Previous Biochemical Society Seminars
A list of our previous Biochemical Society Seminar speakers and titles.
2022
Title: Autophagy, leaf senescence and nutrient management at the whole plant level
Date – Friday 18 March, 10:00
Speaker – Dr Céline Masclaux-Daubresse, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA Versailles
Room – Chatt G34/35, John Innes Centre
Host – Dr Janneke Balk
2021
Title: Activation of bacterial peptidoglycan hydrolases by a Type VII ABC transporter
Date – Friday 3 December, 10am
Speaker – Dr Alistair Crow
Room – Zoom/ Chatt G34/G35, John Innes Centre
Host – Professor Mark Banfield
2020
Title: Using structural biology to understand the predator Bdellovibio
Date – Tuesday 25 February, 13:30
Speaker – Dr Andrew Lovering, University of Birmingham
Room – Chatt G34/35, John Innes Centre
Host – Professor Mark Buttner
Title: Investigating the cell biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae
Speaker: Professor Nick Talbot, The Sainsbury Laboratory
Date: Wednesday 5 February
Venue: EFRY 01.05, UEA
Host: Professor Tamas Dalmay
2019
Title: Visualising human telomerase using cryo-electron microscopy
Speaker: Dr Kelly Nguyen, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Date: Monday 2 December
Venue: Lecture Theatre 4, UEA
Host: Dr Andrew Beekman, UEA
Title: Poliomyelitis – why do we need new vaccines and how close are we to developing them?
Speaker: Professor Nicola Stonehouse, University of Leeds
Date: Wednesday 6 November
Venue: Elizabeth Fry, 01.05, UEA
Host: Dr Richard Bowater, School of Biological Sciences, UEA
Title: Self-regulation of autophagy gene expression by ATG8-family proteins
Speaker: Dr Ioannis Nezis, University of Warwick
Date: Monday 16 September
Venue: Jane Rogers Seminar Room, Earlham Institute
Host: Dr Tamas Korcsmaros, Earlham Institute
Title: Light activated processes to study DNA damage and repair
Speaker: Dr Susan Quinn, University College Dublin
Date: Wednesday 1 May
Venue: LT4, UEA
Host: Prof Steve Meech, School of Chemistry, UEA
Title: A Circuitous Career Path: Confessions of a Forensic Scientist
Speaker: Dr Georgina Meakin, Centre for the Forensic Sciences, University College London
Date: Friday 1 March
Venue: EFry 01.05, UEA
Host: Dr Gary Rowley, School of Biological Sciences, UEA
2018
Title: The mechanisms of building a biofilm
Speaker: Professor Nicola Stanley-Wall, University of Dundee
Date: Wednesday 25 April
Venue: Efry 01.02, UEA
Host: Dr Richard Bowater, School of Biological Sciences, UEA
Title: What’s that smell? The biochemistry of human body odour formation
Speaker: Professor Gavin Thomas, University of York
Date: Monday 12th November 2018
Venue: Jane Rogers EI Seminar Room
Host: Dr Abbas Maqbool, The Sainsbury Laboratory
Title: Oxidation, oxidation, oxidation – investigating secondary metabolite biosynthesis in filamentous fungi
Speaker: Professor Russell Cox, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany
Date: Tuesday 18 December 2018
Venue: G34/35 Seminar Room, John Innes Centre
Host: Dr Andy Truman, John Innes Centre
2017
Title: Bioorganic chemistry with catalytic DNA and modified RNA
Speaker: Professor Claudia Höbartner, Georg-August-University, Göttingen
Date: Wednesday 29 March 2017
Venue: ARTS 01.02
Host: Dr Tom Storr, School of Chemistry, UEA
Title: Targeting DNA methylation with non-nucleoside inhibitors in cancer cells: combining chemistry and biology
Speaker: Dr Paola Arimondo, CNRS
Date: Monday 15 May 2017
Venue: Queens 1.03
Host: Dr Leanne Stokes, School of Pharmacy, UEA
Title: Membrane ammonium transporters
Speaker: Professor Susana Andrade, Institut für Biochemie, University of Freiburg
Date: Wednesday 14 June 2017
Venue: EFRY 01.02
Host: Dr Tom Clarke, School of Biological Sciences, UEA
Title: De novo design of lanthanide coiled coils – for applications in MRI and beyond
Speaker: Dr Anna Peacock, Birmingham
Date: Wednesday 8 November 2017
Venue: UEA Queens 1.03
Host: Dr Tom Storr, School of Chemistry, UEA
Title: The whereabouts of iron and manganese in plant cells
Speaker: Professor Cathy Curie, Laboratoire de Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Montpellier (France)
Date: Thursday 3 November 2017
Venue: Biffen Annexe Seminar Room 117, John Innes Centre
Host: Dr Janneke Balk, John Innes Centre
Title: Exploring the mechanism of nutrient acquisition by prominent members of the human gut microbiota
Speaker: Dr David Bolam, University of Newcastle
Date: Thursday 14th December 2017
Venue: Quadram Institute Bioscience Leture Theatre
Host: Nathalie Juge, Institute of Food Research
2016
Title: Arsenic as an energy source for microbes
Speaker: Dr Joanne Santini, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London
Date: 17 February 2016
Venue: School of Biological Sciences, UEA
Host: Dr Tom Clarke, School of Biological Sciences, UEA
Title: Molecular dynamics simulations of bacterial membranes: adding the chemical complexity to biosimulations
Speaker: Dr Syma Khalid, University of Southampton
Date: 16 March 2016
Venue: UEA Lecture Theatre 4
Host: Dr Amit Sachdeva, School of Chemistry, UEA
Title: Chloroplast to nucleus communication: Are tetrapyrroles the elusive signalling molecules?
Speaker: Professor Matthew Terry, Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton
Date: 20 April 2016
Venue: EFry 01.02
Host: Dr Richard Bowater, School of Biological Sciences, UEA
Title: The utilisation of complex glycans by the human gut microbiota
Speaker: Professor Harry Gilbert, University of Newcastle
Date: 25 May 2016
Venue: IFR Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Nathalie Juge, Institute of Food Research
Title: Understanding and exploiting cellular mechanisms for DNA break repair
Speaker: Professor Mark Dillingham, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Bristol
Date: 14 September 2016
Venue: Genome Centre Seminar Room, Earlham Institute
Host: Professor Tony Maxwell, John Innes Centre
Title: Developments in fragment-based approaches in chemical biology
Speaker: Professor Chris Abell, University of Cambridge
Date: Tuesday 15 November 2016
Venue: Watson and Crick Seminar Rooms, John Innes Centre Conference Centre;
Host: Professor Tony Maxwell, John Innes Centre