Tuesday Seminar Series (TSS)

These seminars are distinct from standard external seminars in that they receive financial support from EBI. They are designed for getting interesting speakers to the institute who would not otherwise be visiting us. An example might be inviting a speaker who has recently authored a paper of interest to your group or team that would also prove interesting to a general EBI audience. Additionally, if you are aware of an interesting speaker visiting the UK already for some other event, this funding could be used to get them to add the EBI to their itinerary.

These seminars are not designed for inviting collaborators to give talks, such talks would be standard external seminars funded by the group or team who invites them. EBI Pink Seminars are also scheduled in the same time slots but are coordinated separately, see below.

Ideally your group or team would host the talk but we can also arrange a host for the seminar if needed.

Requirements for a Tuesday Seminar Series talk are as follows:

* The talk will be on a Tuesday at 2pm

* Slots are coordinated by the research office (roffice@ebi.ac.uk)

* The proposed seminar should be approved by the coordinator of the Tuesday Seminar Series.

* The talk be sufficiently interesting to a wide EBI or campus audience.

* The speaker should not usually be a current visitor or collaborator at EBI.

* The group or team leader of the person proposing the seminar needs to approve and agree to fund excess costs over what is supported (below).

Funding available can support:

* Up to 2 nights accomodation in the area

* Flights within Europe to Cambridge

* Transatlantic flights are possible but only up to £500 travel can be supported.

Any costs in excess of this need to be met by the group or team leader of the talk sponsor.

To submit a request for a Tuesday Seminar please email: ext-sem@ebi.ac.uk

PinkSeminars

Pink Seminars (talks given by EMBL senior faculty) will take place on the first Tuesday of every month except January, March, May, July and December.

The talks are normally held at 2pm in M203. If you would like to talk to one of the speakers on the day of their visit, please contact the PhD student indicated. Suggestions for speakers are also very welcome. Please send suggestions to John Marioni (marioni@ebi.ac.uk). Once your nomination has been approved, Zoe Higney (Research Office) will assist with speaker arrangements.

Seminar of the week

Seminar not cancelled

15/10/2013 - Room V1-26 at 14:00 - Pink Seminar

Christoph Merten (EMBL Heidelberg)

Single-cell analysis and beyond: Microfluidics for HTS and genomic applications

Microfluidic technology enables the generation of tiny aqueous droplets (pico- to nanolitre volumes), which can be exploited as miniaturised test tubes. Since these microcompartments can be produced and manipulated at a rate of up to 106 samples per hour, they are of particular interest for high-throughput screens. Furthermore, the small assay volumes facilitate the obtainment of high concentrations of nucleic acids or proteins from single encapsulated cells or even viruses. This allows the selection of antibodies which do not just bind a given drug target, but rather inhibit its function, as we have demonstrated in a screen of approximately 1 million non-immortalized B-cells. Furthermore, microfluidic technology enables vaccine development starting from patient´s material, and pushes the limits in genomic applications (e.g. preparation of NGS libraries using minute sample amounts).

Hosted by: Julio Saez-Rodriguez