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 3/Summer:
ISMB Friday Wraps will take place from 4-5pm 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. 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 3/Summer 2022-23 Schedule
| Date, time | Speakers and Titles | Venue |
| 5th May 2023 | 1st Talk | Discovery and de novo design of icosahedral protein nanocompartments using deep learning methods Speaker | Naail Kashif-Khan, Renos Savva's group, Department of Biological Sciences and Stefanie Frank's group, Department of Biochemical Engineering, UCL 2nd Talk | Tumour Targeting Theragnostic NDI Bioconjugates |
Glaxo-Wellcome Room B62, Birkbeck |
| 12th May 2023 | 1st Talk | The structure and function of Merozoite Surface Protein 1 in the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum Speaker | Rebecca Lees - Helen Saibil's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck and Michael Blackman, The Francis Crick Institute 2nd Talk | Coenzyme A-mediated defence mechanism against cellular stress |
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| 19th May 2023 | 1st Talk | Conformational NMR analysis of different cystine replacements in cyclic peptides Speaker | William Darling - Alethea Tabor's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Investigating the mammalian secretory pathway – observing without disturbing |
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| 26th May 2023 | No Friday Wrap - Half term | |
| 2nd June 2023 | No Friday Wrap - ISMB Research Focus Group Meetings | |
| 9th June 2023 | 1st Talk | Investigating protein complexes using native mass spectrometry and cryo-EM Speaker | Fanindra Deshmukh - Kostas Thalassinos' group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Bridging molecular biology and computer science to allow advanced screening of DNA therapeutics |
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| 16th June 2023 | No Friday Wrap - Postgraduate Symposium | |
| 23rd June 2023 | 1st Talk | TBA Speaker | Rita Ramalhete - Brian Ho's group, Department of Biological Sciences Birkbeck 2nd Talk | TBA |
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| 30th June 2023 | No Friday Wrap - ISMB Research Focus Group Meetings | |
| 7th July 2023 | No Friday Wrap - ISMB Retreat | |
Term 2/Spring 2022-23 Schedule
| Date, time | Speakers and Titles | Venue |
| 13th January 2023 | 1st Talk | Studying metabolism using microscopes Speaker | Thomas Blacker, recently appointed ISMB Lab group leader2nd Talk | Guilt by Association: Profiling non-coding RNA in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by the company it keeps Speaker | Jennifer Stiens - Irilenia Nobeli's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck |
Glaxo-Wellcome Room B62, Birkbeck |
| 20th January 2023 | This week's ISMB Friday Wrap meeting cancelled. | |
| 27th January 2023 | No Friday Wrap - meeting of ISMB Incubators. Incubator members will be notified of the venue from the group leader. | |
| 3rd February 2023 | 1st Talk | Using stable isotopes to study biological processes Speaker | Harry-Luke McClelland - Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL2nd Talk | Structural snapshots of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis Speaker | Andrea Dessen - Gabriel Waksman's group, UCL/Birkbeck |
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| 10th February 2023 | 1st Talk | Title Speaker | Elena Plessa - Lisa Cabrita's group,2nd Talk | Title Speaker | Julian Streit - John Christodoulou's group |
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| 17th February 2023 | No Friday Wrap (Half term) | |
| 24th February 2023 | No Friday Wrap - meeting of ISMB Incubators. Incubator members will be notified of the venue from the group leader. | |
| 3rd March 2023 | 1st Talk | The role of vFLIP in NK-kB activation Speaker | Swathi Kumar - Tracey Barrett's group, Department of Biological Sciences Birkbeck2nd Talk | Internal millisecond dynamics dictate Histone de-acetylase activity and inhibitor binding Speaker | Vaibhav Shukla - Flemming Hansen's group,Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL |
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| 10th March 2023 | 1st Talk | Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Human Sp-B1-25 in Lipid Monolayers Speaker | Vivian Wang - Katherine Thompson's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck2nd Talk | Investigating bacterial flagellar filament elongation through Cryo-EM Speaker | Natalia Al-Otaibi - Gabriel Waksman's group, |
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| 17th March 2023 | 1st Talk | NO induces Rpf- dependency in M. tuberculosis Speaker | Brindha Gapgaupool - Tine Arnvig's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL2nd Talk | Archaeal NusA at the Transcription and Translation machineries crossroad Speaker | Duy Khanh Phung - Finn Werner's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL |
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| 24th March 2023 | No Friday Wrap - meeting of ISMB Incubators. Incubator members will be notified of the venue from the group leader. |