Research in progress September-December 2021
Latest talks by staff and students in the CIR
These talks take place in QMRI Wellcome Auditorium and virtually at 13:00 and are not open to the general public.
Date | Speaker | Group | Title |
02.09.2021 | Ross Campbell | David Ferenbach | "Impact of ageing/senescence on macrophages in their roles of renal injury and repair." |
Julia Dorin | PGR Committee | "PGR Welcome" | |
09.09.2021 | Erin Gaughan | Kev Dhaliwal | "Interventional approaches for pulmonary infection" |
Patrick Lennard | Julia Dorin | "Empowering antibiotics using host defense peptides to fight antimicrobial resistance in skin and respiratory infections." | |
16.09.2021 | Lilian Koppensteiner | Ahsan Akram | "Development of a surface-biomarker signature to identify tumour-relevant T cells in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)" |
Emma Green | Clare Pridans | "Investigating the role of microglia in mediating ASD-relevant phenotypes in the adult brain." | |
23.09.2021 |
Alexandra Adams |
Kev Dhaliwal |
"Fluorescence lifetime for lung cancer diagnostics: getting the most out of data." |
Wei-Yu Lu | Wei-Yu Lu | "T lymphocytes - epithelial interaction during liver regeneration." | |
30.09.2021 | Caroline Bruce | Sarah Walmsley |
"The role of neutrophil subpopulations in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)." |
QMRI Core Facility Managers | QMRI Core Facilities | "QMRI Core Facilities Update: Flow Cytometry, Imaging and Histology" | |
07.10.2021 | Alex Kiang | Beth Mills | |
"Targeted Anti-microbial Photodynamic Therapy" | |||
Abigail Reese | Marc Vendrell | "MINITAGS: New tools for imaging small proteins." | |
14.10.2021 | Utsa Karmakar - FINAL | Sonja Vermeren | "Immune complex-induced anti-inflammatory neutrophil functions." |
21.10.2021 | October Break | ||
28.10.2021 | Sofia Sintoris | Donald Davidson | "Investigating cathelicidin as an inducible modulator of RSV infection." |
Simone Arienti | Walmsley & Rossi | "Investigating the metabolic plasticity of inflammatory neutrophils during infection." | |
04.11.2021 | Zhi Ming Cheng | Marc Vendrell | "Novel Chemical Probes for Granzyme A as Potential Tools for Studying Inflammatory Diseases" |
Eleni Papachristoforou | Prakash Ramachandran | "Defining therapeutic targets for human liver fibrosis using single-cell transcriptomics" | |
11.11.2021 | No RIP | ||
18.11.2021 | Maria Jimenez Ramos | Jonathan Fallowfield | "An integrated computational-experimental approach to identify and optimise combination drug therapy for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease." |
Michael Rimmer | Chris Gregory | "The impact of chemotherapy and the release of extracellular vesicles in the prepubertal testes." | |
25.11.2021 | Owen Lo | Yi Feng | "Investigating the inflammatory response to oncogene induced senescence during tumour initiation in the Zebrafish." |
Shin Li Chia | Rebecca Gentek | "Fetal mast cells in development and pregnancy." | |
02.12.2021 | Krishna Purohit | Carsten Hansen | "Using proteogenomics to target Lung Cancer" |
Ailsa Geddis & David Wilson | CIR Student Representatives | "CIR student forum" | |
09.12.2021 | Cecilia Boz - FINAL | Nik Hirani | "Iron metabolism of alveolar macrophages in IPF patients." |