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.

seminars 2012 winter/spring

Seminars 2012

Friday
May 4
Antoine van Oijen: Under the hood: Single-molecule studies of DNA replication
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Peter Peters
Thursday
May 10
Vishva Dixit: Role of ubiquitin modification in cellular signaling
Auditorium, 15.00 hrs; hosted by Piet Borst
Friday
May 11
Giorgio Scita: Membrane and actin dynamics in the plasticity of tumor cell migration
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Metello Innocenti
Tuesday
May 15
Jan-Hermen Dannenberg: Mouse models for HDACs in development and cancer
Auditorium, 10.00 hrs; hosted by René Medema
Tuesday
May 15
Rob Wolthuis: Exploring the Equation of Cell Division: 1 / 0.5 = 2
Auditorium, 14.00 hrs; hosted by René Medema
Friday
May 25
postponed to June 13 Stefano Piccolo
Thursday
June 7
cancelled Douglas Hanahan: Multi-factoral determinants of malignant progression
Thursday
June 7
Jon Yewdell: How to succeed in science without really trying
Auditorium, 14.15 hrs; hosted by ISPCC - Michiel Boekhout
Wednesday
June 13
Stefano Piccolo: On the molecular nature of breast cancer stem cells
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Reuven Agami
Monday
June 18
Peter Sicinski: Cyclins and cancer
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by René Medema
Thursday
Jun 21
Roel NusseWnt signaling and asymmetric stem cell division
Auditorium, 10.30 hrs; hosted by Renee van Amerongen
Friday
Jun 22
Johannes Zuber: Finding and probing cancer drug targets using advanced in-vivo RNAi
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Thijn Brummelkamp
Friday
July 6
Richard Gardner: How disorder prevents disaster in nuclear protein homeostasis
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Fred van Leeuwen
Friday
Sept 28
Titia de Lange: How telomeres solve the chromosome end protection problem
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by René Bernards
Friday
Oct 12
Eric So: Title to be announced
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Fred van Leeuwen
Friday
Oct 26
James Bradner: Chemical inhibition of bromodomains
Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Jan-Hermen Dannenberg
Friday
Nov 2
Anton Wutz: Derivation and characterization of haploid embryonic stem cells from mouse embryo
Piet Borst Auditorium, 11.00 hrs; hosted by Bas van Steensel
Friday
Nov 23
Niels Geijsen: 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: seminars@nki.nl

The scientific seminars program is under the supervision of the Seminar Committee (Reuven Agami, Fred van Leeuwen, Rob Wolthuis, Christian Blank, Jelle Wesseling and Suzanne Corsetto). The Seminar Committee organizes the Friday 11 o’clock seminars and occasionally seminars at other moments.

Seminars 2012

Dirk Busch: Mechanisms of protection towards intracellular pathogens and it's implications for immunotherapy
Daniel Durocher: Chromatin ubiquitylation and the response to DNA double-strand breaks
Alfred Goldberg: New insights into proteasome function: From protein degradation to cancer therapy
Marcus Groettrup: How, where, and why the ubiquitin-like modifier FAT10 targets substrates for degradation by the proteasome
Albert Heck: Developing tools for delving into the cancer (phopho)proteome
Mike Hemann: Using mouse models to improve cancer therapy
Olli Kallioniemi: Individualized systems medicine in cancer: AML and beyond
Peter Lansdorp: Studies of genomic (re-) arrangements in single cells by analysis of DNA template strands
Ultan McDermott: The genomics of drug sensitivity in cancer
Ira Mellman: Cancer cell biology: next generation approaches to basic cell biology & drug discovery
Paul Nurse: Controlling the cell cycle
Hiroshi Ohno: Function and development of specialized epithelial cells, Mcells
Rainer Pepperkok: High throughput/content microscopy for systems biology analyses
Prem Premsrirut: RNAi mouse models for target discovery, validation and toxicology assessment
Prahlad Ram: Analyzing and targeting networks for combinatorial therapy
Sridhar Ramaswamy: Multi-scale views of cancer heterogeneity
Giannino del Sal: Pathways driving aggressiveness in breast cancer
Clemens Schmitt: Senescence and senescence-related vulnerabilities in cancer therapy
Ruth Sperling: A novel quality control mechanism that regulates alternative 5' splice site selection
Matthijs Verhage: The protein machines that regulate organelle docking fusion and cargo delivery at the surface
Johannes Walter: The mechanism and regulation of DNA replication; from cell-free systems to single molecules
Lodewyk Wessels: Molecular networks in cancer
Lars Zender: Oncogenomics-based approaches to unravel liver cancer

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