2nd School of Medicine Postgraduate Research Day
Thursday 11th December 2008
Education Centre, Adelaide & Meath Hospital Dublin, Incorporating
the National Children’s Hospital, Tallaght
Programme
9.00am
Registration,
Foyer, Education Centre
9.30am
Introduction & Welcome
Dr. Thomas Connor, Director of Postgraduate Teaching & Learning
9.35am
Research in the School of Medicine
Dr. Aiden Corvin, Director of Research
SESSION ONE
Chair:
Dr. Thomas Connor, Department of Physiology
Dr. Aideen Long, Department of Clinical Medicine
9.45am
Translational Research in Ireland
Dr. Ruth Barrington, CEO, Molecular Medicine Ireland
10.15am
The flaky tail phenotype (ft) is caused by a homozygous frameshift
mutation in the murine filaggrin gene and lead to enhanced cutaneous
allergen priming
Sean Saunders, Department of Clinical Medicine
10.30am
Nuclear receptor-mediated expression of CYP3A4 and CYP2B6 by
antiretrovirals - implications for prediction of drug interaction
potential and genetic variability in PXR, MDR-1, CYP3A4 and CYP2B6 in
HIV infected Caucasian and Sub-Saharan African patients - benefits from
a cohort approach
Jenny Svard, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
10.45am
Hepatic inflammatory gene expression and the development of obesityinduced insulin resistance in IL-1R1 knock out mice
Orla Finucane, Department of Clinical Medicine
11.00am
COFFEE BREAK/POSTER DISPLAY
SESSION TWO
Chair:
Professor Des O’Neill, Department of Medical Gerontology
Professor Marina Lynch, Department of Physiology
11.30am
The β2-adrenoceptor agonist clenbuterol activates astrocytes and
reduces amyloid-β concentrations and RAGE expression in rat cortex
and hippocampus
Karen Ryan, Department of Physiology
11.45am
Short-term environmental enrichment enhances object recognition
memory and increases the concentration of nerve growth factor, but not
brain derived neurotrophic factor, in the dentate gyrus of male Wistar
rats
Amy Birch, Department of Physiology
12.00pm
An Investigation into the Effects of Ursodeoxycholic acid on the Golgi
Apparatus
Ruchika Sharma, Department of Clinical Medicine
12.15pm
Endocannabinoids prevent lysosomal membrane destabilisation evoked
by treatment with β-amyloid
Janis Noonan, Department of Physiology
12.30pm
ABCD scoring by non-vascular neurologists for risk stratification
following suspected TIA is frequently inappropriate and inaccurable
Justin Kinsella, Department of Clinical Medicine
12.45pm
IL-1 receptor type 1 knockout mice fed a high-fat diet are partially
protected from an obesity-induced insulin resistance state
Elizabeth Oliver, Department of Clinical Medicine
1.00pm
LUNCH/POSTER DISPLAY
SESSION THREE
Chair:
Dr. John Gormley, Department of Physiotherapy
Dr. Aine Kelly, Department of Physiology
2.00pm
Autonomic dysfunction: A biomarker of cognitive decline/dementia?
Orla Collins, Department of Medical Gerontology
2.15pm
Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas
Aeruginosa
Sarah Molan, Department of Clinical Microbiology
2.30pm
The use of novel fluorescent magnetic nanocomposites for biomedical
applications
Joseph Gallagher, Department of Physiology
2.45pm
Molecular characterisation of antimicrobial resistant bacteraemic
Escherichia coli isolates from an Irish hospital
Niamh Cooke, Department of Clinical Microbiology
3.00pm
Identifying Blood Pressure Response Subtypes Following Orthostatis
Using Pattern Recognition Techniques
Ciaran Finucane, Department of Medical Gerontology
3.15pm
Polymorphisms in Oxytocin Receptor and CD38 genes and Autism:
Association and Functional Studies
Katherine Tansey, Department of Psychiatry
3.30pm
COFFEE BREAK/POSTER DISPLAY
SESSION FOUR
Chair:
Dr. Joe Barry, Department of Public Health & Primary Care
Ms. Eilish McAuliffe, Health Policy & Management
4.00pm
Effects of carbohydrate versus carbohydrate protein ingestion on
subsequent resistance training performance in male rugby players
Colin Coyle, Department of Physiology
4.15pm
Changing illness beliefs in poorly controlled Type 2 Diabetes: RCT of a
psychological, family-based intervention
Karen Keogh, Department of Public Health & Primary Care
4.30pm
Development of Neural Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
Dr. Maeve Caldwell, School of Medicine, University of Bristol
5.00pm
WINE RECEPTION