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 2019 Schedule
Dates: Fridays from 18th January to 22nd March, except 15th March.
| Date | Titles and Speakers | Venue |
| 18th January | Probing ribosome–nascent chain interactions and intracellular quinary structure with NMR relaxation measurements Chris Waudby, Professor John Christodoulou's group A long non-coding RNA that prolongs cellular lifespan by fine-tuning of metabolic flux? |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 25th January | Exploiting protein evolutionary data to predict protein function and functional sites Sayoni Das, Professor Christine Orengo's group The Crystalline Armour - Structure of the S-Layer of Clostridium difficile |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 1st February | Single-molecule kinetics of pore assembly by the membrane attack complex Ed Parsons, Professor Bart Hoogenboom's group Enzyme clusters in cell-wall peptidoglycan metabolism machinery as novel therapeutic targets for anti-TB drug discovery |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 8th February | Investigating the PKN2 serine/threonine kinase architecture, regulation and substrate-targeting mechanism Amy Whittaker, Professor Neil McDonald's group Contact-dependent secretion systems in bacterial communities |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 15th February | Investigating the S. cerevisiae Complex: TINTIN Emir Aciyan, Dr Alan Cheung's group EM and AFM studies of an Hsp70 Disaggregase |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 22nd February | Plasticity of Lipid Binding to the Groove of the Fat Depleting Factor Zinc-α2-glycoprotein Henna Zahid, Professor Stephen Perkins' group Let there be light: Building up the algal molecular toolbox |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 1st March |
(Re)design of the chloroplast genome: towards a synthetic organelle Harry Jackson, Professor Saul Purton's group A chemical biology approach to understanding the interaction of Protoxin-II with Nav1.7 |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 8th March |
Understanding Mycobacterial Genomes: Impacts of Drug Resistance and Identification of Drug Targets Sony Malhotra, Professor Maya Topf group Cdk5 and GSK3 inhibit Fast Endophilin-Mediated Endocytosis |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 15th March |
No Friday Wrap this week. | |
| 22nd March | Structural insights into "host shut off" mediated by the Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpes virus Hyunah Lee, Dr Tracey Barrett's group Studies into photoactivatable protein conjugates |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |