CRI Seminars in Cancer
This 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.
Speaker: Ihor Lemischka, Mount Sinai Medical Centre
Characterising the leukemic stem cell
Speaker: John Dick, University of Toronto
Unravelling the genetic risk factors in disease
Speaker: Kari Stefansson, deCODE Genetics, Iceland
The role of genomic instability in cancer initiation and progression
Speaker: Thea Tlsty, University of California, San Francisco
The role of telomeres and telomerase in cancer and ageing
Speaker: Maria Blasco, CNIO, Madrid
Lgr5 stem cells in self-renewal and cancer
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
Speaker: Mark Ratain, University of Chicago Medical Centre
The Ras pathway in cancer therapy
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
Speaker: Danny Reinberg, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York
