ICB MRes Conference 2010
Date: Wednesday 8th September 2010
Time: 09:30-17:30
Venue: Lecture Theatre G34 & Seminar Rooms 120 & 121 & 122, Sir Alexander Flemming Building (SAFB), South Kensington campus
The aim of this conference is to enable students from the three ICB MRes courses to present the research they have been undertaking for the past seven months. Each session is chaired and reported by one of the first or second year PhD students.
Morning Keynote Speaker: Professor Joachim Heberle
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
‘Surface-Enhanced InfraRed Absorption Spectroscopy (SEIRAS) of membrane proteins’
Afternoon Keynote Speaker: Professor Sabine L Flitsch
School of Chemistry & MIB, University of Manchester
‘Chemical and enzymatic reactions on gold surfaces’
MRES 2010 CONFERENCE REPORTS
| Activity | Reporter |
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| Keynote Lecture by Professor Joachim Heberle ‘Surface-Enhanced InfraRed Absorption Spectroscopy (SEIRAS) of membrane proteins’ |
Rebecca Nonoo |
| Keynote Lecture by Professor Sabine Flitsch ‘Chemical and enzymatic reactions on gold surfaces’ |
Megan Wright |
| Chris Douse ‘Structural studies on a dynamic protein complex involved in infection by Plasmodium parasites’ |
Rebecca Nonoo |
| Chung Ho Lau ‘The Role of J-Resolved NMR in enhancing detection of metabolomics responses’ |
Hanna Barriga |
| James Sudlow ‘Peptide Based Modulation of p97-Mediated Regulation of Mammalian Protein Turnover: Design Synthesis and Biological Classification’ |
Sarah Rosen |
| Adrian Tan ‘Characterising the organisation and functions of inner membrane associated protein PspA’ |
Mirella Koleva |
| Amy Hippard ‘Chimeric Inhibitors for Synaptojanin-1′ |
Gillian Whyte |
| Julian Janna Olmos ‘Studies on the chemical degradation of thiostrepton to reveal anti-FOXM1 agents’ |
Megan Wright |
| Kim Williams ‘Targeting cholesterylation of sonic hedgehog protein as an approach to developing cancer therapeutics’ |
Gillian Whyte |
| Bartosz Koprowski ‘Robotic platform for high throughput analysis of protein-protein interactions in droplet-based microfluidics’ |
Dominic Alibhai |
| Michelle Cheung ‘Monitoring Phosphorylation Regulation of Protein Association Using Coherent Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy’ |
Romain Laine |
| Douglas Kelly ‘Using FLIM-FRET to report on cell signalling’ |
Thomas Seaby |
| Sean Warren ‘Development of FLIM-FRET Methodologies to Study Cell Motility Processes’ |
Margherita Miele |
| William Yu ‘Multiscale Protein Dynamics: Applications of Graph Theory and Community Detection’ |
Richard Bradshaw |
| Dana Medukhanova ‘Capture and detection of CO2 by carbonic anhydrase mimics’ |
Verity Stafford |
| Sarah Percival ‘Design, Synthesis and Engineering of Nanoparticles for Multimodal Cancer Imaging’ |
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| Fatima Malik ‘Two-photon imaging of brain circuitry: data analysis’ |
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| Beata Klejevskaja ‘Development of optical probes for cellular imaging of quadruplex DNA’ |
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| Anna Haslop ‘Non Invasive PET Imaging of Apoptosis by Targeting the Mitochondrial Membrane Potential Using 18F labelled Phosphonium Cations’ |
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| Rodrigo Braga ‘4D atlas of major white matter tracts in the developing preterm brain using probabilistic diffusion tractography’ |
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| Tanja Litke ‘Two-photon calcium imaging of activity in the cortical microcircuit’ |
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| Fairuzeta Ja’Afar ‘Interactions of microbubbles with activated and non-activated vasculature’ |
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| Callum Dickson ‘Drug-lipid interaction energy as a predictor for non-specific binding’ |
For a copy of the Conference Booklet, please click here.
For a copy of the Conference poster, please click here.
Best Presentation Prize Winners
Congratulations to the following students who were awarded the “Best Presentation Prize” at the MRes conference this year:
- Yun William Yu (MRes Biomedical Physical Chemistry)
- Doug Kelly (MRes Chemical Biology of Health & Disease)
- Rodrigo Braga (MRes Bioimaging Sciences)