• Type: Seminar Series

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Pathogenetic Mechanisms of Muscule Wasting in Disease
  Previous title : Signalling pathways that control muscle mass, metabolism and longevity
  Professor Marco Sandri (University of Padova)

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD): a developmental disease
  Please note that the room has changed for this seminar talk. It will now take place in the Ground Floor Conference Room of the Le Gros Clark Building.
  Christian Pinset (Centre for the Study of Stem Cells/ iStem)

Friday 20 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Modeling muscle disease and regeneration in zebrafish
  This Seminar has unfortunately been CANCELLED.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Peter D. Currie (Director of Research, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. Head, EMBL Australia Melbourne Node. NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. Level 1, 15 Innovation Walk Monash University, Wellington Road Clayton VIC 3800. Australia.)

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Modeling muscle disease and regeneration in zebrafish
  Prof Peter D. Currie (Director of Research, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. Head, EMBL Australia Melbourne Node. NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. Level 1, 15 Innovation Walk Monash University, Wellington Road Clayton VIC 3800. Australia.)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - From Ion Channel Gating Pore Currents to International Genomic Medicine Initiatives in Neuromuscular Diseases
  Prof. Michael Hanna (Director | UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Director | UCL MRC International Centre for Genomic Medicine in Neuromuscular Diseases)

Wednesday 17 March 2021 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Digenic inheritance involving a muscle specific protein kinase and the giant titin protein causes a skeletal muscle myopathy
  Prof. Volker Straub (Director, The John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre | MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases at Newcastle | Deputy Dean, Translational and Clinical Research Institute Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, International Centre for Life, Central Parkway Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3BZ, UK)

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Optimizing therapeutic efficacy in spinal muscular atrophy
  Prof. Charlotte Sumner (John Hopkins School of Medicine)

Wednesday 16 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Therapy Development for Duchene Muscular Dystrophy: A long and winding road
  Prof. Nathalie Goemans (University Hospitals Leuven)

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Engineering human stem cells for muscle disease modelling and therapy development
  Prof. Francesco Saverio Tedesco (University College London)

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Optimizing antisense mediated exon skipping for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and ultrarare diseases
  Prof Annemieke Aartsma-Rus (Leiden University Medical Centre)

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Prof. Werner Stenzel (Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin)

Wednesday 16 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Aurélie Goyenvalle (INSERM)