Seminars
Seminar Series
Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology - Renowned Speakers
All seminars are on Wednesday at 3.30pm (UK time) via zoom
Everyone is welcome to attend.
October 2022 - March 2023
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Date |
Speaker |
Host |
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Wed 12 Oct 2022 |
Joseph Heitman Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina |
Robin Allshire |
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Wed 26 Oct 2022 |
Tim Mitchison Harvard Medical School, Boston |
Ken Sawin |
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Wed 9 Nov 2022 |
Clodagh O'Shea Salt Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California |
Marcus Wilson |
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Wed 1 Feb 2023 |
Eva Stukenbrock Environment Genomics Group, University of Keil, Germany |
Robin Allshire
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Wed 15 Feb 2023 |
Kevin Corbett University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California |
Dhanya Cheerambathur |
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Wed 1 March 2023 |
Tom Muir Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, New Jersey |
Marcus Wilson |
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Wed 15 March 2023 |
Mike Lampson Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
JP Arulanadam |
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Wed 29 March 2023 |
Sebastian Klinge The Rockefeller University, New York |
Owen Davies |
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 |
