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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
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
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: 27th 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.
- Past Events 2021/22
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
DBC Students and Supervisors it's 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition season once again.
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, 23rd 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
- Past Events 2020/21
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***
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
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
- Past Events 2019/20
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 Discussion2nd 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
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 Defect15th 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 cancer1st May 2019
Cancer theme Seminar
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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
