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 | Title TBA Professor Neil McDonald's group Title TBA |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 15th February | Title TBA Emir Aciyan, Dr Alan Cheung's group Title TBA |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 22nd February | Site-specific mutants of ZAG Henna Zahid, Professor Stephen Perkins' group Title TBA |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 1st March |
(Re)design of the chloroplast genome: towards a synthetic organelle Harry Jackson, Professor Saul Purton's group Title TBA |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 8th March |
Title TBA 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. | Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |
| 22nd March |
Title TBA Professor Andres Ramos' group Studies into photoactivatable protein conjugates |
Glaxo-Wellcome B62, Birkbeck |