CRI Seminars in Cancer

Audience listening to a CRI seminar presentationThis Seminar series provides a platform for presentations by external speakers, both from within the UK and from overseas.

The chosen speakers are all leaders in their field and the talks are open to all interested persons from the University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK, Addenbrooke's Hospital and other research groups.

Links to the speaker's group/lab website are included below where available.

All seminars are in the CRI Lecture Theatre.

Seminars 2011-2012

Pluripotency, Etc.

1:00pm, 15 March 2012
Location: CRI Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Ihor Lemischka, Mount Sinai Medical Centre

Characterising the leukemic stem cell

1:00pm, 4 April 2012
Location: CRI Lecture Theatre

Speaker: John Dick, University of Toronto

Unravelling the genetic risk factors in disease

1:00pm, 17 May 2012
Location: CRI Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Kari Stefansson, deCODE Genetics, Iceland

The role of genomic instability in cancer initiation and progression

1:00pm, 21 June 2012
Location: CRI Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Thea Tlsty, University of California, San Francisco

The role of telomeres and telomerase in cancer and ageing

1:00pm, 19 July 2012
Location: CRI Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Maria Blasco, CNIO, Madrid

Lgr5 stem cells in self-renewal and cancer

1:00pm, 11 September 2012
Location: CRI Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Hans Clevers (Hubrecht Institute)

This seminar is being hosted jointly with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Pharmacogenetics and the development of new cancer drugs

1:00pm, 20 September 2012
Location: CRI Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Mark Ratain, University of Chicago Medical Centre

The Ras pathway in cancer therapy

1:00pm, 3 October 2012
Location: CRI Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Frank McCormick, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Centre

Please note unusual day: Wednesday, not Thursday

The regulation of gene expression in the context of chromatin

1:00pm, 15 November 2012
Location: CRI Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Danny Reinberg, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York