September-December 2008
Friday 19 September 2008 3pm
Speaker: Professor Eric Davidson
Developmental Regulatory Logic: the Sea Urchin Embryo Gene Network
Affiliation: California Institute of Technology
Host: Professor Veronica Van Heyningen
Thursday 16 October 2008
Speaker: Professor Leif Andersson
Domestic animals - a gold mine for exploring genotype-phenotype relationships
Affiliation: Uppsala University
Host: Professor Chris Haley
Thursday 30 October 2008
Speaker: Professor Stephen Baylin
Gene Silencing and the Cancer Epigenome - Biological and Translational Implications
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore
Host: Dr Bernard Ramsahoye
January-June 2008
Thursday 17 January 2008
Speaker: Professor Allan Bradley
The quest for homozygosity
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Thursday 28 February 2008
Speaker: Professor Sir John Gurdon
Nuclear Reprogramming and Epigenetic Memory in Amphibian Nuclear Transfers
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.
Host: Dr Richard Meehan
Tuesday 25 March 2008, 12 noon
Speaker: Professor Nahum Sonenberg
Translational Control in Cancer and Innate Immunity
McGill University (Montreal).
Host: Nicola Gray
Wednesday 9 April 2008
Speaker: Professor Matthew Hurles
Structural Variation in the Human Genome
Porteous Genome Dynamics and Evolution Group,
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.
Host: Professor David Porteous
Thursday 8 May 2008*please note change of date
Professor Paul Workman
Expanding the druggable cancer genome: Inhibitors of PI3 kinasee and Hsp90
Cancer Research UK, Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton. Host: Dr Patricia Yeyati
Thursday 8 May 2008
Professor Karen Vousden
POSTPONED: Date to be announced
Affiliation: Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow.
Host: Professor Nick Hastie
Thursday 22 May 2008
Professor Stephen Baylin
POSTPONED: Date to be announced
Affiliation: The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Centre at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
Host: Dr Bernie Ramsahoye
Thursday 26 June 2008
Speaker: Professor Sir David Lane
Title: Discovering and validating new targets for
therapy in the p53 pathway
Affiliation: Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, University of Dundee.
Host: Dr Elizabeth Patton
PLEASE NOTE: unless stated, all seminars will be
held at 4pm in the 4th Floor Lecture Theatre, Outpatient's Department, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU.
