JANUARY 2005
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| Monday 17 January |
Crystal structure of the E.coli RNA Degradosome component RNase E bound to RNA
Ms M-J Markaida, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Monday 24 January |
Geminin, one structure - two functions?
Dr Andrei Okorokov, Wolfson Institute, University College London |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Friday 28 January |
ISMB Friday Wrap
Speakers: Radwan Fawaz (John ladbury's group), Rhys Stoneman (Steve Caddick's group) |
ISMB Friday Wrap
15.45 nibbles and drinks,
16.00 talks begin, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62),
School of Crystallography
Birkbeck, Malet Street. |
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| Monday 31 January |
Killing of microbes by neutrophils - free radicals out, ions in (and out)!
Prof A W Segal, Dept of Medicine (Rayne Institute) |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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FEBRUARY 2005
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| Wednesday 2 February |
Building a brain: a molecular dissection of neural induction
Professor Claudio Stern,
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology,
UCL
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental Seminars, UCL
Host: Dr Irina Tsaneva |
| 16.00 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre (Basement of the Darwin Building, UCL) |
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| Thursday 3 February |
Molecular Mechanisms in Bioenergetics and their Study with InfraRed Spectroscopy
Prof. Peter Rich, UCL Department of Biology |
| Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building
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| Monday 7 February |
Opening mechanism of the acetylcholine-gated channel
Dr N Unwin, Neurobiology Division, MRC Cambridge
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ISMB seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Wednesday 9 February |
Signalling by isoforms of PI 3-kinase
Dr Bart Vanhaesebroeck,
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research,
UCL
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental Seminars, UCL
Host: Dr Snezana Djordjevic |
| 16.00 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre (Basement of the Darwin Building, UCL) |
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| Monday 14 February |
Structural studies of platelet receptors and coagulation factors
Dr J Emsley, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham
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School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Wednesday 16 February |
Spicing up proteomics with splicing and protein isoforms
Professor Jasminka Godovac-Zimmerman,
Centre for Molecular Medicine,
Dept. of Medicine, UCL
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental Seminars, UCL
Host: Dr Snezana Djordjevic |
| 16.00 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre (Basement of the Darwin Building, UCL) |
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| Wednesday 16 February |
Morphological Plasticity in Natural and Artificial Systems
Katie Bentley [webpage] |
BCB seminar programme
Time and venue: 16.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Wednesday 23 February |
Warfarin resistance of mice and men
Professor Ted Tuddenham,
MRC Clinical Science Centre,
Imperial College London
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental Seminars, UCL
Host: Dr Irina Tsaneva |
| 16.00 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre (Basement of the Darwin Building, UCL) |
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| Friday 25 February |
ISMB Friday Wrap
Speakers to be announced shortly. |
ISMB Friday Wrap
15.45 nibbles and drinks, 16.00 talks begin , Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography
Birkbeck, Malet Street. |
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| Monday 28 February |
The interaction between the angiogenic and vascular protective growth factor VEGF and one of its receptors - Neuropilin 1. Implications for the treatment of cancer.
Dr D Selwood, Wolfson Inst for Biomedical Research |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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MARCH 2005
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| Wednesday 2 March |
Structure, mechanism and drug design on family 18 chitinases
Dr Daan van Aalten,
University of Dundee,
The School of Life Sciences Research Centre
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental Seminars, UCL
Host: Dr Snezana Djordjevic |
| 16.00 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre (Basement of the Darwin Building, UCL) |
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| Monday 7 March |
Let's get biophysical - combining methods for Mode of Action studies
Dr C-W Chung, Glaxo SmithKline |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Tuesday 8 March |
London Structural Biology Club meeting [A poster is available]
Pete Bond (Oxford), Sarah Tilley (Birkbeck), Ed Evans (OPPF) and Xiaodong Zhang (Imperial College London) |
LSB Club
Time and venue: 15.00 - 17.00, Lecture Theatre B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck
Followed by beer & pizza refreshments. |
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| Wednesday 9 March |
Synaptic strength regulation by molecular components of the cytoarchitecture
Dr Yukiko Goda,
MRC Lab for Molecular Cell Biology,
UCL
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental Seminars, UCL
Host: Dr Snezana Djordjevic |
| 16.00 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre (Basement of the Darwin Building, UCL) |
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| Monday 14 March |
Investigations of intact ribosomes and of the intrinsically disordered protein, alpha-synuclein, using NMR
Dr J Christodoulou, University of Cambridge |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Wednesday 16 March |
Details to be announced
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental Seminars, UCL
Host: Dr Irina Tsaneva |
| 16.00 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre (Basement of the Darwin Building, UCL) |
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| Wednesday 16 March |
Systems biology of the shear stress response: Decoding the dynamics of molecular interactions
Kostas Lykostratis [webpage] |
BCB seminar programme
Time and venue: 16.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Thursday 17 March |
Dynamics of Bacterial Type IV Secretion
Dr. Peter J. Christie, Dept. Microbiology and Mol. Genetics, UT-Houston Medical School, USA |
An additional ISMB seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Monday 21 March |
Diversity oriented synthesis and the small molecule approach to chemical biology
Dr S Caddick, Dept of Chemistry, University College London |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Wednesday 23 March |
Endocytic trafficking of cellular and viral chemokine receptors
Professor Mark Marsh,
MRC Lab for Molecular Cell Biology,
UCL
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental Seminars, UCL
Host: Dr Snezana Djordjevic |
| 16.00 Biochemistry Lecture Theatre (Basement of the Darwin Building, UCL) |
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APRIL 2005
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| Wednesday 8 April |
Special seminar: Social status of a gene in the genomic community
Eugene Koonin, NCBI, NIH, Bethesda |
BCB seminar programme
Time and venue: 13.00, Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, Gower Street
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| Tuesday 12 April |
| International Symposium on 'Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy in Structural Molecular Biology' |
Timetable and further details
Time and venue: 13.30 - 17.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Thursday 14 April |
Ribosome structure and
co-translational protein folding and targeting
Professor Nenad Ban,
Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich,
Switzerland
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ISMB seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Monday 25 April |
NMR studies of molecular recognition in RNA interference and
spliceosome assembly
Michael Sattler, EMBL,
Structural & Computational Biology Programme, Heidelberg, Germany |
ISMB seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Friday 29 April |
ISMB Friday Wrap
Anwar Mohammad from Andrew Dingley's lab and
Sunita Sardiwal from Snezana Djordjevic's lab. |
ISMB Friday Wrap
15.45 nibbles and drinks, 16.00 talks begin , Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography
Birkbeck, Malet Street. |
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MAY 2005
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| Wednesday 4 May |
Two Department of Biology seminars at UCL:
Advanced EPR spectroscopy: A tool for characterising electron
transfer intermediates
Dr. Fraser McMillan from the Institute of Physical & Theoretical Chemistry
& Centre for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Frankfurt.
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Applications of pulsed and high-field EPR in biology
Dr. Christopher Kay from the Institute of Experimental Physics, Free
University of Berlin
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| Time and venue: The first seminar will be from 14.00 - 14.45 and the second from 14.45 - 15.30, Lankester Lecture Theatre, Medawar Building, UCL.
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| Monday 9 May |
Modifying atomic resolution density modification techniques to solve structures ab initio
Prof E Dodson, Chemistry Dept, University of York |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Monday 16 May |
Designing peptide-based nanoscale linkers, matrices and switches from the bottom up
Prof D Woolfson, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Sussex |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Wednesday 18 May |
Title to be announced
Chu Wei, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
[webpage] |
BCB seminar programme
Time and venue: 16.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Monday 23 May |
The Gene Ontology Annotation (GOA) database: Sharing knowledge in Uniprot
with controlled vocabularies
Dr E Camon, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Tuesday 24 May |
Kinetochore-Microtubule Interactions: the role of
tubulin depolymerization in chromosome movement.
Professor Richard J. McIntosh, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology,
University of Colorado,
Boulder, USA. |
ISMB seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Friday 27 May |
ISMB Friday Wrap
Russell Marsden from Christine Orengo's lab and John Wong from Helen Hailes's lab. |
ISMB Friday Wrap
15.45 nibbles and drinks, 16.00 talks begin , Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography
Birkbeck, Malet Street. |
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JUNE 2005
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| Monday 6 June |
Title to be announced
Prof X Liu, Dept of Information Systems & Computing, Brunel University |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Monday 13 June |
Characterization of T cell responses to auto and allo-antigens in transplant patients
Dr L Barber, The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust, London |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Monday 20 June |
Opening Symposium of Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics
and Inaugural Lecture from Prof. David Jones |
BCB Opening Symposium
Time and venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre, Gower Street, UCL. Further details to be announced. |
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| Friday 24 June |
The role of perforin and granzymes in host immunity against viruses and transformed cells: lessons from the human immunodeficiency, HLH
Professor Joseph A Trapani, Peter MacCallum Institute, Melbourne, Australia. |
ISMB seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00 Seminar
Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street. |
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| Monday 27 June |
ISMB Retreat | Day 1
We are pleased to announce that an ISMB retreat is planned for 27-28 June 2005 at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre , 10 miles from Cambridge.
Further details available here. |
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| Tuesday 28 June |
ISMB Retreat | Day 2
We are pleased to announce that an ISMB retreat is planned for 27-28 June 2005 at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre , 10 miles from Cambridge.
Further details available here. |
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JULY 2005
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| Monday 4 July - Friday 8 July |
5-day introduction to bioinformatics course
This course is run by the Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics and suppoerted by the UCL Graduate School. Please contact Clare Scurfield for further details. |
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| Monday 4 July |
BioMap and Gene3D: Resources for functional and structural genomics
Dr M Maibaum, Dept of Biochemistry, University College London |
School of Crystallography Lunchtime seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00, Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street |
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| Monday 4 July |
London Structural Biology Club meeting
Bob Janes (Queen Mary University, London),
Jude Watts (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford),
Paul Hitchen (Imperial College),
Linda Ball (Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford) |
See Consortium website
Time and venue: 15.00 - 17.00, Lecture Theatre B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck
Followed by beer & pizza refreshments. |
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SEPTEMBER 2005
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| Sunday 4 September - Wednesday 14 September |
EMBO practical course on image processing for cryo-electron microscopy
Further details available here. |
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OCTOBER 2005
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| Friday 14 October 2005 |
ISMB seminar
Vincent Croquette, Department of physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris
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ISMB Seminar
13.00-14.00 Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography,
Birkbeck, Malet Street. |
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| Friday 28 October 2005 |
Friday Wrap
Helen White from Elena Orlova's lab (School of Crystallography, Birkebeck)
and Manasi Nandi from Patrick Vallance's lab (Division of Medicine, UCL).
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ISMB Friday Wrap
15.45 nibbles and drinks, 16.00 talks begin , Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography
Birkbeck, Malet Street. |
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NOVEMBER 2005
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| Monday 14 November 2005 |
ISMB Seminar
Professor Gerhard Klebe, Professor for Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Philipps-University Marburg.
[CV available here ] |
ISMB seminar
Time and venue: 13.00 - 14.00 Seminar
Glaxo-Wellcome suite (B62), School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, Malet Street. |
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