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 For more information, please contact: crmdirector-pa@ed.ac.uk Publication date 18 Jun, 2015