Research in progress January-March 2022
Latest talks by staff and students in the CIR
These talks take place in QMRI Wellcome Auditorium and virtually at 12 noon and are not open to the general public.
| Date | Speaker | Group | Title |
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20.01.2022 |
Chuah Shaun | Gwo-Tzer Ho | "Cell-free DNA and Inflammatory Bowel Disease" |
| Alison MacKinnon | Galecto Biotech | "The development of Galectin-3 inhibitors for fibrotic disease and cancer" | |
| 27.01.2022 | Chikondi Peno - FINAL | Debby Bogaert | "Development of respiratory microbiota in infants in the Gambia and effects of LAIV and Maternal PCV13 immunisations" |
| 03.02.2022 | Ailsa Geddis | Marc Vendrell | "Vibrational Probes to Profile Tissue Microenvironments" |
| Lorna Mackintosh | Elaine Dzierzak | "Investigation of GPR56 signalling in leukemic stem cells" | |
| 10.02.2022 |
Giulia Tagliavini - FINAL |
Sandrine Prost |
"Molecular evaluation of early bladder cancer to improve clinical decision making" |
| 24.02.2022 | Eilidh Gunn | Steve Yule |
"Audio-Visual Surgical Coaching" |
| Justyna Binkowska | Debby Bogaert | "Consequences of preterm birth for the early-life respiratory microbiota and DNA methylome" | |
| 03.03.2022 | Doireann Gordon | Marc Vendrell | |
| "Granzyme B activity as a biomarker of inflammatory bowel disease" | |||
| Naomi Gachanja | Chris Lucas | "Epithelial Cell Regulation of Macrophage Function within the Pulmonary Micro-Environment". | |
| 10.03.2022 | Nelly Mak | Richard Sloan | "Do antiviral IFITMs contribute to species-specific zoonotic barriers?" |
| Sebastian Wallace | Neil Henderson | "Investigation of the Human Mesenchyme During the Progression of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis: A Multi-Modal Genomic Approach" | |
| 17.03.2022 | Melina Michael - FINAL | Sonja Vermeren | "The functions of SHIP2 in neutrophils" |
| 24.03.2022 | Katharin Balbirnie Cumming - FINAL | David Dockrell | "Novel Macrophage Microbicidial Responses Against Gram-Positive Bacteria" |
| 31.03.2022 | Elinor Wing | Mohini Gray | "Identifying pathogenic B cells in rheumatoid arthritis" |
| Tom Quinn | Kev Dhaliwal | "Perturbing inflammatory pathways in COVID-19" | |
| 07.04.2022 | Omar Salem - FINAL | Carsten Hansen | "The role of the Hippo pathway transcriptional coactivators, YAP/TAZ in Prostate Cancer and Inflammation" |