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.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
For 2021-22 Term 3/Summer:
ISMB Friday Wraps will take place in-person for attendees based on site (see 'Venue' column below),
with a live link via MS Teams for those based off site (MS Teams link invitation is included in promotional emails and circulated to ISMB member calendars).
Presenters available to do so will give their talk in-person in the venue; those based off-site will present by video link on MS Teams. For further information, please contact the ISMB Administrator.
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
Term 3/Summer 2021-22 Schedule
| Date, time | Speakers and Titles | Venue |
| 29th April 2022 | No Friday Wrap - meeting of ISMB Incubators | Incubator members will be notified of the venue from their Incubator lead. |
| 6th May 2022 | No Friday Wrap - day 2 of ISMB Postgraduate Symposium | |
| 13th May 2022, 15.00-16.00 |
1st Talk | Biophysical Characterisation of Protelomerases for Synthetic Biology Applications Speaker | Sophie Knott - Dr Renos Savva's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck 2nd Talk | Regulation of DNA repair mechanism in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus by mobile genetic elements |
Room B05, UCL Darwin Building and remotely via Microsoft Teams |
| 20th May 2022, 15.00-16.00 |
1st Talk | Bacterial-COREs: apparatuses for Host Nutrient Extraction & Bacterial Molecular Trade Speakers | Yogesh Vegunta - Prof Gabriel Waksman's group, Institute of Structrual and Molecular Biology 2nd Talk | Formation of next-generation bispecific therapeutics using pyridazinediones |
Room B15, UCL Darwin Building and remotely via MS Teams |
| 27th May 2022 | No Friday Wrap - meeting of ISMB Incubators | Incubator members will be notified of the venue from their Incubator lead. |
| 3rd June 2022 | No Friday Wrap during UK schools half term | |
| 10th June 2022, 15.00-15.30 |
1st Talk | Dual reactivity disulfide bridging reagents; enabling new approaches to antibody fragment bioconjugation Speaker | Alina Chrzastek - Dr Jamie Baker's group, Department of Chemistry, UCL 2nd Talk | Mutant neuroserpin induces mitochondrial and cytoskeleton alterations in a neuronal model of dementia FENIB |
Room B05, UCL Darwin Building and remotely via Microsoft Teams |
| 17th June 2022 | No Friday Wrap - day 2 of ISMB Research Symposium | |
| 24th June 2022 | No Friday Wrap - meeting of ISMB Incubators | Incubator members will be notified of the venue from their Incubator lead. |
| 1st July 2022, 15.00-16.00 |
1st Talk | The Role of the J protein DNAJB1 in disaggregation of amyloid fibres by the Hsp70 chaperone system Speaker | Erin Johnston - Prof Helen's Saibil's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck 2nd Talk | Molecular design and biophysical analysis of a new class of lipid II binding antibiotics |
Room B15, Darwin Building, UCL and remotely via MS Teams |
| Friday Wraps will return in Autumn 2022... |