Name: Natsumi Astley
University of Oxford

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

“Imaging proteins at the single molecule level”
Date: 1 June 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Jean-Nicolas Longchamp (University of Zuerich)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 September 2016 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

The development of Keap1-interactive compounds that regulate Nrf2 transcriptional activity
Date: 7 September 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 (Wednesday, 20th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Dr Geoff Wells (University College London)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Birth of the Cool: Multitemperature Multiconformer X-Ray Crystallography and Allostery
Date: 19 September 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, -2nd week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Dr James Fraser (UCSF)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Frank von Delft (SGC, University of Oxford)

Friday 30 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Advanced Chemical Genetics for Epigenetics: Bump-and-hole and PROTACs
Date: 30 September 2016, 13:45 - 14:45 (Friday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Dr. Alessio Ciulli (University of Dundee)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Epigenetic Targets for the Treatment of Human Diseases
Date: 5 October 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Rab Prinjha (GSK Biology Council)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Regulation of polyA tail length by cellular machines
Date: 26 October 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Lori Passmore ( MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Biological imaging and ultrafast spectroscopy facilities in the Research Complex at Harwell, and their role in the study of structure/function relationships of EGF receptor complexes
Date: 7 November 2016, 14:30 - 15:30 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker s: Prof MarisaProf. Marisa Martin-Fernandez (Harwell), Dr Dave Clarke (Harwell)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Liz Carpenter (University of Oxford, SGC)

Monday 21 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Informatics methods for understanding drug action
Date: 21 November 2016, 12:30 - 13:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Prof Russ Altman (Stanford University)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Professor Chas Bountra (SGC)

Wednesday 14 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Identification of novel functional sites in protein domains from the analysis of human variation
Date: 14 December 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 (Wednesday, 10th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Prof Geoff Barton (Dundee University)
Venue: Old Road Campus,
Venue Details: WTCHG, Seminar room A
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

HCN2 ion channels – drivers of chronic pain and tinnitus
Date: 16 January 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Prof Peter McNaughton (King's College, London)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Liz Carpenter (SGC, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Opportunities and Challenges for Drug Development in ALS.
Date: 25 January 2017, 12:30 - 13:30 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Dr Lucie Bruijn (Chief Scientist, ALS Association (USA))
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Phase contrast cryo-electron microscopy
Date: 14 February 2017, 10:00 - 11:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Maryam Khoshouei (Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Katharina Duerr (SGC, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Pioneering- one of our core values and how it influences everything we do
Date: 22 February 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : David Jenkinson (Chief Scientist, The Brain Tumour Charity)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr Wen Hwa Lee (SGC, University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Protein Folding Machines- Molecular Machines for Complex Problems
Date: 16 March 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Kelly Knee (Pfizer)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Associate Professor Wyatt Yue (SGC)

Wednesday 12 April 2017 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

Biophysical characterization of G6b-B: advancing the field of ITIM receptors
Date: 12 April 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, -1st week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Prof Yotis Senis (University of Birmingham)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Carmen Coxon (SGC, University of Oxford)

Friday 28 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

A vision for an academic-industry hybrid type 2 diabetes early biology research institute in Oxford
Date: 28 April 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Prof Jim Johnson (The University of British Columbia)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Chas Bountra (SGC, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Public Private Partnerships at NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to Translate Promising Therapies into Treatments for Rare and Neglected Diseases
Date: 10 May 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Dr Nora Yang (NIH, USA)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr Wyatt Yue (SGC Oxford)

Monday 15 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

"Vaccination against chronic diseases" by Prof Bachmann & “VLP Vaccine approach for Parkinson’s Disease” by Dr. El-Turabi
Date: 15 May 2017, 10:30 - 11:30 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker s: Prof Martin Bachmann (Jenner Institute), Dr. Aadil El-Turabi (Jenner Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Chas Bountra (SGC Oxford)

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Modelling breast cancer using human tumour explants
Date: 23 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Prof Carlos Caldas (CRUK Cambridge Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Chas Bountra (SGC, Oxford)

Thursday 8 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

From Protein Complexes Structures to Synthetic Viral Nanosystems
Date: 8 June 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Prof Imre Berger (University of Bristol)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Chas Bountra (SGC, Oxford)

Monday 10 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

Towards a Comprehensive Structural Understanding of BCR-ABL Tyrosine Kinase Complexes
Date: 10 July 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 12th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Prof Oliver Hantschel (ISREC)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr Katharina Duerr (SGC Oxford)

Friday 21 July 2017 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

Molecular mechanisms of DNA replication revealed by structural studies
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 21 July 2017, 13:30 - 14:30 (Friday, 13th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Prof Luca Pellegrini (University of Cambridge)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 31 July 2017 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

NGL – a molecular graphics library for the web
Date: 31 July 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 15th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Dr Alex Rose (RCSB PDB, USA)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Anthony Bradley (SGC Oxford)

Friday 11 August 2017 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

Identifying tomorrow’s hepatocellular carcinoma patients’
Date: 11 August 2017, 15:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 16th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Dr Rajarshi Banerjee (CEO of Perspectum Diagnotics)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr WenHwa Lee (SGC Oxford)

Wednesday 20 September 2017 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Global Biochemical Profiling for Problem Solving in Biology and Disease
Date: 20 September 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, -2nd week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Prof Chris Schofield (Head of Organic Chemistry, Univ Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Frank von Delft (SGC, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Phosphorylation-dependent assembly of DNA damage response complexes’
Date: 26 September 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 (Tuesday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Prof Laurence Pearl (Sussex University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Opher Gileadi (SGC Oxford)

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

A mass spectrometric view on epigenetic and phosphorylation based signalling systems
Date: 23 October 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Dr Matthias Gstaiger (Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich )
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr Kilian Huber (Target Discovery)

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Global Biochemical Profiling for Problem Solving in Biology and Disease
Date: 29 November 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Saul H. Rosenberg, PhD. (Senior Director of Oncology Discovery at AbbVie)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 8 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Molecular mechanisms of DNA replication revealed by structural studies
Date: 8 December 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Prof Luca Pellegrini (Cambridge University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

GraDeR: detergent free membrane protein preparation
Date: 16 January 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 1st week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Ass. Prof. Christoph Gerle (Laboratory of Protein Crystallography, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr Katharina Duerr (SGC Oxford)

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Human stem cells for drug discovery
Date: 19 February 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Dr Nicola Beer (Head of the Department of Stem Cell Engineering at Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Liz Carpenter (SGC Oxford)

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Bringing a structural perspective to antimicrobial resistance; can we predict whether individual mutations confer resistance or not?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 2 March 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 7th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Dr Philip Fowler (Experimental Medicine Division, Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr Tobias Krojer (SGC Oxford)

Tuesday 13 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Dr P McPherson "Intracellular membrane trafficking in neurological disease", & Dr T Durcan "Open science meets Stem cells: A new approach for developing therapies against disorders of the brain"
Date: 13 March 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker s: Dr Peter McPherson (McGill University), Dr Thomas Durcan (McGill University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr WenHwa Lee (SGC Oxford)

Thursday 15 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Cryo-EM structures illuminate binding sites and gating mechanisms in the pancreatic Katp channel.
Date: 15 March 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Gregory Martin (Oregon Health & Science University Portland (OR), USA)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr Katharina Duerr (SGC Oxford)

Friday 23 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

From mucolipidosis type IV to Ebola: insights into function and pharmacology of endolysosomal cation channels
Date: 23 March 2018, 10:30 - 11:30 (Friday, 10th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker : Dr Christian Grimm (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU))
Venue: Big Data Institute (NDM), Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room, Basement floor
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr katharina Duerr (SGC Oxford)

Friday 6 April 2018 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Therapeutic targets in Ageing
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 6 April 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, -2nd week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Professor David Le Couteur (The University of Sydney)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Understanding and treating lysosomal diseases
Date: 27 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Prof Frances Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr Wyatt Yue (SGC Oxford)

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

The history and use of DNA-Encoded Libraries in drug discovery
Date: 12 June 2018, 15:00 - 16:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Dr Barry Morgan (CSO HitGen, Boston, USA)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr Kilian Huber (SGC Oxford)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Studying drug effects on the Proteome
Date: 23 November 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Marcus Bantscheff (Head of Technology, Cellzome A GSK company)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Chas Bountra (SGC Oxford)

Friday 7 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

A detergent free solution to the age old problem of membrane protein extraction
Date: 7 December 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Professor Tim Dafforn (University of Birmingham)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Dr Nicola Burgess-Brown (University of Oxford, SGC)

Wednesday 13 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Iterative Stochastic Elimination Algorithm for drug discovery by targeting and multitargeting
Date: 13 February 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Prof Amiram Goldblum (Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Pharmacy)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Paul Brennan (SGC Oxford)

Thursday 25 April 2019 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

Hidden treasures of the RNA World: from moonlighting to riboregulation
Date: 25 April 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Prof Matthias Hentze (Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Co-Director of the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU))
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Host: Prof Liz Carpenter (SGC, University of oxford)

Tuesday 30 July 2019 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

Patient positioning: How to take an oncology drug into the clinic
Date: 30 July 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 14th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Dr Sarah Blagden (Department of Oncology, Univeristy of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement seminar room
Organiser: Natsumi Astley (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA