Centre for Regenerative Medicine seminar series 2012

Centre for Regenerative Medicine hosts regular external seminars in the SCRM building, Edinburgh.

Shared University Research Facilities: SuRF@ QMRI

Speakers: Pamela Brown: Lentiviral vectors, Bob Morris: Routine Histology & Mike Millar: Immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence and RNAscope

Friday 7 December 2012, 1.00pm

Friday 7 December 2012, 2.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Developmental Programming of Emerging Haematopoietic Stem Cells

Speaker: Dr Aldo Ciau-Uitz, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford

Monday 3 December 2012, 1.00pm

Monday 3 December 2012, 2.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

The Jackson Laboratory and Charles River Fall Tour

Speakers are Vicky Murray-Tait (Account Manager, Charles River) and Barbara Witham (Senior Manager, Int. Opportunity Development, Jackson Laboratory).

Friday 30 November 2012, 1.30pm

Friday 30 November 2012, 5.30pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Vascular Injury, repair and regeneration

Speaker: Dr Nick Mills, CMVM, University of Edinburgh

Friday 30 November 2012, 1.00pm

Friday 30 November 2012, 2.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Neural Cells for Therapy

Speaker: Dr Mahendra Rao, NIH Center for Regenerative Medicine, USA

Monday 26 November 2012, 1.30pm

Monday 26 November 2012, 2.30pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Resolution of cell fate decisions revealed by single-cell gene expression analysis from zygote to blastocyst (Provisional Title) - CANCELLED

Speaker: Prof Paul Robson, Developmental Cellomics Lab, Genome Institute of Singapore. SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Friday 23 November 2012, 1.00pm

Friday 23 November 2012, 2.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Generation and regeneration of pancreatic beta cells

Speaker: Prof HongKui Deng, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, China

Friday 9 November 2012, 5.00pm

Friday 9 November 2012, 6.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Life Technologies Seminar

Speakers: Beverley Cork (Pluripotent Stem Cell Research; Challenges and Solutions for Reprogramming, Culture, Differentiation and Characterization) and Ann MacDonald (Flow Cytometry; making the most of your violet laser).

Friday 9 November 2012, 1.00pm

Friday 9 November 2012, 2.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Cambridge Bioscience

Speakers: Dr. Terri Gaskell (Chief Scientific Officer) from Cell Guidance Systems and Kay Samuel, Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Adult Cell Therapy Group, Centre for Regenerative Medicine.

Monday 5 November 2012, 11.30am

Monday 5 November 2012, 2.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Culture Adaption in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture: Oncogenesis in vitro

Speaker: Prof Peter Andrews, Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield, UK

Friday 26 October 2012, 12.00pm

Friday 26 October 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

The mammalian piRNA pathway, from transposon silencing to germ line maintenance

Speaker: Dr Donal O'Carroll, Genome Biology Unit, EMBL Monterotondo, Italy

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 4.00pm

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 5.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Transcription reduction and transcript modification as treatment strategies for Huntington disease

Speaker: Dr Willeke van Roon, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Friday 19 October 2012, 12.00pm

Friday 19 October 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Trains, Planes and Lipid Rafts: Tales of Trafficking in Mammalian Cilia

Speaker: Dr Pleasantine Mill, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK

Monday 15 October 2012, 12.00pm

Monday 15 October 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Liver formation: progenitor specification and beyond

Speaker: Dr Elke Ober, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK

Friday 12 October 2012, 1.15pm

Friday 12 October 2012, 2.15pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC): a Paradigm Shift for Human Disease Modelling and Therapy

Speaker: Prof Gustavo Mostoslavsky, CReM Boston University School of Medicine, USA

Monday 1 October 2012, 4.00pm

Monday 1 October 2012, 5.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Living with Two X Chromosomes: of Mice and Women Studies on the initiation mechanisms of X chromosome inactivation in stem cells and mouse models, and the role of RNG12 herein

Speaker: Dr Stefan Barakat, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Friday 28 September 2012, 1.15pm

Friday 28 September 2012, 2.15pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Defining the cellular and molecular determinants of breast cancer heterogeneity

Speaker: Dr Matt Smalley, European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute, Cardiff University, UK

Tuesday 25 September 2012, 12.00pm

Tuesday 25 September 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Uncovering transcriptional regulatory principles of early human embryonic development

Speaker: Dr Alvaro Rada-Inglesias, Dept of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, USA

Monday 10 September 2012, 12.00pm

Monday 10 September 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Conditional expansion of neural stem cells in the mammalian brain

Speaker: Dr Federico Calegari, CRTD, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Friday 7 September 2012, 12.00pm

Friday 7 September 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Hibernation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Bone Marrow Niche

Speaker: Prof Hiro Nakauchi, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, IMSUT, Tokyo, Japan. (Hiro Nakauchi is Director of newly established Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo (IMSUT) http://stemcell-u-tokyo.org/en/)

Wednesday 5 September 2012, 12.00pm

Wednesday 5 September 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Functions of Tumor Necrosis Factor produced by distinct cellular sources

Speaker: Prof Sergei Nedospasov, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Department of Immunology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Tuesday 4 September 2012, 3.00pm

Tuesday 4 September 2012, 4.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

The molecular genetics of frontotemporal lobar degeneration

Speaker: Prof Stuart Pickering-Brown, University of Manchester

Friday 27 July 2012, 12.00pm

Friday 27 July 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Development of novel stable gene transfer vector and its application for stem cell engineering

Speaker: Dr Ken Nishimura, Laboratory of Gene Regulation, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Tuesday 24 July 2012, 12.00pm

Tuesday 24 July 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

A paracrine component of the senescence response

Speaker: Dr Jesus Gil, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine

Friday 20 July 2012, 12.00pm

Friday 20 July 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Urogenital System Biology - From Development to Inheritance and Disease Mechanisms

Speaker: Prof Seppo Vainio, Biocenter Oulo, Finland

Monday 2 July 2012, 12.00pm

Monday 2 July 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Imparting regenerative capacity to limbs by progenitor cell transplantation

Speaker: Prof Jonathan Slack, Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, USA

Wednesday 27 June 2012, 12.00pm

Wednesday 27 June 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Autologous progenitor cells in a hydrogel form a supernumerary and functional muscle

Speaker: Dr Cesare Gargioli, Department of Biology, Tor Vergata Rome University

Monday 25 June 2012, 4.00pm

Monday 25 June 2012, 5.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Geometrical boundary conditions turns cytoskeleton self-assembly into self-organisation

Speaker: Dr Manuel Thery, iRTSV, Life Sciences Division, CEA, France

Friday 8 June 2012, 12.00pm

Friday 8 June 2012, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Hematopoietic stem cell development: Endothelial to hematopoietic transition

Speaker: Prof Elaine Dzierzak, Erasmus Stem Cell Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Thursday 17 May 2012, 4.00pm

Thursday 17 May 2012, 5.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Bioinformatic analysis of transcriptional control mechanisms in blood and ES cells

Wednesday 9 May 2012, 1.00pm

Wednesday 9 May 2012, 2.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

 

Tuesday 8 May 2012, 12.00pm

Tuesday 8 May 2012, 1.00pm

 

Friday 4 May 2012, 12.00pm

Friday 4 May 2012, 1.00pm

 

Friday 20 April 2012, 12.00pm

Friday 20 April 2012, 1.00pm

 

Wednesday 18 April 2012, 12.00pm

Wednesday 18 April 2012, 1.00pm

 

Friday 13 April 2012, 12.00pm

Friday 13 April 2012, 1.00pm

 

Wednesday 4 April 2012, 1.00pm

Wednesday 4 April 2012, 2.00pm

 

Friday 30 March 2012, 12.00pm

Friday 30 March 2012, 1.00pm

 

Friday 23 March 2012, 1.00pm

Friday 23 March 2012, 2.00pm

 

Friday 16 March 2012, 1.00pm

Friday 16 March 2012, 2.00pm

 

Tuesday 6 March 2012, 1.00pm

Tuesday 6 March 2012, 2.00pm

 

Friday 10 February 2012, 1.00pm

Friday 10 February 2012, 2.00pm

 

Friday 3 February 2012, 1.00pm

Friday 3 February 2012, 2.00pm

 

Monday 23 January 2012, 5.00pm

Monday 23 January 2012, 6.00pm

 

Thursday 19 January 2012, 4.30pm

Thursday 19 January 2012, 5.30pm

All interested are welcome to attend.

The SCRM is a secure building. Please ensure you have your university or NHS ID card with you as you will be asked to present it when signing in. Thank you for your co-operation

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