Speaker: Prof. Britt Hedman, SSRL and SLAC, Stanford University Title: Synchrotrons and X-ray Free Electron Lasers in Structural Biology – From “Slow” to “Ultrafast”

Mary Collins, Professor of Immunology, University College London; Head of Division of Advanced Therapies, National Institute of Biological Standards and Control UK, recently retired as Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences UCL, OIST President's Scholar In Residence

Seminar by Dr. Christian Biertümpfel, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to invite you to a Special Lecture Series by Prof. Bruce Clemens (Stanford University, U.S.A) on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Nanomaterials Synthesis.

Lecture 1 – Thermodynamics Review, Bond Counting and the Regular Solution Model, Chemical Potential

Professor Salvatore Federico, The University of Calgary

Join us for May's first Internal Seminar Series on May 1, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's first seminar features the Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit (Nicholas M. Luscombe) and Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit (Keshav Dani).

Outside speakers: Dr Yoshihiro Arita (University of St Andrews, Scotland) Prof Etienne Brasselet (University of Bordeaux I, France) Dr Simon Hanna (University of Bristol, UK) Prof Jack Tsz Fai NG (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Seminar by Prof. T.B. Liverpool (Univ. of Bristol), Monday 18th May 11:00-12:00, C016 Lab1.

Prof. Sang-Wook Han, Department of Physics Education, Jeonbuk National University, Korea

Seminar "microRNAs trigger dissociation of eIF4AI and II from target mRNAs in humans." Prof. Toshinobu Fujiwara.