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Institute of Genetics and Cancer

Institute of Genetics and Cancer

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The IGMM lecture theatre was packed with people on the 12th November, eager to listen to Steve Jackson’s seminar, which was entitled ‘Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and clinical applications’. I did my undergraduate project in Steve’s lab two years ago, so I was interested to see what they’ve been up to since […]

On the 6th of November 2019, the IGMM welcomed Professor Marc Bühler from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research to present his work on the ChAHP complex. Research in the Bühler lab focuses on investigating various mechanisms that affect eukaryotic genome organization, chromatin structure, and gene expression, and how these mechanisms have evolved over […]

By Lisa Backwell | Thursday 24 October 2019 In this week’s IGMM external seminar series, Professor Victoria Sanz-Moreno from Queen Mary University of London treated us to a quick-fire snapshot of her labs extensive work on an aggressive form of skin cancer called melanoma, which has led to the recent discovery that a pathway called […]

A diagram explaining Dr. Emmerson's model

On Thursday the 26th of September Dr. Elaine Emmerson from the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine gave an excellent talk on the manipulation of the parasympathetic nerves of the salivary gland and how this could be used in a therapeutic setting. The dysfunction of the salivary glands causes a range of symptoms, including difficulty swallowing […]

As a PhD student from the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine in Edinburgh, I had the great opportunity to attend the talk “The epigenetic transcriptional repressor complex – defending the genome from retroelement attack” given by Prof. Paul J Lehner, a Wellcome Trust Principal Fellow from the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Prof. Lehner […]

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