Oxford University Biochemical Society (OUBS)
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The Oxford University Biochemical Society (OUBS) is the official student association affiliated with the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. The primary goal of OUBS is to promote understanding, discussion and review of exciting and current topics in biochemistry, as well as to increase cohesion between students within the department and to introduce students to different career pathways. The society invites outstanding speakers from outside Oxford to give lectures in the Department of Biochemistry. These talks attract students, post-docs and senior members from all of the various life-science departments of the University of Oxford.
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The OUBS
The Oxford University Biochemical Society (OUBS) is a student-run society that aims to promote biochemistry at all levels across the university. We organise weekly seminars that bring scientists from around the world to Oxford, and an annual careers day for students and staff across the life sciences.
OUBS is one of the largest scientific student societies at the University of Oxford. Our membership is diverse, encompassing students and staff from all of the Department's branches. This reflects our goal of bringing together people from different backgrounds and disciplines.
We are the official graduate/undergraduate student association affiliated with the Department of Biochemistry in Oxford.
Meetings
The OUBS meets every term in the New Biochemistry building.
Please RSVP to oubs@bioch.ox.ac.uk
If you are interested in getting involved, feel free to get in touch with us!
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History of the OUBS
The OUBS was founded on December 2nd, 1964, by a group of Oxford Biochemistry graduate students with the establishment of their first constitution, which laid down the ground rule that "the Society exists to invite speakers from outside Oxford." The founding officers of the society were Mr. Anthony .M. Roberton (Merton) as president, Mr Nick .J. Kuhn (Balliol) as treasurer, Mr Frank .S. Rolleston (Linacre House) as secretary and Dr M.W. Whitehouse as senior member. From 1980 onwards, financial support prompted OUBS to no longer charge members for subscription.
Former speakers have hailed from a range of institutions including the Whitehead Institute in Massachusetts and the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht. Previous speakers have included Sir Hans Krebs, Sir James Watson, Sir Martin Wood and recently, Dr. Brian Kobilka, who was awarded the 2012 Nobel prize in chemistry. The Society has also hosted lectures from the Biochemical Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Past Committees
| Year | President | Secretary | Treasurer | Phenotype Editor | Senior Member |
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| 1964-1965 | Mr Anthony M. Roberton (Merton) | Mr Frank.S. Rolleston (Linacre) | Mr Nick .J. Kuhn (Balliol) | Dr M.W. Whitehouse | |
| 1965-1966 | ? | Mr Adrian Allen (Christ Church) | ? | ||
| 1966-1967 | Mr. Julian Wheldrake | Mr Paul.C. Engel (Keble) | Miss Carole Start | Dr Charles Pasternak | |
| 1967-1968 | ? | Mr J.T. Brosnan (St John's) | ? | ||
| 1968-1969 | John Knowland | Mr M.R. Blundell (New College) | ? | ||
| 1969-1970 | ? | Miss M.E. Cross (LMH) | ? | ||
| 1970-1971 | Mr Andrew Glenn | Miss Hilary Kooper (LMH) | Mr Chris Skidmore | Dr Keith Dyke (Wadham) | |
| 1971-1972 | Mr Peter Campbell | Mr Keith Barnett-Dee (Merton) | Mr Mike Silverberg | ||
| 1972-1973 | ? | Mr J.A. Smith (St Catz) | ? | ||
| 1973-1974 | ? | Mr S.J. Ferguson (St John's) | ? | ||
| 1974-1975 | S. Dower (Univ) | Mr Anthony R Leech (Brasenose) | G.R. Moore (Wadham) | ||
| 1975-1976 | Arabella Morris (LMH) | Simon Wairn-Hebson (Merton) | Miss Jenny Paul (Somerville) | ||
| 1976-1977 | R. Drake (LMH) | R.G. McRwight (Queen's) | Stephen Kearsey (St Catz) | ||
| 1977-1978 | Miss Arabella Morris (LMH) | Marie Rose van Schravendyk (Linacre) | Stephen Kearsey (St Catz) | ||
| 1978-1979 | P. Travers (St Catz) | H.R. Fatania (Wolfson) | Miss J. Hall (St Anne's) | ||
| 1979-1980 | Steven Lupton (Univ) | Miss Ellen Wright (St Anne's) | N Brewin (Univ) | Dr Iain Campbell (St Johns) | |
| 1980-1981 | Paul Webb (Pembroke) | Miss Jane Hewitt (St Hugh's) | Gareth Davies (Univ) | ||
| 1981-1982 | Mr Andrew Hillas (Univ) | Miss Vicky Webb (St Hugh's) | Shabir Najmudin (Hertford) | ||
| 1982-1983 | C. Buckley (Queen's) | Miss Janet Pidcock (Univ) | G.Tebb (Merton) | ||
| 1983-1984 | J.I. Pedley (Exeter) | Vivek Malhotra (Wolfson) | A Hocks (LMH) | ||
| 1984-1985 | J.I. Pedley (Exeter) | Vivek Malhotra (Wolfson) | A. Bugard (LMH) |
Dr John Knowland (Pembroke) |
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| 1985-1986 | M.R. Kaser (Linacre) | Ian Crandall (Linacre) | Ms Debbie Rees (Merton) | ||
| 1986-1987 | S. McManns (Univ) | Alsion Kate East (St Hugh's) | Angela Mullett (Exeter) | ||
| 1987-1988 | Grant Carr (St Edmund) | Lucy A. Forrester (Wolfson) | E.McKenzie (Corpus) | Dr A.M.Seymour (Queen's) | |
| 1988-1989 | Saira Malik (Trinity) | Leon van Gorkon (St Hugh's) | Andrew Duralski (St Hugh's) |
Prof Anthony Watts (St Hugh's) 1988-2019 |
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| 1989-1990 | Kim Polgreen (Linacre) | Amanda Tilney-Bassett (Wolfson) | Dr David Fraser (Keble) | ||
| 1990-1991 | Samantha Bevan (Merton) | Jonathan Boulter (St Anne's) | Sian Renfrey (St Hugh's) | ||
| 1991-1992 | Sian Renfrey (St Hugh's) | Jonathan Boulter (Wolfson) | Jonathan Boulter (Wolfson) | ||
| 1992-1993 | Jonathan Boulter (Wolfson) | Clare Whiteway (Jesus) | Sia Applin (Queen's) | ||
| 1993-1994 | Jonathan Boulter (Wolfson) | Sia Applin (Queen's) / Shani Dias (Exeter) | Clare Whiteway (Jesus) | ||
| 1994-1995 | Neil Saunders (St Cross) | Jonathan Boulter (Wolfson) | Alrik Koppenhofer (St. John's) | ||
| 1995-1996 | Neil Saunders (St Cross) | Alrik Koppenhofer (St John's) | Phil Williamson (St Hugh's) | ||
| 1996-1997 | Mr A. Koppenhofer (St John's) | Mr N. Reppas (Balliol) / Mr A. Carter (Queen's) | Miss Zareen Ahmed (St Hugh's) | ||
| 1997-1998 | Mr Nikos Reppas (Balliol) | Mr L. Neilson (Christchurch) /Mr R. Auty (Lincoln) | Miss Zareen Ahmed (St Hugh's) | ||
| 1998-1999 | Ms Janet Hyde (St Peter's) | Mr Andrew Carter (Queen's)/ Miss Atlanta Cook (Christ Church) | Miss Zareen Ahmed (St Hugh's) | ||
| 1999-2000 | Atlanta Cook (Christ Church) | James Wilding (Worcester) | Mark Howarth (Lincoln) | ||
| 2000-2001 | Atlanta Cook (Christ Church) | Karen Lipkow / Sven Sewitz (Wadham) | James Wilding (Worcester) | ||
| 2001-2002 | James Wilding (Worcester) | John Briggs (Hertford) | |||
| 2002-2003 | Tom Massey (Magdalen) | John Briggs (Hertford)/ Julie Welburn (Christ Church) | Rick Hibbert (Hertford)/ Christoph Meier (Christ Church) | ||
| 2003-2004 | Julie Welburn (Christ Church) | Rick Hibbert (Hertford) | Christoph Meier (Christ Church) | ||
| 2004-2005 | Christoph Meier (Christ Church) | Heike Roesner (Wolfson) | Jean-Francois Trempe (Wolfson) | ||
| 2005-2006 | David Lancaster (Linacre) | Sonja Lorenz (St John's) | Lubica Aslimovska (Christ Church) | ||
| 2006-2007 | Sonja Lorenz (St John's) | Rodrigo Reyes (Balliol) | Nick Anthis (Lincon) | ||
| 2007-2008 | Rodrigo Reyes (Balliol) | Marina Kolesnichenko (Lincoln) | Nick Anthis (Lincoln) | ||
| 2008-2009 | Marina Kolesnichenko (Lincoln) | Maria Demidova (Christ Church) | Muhan Wang (Lincoln) | Sarah Iqbal (Wolfson) | |
| 2009-2010 | Maria Demidova (Christ Church) | Anjana Badrinarayanan (Linacre) | Muhan Wang (Lincoln) | David Yadin (Lincoln) | |
| 2010-2011 | David Yadin (Lincoln) | Jerome Ma (Lincoln) | David Marshall (Lincoln) | Anna Boleininger/Dr Tamzin Gristwood | |
| 2011-2012 | Jerome Ma (Lincoln) David Marshall (Lincoln) |
Chris Jones (St. Peter's) | Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol (St. Cross) | Shaoyan Liang (Queen's) Jennifer de Beyer (Merton) |
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| 2012-2013 | Jemma Trick | Chris Jones (St. Peter's) | - | Johanna Scheinost | |
| 2013-2014 | Peter Holmes (Linacre) | Frank Lennartz (Merton) | Christopher Schoene (Lady Margaret Hall) | Joel Beevers | |
| 2014-2015 | Peter Holmes (Linacre) | Gianluca Veggiani (Merton) | Christopher Schoene (Lady Margaret Hall) | Joel Beevers | |
| 2015-2016 | Paul White Radhika Patel |
Rupal Mistry (St. Cross) | Can Buldun | ||
| 2016-2017 | Tianyi Zhang (University) | Radhika Patel (Merton) | Steven Lavington (Magdalen) | ||
| 2019-2020 | Faiz Kipli (Edward Kipli) | Amy Chu | Kelvin Yaprianto |
Prof Elena Seiradake from 2019 |
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The Oxford University Biochemical Society (OUBS) is run by a committee of students of the university. The committee for the 2023/2024 academic year is:
| President | Anna Kogan |
| Secretary | Anna Schwarzenbach, Yimo Zhang |
| Treasurer | Jana Joha |
| Social Secretary | Clara Kummerer |
| Talks Representative | Umut Gerlevik |
| Senior Member | Prof. Elena Seiradake, Dr. Madhusudhan Srinivasan |
| IT Officer | Zinuo Wu |
| Event Officer |
Priyadarshini Chatterjee |
The committee can be reached by email at oubs@bioch.ox.ac.uk
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The OUBS is dependent on sponsorship to run our events. We thank our sponsors for their support.
The Department of Biochemistry
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The Biochemical Society
Royal Society of Chemistry
Molecular Dimensions
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OUBS Conference Travel Support Fund
OUBS has created the “OUBS Conference Travel Support Fund” to support the attendance of scientific conferences by its members, dedicated to serving the mobility of graduate students that have contributed to OUBS.
Applications have to include the (completed) application form, a letter of acceptance to the conference and a copy of your CV and have to be sent to oubs@bioch.ox.ac.uk accordingly. The application will be accepted on a rolling basis.
OUBS reviews whether the application fulfils formal requirements (such as the eligibility criteria or whether the application is complete). In case these criteria are fulfilled, OUBS asks the person that was specified by the applicant to write an endorsement letter for the applicant.
Please refer to the OUBS webpage for more information.
OUBS Impact Award
The OUBS Impact Award honours OUBS committee members that have made outstanding contributions to the society's progress, prosperity and aims, during their membership and – as such - transformatively advanced the graduate community at Oxford University’s Department of Biochemistry.
For an individual to be considered for an OUBS Social Commitment Award, they must have performed outstandingly in all key areas of their role(s) within the OUBS committee.
Please refer to the OUBS webpage for more information.
For your use and assistance, we've produced resources which you may find useful.
Entrance Map (Science Parks)
Department Map
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The OUBS hosts numerous events through the year. Below is an overview of our academic talks, past and upcoming, but we also organize social events (such as coffee meetups, Quiz Nights and the beloved Friday at Five) and career events with the Career Service. To view other types of events, please visit the OUBS website.
Upcoming Talks Hosted by the OUBS
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Link |
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TBA |
Prof. Ibrahim Cissé (Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology) |
TBA | |
| TBA |
Sarah Rouse (Imperial College London) |
TBA |
Want to suggest an event? From talks to social meeting ideas, reach out and let us know what you think.
Past Talks Hosted by the OUBS
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 28th February 2024 | Dr. Andrea Pauli, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna | Fundamental Principles During the Egg-to-Embryo Transition |
| 13th June 2022 | Prof. Barbara Conradt | Programmed cell death during C. elegans development: Lessons learnt and new things to be discovered |
| 7th March 2022 | Prof. Sumana Sanyal, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology | Mechanisms of flavivirus biogenesis using Zika and Dengue as models, and their strategies of evading host immune responses |
| 14th June 2021 | Professor Brenda Schulman, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry | Dynamic E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms |
| 20th January 2020 | Professor Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry | RNA recognition and degradation and its effect on translation |
| 17th November 2020 | Professor Jan Hoeijmakers, Erasmus MC | The impact of DNA damage and nutritionon transcription, ageing and neurodegeneration in mice and patients. |
| 5th March 2020 | Professor Anne Willis OBE, MRC Toxicology Unit, Univeristy of Cambridge | Post-transcriptional control in response to toxic injury, focusing on RNA-binding proteins, regulatory RNA motifs and tRNAs. |
| 1st November 2019 | Sir Richard Gardner University of York, Michele De Luca University of Modena |
Cell and Gene therapy by somatic stem cells |
| 26th June 2017 | Professor Tadhg Begley Texas A&M University | The mystery of suicidal enzymes: thiamin biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. |
| 19th June 2017 | Dr. Wei Li University of Cambridge | Targeting endothelial BMP signalling for treating pulmonary arterial hypertension: A structural biologist's perspective |
| 5th June 2017 | Prof Elspeth Garman University of Oxford | Radiation damage and metal identification in Structural Biology: why do we care? |
| 22nd May 2017 | Professor Shabaz Mohammed Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford | Proteomics of adult stem cells and organoids |
| 15th May 2017 | Marisa Martin Fernandez University of Oxford | EGF receptor structure-function relationships in the cell nano-environment. |
| 8th May 2017 | Chris Schofield University of Oxford | From antibiotics to oxygen sensing and back again |
| 24th April 2017 | Professor Colin Kleanthous Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford | Protein antibiotic import in bacteria |
| 10th April 2017 | Jennifer Potts University of York | Structure and function of staphylococcal proteins involved in biofilm infections. |
| 20th March 2017 | Lidia Vasilieva University of Oxford | Towards understanding role of the phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II in transcription termination. |
| 13th March 2017 | Paul Guichard University of Geneva | Dissecting the molecular composition and assembly of the centriole. |
| 6th March 2017 | Ian Henderson University of Birmingham | Lipid transport in the gram negative cell envelope |
| 27th February 2017 | Dr Ivan Ahel Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford | ADP-ribosylation signalling in regulation of genome stability. |
| 21st February 2017 | Katherine Eve, James Brown, Daniele Selmi, Giles Robertson, Nathan Rose | Biochemistry Careers Day 2017 |
| 20th February 2017 | Prof E.Yvonne Jones University of Oxford | The mechanics of semaphorin-plexin cell guidance signalling |
| 30th January 2017 | Frances Ashcroft University of Oxford | Neonatal diabetes and type 2 diabetes: insights from studies of the KATP channel |
| 23rd January 2017 | Professor Matthew Freeman Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford | Cell biology of intercellular signalling |
| 28th November 2016 | Dr Elena Seiradake Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford | Cancelled. |
| 21st November 2016 | Professor Neil Brockdorff Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford | Cancelled. Polycomb recruitment by Xist RNA |
| 14th November 2016 | Prof Jan Rehwinkel (Radcliffe Department of Medicine) University of Oxford | Sensing and Restricting: Innate Immune Control of Virus Infection |
| 7th November 2016 | Prof Nicole Zitzmann (Biochemistry) University of Oxford | One for all and all for one - In pursuit of a broad spectrum antiviral |
| 4th November 2016 | Professor Roger Pedersen University of Cambridge | Modelling human gastrulation using pluripotent stem cells |
| 31st October 2016 | Professor Jane Mellor University of Oxford | Transcription and the control of RNA fate |
| 24th October 2016 | Prof Mark Howarth University of Oxford Department of Biochemistry | Bacterial superglues to fish for cancer cells and tickle immune cells |
| 10th October 2016 | Judy Armitage Biochemistry | Watching complex motors remodel in living bacteria |
| 3rd October 2016 | Prof Andrew Turberfield (Department of Physics) University of Oxford | Molecular Structures and Machinery from DNA |
| 26th September 2016 | Professor Katja Simon (Kennedy Institute) University of Oxford | Novel roles for autophagy in cellular differentiation
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| 19th September 2016 | Prof Radu Aricescu (Division of Structural Biology) University of Oxford | CANCELLED !!! Mind the gap: synaptic protein networks to learn and remember
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| 5th July 2016 | Prof. Dr. Matthias Mann Director Dept. Proteomics and Signal Transduction, MPI, Germany | Lunch for students doing a Dphil in Biochemistry with Prof Dr Matthias Mann
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| 7th March 2016 | Professor Achillefs Kapanidis University of Oxford | Studying gene machines inside living cells, one molecule at a time
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| 23rd February 2016 | Christine Whyte, David McCormick, Ann Le Good, Emma Palmer Foster, Sarah Faircliffe, Katy Gearing, Bridget Harris, Edward Norris-Cervetto, David Lancaster, Robert Wicks | OUBS Careers Day
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| 9th November 2015 | Professor Rüdiger Klein Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology | How neurons communicate adhesion and repulsion to their surroundings during development
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| 7th September 2015 | Professor Keith Caldecott Professor of Biochemistry (Genome Damage and Stability) | DNA single-strand breaks and human genetic disease
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| 2nd March 2015 | Professor John McCafferty Co-founder, Director and CEO of Cambridge Antibody Technology | Blocking cell signalling with recombinant antibodies
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| 2nd December 2014 | Professor Gerard Evan Professor Linda Partridge Professor Sir Alan Fersht Professor Kim Nasmyth Professor Jane Mellor Professor Matt Higgins | Department of Biochemistry 50 + 5 Celebration Seminars
A full day of Seminars, followed by a Champagne Reception on the Lower Ground Floor. All members of the Department are invited to join in the celebrations.
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| 27th October 2014 | Professor Ian Hickson University of Copenhagen | How unfinished business from S-phase impacts on mitosis.
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| 20th October 2014 | Dr Christian Speck Imperial College London | Key steps in the DNA loading and activation of the replicative helicase MCM2-7
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| 6th October 2014 | Professor Garry Taylor Professor of Molecular Biophysics, University of St. Andrews | A Universal Preventative for Influenza
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| 8th July 2014 | Professor Ann McDermott | Activation and Inactivation of a Potassium Channel
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| 16th June 2014 | Professor Alessandro Sartori | DNA-end resection in human cells: New insights into the regulation of CtIP
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| 2nd June 2014 | Dr. David Ish-Horowicz | "Time, space and transcription during development"
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| 3rd February 2014 | Professor Jacqueline Cherfils Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Regulation of Arf GTPases and their GEFs in membrane traffic
OUBS Seminar
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| 2nd December 2013 | Ben Lehner | CANCELLED
APOLOGIES - CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS.
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| 7th October 2013 | Markus Ralser Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge | "Early origins of metabolism, and dynamics of metabolic networks in modern organisms"
OUBS Seminar
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| 23rd September 2013 | Professor Eric Sundberg University of Baltimore | Three steps to pathogenicity: structural insights to colonization, immune evasion and toxicity by Gram-positive bacteria.
OUBS Seminar
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| 9th September 2013 | Professor Patrick O'Farrell UCSF, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics | What about Mendel and Darwin? Mitochondrial genomes play by different rules
OUBS Seminar
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| 19th July 2013 | Reinhard Grisshammer | Structure of the agonist-bound neurotensin receptor NTS1
If you would like to meet with him, please let Tony know. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v490/n7421/full/nature11558.html |
| 10th June 2013 | Dr. Morgan Beeby | What Structural Dissection of Bacterial Flagellar Motors In Situ tell us about Structure and Function
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| 20th May 2013 | Dr Christoph Loenarz | Regulation of translation by ribosome hydroxylation in eukaryotes
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| 13th May 2013 | Prof Ben Berks | Moving folded proteins across membranes
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| 4th March 2013 | Prof Jane Clarke | What can we learn from studying the folding of families of structurally related proteins? Lessons from the immunoglobulin-like fold
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| 28th January 2013 | Prof Mark Buttner | The Control of Apical Growth and Branching in Streptomyces
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| 26th November 2012 | Dr Sophie Jarriault | Cellular plasticity: insights from natural direct reprogramming in vivo
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| 19th November 2012 | Dr Davide Corona | An RNA-mediated memory mechanism to inherit epigenetic marks
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| 5th November 2012 | Prof Gabriel Waksman | Transport through Membranes by Bacterial Secretion Nano Machines
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| 29th October 2012 | Dr Leo Sazanov | Structure and Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I
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| 22nd October 2012 | Dr Andrew Carter MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University | Structure of the Dynein Motor
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| 22nd October 2012 | Dr Andrew Carter MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, Cambridge | Annual 'Star Alumni Seminar'
Annual Star Alumni Seminar. Celebrating the success of recent Oxford Biochemistry graduates. Also part of the OUBS Seminar Series Main Meeting Room, New Biochemistry Building
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| 15th October 2012 | Prof Colin Kleanthous | Cell Translocation Mechanism of Protein Antibiotics
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| 8th October 2012 | Prof Tony Moore | Structure, function and mechanism of a non-heme monotopic membrane protein oxidase of parasite and plant respiratory systems
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| 9th July 2012 | Prof Brian Kobilka Stanford University | OUBS Lecture of the Year: Structural insights into the dynamic process of GPCR activation of G protein coupled receptor signaling.
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| 11th June 2012 | Prof Kenn Gerdes Newcastle University | Bacterial persistence, toxin - antitoxins and the stringent response
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| 6th June 2012 | Prof. Martinez Arias University of Cambridge | Transition states and ß-catenin in self renewal and differentiation of stem cells
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| 30th May 2012 | Dr. Chris Chipot Nancy Universite | Solving complex biological problems using free-energy calculations
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| 21st May 2012 | Prof. Martin Caffrey Trinity College, Dublin | Crystallizing Membrane Proteins for Structure-Function Studies Using Lipidic Systems
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| 14th May 2012 | Dr. Flemming Hansen University College London | Side-chain Structure and Dynamics from Chemical shifts: Applications to Low Populated States and Large Proteins
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| 30th April 2012 | Dr. Sean Munro University of Cambridge | Departures and arrivals: how Arf family G proteins organise membrane traffic at the Golgi apparatus
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| 13th February 2012 | Professor Peter Leadlay University of Cambridge | Assembly-line Natural Product Biosynthesis
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| 8th February 2012 | Dr Duncan Odom Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute | TBC
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| 6th February 2012 | Prof Bela Novak University of Oxford | Mitotic and meiotic checkpoint controls.
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| 1st February 2012 | Dr. Juerg Mueller Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry | Molecular mechanisms of the Polycomb/trithorax system
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| 16th January 2012 | Prof. Tim Cross NMR Program Director, Professor of Chemistry CIMAR, NMR, Tallahassee, FL | The Influenza A M2 Proton Channel - Structure and Function in Lipids Bilayers and Restraints from E. coli Membranes
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| 5th December 2011 | Dianne Newman | From iron oxides to infections: roles for redox-active "antibiotics" in microbial survival and development
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| 1st December 2011 | Professor Dame Kay Davies FRS | Challenges of therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
3rd OIBC Anne McLaren Memorial Lecture
Kellogg College |
| 28th November 2011 | Prof Gideon Davies University of York | Studies on the O-GlcNAc modification: implications for type II diabetes and neuro-degeneration
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| 21st November 2011 | Professor Pierre Gonczy École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | Mechanisms of centriole formation
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| 7th November 2011 | Prof Francis Barr University of Oxford | Regulation of membrane traffic by Rab GTPase control systems
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| 4th November 2011 | Professor Konrad Hochedlinger Harvard University | Sir Richard Gardner Celebratory Lecture: Dissecting the mechanisms of cellular reprogramming
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| 3rd November 2011 | Prof essor David Livingston Harvard Medical School | Cancer genetics
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| 31st October 2011 | Dr. Jason Carroll CRUK Cambridge Research Institute | Understanding Estrogen Receptor transcription in breast cancer
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| 24th October 2011 | Dr Jenny Gallop Gurdon Institute, Cambridge | Understanding cell shape: reconstitutions of actin polymerisation at the membrane/cytosol interface
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| 17th October 2011 | Prof Anton Wutz Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge |
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| 10th October 2011 | Dr Tom Clarke University of East Anglia | Bacterial beta barrel outer membrane proteins can enclose cytochrome wires to allow interaction with extracellular solids
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| 21st June 2011 | Dr Lizzie Burns Science to Life | Art of Science
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| 20th June 2011 | Professor Stephan Sigrist Institut fuer Biologie, FU Berlin | Shedding light on the assembly of synapse structure and function
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| 13th June 2011 | Dr Steve West Cancer Research UK - London Research Institute | Regulatory control of recombination-mediated DNA repair and links to cancer
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| 6th June 2011 | Professor Steve Busby School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham | Regulation at simple and complex bacterial promoters
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| 31st May 2011 | Professor David Jones Department of Computer Science, University College London | Gaining biological insight from disorder: natively unfolded proteins in the human genome
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| 16th May 2011 | Professor Adrian Mulholland Centre for Computational Chemistry, Bristol University | Computational enzymology: modelling biological catalysts
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| 9th May 2011 | Dr Ian Collinson School of Biochemistry, Bristol University | Structure of the bacterial translocon activated by pre-protein
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| 3rd May 2011 | Dr Joao Pedro de Magalhaes Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool | Integrative genomics of ageing: New approaches for an 'old' problem
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| 7th March 2011 | Professor Daan Frenkel Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge | DNA-coated colloids: from materials design to drug delivery?
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| 28th February 2011 | Professor Steve Jackson Gurdon Institute, Cambridge | Studying the DNA damage response
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| 21st February 2011 | Dr Mario de Bono MRC LMB, Cambridge | The architecture of homeostatic responses in C. elegans
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| 8th February 2011 | OUBS annual careers day
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| 7th February 2011 | Professor Amanda Fisher MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London | Stem Cells and Reprogramming
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| 31st January 2011 | Professor Lotte Sogaard-Andersen Max-Planck-Institut for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg | Regulation of cell polarity in bacteria
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| 24th January 2011 | Cancelled: Professor Kenn Gerdes Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University | Bacterial persistence and toxin - antitoxins
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| 17th January 2011 | Dr Lidia Vasilieva Department of Biochemistry, Oxford | Degrade or not degrade? Mechanism protecting RNAs from degradation by the exosome complex
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| 6th December 2010 | Professor Eric Greene Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Visual Biochemistry: High-throughput Single-Molecule Imaging of Protein-DNA Interactions
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| 29th November 2010 | Biotechnology breakthroughs: How Isis Innovation helps
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| 22nd November 2010 | Dr Leo Sazanov Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge | The architecture of respiratory complex I: "steam engine" of the cell
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| 8th November 2010 | Dr Peter Rosenthal MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London | Cryomicroscopy of viruses and cells
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| 5th November 2010 | Professor Hans Clevers Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht | Wnt signaling, Lgr5 stem cells and cancer
Sir Richard Gardner Celebratory Lecture 2010
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| 25th October 2010 | Professor Peter Cook Sir William Dunn School of Pathology | Transcription factories as organizers of the genome; the role of fixed polymerases
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| 18th October 2010 | Professor Neil Hunter Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis | E3-ligase, RNF212, Is a Haploinsufficient Regulator of Crossing-Over During Mammalian Meiosis
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| 12th October 2010 | Professor David Bartel MIT, Whitehead Institute, HHMI | MicroRNAs and other small regulatory RNAs
Sponsored by the RNA society |
| 11th October 2010 | Professor Daan van Aalten Division of Molecular Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee | Molecular mechanisms of O-GlcNAc signalling
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| 13th July 2010 | Prof Ada Yonath Winner of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009, Structural Biology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel | The amazing ribosome
Special Nobel Laureate Lecture
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| 14th June 2010 | Prof Gene Robinson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Genes and Social Behavior: Lessons from the Honey Bee
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| 14th June 2010 | Professor Barry Potter Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath | Anticancer Drug Discovery: Sulfatase Inhibitors from Bench to Bedside
OUBS seminar
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| 1st June 2010 | Prof John Sedat University of California, San Francisco | What is on the Horizon for 4- Dimensional Optical Microscopy for live biology?
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| 21st May 2010 | Prof Venki Ramakrishnan Winner of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge | What we have learned from structures of the ribosome
Special Nobel Laureate Lecture
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| 18th May 2010 | Prof. Prakash Hande Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore | Telomere dysfunction and DNA repair deficiency: markers of sensitivity to mutagens and carcinogens?
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| 10th May 2010 | Prof Gero Miesenboeck Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford | Lighting up the brain: Imaging and control of genetically targeted neural circuits
A joint event with the Cortex Club |
| 29th April 2010 | Prof David Bartel Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute, MIT | POSTPONED DUE TO TRAVEL PROBLEMS
"Silence" - A Journal of RNA Regulation Seminar http://www.silencejournal.com/ |
| 26th April 2010 | Dr Patrick Lemaire Developmental Biology Institute of Marseilles, Luminy | POSTPONED DUE TO TRAVEL PROBLEMS
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| 16th March 2010 | Prof Angelika Amon Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA | Consequences of aneuploidy
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| 10th March 2010 | Prof Edmund Kunji MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge | The transport mechanism of mitochondrial carriers by analysis of pseudo-symmetry
Seminar shared with the Part II Membrane Transport Option
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| 8th March 2010 | Dr Marc Bühler Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel | Spatial and temporal analysis of the fission yeast RNAi pathway
Sponsored by RNA Society http://rnasociety.org/ |
| 3rd March 2010 | Prof Sir Martin Evans FRS DSc Winner of The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2007, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff | CANCELLED
Seminar Canceled
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| 1st March 2010 | Dr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge | Origin and formation of the first distinct cell types in the mouse embryo
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| 22nd February 2010 | Dr Fiona Watt Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute | CANCELLED
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| 9th February 2010 | Careers Day 2010
15th annual OUBS Careers Day, more details to follow soon.
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| 8th February 2010 | Prof Martin Warren School of Biosciences, University of Kent | A synthetic biology approach towards compartmentalisation in bacteria
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| 1st February 2010 | Prof Julian Blow Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, Dundee | How S phase is organised to ensure complete genome duplication, and why cancer cells might get it wrong
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| 25th January 2010 | Dr Rik Korswagen Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands | Mechanism of Wnt secretion
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| 18th January 2010 | Prof René Medema University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands | Recovery form a DNA damage-induced arrest
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| 15th January 2010 | Dr David Keays Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna | The molecular basis of magnetoreception
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| 11th January 2010 | Dr Frank Uhlmann London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields | Mitotic cell cycle progression: why the clock never turns back
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| 14th December 2009 | Professor Greg Cook Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, New Zealand | Energetics of thermoalkaliphiles and their nanomolecular machines
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| 7th December 2009 | Dr Tim Humphrey Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford | Break-induced loss of heterozygosity in fission yeast
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| 30th November 2009 | Prof Doug Higgs FRS Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford | New insights into globin gene regulation
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| 16th November 2009 | Dr Etienne Schwob Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France | Holistic view of genome replication from single DNA molecules
The Society for General Microbiology Seminar http://www.sgm.ac.uk/ |
| 6th November 2009 | Professor Sir John Gurdon DPhil DSc FRS The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge | Nuclear reprogramming and the micro-manipulation of cells
The inaugural Sir Richard Gardner Celebratory Lecture
A joint event between OUBS and The Oxford Stem Cell Institute. Followed by wine reception! http://www.stemcells.ox.ac.uk/ |
| 26th October 2009 | Dr Andrew Carter University of California, San Francisco | Cytoplasmic dynein: from single molecules to structure
Sponsored by Image Solutions |
| 12th October 2009 | Dr Anne Donaldson Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen | Replicating and organising yeast chromosomes
The Society for General Microbiology Seminar http://www.sgm.ac.uk/ |
| 5th October 2009 | Dr Julie Ahringer Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge | Cell polarity transduction in C. elegans and a bit about chromatin
Sponsored by Source BioScience Geneservice www.sourcebioscience.com |
| 28th September 2009 | Prof Dale Dorsett St Louis University School of Medicine, USA | Cohesin and Polycomb silencing proteins - balancing expression of genes that control development
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| 14th September 2009 | Prof Rodney Rothstein Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University | Kinetochores components define a single lineage in budding yeast and also affect the DNA damage response
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| 27th July 2009 | Dr Maitreya Dunham University of Washington, Seattle | Genomic analysis of experimental evolution in yeast
Sponsored by The Genetics Society (www.genetics.org.uk) |
| 15th June 2009 | Dr David Tollervey Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh | Some Cracking Results with RNA
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| 9th June 2009 | Prof Tom Strachan FRSE FMedSci Scientific Director, Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University | "Abnormal cohesin regulation and developmental malformation"
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| 8th June 2009 | Dr Fumiko Esashi Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford | "Getting into and out of DNA repair : insights from BRCA2 studies"
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| 1st June 2009 | Dr Florian Brueckner Imperial College Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire | "A movie of the RNA polymerase II nucleotide addition cycle"
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| 18th May 2009 | Prof Chris Abell Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Co-founder of Astex Therapeutics | "Fragments and Droplets"
The Royal Society of Chemistry Seminar (www.rsc.org) http://www.rsc.org/ |
| 9th March 2009 | Prof Stefan Grimm Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London | "Screening for apoptosis genes: new insights into the respiratory chain and tumourigenesis"
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| 2nd March 2009 | Prof Robert Konrat Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria | "The dynamic biochemistry of the oncogenic transcription factor Myc – a meta-structure approach"
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| 23rd February 2009 | Dr Margarete Heck Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh | “Using Drosophila genetics to put invadolysin in its place”
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| 16th February 2009 | Dr Daniel Finley Harvard Medical School | "Ubiquitin chain processing by the proteasome and its regulation via a novel stress response"
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| 11th February 2009 | OUBS Careers Day
Now in its 14th year, OUBS Careers Day is a popular annual event. Everyone is welcome! |
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| 2nd February 2009 | Dr Colin Goding The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford | "Transcription and signalling from stem cells to cancer"
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| 19th January 2009 | Dr Harvey McMahon MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge | "Membrane curvature and mechanisms of dynamic cell membrane remodelling"
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| 10th December 2008 | Dr Andrew Fire, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 Stanford University School Of Medicine | "Genome surveillance mechanisms based on nucleic acid structure"
The inaugural OUBS Lecture of the Year, followed by champagne reception.
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| 8th December 2008 | Prof Witold Filipowicz Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland | Mechanisms and reversibility of microRNA-mediated repression in mammalian cells
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| 24th November 2008 | Prof Laurence Pearl The Institute of Cancer Research, London | "The HSP90 molecular chaperone - an open and shut case for treatment"
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| 17th November 2008 | Dr Lena Ström Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden | "Damage induced cohesion and beyond"
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| 10th November 2008 | Dr David Strutt University of Sheffield | “Cell-cell interactions and the local coordination of cell polarity”
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| 3rd November 2008 | Dr Nick Brown The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge | "Linking integrins to the cytoskeleton"
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| 27th October 2008 | Dr Helle Ulrich Clare Hall, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK | "Regulation of DNA Damage Bypass by Ubiquitin and SUMO"
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| 20th October 2008 | Prof Stephen Bell Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford | "DNA replication and cell division in the third domain of life"
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| 16th June 2008 | Jonathan Ewbank Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy | Chromatin, PKC, and MAPK networks in C. elegans innate immunity
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| 9th June 2008 | Dr Julia Cooper CRUK London Research Institute | Telomeres and the challenges to chromosome integrity
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| 2nd June 2008 | Dr Rafal Ciosk Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland | The worm perspective on stem cells, germ cells, and monsters
Sponsored by Image Solutions
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| 26th May 2008 | Professor Tim Schedl Washington University, St Louis, Missouri USA | A functional genomics approach identifies MPK-1 ERK substrates that direct C. elegans germline development
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| 19th May 2008 | Professor Nicholas Proudfoot Sir William Dunn School of Pathology | Regulating Transcription and chromosomal cohesion through mRNA 3' end formation and gene looping in yeast
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| 12th May 2008 | Dr Barry Dickson Director, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna | Wired for sex: how the mating instinct is programmed into the fly's brain
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| 28th April 2008 | Prof. Georgi Muskhelishvili Jacobs University, Bremen | Control mechanisms coordinating genomic transcription and cellular metabolism
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| 21st April 2008 | Dr James Parker Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford | Target recognition in RNA silencing
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| 3rd March 2008 | Prof. Thomas Pietschmann TWINCORE - Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover | Hepatitis C virus p7 protein is crucial for assembly and release of infectious virions
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| 18th February 2008 | Dr Thomas Sommer Max Delbruck, Berlin |
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| 14th February 2008 | OUBS Careers Day
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| 4th February 2008 | Dr. David Ish-Horowitz CRUK London Research Institute | Molecular studies of animal patterning
Sponsored by Image Solutions
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| 21st January 2008 | Dr Mark Petronczki CRUK London Research Institute | Probing late mitotic functions of Polo-like kinase 1 in human cells using chemical biology
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