Seminar series

The Seminar Series attracts distinguished scientists from around the world working in the fields of genetics, molecular medicine and cancer research, and whose research complements that being done at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer.

Sessions are open to all within CMVM, University of Edinburgh - Please contact seminars@igc.ed.ac.uk for more information.

Unless stated, seminars take place on Thursdays at 1pm in the IGC Lecture Theatre

2026

Transmissible cancer: when cancer cells become infectious agents

Thursday 22 October

Elizabeth Murchison

Cambridge

Host: Martin Taylor

Understanding gene regulation: one molecule at a time

Thursday 29 October

Tineke Lenstra

Netherlands Cancer Institute

Host: Nick Gilbert

The importance of synapses in Alzheimer's disease

Thursday 5 November

Tara Spires-Jones

University of Edinburgh

Host: Noor Gammoh

The brain's self-avoidance code is recording clonal history across the human body

Thursday 12 November

Jamie Blundell

Cambridge

Host: James Hayes (Martin Taylor)

Editing the Mitochondrial Genome: From Animal Models to Therapy

Thursday 19 November

Michal Minczuk

Cambridge

Host: Andrew Wood

Title - TBC

Thursday 26 November

Hilary Martin

Sanger Centre

Host: Joe Marsh

2027

Title - TBC

Thursday 14 January

Amaya Viros Usandizaga

CRUK, Manchester

Host: Jair Gonzalez Marques and Alex von Kriegsheim

Title - TBC

Thursday 21 January

Mina Ryten

University of Cambridge

Host: Joe Marsh

Title - TBC

Thursday 28 January

Guillaume Canaud

Univerity of Paris

Host: Andrew Jackson

Title - TBC

Thursday 4 February

Serena Zacchigna

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Host: Noor Gammoh

Title - TBC

Thursday 11 February

Adele Marston

University of Edinburgh

Host: Wendy Bickmore

Title - TBC

Thursday 25 February

Rob Klose

Oxford

Host: Hannah Long

Title - TBC

Thursday 4 March

Igor Adameyko

University of Vienna

Host: Martin Taylor

Insights from functional genomic approaches to our individual responses to infection

Thursday 11 March

Andrea Pauli

IMP, Austria

Host: Joris Veltman

Title - TBC

Thursday 18 March

Michelle Percharde

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, London

Host: Nezha Benabdallah

Title - TBC

Thursday 25 March

Owen Sansom

Glasgow

Host: Charlie Gourley

Title - TBC

Thursday 1 April

Raheleh Rahbari

Sanger Centre

Host: Martin Taylor

Title - TBC

Thursday 22 April

Elphege Nora

Gladstone Institute UCSF 

Host: Wendy Bickmore

Title - TBC

Thursday 29 April

John Hammond

Roslin Institute

Host: Joris Veltman

Title - TBC

Thursday 6 May

Peter Claes

KU Leuven

Host: Wendy Bickmore

Title - TBC

Thursday 13 May

Bas van Steensel

Netherlands Cancer Institute

Host: Elias Friman

Title - TBC

Thursday 20 May

Ian Simpson

School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Host: Riccardo Marioni

Title - TBC

Thursday 27 May

Andrew Hattersley

University of Exeter

Host: Andrew Jackson

Title -TBC

Thursday 3 June

Joe Yeeles

MRC LMB, Cambridge

Host: Tom Deegan

Title - TBC

Thursday 10 June

Jesper Svejstrup

University of Copenhagen

Host: Duncan Sproul

Title -TBC

Thursday 17 June

Yan Wong

University of Oxford

Host: Alex Martin-Geary

Title - TBC

Thursday 7 October

Konstantinos Kokkaliaris

University Hospital Frunkfurt & Goethe University

Host: Luke Boulter

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