Professor Deborah Tweddle, Newcastle Biomedicine, Newcastle University Wednesday 8th October, 4.00 p.m., Jennison Lecture Theatre Neuroblastoma is one of the most difficult childhood cancers to … Read more
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Research Seminar: Proteomics, epigenetics, antigenic variation and evolution of the nucleus
Professor Mark Field Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee Wednesday 1st October, 4.00 p.m., Jennison Lecture Theatre The control of gene … Read more
Ribosome movement, information processing and the language of life
Life requires information transfer from nucleic acids to proteins. This involves the physical movement of molecular decoding machines (ribosomes) along linear nucleic acid templates (mRNAs). … Read more
Actin filament dynamics unravelled by Kent Fungal Group
PhD students in Dan Mulvihill’s group have recently published a study in which they have uncovered the mechanism by which the physical properties of different … Read more
Outcomes of blastocysts biopsied and vitrified once versus those cryopreserved twice for euploid blastocyst transfer
Tyl Taylor (Griffin lab) established that human embryos can be frozen and thawed twice, if necessary, without incurring gross genetic (chromosomal) defects. Taylor, T.H., … Read more
Research Seminar: Mitochondria but not as you know them.
Dr. Mark van der Giezen, Biosciences, University of Exeter Monday 16th June, 4.00 p.m., Stacey Lecture Theatre 1 Mitochondria are the main of sites of … Read more
Research Seminar: Controlling electron transfer at the microbe-mineral interface.
Dr. Tom Clarke, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia Monday 9th June, 4.00 p.m., Stacey Lecture Theatre 1 Many bacteria can use solid … Read more
Using fluorine to study protein-ligand binding
Dr. Mark Howard, Reader in Biological NMR Spectroscopy, comments on a recently published article describing a new approach to studying proteins. “Proteins are one of … Read more
Research Seminar: Unpair to repair or degrade: Flap Endonuclease and Family Members.
Professor Jane Grasby, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield Wednesday 4th June, 1.00 p.m., Stacey Lecture Theatre 1 Flap endonuclease-1 (FEN1), the essential 5’-nuclease of lagging … Read more
Research Seminar: MYCN oncogene amplification: from basic science to individualised medicine.
Dr. Frank Westermann, Division of Tumour Genetics, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg Monday 19th May, 4.00 p.m., Stacey Lecture Theatre 1