Research in progress January-March 2021
Latest talks by staff and students in the CIR
These talks take place virtually at 1pm and are not open to the general public.
| Date | Speaker | Group | Title |
| 14 January 2021 | Sam Benson - FINAL | Marc Vendrell | "The development of theranostic probes for cervical cancer" |
| 21 January 2021 | Katie Connor - FINAL | Steve Wigmore | "MicroRNAs as biomarkers of injury and drug response in renal transplantation" |
| 28 January 2021 | Piotr Janas | Juergen Schwarze | "Do respiratory epithelial cells ‘remember’ early life microbial exposure through epigenetic changes?" |
| Gareth Williams | Gareth Williams | "Translating photonics technologies for healthcare" | |
| 04 February 2021 | Naomi Gachanja | Chris Lucas | "Defining the Regulation of Macrophage Phagocytosis by Pulmonary Epithelial Cells" |
| Katie Smith | Emily Gwyner-Findlay | "Novel roles for the host defence peptide cathelicidin in multiple sclerosis" | |
| 11 February | No RIP | ||
| 18 February | Eoin O'Sullivan - FINAL | David Ferenbach | "Targeting epithelial senescence to augment renal repair" |
| 25 February 2021 | James O'Kelly | Damian Mole |
"Defining mechanisms of organ failure in acute pancreatitis: the role of 3-hydroxykynurenine" |
| Katharin Balbirnie-Cumming | David Dockrell | "Novel macrophage microbicidal responses against Gram positive bacteria" | |
| 04 March 2021 | Doireann Gordon | Marc Vendrell | "Developing a decision-making toolkit for the treatment of IBD" |
| Tyler Morrison | Sarah Walmsley | "Investigating the role of glucose in defining neutrophil behaviour" | |
| 11 March 2021 | Heather Waddell | Damian Mole | "Circadian Biology of the Systemic Inflammatory Response During Critical Illness (Acute Pancreatitis)" |
| Nicola Robinson | Robert Gray | "Lung repair in Cystic Fibrosis" | |
| 18 March 2021 | Sebastian Wallace | Neil Henderson | "The Human Liver Mesenchyme in NASH Fibrosis: Who is Responsible for Early and Late-Stage Scar Formation?" |
| Giulia Rinaldi | Adriano Rossi | "Development of novel imaging probes to detect and investigate NETotic cell death in mammalian and non mammalian models" | |
| 25 March 2021 | Jenny Shelly | Donald Davidson | "Dissecting the contribution of hBD2 to the maintenance of skin barrier function" |
| Tom Quinn | Ahsan Akram | "Defining COVID-19: Repurposing PhD, Repurposing Medications" | |
| 01 April 2021 | Magdalena Oremek - FINAL | Adriano Rossi | "The role of innate immune cells and platelet-activating factor (PAF) in tissue repair of larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) caudal fin injury" |