DRAFT PROGRAMME
Division of Medicine Research Retreat
Friday, 24th April 2015
Marriott Hotel Regents Park, 128 King Henry’s Road, NW3 3ST
REGISTRATION FROM 08.30 hrs.
MORNING SESSIONS
SESSION 1
Chairs: Liz Jury and Markella Ponticos
09.20
Welcome
09.30
Professor Raymond
MacAllister Director Division
of Medicine UCL
Professor Michael Hausser
09.50
Dorota Rowczenio
10.05
Madhur Motwani
10.20
Jimstan Periselneris
Molecular basis for late onset of the
autoinflammatory diseases cryopyrinassociated periodic syndrome (CAPS)
and TNF receptor associated periodic
syndrome (TRAPS)
Exudate suction blister: A novel in vivo
model of acute inflammation and
resolution in humans
Pneumolysin deficient Streptococcus
pneumoniae cause more inflammatory
cytokine release than wild type bacteria
10.35 – 11.20
Coffee break and poster session
SESSION 2
Chairs: Blandine Poulet and Kiran Nistala
11.20
Professor Rachel Batterham
Modulating Gut Hormones to Treat Obesity
and Cure Type 2 Diabetes - Fact of Fantasy?
11.40
Kristine Oleinika
11.55
James Irving
12.10
Natalia Becares Salles
Invariant natural killer T cell role in the
CD1d mediated induction of regulatory
B cells
Stability and structural change during
the ordered aggregation of α1antitrypsin
Effects of LXRα phosphorylation on the
regulation of lipid metabolism and liver
fibrosis
12.25 – 13.30
Lunch and posters
All-optical interrogation of neural circuits
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
SESSION 3
Chairs: Adam Giangreco and Jenny Rohn
13.30
Professor Claudia Mauri
The ups and down or moving animal house :
an unexpected link between gut microbiota
and arthritis
13.50
Tanvi Agrawal
14.05
Imran Haq
14.20
Sofia Lourenco
HER2 determines thymus epithelial
progenitor cell homeostasis and age
associated T cell mediated immunity
A novel homozygous α1-antitrypsin
mutation, A336P (PiBaghdad), which
results in moderate plasma deficiency
but a functionally null individual
Mesenchymal Stem Cells antigen
presenting to naïve T cells : potential for
a novel cancer immunotherapy?
14.35 - 15.00
Tea/Coffee break and posters
SESSION 4
Chairs: Andrew Plumb and Alan Holmes
15.00
Professor Sir Mark Pepys
Drug Discovery and development from
academia to pharma
15.20
Simon Walker-Samuel
15.35
Balaji Ganeshan
15.50
Tammy Kalber
Imaging tumour microstructure and
fluid dynamics with MRI
High-Risk Breast Cancer Phenotype
Identified by Quantitative Radiomic
Analysis of Positron Emission
Tomography – Computed Tomography
with Histopathological Correlation and
Survival Risk
Generation of Multi-Modal Imaging
Mesenchymal Stem Cells
16.05 – 17.00
Drinks reception