Seminars

ISMB seminars take place on Wednesdays during term time, providing research staff and students with the opportunity to hear talks by world class scientists.

The termly seminar series are organised around specific themes, and are co-ordinated jointly by the Research Department of Structural Molecular Biology at UCL and the Department of Natural Sciences, Birkbeck.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

ISMB Seminar Series: Term 2/ Spring 2024-25

New Horizons in Glycobiology

Series overview

The Spring seminar series in 2025 will examine the complexity and diversity of glycans and glycoconjugates by exploring both chemical/biological tools to dissect their functional roles and interdisciplinary approaches. The speakers will reflect on these topics in the context of their current work which will span precision chemical tools, structural, predictive and semi-synthetic approaches to studying glycoproteins, profiling glycans by arrays and by mass spectrometry.

Coordinated by Neil McDonald, Franca Fraternali, Jerome Gouge and Andres Ramos.

All seminars run on Wednesdays between 13:00-14:00 in the Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, UCL Anatomy Building.

This term’s speakers:

22nd January 2025

Genomic based approaches to develop population specific precision medicine for Polynesian peoples
Peter Shepherd, University of Auckland
Host: Snezana Djordjevic


29th January 2025
The many facets of GPCR activation and deactivation: Insights from advanced NMR techniques
Alvar Gossert, ETH Zurich
Host: John Christodoulou


5th February 2025
Decoding Glycan-Mediated Interactions in Infection and Immunity
Yan Liu, Imperial College London
Host: Neil McDonald


12th February 2025
Understanding the role of that the LRRK2 pathway plays in Parkinson’s disease
Dario Alessi, University of Dundee
Host: Ivan Gout


19th February 2025
Integrative modeling of glycoproteins
Mateusz Sikora, Dioscuri Centre for Modelling of Posttranslational Modifications, Krakow
Host: Franca Fraternali


26th February 2025
Mass spectrometry-based analysis of post-translational modifications – the Δ80 Da challenge
Claire Eyers, University of Liverpool
Host: Neil McDonald


5th March 2025
Beyond Nutrition: Manufacturing and Modifying Vitamin B12 for Biotechnological and Therapeutic Applications
Martin Warren, Quadram Institute, Norwich
Host: Tine Arnvig


12th March 2025
Restoring Protein Glycosylation with GlycoShape
Elisa Fadda, University of Southampton
Host: Franca Fraternali


19th March 2025
Non-natural amino acids and bio-orthogonal ligations for studying protein folding and post-translational modifications
Marina Rubini, University College Dublin
Host: Jerome Gouge


26th March
Unconventional protein import and oxidative folding sustain mitochondrial biogenesis and fitness
Kostas Tokatlidis, University of Glasgow
Host: Jerome Gouge

 

ISMB Special Event:

Friday 4th April, 15:00-16:30
TwinsUK: a study of health and ageing from cells to society
Claire Steves, King’s College London
Host: Franca Fraternali
To attend this event, please register via Eventbrite.

 

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Previous ISMB seminars

ISMB Seminar Series Term 1 Autumn 2024-25: “Engineering” Neuroscience: combining bioengineering, stem cells technologies and in vitro modelling to better understand neurodegeneration

2023-2024

2023-24 Term3/ Summer: Emerging methods in Biophysics
2023-24 Term2/Spring series: Emergent properties of complex biological systems
2023-24 Term 1/Autumn series: Tying the knot between experiment and computation in Molecular and Cellular Biology

2022-23

2022-23 Term 3/Summer series: Selectivity and Promiscuity in Biomolecular Interactions
2022-23 Term 2/Spring series: Capturing scales of biological mechanisms: from individual molecules to organisms
2022-23 Term 1/Autumn series: Re-organising the Cell

2021-22

2021-22 Term 3/Summer series: Immune Receptors in Health and Disease
2021-22 ISMB Special Event: Two Years of Covid-19
2021-22 Term 2/Spring series: Transcription-coupled processes: gene regulation, DNA repair and recombination in cells and viruses
2021-22 Term 1/Autumn series: RNA, the Multi-Faceted Regulator

2020-21

2020-21 ISMB Special Event: Ancestry, Genetics and Race: Dealing with the Legacy of Scientific Racism
2020-21 Term 3/Summer series: Life at the single-molecule level: from DNA interactions to cell-level processes
2020-21 Term 2/Spring series: Understanding molecular machines: from mechanisms to health and disease
2020-21 Term 1/Autumn series: Redox regulation in health and disease

 

For further information about ISMB Seminars, please contact the ISMB administrator.