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 3/Summer 2023-24 Schedule
| Date, time | Speakers and Titles | Venue |
| 26th April 2024 | 1st Talk | Transcription termination and readthrough in African swine fever virus Speaker | Gwenny Cackett, Finn Werner's group, Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Using Crosslinking Mass Spectrometry to Understand the Structure of Proteins Implicated in Huntington’s Disease |
Room 311, Birkbeck Main Building |
| 3rd May 2024 | 1st Talk | An integrative characterisation of proline cis and trans conformers in a disordered peptide Speaker |Alice Pettitt - Flemming Hansen's group, Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Making ‘antisense’ of the PhoPR two-component system in Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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| 10th May 2024 | 1st Talk | Unraveling the molecular basis of Bacterial focal adhesion assembly Speaker | Bouchra Attia - Carolyn Moore's group, School of Natural Sciences, Birkbeck 2nd Talk | Multidomain protein folding during biosynthesis |
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| 17th May 2024 | 1st Talk | Prediction of variant impact in the giant protein TTN Speaker |Timir Weston - Franca Fraternali's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Opening up chromatin at the right places: A cryo-EM view of the nucleosome-BAF complex interactions |
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| 24th May 2024 | 1st Talk |Oral vaccines by design: chloroplast engineering in the green alga Chlamydomonas for production of double-stranded RNAs Speaker | Luyao Yang - Saul Purton's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | "Tindering" with Antibody: investigate the determinants for immunoglobulin heavy and light chain pairing |
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| 31st May 2024 | 1st Talk |Disentangling the mechanisms behind Variant Effect Predictors on Titin Speaker | Oriol Gracia Carmona - Franca Fraternali's group, Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | Mechanism of pilus biogenesis in bacterial conjugation investigated using XL-MS and EM |
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| 7th June 2024 | 1st Talk |Functional characterisation of the transcarboxylase D2A2 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and investigation of its role in mycobacteria metabolism Speaker | Catherine Hubert - Kristine Arnvig's group, Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL 2nd Talk | The Encyclopaedia of Domains |
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| 14th June 2024 | No Friday Wraps, ISMB Postgraduate Research Symposium 2024 | |
| 21st June 2024 | No Friday Wraps | |
| 28th June 2024 | No Friday Wraps, ISMB Symposium 2024 |