Events and news

• 3 March: 'Tooting Monday Biomedical Seminar' featuring Professor Nigel Emptage, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
• 31 March: 'Glia responses to amyloid pathology: let's talk about sex', featuring Dr Lorena Arancibia Carcamo, UK Dementia Reserch Institute at UCL
• 12 May: 'Genetics of Dystonia' by Francesca Morgante
• 19 May: 'Zebrafish model as a tool to assess variants and gene effect' by Flavie Ader
• 2 June: 'Genetics of Primary Lymphoedema: Identifying Non-Coding Variation and Functional Investigations Using New Cell Culture Models' by Ruby Moy and Jak Lawrence
• 9 June: 'Promotional Seminar - Revvity Operetta'. Hosts: Daniel Osborn & Emily Woodcock

• 22 January: 'Defining Satellite Cell-opathies: Neuromuscular Disorders Caused by Muscle Stem Cell Dysfunction.' Featuring: Prof. Peter Zammit (Kings College London). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 5 February: 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly in Fluorescence Microscopy.' Featuring: Dr Sian Culley (Kings College London). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 19 February: 'Intestinal biology of naked mole rats and clues to longevity.' Featuring: Dr Shazia Irshad (Radcliff Dept of Medicine, Oxford Uni). Host: Dr Chris Carroll
• 4 March: 'Glia-neuronal interactions in health and disease.' Featuring: Prof Giles Hardingham (Edinburgh University). Host: Prof. Tom Carter.
• 11 March: 'Genetic analysis of Cardiomyopathies.' Featuring: Dr Flavie Ader (Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié Salpêtrière Paris, France). Host: Dr Daniel Osborne
• 15 April: 'Using deep learning models to solve important problems in genetics.' Featuring: Dr Clare Bycroft (Deep mind). Host: Dr Laura Southgate
• 13 May: 'The role of mitochondrial transcriptional processes in modulating human health and disease.' Featuring: Prof. Alan Hodgkinson (Kings College London). Host: Dr Chris Carroll
• 10 June: 'MHRA proposed new regulatory framework in the UK following Brexit.' Featuring: Dr Ian Rees (Regulatory Consultant for the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency). Host: Dr Brigette Bax
• 30 September:  'Mitochondria at neuronal presynapses in health and disease.' Featuring: Dr Mike Devine (Francis Crick Institute). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 28 October: 'Multi-faceted roles of retrotransposons in cancer genomes.' Featuring: Dr Ozgen Deniz (QMUL)
• 18 November: 'The Ena/VASP actin polymerases promote canonical WNT signalling and increase LRP5/6 WNT-coreceptor endocytosis.'  Featuring: Dr Matthias Krause (KCL)
• 16 December: 'Calmodulin in Cardiac Arrythmia Syndromes.' Featuring: Dr Nordine Helassan (Liverpool University)

• 23 January: 'The ins and outs of cellular quiescence.' Featuring: Dr Alexis Barr (Imperial College London). Host: Prof. Tom Carter.
• 6 February: 'Exercise, Sleep and Nutrition: mechanistic dissection of how lifestyle controls muscle growth.' Featuring: Prof. Simon Hughes (Kings College London). Host: Dan Osborne and Prof. Tom Carter
• 6 March: 'The impact of brain endothelial cell senescence on adult neurogenesis.' Featuring: Professor Isabel Fariñas (University of Valencia). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 20 March: 'Searching for patterns in chaos: How vascular patterning regulates tissue fibrosis.' Featuring: Dr Neil Dufton (Queen Mary, University of London). Host: Prof. Tom Carter

• 7 February: 'Targeting anti-apoptotic pathways in senescent cells, implications for ageing and disease.' Dr Jaskaren Kohli (KCL)
• 21 February: 'Germline epistasis in short telomere syndrome dyskeratosis congenita.' Dr Hemanth Tummala (QMUL)
• 7 March: 'Heart disease: What goes wrong inside the cells?' Professor Elisabeth Ehler (KLC)
• 21 March: 'Single molecule force spectroscopy for studying DNA-protein interactions and DNA repair.' Dr Nike Bell (Francis Crick Institute)
• 4 April: 'Fish and whips: using zebrafish to investigate how cellular waste disposal affects cilia.' Dr Christoper Wilkinson  (Royal Holloway, University of London)
• 11 July: 'Regulation of lymphatic endothelial cell gene expression and lymphangiogenesis by the transcription factor ERG.' Dr Graeme Birdsey (ICL)
• 28 November: '100,000 Genomes Study on Rare-Disease Diagnosis in Healthcare.' Professor Shamima Rahman (GOSH and Institute of Child Health, UCL)
• 12 December: 'Platelet priming in haemostatsis and immunothrombosis.' Dr Isabelle Salles-Crawley (St George's, University of London)

• 11 January: 'The happy tale of an orphan connexin.' Prof. Jon Gibbins (Reading University). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 25 January: 'Organelle remodelling during cell division and viral assembly.' Dr Jeremy Carlton (Francis Crick Institute, London). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 8 February: 'Modulating transcription to delay ageing in the fruit fly.' Dr Nazif Alic (UCL). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 22 February: 'Molecules, Modules and Models of Pregnancy.' Prof. Michael Taggart (Newcastle University). Hosts: Prof. Tom Carter/Guy Whitley
• 8 March: 'The EMMAC project: impact of missense mutations in genetic disease.' Dr Dagan Jenkins (UCL). Hosts: Prof. Tom Carter/Soo-Hyun Kim
• 22 March: 'Synaptic glutamate release and uptake in Huntington's disease.' Prof. Dr (med) Rosemarie Grantyn  (Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin). Hosts: Prof. Tom Carter/Prof. Kati Torok
• 19 April: 'Mechanosensing in placental vascular function.' Dr LC Morley (Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 17 May: 'Molecular Scale Imaging of Cardiac Ca2+ handling and EC coupling.' Prof. Christian Soeller (Exeter University). Hosts: Prof. Tom Carter/ Mary Sheppard
• 28 June: 'The evolution of organ development.' Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira (Francis Crick Institute). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 12 July: 'Targeting the cardiac lymphatics to optimize heart repair.' Paul Riley (Oxford University). Hosts: Prof. Tom Carter / Pia Ostergaard
• 27 September: 'Structures of Influenza Haemagglutinin Fusion Intermediates.' Dr Donald Benton (Francis Crick Institute). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 11 October: 'Pro-survival role of ISR signalling in mitochondrial cardiomyopathy acts via OMA1 protease.' Dr Sofia Ahola (Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing). Host: Chris Carroll
• 25 October: 'To degrade or not to degrade - Protein quality control of tail-anchored membrane proteins by co-chaperone SGTA.' Dr Janina Muench (Kings College London). Host: Prof. Katalin Torok
• 8 November: 'Nanopipette biosensors for single-cell analysis.' Professor Yuri Korchev (ICL Division of Medicine). Host: Elena Sviderskaya
• 22 November: 'Tales from the Dark Side: Insights into rare genetic disease from melanosome biogenesis.' Prof. Michael Marks (Penn Uni USA). Host: Elena Sviderskaya
• 6 December: 'Cytonemes regulate Wnt transport in development and disease.' Dr Steffen Scholpp (University of Exeter). Host: Prof. Tom Carter

• 6 January: 'Snail coiling: CRISPR editing of a single gene turns righties into lefties.' Professor Dr Reiko Kuroda (Chubu University, Japan). Host: Prof. Mark Fisher
• 27 January: 'Novel sources of endothelial cells for blood vessels and lymphatics.' Dr Christiana Ruhrberg (UCL). Host: Pia Ostergaard
• 10 February: 'The role of biomechanical stress signalling in inherited cardiac diseases.' Dr Katja Gehmlich (University of Birmingham). Host: Yalda Jamishidi
• 24 February: 'Junctional control of endothelial cell migration.' Dr Tom Nightingale (William Harvey Institute, Guys Uni). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 9 March: 'Rab46 integrates GTPase and Ca2+ signals for stimuli-dependent Weibel-Palade body trafficking.' Dr Lynn McKeown (University of Leeds). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 23 March: 'Exploiting the mechanisms of DNA topoisomerases to develop antibacterial agents Postponed.' Prof. Tony Maxwell (John Innes Center). Host: Prof. Tom Carter/Mark Fisher
• 20 April: 'A decade of demented mice: from brainwaves to blood flow.' Prof. Andrew Randall (Exeter University) Postponed. Host: Atticus Hainsworth
• 15 June: Dr Robin Walters (Oxford Uni). Host: Andrew Walley
• 29 June: 'Piecing together the human cilium – genetics of rare motile ciliopathies.' Prof. Hannah Mitchison (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health). Host: Prof. Tom Carter

• 28 January: 'Von Willebrand factor release from Weibel-Palade bodies: How to unpack a vascular emergency kit.' Dr Ruben Bierings (Erasmus Medical centre, Rotterdam). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 11 February: 'Ciliogenesis and cell polarity using zebrafish models.' Dr Jarema Malicki (cancelled due to tragic death of speaker) (Sheffield University). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 25 February: 'Dissecting the secretory pathway using functional genomics.' Dr Andrew Peden (Sheffield Uni). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 11 March: 'Genetics and Genomics of the China Kadoorie Biobank.' Dr Robin Walters (Oxford University) Host: Andrew Walley
• 25 March: 'Molecular control of endosomal protein sorting/trafficking.' Prof. Pete Cullen (Bristol University). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 10 June: 'Short telomeres and age-related disease: innocent bystanders or guilty culprits?' Dr Jess Buxton (Kingston University). Host: Andrew Walley
• 24 June: 'Phosphoinositide lipids and congenital disorders of membrane trafficking.' Dr Laura Swan (Sheffield University). Host: Yalda Jamshidi
• 8 July: 'Genetic architecture of rare developmental disorders.' Dr Hilary Martin (Sanger Institute). Host: Yalda Jamshidi
• 22 July: 'Musculoskeletal tissue engineering: Biomechanics and bioreactors.' Dr James Henstock (Liverpool University). Host: Caroline Copeland
• 16 September: 'The role of the dynein-2 microtubule motor in cilia assembly and function.' Prof. David Stephens (Bristol Uni). Host: Soo-Kim
• 30 September: 'Of mice and man: disease mechanisms of Col4a1 cerebrovascular, eye and kidney disease.' Dr Tom Van Agtmael (Glasgow University). Host: Atticus Hainsworth
• 14 October: 'Tethered exosomes and their roles in health and disease.' Dr James Edgar (Cambridge University). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 11 November: 'Novel sources of endothelial cells for blood vessels and lymphatics.' Dr Christiana Ruhrberg (UCL). Host: Pia Ostergaard
• 25 November: 'Targeting the microvasculature as a therapy for polycystic kidney disease.' Prof. David Long (UCL). Host: Pia Ostergaard
• 9 December: 'The dialogue between mitochondria and calcium signalling in cell life and death.' Prof. Michael Duchen (UCL) Host: Prof. Tom Carter

• 15 January: 'Fios Genomics - Discovering the Biology in your Data.' Dr Emma Behjat (Fios Genomics, Edinburgh). Host: Ingrid Dumitriu
• 29 January: 'Policing secretion: quality control of protein biogenesis in the endoplasmic reticulum.' Prof. Liz Miller (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 12 February: 'What is ageing? Lessons from C. elegans.' Prof. David Gems. (University College London). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 26 February: 'Insulin signalling at the intersection of metabolism and ageing.' Prof. Lazaros Foukas (University College London). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 12 March: 'The Breathless Genes: lung function genetics and risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).' Dr Louise Wain (University of Leicester). Host: Yalda Jamshidi
• 26 March: 'Targeting protein aggregation in neurodegenerative conditions using rationally designed antibodies.' Dr Francesco Aprile (University of Cambridge). Host: Atticus hainsworth
• 16 April: 'Gonadotropin-releasing hormone signalling: dynamics, noise and information.' Prof. Craig McArdle (University of Bristol). Host: Kim Jonas
• 30 April: 'Coated vesicles and what happens next.' Prof. Scottie Robinson (Cambridge University). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 14 May: 'Modelling human brain development and evolution in cerebral organoids.' Dr Madeline Lancaster (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 11 June: 'The nuclear lamina and vascular ageing.' Prof. Catherine Shanahan (King's College London). Host: Laura Southgate
• 25 June: 'Metabolite-mediated regulation of inflammation.' Dr Claudio Mauro (University of Birmingham). Host: Soo-Kim
• 16 July: 'Development of therapies for mitochondrial DNA replication defects.' Dr Caterina Garone (Welcome trust/MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge). Host: Bridget Bax
• 17 September: 'Seeing and believing at super-resolution.' Dr Susan Cox (Randall Centre of Cell & Molecular Biophysics, KCL). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 24 September: 'Regulation of Retinoic Acid Availability in Cardiac Development and Disease.' Dr Catherine Roberts (Imperial College Hospital). Host: Paris Ataliotis
• 8 October: 'Mechanisms of connexin-related lymphatic dysfunction and lymphedema.' LTC Prof. Michael J Davis (Medical Pharmacology & Physiology, University of Missouri). Host: Pia Ostergaard
• 22 October: 'Using super-resolution imaging to understand protein organisation in diverse structures: from primary cilia to muscle Z-discs.' LTC Prof Michelle Peckham (Leeds University). Host: Prof. Tom Carter
• 19 November: 'Exploring positive and negative regulation of cancer cell migration and invasion.' LTB Dr Matthias Kraus (Randell Institute, Kings College London). Host: Ferran Valderrama
• 3 December: 'On the Origins of blood vessels and lymphatics.' Dr Oliver Stone (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), Oxford). Host: Pia Ostergaard

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