2023-2024 Seminars

This year, our seminar series is organised by Dr Susan Joyce, Dr Anne Moore and Dr Katja Burk and supported with advertisements and graphics by Orla Murphy.

Please check this page every week from September for news of our 2023-2024 seminars.

Multiple Sclerosis Research on a Burning Planet  

Dr Una FitzGerald, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Galway 

WGB G14    

Wednesday 17th April 2024, at 1pm

Academic host: Dr Paul Young School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Exploring the potential of (gold)nanoparticles in biomedical applications: from sensing to drug delivery  

Dr. Maria Marin-Altaba, Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry, University of East Anglia, UK  

HUB 172 SHTEPPS   

Monday 11th March 2024 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Professor Dmitri Papkovsky, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

LRRK2 control of membrane trafficking in Parkinson's Disease  

Professor Amir Khan, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin  

AL G18  

Wednesday, 31st January 2024 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Professor Mary McCaffrey, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Protein synthesis during host:bacterial interaction 

Dr Betty Chung, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge 

WGB 402  

Wednesday, 13 December 2023 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Professor Justin McCarthy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Oncogenic fusion proteins: a deadly combination of phase separation and DNA-binding in cancer

Dr Rita Pancsa, Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest 

BHSC 102  

Wednesday, 29 November 2023 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Kellie Dean, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Long, circular and small non-coding RNA: roles in dopamine neurons and neurological disease

Prof. Jeroen Pasterkamp, Head of Department of Translational Neuroscience, UMC Utrecht. 

WGB 405   
Wednesday, 22 November 2023 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Katja Burk, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

How macrophage metabolism controls the lung environment

Dr Adam Byrne, School of Medicine, UCD

MS Teams  
Wednesday, 8 November 2023 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Professor Justin McCarthy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Uncovering mechanisms of hippocampal synaptic dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease

Professor Joris De Wit, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Belgium.

WGB G14 
Wednesday, 4 October 2023 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Katja Burk, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Mechanistic underpinnings of cellular plasticity in cancer

Dr Lynne-Marie Postovit, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Canada.

HUB 172 SHTEPPS 
Friday, 22 September 2023 @ 2.00 pm

Academic host: Professor Pasha Baranov, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC