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Department of Life Sciences Seminars

Our seminars take place on Wednesdays at 1.15pm, and alternate between the Milner Centre Seminar Room and 5 West 2.3.


Factsheet

The seminars are open to all University staff and students.

Upcoming seminars

December 2025

Dr Elena Scarpa

  • Speaker: Dr Elena Scarpa, University of Cambridge
  • Title: 'In vivo tissue-scale confinement regulates collective migration and nuclear dynamics of neural crest cells'
  • Date: 10 December 2025
  • Time: 12.15pm - 1.05pm (please note the change of time)
  • Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room (please note the change of venue)
  • Host: Professor Robert Kelsh

January 2026

PhD student, University of Bath

  • Speaker: To be confirmed (TBC)
  • Title: To be confirmed (TBC)
  • Date: 14 January 2026
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: 5W 2.3
  • Host: N/A

PhD student, University of Bath

  • Speaker: To be confirmed (TBC)
  • Title: To be confirmed (TBC)
  • Date: 21 January 2026
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
  • Host: N/A

Previous seminars

October 2025

Dr Brian Lam

  • Speaker: Dr Brian Lam, University of Cambridge
  • Title: 'Spatio-cellular mapping of the hypothalamus in mice and humans'
  • Date: 8 October 2025
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
  • Host: Professor Tony Perry

Professor Alessio Ciulli

  • Speaker: Professor Alessio Ciulli, University of Dundee
  • Title: 'Protein degraders: New insights and twists of molecular mechanism and drug design'
  • Date: 15 October 2025
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
  • Host: Dr Scott Lovell

Geofrey Phutietsile

  • Speaker: Geofrey Phutietsile (PhD student), University of Bath
  • Title: 'Machine Learning in Anticholinergic Burden Quantification and Validation on Healthcare Dataset'
  • Date: 22 October 2025
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
  • Host: N/A

Jessica Taylor

  • Speaker: Jessica Taylor (PhD student), University of Bath
  • Title: 'Epigenomic regulation of immune gene activation dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana'
  • Date: 22 October 2025
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
  • Host: N/A

Dr Tim Craig

  • Speaker: Dr Tim Craig, University of the West of England
  • Title: 'Your Brain is What You Eat - fatty acids, diabetes and Neurodegeneration'
  • Date: 29 October 2025
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: 5W 2.3
  • Host: Dr Maria Niklison Chirou

Dr Lucy Crompton

  • Speaker: Dr Lucy Crompton, University of the West of England
  • Title: 'The pathological role of astrocytes in Parkinson’s disease'
  • Date: 29 October 2025
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: 5W 2.3
  • Host: Dr Maria Niklison Chirou

November 2025

Professor Christoph Klein

  • Speaker: Professor Christoph Klein, University of Regensburg
  • Title: 'Insights into the invisible phase of systemic cancer: Genomic evolution and phenotypic plasticity of the metastatic seed'
  • Date: 12 November 2025
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: 5W 2.3
  • Host: Professor Tony Perry

Dr Michael Parsons

  • Speaker: Dr Michael Parsons, University of California, Irvine
  • Title: 'Sox9b Is Required to Prevent Microbiome-Induced Pancreatic Inflammation'
  • Date: Monday 17 November 2025
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
  • Host: Professor Robert Kelsh

Professor Banafshe Larijani

  • Speaker: Professor Banafshe Larijani, Consortium for Precision Health (CPH-Bath), University of Bath
  • Title: 'Fusion of Quantitative Molecular Proteomics and Immune-Oncology: A Step Towards Precision in Cancer Therapeutics'
  • Date: 19 November 2025
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: Milner Centre Seminar Room
  • Host: N/A

Professor Arthur Kaser

  • Speaker: Professor Arthur Kaser, University of Cambridge
  • Title: 'FAMIN meets energy metabolism: How electrons and protons predispose for Crohn’s disease and autoimmunity'
  • Date: 26 November 2025
  • Time: 1.15pm - 2.05pm
  • Location: 5W 2.3
  • Host: Professor Randy Mrsny

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