ISMB 'Friday Wrap' meetings are held weekly during term time, providing 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.
For 2022-23 Term 1/Autumn:
ISMB Friday Wraps will take place from 3-4pm in-person in Glaxo-Wellcome room B62 Birkbeck for attendees based on site.
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 1/Autumn 2022-23 Schedule
| Date, time | Speakers and Titles | Venue |
| 14th October 2022, 3-4pm | 1st Talk | Visualising SWI/SNF, a chromatin remodeler, in action Speaker | Debbie Woods - Dr. Philip Robinson's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck 2nd Talk | A DNA nanostructure for membrane probing |
Room 532, Birkbeck |
| 21st October 2022, 3-4pm | 1st Talk | The changing microtubule cytoskeleton of the malaria parasite revealed by in situ cryo-ET Speaker | Josie Ferreira - Prof. Carolyn Moores' group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck 2nd Talk | Cryo-EM structure of the African Swine Fever RNA polymerase |
Glaxo-Wellcome Room B62, Birkbeck |
| 28th October 2022 | No Friday Wrap - meeting of ISMB Incubators | Incubator members will be notified of the venue from their Incubator lead. |
| 4th November 2022, 3-4pm | 1st Talk | The Gene Expression Control Mechanisms by Vitamin B12-sensing Riboswitches in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Speaker | Terry Kipkorir - Dr. Kristine Arnvig's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Opportunistic recognition of methylated RNA by the non-canonical reader IMP1 |
Glaxo-Wellcome Room B62, Birkbeck |
| 11th November 2022, 3-4pm | 1st Talk | Expression, Solubilisation & Purification of a Nrp1 transmembrane construct for structural characterisation Speaker | Dino Janssen - Prof. Snezana Djordjevic's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Conformational analysis of antibody CDR loops upon binding |
Glaxo-Wellcome Room B62, Birkbeck |
| 18th November 2022, 3-4pm | 1st Talk | The Role of Cargo Binding in COPII Assembly/Disassembly Speaker | Euan Pyle - Dr. Giulia Zanetti's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck 2nd Talk | Characterising the impact of α-synuclein N-terminal modifications using biophysical techniques |
Glaxo-Wellcome Room B62, Birkbeck |
| 25th November 2022 |
No Friday Wrap - meeting of ISMB Incubators | Incubator members will be notified of the venue from their Incubator lead. |
| 2nd December 2022, 3-4pm | 1st Talk | The Prediction of Lifespan from Simple Phenotypes in Fission Yeast Speaker | Olivia Hillson - Prof. Jürg Bähler's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Rewriting the genetic code: the algal plastome as a testbed for basic and applied studies |
Glaxo-Wellcome Room B62, Birkbeck |
| 9th December 2022, 3-4pm | 1st Talk | Facile and selective N-alkylation of gentamicin antibiotics via chemoenzymatic synthesis Speaker | Gorjan Stojanovski - Prof. Helen Hailes' group, Department of Chemistry, UCL 2nd Talk | Presentation of 499 variants in the T-box transcription factor 5 gene in an interactive TBX5 variant database |
Glaxo-Wellcome Room B62, Birkbeck |
| 16th December 2022 | No Friday Wrap - meeting of ISMB Incubators | Incubator members will be notified of the venue from their Incubator lead. |
| Friday Wraps will return in 2023... |