The School of Life Sciences is playing host to a series of seminars throughout the Autumn Term 2010. All of the seminars below will take place from 12:45pm to 1:45pm in GLT2, Medical School Building. Postgraduate students and Postdocs are welcome to attend.

Date	Speaker	Title
Friday 8 October	Professor J. Bacon, Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex	A reverse-genetics approach to understanding insect escape behaviour
Friday 15 October	Professor J. Raff, Cesar Milstein Professor of Cancer Cell Biology, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.	Centrosomes and asymmetric stem cell division: size does matter
Friday 22 October	Professor S. Taylor, Faculty of Life Sciences University of Manchester	Probing the role of protein kinases in mitotic progression
Friday 29 October	Professor A M Butt, School of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth.	Axon-glial signalling mechanisms in CNS white matter
Friday 5 November	Professor G. Evan FRS., Head of Department, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge	Deconstructing cancers
Friday 12 November	Professor S. Smerdon, Head of Structural Biology, National Institute for Medical Research, London	Scaffolds and adaptors in DNA-damage response signalling: a structural perspective
Friday 19 November	Professor R. Laskey FRS., Co-Director, Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchinson/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge	New roles for old proteins in mRNA export, stem cell identity and cancer screening
Friday 26 November	Dr. S. B. Gordon, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool	Experimental medicine in Malawi and Liverpool to explore the immune correlates of pneumococcal carriage and disease in human subjects
Friday 3 December	Professor J. Downward FRS., Associate Director, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London	'RAS and Pl 3-kinase signaling networks in cancer
Friday 10 December	Professor K. Nasmyth FRS., Head of Department, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.	Title to be announced