Health Schools events
Print versionFebruary 2010
Monday 8 February
16:00, Nutrient Effects on Insulin Action and Energy Metabolism
Speaker:Professor Michael Roden, Director, Karl-Landsteiner Institute for Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vienna
Room G.3, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus
17:30 - 18:30, Halliburton Lecture in Physiology - Human obesity and its metabolic consequences: Insights from human genetics
New Hunt's House Lecture Theatre 2, Guy’s Campus
Speaker: Professor Stephen O’Rahilly FRS, FMedSciDirector of Institute of Metabolic Science - Metabolic Research Laboratories, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry & Medicine, University of Cambridge
Details from Shannon Ewart or Department of Physiology.
Tuesday 9 February
17.30, 20 Years of the T cell hypothesis in asthma: where we are now and where next?
Speaker: Christopher Corrigan, Professor of Asthma, Allergy & Respiratory Science
Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus
Contact: Shani Crawford on 020 7848 3790
13.00 – 14.00, Global analysis of SNPs, proteins and protein-protein interactions: approaches for the prioritisation of candidate disease genes
Genetics and Molecular Medicine Divisional Seminar Series
MMG Seminar Room, Floor 8 Tower Wing, Guy's Hospital
email: Richard Dobson
Wednesday 10 February
16:00 - 17:00, Pharmaceutical Science Seminar: Activation of G-protein-coupled receptors by peptide hormones
Speaker: Dr Mark Wheatley, University of Birmingham
Room G.79, Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo.
Details from Monica Barbone or Pharmaceutical Sciences.
18:00, 138th Meeting for Developmental Neurobiology Club: Regulation of axon targeting in the visual system of Drosophila
Speaker: Iris Salecker, National Institute for Medical Research
Seeing the wood for the trees: mechanisms of dendritic map formation in Drosophila
Speaker: Darren Williams, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's
Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guys Campus
Details from Stefania Boscolo.
13.00 – 14.00, Biomedical forum: The Human genome project: 10 years on Introduced by Professor Richard Trembath, BRC Director
There will be video-linking across the following sites: New Hunt's House, Guy's Florence Nightingale Lecture Theatre, St Thomas', Gainsford Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill, Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Queen Mary, University of London
12:30-13:30, James Black Centre Seminar Series: Uncovering the molecular mechanisms that control gene expression in human disease
Speaker: Dr. Ian Wood, Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology, University of Leeds
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Chronic hepatitis B innate immunity: a further report from battleground
Speaker: Dr Ivana Carey
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
Thursday 11 February
17.30 – 20.00, Loved the Snow? Try Sleeping in It. Psychiatry and Sleeping Rough
Speakers: Dr Max Pemberton, Author and psychiatrist, Bandi Mbubi of Manna Homeless Service Centre and Ligia Teixeira and Amelia Parkinson of Crisis. Chaired by Dr Philip Timms of SLaM.
Institute of Psychiatry Symposium
New Hunt's House Lecture Theatre 2
Contact: kclpsychsoc@gmail.com or visit KCL Psychiatry Society.
17.30 – 19.00, Measuring the Quality of Maternity Care
Professor Suzanne Truttero, Midwifery Advisor, Department of Health
HSCR Women's Health Seminar Series
Room G79 Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus, Stamford Street
Contact Professor Debra Bick
17:00 - 18:00, Thirty years of (bio)molecular simulation: how far have we come?
Host: Dr Franca Fraternali
Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics Highlight seminar
Lecture Theatre 1 New Hunt's House
Contact: franca.fraternali@kcl.ac.uk or click here for more information.
Friday 12 February
16:00 - 17:00, Stem cells research event series: Stem cells and their niche in adult mammalian brain
Speaker: Dr Fiona Doetsch, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Harris Lecture Theater, Hodgkin building, Guy's Campus
Contact: Pat Doherty
10:00 - 11:00, Stem cells research event series: Haematopoietic stem cells
Speaker: Dr Linda Barber, University College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
11:30 - 12:30, Stem cells research event series: Biomaterials and scaffolds in stem cell therapy
Speaker: Dr Lucy Di-Silvio, King's College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
Monday 15 February
16.30, Ionic Bases of Cardiac Fibrillation: Role of the Inward Rectifier K+ Currents
Speaker: Sandeep V Pandit PhD, Center for Arrhythmia Research, University of Michigan, USA
Room, Rayne Institute, 4th Floor, Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH
Host: Prof Michael Marber 020 7188 1008
Wednesday 17 February
13:00 - 14:00, Nutritional Sciences Division Seminar: Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and the causation of Crohn's disease
Speaker: Professor John Hermon-Taylor, Nutritional Sciences Division
Franklin-Wilkins Building 4.63, Waterloo Campus
Details from Karen Conway or Nutritional Sciences Division.
12:30-13:30, James Black Centre Seminar Series: Targeting TSH-receptors for therapy and diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma
Speaker: Professor Paul Banga
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
Thursday 18 February
13:30-14:30, Reproduction & Endocrinology Seminar: Big Mums, Big Babe?
Speaker: Dr Pamela Loughna, University of Nottingham
Seminar Room, 10th Floor, North Wing, St Thomas' Campus
Details from Dr Hiten Mistry.
Friday 19 February
10:00 - 11:00, Stem cells research event series: Islet transplantation for diabetes
Speaker: Prof Stephanie Amiel, King's College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
11:30 - 12:30, Stem cells research event series: Cell therapy and diabetes
Speaker: Prof Peter Jones, King's College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
Monday 22 February
16.30 - 17.30, The Weird, The Wonderful, The Wicked: Parasitic Flatworms
Lectures in Life Sciences
Percy Roberts Room, Gordon Museum
Contact: gillian.sales@kcl.ac.uk
Tuesday 23 February
17:30 - 18:30, A History of Anaesthesia - How surgery was made possible
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Hodgkin Building, Guy's campus
Contact: Alexandra Ashcroft
This event is suitable for all students
Wednesday 24 February
16.30 - 18.00, NCRI Compass Collaborative Seminar: Palliative Care in Australia
Speaker: Professor Margaret O'Connor, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Monash University Australia
Dinwoodie Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Cicely Saunders Institute , Denmark Hill
Details from Sian Best or Palliative Care.
12:30-13:30, James Black Centre Seminar Series: Pain in the brain: developing a pain biomarker using MRI, genetics and psychometrics
Speaker: Professor Tara Renton
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
17.00, Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health seminar: The History of Incentives Within Health Policy
Speaker: David Armstrong, Professor of Medicine and Sociology, King’s College London
Chair: Walter Holland, Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Medicine, The London School of Economics
Discussant: Virginia Berridge, Professor of History, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
More information
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Anti-BSEP antibodies and other short stories ...
Speaker: Professor Ralf Kubitz, Medical University, Dusseldorf, Germany
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
Thursday 25 February
16:30 - 17:30, A British Pharmacological Society-sponsored lecture organised by the Department of Pharmacology and the Centre of Integrative Biomedicine: Parkinson’s disease – where are we now?
Speaker: Prof. Peter Jenner, Proximagen, King’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Hodgkin Building, Guy’s Campus
Friday 26 February
10:30 - 11:00, Stem cells research event series: Bone development and repair
Speaker: Dr Agi Grigoriadis, King's College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
11:30 - 12:30, Stem cells research event series: Tooth stem cells and dental repair
Speaker: Prof Paul Sharpe, King's College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
13:00 - 14:00, Stem cells research event series: Cell therapy for heart disease
Speaker: Prof Anthony Mathur, Bart and the London NHS Trust
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
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16:00, Nutrient Effects on Insulin Action and Energy Metabolism
Speaker:Professor Michael Roden, Director, Karl-Landsteiner Institute for Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vienna
Room G.3, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus
17:30 - 18:30, Halliburton Lecture in Physiology - Human obesity and its metabolic consequences: Insights from human genetics
New Hunt's House Lecture Theatre 2, Guy’s Campus
Speaker: Professor Stephen O’Rahilly FRS, FMedSciDirector of Institute of Metabolic Science - Metabolic Research Laboratories, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry & Medicine, University of Cambridge
Details from Shannon Ewart or Department of Physiology.
Tuesday 9 February
17.30, 20 Years of the T cell hypothesis in asthma: where we are now and where next?
Speaker: Christopher Corrigan, Professor of Asthma, Allergy & Respiratory Science
Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus
Contact: Shani Crawford on 020 7848 3790
13.00 – 14.00, Global analysis of SNPs, proteins and protein-protein interactions: approaches for the prioritisation of candidate disease genes
Genetics and Molecular Medicine Divisional Seminar Series
MMG Seminar Room, Floor 8 Tower Wing, Guy's Hospital
email: Richard Dobson
Wednesday 10 February
16:00 - 17:00, Pharmaceutical Science Seminar: Activation of G-protein-coupled receptors by peptide hormones
Speaker: Dr Mark Wheatley, University of Birmingham
Room G.79, Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo.
Details from Monica Barbone or Pharmaceutical Sciences.
18:00, 138th Meeting for Developmental Neurobiology Club: Regulation of axon targeting in the visual system of Drosophila
Speaker: Iris Salecker, National Institute for Medical Research
Seeing the wood for the trees: mechanisms of dendritic map formation in Drosophila
Speaker: Darren Williams, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's
Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guys Campus
Details from Stefania Boscolo.
13.00 – 14.00, Biomedical forum: The Human genome project: 10 years on Introduced by Professor Richard Trembath, BRC Director
There will be video-linking across the following sites: New Hunt's House, Guy's Florence Nightingale Lecture Theatre, St Thomas', Gainsford Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill, Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Queen Mary, University of London
12:30-13:30, James Black Centre Seminar Series: Uncovering the molecular mechanisms that control gene expression in human disease
Speaker: Dr. Ian Wood, Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology, University of Leeds
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Chronic hepatitis B innate immunity: a further report from battleground
Speaker: Dr Ivana Carey
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
Thursday 11 February
17.30 – 20.00, Loved the Snow? Try Sleeping in It. Psychiatry and Sleeping Rough
Speakers: Dr Max Pemberton, Author and psychiatrist, Bandi Mbubi of Manna Homeless Service Centre and Ligia Teixeira and Amelia Parkinson of Crisis. Chaired by Dr Philip Timms of SLaM.
Institute of Psychiatry Symposium
New Hunt's House Lecture Theatre 2
Contact: kclpsychsoc@gmail.com or visit KCL Psychiatry Society.
17.30 – 19.00, Measuring the Quality of Maternity Care
Professor Suzanne Truttero, Midwifery Advisor, Department of Health
HSCR Women's Health Seminar Series
Room G79 Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus, Stamford Street
Contact Professor Debra Bick
17:00 - 18:00, Thirty years of (bio)molecular simulation: how far have we come?
Host: Dr Franca Fraternali
Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics Highlight seminar
Lecture Theatre 1 New Hunt's House
Contact: franca.fraternali@kcl.ac.uk or click here for more information.
Friday 12 February
16:00 - 17:00, Stem cells research event series: Stem cells and their niche in adult mammalian brain
Speaker: Dr Fiona Doetsch, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Harris Lecture Theater, Hodgkin building, Guy's Campus
Contact: Pat Doherty
10:00 - 11:00, Stem cells research event series: Haematopoietic stem cells
Speaker: Dr Linda Barber, University College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
11:30 - 12:30, Stem cells research event series: Biomaterials and scaffolds in stem cell therapy
Speaker: Dr Lucy Di-Silvio, King's College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
Monday 15 February
16.30, Ionic Bases of Cardiac Fibrillation: Role of the Inward Rectifier K+ Currents
Speaker: Sandeep V Pandit PhD, Center for Arrhythmia Research, University of Michigan, USA
Room, Rayne Institute, 4th Floor, Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH
Host: Prof Michael Marber 020 7188 1008
Wednesday 17 February
13:00 - 14:00, Nutritional Sciences Division Seminar: Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and the causation of Crohn's disease
Speaker: Professor John Hermon-Taylor, Nutritional Sciences Division
Franklin-Wilkins Building 4.63, Waterloo Campus
Details from Karen Conway or Nutritional Sciences Division.
12:30-13:30, James Black Centre Seminar Series: Targeting TSH-receptors for therapy and diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma
Speaker: Professor Paul Banga
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
Thursday 18 February
13:30-14:30, Reproduction & Endocrinology Seminar: Big Mums, Big Babe?
Speaker: Dr Pamela Loughna, University of Nottingham
Seminar Room, 10th Floor, North Wing, St Thomas' Campus
Details from Dr Hiten Mistry.
Friday 19 February
10:00 - 11:00, Stem cells research event series: Islet transplantation for diabetes
Speaker: Prof Stephanie Amiel, King's College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
11:30 - 12:30, Stem cells research event series: Cell therapy and diabetes
Speaker: Prof Peter Jones, King's College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
Monday 22 February
16.30 - 17.30, The Weird, The Wonderful, The Wicked: Parasitic Flatworms
Lectures in Life Sciences
Percy Roberts Room, Gordon Museum
Contact: gillian.sales@kcl.ac.uk
Tuesday 23 February
17:30 - 18:30, A History of Anaesthesia - How surgery was made possible
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Hodgkin Building, Guy's campus
Contact: Alexandra Ashcroft
This event is suitable for all students
Wednesday 24 February
16.30 - 18.00, NCRI Compass Collaborative Seminar: Palliative Care in Australia
Speaker: Professor Margaret O'Connor, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Monash University Australia
Dinwoodie Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Cicely Saunders Institute , Denmark Hill
Details from Sian Best or Palliative Care.
12:30-13:30, James Black Centre Seminar Series: Pain in the brain: developing a pain biomarker using MRI, genetics and psychometrics
Speaker: Professor Tara Renton
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
17.00, Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health seminar: The History of Incentives Within Health Policy
Speaker: David Armstrong, Professor of Medicine and Sociology, King’s College London
Chair: Walter Holland, Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Medicine, The London School of Economics
Discussant: Virginia Berridge, Professor of History, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
More information
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Anti-BSEP antibodies and other short stories ...
Speaker: Professor Ralf Kubitz, Medical University, Dusseldorf, Germany
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
Thursday 25 February
16:30 - 17:30, A British Pharmacological Society-sponsored lecture organised by the Department of Pharmacology and the Centre of Integrative Biomedicine: Parkinson’s disease – where are we now?
Speaker: Prof. Peter Jenner, Proximagen, King’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Hodgkin Building, Guy’s Campus
Friday 26 February
10:30 - 11:00, Stem cells research event series: Bone development and repair
Speaker: Dr Agi Grigoriadis, King's College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
11:30 - 12:30, Stem cells research event series: Tooth stem cells and dental repair
Speaker: Prof Paul Sharpe, King's College London
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
13:00 - 14:00, Stem cells research event series: Cell therapy for heart disease
Speaker: Prof Anthony Mathur, Bart and the London NHS Trust
New Hunt's House, lecture Theater 2, Guy's Campus
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March 2010
Tuesday 2 March
17:30, Inaugural Lecture: Corinne Houart, Professor of Developmental Biology
Speaker: Professor Corinne Houart
Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus
Wednesday 3 March
13:00 - 14:00, Nutritional Sciences Division Seminar Programme: Vitamin D and Nutritional Biomarkers
Speakers: David Hall and Phil Grace, Quotient Bioresearch
Franklin-Wilkins Building 4.63, Waterloo Campus
Details from Karen Conway or Nutritional Sciences Division.
12:30-13:30, James Black Centre Seminar Series: Recent advances in neuroimaging at KCL
Speaker: Professor Steven Williams
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
17.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Hepatitis B and C: what the future holds
Speaker: Professor J-M Pawlotsky, Henri Mondor University, Paris, France
WEC, Denmark Hill Campus
Wednesday 10 March
13:00 - 14:00, Nutritional Sciences Division Seminar Programme: Appetite control and gut hormones
Speaker: Dr Barbara McGowan,Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology, Guys and St Thomas's Foundation Trust
Franklin-Wilkins Building 4.63, Waterloo Campus
Details from Karen Conway or Nutritional Sciences Division.
13.00 – 14.00, Biomedical Forum: Speakers and subjects tbc
There will be video-linking across the following sites: New Hunt's House, Guy's Florence Nightingale Lecture Theatre, St Thomas', Gainsford Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill, Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Queen Mary, University of LondonThe BMF will be transmitted from whichever site hosts the presentation to the other two sister sites.
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Ischemia Reperfusion Injury after Liver Transplantation: update
Speaker: Drs Wayel Jassem and Yun Ma
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
Thursday 11 March
13.30 – 14.30, You are what your mother ate: the developmental origins of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome
Division of Reproduction & Endocrinology Academic Seminar Series 2010Seminar Room, Department of Women's Health, 10th Floor, North Wing, St Thomas' Campus
Contact: hiten.mistry@kcl.ac.uk
Tuesday 16 March
13:00 - 14:00, Randall Division Seminars: V(D)J recombination takes a break: arrangement of RAG proteins and DNA ends in the post-cleavage complex
Speaker: Dr Gabi Grundy, NIH, Bethesda, USA
Classroom G8, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus
Contact Helen Rudkin. For further details, see Randall Division seminars.
Wednesday 17 March
12:45-13:45, General Practice and Primary Care seminar: The computer as the third actor in the clinical consultation
Speaker: Dr Simon de Lusignan, Reader in General Practice, St George’s University of London
6th Floor Seminar Room, Capital House, 42 Weston Street, London SE1.
Details from Marilyn Peters on 020 7848 8687.
12:30-13:30 James Black Centre Seminar Series: Neural stem cells: phenotype and potential
Speaker: Professor Noel Buckley
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: New antifungals – lessons from Mycamine
Speaker: Dr Craig Williams, Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Trust
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
Wednesday 24 March
12:45-3:45, General Practice and Primary Care seminar: Global issues for Primary Care
Speaker: Professor Chris van Weel, Visiting Professor, Head of Department of General Practice, University Medical Centre, Nijmegen
6th Floor Seminar Room, Capital House, 42 Weston Street, London SE1.
Details from Marilyn Peters on 020 7848 8687.
16:00 - 17:00, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division Seminar: Irrational drug discovery - the story of FV100, the world's most potent inhibitor of the shingles virus VZV
Room 1.10 FWB, Waterloo Campus.
Details from Monica Barbone.
17:00, Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health seminar: The State's Role in Promoting Healthy Behaviour: Incentives versus Facilitation
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Wolff, Department of Philosophy, University College London
Venue at King's College London tbc
Contact: Sarah Hawkins to attend
More information
12:30-13:30, James Black Centre Seminar Series: Rho GTPases: regulating endothelial cell function
Speaker: Professor Anne Ridley
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Non-adherence to the Immunosuppressive Regimen:
a challenge for Transplant Professionals
Speaker: Dr Fabienne Doppel, Medical University, Leuven, Belgium
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
Wednesday 31 March
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Neutrophil Dysfunction in Liver Failure
Speaker: Dr Nick Taylor
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
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17:30, Inaugural Lecture: Corinne Houart, Professor of Developmental Biology
Speaker: Professor Corinne Houart
Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus
Wednesday 3 March
13:00 - 14:00, Nutritional Sciences Division Seminar Programme: Vitamin D and Nutritional Biomarkers
Speakers: David Hall and Phil Grace, Quotient Bioresearch
Franklin-Wilkins Building 4.63, Waterloo Campus
Details from Karen Conway or Nutritional Sciences Division.
12:30-13:30, James Black Centre Seminar Series: Recent advances in neuroimaging at KCL
Speaker: Professor Steven Williams
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
17.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Hepatitis B and C: what the future holds
Speaker: Professor J-M Pawlotsky, Henri Mondor University, Paris, France
WEC, Denmark Hill Campus
Wednesday 10 March
13:00 - 14:00, Nutritional Sciences Division Seminar Programme: Appetite control and gut hormones
Speaker: Dr Barbara McGowan,Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology, Guys and St Thomas's Foundation Trust
Franklin-Wilkins Building 4.63, Waterloo Campus
Details from Karen Conway or Nutritional Sciences Division.
13.00 – 14.00, Biomedical Forum: Speakers and subjects tbc
There will be video-linking across the following sites: New Hunt's House, Guy's Florence Nightingale Lecture Theatre, St Thomas', Gainsford Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill, Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Queen Mary, University of LondonThe BMF will be transmitted from whichever site hosts the presentation to the other two sister sites.
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Ischemia Reperfusion Injury after Liver Transplantation: update
Speaker: Drs Wayel Jassem and Yun Ma
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
Thursday 11 March
13.30 – 14.30, You are what your mother ate: the developmental origins of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome
Division of Reproduction & Endocrinology Academic Seminar Series 2010Seminar Room, Department of Women's Health, 10th Floor, North Wing, St Thomas' Campus
Contact: hiten.mistry@kcl.ac.uk
Tuesday 16 March
13:00 - 14:00, Randall Division Seminars: V(D)J recombination takes a break: arrangement of RAG proteins and DNA ends in the post-cleavage complex
Speaker: Dr Gabi Grundy, NIH, Bethesda, USA
Classroom G8, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus
Contact Helen Rudkin. For further details, see Randall Division seminars.
Wednesday 17 March
12:45-13:45, General Practice and Primary Care seminar: The computer as the third actor in the clinical consultation
Speaker: Dr Simon de Lusignan, Reader in General Practice, St George’s University of London
6th Floor Seminar Room, Capital House, 42 Weston Street, London SE1.
Details from Marilyn Peters on 020 7848 8687.
12:30-13:30 James Black Centre Seminar Series: Neural stem cells: phenotype and potential
Speaker: Professor Noel Buckley
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: New antifungals – lessons from Mycamine
Speaker: Dr Craig Williams, Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Trust
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
Wednesday 24 March
12:45-3:45, General Practice and Primary Care seminar: Global issues for Primary Care
Speaker: Professor Chris van Weel, Visiting Professor, Head of Department of General Practice, University Medical Centre, Nijmegen
6th Floor Seminar Room, Capital House, 42 Weston Street, London SE1.
Details from Marilyn Peters on 020 7848 8687.
16:00 - 17:00, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division Seminar: Irrational drug discovery - the story of FV100, the world's most potent inhibitor of the shingles virus VZV
Room 1.10 FWB, Waterloo Campus.
Details from Monica Barbone.
17:00, Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health seminar: The State's Role in Promoting Healthy Behaviour: Incentives versus Facilitation
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Wolff, Department of Philosophy, University College London
Venue at King's College London tbc
Contact: Sarah Hawkins to attend
More information
12:30-13:30, James Black Centre Seminar Series: Rho GTPases: regulating endothelial cell function
Speaker: Professor Anne Ridley
Large seminar room in the James Black Centre (JBC), King's Denmark Hill Campus
A buffet lunch is served between 12:00-12:30pm in the JBC foyer
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Non-adherence to the Immunosuppressive Regimen:
a challenge for Transplant Professionals
Speaker: Dr Fabienne Doppel, Medical University, Leuven, Belgium
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
Wednesday 31 March
16.00, Institute of Liver Studies and transplantation Seminar Series: Neutrophil Dysfunction in Liver Failure
Speaker: Dr Nick Taylor
Institute of Liver Studies Seminar Room, Denmark Hill Campus
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April 2010
Wednesday 7 April
13.00 – 14.00, Biomedical Forum: Speakers and subjects tbc.
There will be video-linking across the following sites: New Hunt's House, Guy's Florence Nightingale Lecture Theatre, St Thomas', Gainsford Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill, Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Queen Mary, University of London
Wednesday 21 April
16:00 - 17:00, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division Seminar: Hydrogel microneedle arrays for transdermal and intradermal drug delivery
Speaker: Dr Ryan Donnelly, Queen's University, Belfast
G.79 Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus.
Details from Monica Barbone or Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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13.00 – 14.00, Biomedical Forum: Speakers and subjects tbc.
There will be video-linking across the following sites: New Hunt's House, Guy's Florence Nightingale Lecture Theatre, St Thomas', Gainsford Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill, Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Queen Mary, University of London
Wednesday 21 April
16:00 - 17:00, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division Seminar: Hydrogel microneedle arrays for transdermal and intradermal drug delivery
Speaker: Dr Ryan Donnelly, Queen's University, Belfast
G.79 Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus.
Details from Monica Barbone or Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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May 2010
Wednesday 5 May
13.00 – 14.00, Biomedical Forum: Speakers and subjects tbc.
There will be video-linking across the following sites: New Hunt's House, Guy's Florence Nightingale Lecture Theatre, St Thomas', Gainsford Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill, Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Queen Mary, University of London.
13.00 – 14.00, Biomedical Forum: Speakers and subjects tbc.
There will be video-linking across the following sites: New Hunt's House, Guy's Florence Nightingale Lecture Theatre, St Thomas', Gainsford Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill, Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Queen Mary, University of London.
June 2010
Wednesday 2 June 13.00 – 14.00, Biomedical Forum: Speakers and subjects tbc.There will be video-linking across the following sites: New Hunt's House, Guy's Florence Nightingale Lecture Theatre, St Thomas', Gainsford Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill, Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Queen Mary, University of London.
Thursday 10 June
17.00, Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health seminar: Government Policy and Behaviour Change
David Halpern, Institute for Government
Chair: Paul Dolan, Professor of Economics, The London School of Economics
Discussant: Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, The London School of Economics
(This event is at LSE)
More information
Thursday 10 June
17.00, Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health seminar: Government Policy and Behaviour Change
David Halpern, Institute for Government
Chair: Paul Dolan, Professor of Economics, The London School of Economics
Discussant: Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, The London School of Economics
(This event is at LSE)
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July 2010
Wednesday 7 July 13.00 – 14.00, Biomedical Forum: Speakers and subjects tbc.There will be video-linking across the following sites: New Hunt's House, Guy's Florence Nightingale Lecture Theatre, St Thomas', Gainsford Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill, Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Queen Mary, University of London.
August 2010
Wednesday 4 August 13.00 – 14.00, Biomedical Forum: Speakers and subjects tbc.There will be video-linking across the following sites: New Hunt's House, Guy's Florence Nightingale Lecture Theatre, St Thomas', Gainsford Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill, Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Queen Mary, University of London.
