IIB Seminar Series 0151 795 4402 louise.crompton@liverpool.ac.uk GSTT SEMINAR: Dr Hitesh Mistry, University of Manchester - A serious division in drug cardiac toxicity12:00pm - 1:00pm / Monday 1st February 2016BEEM Seminar: Adaptation to a human dominated world - Seven short presentations4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 2nd February 2016BEEM Seminar: Xav Harrison, Zoological Society London - Quantifying the effects of habitat complexity and pathogenic infection on host microbial community dynamics4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 9th February 2016BEEM Seminar: Tristram Wyatt, Oxford University - Success of the smelliest: how pheromone signals evolve (and do humans have them?)4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 16th February 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Prof Tony Day, University of Manchester - Harnessing the tissue protective properties of TSG-6: a potential therapy for osteoarthritis?12:00pm - 1:00pm / Monday 22nd February 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Alistair Jump, University of Stirling - Contrasting observed and expected range-wide patterns of forest stability under climate change4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 23rd February 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Dr Alessio Ciulli, University of Dundee - Chemical biology approaches to selective chemical probes in the ubiquitin and chromatin systems12:00pm - 1:00pm / Monday 29th February 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Prof Mike Barer, University of Leicester - Messages from the ether: Transcriptional signals from the tubercle bacillus in patient-generated aerosols - their implications for the transmission and treatment of tuberculosis4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 8th March 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Prof Judith Armitage, University of Oxford - In vitro vs in vivo: using bacterial behaviour to understand protein complex formation and sensory pathways12:00pm - 1:00pm / Monday 14th March 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Jo Halliday, University of Glasgow - Multi-host epidemiology of bacterial zoonoses in northern Tanzania4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 15th March 2016Automated building and validation of crystallographic structures of proteins and ligands12:00pm - 1:00pm / Friday 18th March 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Prof Victoria Sanz-Moreno, King's College London - Combining 'omics, imaging and molecular biology to study cytoskeletal dynamics during cancer cell migration12:00pm - 1:00pm / Monday 11th April 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Fiona Ingleby, University of Sussex - The genetic architecture of conflict and resolution in the developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 12th April 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Prof Gero Steinberg, University of Exeter - Early endosomes organise the fungal cell12:00pm - 1:00pm / Monday 18th April 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Michael Blaut, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DifE) - Role of intestinal bacteria in obesity and inflammatory bowel disease4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 19th April 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Dr Edina Rosta, King's College London - Molecular dynamics simulations: asymmetic activation of RAF Kinase Dimers12:00pm - 1:00pm / Monday 25th April 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Sinead English, Cambridge University - Maternal effects and senescence in a long-lived disease vector4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 26th April 2016MBTT Seminar: Helen Wright and Joan Comenge1:00pm - 2:00pm / Wednesday 11th May 2016HOST MICROBE SEMINAR: Prof Jay Hinton and Dr Kristian Daly1:00pm - 2:00pm / Tuesday 17th May 2016Dynamics and Management of Host-Microbe Interactions Theme Seminar1:00pm - 2:00pm / Tuesday 7th June 2016Dr Benjamin Bax, GSK - Title: 'Introduction to the drug discovery process and protein crystallography at GSK'1:00pm - 2:00pm / Tuesday 27th September 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Dr Chiu Fan Lee, Imperial College London - Title: 'Protein amyloid self-assembly: Thermodynamics, kinetics and pathogenesis'1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 3rd October 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Epidemics and plagues: 6 personal accounts from members of IIB4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 4th October 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Mathieu-Benoit Voisin, William Harvey Research Institute, QMUL - Title: 'A journey through the lymphatic vasculature: what turns neutrophils on?'1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 10th October 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Lucy Hawkes, University of Exeter - Title: 'The physiology of extreme flight at high altitude'4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 11th October 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Prof Richard Cogdell, University of Glasgow - Title: 'How purple photosynthetic bacteria harvest solar energy'1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 17th October 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Dr Victoria Hunt, University of Bristol - Title: 'The genetic basis of parasitism in the Strongyloides nematodes' 4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 18th October 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Optimising CO2 assimilation and crop yields in fluctuating environments1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 24th October 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Dr Rick Bruintjes, University of Exeter - Title: 'Cooperation, conflict and noise'4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 25th October 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Dr Cristobal Uauy, John Innes Centre - Title: 'Can wheat genomics help alleviate food insecurity?'1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 31st October 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Dr Emma Sayer, Lancaster University - Title: 'Bridging Gaps in Ecosystem Ecology and Science Communication'4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 1st November 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Dr Cathy Merry, University of Nottingham - Title: 'Heparan Sulphate in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine - opportunities and pitfalls'1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 7th November 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Dr Esther Dusabe-Richards - Using social science approaches in a biomedical world: experiences, challenges and opportunities4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 8th November 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Prof Sylvie Fournel, University of Strasbourg - Title: 'Liposomal constructs to induce anti-tumoural immune responses'1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 14th November 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Dr Lee Henry, QMUL - Title: 'Host-microbe interactions and the evolution of beneficial symbioses'4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 15th November 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Prof Roberto Mayor, University College London - Title: 'Neural crest migration as a model of cell invasion during development' 1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 21st November 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Dr Matthew Bell, University of Edinburgh - Title: 'Why do meerkat grannies eat their own grandchildren? Causes and consequences of social conflict in vertebrate cooperative breeders'4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 22nd November 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Dr Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge - Title: 'Regulation of polyA tail length by cellular machines'1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 28th November 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Prof George Salmond, University of Cambridge - Title: 'Phenotypes, faith, flotation and phages: Gang culture in the bacterial world'4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 29th November 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Dr Sean Connell, CIC bioGUNE - Title: 'Disassembling Ribosome Assembly'1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 5th December 2016BEEM SEMINAR: Dr Dan Franks, University of York - Title: 'The evolution of prolonged life after reproduction'4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 6th December 2016GSTT SEMINAR: Towards a systematic understanding of the apicomplexan membrane-trafficking system1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 30th January 2017GSTT SEMINAR: Lighting the future of horticulture1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 6th February 2017BEEM SEMINAR: Multi-host pollinator pathogens: reconstructing drivers of disease transmission4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 7th February 2017GSTT SEMINAR: Deciphering new secrets of the hypoxia inducible transcription factor1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 13th February 2017BEEM SEMINAR: Understanding the basis for nutrient acquisition by prominent members of the human gut microbiota4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 14th February 2017GSTT SEMINAR: Democratising live-cell high-speed low-illumination super-resolution microscopy1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 20th February 2017BEEM SEMINAR: Transgenerational effects in quail4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 21st February 2017BEEM SEMINAR: Sex chromosomes: regulation, conflict and speciation in Drosophila11:00am - 12:00pm / Monday 27th February 2017GSTT SEMINAR: Strategies for controlling genes expression in bacteria1:00pm - 4:00pm / Tuesday 28th February 2017BEEM SEMINAR: Sex change under a new light: ecological and evolutionary consequences of alternative reproduction paths4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 28th February 2017GSTT SEMINAR: Novel therapies for adjunct treatment of severe respiratory and systemic bacterial infections1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 6th March 2017BEEM SEMINAR: Climate change in microcosm: environmental variation and model trophic interaction4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 7th March 2017GSTT SEMINAR: From strings of nucleotides to collective behaviour: lessons from Vibrio cholerae1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 13th March 2017BEEM SEMINAR: Climate change impacts on ocean biology: physiological underpinnings, projections and uncertainties4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 14th March 2017GSTT SEMINAR: Syndecan receptors: regulators of morphology and motility in normal and transformed cells1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 20th March 2017GSTT SEMINAR: Improving fragment assembly protein structure prediction1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 27th March 2017BEEM SEMINAR: The phylogenomics of whales and dolphins4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 28th March 2017GSTT SEMINAR: Proteoglycans: Dynamic complex molecules supporting tissue and organ architecture whilst promoting biological diversity1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 24th April 2017BEEM SEMINAR: Understanding macro parasite dynamics and control (using simple mathematical models)4:00pm - 5:00pm / Tuesday 25th April 2017Centre for Genomic Research Series12:00pm - 1:30pm / Tuesday 13th June 2017