The Crick’s partner universities (Imperial, King’s and UCL) have coordinated the HEI-Crick Attachment Seminar Series to showcase the outputs of the Attachment Programme.  

Imperial

The first male-led Imperial@Crick Seminar Series will run online as follows. These talks are open to all PhD, PDRAs and staff from across the College, King’s, UCL and the Crick. If you wish to attend any of the talks, please request the Teams invite from the Crick-Imperial Partnership Manager, Dr Corinne Hanlon.

Dates for the female-led Imperial@Crick Seminar Series will be announced shortly.

• Monday 13 March, 1200: Dr Morgan Beeby, Life Sciences, hosted by Professor Peter Rosenthal. How do molecular machines evolve? In situ visualisation of proteins that increase the torque of a bacterial flagellar motor.
• Monday 13 March, 1315: Dr Avinash Shenoy, MRC CMBI, Dept of Infectious Disease, hosted by Dr Max Gutierrez. Inflammasomes and caspases in health and disease.
• Tuesday 14 March, 1315: Professor Paul French, Physics, hosted by Dr Erik Sahai. Multidimensional fluorescence imaging – accelerating throughput and access.
• Thursday 16 March, 1315: Dr Marco Di Antonio, Chemistry, hosted by Dr Jeannine Hess. Precision tools to unravel the biological functions of DNA structural and chemical modifications.
• Monday 20 March, 1200: Dr Adam Celiz, Bioengineering, hosted by Dr Charlie Winter. Biomaterials for tissue repair, regeneration and in-vitro models.
• Mon 20 March, 1315: Professor Ed Tate, Chemistry, hosted by Professor Julian Downward. A chemical biologist at the Crick – from collaboration to translation.
  
  

UCL

The UCL's HEI-Crick Attachment Seminar Series ran as follows. To see the recordings of these talks, please visit the UCL Seminar Series website.

• 14 February 2022: Paola Bonfanti hosted by the Crick's Dominique Bonnet. Reconstitution of a long-lived functional human thymus by postnatal clonogenic stem/progenitor cells. 
• 28 February 2022: Jernej Ule hosted by the Crick's Sila Ultanir. How do protein-RNA condensates form and contribute to disease? 
• 14 March 2022: Edina Rosta hosted by the Crick's Dan Groom. Computational modelling of phosphate catalytic reactions. 
• 28 March 2022: Mariya Moosajee hosted by the Crick's Nic Tapon. How do genetic perturbations lead to ocular maldevelopment? 
  
  

King’s

The HEI-Crick Attachment Seminar Series were hosted by King's in 2021. To view recordings of any of these talks, please contact the Crick-Imperial Partnership Manager, Dr Corinne Hanlon.

• 12 April 2021: Jeremy Carlton hosted by the Crick's Michael Way. SARS-CoV-2 Exit Strategies. 
• 26 April 2021: Reimer Kuehn hosted by the Crick's Vassilis Pachnis. Thoughts on Cell Programming and Cell Reprogramming. 
• 10 May 2021: Benedikt Berninger hosted by the Crick's Francois Guillemot. Engineering New Interneurons for the Cerebral Cortex. 
• 7 June 2021: Snezhana Oliferenko hosted by the Crick's Frank Uhlmann. Exploiting Divergent Biology of Two Fission Yeasts to Understand Membrane Function. 
• 21 June 2021: Corinne Houart hosted by the Crick's Francois Guillemot. Impact of Early Decisions on Forebrain Size, Shape and Complexity
• 5 July 2021: Katie Bentley hosted by the Crick's James Briscoe. Temporal Adaptation of Vascular Branching: Untangling Collective Cell Feedback In Silico and In Vivo.