Scientific seminars


The NKI frequently organizes seminars for which renowned national and international speakers are invited. These seminars are also open to scientists from outside the NKI-AVL.
Changes and cancellations are infrequent, but please check this page for updates.

Poster winter - spring 2010

Seminars 2010

Friday
Mar 12
Anne Brunet: Mechanisms of aging and longevity
Z4, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Anna-Pavlina Haramis
Friday
Mar 15
Jose Villadangos: Regulation of antigen presentation in the dendritic cell network
Auditorium, 15.00 hrs; hosted by Shalin Naik
Friday
Mar 19
Niels de Wind: Mutatis mutandis: Roles of mutagenic replication of damaged DNA in fitness and disease
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Heinz Jacobs
Friday
Mar 26
Roy Zent: Integrins, Ilk and the kidney
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Arnoud Sonnenberg
Friday
Apr 9
Hans SchreiberTumor stroma and the immune response
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Christian Blank
Friday
May 7
Lee Kraus: Nuclear signaling, chromatin structure, and gene regulation by estrogens and NAD+
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Andrej Alendar
Friday
May 28
Alberto Bardelli: Cancer mutations and targeted therapies in cells, mice and patients
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Rene Bernards
Wednesday
June 9
Frank Holstege: Understanding regulatory circuitry through expression-profile phenotypes
Auditorium, 15.00 hrs; hosted by Bas van Steensel and Lodewyk Wessels
Thursday
June 10
Marian Walhout: Gene-centered regulatory networks
Auditorium, 15.00 hrs; hosted by Bas van Steensel and Lodewyk Wessels
Friday
June 11
Kevin White: Nuclear receptors, transcriptional networks and cancer
Auditorium, 15.00 hrs; hosted by Bas van Steensel and Lodewyk Wessels
Tuesday
June 15
Gerald de Haan: Gene(tic) networks in hematopoietic stem cells
Auditorium, 15.00 hrs; hosted by Bas van Steensel and Lodewyk Wessels
Wednesday
June 16
Eileen Furlong: Gene regulatory networks during development: predicting cis-regulatory activity
Auditorium, 15.00 hrs; hosted by Bas van Steensel and Lodewyk Wessels
Thursday
June 17
Wouter de Laat: Uncovering genome structure and function
Auditorium, 15.00 hrs; hosted by Bas van Steensel and Lodewyk Wessels
Friday
June 18
Edward Marcotte: Insights from proteomics into cellular evolution and surprising disease modelse
Auditorium, 15.00 hrs; hosted by Bas van Steensel and Lodewyk Wessels
Thursday
June 25
Lee Josephson: Multimodal imaging agents: Problems and opportunities
A
uditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Fijs van Leeuwen
Friday
July 2
Paul Coffer: Divide, differentiate or die? A novel PKB-FOXO node coordinating regulation of metabolism and autophagy
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Rob Wolthuis
Tuesday
Sep 28
Matthias Hentze: Mechanism of regulation of protein synthesis by miRNAs
Auditorium, 15.00 hrs; hosted by Reuven Agami and Fred van Leeuwen
Friday
Oct 15
Yves BarralTitle to be announced
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Fred van Leeuwen
Friday
Nov 26
Job Dekker: title to be announced
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Bas van Steensel

If you have questions about listed seminars, wish to propose a seminar speaker, or if you wish to be added or removed from the seminar mailing list, please contact:
Suzanne Corsetto, telephone: +31 20 512 1970
Email: s.corsetto@nki.nl

The scientific seminars program is under the supervision of the Seminar Committee (Daniel Peeper, Reuven Agami, Laura van ’t Veer, Rob Wolthuis, Christian Blank and Suzanne Corsetto). The Seminar Committee organizes the Friday 11 o’clock seminars and occasionally seminars at other moments.

Seminars 2010

Anton Berns: The mouse as an oncogenomic tool
Nick Gilbert: The effect of DNA supercoiling on chromatin structures
Sander van den Heuvel: Proliferation, differentiation and asymmetric cell division
John Martens: Exploring and integrating the breast cancer transcriptome
Yves Pommier: DNA topoisomerases and genomic stability
Ali Shilatifard: Lessons learned from yeast about human leukemia
Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey: Cellular models for epithelial morphogenesis and cell invasion
Henk Stunnenberg: Genome wide (epi)genetic profiling provides molecular insight into differentiation and transformation pathways
Roel Verhaak: The cancer genome atlas - towards complete genomic characterization of tumor types

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