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Seminars, Lectures and Events held since the UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Launch Event on Friday 24 April 2009. |
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EVENTS HELD DURING 2012 |
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Thursday 24 May 2012 from 9 to 12:30 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funding opportunities seminar Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, Gower Street |
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Tuesday 15 May 2012, from 3 to 5 pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine iPSC Working Group meeting Venue: Seminar room B0.5, Cruciform building, Gower St Contact: Dr. Mariana Resnicoff |
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Friday 4 May 2012, from 10 to 1 pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine This meeting was convened to discuss the UK Strategy for Regenerative Medicine, the Regenerative Medicine Platform Call, the Biomedical Catalyst Call and ongoing initiatives Venue: Room 117, Anatomy building, Gower St. Contact: Dr Mariana Resnicoff |
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Wednesday 2 May 2012, from 12 to 1:30 pm FP7 Health information session organised by UCL European Research and Development Office Venue: UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1, Gower St. |
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Thursday 26 April 2012 at 5 pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited speaker: Professor Neil Brockdorff, Developmental Epigenetics Group, Oxford University Title: “Polycomb - a complex problem” Host: Steen Ooi Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Wednesday 18 April 2012 at 4pm Institute of Ophthalmology Genetics & Molecular Therapy Seminar Series Invited speaker: Dr Hildegard Büning , University of Cologne, Germany Title: "Tailoring adeno-associated viral vectors for gene therapy and tissue engineering" Venue: 11-43 Bath Street, London EC1V 9EL |
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Monday 16 April 2012 at 5:30 pm MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Dr David Bennett, Neurorestoration Group, Guy’s Title: "Studying Schwann cell remyelination following neural injury" Venue: Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square - Clinical Neuroscience Building, 33 Queen Square, London |
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Thursday 22 March 2012 at 5 pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited speaker: Dr Gordon Peters, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute Title: “Polycomb-mediated regulation of the INK4a tumour suppressor – a complex business” Host: Richard Jenner Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Wednesday 21 March 2012, 9:30 to 2:30 pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Workshop on "Nanotechnology in Regenerative Medicine" Venue: Royal Free Hospital, Rowland Hill St, London Contact: Dr. Mariana Resnicoff |
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Thursday 15 March 2012 at 3 pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine iPSC Working Group meeting Venue: UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street Contact: Dr. Mariana Resnicoff |
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Thursday 15 March 2012 at 1:15 pm Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Professor Ian Robinson , UCL London Centre for Nanotechnology Title: "3D imaging: nanotechnology and the quest for better medical sensors" Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre (accessed via Malet Place), Darwin Building |
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Thursday 15 March 2012 at 9 hrs UCL Centre for Respiratory Research Special Seminar Invited Speaker: Dr Michael Edel, Center of Regenerative Medicine, Barcelona, Spain Title: "Novel methods for making clinical grade induced pluripotent stem cells for the study of lung development and disease" Venue: 2nd Floor Seminar Room, UCL Rayne Building, 5 University Street, London |
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Tuesday 13 March 2012 at 1:15 pm Lunch Hour Lecture to mark Brain Awareness Week Speaker: Dr Mark Lythgoe , Director, UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging and UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Title: "The Search for Genius and Einstein’s Brain" Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre (accessed via Malet Place), Darwin Building |
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Thursday 8 March 2012 at 5 pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited speaker: Professor Wendy Bickmore, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh Title: “Chromatin compaction and nuclear organisation in development and disease” Host: Suzana Hadjur Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Tuesday 6 March 2012 at 3:30 pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Stem Cell Niches Working Group Meeting Venue: Room 117, Anatomy building, Gower St. |
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Tuesday 6 March 2012 at 1:15 pm Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob, UCL Laws Title: "Patents stop people doing things. So why are they a good thing?" Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre (accessed via Malet Place), Darwin Building |
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Monday 5 March 2012 at 5:30 pm MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Dr Giulio Cossu, UCL CDB and UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Title: "A phase I/II trial of cell therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy" Venue: Clinical Neuroscience Building, Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square |
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Wednesday 15 February 2012 at 3:30 pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Regulation of Stem Cell Fate Working Group meeting Venue: Room 117, Anatomy building, Gower St |
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Thursday 9 February 2012 at 6 pm UCL/NSE Advanced Epilepsy Lecture Series Invited Speaker: Professor Liam Gray, Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Wales Title: "Learning To Forget: Stem Cells And New Neurons In Temporal Lobe Epilepsy" Venue: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square |
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Wednesday 8 February 2012 at 4:15 pm NIMR Mill Hill Seminar Series- Harrington Lecture Invited speaker: Prof Dr Magdalena Goetz, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Muenchen, Germany Title: "Voluntary and forced neurogenesis from glial cells-new sources for neuronal repair" Venue: Fletcher Hall, NIMR, Ridgeway, Mill Hill |
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Wednesday 8 February 2012 at 4 pm UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Genetics & Molecular Therapy Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Dr Pierre Vanderhaeghen, University of Brussels, Belgium Title: "From pluripotent stem cells to cortical networks" Venue: UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Lecture Theatre |
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Thursday 2 February 2012 at 5 pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited speaker: Dr Mikhail Spivakov, European Bioinformatics Institute, University of Cambridge Title: “The cis-regulatory logic of heart development: a view from Drosophila” Host: Suzana Hadjur Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Wednesday 1 February 2012 at 6 pm Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL), UCL Faculty of Laws, and UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Special Event Title: “Brüstle v Greenpeace: Has the European Court seriously damaged stem cell research?” Chair: Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob, UCL Laws Speakers: Dr Justin Turner QC, 3 New Square Chambers (lead counsel on the case) Professor Pete Coffey, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Professor Jo Wolff, UCL Department of Philosophy Venue: Denys Holland Lecture Theatre, UCL Faculty of Laws, London |
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Thursday 19 January 2012 at 4:30 pm Yale UCL Collaborative Senior Scientist Lecture Series Speaker: Professor Craig Crews, Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University Title: "Small Molecule Control of Intracellular Protein Levels" Venue: Christopher Ingold Auditorium, UCL Christopher Ingold Building, Gordon St, London WC1H 0AJ Contact: Prof. Jeremy Brockes |
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Thursday 19 January 2012 at 1 pm CDB- UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Special Seminar Speaker: Dr. Lazaro Centanin, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany Title: "Neural Stem Cells in a Constantly Growing Niche" Venue: Gavin De Beer Lecture Theatre, Anatomy building, Gower St. Host: Prof. Steve Wilson |
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Tuesday 17 January 2012 at 1:10 pm EDI Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Gavin Jell, UCL Department of Surgical and Interventional Sciences and UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Title: "O2 regulating materials: breathing new life into tissue regeneration" Venue: UCL Eastman Dental Institute, Lecture Theatre 2 Contact: Vehid Salih |
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Thursday 15 December 2011 at 5 pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited speaker: Dr Ana Pombo MRC Clinical Sciences Centre Title: "Interplay between Polycomb repression and RNA polymerase II regulation in embryonic stem (ES) cells" Host: Suzana Hadjur Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Monday 5 December at 5:30 pm Invited Speaker: Dr Angelo Quattrini. San Raffaele Hospital Scientific Institute, Milan Title: "Biomaterials to Promote Nerve Regeneration: Towards Clinical Trials" Host: Professor Michael Hanna, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, Institute of Neurology Venue: Lecture theatre at 33 Queen Square, Institute of Neurology |
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Thursday 1st December 2011 at 5pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Professor Jordan Raff, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford Title: “Centrosomes and asymmetric stem cell division: size does matter “ Host: Alexander Hergovich Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Thursday 24 November 2011 at 5pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Dr John Stingl, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute Title: “Mammary gland stem and progenitor cells: Understanding the cellular context of breast cancer“ Host: Steven Pollard Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Friday 11 November 2011, from 10:30 to 1 pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine-Stem Cell Niches Working Group Workshop on Stem Cell Imaging and Tracking Venue: Galton Lecture Theatre, first floor, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB |
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Monday 7 November 2011 at 5:30 pm |
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Wednesday 2 November at 1 pm Department of Mechanical Engineering Special Seminar Invited speaker: Dr. Aubrey de Grey, CSO SENS Foundation, Mountain View, California, USA Title: "Defeating aging with regenerative medicine" Venue: Room 421, Roberts building Contact: Suwan Jayasinghe (s.jayasinghe@ucl.ac.uk) |
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Wednesday 26 October 2011 at 1 pm MRC Prion Unit Invited Speaker: Dr Jin Xu, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Title: "Transcriptional control of dopaminergic and mitochondrial functions by DJ-1 in Parkinson's disease" Venue: Second Floor Seminar Room, Queen Square, UCL Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG |
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Wednesday 19 October 2011,
from 2 to 7 pm Third UCL-Tohoku University Symposium "From Cell/Developmental Biology to human diseases" Symposium for young biologists Venue: JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy building, Gower St. Contact: Prof. Shin-ichi Ohnuma and Dr Yoshiyuki Yamamoto |
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Wednesday 19 October, from
1 to 7 pm Inaugural Symposium of UCL Reproduction & Development Domain Venue: Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street Registration and programme at http://repdevdom11.eventbrite.com/ |
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Monday 17 October, from 2
to 6:30 pm UCLPartners Symposium/2nd Child Health Symposium Venue: Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street Registration and programme at http://uclpchildhealthsymposium.eventbrite.com |
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Thursday 13 October at 5pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Prof. Sarah Bray, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge Title: “Decoding the Notch signal“ Host: Barbara Jennings Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Thursday 6 October at 1pm Invited Speaker: Dr Elaine Dzierzak, Erasmus MC Title: Endothelial origins of hematopoietic stem cells Host: Prof David Whitmore Venue: JZ Young Lecture Theatre |
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Wednesday 5 October at 1:10
pm EDI Seminar Series Speaker: Marcus Tillotson, Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Title: "Osteogenic adult stem cells and titanium constructs for repair and regeneration" Venue: UCL Eastman Dental Institute, Lecture Theatre 2 |
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Monday 3 October, from 9 to
5 pm UCL Infection Immunology Inflammation Domain and UCL Partners Symposium Venue: Sir William Wells Atrium, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG Registration and programme at http://iiisymposium.eventbrite.com/ |
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Friday 30 September at 4 pm ICH Seminar Invited Speaker: Dr George Yip, National University of Singapore Title: “Promoting and inhibiting skin wound healing: Two faces of chondroitin sulphate” Venue: Seminar Room 4 PUW, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street |
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Thursday 29 September at 6
pm LRMN - OBN Event "A UK Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Company Showcase" Venue: G04, UCL Dept. of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, Chadwick Building Details at: http://www.lrmn.com/future_events.html |
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29 September at 5pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Dr Kim Jensen, Cambridge Cancer Centre Title:“Growth factor signalling and stem cell homeostasis “ Host: Steven Pollard Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Tuesday 27 September, from
4 to 6 pm London Centre for Nanotechnology’s 5th Anniversary Symposium and Forum Hosts: Prof. Sir Keith O'Nions FRS, Rector, Imperial College London, Prof. Malcolm Grant CBE, President and Provost, UCL LCN Co-Directors: Prof. Gabriel Aeppli FRS (UCL) and Prof. Milo Shaffer (ICL) Venue: Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Lecture Room G16, Imperial College London Details and registration at: http://www.london-nano.com/news-and-events/seminars-and-events/lcn-5th-anniversary?dm_i=UAA,JB58,3YRKTN,1L86I,1 |
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Thursday 15 September at
5pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Dr Paresh Vyas, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford Title: "Identification and targeting of leukaemia stem cells in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia" Host: Stephen Mackinnon Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Monday 12 September at 5pm Invited Speaker: Professor Timothy Bestor, Dept of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA Title: "Biological functions of genomic methylation patterns" Host: Steen Ooi Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Monday 12 September at 4 pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Special Lecture Invited speaker: Dr. Thomas W. Gilbert, Departments of Surgery and Bioengineering, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA Title: “Regenerative Medicine Strategies for Trachea Repair” Host: Martin Birchall Venue: Gavin De Beer Lecture Theatre, Anatomy building, Gower St. |
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Thursday 21 July at 5pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Professor Henk Stunnenberg, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Netherlands Title: “BLUEPRINT of acute myeloid leukemia “ Hosts: Stephan Beck and Tariq Enver Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Tuesday 19 July at 3 pm Invited speaker: Dr Tracy Grikscheit, Division of Pediatric Surgery Keck School of Medicine, USC Saban Research Institute Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, USA Title: "Tissue engineering the intestine: the role of the intestinal stem cell niche." Venue: Leolin Price Lecture theatre, UCL Institute of Child Health |
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Tuesday 12 July at 1pm Invited Speaker: Professor Patrick Tam, University of Sydney Title: "Genetic and signaling activity influencing the morphogenesis and differentiation of the gut endoderm" Host: Prof. Claudio Stern Venue: Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Anatomy building, Gower St. |
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Monday 11 July from 8:30 to 6 pm 4th Annual Conference UCL Cancer Institute Programme Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1, Cruciform Building, Gower St |
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Thursday 30 June at 5pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Professor Dave Tuveson, Tumour Modelling & Experimental Medicine, CR-UK Cambridge Research Institute Title: Modeling cancer and its treatment Host: Pablo Rodriguez-Viciana Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Thursday 30 June at noon Host: Dr Richard Jenner |
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Tuesday 28 June at 4 pm Invited speaker: Dr Shay Soker, Associate Professor , Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Winston Salem NC, USA Title: "Regenerative Medicine: Hopes and Challenges for Clinical Translation" Host: Paolo De Coppi Venue: Doctor mess meeting room 4th floor, GOSH |
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Monday 27 June at 4pm Cell & Developmental Biology (CDB) Seminar Series Invited speaker: Professor Gail Martin, University of California San Francisco Title: "FGF Signalling in vertebrate organogenesis: how Sprouty genes help get it right" Host: Prof John Carroll Venue: AV Hill Lecture Theatre |
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Thursday 23 June at 5pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Dr M Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Title: "Intrinsically unstructured proteins: regulation and disease" Host: Suzana Hadjur Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Wednesday 22 June at 10.00am Cell & Developmental Biology (CDB) Seminar Series Invited speaker: Dr Barry Kaplan, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Title: "Subcellular Compartmentation of Neuronal Protein Synthesis: New Insights into the Biology of the Neuron" Host: Prof Steve Hunt Venue: Room 249, Anatomy Building, Gower St. |
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Tuesday 21 June at 7 pm Free screening of the film "Stem Cells: A Vision of the Future" followed by an open-floor discussion with Prof. Pete Coffey, who is a contributor in the film. Venue: UCL Darwin Building Lecture Theatre (Entrance via Malet Place) Registration at : http://vof-london.eventbrite.com/ |
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Thursday 16 June at 5pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Professor Nick Proudfoot, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford Title: "Gene punctuation: multiple roles of transcriptional termination in regulating eukaryotic gene expression" Host: Jurg Bahler Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Thursday 9 June at 1pm Invited Speakr: Prof Stephan Neuhauss, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich Title: "Earning Its Strips: Elucidating Retinal Function with Visual Behaviour in the Zebrafish" Host: Prof Steve Wilson Venue: A V Hill Lecture Theatre, Medical Sciences Building |
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Thursday 9 June, 11:00 to 1 pm Drop-in Session for FP7 Calls Topics include: application process, structuring of proposals, advice For information and registration, please e-mail h.ghosh@ucl.ac.uk Venue: 2 Taviton St. (link to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/images/location.pdf) |
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Thursday 26 May at 5pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker, Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, Cambridge Title: “Genomic imprinting and the epigenetic control of development processes“ Host: Barbara Jennings Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building |
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Thursday 26 May 2011 at 1pm Invited Speaker: Prof David Strutt, MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield Title: Local coordination of planar polarity through cell-cell interactions Host: Dr Masa Tada Venue: A V Hill Lecture Theatre, Medical Sciences Building, Gower St. |
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Wednesday 25th May at 1.10 pm Eastman Dental Institute Seminar Invited Speaker: Fran Baxter, Chartered Patent Attorney, Boult Wade Tennant Title: "Publications and patents: experiences in biomaterials research" Venue: Lecture theatre L2, Eastman Dental Institute For information, email: E.allan@ucl.ac.uk |
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Friday 20 May from 9.30 to 1.00 pm FP7-Marie Curie Seminar Overview of the Marie Curie Individual Fellowships (International mobility and Career Integration Grants) Speaker: UK National Point for Marie Curie Actions Information and registration: http://www.ukro.ac.uk/mariecurie/events/index.htm UCL Venue to be announced after registration. |
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Friday 20 May 2011, 9:00-17:00 hrs 3rd UCL-RFH International Cardiovascular Diseases Workshop Themes include "Stem cells & cardiovascular regeneration" and "Tissue engineering in cardiovascular disease" Venue: Royal Free Hospital For information and registration, please email j.tsui@medsch.ucl.ac.uk |
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Thursday May 19 at 1pm Dr Tristan Rodriguez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London Title: Dissecting the pathways underlying anterior specification in mammals Host: Prof Claudio Stern Venue: A V Hill Lecture Theatre, Medical Sciences Building |
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Wednesday May 18 at 1pm Dr Jonathan Chubb, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee Title: Heterogeneity and Stability of Transcriptional States Host: Prof Claudio Stern Venue: Room 106, Anatomy Building |
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Tuesday May 17 at 4pm Professor Andrew Miller, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Title: Complementary Luminescent and Fluorescent Imaging Techniques to Visualize Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Ca2+signaling during in vivo Differentiation of Zebrafish Slow Muscle Cells under Normal and Dystrophic Conditions Host: Professor David Whitmore Venue: The JZ Young Lecture Theatre |
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Monday 16 May from 2.30 to 4.00 pm FP7 Workshop covering FP7 Health, European Research Council and Marie Curie Actions Venue: Malet Place Eng 1.02 Lecture Theatre, first floor, Malet Place Engineering Building (see map at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_low_res) For information and registration, please email h.ghosh@ucl.ac.uk |
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Tuesday 10 May 2011 at 4:00 pm Invited Speaker: Dr. Majlinda Lako, Newcastle University Title: Using pluripotent stem cells to understand our beginnings Host: Prof. Robin Ali Venue: UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Lecture Theatre |
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Wednesday 4 May at 4 pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Special Lecture Invited Speaker: Lucy Morris, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC, USA Title: "Live imaging of stem cell activity in the Drosophila ovary: the role of somatic escort cells" Host: Claudio Stern Venue: JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Gower Street |
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Monday 18 April at 2pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Special Lecture Invited Speaker: Hans Clevers, Prof. in Molecular Genetics and Director of the Hubretch Institute, Utretch, The Netherlands Title: "Wnt signaling, Lgr5 stem cells and cancer” Venue: Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Gower Street |
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Thursday 14 April at 5 pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Prof. Hugues de Thé, INSERM U 944, CNRS UMR 7212, Paris Title: “Modelling APL pathogenesis through therapy response” Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building Host: Paolo Salomoni |
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Tuesday 12 April, 9 - 17:30 pm UCL Cancer Institute International Symposium “Non-coding RNAs and Cancer” Programme and Registration at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cancer/noncodingRNA2011/ |
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Thursday 7 April at 5 pm UCL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Professor Martin McMahon, Efim Guzik Distriguished Professor of Cancer Biology, USCF Cancer Research Institute Title: "The role of oncogenic BRAF signaling in tumor initiation, cancer progression and therapy“ Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building Host: Pablo Rodriguez-Viciana |
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Wednesday 6 April, 13.10 - 14.00 hrs Eastman Dental Institute Seminar Invited speaker: Mark Birch, Musculoskeletal Research Group, Newcastle University Medical School Title: Engineering bone formation at the implant interface Venue: Eastman Dental Institute Lecture theatre L2 Enquiries: e.allan@ucl.ac.uk |
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Tuesday 22 March, 4:20 to 6:10 pm Japan Earthquake Appeal to raise funds for those suffering the devastating consequences of the tsunami, earthquake and nuclear power plant explosions in the Tohoku area of Japan. This symposium is organised by UCL Professor Shin-ichi Ohnuma, Dr Yoshiyuki Yamamoto and Dr Taku Fujiyama with all proceeds going to the British Red Cross. Venue: JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy building, Gower St For any further information, please contact Professor Ohnuma - s.ohnuma@ucl.ac.uk / +44 (0)207 608 4062 |
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Wednesday 9 March at 4.15pm NIMR Mill Hill Lecture Series Title: "Epithelial stem cell of the lung" Speaker: Brigid Hogan, Duke University Medical Center Venue: Fletcher Hall at NIMR |
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Thursday 3 March at 1pm Speaker: Dr David Parkinson, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth Title: "Controlling Schwann cell Myelination in Development and Disease" Host: Prof Rhona Mirsky Venue: Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 2 February from 9.30am-5.30pm UCL/RFH Biobank Launch Event Venue: Atrium, ground floor, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG |
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Thursday 27 January at 1pm Speaker: Prof James Briscoe, MRC National Institute for Medical Research Title: "The gene regulatory logic for reading the Sonic Hedgehog gradient in the vertebrate neural tube Host: Prof Lewis Wolpert Venue: Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Gower Street |
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Thursday 20 January at 4.30pm UCL Institute of Neurology Seminar Dr Ted Teng, Harvard Medical School "Spinal cord repair: mechanisms gleaned from stem cell-based multimodal studies" Host: Prof Geoff Raisman Venue: Room G08, UCL Roberts Building |
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Wednesday 19 January from 13.10 - 14.00 Speaker: Kris Gellync, Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering, EDI Title: "Cell-seeded vs. cell-free scaffolding in tissue engineering" Venue: Eastman Dental Institute, Lecture Theatre 2 |
| EVENTS HELD DURING 2010 |
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Tuesday 30 November at 1pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Special Lecture: “Vascular progenitors: from fate mapping to transplantation in muscular dystrophy” Speaker: Dr. Giulio Cossu, Division of Regenerative Medicine, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy Venue: JZ Young Lecture Theatre, UCL Anatomy Building, Gower Street |
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UCL-Yale Collaboration in Regenerative Medicine Special Seminar organised by the UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine in association with the Office of Yale Affairs Thursday 16 September 2010 at 4pm Speaker: Dr. Christopher Kane Breuer, Associate Professor, Yale University Title: "Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts for Use in Congenital Heart Surgery: From the bench to the bedside and back again" Venue: JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy building, Gower Street |
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Thursday 19 August at 1pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Dr Dean Griffiths, University of Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Title: JAKs, chromatin and ES cell self-renewal Host: Prof Claudio Stern Venue: A V Hill Lecture Theatre, Medical Sciences Building |
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Thursday 24 June 2010 at 4pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Special Seminar Speaker: Dr. Silvia Nicolis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Title: "Roles of the Sox2 transcription factor in brain development, neural stem cell biology and genetic disease: novel insights from conditional mouse mutants" Venue: Room 106, 1st Floor, Anatomy building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 2 June 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Collective migration of neural crest cells" Speaker: Dr. Roberto Mayor, UCL Division of Biosciences Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 26 May 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Commercial challenges in the commercialisation of regenerative medicine therapies" Speaker: Dr. Simcha Jong, UCL Management Science & Innovation Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Improving wound healing - the connexin connection" Speaker: Prof. David Becker, UCL Division of Biosciences Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 5 May 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "From stem cells to neurons in the developing zebrafish retina" Speaker: Prof. Stephen Wilson, UCL Division of Biosciences Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 21 April 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Identification of the promyelocytic leukaemia protein as a novel regulator of stem cell function in the developing and adult brain" Speaker: Dr. Paolo Salomoni, UCL Cancer Institute Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 14 April 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Stem Cell Clinic: "Mesenchymal progenitors in tissue repair and fibrosis: Sacred, scarred or scared" Speaker: Prof. David Abraham, UCL Division of Medicine Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 7 April 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Prostate stem cells: isolation, characterization and mechanisms of self-renewal" Speaker: Dr. Aamir Ahmed, Head of Prostate Stem Cell Group at UCL Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 24 March 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Opportunities for Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology in Biology and Medicine" Speaker: Prof. Stephen Caddick, UCL Department of Chemistry Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 17 March 2010 at
5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Form and function: the cytoskeleton in cell and tissue morphogenesis" Speaker: Dr Buzz Baum, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (LMCB), UCL Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 10 March 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "A role for stem cells in childhood tumours and epilepsy" Speaker: Dr Thomas Jacques, UCL Institute of Child Health Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 3rd March 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Repair of CNS injuries by olfactory ensheathing cells" Speaker: Prof. Geoff Raisman, UCL Institute of Neurology. Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 24 February 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Amniotic fluid stem cells for prenatal therapy" Speaker: Dr. Anna David, UCL Institute for Women's Health Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Thursday 18 February 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Special Lecture: Building a brain from pluripotent neural stem/progenitor cells Speaker: Prof Stefano Stefani, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 17 February 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Stem Cell Clinic: Skeletal regeneration: horses for courses Speaker: Prof Allen Goodship, UCL Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 10 February 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: The importance of being round - a prelude to cell division Speaker: Dr Buzz Baum, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL Life Sciences Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 3 February 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Reverse Phenotyping: towards an integrated (epi)genomic approach to complex phenotypes and common disease" Speaker: Prof Stephan Beck, UCL Cancer Institute Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 27 January 2010 at 5 pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Satellite contribution to skeletal muscle regeneration" Speaker: Dr Jennifer Morgan, UCL Institute of Child Health Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 20 January 2010 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Signals in injured brain: transcripting the way to successful regeneration" Speaker: Prof. Gennadij Raivich, UCL Institute for Women's Health Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 9 December 2009 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Stem Cell Clinic: "Periodontal and bone regeneration in dento-alveolar region. From preclinical models to clinical evidence" Speaker: Dr Nikos Mardas, UCL Eastman Dental Institute Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 2 December 2009 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Loss of spinal cord regenerative ability with development: changes in neural stem cells and early injury response" Speaker: Dr Patrizia Ferretti, UCL Institute of Child Health Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Tuesday 1 December 2009 at 5.30pm MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases Seminar: “Control of Schwann cell myelination and nerve repair by c-Jun and Notch“ Speaker: Professor Kristjan Jessen, UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Venue: Lecture theatre at 33 Queen Square |
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Tuesday 1 December 2009 at 1pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Special Lecture: "Stem cells in mammalian epidermis" Speaker: Prof. Fiona Watt, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower St. |
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Friday 27 November at 1pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Special Lecture: "Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Commitment, Adaptation and Cancer" Speaker: Prof. Peter W. Andrews, Dept of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower St. |
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Friday 27 November 2009 at 3pm Seminar: SENS Bioprocessing Matters Speaker: Dr Aubrey de Grey Venue: Roberts Building, room 309 |
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Thursday 26 November 2009 One-day professional training course "Applying Nanotechnology to Improve Dentistry" Venue: UCL Eastman Dental Institute, 256 Gray's Inn Road, London Further information |
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Wednesday 25 November 2009 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Stem Cell Clinic: Targeting and imaging of cells using nanoparticles and high-field MRI Speaker: Dr. Mark Lythgoe, UCL Division of Medicine Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Thursday 19 November 2009 at 5pm CL Cancer Institute Seminar Series Seminar: "Signalling networks mapping, monitoring and medicines" Speaker: Professor Peter Parker, Cancer Cell Biology and Imaging, King’s College London Venue: UCL Cancer Institute Courtyard Café, Paul O'Gorman Building |
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Thursday 12 and Friday 13 November 2009 UCL Conference on "Research Ethics Committees: Help or Hindrance?" Venue: Chadwick lecture theatre, Chadwick Building, Gower Street This event is supported by the National Research Ethics Service, the UCLH/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre and the UCL Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health. For more information please visit the conference website. |
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Wednesday 11 November 2009 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Stem Cell Clinic: Clinical drivers and prospects for cell-based therapies in the musculoskeletal system Speaker: Prof. David Marsh, Head of Academic Centre for Clinical Orthopaedics at UCL Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 4pm CDB Special Seminar: Regulating bone and tooth development Speaker: Prof Robb Krumlauf, Scientific Director, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA Venue: A V Hill Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 4 November 2009 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Workshop: An introduction to Framework Programme 7 - funding opportunities, the European Research Council and project management services Speaker: Michael Browne, Head of European Research and Development at UCL Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 28 October 2009 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "The challenges of using stem cells for the treatment of blinding ocular surface disease" Speaker: Dr Julie Daniels, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Thursday 22 October 2009 at 1pm Seminar: "From actin dynamics to mitochondrial homeostasis - how annexinsdecode calcium signals" Speaker: Professor Stephen Moss, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Venue: Room 106, 1st Floor, UCL Anatomy Building, Gower Street |
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Wednesday 21 October 2009 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Seminar: "Development and validation of brain tumours models" Speaker: Prof Sebastian Brandner, UCL Institute of Neurology Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Tuesday 20 October 2009 at 1.15pm UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: "The New Biology of Ageing" Speaker: Professor Dame Linda Partridge Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL Darwin Building, Gower Street |
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Thursday 15 October 2009 at 6pm London Regenerative Medicine Network Meeting Venue: AV Hill Lecture Theatre, Medical Science Building, UCL |
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Wednesday 14 October 2009 at 5pm UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Stem Cell Clinic: "Amniotic fluid stem cells in regenerative medicine" Speaker: Dr Paolo De Coppi, UCL Institute of Child Health Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street |
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Thursday 8 October 2009 at 1pm Seminar: "Regulation of boundary formation & neurogenesis" Speaker: Dr David Wilkinson, MRC NIMR Venue: Room 106, 1st Floor, UCL Anatomy Building, Gower Street |
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Thursday 8 October 2009 at 6pm Lecture: "Current Legal Problems: The Human Rights of Children" Speaker: Professor Michael Freeman, UCL Law Faculty, in association with Garden Court Chambers Venue: UCL Chemistry Auditorium, Christopher Ingold Building, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1 |
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Tuesday 6 October 2009 at 5.30pm MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases Title: “Convergent pathways in motor neuron degeneration” Speaker: Dr Kevin Talbot, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford Venue: Lecture theatre at 33 Queen Square |
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Tuesday 6 October 2009 at 5.30 pm 2009 UCL Prize Lecture in Clinical Science Title: "Stem Cells: Past, Present and Future" Speaker: Professor Sir Martin Evans Venue: Cruciform building, Lecture Theatre 1, Gower St |
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Monday October 5 2009 at 1pm Speaker: Dr David Sassoon Director, Myology Group, Université Paris VI/Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Title: From cell stress responses to stem cells: a common link in muscle, skin and other adult stem cell niches? Venue: Room 106, Anatomy Building, Gower Street |
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Thursday 1 October 2009 at 5 pm Speaker: Professor Sir Nicholas Wright of Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry Title: Stem cells and clonal competition in the development of gastrointestinal neoplasia. Venue: Courtyard Café, Paul O’Gorman Building, UCL Cancer Institute |
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Monday 28th September from 5.30pm Title: “Adaptive and innate immune tolerance in haematopoietic stem cell transplantation” Title: “Distinctive cellular/molecular signatures of human CD34neg haematopoietic stem cells" Venue: Room: G37 A&B, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX |
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Thursday 24 September 2009 BRITISH CARDIOVASCULAR COLLABORATIVE MEETING ON STEM CELLS Full programme and information |
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Wednesday 16th September at 3.30 pm Special Lecture: "Derivation of ocular cells using human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells" Speaker: Dr. Dennis Clegg Venue: Room 106, First floor, Anatomy building, Gower St Host: Prof. Pete Coffey, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Dr. Dennis Clegg is Co-Director of the UCSB Center for Stem Cell Biology & Engineering,University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. |
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Wednesday 9 - Friday 11 September 2009 Conference: 12th International Symposium on "Signalling at the Blood-Brain and Blood-Retinal Barriers" Venue: UCL Institute of Ophthalmology |
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Wednesday 29 July at 4pm "Systems biology of angiogenesis: from molecules to therapy" Speaker: Professor Aleksander Popel, School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA Venue: Second floor seminar room of the Rayne building, 5 University Street |
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Tuesday 21 July at 1pm "Cardiac stem cell therapy, a clinical perspective" Speaker: Professor Bernard J Gersh, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA Venue: Hatter Cardiovascular Institute (3rd floor library), UCL Division of Medicine, 67 Chenies Mews, London WC1E 6HX |
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Wednesday 15 July at 4.15pm Open Access Task Group - Special Seminar "The Future of Science Publishing" Speaker: Timo Hannay, Publishing Director of Nature.com Venue: Room 6.12, UCL Malet Place Engineering Building |
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Monday 13 July at 2pm "Understanding pluripotency and totipotency through single cell approach" Speaker: Fuchou Tang, Wellcome Trust / Cancer Research UK Venue: Room N5, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA |
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Monday 13 July at 1pm "Morphogens and microRNAs: insights from zebrafish" Speaker: Professor Alex Schier, Harvard University Venue: Room 106, 1st Floor, UCL Anatomy Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT |
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Tuesday 7 July at 4pm "Adult Stem Cells in the Corneal Stroma: properties and potential therapeutic applications" Speaker: Dr James L Funderburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh Venue: Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology |
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Monday 6 July UCL Cancer Institute Second Annual Conference and Open Day For full details, download the PDF Talks relevant to the stem cell field included: "Investigation of early epigenetic events in a cancer stem cell model" by Laurence Wild "Chromatin modifications in transcriptional control" by Antonis Kirmizis "Neural stem cells and brain cancer" by Steve Pollard "The tumour suppressor PML regulates cell fate in the nervous system" by Paolo Salomoni "Transcriptional repression of developmental genes" by Barbara Jennings |
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Friday 3 July at 4pm "Temporal regulation of neocortical neural stem cell fate" Speaker: Yukiko Gotoh, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo Venue: Room N5, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA |
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Tuesday 30 June at 4.30pm "Transdifferentiation of embryonic endothelial cells to hematopoietic stem cells" Speaker: Elaine Dzierzak, Erasmus MC - Medical Faculty, The Netherlands Venue: Room N5, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA |
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Thursday 11 June at 1pm "Role of ATM-Interacting Protein (ATMIN) in Neuronal Regeneration and Repair" Speaker: Ms Crystal Ruff, UCL Research Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology Venue: A V Hill Lecture Theatre, Gower Street |
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Thursday 4 June at 1pm "Sox2 regulation in Embryonic Stem Cells: 'stem' and 'induced neural differentiation' states Speaker: Dr Ali Ghanem, UCL Research Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology Venue: A V Hill Lecture Theatre, Gower Street |
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Monday 1 June at 1pm The Otto Wolff Lecture “Paediatrics and Child Health: Getting published" Speaker: Dr Rhona MacDonald, Senior Editor of The Lancet Venue: Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Child Health |
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Thursday 21 May at 1pm “Mechanisms controlling early cell fate decisions of human pluripotent stem cells” Speaker: Dr Ludovic Vallier, Senior Non-Clinical MRC Fellow, University of Cambridge Venue: Seminar Room B, 2nd Floor, Wellcome Trust Building, UCL Institute of Child Health |
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Wednesday 13 May at 1pm “Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Lung Metastases” Speaker: Dr Sam Janes, UCL Division of Medicine Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building |
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Wednesday 29 April at 3pm “ERED, a New Model for Partnership in Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development” Speakers: Dr Robert Sarisky and Dr Linda Jolliffe from Johnson & Johnson Venue: UCL Cancer Institute, 3rd floor seminar room of the Paul O’Gorman Building. |
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