CCRCB Seminar Programme 2011-2012
Date: Monday 2 July 2012
Seminar Speaker: Professor Modesto Orozco,
IRB Barcelona
Title of Lecture: "Dynamic Simulations of Proteins in the Postgenomic Era"
Date: Tuesday 12 June 2012
Seminar Speaker: Professor James O'Donnell,
Consultant Haematologist, St James's Hospital Dublin,
Director, Haemostasis Research Group, Trinity College Dublin
Title of Lecture: "Cross-Talk Between Malignancy and Coagulation Serine Proteases - Novel Therapeutic Opportunities"
Date: Thursday 31 May 2012
Seminar Speaker: Professor Richard Kennedy,
Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University Belfast
Title of Lecture: "The Development of Biomarkers for Personalised Medicine"
Date: Thursday 17 May 2012
Seminar Speaker: Professor Kevin Prise,
Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University Belfast
Title of Lecture: "Development of New Biological-Based Models for Advanced Radiotherapies"
Date: Thursday 10 May 2012
Seminar Speaker: Dr Lawrence Banks,
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Italy
Title of Lecture: "Human Papillomaviruses: From Infection to Cancer"
Date: Thursday 3 May 2012
Seminar Speaker: Professor Nicola Perrotti,
University of Catanzaro Italy
Title of Lecture: "SGK1 in Metabolic Syndrome and Cancer"
Date: Thursday 26 April 2012
Seminar Speaker: Dr Patrice Codogno,
University of Paris
Title of Lecture: "Autophagy: Self-Eating is Good For You"
Date: Thursday 29 March 2012
Seminar Speaker: Dr Nick Orr,
Institute of Cancer Research London
Title of Lecture: "Genetic Susceptibility to Breast Cancer"
Date: Thursday 22 March 2012
Seminar Speaker: Professor Guido Hildebrandt,
University of Rostock
Title of Lecture: "Modulation of Inflammatory Responses by Ionizing Radiation"
Date: Thursday 15 March 2012
Seminar Speaker: Dr Eric Miska,
The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Title of Lecture: "Small RNAs: From Genome Maintenance to Innate Immunity"
Date: Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Seminar Speaker: Dr Lukas Kenner,
Ludwig Boltzman Institute for Cancer Research, Medical University Vienna
Title of Lecture: "News from Stat3 in Prostate Cancer and AP-1 in NPM-ALK Associated Lymphomagenesis"
Date: Thursday, 9 February 2012
Seminar Speaker: Professor Carlos Caldas,
Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute
Title of Lecture: "Genomics of Breast Cancer - What Have We Learned?"
Date: Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Seminar Speaker: Professor Marco Durante,
Biophysics Division at the GSI (Germany)
Title of Lecture: "Translational Research in Charged Particle Radiobiology"
Date: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Seminar Speaker: Professor Norman J Maitland,
University of York
Title of Lecture: "Prostate Cancer Stem Cells: A Source of Novel Therapeutic Targets"
Date: Thursday, 19 January 2012
Seminar Speaker: Dr Kai Rothkamm,
Health Protection Agency (HPA), UK
Title of Lecture: "DNA and Chromosome Damage as Biomarkers for Radiation Exposure and Effect"
Date: Friday, 13 January 2012
Seminar Speaker: Professor Kum Kum Khanna,
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
Title of Lecture: "Defective DNA Damage Repair as a Cause and Cure for Cancer"
Date: Thursday, 15 December 2011
Seminar Speaker: Dr David Waugh,
CCRCB, Queen's University Belfast
Title of Lecture: "All Roads (Cancer Pathways) Lead to IL-8"
Date: Thursday, 8 December 2011
Seminar Speaker: Dr Peter Bond,
University of Cambridge
Title of Lecture: "Multiscale Simulation Approaches to Biomolecular Assembly"
Date: Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Seminar Speaker: Dr Tim Wilson,
Jeff Settleman's Group in Genentech, San Francisco
Title of Lecture: "Non-Mutational RTK Activation - Implications for Therapeutic Development and Resistance to Anti-Cancer Kinase Inhibitors"
Date: Thursday, 1 December 2011
Seminar Speaker: Professor Andy Hall,
University of Newcastle
Title of Lecture: "'Darwinian Fitness' in Acute Leukaemia"
Date: Thursday, 24 November 2011
Seminar Speaker: Dr Roger Barraclough,
University of Liverpool
Title of Lecture: "Proteins Associated with Cancer Metastasis"
Date: Thursday, 17 November 2011
Seminar Speaker: Professor Mark Sansom,
University of Oxford
Title of Lecture: "Protein/Lipid Interactions in Membranes via Multiscale Simulations"
Date: Thursday, 27 October 2011
Seminar Speaker: Professor David Neal,
University of Cambridge
Title of Lecture: "Recent discoveries about androgen receptor function in prostate cancer"
Date: Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Seminar Speaker: Dr Mickey Williams,
Director, Molecular Characterization and Clinical Assay Development Laboratory, SAIC-Frederick, Inc. Washington
Title of Lecture: “Molecular Characterization and Clinical Assay Development in Lymphoma and other cancers”
Date: Thursday, 20 October 2011
Seminar Speaker: Professor Steve Jackson,
The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Title of Lecture: "Cellular responses to DNA damage: From molecular insights to new approaches for cancer therapy"
Date: Thursday, 13 October 2011
Seminar Speaker: Dr Sam Bunting,
National Cancer Institute
Title of Lecture: "DNA repair pathway choice and the origin of cancer"
