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
Spring 2021 Schedule
Dates: Fridays from 15th January to 26th March
| Date | Speakers and Titles | Venue |
| 15th January | 1st Talk | Zinc Binding Sites - what do they look like and how can we find them? Speaker | Sam Ireland - Prof Andrew Martin’s group, Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL
2nd Talk | Biochemical analysis of the human DNA repair helicase HelQ |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out |
| 22nd January | 1st Talk | Structural studies of GroEL machinery Speaker | Scott Gardner - Prof Helen Saibil's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck
2nd Talk | Reconstituting the Human COPII Secretion System |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out |
| 29th January | 1st Talk | Cell competition: who makes the first move? Speaker | Nathan Day - Dr Alan Lowe's group, Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL
2nd Talk | ProDy: Protein Dynamics Analysis with Python |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out |
| 5th February | 1st Talk | Relaxosome, the DNA processing unit of type IV secretion machinery Speaker | Dr Sunanda Williams - Prof Gabriel Waksman's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck
2nd Talk | Comparative and functional analysis of 3' untranslated regions in Staphylococcus species |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out |
| 12th February | 1st Talk | Assembly at the surface: Cryo-EM studies of the CsgG:CsgF curli secretion complex Speaker | Dr Sander Van der Verren - Dr Giulia Zanetti's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck
2nd Talk | TRPM2: Lessons learned from the purification of a ~0.7 MDa ion channel |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out |
| 19th February | No Wrap this week | |
| 26th February | 1st Talk | Uncovering the dynamic RNA binding of spliceosomal helicases with psiCLIP Speaker | Charlotte Capitanchik - Prof Jernej Ule's group, Francis Crick Institute
2nd Talk | Structural studies on reconstituted microtubule complexes |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out |
| 5th March | 1st Talk | The Synthesis and Evaluation of Isoquinolines and Carbazoles as Potential Antitubercular Agents Speaker | Liam Martin - Prof Sanjib Bhakta's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck; Prof Helen Hailes' group, Department of Chemistry, UCL
2nd Talk | CC2D1A links clathrin and ESCRT complexes to modulate endocytic cargo fate |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out |
| 12th March | 1st Talk | Regulation of mammalian peroxiredoxins 5 and 6 by the metabolic integrator coenzyme A Speaker | Jovana Bakovic - Prof Ivan Gout's group, Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL
2nd Talk | Multienzyme one-pot cascades incorporating methyltransferases for the strategic diversification of THIQ alkaloids |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out |
| 19th March |
1st Talk | TBC Speaker | Sophie Knott - Dr Renos Savva's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck
2nd Talk | TBC |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out |
| 26th March | 1st Talk | TBC Speaker | Dr Maria Rodriguez Lopez - Prof Jürg Bähler's group, Division of Biosciences, UCL
2nd Talk | TBC |
Remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out |