Centre for Regenerative Medicine hosts regular external seminars in the SCRM building, Edinburgh. Growing a Cell Therapy Industry: Opportunities and Challenges Speaker: Prof Johan Hyliner, The Cell Therapy Catapult centre, Guys Hospital, London, UK Thursday 3 April 2014, 3.00pm Thursday 3 April 2014, 4.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent What are new neurons good for? Speaker: Prof Gerd Kempermann, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Dresden, Germany Thursday 3 April 2014, 9.00am Thursday 3 April 2014, 10.00am Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Systems dissection of stem cells Speaker: Prof Frank Buchholz, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany Friday 28 March 2014, 12.00pm Friday 28 March 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Spatiotemporal regulation of skin and oral epithelia stem cells in homeostasis, ageing and cancer Speaker: Prof Salvador Aznar-Benitah, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain Wednesday 19 March 2014, 12.00pm Wednesday 19 March 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Using Synthetic Biology to Investigate Embryonic Stem Cell Signalling Speaker: Dr Greg Findlay, MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, UK Friday 14 March 2014, 12.00pm Friday 14 March 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent A stem cell niche and its control of germline self-renewal and differentiation Speaker: Prof Judith Kimble, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Friday 7 March 2014, 12.00pm Friday 7 March 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Modelling human neurological disorders using patient-specific stem cell lines Speaker: Prof Larry Stanton, Genome Institute of Singapore, Japan Friday 28 February 2014, 12.00pm Friday 28 February 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Generation of Multipotent Foregut Stem Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Speaker: Dr Nicholas Hannan, Dept of Surgery, University of Cambridge, UK Monday 24 February 2014, 4.00pm Monday 24 February 2014, 5.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Epidermal stem cells in tissue homeostasis, regeneration and cancer Speaker: Dr Kim Jensen, Biotech Research Innovation Center (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Denmark Friday 21 February 2014, 12.00pm Friday 21 February 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Origins and regulation of gene expression heterogeneity Speaker: Dr Jonathan Chubb, Dept of Cell & Development Biology and MRC LMCB, University College London, UK Friday 14 February 2014, 12.00pm Friday 14 February 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent A role for cohesin proteins in chromosome organization in non-dividing cells Speaker: Dr Suzana Hadjur, Cancer Institute, University College London, UK Friday 7 February 2014, 12.00pm Friday 7 February 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Genome-wide recessive genetic screening in mammalian cells with a lentiviral CRISPR-guide RNA library Speaker: Dr Kosuke Yusa, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Friday 31 January 2014, 12.00pm Friday 31 January 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent From neurogenesis to neural regeneration - novel molecular regulators Thursday 30 January 2014, 2.00pm Thursday 30 January 2014, 3.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Novel Animal and Stem Cell Models for Nervous System Disorders Speaker: Prof Kevin Eggan, Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, USA Tuesday 21 January 2014, 12.00pm Tuesday 21 January 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Molecular mechanisms and cellular functions controlled by citrullination Speaker: Dr Maria Christophorou, The Wellcome Trust and CR UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK Monday 20 January 2014, 12.00pm Monday 20 January 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Transcriptional network control of blood cell development Speaker: Prof Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research & Wellcome Trust and MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK Friday 17 January 2014, 12.00pm Friday 17 January 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent Linking transdifferentiation and iPS cell reprogramming Speaker: Dr Thomas Graf, Center for Genomic Regulation, CRG, Barcelona, Spain Tuesday 14 January 2014, 12.00pm Tuesday 14 January 2014, 1.00pm Seminar Room, SCRM, 5 Little France Crescent High-throughput genome engineering of human stem cells Speaker: Dr Bill Skarnes, Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge Friday 10 January 2014, 12.00pm Friday 10 January 2014, 1.00pm 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 For more information, please contact: crmdirector-pa@ed.ac.uk Publication date 18 Jun, 2015