Seminars
This year, our seminar series is organised by Dr Susan Joyce, Dr Malgorzata Krajewska, Dr Gary Loughran, Yvonne Brennan (Admin) and supported with advertisements and graphics by Mary Heapes.
Please check this page every week from September for news of our 2021-2022 seminars.
Where are all the ribosomes?
Juan Mata, Ph.D, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.
MS Teams
Tuesday, 5 July 2022 @ 12.00 pm
Academic host: Professor Pasha Baranov, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Spatial multi-omics to dismantle the Triple Negative Breast Cancer environment
Ruben Dries, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Divisions of Hematology and Oncology and Computational Biomedicine, Boston University School of Medicine, USA.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 15 June 2022 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Malgosia Krajewska, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Inflammatory signalling in genetically unstable cancers
Professor Marcel A.T.M. van Vugt, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 25 May 2022 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Malgosia Krajewska, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Adventures in inflammation research
Professor Luke O'Neill, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 20 April 2022 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Gary Loughran, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Biological timekeeping, homeostasis and viral infections
Dr Rachel Edgar, Department of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 13 April 2022 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Professor Justin McCarthy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
From understanding cancer cells to fighting against them: How can we improve current CAR-T cell therapies?
Dr Verónica Ayllón Cases, Universidad de Granada, Spain.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 06 April 2022 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Professor Rosemary O'Connor, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
SARS-Cov-2 lung pathology in animals from natural infection to ex-vivo model
Dr Sandra Vreman, Wageniningen Bioveterinary Research, The Netherlands.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Anne Moore, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
How feeding time regulates circadian rhythms in mammals
Dr John O'Neill, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
ZOOM
Wednesday, 02 March 2022 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Professor Justin McCarthy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
And yet they oscillate: uncovering the biological function of circadian regulated long non-coding RNAs in plants
Dr Rosanna Henriques, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UCC.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 23 February 2022 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Susan Joyce, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Data-driven advances in precision oncology
Professor Aedin Culhane, School of Medicine, University of Limerick.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 02 February 2022 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Professor Pasha Baranov, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Visualising ‘Crick’s comma’: Structural basis of ribosomal frameshifting in SARS-CoV-2
Dr Fred Sheedy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology; and School of Microbiology, UCC.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 26 January 2022 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Gary Loughran, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Train to Win: Education of the innate immune system by fungal beta-glucans
Dr Fred Sheedy, Trinity College Dublin.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Ken Nally, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Phosphorescence based oxygen sensing platforms for biomedical research
Professor Dmitri Papkovsky, University College Cork.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 22nd December 2021 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Malgosia Krajewska, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
LNX proteins: a well-connected family, but what do they actually do?
Dr Paul Young, University College Cork.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 15th December 2021 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Gary Loughran, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
RNA at the therapeutic frontier - Autoimmunity, Cancer & Neurodegeneration
Dr Vincent Kelly, Trinity College Dublin.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 1st December 2021 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Gary Loughran, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Interleukin-36: an orchestrator of inflammation and homeostasis at barrier surfaces
Dr Patrick Walsh, Trinity College Dublin.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 17th November 2021 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Anne Moore, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Metabolomics: current opportunities and developments
Professor Lorraine Brennan, Full Professor of Human Nutrition, University College Dublin.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 10th November 2021 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Susan Joyce, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
The Diet-Fitness-Gut microbiome paradigm
Dr Orla O'Sullivan, Senior Computational Biologist, Teagasc Food Research Centre.
MS Teams
Wednesday, 03rd November 2021 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Susan Joyce, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Antibody profiling of SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare workers in Cork
Dr John MacSharry, School of Microbiology, and School of Medicine, and APC Microbiome Ireland
MS Teams
Wednesday, 20th October 2021 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Susan Joyce, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Autophagy and neuronal resilience in Parkinson’s
Dr Jon Lane, University of Bristol
MS Teams
Wednesday, 22nd September 2021 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Kellie Dean, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC
Mass Spectrometric Imaging by Desorption Electrospray Ionisation
Dr Wei Rao, Waters Corporation
MS Teams
Wednesday, 8th September 2021 @ 1.00 pm
Academic host: Dr Susan Joyce, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC