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 Room 311, Birkbeck Central Building, 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.
Members of the following departments are welcome to attend:
Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL
School of Natural Sciences, Birkbeck
Department of Chemistry, UCL
School of Computer Sciences and Information Systems, Birkbeck
Term 2/Spring 2023-24 Schedule
| Date, time | Speakers and Titles | Venue |
| 12th January 2024 | 1st Talk | Postponed Speaker | 2nd Talk | Nanoscale characterisation of polymyxin antibiotics action on Escherichia coli |
Room 311, Birkbeck Main Building |
| 19th January 2024 | 1st 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 |
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| 26th January 2024 | No 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 16th February 2024 | No Friday Wrap - Half term | |
| 23rd February 2024 | No Friday Wrap - ISMB Research Focus Group meetings | |
| 1st March 2024 | 1st 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 2nd Talk | Postponed |
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| 8th March 2024 | Friday 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 |
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| 22nd March 2024 | No Friday Wrap - ISMB Research Focus Group Meetings |