Previous Seminars

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John N. Thompson Fri 20/11/09	Coevolution across changing environments
Diane Mathis Thu 19/11/09	Molecular Mechanism of AIRE
Juan Lafaille Wed 18/11/09	Generation of Foxp3-positive Regulatory T cells
Henrique Teotónio Tue 17/11/09	Adaptation from standing genetic variation
Christian Schlotterer Fri 13/11/09	Using NGS for the analysis of natural populations
Luis Teixeira Tue 10/11/09	Drosophila, viruses, and Wolbachia: from single interactions to a household of three
Alexey Khodjakov Fri 06/11/09	Of kinetochores and centrosomes: Who is the top dog in spindle assembly?
Philip Beales Thu 05/11/09	From James Bond to Donny Osmond: Cilia in development and disease
Marcos Malumbres Tue 03/11/09	Modelling the functional relevance of mitotic regulators in vivo
Mathias Koeppen Tue 03/11/09	Cytoskeletal Dynamics during Zebrafish Embryogenesis
Thomas Arnesen Mon 02/11/09	Protein N-terminal acetylation: Basic concepts and biological relevance
Dyche Mullins Mon 02/11/09	A Little Larger than the Entire Cytoskeleton: the Role of Actin in Prokaryotes
Helder Maiato Fri 30/10/09	Spatiotemporal control of chromosome segregation
Vasco Barreto Tue 27/10/09	Random autosomal monoallelic expression
Nelia Varela Tue 27/10/09	Odour perception in the Oriental Fruit Moth, Grapholita molesta (Busck): from brain to behaviour
Ruth Lehmann Mon 26/10/09	Germ line stem cell development
Antonio Giraldez Fri 23/10/09	The role of microRNAs in vertebrate development
Bioinformatics Service Tue 20/10/09	Taking your research that extra (computational) step - how the bioinformatics unit can help you
Miodrag Grbic Fri 16/10/09	Evolution of arthropod development: from an ancestral developmental program to developmental novelties and biotechnology applications
Patrick Heun Thu 15/10/09	Neocentromere formation in Drosophila melanogaster
Joaquin Leon Tue 13/10/09	Limb outgrowth and control of tissue renewal in the apical ectodermal ridge
Alfonso Martinez-Arias Mon 12/10/09	Origin, control and function of dynamic heterogeneities in mouse ES cells
Helena Vieira Fri 09/10/09	ROS signalling in neural cells: impact on preconditioning, apoptosis and stem cell differentiation
Larry Zipursky Fri 09/10/09	Dscam Proteins and Neural Circuit Assembly
Lars Jansen Tue 06/10/09	The Remarkable Epigenetic Centromere
Hanno Pijl Fri 02/10/09	Obesity: evolution of a symptom of affluence
Brigitta Stockinger Thu 01/10/09	Modulation of innate and adaptive IL-17 mediated immunosurveillance and autoimmunity by environmental stimuli
Luisa Vasconcelos Tue 29/09/09	On repulsion and receptivity
Mónica Sousa Fri 25/09/09	Nerve Regeneration: growing axons in inhibitory milieus.
Dinis Calado Thu 24/09/09	The role of NF-κB signaling and c-Myc in mature B-cell lymphomagenesis
Christen Mirth Tue 22/09/09	The Development and Evolution of Foraging Behaviour in the Genus Drosophila
Isabel Gordo Fri 18/09/09	Predation, compensation and immortality in the world of microbes.
Anthony Leonardo Tue 15/09/09	Dynamics of prey capture in the salamander and the dragonfly
Joe Lewis Fri 11/09/09	Finding needles in chemical haystacks: small molecule screening in academia and beyond
Maria João Leão Tue 08/09/09	Fundraising for science-New approaches for research funding in Portugal
Gohta Goshima Mon 07/09/09	Microtubule generation within the mitotic spindle
David Schneider Fri 04/09/09	Defining tolerance and resistance mechanisms to infections using the fruit fly as a model.
Zach Mainen Tue 01/09/09	On the neural origins of behavioral variability
Botond Roska Fri 28/08/09	Seeing with and without classical photoreceptors
Sabine Patot Tue 11/08/09	Vertically transmitted virus manipulating host behaviour: prevalence and influence in structuring host community
Marie Bonnet Mon 03/08/09	Dynamical Models of Early T-cell Differentiation : Theoretical and Molecular Data
Mike Blatt Fri 31/07/09	SNAREs at the traffic junction of signalling, transport and nutrition
Elodie Mohr Wed 29/07/09	Functional microenvironments influencing antibody responses
Lisete Fernandes Tue 28/07/09	Differential contribution of Gim subunits for stress response
Laura Napal Mon 27/07/09	Fatty acid metabolism in drosophila: Acetyl-CoA Carboxilase, essential function in Oenocytes
Paloma Más Fri 24/07/09	Mechanisms of clock progression in Arabidopsis thaliana
Luis Almeida Wed 22/07/09	A Mechanical Model for Dorsal Closure and Embryonic Wound Healing
Mónica Bettencourt-Dias Tue 21/07/09	Centriole Biogenesis and Evolution
Pedro Carvalho Mon 20/07/09	Molecular mechanisms of ER-associated protein degradation
Kensaku Nomoto Fri 17/07/09	Dopamine activity to perceptually ambiguous reward-indicative cues
Hagit Shatkay Thu 16/07/09	Life by the Book: Pragmatically Using Text in Large Scale -Omics.
Manuela Ferreira Thu 16/07/09	Activating beta 1 integrin mutation in skin Tumours
Tiago Carneiro Tue 14/07/09	Counteracting checkpoints at damaged fission yeast telomeres: the clue is in the pot
Clara Reis Tue 14/07/09	Requirement of the MRN complex in repairing unprotected telomeres
Gage Crump Fri 10/07/09	How to make a face: lessons from zebrafish genetics
Martyn Goulding Thu 09/07/09	Genes, circuits and behaviour: new insights into the spinal networks that control locomotion
Rui Martinho Tue 07/07/09	Epithelial morphogenesis: living on the edge!
Joachim Hermisson Fri 03/07/09	The genetic basis of phenotypic adaptation
Santiago Schnell Thu 02/07/09	How is protein load sensed in the endoplasmic reticulum?
Paula Duque/ Estelle Remy Tue 30/06/09	Resistance to herbicides and other xenobiotics in Arabidopsis-Role of Multiple Drug Resistance transporters
Luis Amaral Mon 29/06/09	Systems Biology: A Personal perspective
Konrad Kording Fri 26/06/09	Normative Models of Brain function
Ana Carvalho Thu 25/06/09	Cytokinesis in C. elegans: Structural Memory in the Contractile Ring
Reto Gassmann Thu 25/06/09	Elucidating the Mechanisms Coordinating Chromosome Alignment and Checkpoint Signaling During Cell Division
Ana Magalhaes Wed 24/06/09	Cellular functions of the PRK/PKN family of Proteins
Marta Moita Tue 23/06/09	How do we learn to associate stimuli separate in time?
Susana Montenegro Gouveia Fri 19/06/09	Regulation of microtubule dynamics by microtubule plus end tracking proteins
Karina Xavier Tue 16/06/09	Recognition and signal transduction of the inter-species quorum sensing signal AI-2
Jean-Michel Gibert Mon 15/06/09	Chromatin regulator network variation: phenotypic plasticity, local adaptation and evolvability
Stefan Mass Fri 12/06/09	Molecular Complexity and Gene Regulation through A-to-I RNA Editing
Allan Hobson Thu 11/06/09	Not yet supplied
Susana Lopes Tue 09/06/09	A Novel Role For Notch Signalling In Left-Right Determination Through Ciliary Length Control
Rasmus Larsen Tue 09/06/09	Heme Oxygenase-1 Protects Against Severe Sepsis Via Inhibition Of Heme-Mediated Sensitization To Cell Death And Hmgb1 Release
Rich Roberts Mon 08/06/09	Maternally Inherited Pepetides as Strain Specific Chemosignals ans a Candidate Class of Chemosensory Receptor
Michel Bornens Mon 08/06/09	The Centrosome-Golgi connection: an evolutionary survey combined with functional approaches
Ed Kravitz Fri 05/06/09	How does behavior happen?
Hans Hofmann Thu 04/06/09	Genes, Hormones and Neurons in Social Decision Making
Keith Gull Thu 04/06/09	Building the microtubule cytoskeleton and centriole during the cell cycle: insights from trypanosomes to man
Helena Soares/ S. Nolasco/J.Gonçalves Tue 02/06/09	The Other Side Of Tubulin Cofactors: Two Stories
Decio Eizirik Fri 29/05/09	Using functional genomics to understand pancreatic beta-cell apoptosis in diabetes
Álvaro Tavares Thu 28/05/09	10 years with the Mob – the bitter splitting of MOBless cells
Nicolas Borghi Thu 28/05/09	Regulation of Epithelial Cell Motile Behavior through Crosstalk between Extracellular Matrix- and Cell-Cell Adhesions
Michael Levin Tue 26/05/09	Endogenous bioelectrical signals as morphogenetic cues in embryonic development, regeneration, and cancer: molecular techniques and applications
Jean-Pierre Changeux Sat 23/05/09	The nicotinic receptor: an authentic allosteric protein engaged in synaptic transmission
Sydney Brenner Sat 23/05/09	The future of neuroscience
Terry Sejnowski Sat 23/05/09	Ectopic Synaptic Transmission: Truth and Consequences
Susumu Tonegawa Sat 23/05/09	Molecular and Circuit Mechanisms for Hippocampal Memory
Patrícia Beldade Tue 19/05/09	Genetic and developmental mechanisms of morphological diversification
Carlos Brody Fri 15/05/09	Functional separation between "what" and "when" in prefrontal cortex
Eric Dewitt Thu 14/05/09	Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic Environments
Enrique Martin-Blanco Thu 14/05/09	Signaling mechanisms controlling cell proliferation and invasiveness during morphogenesis
Élio Sucena Tue 12/05/09	Approaching the basis for evolutionary novelty: from genes to networks
Andrew Fry Fri 08/05/09	NIMA-related kinases in cell cycle control and human disease
Moisés Mallo Tue 05/05/09	Of ribs and embryonic arteries: two stories from the lab
Dan Holmberg Tue 05/05/09	Cellular and molecular events in Autoimmune induced inflammation
Alain Debec Thu 30/04/09	Cellular and molecular analysis of acentriolar division in Drosophila cells
José Pereira Leal Tue 28/04/09	Towards an evolutionary cell biology
Claire Wyart Tue 28/04/09	Optogenetic dissection of behavioral modules that drive locomotion
Anthony Hyman Fri 24/04/09	Systems approaches to cell division
Miguel Soares Fri 24/04/09
Miguel Soares Tue 21/04/09	Regulation of Immune Mediated Inflammatory Disorders by the Heme oxygenase-1 enzymatic system: from biology to therapeutic applications
Nuno Faria Mon 20/04/09
Aldo Faisal Mon 20/04/09	Variability and the nervous system - from molecules to behaviour
Michael Richardson Fri 17/04/09	Evolution and Development in Reptiles
Tagny Duff Thu 16/04/09	Going Viral
Giorgio Gilestro Wed 15/04/09	Synaptic Homeostasis and Sleep in Drosophila
Ana Paula Godinho / M João Leão Tue 14/04/09	Science Communication, Outreach and Fundraising at the IGC – an 18 month review
Bill Earnshaw Wed 08/04/09	Multidimensional proteomics and genetic analysis reveal condensin's function in vertebrate mitotic chromosomes
Luis Rosário Tue 07/04/09	Cardiac regeneration: first footsteps
Thomas M. Lewinsohn Mon 06/04/09	Diversity of species and of interactions among plants and herbivores
Keith Slotkin Fri 03/04/09	Germ Cell-Specific Epigenetic Activation and Silencing of Transposable Elements in Plants
Sarah Teichmann Fri 03/04/09	Transcriptional Regulatory Network Dynamics
Sarah Teichmann Thu 02/04/09	Transcriptional Regulatory Network Evolution
Sarath Janga Wed 01/04/09	Exploiting genomic neighborhoods and protein complexes for functional inference in Eucherichia coli
Brian Trench Wed 01/04/09	Benefits and risks for scientists in public communication of research
Sarath Janga Tue 31/03/09	Genome organization is constrained by transcriptional regulationin both bacteria and eukarya
Gabriela Gomes Tue 31/03/09	Modeling and remodeling in population biology
Bert Overduin Mon 30/03/09	An overview of the ENSEMBL project
Alex Pouget Fri 27/03/09	Probabilistic inference and decision making in neural circuits
Rafal Butowt Thu 26/03/09	Long-distance trafficking of neurotrophins in the nervous system: the concept of "trophic currencies"
Michael Parkhouse Tue 24/03/09	Host vs Pathogen : The Game is Drawn but the Fight goes on
Dan Weinreich Mon 23/03/09	Predicting Molecular Evolutionary Trajectories in Principle and in Practice
Cláudia Codeço Fri 20/03/09	Ecological thinking and vector borne diseases
Roberto Araújo Thu 19/03/09	Mechanotransduction- a Novel 3D Perspective
Matthias Haury Wed 18/03/09	The EMBL International Centre of Advanced Training
Ron DePinho Fri 13/03/09	Mining and modeling cancer genomes
Jon Van Rood Fri 13/03/09	Consequences of Bidirectional Microchimaerism Between Mother and Fetus on Transplant Survival and Genetic Predisposition for Reumatoid Arthritis
Miguel Godinho-Ferreira Tue 10/03/09	How telomeres prevent checkpoints
Conly Rieder Fri 06/03/09	Live Cell Studies on the Mitotic Checkpoint in Humans
Jocelyne Demengeot Tue 03/03/09	Immune tolerance to genetically self and non-self components: striving for harmony
Susana Valente Fri 27/02/09	Human Cellular Factors that Restrict HIV-1 Activity
Jonathan Pines Fri 20/02/09	The Ins and Outs of cell division
Marcelo Urbano Ferreira Wed 18/02/09	Antigenic diversity and evolution in Plasmodium falciparum
Henrique Teotónio Tue 17/02/09	Experimental evolution of C. elegans populations
Crisanto Gutierrez Fri 13/02/09	Cell division, chromatin and differentiation during Arabidopsis development
Loren Frank Fri 13/02/09	Learning and Memory Reactivation in the Hippocampus
Alexander Dammermann Thu 12/02/09	Molecular analysis of centriole assembly and function
Alex Reyes Thu 12/02/09	Input-dependent modulation of functional inhibition in neural networks
Florence Janody Tue 10/02/09	Proper regulation of cytoskeletal genes is essential to prevent aberrant growth of Drosophila epithelia
Dean Buonomano Tue 10/02/09	Temporal Processing and Neural Dynamics
Michael Berry Fri 06/02/09	Reading out a Correlated Population Code
Michael Hausser Thu 05/02/09	Dendritic computation of direction and velocity
Tony Dean Wed 04/02/09	The structure of an ancient adaptive landscape
Thomas Nevian Wed 04/02/09	Signaling mechanisms in spike-timing dependent plasticity
Filipa Alves Tue 03/02/09	Three-dimensional models for cell polarization in pollen tubes
Kai Konrad Tue 03/02/09	Usefulness of voltage-sensitive dyes and reporter proteins to monitor the membrane potential of pollen tubes, a plant model cell system to study polar
Jan Hoejimakers Mon 02/02/09	DNA damage, cancer, ageing and the survival response that promotes longevity
Martha Constantine-Paton Fri 30/01/09	Changes in Glutamate Receptor Trafficking, Scaffolding, and LTP uponeye opening in the Developing Rodent
Jorge Carneiro Tue 27/01/09	Set a thief to catch a thief: towards fully automated image analysis based on morphodynamic cell models
Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna Mon 26/01/09	Molecular mechanisms of cellular senescence
Jorge M. Pacheco Fri 23/01/09	Modeling the architecture and dynamics of hematopoiesis
Erwan Michard Tue 20/01/09	Plant ionotropic amino-acid receptors: calcium channels involved in pollen tube growth and orientation
Jaime Mota Fri 16/01/09	Interaction between intracellular Salmonella and post-Golgi trafficking
Ana Sofia Pires Thu 15/01/09	Plant cell cultures as an alternative production system for recombinant proteins
Jill Scott Thu 15/01/09	Neuromedia
Elena Baena-González Tue 13/01/09	Integration of Stress Signals into Plant Growth and Development
Sara Ricardo Fri 09/01/09	An ABC transporter controls the export of a Drosophila germ cell attractant
Elisabetta Padovan Tue 06/01/09	Human Immunology
Sonia Rocha Mon 05/01/09	Mechanisms controlling gene expression in Hypoxia