Department seminars
The department seminars, organized jointly by Biochemistry, Ecology & Evolution, Plant Biology & Zoology are held regularly during the semester on Tuesday mornings at 11.15 in the Plant Biology lecture theatre - visitors are welcome. The programme below is only provisional and will be updated when details become available (last update 6th March 2012).
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Programme for the spring semester 2012 |
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21st February: Brian Luke (Centre for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg) DNA loops and non-coding RNA regulate telomere structure and function and influence cellular senescence (host Biochemistry) |
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28th February: Frederic Gachon (Dept. Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Lausanne) Regulation of liver metabolism by circadian clock-coordinated post-transcriptional modifications (host Biochemistry) |
| 13th March: Etienne Danchin (CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Beyond DNA: Non-genetic inheritance (host Ecology) cancelled |
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20th March: Christiophe Maurel (INRA/CNRS, Montpellier) Aquaporins: how water channel proteins help plant life in an ever changing environment (host Plant Biology) |
| 23rd March: Armin Bischoff (Agrocampus Ouest, Institute of Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection (UMR1349 IGEPP), Angers, France) Local plant adaptation and biotic interactions - implications for ecological restoration (host Ecology) |
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27th March: Ralph Panstruga (Plant Molecular Cell Biology, RWTH, Aachen) The molecular basis of broad-spectrum powdery mildew resistance (host Plant Biology) |
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3rd April: Alexander Gottschalk (Inst Biochemistry, Goeth University, Frankfurt) Optogenetic analyses of synaptic transmission and neuronal networks in Caenorhabditis elegans (host Zoology) cancelled |
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17th April: Tony Southall (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) A novel Tumour Suppressor that Promotes Neural Differentiation in Drosophila (host Zoology) |
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1st May: Jonathan Levine (Plant Ecology, ETH Zürich) Understanding plant invasions from introduction through spread (host Ecology) |
