Friday Wraps

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
Speaker | Hugh Britton - Alethea Tabor's group, Department of Research Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL

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
Speaker | Maria Tossounian - Ivan Gout's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL

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
Speaker | Katie Downes - Giulia Zanetti's group, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck

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
Speaker | Ania Babula - Alan Lowe's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL

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
Speaker | Guillermo Herrera Sanchez - Bart Hoogenboom's group, UCL

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
10th February 2023 1st Talk | Title
Speaker | Elena Plessa - Lisa Cabrita's group,2nd Talk | Title
Speaker | Julian Streit - John Christodoulou's group
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
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,
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
24th March 2023 No Friday Wrap - meeting of ISMB Incubators. Incubator members will be notified of the venue from the group leader.