IMPORTANT NOTICE
Speakers will be presenting remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out for each session.
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
Term 1/Autumn 2021-22 Schedule
Dates: Fridays from 15th October-17th December 2021
| Date | Speakers and Titles | Venue |
| 15th October | 1st Talk | Molecular mechanisms of protein export by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum Speaker | Bianca Bana - Dr Andrew Osborne's group, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology 2nd Talk | A Machine Learning Approach To Predicting The Quality Of CDRH3 Antibody Loop Models |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent |
| 22nd October | 1st Talk | Genetic Engineering and cultivation of Spirulina for applications on Earth and Mars Speaker | Lydia Mapstone - Prof Saul Purton's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Term-seq reveals abundance of riboswitches-associated peptides in Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent |
| 29th October | ISMB Incubator | |
| 5th November | 1st Talk | Atomic force microscopy resolves membrane attack complexes on live bacteria Speaker | Dr Christian Bortolini - Prof Bart Hoogenboom's group, London Centre for Nanotechnology 2nd Talk | Non-canonical start codon usage in the neuronal translatome |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent |
| 12th November | 1st Talk | Characterization of transcription apparatus encoded by the yeast linear plasmids Speaker | Dr Michal Sykora - Prof Finn Werner's group, Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Pushing the envelope: the mysterious journey through the bacterial secretory machinery |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent |
| 19th November | 1st Talk | Towards a structural basis for full length MARK1/Par-1c polarity kinase regulation Speaker | Dr Miguel Zamora-Porras - Prof Neil McDonald's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck 2nd Talk | Cellular ageing, growth, and protein translation: Long non-coding RNAs at the crossroad |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent |
| 26th November | ISMB Incubator | |
| 3rd December | 1st Talk | Missense variants in the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations (COSMIC) reveal recurrent neoantigens in a multitude of cancer types Speaker | Harry Boutselakis - Dr Irilenia Nobeli's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck 2nd Talk | The molecular basis of pathological alpha-1-antitrypsin polymerisation |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent |
| 10th December | 1st Talk | Understanding the Role of Complex IV Isoforms in Supercomplex Formation in Human Mitochondria Speaker | Thomas Gruhl - Dr Amandine Marechal's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck 2nd Talk | Direct Conversion of Hydrazones to Amines using Transaminases |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent |
| 17th December |
ISMB Incubator | |
| Wraps will return in Term 2/Spring... |