The Rosalind Franklin Institute is welcoming Professor Elena Seiradake on Thursday 25th June from 11:00 – 12:00.

RAL site pass holders are welcome to attend in person (no registration required) in the Franklin’s first floor Hub. To join in person, please arrive in the R113 Franklin foyer at least 5 minutes before the start of the seminar and a member of the team will let you into the building.

Talk title:

Cell surface receptor interactions in brain development, cancer and autoimmune disease (…and why there are so many similarities)

Abstract:

TBC

Biography:

Elena joined the Oxford University Biochemistry Department in 2014 as an independent group leader to study the structure and function of cell surface receptors in neural and vascular development. A major breakthrough in her laboratory revealed that the adhesion GPCR ‘Latrophilin’ forms large structured assemblies in the presence of two other cell surface receptors ‘FLRT’ and ‘Unc5’. Depending on the cellular context, distinct super-complexes with unique functional properties are formed. Elena’s long-term aim is to understand the functions of distinct receptor-ligand complexes through a detailed knowledge of their structures and signalling properties during neural and vascular development of the brain.

Before joining the Department of Biochemistry, Elena worked as a PhD student in the group of Stephen Cusack at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Grenoble (2003-2007), and as postdoc in the group of Yvonne Jones at Oxford (2008-2014). Elena is a Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry at Somerville College.

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RAL site pass holders are welcome to attend in person (no registration required) in the Franklin’s first floor Hub. To join in person, please arrive in the R113 Franklin foyer at least 5 minutes before the start of the seminar and a member of the team will let you into the building.