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