Term 2/Spring 2023-24 Schedule

Date, timeSpeakers and TitlesVenue
12th January 2024

1st Talk | Towards neuropilin-2-targeting therapeutics (Postponed)
Speaker | Koel Jelfs, Snezana Djordjevic’s group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL

2nd Talk | Nanoscale characterisation of polymyxin antibiotics action on Escherichia coli
Speaker | Carolina Borelli, Bart Hoogenboom’s group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL

Room 311, Birkbeck Main Building
19th January 20241st Talk | Using nanodiscs to insert nanopores into membranes for bio-analysis
Speaker | Jonah Ciccone, Stefan Howorka’s group, Department of Chemistry, UCL
2nd Talk | Characterisation of the α1-antitrypsin pathological polymer by solution-state NMR spectroscopy
Speaker | Sarah Lowen, David Lomas’ group, Respiratory Biology, UCL
 
26th January 2024No Friday Wrap – ISMB Research Focus Group Meetings
2nd February 2024

1st Talk | Towards neuropilin-2-targeting therapeutics
Speaker |Koel Jelfs, Snezana Djordjevic’s group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL

2nd Talk | Proximity labelling of neuronal Adenylyl Cyclase
Speaker |Ryan Dowsell, Matthew Gold’s group, Department of Neuro, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL

 
9th February 2024

1st Talk | How does the malaria parasite transform its unique cytoskeleton to ensure disease transmission?
Speaker | Josie Ferreira, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL

2nd Talk | Understanding the structure of negatively supercoiled DNA using single-molecule approaches
Speaker | Dorothy Aboagye-Mensah, Graeme King’s group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL

 
16th February 2024No Friday Wrap – Half term 
23rd February 2024No Friday Wrap – ISMB Research Focus Group Meetings 
1st March 2024

1st Talk | Postponed
Speaker | Reuben Martin, Andrea Townsend-Nicholson’s group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL

2nd Talk | Exploring the basis of atypical Protein Kinase C (aPKC) activation and substrate targeting in cell polarity
Speaker | Shona Ellison, Neil McDonald’s Group, The Francis Crick Institute

 
8th March 2024Friday Wraps Special: Cara Eldridge, Chief Editor (Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics) at Nature Communications 
15th March 2024

1st Talk | Structural studies of beta lactamases and virus lasers
Speaker | Anka Lucic, John Hales’ group, Department of Biochemical Engineering, UCL

2nd Talk | Bacteriophages of neonatal sepsis-causing Klebsiella pneumoniae from Malawi
Speaker | Maria Stoyakovski – Jo Santini’s group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL

 
22nd March 2024No Friday Wrap – ISMB Research Focus Group Meetings