The lecturers joined us for lunches or tea after their presentations. It was a good opportunity for students to ask additional questions of them. It is not very often that students meet and chat with world-class research scientists like these. The lecturers were willing to answer all of their questions and provide them with insight as to the varied disciplines and avenues of research available to future scientists in the area of genetics in general.
Below you will find photos taken of these lecturers during this study abroad program:
Dr. Roman Hobza, X Chromosome Evolution and genetics research in the Czech Republic
Seminar presentation by Dr. Hobza at the Mendel Museum discussing genetics research
in the Czech Republic during and after Soviet occupation.
At our visit to the Institute of Experimental Botany in Olomouc,
the IEB director, Dr. Jaroslav Dolezel, gave a lecture
and took the students on a tour of the facility to see experiments and meet other scientists.
When we arrive in Cambridge, the class is assigned
to the Latimer Room in Old Court for the first week.
During the first week at Cambridge, Dr. Melina Schuh, Research Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, gave the first lecture on actin + oocytes: old love - new affair.
During class later in the week, the class takes its break in Latimer very seriously . . .
The class was assigned to the Bennett Room for the last two weeks of instruction, which was situated very close to the dorms in Memorial Court
Dr. Nick Robinson, Research Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry in Cambridge,
gave a talk on the structural and biochemical analysis of the Archaeal DNA double-strand
break repair and end-resection machinery.
Dr. Paul Edwards, Research Group Leader at the Hutchison-MRC Research Center in Cambridge, gave a talk on chromosome rearrangements in cancer - from leukaemias to breast cancer.
Dr. Lori Passmore, Research Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
on the topic of understanding sickle cell disease,
gave a lecture on the control of gene expression by mRNA Poly A tails.
Dr. Nitzan Rosenfeld, Research Group Leader at the Hutchison-MRC Research Center
in Cambridge, gave a talk on circulating tumor DNA as a noninvasive diagnostic
and research tool for cancer.
We went to the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge to meet Dr. Siobhan Braybook, a UCD PhD graduate now working in Cambridge as a Career Development Fellow at the Sainsbury Lab. She gave the students a talk on how plant cells grow and their "life in a box" - referring to the cell walls. Dr. Braybook also gave the students a talk also on how to advance themselves in graduate schools in Europe, including Cambridge.
Afterwards, she took the students for a walk around the Laboratory (it's a new building!) and the grounds, showing them where Charles Darwin walked to contemplate his ideas . . . .
The Laboratory does a lot of plant genetics, so here Dr,. Braybrook is showing
us some of the mutations.
The last lecturer, Dr. Adele Murrell, spoke to the class on genomic imprinting and what it taught us about us about epigenetic gene regulation.
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