Barts Cancer Institute - Queen Mary University of London

Thursday Seminar Series - Prof Tim Elliott
2019-05-09 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Tim Elliott from the University of Southampton to present at the BCI on Thursday 9th May. For more information about Prof. Elliott’s research, please click here.
The seminar is titled: ‘Peptide selection in the MHC I antigen processing pathway and its relevance to cancer’
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12.30pm – 13.30pm.

Special Seminar – Bjorn Bakker
2019-05-03 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
We are pleased to welcome Bjorn Bakker, from the European Research Institute for the Biology of Aging (Netherlands), to present a Special Seminar at the BCI on Friday 3rd May. For more information about Bjorn Bakker’s research, please click here.
The seminar will be titled: ‘Karyotype evolution in Chromosomal Instability-driven cancer’
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 4 – 5pm.
If you would like to arrange to talk with Bjorn Bakker, please contact Sarah McClelland (s.mcclelland@qmul.ac.uk).

CRUK City of London Centre Workshop
2019-04-29 13:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
We would like to invite you to the CRUK City of London (CoL) Centre 3D in vitro models for pre-clinical studies of biological therapies workshop.
This informal workshop will present and discuss in vitro models that could be used to study novel biological therapies and their combination. Presentations will include 3D multi-cellular models of tumour microenvironments, tumour organoids, the potential of microfluidics and tumour-on-a-chip, immune cell interactions with tumour spheroids. We will discuss about collaborations and needs for common platforms in the CRUK CoL Centre and key questions that such models could answer.
The workshop will take place in the Lister Young Seminar Room from 13.00 to 17.00, with refreshments and informal networking afterwards. All are welcome!
View the full programme here
To book a space please RSVP before the 17th April 2019 to cruk.cityoflondoncentre@ucl.ac.uk.

Special Seminar - Dominik Glodzik
2019-04-01 10:30 - 11:30 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
We are pleased to welcome Dr Dominik Glodzik from the Wellcome Sanger Institute to present a Special Seminar at the BCI on Monday 1st April. For more information about Dr Glodzik’s research please click here.
The seminar is titled: ‘Causes and consequences of DNA repair defects revealed from whole genome sequences of cancers’
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 10.30am – 11.30am.
If you would like to arrange to talk with Dr Glodzik, please contact Jude Fitzgibbon (j.fitzgibbon@qmul.ac.uk).

Thursday Seminar Series - Dr Barrie Peck
2019-03-28 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Dr Barrie Peck from The Institute of Cancer Research to present at the BCI on Thursday 28th March. For more information about Dr Peck’s research, please read the biography below.
The seminar will be titled: ‘Modelling the tumour microenvironment to identify novel targets in cancer’
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12.30pm – 13.30pm.
If you would like to arrange to talk with Dr Peck, please contact Denise Gardner (d.gardner@qmul.ac.uk).

Biography:
Doctor Barrie Peck studied Molecular Biology and Genetics at Royal Holloway before moving to Imperial College London to complete a PhD in studying the role and regulation of forkhead transcription factors in breast cancer. After this, he moved to the London Research Institute (now the Crick Institute) to the lab of Prof. Almut Schulze to study cancer metabolism. This work focussed on identifying novel cancer-specific dependencies in cancer metabolism. Indeed, as part of the Lipid metabolism consortium, they identified ACSS2 as a fundamental dependency of aggressive breast and prostate cancers. There are now significant efforts in developing small molecule inhibitors to target ACSS2 in cancer.
Dr. Peck then moved to the Institute of Cancer Research to the lab of Dr. Rachael Natrajan to identify novel tumour suppressors in breast cancer. At the ICR he has developed bespoke 3-dimensional screening pipelines and discovered novel genes that impact disease progression and response to targeted therapies. This work was recently awarded a BCN Catalyst grant in collaboration with Pfizer.
Dr. Peck has a keen interest in functional genomics, cancer cell metabolism and the impact extrinsic factors, such as diet, can have on disease trajectory in cancer.

Thursday Seminar Series - Dr Kalnisha Naidoo
2019-03-21 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Dr Kalnisha Naidoo from Guy’s and St Thomas’ to present at the BCI on Thursday 21st March.
The seminar will be titled: ‘Modelling Metastatic Spread to Human Lymph Nodes’
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12.30pm – 13.30pm.
If you would like to arrange to talk with Dr Naidoo, please contact Emily Marsh (e.marsh@qmul.ac.uk).

Thursday Seminar Series - Dr Louisa James & Dr Hamish King
2019-03-14 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Dr Louisa James and Dr Hamish King from The Blizard Institute to present at the BCI on Thursday 14th March. For more information about their research, please click here.
The seminar is titled: ‘Human B cell maturation at single-cell resolution’
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12.30pm – 13.30pm.
If you would like to arrange to talk with Dr James and Dr King, please contact Hemant Kocher (h.kocher@qmul.ac.uk).

Thursday Seminar Series - Dr Alfredo Castello
2019-03-07 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Dr Alfredo Castello from the University of Oxford to present at the BCI on Thursday 7th March. For more information about Dr Castello’s research please click here.
The seminar is titled: ‘RNA-binding proteins step into the host-virus battlefront’
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12.30pm – 13.30pm.
If you would like to arrange to talk with Dr Castello, please contact Faraz Mardakheh (f.mardakheh@qmul.ac.uk).

Distinguished Guest Lecture - Professor Sir John Burn
2019-02-20 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | G02, Joseph Rotblat Building, Barts Cancer Institute, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ
We are delighted to welcome Professor Sir John Burn from Newcastle University to present his Distinguished Guest Lecture on Wednesday 20th February, 16:00-17:00.
The lecture will be titled: “Getting Ahead of Cancer: Prediction and Prevention”
If you would like to meet with Professor Burn prior to his lecture, please contact Emily Marsh (e.marsh@qmul.ac.uk) to arrange a meeting.
Further information on Professor Burn’s research can be found here.

Exhibition - Gilson UK
2019-02-19 10:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | John Vane Science Centre Foyer, Barts Cancer Institute, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, United Kingdom
We are pleased to welcome Gilson UK for an Exhibition in the JVSC Foyer on Tuesday 19th February, 10am – 2pm.
Come along to:

See the range of liquid handling solutions
Get some goodies!
Speak to Gilson UK about pipette servicing offers
Try their new range of pipettes

For more information about the Exhibition, please click here: Exhibition poster- QMUL CH SQ

Thursday Seminar Series - 10x Genomics
2019-02-14 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcomeStephen Hague and James Hargreaves from 10x Genomics to present at the BCI on Thursday 14th February.
The seminar is titled: ‘10X Genomics, recent advances in Single Cell Genomics’
“The Chromium Single Cell Gene Expression Solution provides a comprehensive, scalable solution for cell characterization and gene expression profiling of hundreds to tens of thousands of cells. Our latest improvements allow you to detect even more unique transcripts per cell and with the addition of Feature Barcoding technology, you can get a more complete molecular readout cell by cell—identify cell-specific CRISPR-mediated perturbations or simultaneously measure gene and cell surface protein expression in the same cell, with virtually unlimited possibilities for the additional feature types.
Additionally, 10X Genomics provides solutions to measure Chromatin accessibility (ATAC), 5’ Gene expression, Single Cell immune profiling and Single Cell Copy number variation.
10X Genomics solutions have been used in over 400 peer reviewed publications. Please come along to our Seminar to find out more about this novel technology and recent advances.”
For more information about 10x Genomics, please click here.
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12.30pm – 13.30pm.
If you would like to arrange to talk with Stephen or James, please contact Hemant Kocher (h.kocher@qmul.ac.uk).

Thursday Seminar Series - Dr Sarah McClelland
2019-02-07 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute to present on Thursday 7th February. For more information about Dr McClelland’s research, please click here.
The seminar is titled: ‘Chromosomal instability through the cell cycle’
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12.30pm – 13.30pm.
If you would like to arrange to talk with Dr McClelland, please contact her via email: s.mcclelland@qmul.ac.uk.

Thursday Seminar Series
2019-01-17 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
As part of the BCC’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Tim Elliott from the University of Southampton to present at the BCC on Thursday 17th January. For more information about Professor Tim Elliott’s research, please click here.
The seminar is titled: ‘Peptide selection in the MHC I antigen processing pathway and its relevance to cancer’

Medicine at the Crick
2018-06-28 14:30 - 19:00 UTC | Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Rd, London, NW1 1AT, United Kingdom
We are pleased to invite you and any interested colleagues to attend our inaugural ‘Medicine at the Crick’ event, entitled “Gene and Gene-Editing Therapy: A new challenge and opportunity in Clinical Medicine”, to be held on Thursday 28 June 2018, 2.30pm-7pm, at the Francis Crick Institute, London.
Our new ‘Medicine at the Crick‘ event series aims to showcase major advances in biomedical science and raise awareness of the medical implications of major scientific advances amongst the Crick and wider UK biomedical community.
The format is a series of short talks, followed by a keynote lecture and a panel discussion. We chose the theme of gene therapy and gene editing to launch the series. The event will be led by Professor Robin Lovell-Badge from the Crick and the keynote lecture will be given by Professor Matthew Porteus from Stanford University. Other speakers and panellists include Dr Claire Booth (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health), Professor Sarah Tabrizi (UCL Institute of Neurology), Dr Sarah Chan (University of Edinburgh) and Nick Meade (Genetic Alliance UK).
For full information on the programme, and to order your free tickets for the event, please visit our Medicine at the Crick webpages or contact us on medicine-at-crick@crick.ac.uk

Joint Pancreas Meeting
2018-06-13 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Room G.06, Rotblat building, Charterhouse Square
In this month’s meeting, Peng Liu- Centre for Molecular Oncology- will be speaking.
Title: Development of a novel prime-boost cancer vaccination regime for pancreatic cancer
This will take place in room G.06, Rotblat building.
We look forward to seeing you there.

‘Immune cell metabolism in health and disease’
2018-05-30 14:00 - 18:00 UTC | Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
The British Society for Immunology’s London Immunology Group is pleased to present ‘Immune cell metabolism in health and disease‘ taking place on Wednesday 30 May 2018 at Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, 14.00 – 18.00pm.
Immunometabolism is an emerging field that investigates how the metabolic processes of immune cells affect their roles in disease. Interest in this field is gaining momentum due to the realisation that changes in how cells utilise energy underlies many inflammatory responses, and that manipulating cellular metabolism can beneficially enhance or reduce inflammation. During this half day meeting, we will discuss how the inflammatory environment and cellular metabolism are integrated to regulate immune cell function. It is anticipated this meeting will be of broad interest to researchers working in the fields of immunology and/or metabolism and those interested in therapeutic approaches which target metabolic processes.
For more information and registration, please click here

Joint Pancreas Meeting
2018-05-16 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Room G.06, Rotblat building, Charterhouse Square
In this month’s meeting, we will hear from Louisa Chard- Centre for Molecular Oncology.
Title: Systemic oncolytic virotherapy using a novel IL21-armed Vaccinia virus vector as a potential therapeutic for pancreatic cancer
This will take place in room G.06, Rotblat building.
We look forward to seeing you there.

Thursday Seminar Series
2018-03-22 12:30 - 13:30 UTC
For this week’s installment of the BCI’s Thursday Seminar Series, Prof. Mark Cragg – Professor of Experimental Cancer Research and Director of the i4PhD Cancer Immunology Pathway – shall be speaking. Prof. Cragg’s research group is interested in two main areas: antibodies and small molecule inhibitors with the aim of understanding how these therapeutics function to delete tumour cells and how they might be augmented.
This seminar shall be in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, from 12.30pm-1.30pm.
Title: TBC
For more information about Prof. Mark Cragg, please click HERE.
