CIR research in progress January-June 2024
Latest talks by staff and students in the CIR
These talks take place in IRR Seminar Room at 10am and are not open to the general public.
| Dates | Students | Supervisor | Presentation Title |
| 16.01.24 | Alex Adams | Dr Sohan Seth | Hidden in Plain Light: Understanding Lung Cancer Autofluorescence for a Better Informed Diagnosis |
| Lacklan Dick | Prof Steven Yule | Application of automated video analytics in surgical education | |
| Frank Wu | Dr Timothy Kendall | Deep learning-based tumour heterogeneity study for breast cancer prognosis prediction and biomarker discovery on H&E-stained sections | |
| 23.01.24 | Krishna Purohit | Dr Carsten Hansen | Stratifying mesothelioma via Proteogenomics |
| Eva Doyle | Dr Samanta Mariani | Immunotherapy for infant leukemia: investigating and exploiting the leukemia microenvironment | |
| Joe Norton | Prof Steven Yule | The impact of the educational time out on surgical performance | |
| 02.02.24 | Owen Lo | Di Yi Feng | Investigating the inflammatory response to oncogene induced senescence during tumour initiation in the Zebrafish |
| Renske Hoekstra | Prof Manu Shankar-Hari | Identifying molecular subtype of critical illness to inform better treatments using a precision medicine framework | |
| Marcin Maniak | Dr Carsten Hansen | Biomechanical regulation of macrophage functions | |
| 09.02.24 | Lilian Koppensteiner | Ahsan Akram | Cancer-associated fibroblast - T cell crosstalk in human non-small cell lung cancer |
| Deborah Seah | Prof Marc Vendrell | Fluorophores for Pulse-chase Labelling | |
| Saule Zubyte | Prof Manu Shankar-Hari | Role of cGAS-STING pathway in acute organ injury in critically ill patients | |
| 23.02.24 | Alex Hunt | Prof Till Bachmann | AI-assisted light microscopy for blood cell identification and infection detection |
| Hollie Vaughan | Dr Samanta Mariani | Understanding the role of the immune system in paediatric blood cancer | |
| Fred Ssempijja | Prof Sue Welburn | Infection Risk at the human, domestic animal, and wildlife interface in national parks in western Uganda | |
| 05.03.24 | Zirong Zeng | Dr Vaso Makrantoni | How does the human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, exploit its metabolic flexibility to enhance virulence? |
| Anjali Anna Ernest | Dr Richard Sloan | How does different IFNα subtypes inhibit Zika Virus infection? | |
| Pei-Chi Huang | Dr Wei-Yu Lu | Defining the role of pro-inflammatory cytokines in regulating hepatocyte expansion | |
| Jiayua Gu | Dr Richard Weller | The effects of solar simulated UV on human immune system | |
| 12.03.24 | Stuart Dickson | Prof Kanwaldeep Dhaliwal | Clearing the air: imaging and characterisation of infection in the distal lung |
| Anu Fernando | Prof Adriano Rossi | The plague receptor and NLRs as therapeutic targets in inflammation | |
| Valentina Giai | Dr Andrew Sutherland | Using KMO inhibitors (KMOi) to improve pancreatic islet cell viability and clinical islet transplantation outcomes for the treatment of type 1 diabetes | |
| 19.03.24 | Rebecca Ainslie | Dr Douglas Gibson | Defining the impact and androgens on uterine immune cell function during endometrial repair |
| Michaela Nosková | Dr Carsten Hansen | Zebrafish models for precision medicine in mesothelioma | |
| Leo Brown | Mr Richard Skipworth | Cachexia index for prognostication in surgical patients with locally advanced oesophagogastric cancer | |
| 19.04.24 | Ben Higgins | Dr Wei-Yu Lu | A multi-omics approach to investigate the immune-cholangiocyte spatial relationship to stratify liver diseases |
| Duncan Rutherford | Dr Gwo-Tzer Ho | The oral-gut microbiome axis in Crohn's disease severity, progression and mucosal healing | |
| Kayla Wang | Prof Till Bachman | 3D graphene foam biosensors for molecular point-of-care testing of emerging pathogen threats | |
| 26.04.24 | Anna Davey | Dr CJ Anderson | The relationship between host and microbe during tissue injury and repair |
| Jessica Ghobrial | Prof Kanwaldeep Dhaliwal | Investigating the role of neutrophil derived EVs in inducing lung injuries in humans | |
| Robert Whelan | Dr Gwo-Tzer Ho | The oral-gut microbiome axis. in Crohn's disease severity, progression and mucosal healing | |
| 14.05.24 | Liam Neilson | Dr Ashan Akram | Phenotyping tertiary lymphoid structures in non-small cell lung cancer |
| Siyang Jia | Dr Carsten Hansen | Investigating the regulation of cellular response to hydrostatic pressure in prostate cancer | |
| Abdelazeem Elhabyan | Dr Juergen Haas | TBD | |
| 21.05.24 | Gosia Grzelka | Dr Prakash Ramachandran | Characterising monocyte dysfunction in chronic liver disease |
| Hui Xin Loh | Prof Kanwaldeep Dhaliwal | Investigating cellular senescence and senolytic drugs on human precision-cut lung slices | |
| Fiona Cunningham | Dr Chengcan Yao | Identifying novel signatures to stratify eczema patients | |
| 07.06.24 | Rachel Martin | Dr Laura Mcculloch | Investigating new therapies for post-stroke pneumonia |
| Caroline Pumpe | Dr Sonja Vermeren | TBD | |
| Broc Drury | Dr Calum Bain | Profiling monocyte heterogeneity in the context of inflammatory bowel disease | |
| 14.06.24 | Ahad Abdalla | Dr Richard O-Connor | Proteomic signature of an ex-vivo human model of lung injury |
| Adil Muhammad | Prof Till Backmann | Development of a low cost Point of Care Susceptibility Test for First Line Antibiotics for Urinary Tract Infections | |
| Aerin Thompson | Prof Adriano Rossi | Investigation of key inflammatory cells and mediators in repair/regeneration following resolution of inflammation after zebrafish (Danio rerio) larval injury | |
| 21.06.24 | Jacky Tam | Prof Prakash Ramachandran | TBD |
| Lily Jia | Prof Prakash Ramachandran | TBD | |
| Navita Lal | Dr Beth Mills | Elucidating novel targets for microbial keratitis diagnosis and treatment |