Colloquium zooming Molecular & Cellular Biology
Zooming Molecular & Cellular Biology Colloquium was initiated on July 28th, 2020 by the Biology department. The series is carefully curated and run by Dr Muhammad Tariq who is an Associate Professor at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering at LUMS. The series follows through various topics which come under the ambit of Molecular and Cellular Biology and in the past eight months, we’ve had the pleasure and honour of hosting some of the most knowledgeable scientists from around the globe. Below are the topics under discussion, our speakers and a link to the LIVE recorded talks.
Here are a few words by Dr. Muhammad Tariq who is the curator of the series:
I always felt that we are isolated and disconnected with scientific community in life sciences. Since beginning, I was worried about the impact of this isolation and the deficiencies our students may have in the absence of regular scientific seminar culture. I believe MCB seminar series is the biggest blessing of covid19 for life scientists here in Pakistan. It has not only enabled us to listen to the latest advances in life sciences but has also has connected us with highly accomplished scientists abroad. I strongly believe our students at LUMS as well as throughout Pakistan should attend these seminars. The impact these seminars will have on our learning is far more significant than what we try to learn through text books by ourselves.
Topic: The Role of Spatial Proximity in Genome Regulation
Speaker: Professor Dr. Wendy Bickmore
Date: Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
Time: 03:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
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Topic: Hox Gene Regulation in Embryos and Pseudo-Embryos
Speaker: Professor Dr. Denis Duboule
Date: Monday, March 22nd, 2021
Time: 02:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
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Topic: Mechanisms of the Malignant Progression of Carcinomas
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Robert Weinberg
Date: Thursday, March 11th, 2021
Time: 07:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
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Topic: Epigenetic Memory Over Geological Timescales
Speaker: Prof. Hiten Madhani
Date: Friday, March 5th, 2021
Time: 10:00 am
Venue: Zoom / Online
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Topic: Genome-Wide Mapping of Protein-DNA Interaction Dynamics
Speaker: Professor Dr. Steve Henikof
Date: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
Time: 9:00 am
Venue: Zoom / Online
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Topic: Understanding the strategies evolved by a very successful transposable element
Speaker: Professor Dr. Susan Wessler
Date: Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
Time: 9:00 am
Venue: Zoom / Online
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Topic: Transcriptomics for personalized medicine
Speaker: Prof. Greg Gibson
Date: Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
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Topic: Bivalent Polycomb Complexes of Master Switches of Developmental Gene Regulation
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mitzi Kuroda
Date: Monday, February 1st, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
Topic: New Signal Transduction Targets for Cancer Therapy
Speaker: Professor Dr. Tony Hunter
Date: Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
Time: 4:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
Topic: Principles and functional role of 3D genome folding
Speaker: Professor Dr. Giacomo Cavalli
Date: Friday, January 15th, 2021
Time: 9:00 am
Venue: Zoom / Online
Topic: Properties and Functioning of a Developmental Clock
Speaker: Dr. Helge Grosshans
Date: Monday, January 11th, 2021
Time: 9:00 am
Venue: Zoom / Online
Topic: RNA biology at the crossroads of evolution and disease
Speaker: Prof. Jernej Ule
Date: Friday, January 8th, 2021
Time: 3:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
Topic: Epistasis, the Spice of Life (and Evolution) – Lessons from the study of the plant immune system
Speaker: Professor Detlef Weigel
Date: Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
Time: 2:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
Topic: Advances in pancreatic beta cell regeneration
Speaker: Professor Dr. Juan Domínguez-Bendala
Date: Friday, November 13th, 2020
Time: 8:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
Topic: Histones: How much variation do we need?
Speaker: Prof. Sandra Hake
Date: Friday, October 16th, 2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
Topic: Genetic and Epigenetic mechanisms of X chromosome activation in Drosphila
Speaker: Professor Dr. Peter Becker
Date: Friday, October 9th, 2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
Topic: Functional organisation of the genome in 3D
Speaker: Dr. Stefan Schoenfelder
Date: Friday, September 11th, 2020
Time: 10:00 am
Venue: Zoom / Online
Topic: How and where to assemble heterochromatin, and why it is essential for organismal survival
Speaker: Professor Susan Gasser
Date: Thursday, August 27th, 2020
Time: 1:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
Topic: How cell fate decisions are maintained by Polycomb
Speaker: Dr. Oliver Bell
Date: Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
Time: 4:00 pm
Venue: Zoom / Online
