Centre for Regenerative Medicine seminar series Summer 2013

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

Cardiac Tissue Engineering with Human Stem Cells

Speaker: Dr Shiang Y Lim, O'Brien Institute and Dept of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Australia

Tuesday 3 September 2013, 12.00pm

Tuesday 3 September 2013, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Towards a mechanistic understanding of the birth of blood stem cells

Speaker: Dr Gemma Swiers, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Friday 23 August 2013, 12.00pm

Friday 23 August 2013, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

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

 

Monday 15 July 2013, 4.00pm

Monday 15 July 2013, 5.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Novel insights into an old modification: ribosomal RNA modifications in translational control, cancer and stem cell biology

Speaker: Dr Cristian Bellodi, Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Monday 1 July 2013, 12.00pm

Monday 1 July 2013, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

To divide or not to divide: Integration of proliferation and differentiation in the progenitor cells forming the vertebrate body

Speaker: Prof David Kimelman, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Friday 28 June 2013, 12.00pm

Friday 28 June 2013, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Digitizing Life Using Synthetic Genomics

Speaker: Prof John Glass, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville Maryland, USA

Friday 21 June 2013, 12.00pm

Friday 21 June 2013, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

OMX-SIM

The seminar will cover theory, implementation, applications and potential pitfalls of the 3D-Structured Illumination, for highly improved spatial and axial resolution as well as fast, multi-channel Time Lapse microscopy. Speaker: Markus Posch, University of Dundee

Thursday 13 June 2013, 2.00pm

Thursday 13 June 2013, 3.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

The leading edge of myelination

Speaker: Dr Joao Relvas, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal

Monday 10 June 2013, 4.00pm

Monday 10 June 2013, 5.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Reprogramming and Cellular Dominance

Speaker: Prof Amanda Fisher, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, UK

Friday 7 June 2013, 12.00pm

Friday 7 June 2013, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Amphioxus: an unusual model gives insight into chordate development and regeneration

Speaker: Dr Ildiko Somorjai, Scottish Oceans Institute, East Sands, University of St Andrews, UK

Friday 24 May 2013, 2.00pm

Friday 24 May 2013, 3.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

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Speaker: Prof Paolo Bianco, Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Friday 17 May 2013, 12.00pm

Friday 17 May 2013, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

In Search of naive pluripotency in Human and Rabbit

Speaker: Dr Pierre Savatier, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, Lyon, France

Friday 10 May 2013, 12.00pm

Friday 10 May 2013, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Brain Science using iPS cell technology and Transgenic Non-Human Primates

Speaker: Prof Hideyuki Okano, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Keio, Japan

Wednesday 8 May 2013, 10.00am

Wednesday 8 May 2013, 11.00am

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

The cellular and molecular basis for regeneration in planarians

Speaker: Prof Peter Reddien, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MIT Biology, Massachusetts, USA

Friday 3 May 2013, 12.00pm

Friday 3 May 2013, 1.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

Steering pluripotent cells towards pancreatic lineages

Speaker: Dr Gillian Morrison, Wellcome Trust-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, UK

Wednesday 1 May 2013, 4.00pm

Wednesday 1 May 2013, 5.00pm

Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent

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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