Open Lectures will take place on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month at 13:00 in the Elizabeth Fry Building, Room 01.08, unless otherwise stated. These lectures are open to everyone, including undergraduate students, PhD students, research staff, research associates, faculty and visitors. Please come along and listen to first-class scientists talk about their work in areas of research active within the School of Biological Sciences.

Thursday 4 Oct 2012, 1pm

Speaker: Dr Pia Aanstad, Institute for Molecular Biology, University of Innsbruck
Title: Hedgehog and chemokine signalling orchestrate endodermal cell proliferation and migration in zebrafish
Host: Prof Andrea Münsterberg
Venue: ARTS 2.02


Wednesday 31 October 2012, 1pm

Speaker: Dr Cock van Oosterhout, UEA 
Title: Sex, recombination and adaptive evolution
Host: Dr David S. Richardson
Venue: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08


Wednesday 21 November 2012, 1pm

Speaker: Prof Saverio Bellusci, Center for Lung Research, Justus Liebig University of Giessen
Title: FGF signalling in lung development and disease
Host: Dr Mohammad Hajihosseini 
Venue: Elizabeth Fry 01.08


Wednesday 5 December 2012, 1pm

Speaker: Dr John Brazier, School of Pharmacy, University of Reading
Title: Investigating unusual DNA structures
Host: Dr Richard Bowater
Venue: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08


Wednesday 9 January 2013, 1pm

Speaker: Dr Dan Nussey, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh
Title: Immunity, ageing and fitness in a wild mammal
Host: Dr David Richardson
Venue: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08


Wednesday 23 January 2013, 1pm

Speaker: Prof Steve Watson, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham
Title: Unexpected roles for the platelet C-type lectin receptor in lymphatic development and other pathways
Host: Dr Stephen Robinson
Venue: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08


Wednesday 6 February 2013, 1pm

Speaker: Dr Dan Walker, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow
Title: Discovery and development of species-specific protein antibiotics for medical and agricultural applications
Host: Dr Gary Rowley
Venue: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08


Wednesday 20 February 2013, 1pm

Speaker: Dr Seirian Sumner, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
Title: Towards an integrated understanding of social behaviour: genes to phenotype
Host: Prof Andrew Bourke
Venue: Queens Building 1.03
 

Wednesday 6 March 2013, 1pm

Speaker: Dr Karen Liu, Dental Institute, King's College London
Title: Neural crest defects in human anomalies: animal models and molecular tools
Host: Dr Tim Grocott
Venue: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.05
 


Wednesday 20 March 2013, 1pm

Speaker: Dr Angelika Grundling, Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College
Title: How Staphylococcus aureus synthesizes the essential cell wall polymer lipoteichoic acid and how it manages to survive without it.
Host: This will now be Dr Matt Hutchings and not Dr Jake Malone as previously announced
Venue: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08


Wednesday 24 April 2013, 1pm

Speaker: Prof Jacobus (Koos) Boomsma, Centre for Social Evolution, University of Copenhagen
Title: Co-evolution between ants, fungus gardens and bacterial symbionts
Host: Prof Andrew Bourke
Venue: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08


Wednesday 8 May 2013, 1pm

Speaker: Prof Lydia Sorokin, Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University of Münster
Title: TBC
Host: Prof Uli Mayer
Venue: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08


Wednesday 22 May 2013, 1pm 

Speaker: Prof Chris Cooper, School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex
Title: RED GOLD: Engineering a haemoglobin-based blood substitute
Host: Dr Nick Watmough
Venue: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08


Wednesday 5 June 2013, 1pm

Speaker: Prof Michael Brockhurst, Department of Biology,
University of York
Title: TBC
Host: Prof Tracey Chapman
Venue: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08


Wednesday 19 June 2013, 1pm

Speaker: Dr Jason Johnson, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol
Title: TBC
Host: Prof Dylan Edwards
Venue: Queens Building 1.03