Seminars
Seminar Series
Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology - Renowned Speakers
All seminars are on Wednesday at 3.30pm (UK time) via zoom unless otherwise stated
Everyone is welcome to attend.
September 2021 - March 2022
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Date |
Speaker |
Host |
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Wed 29 Sept 2021 |
Jesper Svejstrup Francis Crick Institute, London |
David Tollervey |
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Wed 13 Oct 2021 |
Aaron Straight Stanford University |
Patrick Heun |
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Wed 27 Oct 2021 |
Jan-Michael Peters IMP Vienna |
Adele Marston |
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Wed 10 Nov 2021 |
Ritwick Sawarkar MRC Toxicology Unit, Cambridge |
David Tollervey
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Wed 24 Nov 2021 |
postponed |
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Wed 8 Dec 2021 |
Karl-Peter Hopfner LMU, Munich |
JP Arulanandam |
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Wed 12 Jan 2022 |
Antonina Roll-Mecak NIH, Bethesda, Maryland |
Julie Welburn |
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Wed 26 Jan 2022 |
Madeline Lancaster MRC, Cambridge |
Julie Welburn |
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Wed 9 Feb 2022 |
Andrea Pauli IMP Vienna |
Adrian Bird |
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Wed 23 Feb 2022 |
tbc
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tbc |
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Wed 9 March 2022 |
Philipp Holliger MRC, Cambridge |
Adrian Bird |
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Wed 23 March 2022 |
Neil Gow MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, Exeter |
Robin Allshire |
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Wed 20 April 2022 |
Daniel Colón-Ramos Yale School of Medicine |
Dhanya Cheerambathur **Hybrid Seminar** 12.00 noon, G27 |
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Wed 8 June 2022 |
Tony Hyman Max Planck Institute, Dresden |
Robin Allshire |
Seminar details (including ad hoc seminars)
| Date | Event |
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| 25th May 2022 15:30 Webinar Zoom | Prof. Iain Cheeseman - MIT, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Wellcome iCM PhD student seminar - TBC Host: Haresh Bhaskar and Domenico Modaffari |
| 18th May 2022 15:30 Webinar Collaborate | Prof. Oded Rechavi - Tel Aviv University, Israel Wellcome iCM PhD student semianr - TBC Host: Andreas Fellas and Katie Bexley |
| 11th May 2022 15:30 Webinar Zoom | Dr Lori Passmore - MRC, Cambridge Wellcome iCM PhD student semianr - TBC Host: James Watson and David MacLeod |
| 4th May 2022 15:30 Webinar Zoom | Dr Anne Rios - Princess Maxima Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands Wellcome iCM PhD student semianr - "TBC" Contact Carolyn Fleming for the Zoom linkHost: Tamina Lebek and Eleanor Casey |
| 29th Nov 2021 12:00 Daniel Rutherford Building G.27 | Dr Bungo Akiyoshi - Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford MAX ATTENDANCE 50 - STRICT SIGN-UP IN PLACE AND WILL BE RELEASED ON THE MORNING OF THE SEMINAR TO AVOID PEOPLE SIGNING UP IN ADVANCE AND NOT ATTENDING. PLEASE ONLY SIGN-UP IF YOU CAN DEFINITELY ATTEND IN PERSON.
Biologists can learn a lot of lessons from exceptions. Although it was widely assumed that the macromolecular protein complex that drives chromosome segregation (called the kinetochore) consists of proteins that are common to all eukaryotes, no canonical kinetochore components have been identified in a group of organisms called kinetoplastids, which are evolutionarily divergent from yeast or human. To reveal how kinetoplastids achieve chromosome segregation, we identified 25 kinetochore proteins in Trypanosoma brucei (a kinetoplastid parasite that causes African sleeping sickness) and discovered that they constitute kinetochores that are specifically found in kinetoplastids. We are currently characterizing these “exceptional” kinetochore proteins in vitro and in vivo to understand how they carry out conserved kinetochore functions, such as binding to DNA and microtubules as well as error correction. By understanding how kinetoplastids segregate their chromosomes, we aim to understand fundamental principles of chromosome segregation machinery. Host: Adele Marston, ICB/WBC |
