Developmental Biology and Cancer Research & Teaching Department Events

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."  

"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