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