Life Sciences Seminar Series

Past events

Ian Small

Plant Energy Biology, ARC Centre of Excellence, University of Western Australia, CRAWLEY, Australia

Designing RNA binding proteins for applications in agriculture and biotechnology

Bernhard Herrmann

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Genetic and epigenetic control of trunk development in the mouse

Sandy Schmid

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA

Stargazing: Insights into clathrin-mediated endocytosis from quantitative live cell microscopy

Anne C. Ferguson-Smith

Department of Genetics, c/o Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

Genomic imprinting and the epigenetic control of developmental processes

Jürg Müller

Chromatin and Chromosome Biology, Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Molecular mechanisms of the Polycomb/Trithorax system

Stefano Piccolo

Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova School of Medicine, Padua, Italy

The Hippo transducers YAP/TAZ: biology and regulation

Jennifer Doudna

University of California, Berkeley, USA

RNA-programmed genome defense

Shigeru Kondo

Laboratory of Pattern Formation, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Mechanism of autonomous pattern formation in animal development

Angela Nieto

Universidad Miguel Hernández - CSIC, Campus de San Juan, Alicante, Spain

Reversibility of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition in development and cancer progression

Ron Breaker

Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, USA

Riboswitches and the ancient RNA world

Reinhard Luhrmann

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

The spliceosome: one of the most complex and structurally dynamic molecular machines of the cell

Martin Parniske

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Martinsried, Germany

Signal transduction in plant root symbiosis

John Mattick

Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia

The human genome as the zip file extraordinaire

Grahame Hardie

Cell Signalling and Immunology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

AMP-activated protein kinase: canonical and non-canonical mechanisms of regulation