On the 27th July 2006 the CBC MRes students gave talks on the current research. Keynote speakers were Michael Kozlov and Michael Wakelam

On the 27th July 2006, the CBC hosted a conference for all of its students. All students from the MRes courses (both the MRes In Biomolecular Sciences and Protein and Membrane Chemical Biology) gave 15 mintute presentations on their current reseach. Please see below for the abstracts of the talks.

The day started and ended with keynote presentations from Michael Kozlov and Michael Wakelam respectively. Sessions were chaired by our current CBC Doctoal Training Centre PhD students. Detailed reports of each session were written by our PhD students (see below).

Micheal Kozlov from Tel Aviv has spent the whole of June and July with the CBC as a visiting professor. For more information please see his research page.

Michael Wakelam is from the Division of Cancer Studies at the Unviersity of Birmingham. For more information on his research please see his research page.

Presentation Abstracts

• Meng Bai - Use of Synthetic Peptides to Investigate the Interaction Between NCAM and FGF Receptor Cell Membrane Proteins.
• Hakan Burcu - The Role of Voltage Gated Sodium Channels in Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
• Gillian Busch - Site Selective Labelling of Proteins Using Native Chemical Ligation
• Karin Carlqvist - Formulation and method development of non-viral vectors
• Sally Ewen - Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs)
• Samuel Furse - Inositol Phospholipids: The Issues Surrounding the Structural and Energetic Properties of Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate lipids
• Richard Gunn - Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel PI 3-Kinase Modulators.
• James Isherwood - Modelling the Foot and Mouth Disease Virus-3C Protease Inhibitor Design
• Helen Johnson - A Sodium Channel/Integrin Alliance in the War Against Prostate Cancer Metastasis?
• Jessica Knott - CCT and the Lipid Bilayer Membrane
• Hugh Manning - Cross-linking of Collagens Investigated Using Multidimensional Fluorescence Imaging
• Daniel Nicolau - Synthetic Approach to Nisin Rings A & B
• Boaz Odier - 3D Structure of δ-LIT Latroinsectotoxin
• Tamra Poorun - TIRF Microscopy to Probe Photosystem II
• Pavel Starkov - Chemical Genetic Dissection of Histone Deacetylase Functions
• Deting Tang - Towards Novel Gadolinium MRI Contrast Agents
• Ming Wang - Organisation of Peptide Ligands on Surfaces of Synthetic Vectors
• Athina Zachou - Course Graining Proteins

Reports of the day were written by our 1st Year PhD students. Please click on the links below to view:

Overview
Keynote Presentations
Session 1a
Session 1b
Session 2a
Session 2b