Gerald Kerkut Trust Symposium
11th July 2008
Jermyn's House, Hillier Gardens
This was a day-long symposium during which postgraduates funded by the trust gave talks on their work. More images.
Programme
 Arrival and registration (coffee and snacks available) | 09.00 - 09.30 |
| Welcome and introduction | 09.35 - 09.45 |
| Zara Luedtke (School of Biological Sciences) The response to food deprivation in C. elegans | 09.45 - 10.00 |
| Shmma Quraishe (School of Biological Sciences) Hypoxic Regulation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells | 10.00 - 10.15 |
| Catherine Forristal (School of Medicine) Expression of the small Heat Shock protein chaperone family in the mouse CNS | 10.15 - 10.30 |
| Cally Gill (School of Medicine) Proteomic Analysis of Interstitial Fluid for Novel Markers of the Early Response to Injury | 10.30 - 10.45 |
| Umar Sajjad (School of Biological Sciences) Oxidative Stress in Huntington's Disease | 10.45 - 11.00 |
| Coffee | 11.00 - 11.30 |
| Michael Blackney (School of Biological Sciences) Characterization of a novel SOD gene in Drosophila: implications for ageing | 11.30 - 11.45 |
| Oliver Dewhirst (ISVR) Effectiveness of a Volterra model of the locusts hind leg reflex control loop in predicting its response to physiological input signals | 11.45 - 12.00 |
| Helga Groll (School of Biological Sciences) The role of peripheral and central processing of olfactory information in a parasitoid's brain - a closer investigation of the three-dimensional brain structure of Cotesia plutellae | 12.00 - 12.15 |
| Aneta Rybeka (School of Medicine) The physiological and molecular understanding of the role of STAT and HDAC proteins in cardiac cell hypertrophy | 12.15 - 12.30 |
| Simone Holley (School of Psychology) Deficits in executive function are associated with sleep disturbance in normally developing children aged 6-12 years | 12.30 - 12.45 |
| Mohinder Pal (School of Biological Sciences) Protein misfolding and diseases | 12.45 - 13.00 |
| Lunch | 13.00 - 14.00 |
| Sylvia Gaspar Pereira (School of Medicine, Newcastle) The role of NF-κB1 in the Heart | 14.00 - 14.15 |
| Ayshe Ismail (School of Medicine) Interactions between human embryonic stem cells and foetal femur-derived cell populations - development of strategies for tissue regeneration | 14.15 - 14.30 |
| Rebecca Holloway (School of Medicine) The role of elastase as an inflammatory stimulus in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) | 14.30 - 14.45 |
| Neil Roberts (School of Medicine) Human pancreas development: the role and regulation of SOX9 | 14.45 - 15.00 |
| Daniel Asby (School of Medicine) Normal Human Sexual Differentiation in Females is Influenced by Androgens: New Insight into the Causes of Malformation of the External Genitalia | 15.00 - 15.15 |
| Tea | 15.15 - 15.45 |
| Nik Rogers (School of Biological Sciences) Determining the membrane-aqueous border of a Voltage Gated Potassium Channel | 15.45 - 16.00 |
| Rebecca Grant (School of Medicine) Folic acid metabolism and fetal programming | 16.00 - 16.15 |
| Angela Cheung (School of Biological Sciences) Cell culture: Into the third dimension | 16.15 - 16.30 |
| Priscilla Day (School of Medicine) Glucose transport across the human placenta | 16.30 - 16.45 |
| General discussion | 16.45 - 17.00 |