IMPORTANT NOTICE
To mitigate the impact of COVID-19, the Wrap on 13th March is the last meeting of the term.
ISMB 'Friday Wrap' meetings are held weekly during term time, and provide a forum for discussion with colleagues, and updates about the latest developments in our research. Talks are given by postdocs, final year PhD students and/or young PIs.
Members of the following departments are welcome to attend:
Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL
Department of of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck
Department of Chemistry, UCL
School of Computer Sciences and Information Systems, Birkbeck
Spring 2020 Schedule
Dates: Fridays from 31st January to 27th March
| Date | Speakers and Titles | Venue |
| 31st January | 1st Talk | Probing sequence plasticity of Ung inhibitors Speaker: Wael Muselmani - Dr Renos Savva's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck 2nd Talk | Building the cilium with ATP-driven molecular motors |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 7th February | 1st Talk | Targeting the Translation Cogwheel to Slowdown Growth and Ageing: Tale of a Long Non-coding RNA Speaker: Shajahan Anver - Prof Jurg Bahler's group, Faculty of Life Sciences, UCL |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 14th February | 1st Talk | Engineering the green alga Chlamydomonas to grow on phosphite Speaker: Saowalak Changko - Prof Saul Purton's group, Research Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Oxidative stress response and its regulation |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 28th February | 1st Talk | Deciphering the Coenzyme A Redox System Speaker: Bess Yu - Prof Ivan Gout's group, Research Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Combining Information from Crosslinks and Monolinks in the Modelling of Protein Structures |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 6th March | 1st Talk | Predicting and characterising zinc binding Speaker: Sam Ireland - Prof Andrew Martin’s group, Research Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Cryo-EM studies of the assembly of eukaryotic small ribosomal subunit |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 13th March | 1st Talk | Tinkering in the Molecular Tool Shed - Moving Towards Synthetic Biology in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Speaker: Henry Taunt - Prof Saul Purton's group, Research Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Cancelled |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 20th March | CANCELLED | Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 27th March | CANCELLED | Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |