Past Meeting:

20th January 2011:

Krebs Institute Symposium

Research Across the Boundaries

Thursday 29th January, 9.30 a.m. – 3.40 p.m, Tapestry Room, Firth Court

09.30 Introduction

9.40 Jeremy Craven (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) Getting quantitative with bugs

10.00 Richard Jackson (Chemistry) Modification of amino acids and peptides using organometallic chemistry

10.20 Nick Mullin (Physics and Astronomy) Torsional tapping atomic force microscopy and its application to soft matter and biological systems

10. 40 Jim Thomas (Chemistry) Luminescent metal complexes as therapeutics and in cellulo imaging probes

11.00 Coffee in the Tapestry Room

11.30 Spencer Collis (Institute of Cancer Studies) The identification and characterisation of novel genome maintenance factors

11.50 David Williams (Chemistry) Recognition and repair of O6-alkylguanine-containing DNA

12.10 Nicolas Viphakone (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)
There is more to than meets the eye

12.30 Andy Fleming (Animal and Plant Sciences) Tapping into growth: Atomic Force Microscopy as a tool to explore the mechanism of plant morphogenesis

12.50 Lunch in the Tapestry Room

13.40 Martin Zeidler (Biomedical Science) Using genome wide RNAi screening technology to dissect JAK/STAT pathway regulatory systems

14.00 Sarah Walmsley (Respiratory Medicine) Hypoxia and inflammation

14.20 Bob Turner (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) Extreme resolution cell wall imaging

14.40 Barbara Ciani (Chemistry) TBA

15.00 Alistair Goldman (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) How meiotic cells damage their own DNA to repair the self-inflicted damage they already made in order to achieve something useful later: An in vivo biochemistry approach.

15.20 Discussion Future perspectives and opportunities

15.40 End of symposium

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