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.

THURSDAY 16th February 2012 - Students Union Auditorium
GL Brown Lecture

Professor James Deuchars
University of Leeds

The Wonders of the Wanderer (or what your vagus nerve can do for you)

Host: Dr Gordon Cooper

Monday 20th February 2012

Dr Elspeth Payne
University College London

Inherited and acquired disorders ribosome biogenesis - lost in translation?

Host: Dr Steve Renshaw

Monday 5th March 2012

Professor Giampietro Schiavo
Cancer Research UK, London

Title to be announced

Host: Dr Liz Seward

Monday 5th March 2012 at 4.00 pm

Dr Pete Tong
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING: Understanding the transition from somatic cell to pluripotency

Host: Professor Peter Andrews

Monday 12th March 2012

Dr Victoria James
University of Nottingham

The New LAW of MicroRNA Mediated Silencing: Identification of a Tumour Suppressor Gene Critical to MicroRNA Activity

Host: Dr Martin Zeidler

Monday 16th April 2012

Professor Dan Cutler
University College London

Title to be announced

Host: Professor Liz Smythe

Monday 30th April 2012

Professor Buzz Baum
University College London

Title to be announced

Host: Dr Martin Zeidler

Monday 21st May 2012

Dr Josef Kittler
University College London

Title to be announced

Host: Dr Alex Whitworth

Monday 28th May 2012

Professor Pete Cullen
University of Bristol

Title to be announced

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 2nd July 2012

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

Title to be announced

Host: Dr Andy Furley

Monday 12th November 2012

Professor Russell Foster
Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Title to be announced

Host: Professor Dave Grundy