Glasgow Cancer Seminar Series
All local researchers, affiliated with the CRUK Scotland Institute and the University of Glasgow, including students, are very welcome to attend our Glasgow Cancer Seminar Series. We are unable to open them to the public, however we do hold other events such as our open evening which members of the public are welcome to attend.
Any questions please contact: reception@crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk
Code of Conduct
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September
| Date | Time | Venue | Details |
| 3rd September | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre | John O'Neill, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology “Daily regulation of cellular physiology” |
| 10th September | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Naama Kanarek, Harvard Medical School “Metabolic vulnerabilities of pediatric leukemia in the brain” |
| 17th September | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Monika Wolkers, Sanquin and University of Amsterdam “How RNA binding proteins control translation in human T cell physiology” |
| 24th September | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Annapoorni Rangarajan, Indian Institute of Science “From mammary stem cells to cancer stem cells: metabolic lessons from AMPK” |
|Past seminars|
| 13th January | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre | Samra Turajlić, Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute "Unravelling the Mysteries of Kidney Cancer – A Journey from Genetics to Immunology" |
| 15th January | 13.00 | The Robertson Trust LT | Laura D. Wood, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine "Insights from Molecular Analysis of Human Pancreatic Precancer” |
| 26th January | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Richard White, University of Oxford "What determines cancer cell fate - from zebrafish to iPS models of melanoma" |
| 12th February | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre | Martin Rennie, University of Glasgow "Unpicking the structural basis of USP1 inhibitors for BRCA1/2-deficient cancers” |
| 11th March | 10.00 | The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre | Lorenzo Galluzzi, Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia) “Targeting the mitochondrial checkpoint to enhance the immunogenicity of radiation therapy” |
| 12th March | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Steven Pollard, University of Edinburgh “Development of an immuno-gene therapy for brain cancers” |
| 26th March | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Elena Rainero, University of Sheffield “The extracellular matrix fuels cancer cell growth and migration under amino acid starvation” |
| 1st April | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre | Hugo Snippert, Prinses Maxima Center “Plasticity in human gut & cancer” |
| 9th April | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Madelon Maurice, UMC Utrecht "To be or not bE3? From E3 ligase biology in colorectal cancer to targeted degradation of cell surface proteins" |
| 23rd April | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Felipe Galvez-Cancino, University of Oxford “Treg targeting reprograms the innate and adaptive immune microenvironment in glioblastoma” |
| 29th April | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Greg Findlay, The Francis Crick Institute “Mapping variants to functional effects with genome editing at scale" |
| 30th April | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Johanna Englund, University of Helsinki “Shaping the tumour niche: tumour-derived extracellular matrix in breast cancer initiation and progression” |
| 14th May | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre | Ian McGough, Babraham Institute “Collapse of Glypican-Dependent Wnt Gradients Drives a Skeletal RASopathy” |
| 21st May | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Lars Vereecke, Ghent University and VIB Center for Inflammation Research “Host-microbe interactions in intestinal and extra-intestinal pathologies” |
| 28th May | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Ashley Kiemen, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| 4th June | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre | Sheeba Irshad, Kings College London “Spatially coordinated extrafollicular B cell programmes in early breast cancers” |
| 18th June | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Stefan Prekovic, UMC Utrecht “The regulatory logic of cancer cell identity” |
| 17th July | 10.00 (am) | The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre | David Herrmann, Garvan Institute for Medical Research "Targeting pancreatic cancer progression, metastasis and treatment resistance guided by intravital imaging" |
| 23rd July | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | Jeffrey West, Moffitt Cancer Center “Modelling tumour-immune-microenvironment interactions with mathematical oncology” |
| 20th August | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre | Maria Rodriguez Colman, UMC Utrecht "Metabolism as a driver of tumour phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity” |
| 27th August | 12.00 (noon) | The Robertson Trust LT | David Tollervey, University of Edinburgh “RNA-protein interactions - in a time of stress” |



