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
Autumn 2019 Schedule
Dates: Fridays from 11th October to 13th December
| Date | Speakers and Titles | Venue |
| 11th October | 1st Talk | Exploring the role of DNA topology in genome function at the single-molecule level Greame King - Dr Greame King, Research Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Engineering contact-dependent bacterial secretion systems to modulate microbial populations |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 18th October | 1st Talk | Dissecting a co-translational knife-edge between folding and misfolding Oliver Thomas - Dr Lisa Cabrita’s group, Research Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Development of a protein-based delivery system for inducing cell death in cancer cells |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 25th October | 1st Talk | Dissecting clathrin light chain (CLC) function by using CLCa and CLCb knock-out mice models Cherry, Yu Chen - Prof Frances Brodsky’s group, Research Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Methods that can predict drug-target residence time |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 1st November | 1st Talk | Mechanism and biological function of multisite phosphorylation in cancer Anastasia Mylona - Dr Anastasia Mylona, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck 2nd Talk | Biomolecular data modelling for cryo-EM and MS |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 8th November | 1st Talk | Turn me on, riboswitches controlling gene expression in M. tuberculosis Alexandre D’Halluin - Dr Kristine Arnvig’s group, Research Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Giving single cells a story - Heterogeneity within (non)-cancer cell populations |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 15th November | 1st Talk | An integrative structural biology approach to unravel neuroserpin polymers structure Luca Broggini - Dr James Irving’s group, Research Department of Respiratory Medicine, UCL 2nd Talk | Non-canonical splicesomal assemblies on the mRNAs of charged proteins |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 22nd November | 1st Talk | Unravelling the solution structures and stability of industrially-important antibodies with and without glycans Valentina Spiteri - Prof Stephen Perkin’s group, Research Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Cancelled |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 29th November | 1st Talk | Norcoclaurine Synthase: Structural Studies, Enzyme Engineering and the Biocatalytic Synthesis of Novel Alkaloids Rebecca Roddan - Prof Helen Hailes, Research Department of Chemistry, UCL 2nd Talk | The interaction at the centre of TRIM28-mediated transcription silencing |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 6th December | 1st Talk | Translational imaging of the dementias - what do tau PET tracers really show? Kerstin Sander - Radiochemistry Team, Centre for Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, UCL 2nd Talk | Pore forming Toxins visualized by 3D cryo-electron microscopy |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 13th December | 1st Talk | Structural studies on ATPases involved in Type 4 Secretion System Abhinav Koyamangalath - Prof Gabriel Waksman’s group, joint ISMB affiliation 2nd Talk | The structure and function of NusA paralogues in Archaea |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |