial College London)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 14 January 2021

• 14:00 - Understanding conformational ensembles and allostery with biomolecular simulations
  Annie Westerlund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 January 2021

• 12:00 - OUBS Seminar: To process or to decay: insights into the molecular mechanisms of the RNA-degrading exosome
  Those who are interested in meeting Prof. Conti virtually after the talk may get in touch with Amy Chu at amy.chu@hertford.ox.ac.uk.
  Prof. Elena Conti (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)
  OUBS Seminar Series 2020

Thursday 21 January 2021

• 14:00 - Dynamics of allosteric modulation in NMDA receptors: from molecules to neurons
  Mina Moniri (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 14:00 - Towards a PHIP inhibitor: crystallographic fragment screening and early computational elaboration.
  Harold Grosjean (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 14:00 - Immersive tools for interactive exploration and manipulation of protein-protein interactions
  Marc Baaden (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 14:00 - Exploring binding properties of the "lipid-anchors": FYVE and C2 - how to reveal binding strength and orientation by multi-scale MD.
  Andreas Larsen (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 14:00 - Conformational transition and substrate binding of the bile acid transporter ASBTnm
  Fiona Naughton (Arizona State University)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 14:00 - Modulation of A2a Receptor Oligomerisation by Conformational State and PIP2 Interactions Revealed by MD Simulations and Markov Models
  Dr Wanling Song (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 18 March 2021

• 14:00 - Nanopore Design for Site-selective Modifications of Biomolecules
  Zonghua (Ally) Bo (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 15 April 2021

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Dr Lucy Forrest (National Institutes of Health)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 22 April 2021

• 14:00 - SBCB part II talks
  Various Speakers
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 6 May 2021

• 14:00 - SBCB part II talks
  Various Speakers
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 13 May 2021

• 14:00 - Relative Affinities of Protein-Cholesterol Interactions from Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations
  Bertie Ansell (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 14:00 - Analysis of cardiolipin interactions with E. coli inner membrane proteins
  Dr Robin Corey (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 24 May 2021

• 13:00 - "Replication and Repair: the faces of BRCA1"
  Professor Jo Morris PhD BSc (Professor of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 27 May 2021

• 14:00 - Understanding the function of mechanosensitive channels using multiscale molecular dynamics simulations.
  Dr Antreas Kalli (Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, St James's University Hospital, University of Leeds)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 3 June 2021

• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Tanadet Pipatpolkai (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 17 June 2021

• 14:00 - Versatile Model Membrane System for Investigating Membrane Proteins
  Laura John (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 24 June 2021

• 14:00 - Modelling and simulation of SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein
  Firdaus Samsudin (A*STAR)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 25 June 2021

• 14:00 - “How dynein and dynactin transport different cargos along microtubules”
  Dr. Clinton Lau (Carter Laboratory, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 1 July 2021

• 14:00 - Proton Control of the KDEL Receptor - cancelled
  Zhiyi Wu (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 20 September 2021

• 09:00 - Journey of a Molecular Detective: David Sherratt Retirement Symposium
  In person or online
  Various (See programme)

Thursday 23 September 2021

• 14:00 - MDAnalysis 2.0 and beyond - towards fast and interoperable simulation analyses
  Dr Irfan Alibay (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 7 October 2021

• 14:00 - Molecular dynamics of the mitochondrial Lon protease
  Lauren Alexandrescu (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 14:00 - Structural, functional and computational studies of SLC7 transporters
  Dimitrios Kolokouris (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 14:00 - Drug transport through peptide transporters
  Simon Lichtinger (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 14:00 - MacroConf – Dataset & Workflows to assess cyclic peptide solution structures
  Daniel Crusius (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 14:00 - An overview of simulations approaches to understand membrane proteins dynamics and drug action
  Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 14:00 - Insights into bacterial cell envelopes from molecular simulations
  Professor Syma Khalid (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 25 November 2021

• 14:00 - Computational investigation of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease
  Ho Chan (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 14:00 - Antimicrobial Peptides: Interactions with Modified Bacterial Membranes
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Patrick Simcock (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 9 December 2021

• 14:00 - Theory of biomolecular discrimination
  Dr. John McBride (Institute for Basic Science)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 13 January 2022

• 14:00 - Correction schemes for absolute binding free energies involving lipid bilayers
  Will Wu
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 27 January 2022

• 14:00 - Parametrization and applications of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations
  Sophie Mader
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 14:00 - Recent innovations in methods for predicting protein-ligand binding
  David Mobley (University of California Irvine)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 10 February 2022

• 14:00 - Simulations of metallorganic cages: development of cationic dummy model of palladium
  Tomasz Piskorz (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 14:00 - Studying TRIM PHD-bromodomain interactions with histone H3 peptides using MD simulations
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 3 March 2022

• 14:00 - Onto recent advances in high-throughput fragment-based drug discovery at the XChem
  Harold Grosjean (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 7 March 2022

• 12:00 - Viral manipulation of autophagy for assembly and secretion
  Dr Sumana Sanyal (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  OUBS seminar series

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Zonghua Bo (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 17 March 2022

• 14:00 - "Patched1, cholesterol and ions - what is going on?"
  Bertie Ansell (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 March 2022

• 11:00 - “Coping and adapting for bacteria: How you can learn to thrive under stress”
  To commemorate Stephan’s Award for the sought after 2020 Lister Institute Research Prize (Lister Prize), this Seminar will be attended by the Lister Institute’s Chairman, Professor Sir Alex Markham, and Director, Dr. Sally Burtles, and will be followed by a presentation and drinks reception on the Lower Ground Floor atrium area, Phase 1. You are all warmly invited to attend.
  Stephan Uphoff (University of Oxford)
  Seminar

Thursday 31 March 2022

• 14:00 - Alchemical absolute binding free energy calculations at the protein-bilayer interface
  Charlie Cook (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 1 April 2022

• 14:00 - CANCELLED: Stem Cell Regulation in the Drosophila Intestine
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Bruce Edgar (University of Utah)

Thursday 28 April 2022

• 16:00 - Stem Cell Regulation in the Drosophila Intestine
  Professor Bruce Edgar (Professor of Oncological Sciences and Human Genetics, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah)
  Seminar

Thursday 5 May 2022

• 14:00 - 'Computational Studies on LSM12 as an NAADP-binding Protein and its Role in Activating the TPC2 Channel' / 'Mutational analysis of cholesterol binding in Large Neutral Amino Acid Transporter 1 (LAT1/SLC7A5)'
  Tianyi Shi, Daniel Standing
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 6 May 2022

• 16:00 - 'Starting protein synthesis: How ribosomes initiate on mRNA'
  Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Thursday 12 May 2022

• 11:00 - "Understanding and targeting oncogenic chromatin biology in childhood cancers"
  Dr. Gerry Brien (Irish Cancer Society Biomedical Research Fellow in Chromatin Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin)
  Seminar
• 14:00 - ‘Computational approaches to allosteric ligand discovery for P2Y1 receptor’/ 'Molecular Dynamics simulations for Determining H2/O2 selection Mechanisms in and Oxygen Tolerant Hydrogenase'
  Jack Badley, Jessie Jiang
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 16 May 2022

• 14:00 - 'Bottom-up assembly of bioenergetic modules in small and giant vesicles - challenges and strategies!'
  Professor Christoph von Ballmoos (University of Berne)
  Seminar

Thursday 19 May 2022

• 14:00 - Using computational tools to improve our understanding of voltage-sensing in sodium channe
  Bjarne Feddersen
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 23 May 2022

• 14:00 - Activation and inhibition of kinases that are central to leukaemias: lessons from computational chemistry (and some experiments too)
  Prof Ran Friedman (Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 11:00 - "Basis, role, and significance of atmospheric gases as bacterial energy sources"
  Associate Professor Chris Greening (Monash University, Australia)
  Seminar

Monday 13 June 2022

• 12:00 - Programmed cell death during C. elegans development: Lessons learnt and new things to be discovered
  Prof Barbara Conradt (University College London)
  OUBS seminar series

Thursday 16 June 2022

• 14:00 - Antimicrobial Peptides and the Multiple Peptide Resistance Factor: Molecular Dynamics Simulations to understand Antimicrobial resistance
  Patrick Simcock (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 23 June 2022

• 14:00 - Investigation and Application of a Versatile Model Membrane System by Combining Molecular Dynamic Simulations with Neutron Reflectometry Experiments
  Laura John (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 30 June 2022

• 14:00 - A Simulation Study of the Salmonella O-antigen Acyltransferase Protein, OafB​
  Kahlan Newman (University of Southampton)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 7 July 2022

• 14:00 - Atomistic mechanisms of human TRPA1 activation by electrophile irritants
  David Seiferth
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - 'Viral histones reveal the structural diversity and evolution of the nucleosome'
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr. Nicholas Irwin (Junior Research Fellow, Richards Lab, Dept. of Zoology)
  Seminar

Thursday 14 July 2022

• 14:00 - Predicting Antimicrobial Resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis using Machine Learning with Protein Structural and Chemical Features
  Dr Charlotte Lynch (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 15 July 2022

• 11:00 - 'Deciphering gene expression regulation in health and disease using integrative omics approaches'
  Professor Michiel Vermeulen (Radboud University, Netherlands)
  Seminar
• 13:00 - Designing and evolving genetically-encoded fluorescent biosensors for live cell imaging
  To take place via Zoom https://medsci.zoom.us/j/99386807796?pwd=VlRaVkI5c1FoanFs WkQ4ZEhnMG14QT09 Meeting ID: 993 8680 7796 Passcode: 212627
  Professor Robert Campbell (University of Tokyo)
  Seminar

Thursday 15 September 2022

• 11:00 - “The role for variant PRC1 during transcriptional phase transition”.
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (M.D., Ph.D) (Riken Center for Integtrative Medical Sciences, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, Japan)
  Seminar

Friday 16 September 2022

• 16:00 - 'The end of the message: Mechanistic insight into the mRNA polyA tail machinery'
  Dr. Lori Passmore (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Louise Johnson Memorial Lecture

Thursday 6 October 2022

• 14:00 - Simulations to understand membrane protein dynamics and drug actions
  Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 14:15 - Khalid group: Microbiology with computers
  Professor Syma Khalid (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 14:00 - Effects of induced polarisation on nanoscale behaviour of anions in anion carriers
  David Seiferth
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 3 November 2022

• 13:00 - Making Martini 3 sweeter: extension to simulate oligosaccharides in a generalised fashion
  Astrid Brandner (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 November 2022

• 16:30 - Modified mRNA-LNP vaccines, starting with COVID-19 with no end in sight
  Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph.D, (Penn Institute for RNA Innovation)

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 14:00 - Elucidating the interaction patterns between antimicrobial peptides and the cell envelopes of Gram-negative bacteria using molecular dynamics simulations
  Cyril Schroeder (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Understanding and developing modulators of GABA-A receptors
  Dr Paul Miller (Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 14:00 - Bacterial chemotaxis and methane metabolism: structure-function analysis of the underlying supramolecular assemblies
  Keith Cassidy (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 21 November 2022

• 13:00 - Of yeast and Man: Kinetochore Structures and Function
  Stanislau Yatskevich (LMB, Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 24 November 2022

• 15:00 - Machine learning vs protein conformational spaces
  Matteo Degiacomi (Durham University)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 14:00 - Manipulate molecules in Virtual Reality with Narupa
  Jonathan Barnoud (University of Bristol)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 15 December 2022

• 16:00 - "Towards a quantitative understanding of long-range transcriptional regulation"
  Dr. Luca Giorgetti (Group Leader, FMI, Basel, Switzerland)
  Seminar

Thursday 12 January 2023

• 15:00 - Structural basis of peptidoglycan synthesis by E. coli RodA-PBP2 complex: Insights from molecular dynamics
  Jon Colburn (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 14:00 - Aberrant TRPC3 signalling in Spinocerebellar Ataxias
  Jodie Collingridge (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 14:00 - FEP calculations on GPCRs
  Eduard Neu (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 30 January 2023

• 13:00 - Interview Skills Workshop
  Claire Chesworth (Oxford University Careers Service)
  OUBS seminar series

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Emad Tajkhorshid (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 14:00 - Mechanisms of Transport via L-type Amino Acid Transporters
  Manuel Palacin (Professor Biochemistry & Molecular Biology IRB Barcelona)

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 15:00 - BPS Review Session
  BPS Presenters (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 27 February 2023

• 14:00 - Mechanism of Rab activation and function in endolysosomal biogenesis and fusion
  Dr. Christian Ungermann (University of Osnabrück)

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 14:00 - Open Force Field: next generation force fields with open software, open data, and open science
  Lily Wang (Open Force Field Initiative)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 15:30 - The physiological purpose for DNA repair in us - from gin and tonics to formalin pots
  Prof. K.J. Patel (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 14:00 - The mechanism of mammalian peptide transporters
  Simon Lichtinger (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Understanding the mechanism and regulation of Eukaryotic DNA replication
  Dr. John Diffley, FMedSci, FRS (Associate Research Director, The Francis Crick Institute)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 13 March 2023

• 15:00 - "Genome organization and long noncoding RNAs control the timing of Hox gene transcription during development"
  Dr. Philippe J. Batut (Levine Lab, Princeton)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 16 March 2023

• 14:00 - The Fast and the Accurate? Cheminformatics and Molecular Dynamics for Cyclic Peptide Structure Prediction
  Daniel Crusius (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Functional organisation of pericentromeres in mitosis and meiosis
  Professor Adele Marston (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Thursday 23 March 2023

• 10:00 - “Structure, Ca2+-dependent regulation, and ion selectivity of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter”
  Dr. Stephen B. Long (Cryo-EM Imaging Lab Sloan Kettering Institute)
• 14:00 - Applied Computer Science in Computational Virology
  Tyler Reddy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 30 March 2023

• 14:00 - Developing and sharing biomolecular simulation methods for modelling protein-ligand interactions
  Julien Michel (University of Edinburgh)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 17 April 2023

• 16:00 - 'High-resolution cryoEM of membrane protein complexes'
  Lecture to be followed by a drinks reception on the Phase 1, LG Floor Atrium Area - all welcome
  Professor Werner Kuehlbrandt (Director, Department of Structural Biology, MPI of Biophysics, Germany)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 14:00 - Mixed - see abstract
  Jonathon Puleston (University of Oxford), Lilia Evgeniou (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 28 April 2023

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Alessio Bolognesi (eLife)

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 12:00 - 'Molecular Memories in Worms'
  Dr. Oded Rechavi (Dept. of Neurobiology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
  Seminar

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 14:00 - Mixed - see abstract
  Bailey Cameron (University of Oxford), Fergus Waterhouse (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 14:00 - Structure-based discovery of opioid and nonopioid analgesics
  Prof. Dr. Peter Gmeiner (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 14:00 - Integrative Approaches in Fragment-Based Drug Discovery
  Harold Grosjean (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 22 May 2023

• 11:30 - ATM- and Cohesin-dependent phosphorylation of PHC2 facilitates DNA damage responses
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (M.D., Ph.D) (Riken Center for Integtrative Medical Sciences, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, Japan)
  Seminar
• 15:30 - 'Long-read sequencing methods for studying genome organization, evolution, and function'
  Dr. Nicolas Altemose (HHMI Hannah H. Gray Fellow and Assistant Professor of Genetics, Stanford University)
  Seminar

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 14:00 - Multiscale modelling of transmembrane transport processes with kinetic cycle models
  Oliver Beckstein (Arizona State University)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 8 June 2023

• 14:00 - Absolute binding free energy calculations for membrane targets in the TRPC3/6 subfamily of proteins
  Nithishwer Mouroug Anand (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 14:00 - Multiscale investigations into lipid transporters
  Robert Clark (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 23 June 2023

• 14:00 - Machine Learning Based Tools for Force-Field Development and Enhanced Sampling
  Dr. Linfeng Zhang (DP Technology)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 29 June 2023

• 14:00 - Analog Computing for Molecular Dynamics Simulations
  William Rochira (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 3 July 2023

• 09:30 - 'Understanding how cells copy and preserve their DNA'
  Rodrigo Reyes-Lamothe (Department of Biology, McGill University, Canada)
  Seminar
• 11:00 - 'Regulation of RNA Binding Proteins during Embryogenesis'
  Professor Olivia S. Rissland (RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado School of Medicine)
  Seminar

Thursday 6 July 2023

• 14:00 - Influence of Electronic Polarisation on Anion Behaviour within Ion Channels and Nanopores
  Linda Phan (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 10 July 2023

• 11:00 - 'The Role of Human Condensin Cofactors in Regulating Activity'
  Dr. Erin Cutts (London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS))
  Seminar

Thursday 13 July 2023

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Nikolai Juraschko (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 14:00 - 'Epigenetic regulation underlying phenotypic variation and driving evolutionary trajectories’
  Dr. Amy Webster (The Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon)
  Seminar

Thursday 20 July 2023

• 14:00 - Life on the edge: an integrative modelling approach to solving structures in situ
  Zephyr Ford (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 27 July 2023

• 14:00 - Insights into the multiple roles played by lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in the outer membrane of E. coli
  Dheeraj Prakaash (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 1 September 2023

• 10:00 - "Licensed to kill: Post-translational activation of an antibacterial effector protein"
  Prof. Christopher Hayes (MCDB faculty at UC Santa Barbara)

Thursday 7 September 2023

• 14:00 - TCR-pMHC complex formation triggers CD3 dynamics
  Floris van Eerden (iFReC, Osaka University)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 September 2023

• 11:00 - Chromatin organization and behavior in living human cells revealed by single-nucleosome imaging
  Dr. Kazuhiro Maeshima (Genome Dynamics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan)
  Seminar

Monday 2 October 2023

• 16:00 - 'Structural Insights into the Regulation of the Gene Silencer PRC2
  Professor Eva Nogales De La Morena (Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, UC Berkeley; Investigator, HHMI; Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
  Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Lecture

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 10:00 - 'Publishing your work: an editor's perspective'
  Dr. Rebecca Eccles (Scientific Editor, Molecular Cell)
  Seminar

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 14:00 - What is Computational Microbiology?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Syma Khalid (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 11:00 - 'Inflammation across Tissues'
  Professor Holm Uhlig (University of Oxford), Professor (Chris Buckley)
  Seminar

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 14:00 - 'The origins of animal gene regulation: Insights from our closest relatives'
  Dr. James Gahan (Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Klose Lab; Visiting Researcher - Burkhardt Lab, Sars Centre, UIB, Norway)
  Seminar

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 14:00 - Molecular mechanisms of drug transport through peptide transporters
  Simon Lichtinger (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 14:00 - What is computational microbiology?
  Professor Syma Khalid (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 16:30 - Humans, animals, ecosystems: a complex dance - the Hidden Origins of COVID-19
  Professor Marion Koopmans, DVM, PhD (Erasmus MC Department of Viroscience, Rotterdam)

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 14:00 - Effects of system complexity on interactions between antimicrobial peptides and the cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria
  Cyril Schroeder (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 15:00 - 'Serine-ADP-ribosylation: from a Basic Biological Discovery to a Foundational Technology for Exploring Diverse Signalling Pathways'
  Dr. Ivan Matic (ERC Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany)
  Seminar

Friday 10 November 2023

• 11:00 - 'Epigenetics of sex differences: Lessons from mosquitos'
  Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi (Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), Germany)
  Seminar

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 11:00 - 'Preventive Neurology' Learn about our research method for predicting the development of neurologic diseases
  Professor Kevin Talbot (University of Oxford), Professor Laura Parkkinen (University of Oxford), Professor Alastair Webb (University of Oxford)
  Seminar

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 10:00 - Native ambient mass spectrometry: In situ analysis of proteins and their complexes
  Prof. Helen Cooper (University of Birmingham)
  Seminar
• 14:00 - Plasticity of the selectivity filter is essential for ion permeation in lysosomal TPC2 channels
  Dr Afroditi-Maria Zaki ( University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 15:00 - "Principles for molecular recognition of the nucleosome by chromatin enzymes and factors"
  Dr. Song Tan (Verne M. Willaman Professor of Molecular Biology, Director - Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, Penn State University)
  Seminar

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 14:00 - Quantifying Ion Channel Pore Asymmetry: Exploring its influence on conductance and barrier to permeation
  David Seiferth
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 27 November 2023

• 11:00 - "Enterocin DD14; a leaderless bacteriocin: Regulation – Transport and applications”
  Prof. Djamel Drider (Université de Lille)

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 14:00 - Activation of an origin of replication visualised by cryo-EM
  Alessandro Costa (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 14:00 - Paving the way for modelling coarse-grained carbohydrates
  Dr Astrid Bradner (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 December 2023

• 11:00 - 'Epigenetic memory through dormancy’
  Dr. Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu (Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin)
  Seminar

Monday 11 December 2023

• 10:00 - Breaking barriers in structural biology of cells and systems
  Various Speakers

Thursday 11 January 2024

• 15:00 - Preferential Lipid Interactions of the KDEL Receptor Revealed by Molecular Dynamics
  Dr Jonathan Colburn (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 15:00 - Predicting Antimicrobial Resistance to Rifampicin in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis using Machine Learning
  Dr Charlotte Lynch (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 11:00 - Cardiovascular Medicine - Learn about our research on new therapeutic targets and diagnostic modalities in cardiovascular disease
  Professors Barbara Casadei and Claudia Monaco (NIHR, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre)
  Seminar

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 15:00 - OpenFE: community-driven open source tooling for alchemistry
  Dr Irfan Alibay
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 15:00 - What’s lipids got to do with it? What’s lipids, but a second-hand emulsion?
  Dr. Tim Carpenter (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 14:00 - ‘Therapeutic manipulations of phosphatases and kinases controlling protein quality control systems: From the bench, to the clinic and back’
  Dr. Anne Bertolotti, Ph.D., FMedSci (Joint Head of the Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Seminar

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 11:00 - 'Respiratory Medicine: Learn about our research for the better treatment of respiratory diseases'
  Professors Ian Pavord and Ling-Pei Ho (NIHR, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre)
  Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 14:00 - Molecular dynamics of RNA translocation through a nanopore
  Zephyr Ford (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 14:00 - 'Fundamental principles during the egg-to-embryo transition '
  Dr. Andrea Pauli, Senior Group Leader, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
  Seminar

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 14:00 - Utilising Molecular Dynamics to Study the Interaction of Multivalent Dendrimer with E.coli Outer Membrane
  Mingyu Qin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 11:00 - Absolute binding free energy calculations for membrane targets in the TRPC3/6 subfamily of proteins
  Nithishwer Mouroug Anand (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 March 2024

• 14:00 - ‘Bacterial stress responses and surface adhesion in shear flow’
  Professor Joe Sanfilippo (School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  Seminar

Thursday 14 March 2024

• 14:00 - Redesign of Phi29 connector protein for membrane insertion through self-assembly simulations
  Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 21 March 2024

• 14:00 - How can we use molecular dynamics to understand lipid transport in bacteria?
  Robert Clark (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 April 2024

• 10:15 - Protein Research Seminar
  Free Lunch and refreshments will be provided to all attendees on the day
  TBA
• 11:00 - 'Visualising the molecular mechanisms of eukaryotic DNA replication'
  Dr. Morgan Jones (Staff Scientist, Yeeles Lab, MRC LMB Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Monday 22 April 2024

• 13:00 - "Controlling Aurora-A kinase functions in mitosis and cancer"
  Professor Richard Bayliss (Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 24 April 2024

• 09:00 - Vazyme Oxford Road Show
  Junlang Chen (Vazyme)

Thursday 25 April 2024

• 10:00 - Developing Combined Simulations and Cryo-EM Methods for a Quantitative Understanding of Conformational Landscapes
  James Krieger (CNB-CSIC, Madrid)
• 14:00 - Part II Talks
  Ho Chu (University of Oxford), Carl von Hallerstein (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 29 April 2024

• 13:00 - 'Targeting DNA methyltransferases to chromatin: a tale of two N- terminal regions’
  Dr. Marcus Wilson (Henry Dale Fellow / Academic Lead cryo-EM Facility, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 2 May 2024

• 10:00 - Science Colab: empowering scientific communities to publish, review and curate their research
  TBA
• 14:00 - Part II Talks
  Evan Burke (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 14:00 - Are popular force fields good enough for soluble crowded systems?
  Nikolai Juraschko (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 10 May 2024

• 11:00 - ““The Ubiquitin Big Bang: How specialised ubiquitination enzymes fight microbial invaders”
  Professor Tim Clausen (Institute for Molecular Pathology, Vienna)

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 10:00 - Small Molecule Transport for Life
  Prof. David Drew (Stockholm University)

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 14:00 - Insertion of Polymyxin B1 into the E. coli outer membrane revealed by large-scale molecular dynamics simulations
  Dheeraj Prakaash (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 17 May 2024

• 14:00 - ‘Mechanism for Membrane Protein Insertion and Complex Assembly’
  Dr. Haoxi Wu (Postdoctoral Fellow, Hegde Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Special Seminar

Monday 20 May 2024

• 13:00 - ‘Protons to Patients: insights into lysosomal pH regulation from novel disease to lipid regulators’
  Dr. Joseph Mindell (Senior Investigator, Membrane Transport Biophysics Section, NIH NINDS, USA)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 14:00 - Exploring the performance of ABFE calculations in membrane bound drug targets
  Nithishwer Mouroug Anand (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 16:00 - 'Signaling by The Ubiquitin System’
  Followed by a drinks reception, Lower Ground Floor, carpeted area, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building. All Welcome
  Professor Dr. Brenda A. Schulman (Director, Molecular Machines and Signaling, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)
  Louise Johnson Memorial Lecture

Thursday 30 May 2024

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Kahlan Newman (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Iain Smith (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 10 June 2024

• 11:00 - Special Seminar: The ancient & insoluble problem of mitotic chromosome formation
  William C Earnshaw (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology)

Thursday 13 June 2024

• 10:00 - Adaptation of the cytoskeleton for pathogenicity in the malaria parasite
  Dr Josie Ferreira (Department of Structural and Molecular Biology at University College London)
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 20 June 2024

• 14:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 June 2024

• 11:30 - 'Allosteric mechanisms of cellular stress response'
  Dr. Rosalie Lawrence (Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, Peter Walter Lab, UCSF)
  Special Seminar

Thursday 27 June 2024

• 10:00 - Controlling MAC pore formation
  TBA
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 14:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Daniel Crusius (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 28 June 2024

• 16:00 - Deep learning for structure based drug discovery
  Prof David Ryan Koes (University of Pittsburgh)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 12 July 2024

• 13:30 - Inaugural CRBG Summer Symposium
  Matthias Merkenschlager (LMS), Dr Tung Le (Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich), Alice Pyne (University of Sheffield), James Davies (WIMM)

Thursday 18 July 2024

• 11:00 - 'Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation'
  Professor Tatiana Kutateladze (Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine)
  Seminar

Friday 4 October 2024

• 11:00 - ‘Proteins and Enzymes and Things that Go: a single-molecule view of bacterial cell division’
  Professor Jie Xiao (John Hopkins School of Medicine)
  Seminar

Thursday 10 October 2024

• 14:00 - Simulations and AI to understand membrane protein dynamics and drug actions
  Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 11:30 - Infection and Disease Processes seminar series
  Various Speakers
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 15:00 - Computational Microbiology and other things
  Prof Syma Khalid (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 14:00 - Transport in plants: The devil is in the molecular details
  Dr Lorena Zuzic (Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 28 October 2024

• 13:00 - 'The endocytic clathrin adaptor complex AP2: From crystallography via SPA and CET to SIM TIRF'
  Professor David Owen (Professor of Structural and Molecular Biology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 14:00 - Probing KDEL Receptor Activation with Molecular Dynamics
  In case you are visiting from a different department, please, email directly at aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  Dr Jonathan Colburn (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 4 November 2024

• 13:00 - 'The role of cytoskeleton dynamics in bacterial cell division'
  Professor Seamus Holden (Professor of Microbial Biophysics, University of Warwick)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 14:00 - Reducing Intracranial Pressure by Targeting Ncbe
  If you are visiting from a different department, please, email directly aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  Lasse Desdorf
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 11 November 2024

• 13:00 - 'Nucleosomes at the Dawn of Eukaryotes'
  Professor Tobias Warnecke (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 16:30 - Prevention: the invisible future of health
  Professor Sir Andrew J Pollard (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 14:00 - Membrane self-assembly simulations to assess protein insertion: a case of Phi29 connector pore
  If you are visiting from a different Department, please, email directly aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access
  Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 18 November 2024

• 13:00 - 'Non-canonical functions of DNA methylation in mammals'
  Maxim Greenberg (Institut Jacques Monod, France)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 15:00 - Elucidating Antimicrobial Peptide Interactions with Gram-Negative Bacterial Membranes Using Computational Electrophysiology
  If you are visiting from a different Department, please, email directly aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access
  Cyril Schroeder (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 25 November 2024

• 13:00 - 'Use of the cytoskeleton to control Shigella infection'
  Dr. Serge Mostowy (Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 14:00 - Absolute alchemical binding free energy calculations on membrane targets
  If you are visiting from a different Department, please, email directly aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access
  Nithishwer Mouroug Anand (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 2 December 2024

• 11:00 - 'Outer membrane nutrient transporters and their biogenesis in gut Bacteriodes'
  Dr. Augustinas Silale (Newcastle University)
  Seminar
• 13:00 - The developmental biology of cancer
  Professor Richard White (Oxford Ludwig Institute)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 14:00 - Cooling fast and slow: preserved and disrupted populations from cryo-em vitrification
  If you are visiting from a different Department, please, email directly aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access
  Robert Clark (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Molecular Insights into DNA Replication and Genomic Stability
  Professor Christian Speck (MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences)
  Seminar

Thursday 9 January 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Charlotte Lynch (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 16 January 2025

• 14:00 - Real time conditional resolution transformation with ConTra
  If you are visiting from a different department, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  Dr Iain Smith (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 20 January 2025

• 13:00 - A Contractile injection system mediates development and cell death in multicellular bacteria
  Dr. Susan Schlimpert (Group Leader, Royal Society University Research Fellow, John Innes Centre)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 15:00 - In silico development of fluorescent sensors to dissect cell signaling pathways
  If you are visiting from a different department, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  Dr Florencia Klein Rocha (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 27 January 2025

• 13:00 - 'Chromatin Regulation and Cancer'
  Professor Yang Shi (Ludwig Institute, University of Oxford)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 13:00 - 'How DUBs decode ubiquitin signals and how they are inhibited - Insights into USP30 and beyond'
  Dr. Malte Gersch (MPI of Molecular Physiology and TU Dortmund University, Dortmund)
  Seminar

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 14:00 - Identification of state-dependent, drug-permeable fenestrations in glycine receptors
  If you are visiting from a different department, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  Bjarne Feddersen
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 14:30 - Annual BPS meeting talks
  If you are visiting from a different department, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  Professor Syma Khalid (University of Oxford), Dr Jonathan Colburn (University of Oxford), Cyril Schroeder (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 11:30 - Influenza virus genome replication and host switching
  Prof Ervin Fodor (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
  Seminar

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 14:00 - Improved alchemical free energy calculations: Enhanced configurational sampling, flexibility, parallelizability, and more
  If you are visiting from a different department, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  Dr Wei-Tse Hsu (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 17 February 2025

• 13:00 - Moves and mechanisms of Wnt pathway tumor suppressor proteins: from basic insights to applications
  Professor Madelon Maurice (Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Department of Cell Biology UMC Utrecht)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 14:00 - Integrative modeling of glycoproteins
  if you are visiting from a different department, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  Dr Mateusz Sikora (Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Krakow, Poland)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 24 February 2025

• 11:00 - Bacterial actins: from single molecules to cell morphogenesis
  Rut Carballido Lopez (Université Paris-Saclay/INRAE Micalis Institute)
  Seminar
• 13:00 - Cellular functionality and plasticity in the senescence spectrum
  Professor Masashi Narita (Group Leader, CRUK, Cambridge Institute)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 14:30 - Optimizing multivalent dendrimers as potential antibiotic agents
  If you are visiting from a defferent department, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  Mingyu Qin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - 'On the role of liquid-liquid phase separation in establishing biomolecular condensates'
  Professor Andrea Musacchio (Director, Dept. of Mechanistic Cell Biology, MPI of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund; Honorary Professor, Centre for Medical Biotechnology, Essen)
  Seminar

Monday 3 March 2025

• 13:00 - Spatiotemporal control of symmetry-breaking in development: lessons from the C. elegans embryo
  Dr. Nathan Goehring (Senior Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 15:00 - Using atomic force microscopy to unravel cell wall architecture and its role in life, death, and antimicrobial resistance
  Professor Jamie Hobbs (School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield)
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 11:30 - Bacterial lipid transport through envelope-spanning tunnels and bridges
  Dr Georgia Isom (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
  Seminar

Monday 10 March 2025

• 11:00 - The Great Escape: how do gene transfer agents lyse their bacterial hosts?
  Dr Emma Banks (John Innes Centre)
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 13:00 - “Minimization of the Bacillus subtilis replication origin reveals distinct modules for initiator delivery, DNA unwinding, and helicase activation”
  Professor Heath Murray (Professor of Bacterial Genetics, Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 14:30 - Mechanism of lipid uptake and release by STARD lipid transfer proteins
  If you are attending from a different department, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Thursday 20 March 2025

• 14:00 - Molecular dynamics of RNA translocation through a nanopore
  If you are attending from a different building, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  Zephyr Ford (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 March 2025

• 14:00 - 'Epigenetic control of genome contacts'
  Dr. Haruhiko Koseki (Team Leader, Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences)
  Seminar

Thursday 24 April 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 28 April 2025

• 13:00 - Lipid mediators in the pathogenesis of dengue
  Professor Neelika Malavige (Dept. of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 16:00 - 'Shaping the dynamic chromatin landscape for gene expression at single-molecule resolution'
  Drinks Reception following the Lecture on the Lower Ground Floor in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building - all welcome
  Professor Carl Wu (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Monday 12 May 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor James Naismith (Head of MPLS, University of Oxford)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 19 May 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Veronique Azuara (Reader in Stem Cell Biology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 11:30 - The Molecular Basis of RNA Virus Antigenic Shift
  Dr David Bauer (the Francis Crick Institute)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Monday 2 June 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Z. (Tzviya) Zeev Ben Mordehai (Associate Professor, Utrecht University)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 9 June 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Judy Hirst, FRS, FMedSci (Professor of Biological Chemistry, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 16 June 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Elisa Fadden (Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Southampton)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 13 October 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, France)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 19 January 2025

• 13:00 - TBC
  Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 2 February 2025

• 13:00 - TBC
  Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar