Past Events

June 2026

Mon 8 Jun 2026
09:30 - 17:30
Image: Conference: 2026 RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-organic Group Postgraduate Symposium
Centre for Molecular Cell Biology

The RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-organic Group invite you to their annual postgraduate meeting which will take place in-person at Queen Mary University. This meeting is designed to give early career researchers, from across a broad range of chemical biology backgrounds, a platform to share their latest research. In addition to our excellent plenary speaker, Prof. Mark Bradley, there will also be opportunities for postgraduate students to present their work through short talks and posters....
Tue 2 Jun 2026
15:00 - 17:00
Image: Conference: LSBC Summer meeting
Centre for Molecular Cell Biology

Join us at the LSBC Summer meeting! 4 talks from scientists across London institutes, followed by a free drinks reception. All welcome! The meeting will be held on Tuesday, 2nd June from 15:00-17:00 in in the Clark Kennedy Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary Innovation Centre. The Queen Mary Innovation Centre is just a 5 min walk from Whitechapel tube station. Entrance via Walden Street. Programme Callum Haste, The Institute of Cancer Research (Basil Greber Lab): Visualisation of...

May 2026

Tue 19 May 2026
13:00 - 14:00
Image: Seminar: The ‘scrap-or-build’ switch and the traffic sign: How tiny structural shifts in microtubules tune dynamics and molecular affinity
Centre for Molecular Cell Biology

Dr Tomohiro Shima Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan Summary Microtubules are among the principal cytoskeletal components that maintain the shape and architecture of eukaryotic cells. Their dynamic growth and shrinkage are exquisitely regulated across space and time, driving essential cellular processes such as cell division, migration, and morphological changes during differentiation. Furthermore, microtubules serve as tracks for motor proteins, enabling the targeted...
Fri 15 May 2026
11:00 - 12:00
Image: Seminar: The Drummond Lecture 2026
Centre for Molecular Cell Biology

Professor Alessio Ciulli FRS FRSE FRSC Professor of Chemical Structural Biology, Founder and Director, Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom Protein degraders as pharmacological tools and drugs Our laboratory at the Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD) reveals molecular information on protein interactions and ubiquitination complexes and mechanisms to design novel therapeutic concepts. Protein degraders...

March 2026

Fri 13 Mar 2026
12:30 - 13:30
Seminar: Seminar: Assembly and epigenetic inheritance of human centromeres
Centre for Molecular Cell Biology

Speaker: Lars Jensen, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford Abstract: The centromere is a specialized chromatin domain that drives accurate chromosome segregation. Remarkably, centromere...