The University of Sheffield
Department of Biomedical Science

External Seminar Programme 2011/2012

Seminars are held on Mondays at 12.00 noon (unless stated) in the Conference Room, A Floor, Alfred Denny building.

If you have any queries about the programme, please email Wendy Howard or Jane Collins in the BMS office.

Monday 21st May 2012

Dr Josef Kittler
University College London

Regulation of mitochondrial trafficking by Miro family proteins in neuronal health and disease

Host: Dr Alex Whitworth

Thursday 24th May 2012

Dr Kamil Kranc
University of Glasgow

Hypoxia signalling pathways in haematopoietic stem cell functions and leukaemic transformation

Host: Professor Matthew Holley

Monday 28th May 2012

Professor Pete Cullen
University of Bristol

Endosomal sorting during development

Host: Professor David Strutt

Monday 11th June 2012

Dr Eric Honore
Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Nice

Sensing pressure with ion channels: from physiology to disease states

Host: Dr Freek Van Eeden

Monday 18th June 2012

Dr Gyorgy Szabadkai
University College London

Title to be announced

Host: Dr Alex Whitworth

Monday 25th June 2012

Dr Jenny Hirst
University of Cambridge

Investigating adaptor protein function and link with human disease

Host: Professor Liz Smythe

Monday 2nd July 2012

Professor Konrad Basler
Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich

Title to be announced

Host: Dr Andy Furley

Monday 16th July 2012

Dr Paul Le Tissier
MRC National Institute for Medical Research

Pituitary gland plasticity

Host: Professor Marysia Placzek

Monday 1st October

Professor Ben Simons
University of Cambridge

Strategies of adult stem cell fate: from tissue maintenance to cancer

Host: Dr Anne-Gaelle Borycki

Monday 15th October

Professor Jane McKeating
University of Birmingham

Title to be announced

Host: Professor Beppe Battaglia

Monday 12th November 2012

Professor Russell Foster
Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Title to be announced

Host: Professor Dave Grundy