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

Sister Chromatid Cohesion required DNA catenations

Thursday 9 October

Madhu Srinivasan

University of Oxford

Host: Tom Deegan

Mapping the rules of glioblastoma using spatial and single cell genomics

Thursday 23 October

Omer Bayraktar 

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Host: Rosa Masalmeh

Title - TBC

Thursday 30 October

David Robertson

Glasgow University

Host: Joe Marsh

Title - TBC

Thursday 6 November

Stephan Sanders

Director, MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Therapeutic Genomics, Oxford

Host: Joe Marsh

Title - TBC

Thursday 13 November

Jurgen Marteijn

Oncode Intitute, Erasmus Medical Centre, Roterdam

Host: Martin Reijns

Title - TBC

Thursday 20 November

Mike Waring

University of Newcastle

Host: Asier Unciti-Broceta

Title - TBC

Thursday 27 November

Malte Speilmann

Institute of Human Genetics, University of Lübeck & Kiel University

Host: Hannah Long

Decoding mitochondrial mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease

Thursday 4 December

Miratul Muqit

MRC PPU, Dundee

Host: Greg Kudla

2026

Title - TBC

Thursday 15 January

Sophie Acton

Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Biology, UCL

Host: Duncan Sproul

Title - TBC

Thursday 29 January

Michelle Lockley

Barts, London

Host: Charlie Gourley

Title - TBC

Thursday 5 February

Roger Greenberg

University of Pennsylvania

Host: Andrew Jackson

Title - TBC

Thursday 12 February

Jo Morris

University of Birmingham

Host: Andrew Jackson

Title - TBC

Thursday 26 February

Dan McQueen

Roslin Institute 

Host: Wendy Bickmore

Title - TBC

Thursday 5 March

Annarita Miccio

Imagine Institute of Genetics, Paris

Host: Marie-Therese El-Daher

Title - TBC

Thursday 12 March

Dario Alessi

University of Dundee

Host: Greg Kudla

IGC Inaugural Showcase lecture

Thursday 12 March - PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT STARTS AT 4PM

  • Joseph Marsh – Professor of Computational Protein Biology

  • Colin Semple – Professor of Computational Biology 

Institute of Genetics and Cancer

Host: Rebecca Whitefield

Title - TBC

Thursday 19 March

Siddharth Banka

University of Manchester

Host: Carolina Ugenti

Title - TBC

Thursday 26 March

Muzz Haniffa

Sanger Centre

Host: Sara Brown

Title - TBC

Thursday 2 April

Leonid Mirny

MIT

Host: Wendy Bickmore

Title - TBC

Thursday 23 April

Angela Russell

University of Oxford

Host: Asier Unciti-Broceta

Title - TBC

Thursday 30 April

Elly Tenaka

IMBA, Vienna

Host: Wendy Bickmore

Title - TBC

Thursday 7 May

Isidro Cortes Ciriano

EMBL-EBI, UK

Host: Colin Semple

Title - TBC

Thursday 14 May

Konstantinos Kokkaliaris

UCT, Frankfurt

Host: Luke Boulter

Title TBC

Thursday 21 May

Laura Greaves

University of Newcastle

Host: Joris Veltman

Title - TBC

Thursday 28 May

Dirk Elewaut

Ghent, Belgium

Host: Cosimo De Bari

Title - TBC

Thursday 4 June

Richard Timms

University of Cambridge

Host: Andrew Wood

This article was published on