Seminars

Experimental Haematology Seminar Series

We are pleased to announce the start of the Experimental Haematology Thursday lunchtime seminar series, which will be held once a month. This calendar year we have two speakers (see below), and the programme of the speakers for January - April will be posted in the near future. If you would like to speak with any of the invited speakers, please contact Alison Michie (A.Michie@udcf.gla.ac.uk )

Date/Time	Speaker
1-2pm Thursday 1st Nov 2007	Dr. David Vetrie, University of Glasgow “The Stem Cell Leukaemia (SCL) Gene: Its Regulation and Targets” Seminar Room 3 – The Gannochy, Wolfson Medical School Building
1-2pm Thursday 6th Dec 2007	Dr. Elad Katz, University of Edinburgh “ITAM Signalling in Breast Cancer” Seminar Room 1 – Yudowitz, Wolfson Medical School Building

Pathology and Gene Regulation

For further information please visit the Seminars page of the Pathology and Gene Regulation section.

Programme for QEB Clinical Sciences Seminars

All staff are welcome to these multi-disciplinary interactions - and all students associated with your Departments. For full details visit the Seminars page of the Surgery section

Beatson Institute External Seminar Programme

For more information regarding seminars held at the Beatson you can download the Beatson Institute External Seminar Listpdf or visit the Beatson website http://www.beatson.gla.ac.uk/seminars/

Beatson Institute for Cancer Research
Garscube Estate,
Switchback Road
Bearsden,
Glasgow
G61 1BD
Tel 0141 330 3953

**October 2007**
Date/Time/Venue	Speaker
12pm Tuesday 2nd October Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Kurt Anderson) Christoph Ballestrem, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester Vinculin Orchestrates the Formation of Cell-Matrix Adhesions
12pm Tuesday 9th October Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Kurt Anderson) Alexander Verkhovsky, Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Station 15, Lausanne, Switzerland Quantitative analysis of the motile machinery in a simple migrating cell
12pm Wednesday 10th October Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Karen Vousden/Laraine Kernahan) Peter Adams, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Phildelphia Chromatin structure and its impact on aging and cancer
12pm Tuesday 16th October Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Kevin Ryan) Alison Lloyd, MRC laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London - Gower Street, London The regulation of cell growth in mammalian cells
12pm Wednesday 17th October Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Owen Sansom) Kirsteen Maclean, St Judes Children’s Research Hospital, Lauderdale, Memphis, USA Ttbc
12pm Monday 29th October Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Karen Vousden/Laraine Kernahan) Alan Warren, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Ribosome biogenesis and cancer
12pm Tuesday 30th October Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Karen Vousden/Laraine Kernahan) Ross Dickins, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, James Building, 1 Bungtown Road Cold Spring Harbor Investigating tumour maintenance using reversible RNA interference

**November 2007**
Date/Time/Venue	Speaker
12pm Tuesday 6th November Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Karen Vousden/Laraine Kernahan) Jorge S Reis-Filho, Team Leader - Molecular Pathology, The Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Building Chester Beatty Laboratories, Fulham Road London UK Basal-like breast cancer: from pathology to mouse models and beyond
12pm Wednesday 21st November Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Karen Vousden/Laraine Kernahan) Alex Hergovich, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Maulbeerstrasse 66, Basel, Switzerland Ttbc
12pm Friday 23rd November Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Karen Vousden/Laraine Kernahan) Ruth Palmer, Umea Center for Molecular Pathogenesis, Umea University, Sweden Ttbc
12pm Tuesday 27th November Auditorium	DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR (Kevin Ryan) Eileen White, Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Associate Director for Basic Science, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, New Jersey USA Role of apoptosis and autophagy in cancer and treatment

**December 2007**
Date/Time/Venue	Speaker
12pm Monday 3rd December Auditorium	DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR (Karen Vousden) Richard J Youle, Surgical Neurology Branch, NINDS, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Building 35, Room 2C-917, 35 Convent Drive, MSC 3704 Bethesda, MD 20892-3704 Bcl-2 family regulation of apoptosis
12pm Tuesday 4th December Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Rob Mairs/Marie Boyd) Adam Hurlstone, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester Pharmacogenetics, tumour modelling, and drug discovery in zebrafish
12pm Tuesday 11th December Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Margaret Frame) Martin Noble, Department of Biochemistry, The Rex Richards Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU Ttbc
12pm Tuesday 18th December Common Room	EXTERNAL SEMINAR (Bob White) René Medema, Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands Ttbc

UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Seminars

Experimental Haematology Seminar Series

Pathology and Gene Regulation

Programme for QEB Clinical Sciences Seminars

Beatson Institute External Seminar Programme