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Here is a comprehensive list of the invited speakers seminars, sorted by year. Please note that this information may change without any prior notice.

There is also a list of internal seminars.

2009

Date Talk title Speaker Institute
2009-2-12 From Atoms to Systems: A "multidisciplinary" approach to understand disease pathogenesis and develop therapeutics John D. Lambris, Ph.D. Dr. Ralph and Sallie Weaver Professor of Research Medicine, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2009-12-11 Mass Spectrometry Seminar Dr. Mark A. McDowall  
2009-9-10 Embryonic Stem Cell Bioprocessing: Principles & Challenges for the Controlled Expansion & Differentiation Athanasios Mantalaris Biological Systems Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2009-2-10 Reversing the central dogma: High-performance protein analysis via DNA reporters Prof. Ulf Landegren Department of Genetics & Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden
2009-15-9 Ontogeny of hematopoiesis: Child labor in the mammalian embryo Jim Palis, MD Dpt of Pediatrics, University of Rochester, USA
2009-11-9 Interneurons and spinal motor control Laskaro Zagoraiou Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Columbia University
2009-23-7 Determining chromatin interacting partners of URIM, a protein up regulated in metastasis Bjoern Friedrichs Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
2009-25-6 Merging the transcriptome, proteome and microRNAome in the inner ear: implications for deafness Karen B. Avraham, PhD Professor, Chair Dept of Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel
2009-19-6 Regulation of inflammation by endothelial molecules and adhesive interactions in the vasculature Triantafyllos Chavakis, Dr. MD Principal Investigator, Head, Inflammation Biology Section, Experimental Immunology Branch,National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
2009-18-6 Clues to the ontogenesis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia from analysis of the clonotypic B cell receptors Kostas Stamatopoulos M.D. Hematology Department and HCT Unit G. Papanicolaou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
2009-15-6 Exploring how genetic variation sculpts gene expression in health and disease Dr. Antigone Dimas Population and Comparative Genomics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
2009-22-5 Methods for the accurate estimation and visualization of proteomics features from 2D gel images Prof. Elias S. Manolakos Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens
2009-28-4 An Introduction to Experimental Design and Statistics for Animal Science Dr. Anastasia Kastania Athens University of Economics & Business
2009-13-2 Billboard - finding conserved cis-Regulatory Modules with a unified set of motifs Dr. Jerzy Tiuryn Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics University of Warsaw
2009-3-2 Gene Transfer in stem cells: Applications Dr. Elena Siapati Cell and Gene Therapy Lab Foundation of Biomedical Research Academy of Athens (IIBEAA)

2008

Date Talk title Speaker Institute
2008-22-12 Bacterial Reprogramming of Eukaryotic Cell Biochemistry Dr. Erec Stebbins Associate Professor, Head of Laboratory of Structural Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
2008-22-12 PHide and Seek: Surface Receptor Diversity in the host-pathogen interaction Dr. Nina Papavasiliou Associate Professor, Head of Laboratory of Lympocyte Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
2008-04-12 Pl-3 kinases in cell growth and metabolic regulation Dr. Lazaros Foukas Centre for Cell Signalling, Institute of Cancer, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
2008-14-11 Inflammatory Cytokine Regulation in Skin by UVB and Stress Signals Dr. Genevieve Garcin University of Montpellier, France
2008-11-11 Macrophages to the rescue in muscle regeneration Professor Nadia Rosenthal Head, EMBL-Monterotondo Outstation, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Campus "A. Buzzati-Traverso", Monterotondo (Rome), ITALY
2008-10-14 Cohesins in gene regulation & genome organisation Dr. Matthias Merkenschlager Lymphocyte Development Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Center, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London
2008-10-9 Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 (HIF-1): Biological Function and Regulation by Nuclear Transport Dr. George Simos Faculty of Medicine University of Thessaly, Greece
2008-9-15 Small RNAs in the parasitic nematode Brugia malayi Dr. Larry McReynolds Senior Scientist, New England Biolabs, Boston USA
2008-8-4 The postranscriptional regulator HuR and its role in deciding cell fate Dr. Imed Gallouzi Associate Professor Biochemistry Department, McGill University
2008-7-21 Microarrays, microRNAs and new biomarkers in Lung Fibrosis Dr. Naftali Kaminski University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
2008-7-16 Locus control region mediated recruitment of transcription complexes to the beta-globin gene locus Dr. Jorg Bungert Dpt. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Florida
2008-6-25 Introducing FlowJo: A multiplatform Flow Cytometry Analysis Software Claudio Vallan FlowJo European Application Specialist, Celeza GmbH/Treestar
2008-6-24 MAPK signaling regulation during persistent mating pheromone stimulation in budding yeast? Zoe Hilioti, PhD Johns Hopkins University Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Baltimore, USA
2008-6-12 Is our nose a spectroscope? Luca Turin, PhD Flexitral Inc. London UK
2008-6-6 Matrix Metalloproteinase-8 is a central mediator in lethal endotoxic shock Claude Libert, PhD Molecular Mouse Genetics DMBR/VIB/UGent Ghent, Belgium
2008-5-29 Metamorphosis from astroglia to neuron: the magic spell of proneural genes Benedikt Berninger Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Germany
2008-5-29 How complex siRNA mixtures work: specifity and RISC assessment analysis George Tzertzinis RNA Biology Division, New England Biolabs,Ipswich MA, USA
2008-4-4 DSI Telemetry Anne Brumagim Data Sciences International
2008-4-1 Development and function of stromal cells in primary and secondary lymphoid tissues Dr. Mark Coles Immunology and Infection Unit, Department of Biology and HYMS, University of York, UK
2008-1-25 Identifying microRNAs and their targets Dr. Nikolaus Rajewsky Charite (Medical University Berlin) Head, Division of Systems Biology (Max Delbruck Center For Molecular Medicine)
2008-1-10 Pentraxins at the Crossroads between Innate Immunity, Inflammation, Matrix Deposition, and Female Fertility Dr. Cecilia Garlanda Lab. Ricerche in Immunologia e Infiammazione Istituto Clinico Humanitas

2007

Date Talk title Speaker Institute
2007-10-12 Regulation and function of proinflammatory TH17 cells Dr. Chen Dong Associate Professor, Department of Immunology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
2007-9-28 Teeth on a dish Dr. Thimios Mitsiadis Institute for Oral Biology, Dept. of Orofacial & Structural Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich
2007-9-18 Dissecting the transcriptional responses to hypoxia Dr. Jiannis Ragoussis Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics Oxford, U.K.
2007-8-31 Imaging inflammation in colon cancer Dr. Elias Gounaris Cancer Immunology & AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
2007-7-24 Imaging high-speed nanometer-motion of live cells in the inner ear Dr. K. D. Karavitaki Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, and Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2007-6-22 Regulation of B cell differentiation

 
Dr. Martin Turner MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellow, Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling & Development The Babraham Institute, U.K.
2007-6-8 Diverse roles of Semaphorins: from axon guidance to immune regulation Dr. Hitoshi Kikutani Osaka University, Japan
2007-5-15 Natural Products: Challenges & Opportunities for Chemistry & Biology Dr. Emmanuel N. Pitsinos Institute of Physical Chemistry,NCSR "DEMOKRITOS",Athens, Greece
2007-2-27 C. elegans and Other Invertebrate Model Systems to Study the Biology and Pathogenesis of Human Pathogenic Fungi Dr. Eleftherios Mylonakis Medicine Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases
2007-2-23 Using the Minos transposon to produce repressible dominant mutations in the germline and somatic tissues of the fly and the mouse Dr. Charalambos Savakis Molecular Genetics, Crete Medical School & Research Scientist, IMBB-FORTH, Crete, Greece.
2007-2-7 Transcription factor network regulating cholesterol and fatty acid homeostasis Dr. Iannis Talianidis Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics BSRC ‘Al. Fleming’
2007-1-9 Investigation of Potential Regulatory Elements in the Mouse alpha-Globin Gene Cluster
 
Dr. Paraskevi Goggolidou Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine Oxford U.K.

2006

Date Talk title Speaker Institute
2006-12-22 Signaling pathways in development and disease of the digestive tract in mice and zebrafish Dr. Anna-Pavlina Haramis Netherlands Cancer Institute
2006-12-21 Spatial genome organization and chromosome translocations Evi Soutoglou, Ph.D National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA
2006-11-27 Impaired Genome Maintenance suppresses the GH/IGF1 axis in DNA repair deficient mice Dr George Garinis Erasmus Medical Center The Netherlands
2006-11-16 Biodiversity and chemodiversity as tools for the discovery of new bioactive compounds Prof. Leandros Skaltsounis School of Pharmacy - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
2006-11-9 How do cells know when to START dividing? Michael Polymenis, PhD Dept of Biochemistry Texas A&M University College Station, TX USA
2006-11-6 Targeting the human genome: Structure - function studies of the L1 endonuclease Anastassis Perrakis, PhD he Netherlands Cancer Institute Structural Biology Group
2006-9-22 Role of the Tuberous Sclerosis Complex genes in mitotic progression Dr Aris Astrinidis Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia
2006-8-1 Memory CD8 T cells require CD28 costimulation Dr Peter D. Katsikis Drexel University College of Medicine Philadelphia, USA
2006-7-14 Nucleotide Excision Repair: The Molecular Basis of Cancer-Prone and Aging-Related Human Disorders Dr Maria Fousteri Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
2006-6-22 Brain, Behaviour and Evolution Dr George Paxinos University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2006-6-16 Notch signaling regulates stem cell numbers in vitro and in vivo Dr Andreas Androutsellis - Theotokis National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke - National Institutes of Health
2006-6-15 Identifying the dynamic nature of cell adhesion Dr Vasso Kostourou Queen Mary's School Of Medicine & Dentistry
2006-6-15 Giant linker proteins of the nuclear envelope and their roles in human diseases Dr Iakovos Karakesisoglou University of Cologne
2006-6-14 Molecular mechanisms of nuclear membrane biogenesis Dr Symeon Siniossoglou Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
2006-6-14 Biogenesis and function of microRNA genes Dr Artemis-Georgia Hatzigeorgiou University of Pennsylvania
2006-5-25 Molecular genetics of epithelial appendages Dr Marianna Bei Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital
2006-5-4 The Zac1 tumor suppressor negatively regulates retinal cell numbers Carol Schuurmans, Ph.D. IMCH, HBI, University of Calgary
2006-5-3 Natural Killer T cells, TNF cytokines and autoimmunity Dirk Elewaut, MD, PhD Ghent University Hospital
Ghent, Belgium
2006-4-17 Comparative Genomics: from the Organisms to the Communities NIKOS C. KYRPIDES Ph.D US Dept. of Energy

2005

Date Talk title Speaker Institute
2005-11-4 New findings in the gain of function of mutant p53 Dr. Alexander Damalas Weizmann Institute
2005-10-24 Transcription factors regulating midbrain dopaminergic neuron development Siew-Lan Ang, Ph.D. Developmental Neurobiology Division MRC-NIMR London, UK
2005-5-20 How the embryo does endoderm Vasso Episkopou, Ph.D. MRC Clinical Sciences Centre London, UK
2005-5-18 Tangential Migration Defects in Mouse Mutants Konstantinos Zarbalis, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco, USA
2005-5-17 Integration of signals for muscle lineage determination by Myf5 Early Epaxial Enhancer Lydia Teboul, Ph.D. Molecular Neurobiology Division MRC-NIMR London, UK
2005-5-16 Workshop on Stem Cell Biology - Neural Stem Cells Francois Guillemot Molecular Neurobiology Division MRC-NIMR London, UK
2005-5-9 The TTP family of CCCH tandem zinc finger proteins in the regulation of cytokine mRNA turnover Perry J. Blackshear, M.D., D.Phil. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences North Carolina, USA
2005-4-6 PI-3 Kinases in disease Matthias Wymann, Professor. Center of Biomedicine, University of Basel
2005-3-31 Genetic Analysis of cell-matrix adhesion in Drosophila Christos Zervas, Ph.D. Institute of Cell biology and Genetics

2004

Date Talk title Speaker Institute
2004-12-23 Molecular regulation of differentiation and life cycle of African trypanosomes Athina Paterou, Ph.D. Institute of Immunity and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
2004-12-21 The RORa Nuclear Receptor: From cerebellar development to protection against degenerative diseases Christopher Jarvis, Ph.D. Universite Paris VI, Paris, France
2004-12-20 A bioinformaticians glimpse into the genetics of AML (Acute Myeloid Leukaemia) Spyros Skoulakis, Ph.D. Bioinformatics Analyst, Cancer Research UK, Medical Oncology Lab, London, U.K.
2004-11-30 The Affymetrix Technology Expression and Genotyping Products Andre Boiteux-Levret Affymetrix, Inc.
2004-11-15 Protein interaction networks function and evolution Christos Ouzounis, Ph.D. European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL outstation, Hinxton, Cambridge, U.K.
2004-11-05 Control of TNF function by IKK and JNK in inflammation and cancer Michael Karin, Ph.D. Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.
2004-10-22 Post-transcriptional networks regulating T cell activation Patrick J. Lager Center for RNA Biology, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, U.S.A.
2004-10-20 Novel mechanisms for regulation of functions of tumor suppressor p53 and RB protein Yoichi Taya, Ph.D. Chief, Radiobiology Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
2004-10-19 Resistance to vesicular stomatitis virus infection requires a functional cross-talk between the eIF2alpha kinases PERK and PKR Dionissios Baltzis Lady Davis Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2004-10-14 Imaging Neuronal Activity Efstratios Kosmidis, Ph.D. Cellular and Molecular Physiology, School of Medicine, Yale University, U.S.A.
2004-10-08 Cystic Fibrosis and Mouse Models Charizopoulou Nikoletta, Ph.D. Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Zentrum Biochemie und Zentrum Kinder und Jugendmedizin Klinische Forschergruppe, Moleculare Pathologie der Mukoviszidose, Germany
2004-10-01 Function of MHC class I peptide loading complex regulated by ERp57 Aikaterina Betou Molecular Immunology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Science Barts and London School of Medicine Queen Mary's, University of London, U.K.
2004-06-30 Arkadia: a putative licensing factor for TGFbeta signalling in early development Vasso Episkopou, Ph.D. MRC- Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, London
2004-06-30 Functional genomic approaches to understand hormone responses: pathway visualization software and large-scale gene trapping Bruce R. Conklin, Ph.D. Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2004-05-27 Lineage plasticity and determinism in ex vivo differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells examined by DNA-array based transcriptional analysis Prof. Eleft. Papoutsakis Department of Biomedical Engineering & the Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Programm Northwestern University, USA
2004-05-20 The adhesion molecule TAG-1: different functions in the embryonic and adult nervous systems Domna Karagogeos, Ph. D. University of Crete, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Crete, Crete, Greece
2004-05-04 The Estrogen Receptor as a Transcription Factor and The Future of Molecular Biology Prof. Frank Gannon Executive Director of EMBO
2004-04-20 Cell cycle modification as a developmental strategy Terry L. Orr-Weaver, Ph.D. Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
2004-04-06 Inhibition of infection-induced immunopathology by the manipulation of late costimulatory molecules Ian Humphreys Research Assistant, Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection Imperial College, London, U.K.
2004-03-11 Magnesium-dependent virulence gene expression of Group A Streptococcus Ioannis Grylos, Ph.D. Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

2003

Date Talk title Speaker Institute
2003-11-28 Micro-RNA Genes and their targets Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Ph.D. Pennsylvania Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
2003-11-28 Velocigene, a high throughput method for engineering genetically modified mice: a progress report Aris N Economides, Ph.D. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY, U.S.A.
2003-10-15 RNAi in cultured cells using enzymatically produced short RNAs George Tzertzinis, Ph.D. New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA, U.S.A.
2003-10-13 Control of EBV-associated lymphoproliferative syndromes by gene-modified T cells Delphine Sauce, Ph.D. CRC Institute for Cancer Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K.
2003-10-03 Mini-Symposium on RNAi - -
2003-10-03 Post- Transcriptional Regulons in Human Cells Prof. Jack D. Keene Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Center for RNA Biology, Duke University Medical Center, U.S.A.
2003-09-15 Firefly on Bengal Rose Theodossis Theodossiou, Ph.D. National Medical Laser Centre, University College London, U.K.
2003-09-11 Control over S-phase onset: from fission yeast to human cells Dr. Zoi Lygerou School of Medicine, University of Patras, Greece
2003-09-09 Neurotrophin interactions with the extracellular matrix for the regulation of tissue regeneration Katerina Akassoglou, Ph.D. Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.
2003-09-01 Novel approaches in transgenesis Implications for gene therapy Inder M. Verma, Ph.D. Laboratory of Genetics , Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
2003-08-06 Application of transcriptional profiling in host-parasite interaction studies Norman Pavelka, Ph.D. Department of Biotechnology and Bioscience , University of Milano- Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2003-06-17 The functions of Calreticulin (C1q-binding protein) in Trypanosoma cruzi Viviana Ferreira, Ph.D. Immunology Program (ICBM), Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile
2003-03-13 Functions of MSKs in immediate early gene induction Dr. Simon Arthur MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
2003-02-17 New Technologies for the Engineering of Antibodies and Enzymes Dr. George Georgiou Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
2003-02-04 Metabolic Engineering as a tool for the analysis and study of biochemical pathways. The case of biosynthesis of neurotransmitter glutamate Prof. Frangiskos Kollisis Chem. Engineering Dept., NTUA, Greece