Weekly seminars held at the Roslin Institute Auditorium. Mate selection for implementing breeding programs: Managing optimal contributions, genomic coancestries, gEBVs, trait distributions, genetic defects, MOET, costs and logistical constraints, all in a single framework Speaker: Professor Brian Kinghorn, University of New England Wednesday 15 August 2012, 4.00pm Wednesday 15 August 2012, 5.00pm What do enhancers do? Speaker: Professor Doug Vernimmen, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University Tuesday 24 July 2012, 4.00pm Tuesday 24 July 2012, 5.00pm Alzheimer’s disease through the looking glass: Protein aggregation and synapse loss Speaker: Professor Tara Spires-Jones, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Tuesday 10 July 2012, 4.00pm Tuesday 10 July 2012, 5.00pm Life in the balance with Wt1 and beta-catenin Speaker: Peter Hohenstein, PhD, Dept Medical & Developmental Genetics MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh Wednesday 4 July 2012, 4.00pm Wednesday 4 July 2012, 5.00pm Sexual differentiation of the song control system and singing in birds Speaker: Professor Manfred Gahr, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany Wednesday 27 June 2012, 4.00pm Wednesday 27 June 2012, 3.00pm Cell meets Textile ? fibre-reinforcement in cardiovascular tissue engineering Speaker: Professor Stefan Jockenhovel, Dept of Tissue Engineering & Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering & Institut of Textile Technology, The Helmholtz Institute Aachen, University of Aachen. Thursday 21 June 2012, 4.00pm Thursday 21 June 2012, 5.00pm Purinergic signalling and bone cell function Speaker: Dr Isabel Orriss, Bone Biology Laboratory, University College, London Wednesday 13 June 2012, 4.00pm Wednesday 13 June 2012, 5.00pm Epigenetics and human health; a true gene-environment interaction Speaker: Professor Paul Haggarty, Rowett, Aberdeen Wednesday 30 May 2012, 4.00pm Wednesday 30 May 2012, 5.00pm Ticks put the bite on Texas - re-emergence of equine and bovine babesiosis in the US Speaker: Dr Patricia Holman, Research Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, USA Tuesday 29 May 2012, 2.00pm Tuesday 29 May 2012, 3.00pm How arsenic activates the ubiquitin proteosome pathway to cure cancer Speaker: Dr Ron Hay, University of Dundee Wednesday 23 May 2012, 4.00pm Wednesday 23 May 2012, 5.00pm Primary cilia as the cell's antennae: defective ciliary signalling underlies diverse human diseases Speaker: Dr Jeremy Reiter, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco Wednesday 16 May 2012, 1.00pm Wednesday 16 May 2012, 2.00pm Locking-down prion infections Speaker: Dr David Westaway, University of Alberta, Canada Monday 7 May 2012, 1.00pm Monday 7 May 2012, 2.00pm For confirmation of dates/times email Sheelagh Strachan: Email Sheelagh Strachan Publication date 18 Jun, 2015
