CONTENTS
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Editorial Dr Tamzin Gristwood
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Flu Fighters Dr Hayley Crawford
4
OUBS Seminars Trinity 2011
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The Brilliant Light Narin Hengrung
5
Featured Seminar Dr Penelope Mason
25
Book Reviews Leopold Kong & Jennifer de Beyer
6
Research Highlights Maria Mogni & Caroline Dahl
26
One Oak Dr Gabriel Hemery
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Anterior Patterning during Mammalian Embryogenesis Dr Shankar Srinivas
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Translating Science Lisanne Stock
12
Grass to Gas Dr Sarah McKim
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5’ with... Professor Jordan Raff Nicola Platt
16
Using brain activity to control machines
31
Snapshot Elizabeth Milway
18
Bugs that eat Oil Penny Sarchet
32
Crossword Andrea Szollossi & Amy Baxter
Neuromechanical Interfaces: Dr Carinne Piekema
Trinity 2011 Tuesday 3rd May Dr Joao Pedro de Magalhaes Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool “Integrative genomics of ageing: New approaches for an ‘old’ problem” Monday 9th May Dr Ian Collinson School of Biochemistry, Bristol University “Structure of the bacterial translocon activated by pre-protein” Monday 16th May Dr Adrian Mulholland Centre for Computational Chemistry, Bristol University “Computational enzymology: modelling biological catalysts” Tuesday 31st May Professor David Jones Department of Computer Science, University College London “Gaining biological insight from disorder: natively unfolded proteins in the human genome” Monday 6th June Professor Steve Busby School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham “Regulation at simple and complex bacterial promoters”
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OUBS SEMINARS OUBS FEATURED SEMINAR:
Monday 13th June Dr Steve West Cancer Research UK - London Research Institute “Regulatory control of recombination-mediated DNA repair and links to cancer “ Monday 20th June Professor Stephan Sigrist Institut für Biologie, FU Berlin “Shedding light on the assembly of synapse structure and function” Tuesday 21st June Dr Lizzie Burns Science to Life Title to be confirmed
All seminars are held in the Main Meeting Room, New Biochemistry Building from 4 to 5 pm, unless stated otherwise.