Guest Seminars 09-10
The MBB Guest Seminars are presented by distinguished speakers on research in molecular biology.
Seminar Programme for Academic Year 2009-10
The First Krebs Memorial Lecture
Common Simplicity Behind Natural and Artificial Redox Protein Engineering
Prof. Les Dutton FRS
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Wednesday September 23rd at 4:00 pm in BLT 1
The Biochemical Society Lecture
The chemistry of oxygen sensing in humans
Prof Chris Schofield
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
Wednesday November 4th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
The Roles and Regulation of Actin during Endocytosis
Prof Kathryn Ayscough
MBB, University of Sheffield
Wednesday November 11th at 1:10 pm in MBB F
Insights into Kinase Regulation and Selective Inhibition by Large Scale Structural Comparison
Prof Stefan Knapp
The Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford
Wednesday November 18th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
Self-signalling and self-fusion in filamentous fungi
Prof Nick Read
School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday November 25th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
The Oxford Expression Technologies Lecture
Gene silencing is mediated by H-NS and sRNAs in Salmonella
Prof Jay Hinton
Department of Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin
Wednesday December 2nd at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
Synthetic biology from the bottom up and towards new biomaterials
Prof Dek Woolfson
School of Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol
Wednesday December 9th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
Adaptation to extreme environments: Structure, function and stability of enzymes from the hyperthermophilic archaea.
Prof Michael Danson
Centre for Extremophile Research, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath
Wednesday February 17th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
Controlling the bacterial immune system - structure and function of a finely tuned genetic switch
Dr John McGeehan
Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Science, University of Portsmouth
Wednesday February 24th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
Developing the next generation of anti-cancer monoclonal antibodies
Prof Martin Glennie
School of Medicine, University of Southampton
Wednesday March 3rd at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
The Evolution of Long ncRNAs and Prdm9, a Speciation Gene
Prof Chris Ponting
MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford
Wednesday March 10th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
Biosynthesis of mycobacterial cell wall polysaccharides
Prof Del Besra
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
Wednesday March 17th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
The beginning and the end of the Cell Cycle
Dr Karim Labib
Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Manchester
Wednesday April 21st at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
Chromosome bi-orientation and spindle checkpoint activation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Prof Mike Stark
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Wednesday April 28th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
Steroid Sulfatase Inhbitors: From Concept to Clinic
Prof Barry Potter
Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath
Wednesday May 5th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
Enzymatic Transition States and Drug Design
Prof Vern Schramm
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Tuesday May 11th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2
The End of the Affair: Chromosome segregation at Meiosis I
Dr Eva Hoffmann
Sussex Centre for Genome Damage and Stability, University of Sussex
Wednesday May 12th at 1:10 pm in MBB F2