The
Medical
School.
11th Annual Medical School Research Meeting
15th – 16th June 2015
PROGRAMME
Monday 15th June 2015
Venue: Octagon Centre
09:00-10:00
Poster presenters to hang posters, stand holders and “New Staff” exhibition to set up.
Venue: Student Union Auditorium
10:00-11:00
Plenary Lecture - “Communicating Science”
Professor Allan Pacey (Head of Unit, Reproductive and Developmental Medicine)
Venue: Octagon Centre
11:00 -12:00
Hot Research Topics - Poster Technique Tours
Organised by Medicine, Dentistry and Health Research Staff Association (MDHRSA)
12:00-13:00
Lunch with the Speakers (for poster tour participants, organisers, speakers and stand hosts
only)
13:00 – 15:00
Achieving a successful career beyond University - Breakout session 1
NHS
13:00 – Dr Hazel Wilkinson – Operations Manager, UK NEQAS for Immunology
13:30 – Miss Sarah Hawtree – Trainee Healthcare Scientist
14:00 – Dr Keith Hunter – Reader in Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Academic Director Oral & Dental,
UoS
14:30 – Mrs Samantha Walmsley – Research Support & Management, Clinical Research Network
Academia
13:00 – Dr Neil Harris – Research Strategy Manager, Research & Innovation Services, UoS
13:30 – Professor Simon Foster – Director of Krebs Institute, UoS
14:00 – Dr Rosemary Gault – European Project Coordinator, Advanced Manufacturing Park, UoS
14:30 – Dr Isobel Gowers – Senior Lecturer in Animal Therapy, Writtle College
Industry
13:00 – Dr Samantha Decombel – Chief Operating Officer & co-founder MuscleGenes.com
13:30 – Ms Mariam Zare – General Manager – Sales & Marketing, Advanced Medical Solutions
14:00 – Dr Kirstie Bennett – Senior Pharmacologist, Heptares Therapeutics Ltd
14:30 – Dr James Lynch – Clinical Pharmacology Scientist, Astra Zeneca
(Rooms to be confirmed)
15:00 – 15:30
Refreshment break
15:30 – 16:30
Achieving a successful career beyond University - Breakout session 2
NHS
15:30 – Dr Richard Battle – Senior Healthcare Scientist, National Histocompatibility and
Immunogenetics Lab Manager – Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service
16:00 – Dr Cher Cartwright – Senior Information Analyst, Health and Social Care Information Centre
Academia
15:30 – Dr Alison Graham – Teaching Fellow, School of Biology, Newcastle University
16:00 – Dr Laura Ferraiuolo – Marie Curie Research Fellow, Neuroscience, UoS
Industry
15:30 – Dr Sam Whitehouse – Chief Operating Officer, QuantuMDx
16:00 – Dr Lee Allen – Purification Research and Technology Lead, Lonza Pharma / Biotech
(Rooms to be confirmed)
Venue: Octagon Centre
16:30-17:30
Wine reception and Poster Bay Tours
Tuesday 16th June 2015
Venue: Student Union Auditorium
08:40
Registration for Oral and Poster Presenters
08:55
Welcome and introduction
Professor Tony Weetman – Pro-Vice Chancellor, Medicine, Dentistry & Health
Session 1:
Chaired by Professor Paul Ince – Head of Department, Neuroscience
Co-chaired by Dr Rachel Waller, MDHRSA
09:00
Dr Iwan Evans [Infection & Immunity]
Sir Henry Dale Fellow
Draper/CED-1 mediates an ancient damage response to control inflammatory blood cell
migration in vivo
09:15
Dr Pallai Shillo [Human Metabolism]
PhD Student – 2nd Year
Low Vitamin D Levels in Patients with Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: A Potential
Role in Pathogenesis?
09:30
Ms Charlotte Rowan [Oncology]
PhD Student – 2nd Year
A subset of peripheral blood monocytes exhibit an M2-skewed phenotype after
doxorubicin treatment: are these the precursors of relapse-promoting M2 TAMs?
09:45
Mr Simeon Mihayloy [Neuroscience]
PhD Student – 2nd Year
Investigating the RNA-Binding Activity of PGC-1[alpha] in Neurodegeneration and Ageing
10:00
Mrs Emma MacInnes [Oncology]
PhD Student – 2nd Year
MRI and mammographic screening in young women at increased familial breast cancer risk
10:15
Dr Paul Morris [Cardiovascular Science]
PhD Student – 3rd Year
The Development and Validation of an In Silico Model of Coronary Arterial Physiology for
Diagnostic Use
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE / TEA BREAK (OCTAGON CENTRE)
Session 2:
Chaired by Professor Sheila Francis – Head of Department, Cardiovascular Science
Co-chaired by Mr Matthew Sellwood, MPGS
11:00
Dr Esther Hobson [Neuroscience]
PhD Student – 2nd Year
Facilitating access to specialist care for patients and carers affected by Motor Neurone
Disease using telehealth
11:15
Mr Joshua Griffiths [Infection & Immunity]
BMedSci Student
Role of specific pro resolving mediators in inflammation resolution and regeneration in an
in vivo zebrafish model
11:30
Dr Magdalena Adamczyk [Human Metabolism]
Arthritis Research UK Foundation Fellow
Are P2X7R-/- mice protected from IL-1β-mediated TG2 upregulation and rapid release?
11:45
Dr Alex Rothman [Cardiovascular Science]
MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow
miR140-5p is a key pathological mediator of pulmonary arterial hypertension and
modulates BMP signalling through SMURF1
Keynote Speaker Introduction - Professor Nicola Brown – Deputy Head of Department,
Oncology
12:00
KEYNOTE LECTURE: “NEUTROPHIL-VESSEL WALL INTERACTIONS IN VIVO: MODE, MECHANISMS
AND PATHOGENESIS”
Professor Sussan Nourshargh, Professor of Microvascular Pharmacology, Barts and the London
Medical School
13:00 – 15:00 LUNCH, POSTER VIEWING & NETWORKING – OCTAGON CENTRE
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13:00-15:00 trade stands
13:30-14:30 2nd Year postgraduate poster presentation assessment
13:30-14:00 viewing of even numbered posters
14:00-14:30 viewing of odd numbered posters
14:30-15:00 New staff seeking collaboration exhibition
Session 3:
Chaired by Professor Tim Skerry – Head of Department, Human Metabolism
Co-chaired by Dr Claire Bradshaw, MDHRSA
15:00
Dr Clare Howarth [Psychology]
Vice Chancellor’s Advanced Fellow
Mechanisms of neurovascular coupling: imaging from cell level to whole brain
15:15
Mr Felix Horn [Cardiovascular Science]
PhD Student – 4th Year
Quantitative 3D lung function measurement -results from patient studies and predictive
modelling of global multiple breath washout
15:30
Dr Victoria Stern [Human Metabolism]
PhD Student – 2nd Year
Assessing the Risk of Spontaneous Premature Birth by Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy
of the Cervix: The ECCLIPPx Study
15:45
Dr Fiona Taylor [Oncology]
PhD Student – 2nd Year
Non-invasive molecular profiling of circulating cell-free DNA in lung cancer
16:00
Dr Jonathan Cooper-Knock [Neuroscience]
PhD Student – 3rd Year
Antisense and sense RNA foci derived from hexanucleotide repeat expansions of C9ORF72
have similar protein-interactions but distinct neuronal expression patterns
16:15
Dr Andrew Street [Infection & Immunity]
Senior Research Fellow
Polycystin-1 trafficking is regulated by cAMP dependent phosphorylation of the PLAT
domain
16:30
Presentation of Prizes for Oral Presentations & Posters
Professor Christopher Newman – Faculty Director for Research & Innovation
16:45
Closing Remarks by Professor Sussan Nourshargh & Professor Sherif El-Khamisy