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The research school Cancer Genomics & Developmental Biology (CGDB) is part of the Utrecht Graduate School of Life Sciences and combines about 50 research groups from Utrecht University, the University Medical Center Utrecht and the Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research.The school offers two programmes:

 

 

News

December 13, 2011 | Tineke Lenstra receives the 2011 CGDB PhD student award read more

May 12, 2011 | Tobias Dansen receives '2011 Award for Best Master Course of the Utrecht Graduate School of Life Sciences'  read more

 

May 10, 2011 | The Utrecht Graduate School of Life Sciences nominates 3 courses for the '2011 Award for Best Master Course', all of which are coordinated by CGDB group leaders.

 

 

Seminar Schedule

Seminars are on Thursday at 16.00 hrs in the Hubrecht Auditorium, unless otherwise indicated (in the comment field).


Date & timeSpeaker TitleHostComment
08 Feb 12
16.00
Olivier Pourquie

IGBMC - CNRS - Université de Strasbourg

Patterning of the vertebrate body axis

Jacqueline Deschamps

WEDNESDAY

16 Feb 12
16.00
Piers Nash

BM-Dept for Cancer Research, University of Chicago

Modular protein interaction domains: Evolution, Selectivity and Complexity

Hans Bos 
23 Feb 12
16.00
reserved  Alyson MacInnes

within the frame of the Zebrafish in development, organogenesis and disease course

08 Mar 12
16.00
Simona Polo

IFOM-EIO

Ubiquitin regulates EGFR endocytosis and signaling

Madelon Maurice

within the frame of the "The Role of Membrane Traffic in Developmental Disease" course

15 Mar 12
16.00
Duncan Odom

Cancer research UK

Evolution and mechanisms of mammalian transcriptional regulation

Marc Timmers & Frank Holstege

within the frame of the course "Gene Expression, Epigenetics and Disease in the Post-Genome Era"

22 Mar 12
16.00
Lars Steinmetz

EMBL Heidelberg

The road from genomics to personalized medicine

Marc Timmers & Frank Holstege

within the frame of the course "Gene Expression, Epigenetics and Disease in the Post-Genome Era"

29 Mar 12
16.00
Philipp Kaldis

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore 

Mouse models to study the functions of cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks)

Daniele Guardavaccaro 
12 Apr 12
16.00
Thomas Lecuit

IBDML, CNRS & Aix-Marseille University

The subcellular mechanics of tissue morphogenesis

Johan de Rooij 
18 Apr 12
16.00
Martin Schwartz

Yale School of Medicine

Force transmission and mechanotransduction by cell adhesion receptors

Johan de Rooij

Extra Seminar on WEDNESDAY

19 Apr 12
16.00
Yves Barral

ETH, Zurich

Mechanisms of cellular aging and rejuvenation during yeast budding

Geert Kops

Joint CGDB/School of Life Sciences Seminar

Location: Blue College room AZU

26 Apr 12
16.00
Jeremy Nance

Skirball Institute, NYU

Adhesion during C. elegans gastrulation:  the role of cadherins and cell surface lipids

Sander van den Heuvel 
03 May 12
16.00
Juerg Mueller

Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried

Molecular mechanisms of the Polycomb/trithorax system

Marc Timmers 
10 May 12
16.00
Andrea Brand

The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology

Stem cells to synapses: regulation of self-renewal and differentiation in the nervous system

Wouter de Laat 
17 May 12no seminar - Ascension Day    
24 May 12
16.00
Stefano Piccolo

University of Padua School of Medicine

On the molecular nature of breast cancer stem cells

Patrick Derksen 
31 May 12
16.00
Amy Wagers

Harvard Stem Cell Institute

 

Regulation of tissue-specific stem cells in aging and disease

Daniele Guardavaccaro 
14 Jun 12
16.00
Frank Pugh

The Pennsylvania State University

Genomic regulatory mechanisms detected by ChIP-exo

Marc Timmers 
21 Jun 12
16.00
 

No Seminar

  

PhD Retreat

28 Jun 12
16.00
Kristian Helin

BRIC, University of Copenhagen

Functional roles of epigenetic enzymes in stem cell self-renewal, differentiation and cancer

Michiel Vermeulen 
25 Oct 12
16.00
reserved  Boudewijn Burgering