The monthly Faculty Research Seminar Series is open to all staff and students and offers an opportunity to celebrate FBMH’s research achievements.
Research Domain host: Cellular and Development Systems
Speakers:
Dr Gino Poulin: “Deciphering gene function in vivo using rapid transgenesis”
Dr Alan Whitmarsh: “A nuclear sensor of mitochondrial function”
Information about the speakers:
Gino Poulin is a developmental biologist working on epigenetics using C. elegans as a model system. He obtained his PhD in molecular biology at the University of Montréal where he studied cell specific transcription during pituitary development in mice with Dr Jacques Drouin. He pursued his interest in transcription as a post-doctoral fellow at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, where he contributed to the first genome-wide RNAi screen in a metazoan with Dr Julie Ahringer. He started his independent laboratory in 2007 through an MRC career development award at the University of Manchester. Using RNAi screens aimed at attenuators of RAS signalling, his group identified a homologue of the human MLL (Mixed Lineage Leukaemia) complex in C. elegans. Gino’s group is currently studying how epigenetics regulates ageing and stress responses across generations.
Alan Whitmarsh studies the cellular response to stress. He obtained a BSc in biochemistry and a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Sheffield. Whilst working as a post-doctoral fellow with Roger Davis at UMASS Medical Center, he identified novel components of a key stress-activated MAP kinase pathway and helped elucidate their roles in development and disease. Since starting his own lab as a Lister Institute-Jenner Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, he has addressed how scaffold proteins regulate MAP kinase signalling and identified the JIP1 scaffold protein as a regulator of axonal development. More recently, his lab has developed an interest in stress signalling from mitochondria and how this impacts on gene expression and ageing. This led to a fruitful collaboration with Gino Poulin, who has expertise in linking signalling and transcriptional outputs to function in C. elegans.
Registration is recommended and can be made via Eventbrite https://fbmh-research-seminar-21june2017.eventbrite.co.uk, or by contacting lorna.tittle@manchester.ac.uk.
About the Faculty Research Seminar Series:
The monthly lunchtime Faculty Research Seminar Series is open to all staff and students from across the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health and the University, offering an opportunity to celebrate the Faculty’s research achievement and stimulate scientific interaction.
Each event focuses on one of the eight strategic research domains. Each month one of the Research Domain Directors selects two speakers from within the Faculty to highlight and showcase an area of research in their domain. There will usually be one senior speaker and one junior/early career researcher. Speakers include clinical, non-clinical and basic science researchers. Presentations are pitched at a non-specialist level, as the series aims to attract people from across the Faculty.
Held on Wednesday lunchtimes each month, each meeting lasts an hour, comprising two 20 minute presentations, with each presentation being followed by 5-10 minutes questions and discussion.
Lunch is available 12.30-1pm; presentations run 1-2pm. The series is led by Professor Nigel Hooper and administered from the Strategic Funding Team (by Lorna Tittle).
http://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/bmh/about-fbmh/news-and-events/events-and-seminars/faculty-research-series/
Held on Wednesday lunchtimes each month, each meeting lasts an hour, comprising two 20 minute presentations, with each presentation being followed by 5-10 minutes questions and discussion.
Lunch is available 12.30-1pm; presentations run 1-2pm.
The series is led by Professor Nigel Hooper and administered from the Strategic Funding Team (by Lorna Tittle).
http://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/bmh/about-fbmh/news-and-events/events-and-seminars/faculty-research-series/
