Past Events

Speaker: Prof. Roel Verhaak, Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Yale School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA

Title: 'Extrachromosomal DNA amplifications drive cancer progression'

Host: Dr. Ingo Ringshausen

Venue: CRUK CI, Cambridge, Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Kat Sturgess, PhD student, Gottgens Group

Title: ‘A multimodal single cell atlas of adult murine haematopoiesis’

Speaker: Matthew Timmins, PhD student, Ringshausen Group

Title: "Tumour activated PKC-B remodels bone marrow stromal cells”

Host: Matthew McLoughlin, PhD student, Vassiliou Group

Speaker: Dr John Lizhe Zhuang, Senior Research Associate, Department of Oncology, Early Cancer Institute

Title: 'The origin and heterogeneity of intestinal metaplasia as a precancerous lesion'

Host: Prof. Bertie Gottgens

Research Culture & Integrity Panel Discussion: Having Children and a Career 

The CSCI Research Culture & Integrity and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committees have joined forces for a panel discussion around ‘Having children and a career’.

Registration is required – please sign up here by 9 November

12:30 – Free Lunch for registered attendees
13:00 – Panel discussion and audience Q&A
14:00 – Event end

Speakers will include specialists from HR, University of Cambridge childcare services and panel members from across the Institute.

Speaker: Dr. Maria Kasper, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Title: 'Decoding the molecular design of skin'

Host: Dr. Mekayla Storer, PI, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

Speaker: Matthew McLoughlin, PhD student, Vassiliou Group

Title: 'Telomere maintenance shapes the landscape of clonal haematopoiesis in old age.' 

Speaker: Vincent Knight-Schrijver, Postdoc, Sinha Group

Title: 'Lessons for cardiac regeneration: Understanding adult epicardial quiescence using single-cell RNA-sequencing.' 

Host: Jaana Bagri, PhD student, Huntly Group

Speaker: Prof. Elisa Laurenti, PI,  Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

Title: “Novel regulation of erythropoietic and megakaryocytic differentiation from human haematopoietic stem cells”

Host: Dr. Maria Duque-Correa

Speaker: Güntülü Gökçe Agsu, Postdoc, Basu Group

Speaker: Jonathan Lee, PhD, Sinha Group

Title: 'More than just a scaffold? -The role of stem cell derived epicardium in assembling a pro-cardiogenic extracellular matrix.'

Host: Livia Lisi-Vega, PhD student, Mendez-Ferrer Group

Speaker: Konstantinos Tzelepis, PI,  Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

Speaker: Ahmed Waraky, Postdoc, Laurenti Group

Title: "Regulatory network in extramedullary hematopoiesis"

Speaker: Livia Lisi-Vega, PhD student, Mendez-Ferrer Group

Title: "Lost in translation: Investigating the translational reprogramming of the bone marrow stem-cell niche in myeloid malignancy"

Host: Jonathan Lee, PhD student, Sinha Group