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 

Chemical rewiring of E3 ubiquitin ligases

Thursday 24 April

Cristina Mayor Ruiz

IRB, Barcelona

Host: Vincenzo D'Angiolella

Epigenetics and alternative splicing in spinal muscular atrophy

Friday 25 April - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ON A FRIDAY AT 11AM

Alberto Kornblihtt

University of Buenes Aires

Host: Javier Caceres

Title - TBC

Thursday 8 May

Anestis Tsakiridis

University of Sheffield

Host: Hannah Long

Molecular Epidemiology Symposium: The Role of Proteomics in Disease

Friday 9 May - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ON A FRDAY AT 11AM

Host: Dr Sarah Harris and Professor Riccardo Marioni

ESRIC Specialist School

Wednesday 14 May - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ON A WEDNESDAY AT 2PM

Hannah Heil & Mark Montgomery

Hannah (Lund University) & Mark (Zeiss)

Host: Ann Wheeler

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

Chromatin-guided de novo methylation of CpG island promoters: insights from the early mouse embryo

Monday 16 June - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ON A MONDAY AT 11AM

Matt Lorincz

Department of Genetics at the University of British Columbial, Vancouver

Host: Duncan Sproul

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 

Title - TBC

Thursday 18 September

Stephan Sanders

MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Therapeutic Genomics

Host: Joe Marsh

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