Developmental Biology and Cancer Research & Teaching Department Events

DBGSC Seminar Series

29 April 2024

Speaker: Dr Andrew Tidball, University of Michigan

Title: 'The World Turned Upside Down: Identification of a Phospholipid Apical Polarity Cue in Brain Organoids'

Details: 1pm-2pm, via Microsoft Teams

DBGSC Seminar Series

25 March 2024

Speaker: Dr Joe Rainger, University of Edinburgh

Title: 'A combined approach to improve understanding of optic fissure closure, coloboma, and broader embryonic tissue fusion mechanisms'

Details: 1:00pm-2:00pm, Levinsky Room, ICH and via Microsoft Teams

DBGSC Seminar Series

11 March 2024

Speaker: Dr Parthiv Haldipur, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Title: 'The cerebellar Connection: Tracing the origins of Dandy-Walker malformation, and Medulloblastoma'

Details: 1:00pm-2:00pm, PUW Seminar Room 2, ICH and via Microsoft Teams

DBGSC Seminar Series

19 February 2024

Speaker: Dr Christy Hung, UCL

Title: 'Understanding Endolysosomal Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Diseases Using Human Stem Cell Models'

Details: 1:00pm-2:00pm, Leolin Price LT, ICH and via Microsoft Teams

Cancer Seminar Series

07 February 2024

Speaker: Paul Sondel MD PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: 'Improving the Outcome for Anti-GD2 mAb-based Immunotherapy of High-risk Neuroblastoma: Less Toxicity and Greater Efficacy' 

Details: 2:00pm-3:00pm, Ryan Connolly LT, ZCR and via Microsoft Team 

DBGSC Seminar Series

05 February 2024

Speaker: Dr Rifdat Aoidi, Francis Crick Institute

Title: ‘Increased dosage of DYRK1A leads to congenital heart defects in a mouse model of Down Syndrome’

Details: 1:00pm-2:00pm, PUW Seminar 1, ICH and via Microsoft Teams

22 January 2024

Speaker: Dr Lila Allou, University College London, ICH Developmental Neurosciences Dept

Title: "Temporal regulation of En1 expression by Maenli and LSEE during limb development"

Details: 1:00pm-2:00pm, Leolin Price LT, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

8 January 2024

Speaker: Dr Zoe Mann, Lecturer in Cell Metabolism, King's College London

Title: "The ‘sweet’ tale of size and shape in developing auditory hair cells"

Details: 1:00pm-2:00pm, PUW Seminar Room 3, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

Cancer Seminar Series

11 December 2023

Speaker: Dr Rebecca Hill,  MRC Clinician Scientist & Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Oncology, Newcastle University

Title: "High-risk medulloblastoma: The pre-clinical and clinical challenge"

Details: 1:00pm-2:00pm, Ryan Connolly Seminar Room, ZCR and via Microsoft Teams 

DBGSC Seminar Series

06 November 2023

Speaker: Dr Stephanie Telerman, University of Cambridge

Title: "Molecular Mechanisms of Non-Canonical Notch Signalling in Neurogenesis in Cancer"

Details: 1:00pm-2:30pm, Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

Cancer Seminar Series

06 November 2023

Speaker: Prof Poul Sorenson,  Professor, Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Johal Chair in Childhood Cancer Research

Title: "Targeting mmetabolic vulnerabilities in high-risk childhood sarcomas using immunotherapy"

Details: 3:00pm-4:00pm, Ryan Connolly Seminar Room, ZCR and via Microsoft Teams 

DBGSC Seminar Series

02 October 2023

Speaker: Prof Gerald Lipshutz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine

Title: "Insights into the Underlying Neuropathology of Arginae Deficiency"

Details: 1-2pm, Lower Ground Seminar Room, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

Cancer Seminar Series

03 October 2023

Speaker: Dr Sheila Singh,  Paediatric Neurosurgeon, McMaster Children's Hospital, Profesor of surgery, Professor of Bichemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Division Head, Neurosurgery, Hamilton Health University Scholar, Chair, McMaster College of Health Inventors

Title: "Understanding clonal evolution in recurrent medulloblastoma: In vivo modelling and cancer-selective drug discovery and design"

Details: 2-3pm, Ryan Connolly Seminar Room, ZCR and via Microsoft Teams 

Cancer Seminar Series

27 September 2023

Speaker: Dr Francesca Del Bufalo, Department of Paediatric Onco-haemetology and Transfusion Medicine, Rome, Italy

Title: "Immunotherapy for paediatric tumours:translational evidence and clinical perspective, beyond haematological malignancies"

Details: 3-4pm, June Lloyd Seminar Room, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

Cancer Seminar Series

12 July 2023

Title: "Development of GPC2-directed immunotherpies for paediatric cancers"

Details: 3-4pm, Ryan Connelly LT, ZCR and via Microsoft Teams 

DBGSC Seminar

03 July 2023

Speaker: Dr William Grey, Crick Institute/York Biomedical Research Institute

Title: "Protein homeostasis in healthy and malignant haematopoiesis"

Details: 1-2pm, only via Microsoft Teams 

Cancer Seminar Series

19 June 2023

Title: "Organoid cancer immunity model in motion"

Details: 3-4pm, Ryan Connelly LT, ZCR and via Microsoft Teams 

DBGSC Seminar

12 June 2023

Speaker: Dr Zewen Kelvin Tuong, University of Queensland

Title: "Single-cell analysis of adaptive immune receptors in disease and development"

Details: NEW START TIME 12-1pm, via Microsoft Teams 

DBGSC Seminar

05 June 2023

Speaker: Dr Davide Zecchin, UCL

Title: "Identification of new therapeutic approaches for GNAQ/GNA11 mosaicism and uveal melanoma"

Details: 1-2pm, Leolin Price LT, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

DBGSC Seminar

22 May 2023

Speaker: Dr Leonardo Collado-Torres, Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD)

Title: "Navigating human brain gene expression measurements at different resolutions to study psychiatric disorders"

Details: 1-2pm, Leolin Price LT, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

Followed by Louise Huuki-Myers, Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) who will present "Introduction to Cell Type Deconvolution" to students and postdocs.

DBGSC Seminar

15 May 2023

Speaker: Dr Lemonia Chatzeli, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge

Title: "Tracing cell fate specification and pattern formation during branching morphogenesis"

Details: 1-2pm, Leolin Price LT, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

DBGSC Seminar

17 April 2023

Speaker: Dr Oliver Stone, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford 

Title: "Developmental origins of blood and lymphatic endothelial cells"

Details: 1-2pm, Levinsky Room, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

35th Head Group Meeting

Cranofacial and Neural Development & Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture

27 March 2023, 10:30am - 6:00pm
Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL GOS ICH

Lead organisers: Professor Patrizia Ferretti and Dr Paula Alexandre
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health/events/2023/mar/35th-head-group-meeting

Contact: Tathiana Santana ich.dbc.admin@ucl.ac.uk 

Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture 

27 March 2023, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL GOS ICH

Free lecture | Open to all

Prof Azim Surani
Director of Germline and Epigenetics Research, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
"Tracing the origin and development of the human germline

DBGSC Seminar

13 March 2023

Speaker: Professor Derek Gilroy, University College London

Title: "Inflammatory resolution imprints long-term tissue immunity"

Details: 1-2pm, Leolin Price LT, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

DBGSC Seminar

27 February 2023

Speaker: Dr Hemanth Tummala, Queen Mary University of London

Title: The evolving germline landscape in short telomere syndrome dyskeratosis congenita 

Details: 1-2pm, Leolin Price LT, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

Spitz/Kiely Symposium and 74th Simpson Smith Lecture

23 February 2023

Symposium speakers: 

Details: 2:30pm-6pm, Ryan Connolly Seminar Room, Zayed Centre for Research (ZCR) 

Register online by 20th Feb: https://courses.gosh.org/event/SK_Symposium_2023#init

Simpson Smith Memorial Lecture

23rd London Heart Meeting

17 February 2023

The London Heart Development Meeting is organised by UCL ICH, University of Oxford, St George's, University of London and University of Sheffield. It is a unique collaborative forum in the UK aiming to bring together researchers in cardiovascular development research on a biannual basis.

Details: 1:30pm, Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, ICH

To register or for more information please contact Kenzo Ivanovitch at k.ivanovitch@ucl.ac.uk or Catherine at carobert@squl.ac.uk

DBGSC Seminar

13 February 2023

Speaker: Dr Adrian Ranga, KU Leuven

Title: Bioengineering neural tube development 

Details: 1-2pm, Levinsky Room, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

LSCN-Qkine Workshop

13 February 2023

The LSCN-Qkine Workshop will bring talks from leading UK academics researching in the field of organoids and tumoroids.

Confirmed speakers include:

DBGSC Seminar

23 January 2023

Speaker: Dr Vicki Metzis, University of Oxford

Title: Reactivating an embryonic gene to rescue a missing adult gene 

Details: 1-2pm, PUW4 June Lloyd, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

DBGSC Seminar

09 January 2023

Speaker:  Prof Douglas Higgs, University of Oxford

Title: Reactivating an embryonic gene to rescue a missing adult gene 

Details: 1-2pm, Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

DBGSC Seminar

05 December 2022

Speaker: Dr Dagan Jenkins, UCL Institute of Child Health

Title: Understanding clinical variability and incomplete penetrance of complex morphological traits

Details: 1-2pm, Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

DBGSC Seminar

21 November 2022

Speaker: Dr Katie Long, King's College London

Title: Human fetal cortex tissue models to understand human brain development and injury

Details: 1-2pm, Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, ICH and via Microsoft Teams 

External Seminar

10 November 2022

Speaker: Natasha Y. Frank, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Title: Developmental plasticity of ABCB5-positive limbal and dermal stem cells 

Details: 12:30-1:30, Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, ICH

Research Interests: Research in the Frank laboratory explores the biology of stem cells and their roles in physiologic organogenesis, repair and malignant transformation, with a special emphasis on the relevant role of the ATP-binding cassette transporter and chemoresistance gene ABCB5 and the ultimate goal of developing novel stem cell targeted strategies in the fields of tissue regeneration and cancer.

Cancer Seminar Series

9 November 2022 - Postponed due to rail strikes 

Speaker: Professor Steve Clifford, Newcastle University

Title:

Down the rabbit hole: Adventures in childhood medulloblastoma research

Down the rabbit hole: Adventures in childhood medulloblastoma research

Details: 3-4pm, June Lloyd Seminar Room, ICH 

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DBC Symposia and Otto Wolff Lecture

13 June 2022

This year's DBC Otto Wolff Symposium will be held on June 13th in the Kennedy Lecture Theatre, followed by a drinks reception.

This is a one-day person meeting and is open for attendance to all ICH scientists. Early Career Researchers within DBC are strongly encouraged to submit abstracts for short presentations or posters. For more details and to book your place please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dbc-otto-wolf-symposium-tickets-316849273707

Abstract submission deadline: 24th May

Registration deadline: 27^th May

Our Otto Wolff Lecture will be given by Professor Richard Gilbertson from Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.  Seminar title: Will we ever cure cancer?

Richard Gilbertson trained as a paediatric oncologist in the UK before moving in 2000 to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA where he served as Scientific and Comprehensive Cancer Centre Director, Executive Vice President and Lillian R Cannon Endowed Chair.  In August 2015, he moved back home to England where he Chairs the Department of Oncology and Directs the CRUK Cambridge Major Centre at the University of Cambridge.  His laboratory research is focused on understanding the link between normal development and the origins of cancer, particularly brain tumors.

GOS ICH Inaugural Symposia - Professors David Long, Rukshana Shroff and Stephen Marks

9 June 2022

The symposia will be held as a hybrid event in Kennedy Lecture Theatre (with limited tickets available) and via Zoom, between 3.00-6.00pm, followed by a drinks reception. Tea & coffee will be served from 2.30pm.

Programme:

3:00pm Professor Stephen Marks, Professor of Paediatric Nephrology and Transplantation

Title: ‘The formula for success = (LdT)5’

3:50pm Professor Rukshana Shroff, Professor of Paediatric Nephrology

Title: ‘My journey through paediatric nephrology: following the yellow brick road’

4:40 – 5:00pm tea/coffee on the Balcony

5:00pm Professor David Long, Professor in Paediatric Nephrology

Title: 'The renal detective: twenty years searching for clues to understand and treat kidney disease’

5.50pm Drinks reception in the Winter Garden

Reserve a place and Register via Eventbrite here

GOS ICH Inaugural Symposia - Professor Owen Williams

24 May 2022

The symposia will be held as a hybrid event in Kennedy Lecture Theatre (with limited tickets available) and via Zoom, between 3.00-6.00pm, followed by a drinks reception. Tea & coffee will be served from 2.30pm.

Programme:

3:00pm Professor Claire Thorne, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Title: ‘Pregnancy, pathogens and pandemics: from AIDS to Zika’

3:50pm Professor Owen Williams, Professor of Cancer Biology

Title: ‘Looking for your keys in the shadows: puzzles in T cell biology and leukaemia’

4:40 – 5:00pm tea/coffee on the Balcony

5:00pm Professor Hannah Mitchison, Professor of Molecular and Medical Genetics

Title: ‘From gene hunts to strategies for genetic therapy - tackling cilia diseases’

5.50pm Drinks reception in the Winter Garden

Reserve a place and Register via Eventbrite here

DBC Seminar

25 April 2022

Speaker: Dr Tomeu Colom, Sanger Institute

Title: Clonal competition in the normal oesophageal epithelium during early tumourigenesis 

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

34th Head Group Meeting with the Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture

28 March 2022

The Meeting will take place in the Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and will conclude with the Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture given by Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias, University of Cambridge.

For more information please visit the HGM events webpage and to book your place please visit our online store.

DBC Seminar

28 March 2022

Speaker: Cristina Pina, Brunel University

Title: Transcriptional noise and cell diversification make stage-specific contributions to leukaemia.

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

DBC Seminar

7 March 2022

Speaker: Dr Jens Januschke, University of Dundee

Title: Mechanisms of cell fate determination in the developing Drosophila brain

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

DBC Seminar

28 February 2022

Speaker: April Craft, Harvard University

Title: Transcriptomic and Epigenetic Signatures of Developing Human Cartilage Lineages 

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition - DBC Departmental Heats

23 February 2022

The 3MT competition challenges PhD students to present their research topic and its significance to a non-specialist audience in just 3 minutes with the aid of a single slide! It helps students to succinctly explain their research in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.

It does not matter what stage PhD students are at!

How it works: The DBC Departmental heat will be held on Wednesday, 23^rd February 2022 between 11am-12noon. Two candidates will be selected and entered into the ICH-level heat which will take place on Thursday, 7th April from 12noon-2pm. Winners of the ICH heat will receive a cash prize and go on to the Faculty heat, then the University heat, and then the national final. There will be prizes for winners at each of these levels.

To sign up for the DBC Departmental 3MT heats or for more information, please email Lauren Russell.

DBC Seminar

21 February 2022

Speaker: Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow, University of Oxford

Title: Investigating environmental causes of congenital heart disease

Details: Hybrid Seminar 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams or in person at UCL GOS ICH Leolin Price LT

DBC Seminar

7 February 2022

Speaker: Thorsten Boroviak, University of Cambridge

Title: How to build a primate - modelling embryogenesis in a dish

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

DBC Seminar

31 January 2022

Speaker: Jessica Lehoczky, Harvard University

Title: Progenitor cells and patterning during mouse digit tip regeneration

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

DBC Seminar

24 January 2022

Speaker: Dr Omer Bayraktar, Sanger Institute

Title: Mapping neural tissue architecture with spatial transcriptomics 

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

DBC Seminar

17 January 2022

Speaker: Professor Karen Liu, King's College London

Title: Defining novel gene variants and developmental roles for p120-catenin 

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

DBC Seminar - POSTPONED

13 December 2021

Speaker: Dr Tomeu Colom, Sanger Institute

Title: Clonal competition in the normal oesophageal epithelium during early tumourigenesis 

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

DBC Seminar

29 November 2021

Speaker: Claudia Loebel, University of Michigan 

Title: Engineering approaches to understand and modulate the cell-matrix interface 

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams

Lewis Spitz & Edward M Kiely Symposium with the 73rd Simpson-Smith Memorial Lecture

11 November 2021

Link to book your free place here

DBC Seminars

11th October 2021

Speaker: Jacqueline M. Tabler

Title: Cell dynamics of skull morphogenesis

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

BDRC Seminars

17th June (please note change of regular day to Thursday this week)

Speaker: Prof. Fiona Watt, Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council

Title: "Exploring skin cell heterogeneity"

Details: 1-2pm Via ZOOM - Meeting ID 994 4821 8271 - Passcode: stemcell

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BDRC Seminars

17th May

Speaker: Professor Cornelis Jan Weijer

Title: Analysis and perturbation of cell behaviours controlling gastrulation in the chick embryo

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

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BDRC Seminars

10th May (rescheduled from 8th Feb)

Speaker: Dr Ben Steventon

Title: Tissue tectonics and the emergence of pattern during complex morphogenesis

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

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BDRC Seminars

26th April

Speaker: Prof. Meritxell Hurch

Title: Liver & Pancreas Organoid cultures for the study of health & disease

Details: 1-2pm Via  - ZOOM Meeting ID: 936 5045 4233 Passcode: stemcell 

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BDRC Seminars

22nd March

Speaker: Prof. Olivier Pourquié

Title: Deconstructing human somitogenesis in vitro

Details: 1-2pm Via ZOOM - Meeting ID 980 8441 6626 - Passcode: stemcell

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BDRC Seminars

15th March

Speaker: Sylvie Schneider-Maunoury, of the Sorbonne, Paris.

Title: “Cilia in neural development and disease: from signalling to oriented beating”

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

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BDRC Seminars

8th March

Speaker: Dr John Robert Davis

Title: "The role of ECM remodelling in tissue growth dynamics"

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams

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BDRC Seminars

1st March

Speaker: Murielle Saade

Title: “A centrosomal view of CNS growth and disease”

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams

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BDRC Seminars

22nd February

Speaker: Prof. Bill Keyes

Title: Investigating cellular senescence in development, regeneration and ageing

Details: 1-2pm via ZOOM Meeting ID: 988 0316 4649
Passcode: stemcell

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BDRC Seminars

8th February (POSTPONED TILL 10th MAY)

Speaker: Dr Ben Steventon

Title: Tissue tectonics and the emergence of pattern during complex morphogenesis

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

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BDRC Seminars

1st February

Speaker: Dr Margherita Turco

Title: Organoid systems to study human pregnancy in vitro

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams

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29th January 2021

Starting at 2pm

33rd Head Group Meeting

Title: Craniofacial and Neural Development

followed at 4pm by the Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture, by Prof. Robert Kelsh with the title "Painting by numbers - zebrafish neural crest and pigment pattern formation?"

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BDRC Seminars

25th January

Speaker: Maxime Maho

Title: Using pluripotent stem cells to generate human intestine

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

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BDRC Seminars

18th January

Speaker: Janet Rubin MD

Title: Structural adaptation in response to load guides stem cell differentiation

Details: 1-2pm Via Teams 

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BDRC Seminars

11th January  (Postponed till March 22nd)

Speaker: Olivier Pourquie

Title: Deconstructing human somitogenesis in vitro

Details: 1-2pm Via Teams

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BDRC Seminars

14th December 2020

Speaker: Frederic Lemaigre

Title: Developmental diseases of the bile duct

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams 

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BDRC Seminars

7th December 2020

Speaker: Kath Niakin

Title: Genetic approaches to study early lineage specification in early embryos

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams    

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BDRC Seminars

30th November 2020

Speaker: Hourinaz Behesti

Title: It's what's on the surface that counts: Membrane Protein Dynamics in Neuronal Connectivity in Autism

Details: 1-2pm via Microsoft Teams

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BDRC Seminars

23rd November 2020

Speaker: Sachi Horibata

Title: Genomics approach to understanding mechanisms of cancer drug resistance

Details: 1-2pm Microsoft Teams

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BDRC Seminar Series

16th November 2020

Speaker: Matteo Mole, University of Cambridge

Title: Human and mouse development: A journey from implantation to neurulation

Details: 1-2pm Microsoft Teams

9th March 2020

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker: Nic Tapon, Francis Crick Institute  

Title: Developmental control of tissue growth in the Drosophila abdomen

Details: 1pm-2pm: Leolin Price, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

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2nd March 2020

Stem Cell Seminar Series

Speaker: Emma Rawlins, University of Cambridge

Title: Building & rebuilding the lung: insights from human development

Details: 1pm-2pm: Ryan Connolly Seminar Room, ZCR

20th January 2020

32nd Head Group Meeting

Title: "Understanding Normal and Abnormal Development of Head Structures" 

21st September 2018

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker: Kimberly Aldinger, Seattle Children's Hospital
Title: "Malformations of human cerebellum development: from genes to cells".   

28th September 2018

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker: Scott Haston, UCL GOSHICH
Title: "Investigation of the tumour promoting effects of cellular senescensce during pituitary and lung tumourigenesis". 

3rd October 2018

Cancer Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Grace Collord, Wellcome Snager Institute
Title: "Novel recurrent rearrangements of EGFR and BRAF in congenital mesoblastic nephroma and infantile fibrosarcoma". 

5th October 2018

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker: Deborah Gill, University of Oxford
Title: "Where next for gene therapy of Cystic Fibrosis lung disease". 

19th October 2018

BDRC Seminar Series 

Speaker: Masa Tasda, UCL
Title: "Live imaging and genetic analyses of oncogenic cell extrusion from the zebrafish embryonic epithelium".         

30th October 2018

The Advanced Therapies for Structural Malformations and Tissue Damage (ATMTD) Open Meeting 

Details: Levinsky Room, ICH, 30 Guildford Street, 2pm-4:30pm. ALL WELCOME! 

14.00 – 14.15 Prof. Jane Sowden  Welcome and Theme Updates
14.15 – 14.35 Dr. Alessandro Pellegata  Bioengineering of a layered oesophagus
14.35 – 1455 Prof. Manju Kurian  iPSC-derived models of childhood neurological disorders: elucidating disease mechanisms and novel therapies
14.55 –15.15 Dr. Hassan Rashidi 3D tissue organoid platforms using human pluripotent stem cells
15.15 –15.45 Coffee Break
15.45 – 16.00 Prof. Tom Jacques Pathology and Histology Support
16.00 – 16.20 Dr. Dagan Jenkins Testing a novel repurposed drug for the treatment of craniosynostosis
16.20 – 16.40 Dr. Gabriel Galea Spina bifida and neural tube closure
16.40 Discussion

2nd November 2018

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker: Agathe Chaigne, UCL
Title: "Cell division, stem cell size heterogeneities and cell fate".

6th November 2018

Cancer Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Morgenstern, SickKids, Toronto, Canada
Title: "Immune checkpoint inhibitors for paediatric cancers".                             

9th November 2018

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker: Ciro Chiappini, King's College London
Title: "Engineering high-aspect ratio nanomaterials to direct cell fate".    

23rd November 2018

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker: Margaret Rayman, Surrey University
Title: "Iodine deficiency in the UK: an overlooked cause of impaired nerodevelopment?

28th November 2018

Cancer Seminar Series

Speaker: Prof. Francesco Dazzi, King's College London
Title: "The immunobiology of mesenchymal stromal cell".                             

29th November 2018

29th Mammalian Genetics & Development Workshop                         

30th November 2018

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker: Arcadi Navarro, ICREA/University of Edinburgh (in sabbatical)
Title: “Why do we age? Contradictory effects of disease-causing variants in early and old age”

4th December 2018

9th Developmental Biology and Cancer Symposium   

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Patrick Caswell, the Unviersity of Manchester
Title: "Membrane trafick directs cell-matrix interactions in the metastatic niche"

7th December 2018

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker:Robert Castelo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Title: "High-throughput transcriptomics and proteomics of the fetal inflammatory response in extremely preterm neonates"  

12th December 2018

Cancer Seminar Series

Speaker: Prof.Jude Fitzgibbon, Barts Cancer Institute, London
Title: "Follicular Lymphoma: curing the incurable".           

14th December 2018

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker: Abigail 'Rosie' Marshall
Title: "The biomechanical role of the surface ectoderm and Grainyhead-like genes in neural tube closure."  

18th January 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Robin Frankin, University of Cambridge
Title: 'Myelin regeneration in the CNS: reversing the ravages of time'.

25th January 2019

31st Head Group Meeting

Title: "Understanding Normal and Abnormal Development of Head Structures"         

30th January 2019

PhD speed networking event

1st February 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speakers: Saba Manshaei and Michelle Cheung, UCL   
UCL Viva Upgrade Titles: Investigating potential interactions of TBX1 with chromatin regulators in cardiac development.      

The role of senescent cells and their sectretome in pituitary tumourgenesis.

8th February 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Keynote Speaker:  Eleanor Weston, UCL  
UCL Viva Upgrade Title: Inositol Staus and the Risk of Neural Tube Defect

15th February 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Richard Wingate, King's College 
Title: 'Why we stick together: new insights into transition zone dynamics'

21st February 2019, 4.00- 5.00pm followed by a drinks reception

Inaugural lecture by Professor Tom Jacques, GOSHCC Professor of Paediatric Neuropathology 

Title: 'Developing Diagnoses for Developing Brains"

1st March 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford 
Title: 'Construction and validation of the global neural crest gene regulatory network in vivo'

6th March 2019

Please click here for Prof Evans' biography.

22nd March 2019

BDRC Seminar Series Public Engagement Talk 

Speakers: Oliver Gardner, Jess Pickles, Scott Haston, and Daniel Jafree
Title: If you've ever wondered... Why we do what we do? How we do it? What we have achieved? 

26th April 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speakers: Dr. Roberta Azzarelli, University of Cambridge
Title:  Balancing proliferation and differentiation in development and cancer

1st May 2019

Cancer theme Seminar

3rd May 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speakers: Dr. Claudia Linker, King's College London

Title: How is collective cell migration regulated? Insights from the Neural Crest

Details: 1pm-2pm: Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

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10th May 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speakers: Dr. Duncan Sparrow, University of Oxford

Title: 'Environmental influences on mouse embryonic development' 

Details: 1pm-2pm: Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

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17th May 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speakers: Dr. Patricia Barral, The Francis Crick Institute

Title: TBC

Details: 1pm-2pm: Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

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24th May 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speakers: Dr. Chrissy Hammond, University of Bristol

Title: TBC

Details: 1pm-2pm: Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

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31st May 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

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7th June 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speakers: Prof. Andrea Munsterberg, University of East Anglia

Title: Investigating cell lineage commitment in vertebrate somites 

Details: 1pm-2pm: Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

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14th June 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speakers: Dr. Raman Das, University of Manchester

Title: Cell behaviour underlying neurogenesis in the developing spinal cord

Details: 1pm-2pm: June Lloyd Lecture Theatre, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

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21st June 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speakers: Dr. Rui Monterio, University of Birmingham

Title: Modulation of gata2 levels through an endothelial enhancer regulate haematopoietic output in a zebrafish model of MonoMAC syndrome

Details: 1pm-2pm: Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

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21st June 2019

BDRC Seminar Series

Speakers: Anna Philpott, University of Cambridge

Title: Cell cycle regulation of differentiation in development and disease

Details: 1pm-2pm: Wolfson Room B, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

19th July 2019

Open Meeting - all welcome

Title: BRC The Advanced Therapies for Structural Malformations and Tissue Damage (ATMTD) Open Meeting

Details: 11am-1.20pm: Levinsky Room, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

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19th July 2019

DBC Information Session - all PIs, PhD Students and Postdocs welcome

Details: 3-5pm: Kennedy Lecture Theatre, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

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21st August 2019

Viva Upgrade: Warren Hazelton, UCL, GOS ICH

Title: ‘The development of multi-antigen targeting chimeric antigen receptors to treat acute myeloid leukaemia’

Details: 10.30 - 11.15am: Levinsky Room, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street

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21st August 2019

Viva Upgrade: Rajesh Karattil, UCL, GOS ICH

Title: 'Endoplasmic reticulum retention sequence mediated antigen knockdown on Hematopoietic stem cells’

Details: 11.15 - 12.00: Levinsky Room, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street