• Type: Seminar Series

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Visualisation of Human Telomeric Complexes using Cryo-electron Microscopy
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Kelly Nguyen (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From Early Blood Development to Quantitative Tissue Models
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Bertie Gottgens (University of Cambridge)

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neuronal genome integrity and plasticity
  Please note that this is an Ad Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr. Andre Nussenzweig (Branch Chief of the Laboratory of Genome Integrity at the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland)

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Clonal and cellular dynamics of the antibody response
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gabriel D. Victora (The Rockefeller University)

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Progressing from genes to therapies in neurodevelopmental disorders
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Programmed DNA breaks drive multifaceted mutagenesis in the human germline
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Anjali Gupta Hinch (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University)

Thursday 22 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Towards a quantitative understanding of somatic evolution in blood: missing drivers, ageing and other puzzles
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Jamie Blundell (Department of Oncology, Cambridge)

Monday 26 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Decoding the role of solute carrier proteins in health and disease
  Please note that this is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Simon Newstead (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Dynamic Effects of Interleukin-6 and Glucocorticoids on Cancer Host Responses
  Please note this is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Tobias Janowitz (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Thursday 29 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Somatic mutations in normal tissues
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Peter Campbell (University of Cambridge, Sanger Institute)

Thursday 3 August 2023 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Biological roles of hematopoietic niches in the origination and development of leukemia
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Dengli Hong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine)

Thursday 12 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Targeting ageing: from molecular mechanisms to clinical interventions
  CANCELLED - To be rescheduled
  Professor Lynne Cox (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - TALK CANCELLED - Rerunning cancer evolution: a genomic pathology approach
  CANCELLED
  Dr Sarah Aitken (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Separate but Connected: Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Stability
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Agnel Sfeir (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA)

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Mendelian genetics in a post-genomic era: insights from the smallest people in the world
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Andrew Jackson (University of Edinburgh )

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The gut microbiome controls our health – or is it the other way around?
  Please note that this is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Klaus Kaestner (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Colorectal cancer in the 100,000 Genomes project
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Ian Tomlinson (NDM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Obstacles on genes & the Poll II ubiquitin code
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Ana Tufegdžić Vidaković (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and therapeutic applications
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Stephen P. Jackson (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Lighting up the central dogma to dissect how sharp developmental patterns are established
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Mounia Lagha (Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - CryoEM achievements and potential
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Richard Henderson, FRS (Programme Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

Monday 18 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Immune micro-niches shape intestinal Treg function
  Please note this is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Yisu Gu (Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Lysosomal Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Quiescence in Youth and With Age
  Please note this is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Saghi Ghaffari (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY)

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - A break in mitochondrial endosymbiosis as a basis for inflammatory diseases
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Luke O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Extrachromosomal oncogene amplifications in cancer
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Anton Henssen (Charite Berlin)

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Variations in 3D genome structure between homologous chromosomes and in stimulus responses
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Ana Pombo (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin)

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Genomic instability: tumor suppressor BRCA2 and DNA breaks
  Please note this is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Maria Jasin (Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute)

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Centrosome function in health and disease: a small organelle with a big reach
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Fanni Gergely (Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Replication fork plasticity and its emerging role during physiological and malignant haematopoiesis
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Massimo Lopes (University of Zurich)

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - How X-linked sequence variation shapes organismal development
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Matthias Merkenschlager (Imperial College London)

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The remarkable intracellular dynamics of cytotoxic T lymphocytes
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Mutational order and stem cell plasticity in cancer evolution
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Simon Buczacki (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Deep screening for antibody discovery
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Impacts of childhood cancer treatment on testicular function and new approaches to preserve and restore fertility
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Rod Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)

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)

Thursday 23 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The non-coding exome in rare disease: from diagnosis to therapies
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Nicky Whiffin (Big Data Institute)

Thursday 30 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Large scale systematic identification of extracellular receptor-ligand interactions: case studies in host-pathogen interactions for vaccine design and the human immune system
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gavin Wright (University of York)

Wednesday 5 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Charles Swanton (The Francis Crick Institute)

Thursday 13 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)

Tuesday 25 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - TBC
  This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Sebastian Eustermann (EMBL)

Thursday 27 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Cellular responses to DNA and RNA damage
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Julian Stingele (Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)

Thursday 6 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - New concepts in type 2 immunity
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Bart Lambrecht (Ghent University)

Thursday 13 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Kodi Ravichandran (Washington University School of Medicine)

Thursday 17 April 2025 (13th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Eirini Papapetrou (Mount Sinai, NY)