CIR research in progress April-July 2023
Latest talks by staff and students in the CIR
These talks take place in QMRI Wellcome Auditorium at 15:00 and are not open to the general public.
| Date | Speaker | Group | Title |
| 20th April | Hui Xin Loh | Kev Dhaliwal | "The effects and molecular mechanisms of senolytic drugs on modulating acute lung injury" |
| Simran Kapoor | Rebecca Gentek | "Investigating the development and role of mast cells in the mammary gland" | |
| Katie Mylonas | Katie Mylonas | "Senescent cells and macrophages" | |
| 27th April | Gosia Grzelka | Prakash Ramachandran | "Characterising cirrhosis-associated immune dysfunction" |
| Krishna Purohit | Carsten Hansen | “Using Proteogenomics to target Mesothelioma” | |
| 4th May | Richard Cassidy | Steve Jenkins | "Determining Macrophage Function in Post-Operative Peritoneal Adhesions" |
| Zara Aiken | Neil Henderson | "Investigation of FAPI PET-MR for the study of fibrosis in chronic liver disease" | |
| Kai Yee Chang | Yi Feng | "Investigate the function of MANF in a zebrafish tumour initiation model" | |
| Peter Cartildge | Gwo-Tzer Ho |
“Distinct mechanistic protein profiles in blood and gut in non-resolving mucosal inflammation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease” |
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| 11th May | Ferran Nadal-Bufi | Marc Vendrell | "Peptide-based drugs to inhibit LDH, a potential target in cancer metabolism" |
| Jemma Milburn | Chengcan Yao | "CD9 expression on T cells and IL-10 production in B cells" | |
| 18th May | Rebecca Hall | Gwo-Tzer Ho | “Role of cGAS STING Pathway in IBD (and Wellbeing in IBD)” |
| Lily Jia | Prakash Ramachandran |
“Decoding Tissue Fibrosis: A Novel Workflow for Single-cell Transcriptomic Data Analysis, Integration, and its Implications”
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| 25th May | NO RIP - IRR SYMPOSIUM | ||
| 1st June | Marco Bertolini | Marc Vendrell | "Click & Fluoresce: dual gate activatable platform for the imaging of exhausted T cells" |
| Man Sing Wong | Marc Vendrell |
"Development of imaging probes of T cell exhaustion as indicators of tumour progression and therapy outcome" |
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| 8th June | Patrick Lennard | Julia Dorin | |
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"Empowering antibiotics using host defence peptide to fight antimicrobial resistance in epithelial and systemic infections” |
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| 15th June | Harini Dharanikota | Steve Yule | "Distributed Cognition and Decision-Making in Cancer Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs)" |
| Ahad Abdalla | Richard O'Connor |
“An ex-vivo human model of lung injury” |
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| 22th June | Lorna Mackintosh - FINAL | Elaine Dzierzak |
"Does GPR56 play a role in Leukaemic Stem Cells?" |
| 29th June | Yanzi Zhou | Marc Vendrell | "Fluorescence Lifetime Probes for Imaging Macrophage Function" |
| Man Chung Wong | Wei-Yu Lu | "Defining the therapeutic potential of T regulatory cells in promoting bile duct regeneration" | |
| 6th July | Abigail Reese - FINAL | Marc Vendrell |
"OFF-to-ON” Fluorogenic Amino Acids into Small Proteins” |