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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 & time	Speaker		Title	Host	Comment
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 12	no 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