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

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 (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 2011

David Adams: Finding and validating cancer genes in the mouse
Jean-Christophe Andrau: From enhancer of transcription to enhancer transcription
Avi Ashkenazi: Pro-apoptotic receptor agonists as a strategy for cancer therapy
Keith Baggerly: The importance of reproducibility in high-throughput biology: case studies in forensic bioinformatics
David Barford: Structural basis for the subunit assembly of the anaphase promoting complex
Amy Berrington de Gonzalez: Projected cancer risks from current levels of diagnostic radiation exposure
Cedric Blanpain: Stem cells and skin cancers
Sandeep Burma: DNA double-strand break repair and the glioblastoma connection
Jason Carroll: Estrogen receptor genomics
Young-Tae Chang: Development of bioimaging probes for in vitro, in vivo and clinical applications by Diversity Oriented Fluorescence Library Approach (DOFLA)
Hans Clevers: Wnt signaling, Lgr5 stem cells and cancer
Gerald Cohen: Bcl-2 family, function and targeting
Steve Elledge: Adventures in human genetics
Wolfram Goessling: Fishing for novel regulators of liver development and cancer
Eyal Gottlieb: Metabolism controls cell fated
Piet Gros: Molecular mechanisms underlying complement activation and regulation
Robert Grosse: Signal regulation of Formin-mediated actin assembly
Nir Hacohen: Reconstructing circuits of the innate immune system
Ron Heeren: Pathway Imaging Mass Spectrometry: Multiplexed label-free detection of molecular signals on biological surfaces
Uulke van der Heide: Application of MRI in radiotherapy for tumor delineation and characterization
Phil Hodgkin: Tracking clonal cell division, death and differentiation fates reveals a statistical model for the cell
David Holden: Exploitation of mammalian cells by Salmonella
Nancy Hynes: Targeting signaling pathways in breast cancer
Peter Jones: The cancer epigenome
Jan Karlseder: Telomere function and dysfunction during the cell cycle
Jan Korbel: Detecting large-scale genetic variations in humans with second generation sequencing data
Paul Lehner: Viral regulation of plasma membrane proteins; new approaches to dissect host-pathogen interactions
Gustavo Leone: Pten and p53 pathways in the tumor microenvironment
René van Lier: With a little help of co-stimulation: selection of (sub)dominant T cell clones during immune reactions
Sabine Linn: Outlooks for treatment of breast cancer
Vivek Malhotra: Mechanism of protein secretion: conventional and unconventional
Michael Marks: Lysosome-related organelle biogenesis: What do dendritic cells and pigment cells have in common?
Jean-Claude Martinou: Membrane remodeling by Bcl-2 family members to trigger apoptosis
Maria Masucci: Highjacking of Ub and UbL signaling in Epstein-barr virus infection
Ultan McDermott: The genomics of drug sensitivity in cancer
Pascal Meier: Caspase activation and inhibitor of apoptosis proteins
Andrew Mouland: At the crossroads: Expanding roles of endosomal membranes in infectious disease and cancer
Patricia Muller: Mutant p53 drives RCP-mediated recycling of integrins and growth factor receptors to enhance invasion Lorenza Penengo: Ubiquitination and genome stability: how the ubiquitin ligase RNF168 regulates the DNA damage response
Roland Rad: Cancer gene discovery in mice using PiggyBac transposon mutagenesis
Carlos Reis: Computational design of TNF ligands
Antoni Ribas: TCR engineering and BRAF targeted therapy for melanoma
Kevin Ryan: Autophagy in cell death and cancer
Ton Schumacher: Dissecting T cell immunity in mice and men
Yosef Shaul: Mechanisms and metabolic regulation of protein degradation by default
Yang Shi: Histone methylation dynamics: mechanisms and link to human disease
Jane Skok: Chromosome dynamics in immune regulation
Quentin Smith: Improving drug delivery to brain for the treatment of brain metastases of breast cancer
Fraser Symmans: Developing, testing and implementing molecular approaches to tailor treatment of breast cancer patients
Shunichi Takeda: Analysis of DNA damage response using the chicken DT40 cell line
Stavros Taraviras: Differential role of Geminin in progenitor T cells and haematopoietic stem cells
Roman Thomas: Lung cancer genomics
Marc Timmers: Dynamic regulation of transcription and chromatin
Frank Uhlmann: Temporal ordering of progression through cell division
Peter Vandenabeele: Cutting both ways: How caspases promote and prevent cell death
Ashok Venkitaraman: Chromosome stability mechanisms in tumor suppression and cancer therapy
Peter Verrijzer: Undercover transcription factors in development and disease
Rob Wolthuis: Mechanisms of Cell Division: the Be All and the End All
Jerry Workman: Protein complexes that modify chromatin for transcription

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