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

2025 

Quantifying cell divisions along evolutionary lineages in cancer

Thursday 9 January

Kamila Naxerova

Harvard University

Host: Craig Anderson

Title - TBC

Thursday 16 January

Sara McClelland

Queen Mary University of London

Host: Nick Gilbert

Mechanism of chromatin assembly during DNA replication

Thursday 23 January

Francesca Mattiroli

Hubrecht Institute, the Netherlands

Host: Tom Deegan

Title - TBC

Thursday 30 January

Elton Zeqiraj

Faculty of Biological Sciences

Host: Nick Gilbert

Title - TBC

Thursday 6 February

Malte Spielmann

Institute of Human Genetics, University of Lubeck

Host: Hannah Long

Title - TBC

Thursday 20 February

Ian Sudbery

Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids

Host: Duncan Sproul

Title - TBC

Thursday 27 February

Julie Makani

Imperial College London

Host: Wendy Bickmore

Title - TBC

Thursday 6 March

Professor Steve West

Crick Institute

Host: Andrew Jackson

Title - TBC

Thursday 13 March

Dr Marta Shahbazi

MRC LMB, Cambridge

Host: Pleasantine Mill

Title - TBC

Thursday 20 March

Moritz Matthias

IMP​​​​​​

Host: Yanick Crow

Title - TBC

Thursday 27 March

Tonia Vincent

The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford

​Host: Erika Kague

Title - TBC

Thursday 3 April

KJ Patel

Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine and The MRC Molecular Hematology Unit at the University of Oxford

Host: Zichang Yu

Title - TBC

Thursday 24 April

Cristina Mayor Ruiz

IRB, Barcelona

Host: Vincenzo D'Angiolella

Title - TBC

Friday 25 April - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ON A FRIDAY

Alberto Kornblihtt

University of Buenes Aires

Host: Javier Caceres

Title - TBC

Thursday 1 May

Professor Ziga Avsec

DeepMind/Crick Institute

Host: Greg Kudla

Title - TBC

Thursday 8 May

Anestis Tsakiridis

University of Sheffield

Host: Hannah Long

Title - TBC

Thursday 15 May

Gopal Sapkota

University of Dundee 

Host: Andrew Wood

Chromosome as epigenetic memory and genomic communication machines

Thursday 22 May

Leonid Mirny

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Wendy Bickmore

Title - TBC

Thursday 29 May

Prakash Ramachandran

 Institute of Regeneration and Repair, UoE

Host: Neil Carragher

Title - TBC

Thursday 5 June

Haico Attikum

Leiden University

Host: Nick Gilbert

Title - TBC

Thursday 19 June

Dr David Bick

Newborn Genomes Programme, Genomics England

Host: Pleasantine Mill

Title - TBC

Thursday 26 June

Naomi Moris 

The crick institute

Host: Hannah Long 

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