The University of Sheffield
Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Guest Seminars 2011-12

The Krebs Lecture
The amazing ribosome, its tiny enemies, and hints about its origin

  Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate
  Weizmann Institute, Israel
Wed Oct 5, 5 pm, Richard Roberts Auditorium

CO2-sensing and interkingdom-signalling pathways in yeast
   Fritz Mühlschlegel
   University of Kent
Wed Oct 12, 1 pm, F2

How cells help proteins to acquire the correct metals
   Nigel Robinson
   Durham University
Wed Oct 19, 1 pm, F2

Adenylyl cyclases - much more than makers of cAMP
  Dermot Cooper
  University of Cambridge
Wed Oct 26, 1 pm, F2

2nd MBB Krebs Memorial Lecture
How do bacteria know where to go? Rotary motors and protein dynamics drive bacterial behaviour

  Judy Armitage
  University of Oxford
Wed Nov 2, 1 pm, F2

On membrane curvature, protein rings, and the proton motive force in bacterial cell division
  Leendert Hamoen
  University of Newcastle
Wed Nov 9, 1 pm, F2

Microbial communication and virulence: lessons from evolutionary theory
  Steve Diggle
  University of Nottingham
Wed Nov 16, 1 pm, F2

Dysregulation of protein kinase signalling in lung cnacer: can we teach an old dog new tricks?
  Jeremy Tavaré
  University of Bristol
Wed Nov 23, 1 pm, F2

Molecular mechanisms underlying insulin-regulated trafficking of the facilitative glucose transporter GLUT4
  Nia Bryant
  University of Glasgow
Wed Nov 30, 1 pm, F2

A role for protein dynamics? New insights into catalysis from studies of an 'old' enzyme
  Ruedi Allemann
  Cardiff University
Wed Dec 7, 1 pm, F2

Stopping the traffic: targetting chemokine receptors in disease
  James Pease
  Imperial College London
Wed Dec 14, 1 pm, F2

Resistance is futile: the molecular basis of drug resistance in the protein kinase superfamily
  Pat Eyers
  YCR Inst Cancer Studies, Sheffield
Wed Jan 25, 1 pm, F2

MBB Society Seminar
Genetic fingerprinting and the turbulent genome

  Sir Alec Jeffreys
  University of Leicester
Wed Feb 8, 1 pm, Biology Lecture Theatre 2

Wrapping and unwrapping the bad news: the multiple roles of genomic RNA within ssRNA virus particles
  Peter Stockley
  University of Leeds
Wed Feb 15, 1 pm, F2

4th Roper Lecture
DNA strand breakage and repair in human disease

  Keith Caldecott
  University of Sussex
Wed Feb 22, 1 pm, F2

A new family of cancer marker genes: diagnostic, therapeutic and oncogenic potential
  Ramsay McFarlane
  North West Cancer Research Fund Inst
We Mar 7, 1 pm, F2

Endothelial cell modulation by P. falciparum-infected erythrocyte cytoadherence
  Alister Craig
  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Wed Mar 14, 1 pm, F2

2nd West Riding Lecture
Bacterial gang culture: We're all in this together

  George Salmond
  University of Cambridge
Wed Mar 21, 1 pm, F2

Regulating actin and myosin function in yeast
  Dan Mulvihill
  University of Kent
Wed Apr 25, 1 pm, F2

The cytokinetic phragmoplast: cytoskeleton, modelling and proteomics
  Patrick Hussey
  Durham University
Wed May 9, 1 pm, F2