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The Biochemistry Seminar Series will be hosting external speakers every other Thursday from 15:00-16:00. Please join us after for our Department happy Hour at 16:30.

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Francis Neary; 33776; Sara Seddon; Daisy Saward; 127114; 129427; 131284; 131341. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

3 upcoming talks and 79 talks in the archive.

D-amino acids shape the structure and diversity of microbial communities

UserProessor Felipe Cava - Umeå University.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 09 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Drugging the Gut Microbiome: From Unintended Side Effects to Targeted Modulation

UserProf. Dr. Lisa Maier- University Hospital Tübingen.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 19 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

"Life-s first kiss – what do we miss?"

UserAndrea Pauli - IMP.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 05 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Deciphering disease mutations and gene regulation through massively parallel assays of variant effects.

UserGrzegorz Kudla- University of Edinburgh.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 19 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

How to build a contact site? The molecular mechanism of on-demand sterol biosynthesis at organelle contact sites

UserMaya Schuldiner - Weizmann Institute.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 05 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Understanding how CpG islands regulate gene expression

UserRob Klose, University of Oxford.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 22 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Evolution and diversity of mitosis 

UserGautam Dey - EMBL.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 08 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Beak to Bedside - Understanding and controlling Campylobacter

UserAndrew Grant - University of Cambridge.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:00

The SEISMIC facility for spatially resolved single and sub-cellular omics

UserMelanie Bailey - Kings College London.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 27 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

The crosstalk between RNA transcription and splicing

UserSuyang Zhang - MRC LMB.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 13 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Breaking the cycle: mechanisms that underpin proliferation-dormancy switches

UserTony Ly - University of Dundee.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Exploring the Border Between Matter and Life

UserKira Podolsky - MIT.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 16 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Adventures in Imaging Metallomics: illuminating metal behavior in cancer and beyond

UserCinzia Imberti - Kings College London.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 18 September 2025, 15:00-16:00

Structural and molecular basis of DNA transfer by bacterial conjugative systems

UserGabriel Waksman .

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

Post-transcriptional regulations via small molecules targeting RNA-binding proteins

UserPeng Wu.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

Structures and Strategies for Assembly-Line Biosynthesis of Terpenoid Natural Products

UserDavid Christianson .

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

The genetic and biochemical basis of leading strand synthesis and PARP inhibitors sensitivity

UserRoberto Bellelli .

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Using Cryo-EM to Understand Evolution

UserEdward Egelman .

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2025, 12:00-13:00

“It’s all in your head: Stroke, Vascular Dementia, Parkinson’s Disease and COVID-19”

UserGreg Bix - Tulane University School of Medicine.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 08 April 2025, 12:00-13:00

BroadCASTing DNA in bacteria: Mechanisms of CRISPR-associated transposons

UserIrma Querques.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Surface colonization of a human pathogen revisited

UserUrs Jenal.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Use of the cytoskeleton to control Shigella infection

UserSerge Mostowy.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Two become one and one becomes two: cell reshaping across evolution

UserAndela Saric.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

“Rearview mirror of the first two years of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic – Emerging variants, vaccine responses and links between natural immunity and disease severity”

UserMikkel-Ole Skjodt.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

Through the back door; How transcription termination mechanisms can provide very fast gene expression adaptation and control.

UserHannah Mischo.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

Guardians of the Genome: The Hidden Role of Homologous Recombination Proteins in DNA Replication and Repair

UserVincenzo Costanzo.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 14 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserMark Isalan .

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 10 December 2024, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserMikkel-Ole Skjodt.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2024, 12:00-13:00

Control of gene expression, lessons learn from the hypoxia field

UserSonia Rocha.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserSteve Kerrigan.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserStéphane Gagne.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 15 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

The extracellular matrix fuels cancer cell growth and migration under amino acid starvation

UserElena Rainero.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Label-free detection and profiling of individual solution-phase molecules

UserLisa-Maria Needham .

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Mechanism for Membrane Protein Insertion and Complex Assembly

UserHaoxi Wu .

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

DNA damage response control by RNA and its therapeutic potential

UserFabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 04 June 2024, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserPatrycja Kozik.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Decoding the epigenetic blueprint that guides Toxoplasma differentiation as the parasite navigates its multi-stage life cycle

UserAli Mohamed Hakimi.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

Tumor targeting: from encoded libraries to clinical-stage therapeutics

UserDario Neri.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 23 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

From structure prediction to therapeutics: the rapidly evolving landscape of biomolecular modeling and simulations

UserPrem Chapagain.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 09 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

A multifunctional biosynthetic machine that makes an interesting, underappreciated green polymer

UserMartin Schmeing .

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 05 April 2024, 15:00-16:00

Endocrine signaling and physiological constraint drive a reproduction-immunity tradeoff in Drosophila

UserBrian Lazzaro.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

New Strategies for how modification enzymes distinguish tRNAs (or not)

UserEva Kowalinski.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Visualizing virus infection in situ by cryoET

UserPeijun Zhang.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Therapeutic manipulations of phosphatases and kinases controlling protein quality control systems: From the bench, to the clinic and back

UserAnne Bertolotti.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 09 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Airway Biology at the Nanoscale

UserVito Mennella.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Reciprocal gut/body interactions in health and disease

UserJulia Cordero.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 30 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

Adaptation of the cytoskeleton for pathogenicity in the malaria parasite

UserJosie Ferreira.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

TBA

UserKatharina Hoefer.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

Physiological roles of aberrant DNA methylation in vitro and in vivo

UserGabriella Ficz.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Photosynthesis on an electrode

UserJenny Zhang.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Understanding the regulation of membranes in health and disease

UserStefano Pagliara.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Repurposing the Plasmodium falciparum mitotic machinery for roles in gametocytogenesis and cell polarity

UserLeann Tilley.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Evolution of endocellular trafficking in the eukaryotes: tethers, retromer and factors affecting the shape of the ER

UserLila Koumandou.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Exploring novel regulators in nitrate signaling

UserKun-Hsiang Liu.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 17 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

How do chromatin remodelling enzymes reshape chromatin?

UserJoel Mackay.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 25 September 2023, 12:00-13:00

RNA Controls DNA in the Human Cell Nucleus

UserTom Cech, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2023, 15:00-16:30

Coping with the stress of studying novel human DNA replication deficiency disorders

UserGrant Stewart - University of Birmingham.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

New trends in Immuno-Oncology - towards personalised cancer treatment

UserMarkus Zettl - CureVac.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 18 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

Decoding the gene regulatory architecture in the genome

UserBing Ren.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

Molecular Memories

UserOded Rechavi - Tel Aviv University.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

Title to be confirmed

UserMark Howarth - Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 April 2023, 12:30-14:00

Choices in regeneration: How planarians produce missing parts

UserPeter Reddien - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 18 April 2023, 12:30-14:00

How to kill your rivals: Inter-microbial competition mediated by the Type VI secretion system

UserSarah Coulthurst.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 23 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

Dynamic assembly of TNA-protein complexes

UserSarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 21 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

New insights into cerebellar disorders

UserEsther Becker.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

Non-cell-autonomous regulation of cell reprogramming: how to be an active bystander

UserMaria Christophorou.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

Life as a Guide to the Origin of Life

UserNick Lane.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2023, 12:30-14:00

Next generation approaches to understanding the regulation of steroid hormone response

UserAndrew Holding .

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2023, 12:30-14:00

Standing at the crossroads: having defined their pathogenicity at length, can we now exploit the beneficial properties of Burkholderia bacteria?

UserEshwar Mahenthiralingam.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2023, 12:30-14:00

Unraveling mechanisms of human-specific brain development and evolution using organoids

UserMadeline Lancaster.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2023, 12:30-14:00

Pdr5—a tale of ATP, drugs, and promiscuity

UserLutz Schmitt.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 12:30-14:00

The PTMeXchange project: finding evidence for post-translational modifications - crosstalk, competition and conservation across Life

UserAndy Jones.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2023, 12:30-14:00

Title to be confirmed

UserJody Rosenblatt.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 10 January 2023, 12:30-14:00

Plant pathogens manipulate host microbiota to promote disease development

UserBart Thomma.

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 13 December 2022, 12:30-14:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Going down the rabbit hole: Drugging Mycobacterium tuberculosis metabolic pathways

UserDany Beste.

HouseDepartment of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 06 December 2022, 12:30-14:00

"Bacterial retrons: a new type of phage defense systems"

UserNassos Typas Seminar .

HouseJean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2022, 12:30-14:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

“Mechanistic insights into controlling cell identity by transcription factors”

UserAbdenour Soufi.

HouseDepartment of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 12:30-14:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

'Electron tomography of prokaryotic cell surfaces'

UserTanmay Bharat.

HouseDepartment of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2022, 12:30-14:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

'Multivalent RNA regions regulate nuclear export of functionally related mRNAs'.

UserUle Jernez.

HouseDepartment of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2022, 12:30-14:00

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