Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine
Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine

Institute of Genetics and Cancer seminar series

The Institute of Genetics and Cancer Seminar Series attracts distinguished scientists from around the world working in the fields of genetics, molecular medicine and cancer research, and whose research complements that being done at Institute of Genetics and Cancer.

Sessions are open to all within CMVM, University of Edinburgh - Please contact seminars@igc.ed.ac.uk for more information.

Unless stated, seminars take place on Thursdays at 1pm in the IGC Lecture Theatre

2024 

John Inglis HGU PhD Student Talks

Thursday 27th August - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ON A TUESDAY AT 9.30AM

Abram Giller, Gaefeng Zhu, Breeshey Roskams-Hieter, Louis Chislett

Host: Ian Adams

John Inglis HGU PhD Student Talks

Thursday 27th August - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ON A TUESDAY AT 11.30AM

Hasan Cubuk, Christine Rodger, Ottavia Olson, Giovanna Weykopf

Host: Ian Adams

Long-term epigenetic inheritance and phenotypic diversity in natural populations

Thursday 29th August

Daniel Zilberman

Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Host: Duncan Sproul

Understanding genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in pediatric sarcomas

Thursday 12th September

Ana Banito 

German Cancer Research Centre

Host: Nezha Benabdallah

From GWAS to function: interrogating biology at scale to contextualise gene function

Thursday 26th September

Gosia Trynka

Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge

Hosts: Sara Brown and Silvia Shen

Title - TBC

Thursday 3rd October

Michael Keogh

Chief Scientific office at Epicycpher

Title - TBC

Thursday 10th October

Professor Julie Aspden

University of Leeds

Host: Andrew Wood

Title - TBC

Thursday 31st October

Dr Sara Macias

School of Biological Sciences, UoE

Host: Javier Caceres

Title - TBC

Thursday 7th November 

Professor Simona Parrinello

UCL

Host: Margaret Frame

Title - TBC

Thursday 14th November 

Dr Nicholas McGranahan

University College London

Host: Martin Taylor

ESRIC Symposium

Wednesday 20th November - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A WEDNESDAY

Prof Edward Lemke

University of Mainz

Host: Ann Wheeler

Title - TBC

Thursday 21st November 

Julian Sale

LMB, Cambridge

Host: Martin Taylor

Title - TBC

Thursday 28th November

Professor Ivan Dikic

Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Medical Faculty, Frankfurt

Host: Professor Simon Wilkinson

2025 

Title - TBC

Thursday 9th January

Kamila Naxerova

Harvard University

Host: Craig Anderson

Title - TBC

Thursday 16th January

Sara McClelland

Queen Mary University of London

Host: Nick Gilbert

Title - TBC

Thursday 23rd January

Francesca Mattiroli

Hubrecht Institute, the Netherlands

Host: Tom Deegan

Title - TBC

Thursday 30th January

Elton Zeqiraj

Faculty of Biological Sciences

Host: Nick Gilbert

Title - TBC

Thursday 6th February

Malte Spielmann

Institute of Human Genetics, University of Lubeck

Host: Hannah Long

Title - TBC

Thursday 20th February

Ian Sudbery

Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids

Host: Duncan Sproul

Title - TBC

Thursday 27th February

Julie Makani

Imperial College London

Host: Wendy Bickmore

Title - TBC

Thursday 6th March

Professor Steve West

Crick Institute

Host: Andrew Jackson

Title - TBC

Thursday 13th March

Dr Marta Shahbazi

MRC LMB, Cambridge

Host: Pleasantine Mill

Title - TBC

Thursday 20th March

Moritz Matthias

IMP​​​​​​

Host: Yanick Crow

Title - TBC

Thursday 27th March

Tonia Vincent

The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford

​Host: Erika Kague

Title - TBC

Thursday 3rd April

KJ Patel

Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine and The MRC Molecular Hematology Unit at the University of Oxford

Host: Zichang Yu

Title - TBC

Thursday 24th April

Cristina Mayor Ruiz

IRB, Barcelona

Host: Vincenzo D'Angiolella

Title - TBC

Friday 25th April - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ON A FRIDAY

Alberto Kornblihtt

University of Buenes Aires

Host: Javier Caceres

Title - TBC

Thursday 1st May

Professor Ziga Avsec

DeepMind/Crick Institute

Host: Greg Kudla

Title - TBC

Thursday 8th May

Anestis Tsakiridis

University of Sheffield

Host: Hannah Long

Title - TBC

Thursday 15th May

Gopal Sapkota

University of Dundee 

Host: Andrew Wood

Chromosome as epigenetic memory and genomic communication machines

Thursday 22nd May

Leonid Mirny

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Wendy Bickmore

Title - TBC

Thursday 29th May

Prakash Ramachandran

 Institute of Regeneration and Repair, UoE

Host: Neil Carragher

Title - TBC

Thursday 5th June

Haico Attikum

Leiden University

Host: Nick Gilbert