College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Centre for Inflammation Research - Research in Progress

Centre for Inflammation Research research in progress presentations are held every Friday in the The Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI, Little France at 4pm-5pm.

Programme for January - March 2011

Friday 25th March

Presentation by:

Michael Williams, Tissue Remodelling and Regeneration Group - Defining the functional role of the liver progenitor cell-laminin interaction

Hui Zhang, Multiple Sclerosis Group - Central Nervous System Remyelination in Culture

Friday 18th March

Presentation by:

Yu Zhou, Renal Autoimmunity Group - Podocyte injury and recovery in kidney disease

Friday 11th March

Presentation by:

Damian Mole, Surgery/Tissue Injury & Regeneration/Immunity & Chronic Inflammation Groups - Therapeutic blockade of kynurenine monoxygenase in acute pancreatitis-associated organ failure

Friday 4th March

Presentations by:

Andreas Alber, Lung Inflammation Group - Provisional Title to be confirmed

Siao Pei Tan, Phagocyte Inflammation Group - Improving the Skin Barrier Function in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis.

Friday 25th February

Presentations by:

Paula Beaumont, Lung Inflammation Group - The Role of Cathelicidin in Innate Host Defence against Bacterial Lung Infection

Sana Sarvi, Lung Inflammation Group - Small cell lung cancer and cancer stem cells

Friday 18th February

No RIP due to half term break.

Friday 11th February

Presentations by:

Coaxin Huang, Stem Cell Group - Notch signal pathway in the Aorta-Gonad-Mesonephros microenvironment to enhance haematopoietic differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem cells

Cristina Nunes-Fonseca, Multiple Sclerosis Group - The role of integrins in axo-glial interactions in CNS myelination

Friday 4th February

Presentations by:

Abhijeet Choudhary, Phagocyte Inflammation Group - Amelioration of hyperglycemia and islet inflammation independent of heme oxygenase activity in a model of type 2 diabetes

Anna Daniel, Leukocyte & Lung Cell Biology Group - Requirements for platelet-leukocyte binding (and signalling)

Friday 28th January

Presentation by:

Dr Nik Hirani, Lung Inflammation Group - Defining the roles of hypoxia and HIF in lung fibrosis.

Start time for today only is 4.30pm

Friday 21st January

Presentation by:

Andrew Robson, Tissue Remodelling and Regeneration Group - Inflammatory stroma in Cholangiocarcinoma

Friday 14th January

Presentations by:

Prakash Ramachandran (John Iredale), Tissue Injury & Regeneration Group - Identifying the Restorative Hepatic Macrophage

Eleni Kouverianou (Sarah Howie), Lung Inflammation Group - Galectin-3 Regulation of Lung Tumour Growth

All welcome.