Tuesday 17 February 2015 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Loss of DNA methylation drives Polycomb redistribution
  Dr. Sarah Cooper (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 20 February 2015 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Embryonic Stem Cells: Capture of the Ground State'
  Prof. Austin Smith (Principal Investigator – Stem Cell Potency, Wellcome Trust Centre – Medical Research Council, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge)
  WHG High Profile Seminars

Monday 2 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Epigenetic pathways and their role in cancer
  Prof. Tony Kouzarides (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 3 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Helen Doolittle, Joanna Green, Laura Stenson
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 6 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Functions, mechanisms and therapeutic potential of chromatin looping
  Dr. Gerd Blobel (The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 24 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Aimee Fenwick, Jon Kerry, Marta Tapia
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 28 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Population and Rare Diseases Genomics: Any lessons learned about megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation?
  Prof Willem Ouwehand (Professor of Experimental Haematology University of Cambridge & Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and NHS Blood and Transplant)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 5 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Preferentially targeting Jak2-mutant cells in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN)
  Ann Mullally (Harvard Medical School, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 12 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Akiko Hashimoto, Anthony Cheong, Christopher Booth
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 9 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Dr Petter Woll (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Dr Kerol Bartolovic (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 23 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - How to build the largest functional domain in the human nucleus
  Professor Brian McStay (Centre for Chromosome Biology, National University of Ireland, Galway)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 15 July 2015 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Computational Genomics - Analysis and Training (CGAT)
  Dr. David Sims (MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford), Dr Andreas Heger (MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 20 July 2015 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Defining stem cell states and regulatory networks using single cell genomics
  Dr Bertie Göttgens (Dept of Haematology, Cambridge Inst for Medical Research)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 21 July 2015 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Inferring clonal T cell fates from single-cell transcriptomes
  Dr. Mike Stubbington (EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 27 July 2015 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Hematopoietic stem cell function in stress, disease and ageing
  Professor Emmanuelle Passegué (University of California, San Francisco)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 25 August 2015 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Molecular investigations into -stem cell- ageing
  Professor Gerald de Haan (University Medical Center Groningen)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 1 September 2015 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The dynamic epigenome - challenges and opportunities for healthy ageing
  Professor Peter Adams (Beatson Institute for Cancer Research & University of Glasgow)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 6 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Ben Goldacre (Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 27 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Dr Bryony Graham (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM), Dr Neo Wen Hao (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 17 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  TBA
  General Talks

Monday 23 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Transcriptional responses to Ras and Rho
  Richard Treisman (Director - Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 1 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  TBA
  General Talks

Monday 7 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - THIS TALK AS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED
  Michele DeLuca (Professor of Biochemistry, Director, Centre for Regenerative Medicine "Stefano Ferrari", University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Monday 8 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Harnessing sequencing innovations to identify and implement cancer predisposition genes
  Zazneen Rahman (institute of Cancer Research)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 5 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - DNA repair, NAD+ and mitophagy in neurodegeneration and ageing
  Dr Evandro Fang (National Institutes on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 26 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Single cell gene expression dynamics
  Professor Jonathan Chubb (MR Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Crosstalk between RNA processing and chromatin remodelling as a modulator of genome integrity
  Dr Andres Aguilera (Department of Genetics, University of Seville, Spain)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 13 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Meiosis, recombination, and the origin of a species
  Peter Donnelly
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Nuclear inositide pathways: Phospholipase C signalling and initiation of cancer
  Professor Lucio Cocco (Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Molecular mechanisms regulating human pluripotent stem cell differentiation
  Dr Siim Pauklin (Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 22 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Use of single cell transcriptomics to study blood stem cells formation
  Dr Christophe Lancrin (EMBL Monterotondo Mouse Biology Unit, Monterotondo, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 1 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - New approaches to the investigation of the interactions between enhancers and promoters during haemopoiesis
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Dr James Davies (Prof Doug Higgs' Group, Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 2 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Long-distance interactions in gene expression control: function and regulation by the 3D genome's architecture
  Dr Francois Spitz (Dept of Developmental Biology & Stem Cells, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 20 December 2016 (11th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Lineage commitment and chromatin dynamics
  Professor Frank Grosveld (Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - The role of elements binding CTCF and Cohesin in directing tissue-specific enhancer activity
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Lars Hanssen (Prof Doug Higgs' Group, Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 28 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Computational approaches to gene expression and regulation in blood cells and cancer
  Professor David Westhead (Head of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 4 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Evolution of tissue-specific enhancers across mammals
  Dr Duncan Odom (CRUK Cambridge Institute & WT Sanger Institute, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 2 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - "Identifying the key function of MeCP2 via genetic manipulation in mice"
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Engineering genomes, karyotypes and the dark matter of the human genome
  Dr Jef Boeke (NYU Langone Medical Center)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 15 August 2019 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - "The long non-coding RNA CRNDE regulates growth of multiple myeloma cells via an effect on IL6 signalling"
  Antoine David (INSERM Unité 976, Université Pari)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Transient promoter interactions modulate developmental gene activation
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Angelika Feldmann (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Higgs & Owens Lunchtime Lab Talks
  Dr Jiandong Huo (University of Oxford), Dr Rob Beagrie (MHU, MRC WIMM)
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks