Seminars and Event Archive

BarH-Like proteins as inhibitors of Wnt/T Cell-Factors transcriptional activity: from Spemann organizer formation to maintenance of a cerebellar germinative niche

Dr Béatrice Durand - Sorbonne University

ECR Seminar Series

Sanad Alfadhel - Towards the sustainable production of scorpion venom-derived peptides

Systematic investigation of the SmY RNAs, a nematode-specific family of small nuclear RNAs

Pre-Viva Talk - Mohammed Al-Khafaji

Deciphering Molecular Pathways shaping the Corneal Stroma in Health and Disease

Dr Vernonique Vitart - MRC HGU Edinburgh

Ykt6 functions as a backup for other R-SNAREs in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Prof Takahiro Shintani - Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University

Different roads to the Teaching Fellow career

Dr Monika Gostic, Dr Virtu Solano & Dr Catriona Cunningham - University of Aberdeen

Potential new strategy for the treatment of kidney disease due to diabetes

Pre-Viva Talk - Sarah Kamli-Salino

Spatial learning and tau expression in a tau model of Alzheimer's Disease: effects of tau aggregation inhibitor treatment alone and in combination with Rivastigmine.

Pre-Viva Talk - Maria Cacho Barraza

ECR Seminar Series

Raquel Barroso Ferro - Feeling peckish? Can we "eat" cancer?    Nicholas Johnson - Chemoenzymatic Production of Modified Cyclic Peptides with SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Binding Activity 

Acute obstetric coagulopathy during postpartum haemorrhage: haemostatic mechanisms and clinical management

Prof Peter Collins - Cardiff University and Cardiff and Vale Health Board

Extracellular Transport Vesicles for Cell-specific Cargo Delivery and Vaccines

Dr Christopher Locher - CEO and Co-founder of Versatope Therapeutics

Understanding the molecular phenotype of mutations in human eukaryotic elongation factor 1A: a study using a Saccharomyces cerevisiae model

Pre-Viva Talk - Letizia Delle Vedove

Aspergillus, asthma and the airway: Why do fungi trigger inflammatory lung diseases?

Dr Peter Cook - University of Exeter

From rapid diagnostics to novel therapeutics - harnessing the power of phage display technology in recombinant antibody discovery

Dr Soumya Palliyil - Institute of Medical Sciences

Exploring the role of the chromatin remodeller ATRX in C. elegans

Dr Helder Ferreira - University of St. Andrews

A career in medical communications

Vikte Lionikaite - Oxford PharmaGenesis

Bioinformatics Training Course - Visualisation with R and ggplot2

Part of the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine (CGEBM) bioinformatics training course series, this course will introduce you to plotting scientific data using R and ggplot2.

ECR Seminar Series

Erin Brown - The impact of androgens on macrophage function    Alicia Ware - Profiling NaOCl tolerance in the fungal pathogen Candida auris 

Modulation of the IL-33 pathway by helminth secreted proteins

Dr Henry McSorley - University of Dundee

Bioinformatics Training Course - Microbial Community Analysis

Part of the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine (CGEBM) bioinformatics training course series, this course will introduce you to methods for using modern sequencing data to study composition of microbial communities in water, soil, gut and other environments.

The relationship between clonal hematopoiesis and unhealthy ageing

Dr Candice Quin - Institute of Medical Sciences

Targeting Myeloid Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) as a Novel Treatment for Diabetic Wound Healing (DWH).

Pre-Viva Talk - Abrar Othman

Insights into the biology of male breast cancer with in silico and immunohistochemical investigations

Pre Viva Talk - Subarnareka (Bonnie) Chatterji

'Novel strategies to combat microbial dysbiosis'

Dr Will Johnston - Glasgow Caledonian University

iPSC models of Tauopathy

Dr Kathryn Bowles - UK Dementia Research Institute - University of Edinburgh

ECR Seminar Series

Louise Walker - Antifungal mediated cell wall remodelling induces tolerance mechanisms which promote drug recalcitrant infections. Ellen Main - ‘Sweet’ antibodies – potential cancer immunotherapy 

Preventing & Managing Breast Cancer with Weight Control

Dr Michelle Harvie - Prevent Breast Cancer Research Unit at Manchester University Hospital

Measure once, cut twice: Regulation of meiotic recombination at different spatial scales

Professor Matthew Neale - University of Sussex

Bioinformatics Training Course - Alignment and Variant Calling

Part of the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine (CGEBM) bioinformatics training course series, this course will introduce you to methods for using modern sequencing data to detect genetic variation.

ECR Seminar Series

Logan Tomlinson - How do pathogenic yeast adapt to antifungal agents? Claudia Clemente - Cyanobactin enzymes: synthetic tools for the production of Bioactive Peptides

Careers and Employability Service

Rhona Gibson - University of Aberdeen

Establishing The Role of Intra-Species Diversity and Antifungal Adaptation in Candida glabrata Pathogenesis

Pre-Viva Talk - Gabriela Ribeiro

Low-field MRI on the move: new opportunities for medical research

Dr Najat Salameh - Institute of Medical Sciences

Bioinformatics Training Course - RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and Differential Expression

Part of the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine (CGEBM) bioinformatics training course series, this course will introduce you to methods for analysing RNA-sequencing data.

How chromosomes become prepared for segregation in mitosis

Prof Tomoyuki Tanaka - University of Dundee

ECR Seminar Series

Arturo Landeros - Prenyltransferases in 3D: Unlocking the Future Blueprint and Molecular Mechanism through Structural Biology Neve Read - Can PTP1B inhibition rewire macrophage function to improve anti-tumour immunity in breast cancer?

Mechanisms of TDP-43-induced neurodegenerative disease

Dr Leeanne McGurk - University of Dundee

Passing On the Molecule of Life: How Cells Replicate their DNA

Professor Anne Donaldson - Institute of Medical Sciences

From fingerprints to feathers: investigating periodic pattern formation in vertebrate embryos

Dr James Glover - University of Edinburgh

Bioinformatics Training Course - Genome Assembly and Annotation

Part of the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine (CGEBM) bioinformatics training course series, this course will introduce you to methods for using modern sequencing data to assemble a genome and further annotate it.

ECR Seminar Series

Daniel Underwood - p62 and the battle against Intracellular Bacteria Shiva Nickaria - Macrophage Reprogramming for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy: Targeting B-Cell Malignancies with anti-CD19-scFvs

Intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes at the forefront of intestinal immunity

Dr Mahima Swamy - University of Dundee

SMMSN Christmas Carol Concert

Listen to carols performed in the superb IMS acoustic by choristers from several University choirs and join in with the some old favourites (words provided)  

How does Disrupted Signal Transduction Cause Intellectual Disability?

Dr Greg Findlay - University of Dundee

Research Facilities Showcase 2023

A spectacular, interactive, interdisciplinary and not to be missed Research Facilities Showcase Event will be held in the IMS Building at Foresterhill on Wednesday the 6th December 2023, located in the Institute of Medical Sciences Atrium and selected Facility presentations taking place in The Rowett Institute, Rowett Seminar Room.

Bioinformatics Training Course - Quality Control of Sequencing Reads

Part of the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine (CGEBM) bioinformatics training course series, this course will introduce you to methods for quality control of second- and third-generation sequencing reads.

Extracellular vesicles in infectious coagulopathies

Prof Romaric Lacroix - University of Aberdeen

Low-field MRI on the rise: a glimpse into an emerging new MRI modality

Dr Mathieu Sarracanie - Institute of Medical Sciences

Overcoming Suppressive Tumour Microenvironments to Augment Antibody Therapy

Prof Stephen Beers - Southampton University

Bioinformatics Training Course - An Introduction to Unix and HPC

Part of the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine (CGEBM) bioinformatics training course series, this course will introduce you to high performance computing and the command line, and is aimed at beginners.

Phosphorylation and Allosteric Control of Metabolic Enzymes in Glucose Metabolism/Homeostasis

Prof Kei Sakamoto - Novo Nordisk Foundation Center, Copenhagen

Adapt, Survive and Thrive: How biotech companies can learn from nature.

Dr Ian Fotheringham - Ingenza Ltd

Lecture: Animal Venoms - Friend or Foe?

This lecture will be delivered by Dr Wael Houssen and Dr Soumya Palliyil and followed by a reception.

Empowering Biological Discoveries- with Spatial and Hi-Resolution In Situ Technologies

Stephen Hague - 10x Genomics

"Muscle spindles: why it's important to secrete while you stretch"

Dr Guy Bewick - University of Aberdeen - Institute of Medical Sciences

"Biogenesis and activity regulation of protein phosphatase PP1"

Prof Mathieu Bollen - KU Leuven, Belgium

"Genome-Scale Metabolic Modelling of the Foodborne Pathogen Campylobacter jejuni"

Dr Dipali Singh - Quadram Institute Bioscience

"Role of proofreading exonuclease activity of polymerase є in the maintenance of genome integrity"

Prof Kouji Hirota - Tokyo Metropolitan University

"Re-imaging immune memory"

Dr Megan MacLeod, University of Glasgow

"Can targeting muscarinic receptors provide the answer to symptomatic treatment and disease modification in neurodegenerative disease?"

Prof Andrew Tobin - University of Glasgow

"Genome-Scale Metabolic Modelling of the Foodborne Pathogen Campylobacter jejuni"

Dr Dipali Singh - Quadram Institute Bioscience

'Molecular mechanisms controlling serial killing'

Professor Gillian M Griffiths -Cambridge Institute for Medical Research

'Impact of low protein diets on weight regulation'

Professor John Speakman - Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenzhen

"X Chromosomal Reactivation & Neurodevelopmental Disorders"

Dr Jennifer Winter - Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University

Cum grano salis: Na* elevation and metabolic remodelling in heart failure

Dunja Aksentijevic - William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London

Heart Disease: From Pediatric Hypertrophy to Heart Failure

Maria Kontaridis - Masonic Medical Research Institute, Utica, NY

LncRNAs and Polycomb proteins in regulation of angiogenesis

Tijana Mitić - University of Edinburgh

Discovery and development of an FGFR1c/Klotho beta bispecific antibody, BFKB8488A, for the treatment of NASH

Maria Wilson

Personalised electrical stimulation for restoring arm function in people with high-level spinal cord injury

Dr Edward Chadwick - University of Aberdeen

TBC

Prof Manual Saleron-Sanchez - Glasgow University

Why is pain chronic? Insights into neuro-immune dysfunction from transcriptional and epigenetic analyses

Dr Franziska Denk - King's College London

Alleviation of neuropathic pain by suppressing microglia proliferation and activation

Dr Xuenong Bo - Queen Mary University of London

iPS Proteomes in Health and Disease

Prof Angus Lamond - University of Dundee

Mechanisms of spinal cord regeneration in amphibians

Prof Juan Larrain - Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile

"Building a Digital Diabetes Ecosystem"

David Kerr - Sansum Diabetes Research Institue in Santa Barbara, California

DNA methylation in gene regulation and haematological malignancies

Dr Kasper Rasmussen - University of Dundee

Meiosis, mitosis and 'the in between' - what happens when gene expression regulation goes wrong in cancer

Dr Urszula McClurg - University of Liverpool

"Organoids: modelling tissue homeostasis and disease"

Dr Elizabeth Vincan - University of Melbourne

New roles and regulation of PP2A during oocyte meiosis in C. elegans

Dr Federico Pelisch - University of Dundee

Imaging Flow Cytometry Webinar

Presented in collaboration with the Iain Fraser Cytometry Centre

Salmonella

Prof Wolf-Dietrich Hardt - ETH Zurich

'Understanding cell fate decisions in the myeloid compartment: Health vs disease'

Prof Carl S. Goodyear - University of Glasgow

"Can Drug Dealers, Quavers and Avocados Cause Cancer"

This Seminars and Event was cancelled

Dr Caroline Leek - FruitFly Collective

"WNT protein biochemistry and range in tissues"

This Seminars and Event was cancelled

Prof. Shinji Takada - National Institute of Basic Biology, Okazaki

Silk: Discovery thread for healthcare applications

Phillip Seib - University of Strathclyde

"Taking it up a Notch - building the vertebrate body plan."

Kim Dale - University of Dundee

'Identifying genetic interactions in the pharyngeal endoderm that control cardiovascular development.'

Simon Bamforth - University of Newcastle

"Multilevel control of myelination in the developing peripheral nervous system."

Dies Meijer - University of Edinburgh

"Drop the BACE: Beta secretase as a novel therapeutic target for cardiometabolic disease"

Paul Meakin - University of Leeds

Motives and Modulators of Human Decision Making

Prof Soyoung Park, German Institute of Human Nutrition

'Circadian rhythms and skeletal muscle-re-setting the clock in metabolic disease'

Brendan Gabriel - Karolinska Institute

Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1: Inherited conditions with multi-functional RNA binding proteins at their core

Judith Sleeman

"Polypharmacology of botanical extracts - a key to breast cancer prevention?"

Professor Dr Guenter Vollmer - Technische Universtat Dresden

Unravelling the role of 5B-reductase in the regulation of metabolism.

Laura Gathercole - Oxford Brookes University

"Functional Genomics of the human fungal pathogen Candida glabrata; the past, the present and the future"

Dr Jane Usher - University of Exeter

"Tissue-specific regulation of Wnt signaling activity in the mammary gland/breast."

Associate Prof Renée van Amerongen - University of Amsterdam

"Advanced human stem cell-based models for mimicking cardiovascular disease. Towards personalized medicine."

Robert Passier - University of Twente

"Crosstalk between macrophages and sensory neurons in neuropathic pain"

Dr Kenji Okuse - Imperial College London

"Heart development and regeneration: A common cardiac progenitor pool for epicardial and myocardial cells"

Maurice van den Hoff - Amsterdam University Medical Centres

"Uptake and intracellular processing of borreliae by human macrophages"

Prof Stefan Linder - University of Hamburg