PDN Foster Talks seminar series

Professor Daniel Gorelick - Baylor College of Medicine

"Folate, Magnesium, and the Mechanisms of Neural Tube Closure"

Professor Katja Röper - PDN, University of Cambridge

Mechanisms and mechanics of morphogenesis: the role of supracellular coordination

Dr Renata Jurkowska - Cardiff University

It is not all in your genes - epigenetic regulation of human lung repair

Dr Balázs Enyedi - Semmelweis University, Budapest

From nuclear swelling to chemoattractant production during tissue damage

Prof Frederik Elinder - Linköping University, Sweden

Potassium channel activators - a possible anti-seizure treatment. 

Dr. Magali Suzanne - The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France

Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces

Prof Michael Yartsev - University of California, Berkley, USA

Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats

Dr Esteban Hoijman - Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL 

Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments           

Jörg Renkawitz - LMU Munich

From Cell Migration to Macropinocytosis: How the Local Microenvironment Regulates Cell Behaviour

David Belin - University of Cambridge

Amygdalo-striatal mechanisms of compulsive habits: relevance for our understanding of addiction.

Steve Matthews - University of Toronto

The Environment and the Developing Brain: A Complex and Continuing Conversation

Kathy Niakan - University of Cambridge

Molecular mechanisms that regulate the first cell fate decisions in human development

Bayram Yilmaz - Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

Hedonic and Homeostatic Mechanisms in Hunger Regulation: Insights into Hypothalamic Circuits

Dr Silvia Fre - Institute Curie Paris

Symmetry breaking decisions in stem cells from mouse bi-layered epithelia in development and regeneration

 Golnar Kolahgar

Colleen Deane, University of Southampton

Identifying mechanisms of, and countermeasures to, muscle decline in aging

Stefanie Wculek, IRB (Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona)

How innate immune cells adapt to environment and function: diverse tales of mitochondria

Shankar Srinivas, Oxford University

Behavioural and mechanical heterogeneitis underpin cell migration essential for mouse anterior patterning

Laura Machesky, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge

Eating and walking - how cells manage their energy budget during migration and invasion

Miguel Torres, Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research

Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblast

Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge

Nutritional programming by maternal over-nutrition: A developing obesity crisis.

Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo. RIKEN BDR

Towards human systems biology of sleep/ wake cycles: Phosphorylation hypothesis of sleep

Buzz Baum, MRC LMB, Cambridge

Our archael ancestry: Cell division from archaea to eukaryotes