Gerald Kerkut Trust Symposium
18th July 2012
Beaulieu Hotel (adjacent to Beaulieu Road Station)
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 biscuits available) |
09:00 - 09:20 |
| Welcome and introduction |
09:20 - 09:30 |
| Mel Jannaway (Sampson/Warner/Torrens) Modulators of airway and vascular smooth muscle contraction |
09:30 - 09:45 |
| Claire Simner (Cleal/Harvey/Lillycrop) Regulation of placental amino acid transport. |
09:45 - 10:00 |
| Katy Stubbs (Mudher/Perry) Understanding the mechanisms underpinning neurodegeneration in a Drosophila model of Alzheimer's Disease |
10:00 - 10:15 |
| Christine Reitmayer (Newman/Girling) Does diesel exhaust pollution impact on the neurobiology of the honey bee (Apis mellifera)? |
10:15 - 10:30 |
| Nicolas Dalliere (Holden-Dye/O'Connor) The pumping off food (PoFF) phenotype: a neuroadaptive response to chronic food deprivation in Caenorhabditis elegans |
10:30 - 10:45 |
| James Schofield (Coldwell/O'Kelly) Where to begin? Identifying alternative translation initiation codons in human mRNAs |
10:45 - 11:00 |
| Coffee | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Rebecca Stead (Proud) Novel Regulation of Insulin Signaling by the MAPK-interacting Kinases (Mnks) |
11:30 - 11:45 |
| Sebastien Pollet (Burridge/Conway) Cortical activity changes among stroke patients following robotic rehabilitation as measured by EEG |
11:45 - 12:00 |
| Andrew Hutton (Pickard/Warner) Characterisation of T cell populations in the COPD lung |
12:00 - 12:15 |
| Jessica Rajaram (Warner/Andrews/Torrens) Role of the peptides of the renin-angiotensin system in the lung |
12:15 - 12:30 |
| Sarah Williams (O'Kelly/Bateman) Role of acid sensitive two-pore domain (K2P) channels in cancer progression |
12:30 - 12:45 |
| Lunch | 12:45 - 14.00 |
| Raffaella Petruzelli (Houghton) Effect of environmental oxygen on the regulation of human embryonic stem cell pluripotency |
14:00 - 14:15 |
| Nancy Wong (Williams/Terry/Smyth) Is there a conserved function for the GTG family of membrane proteins? |
14:15 - 14:30 |
| James Atherton (Smith/Englyst/Holloway/Clough) Endothelial microparticle generation is vascular bed specific |
14:30 - 14:45 |
| Emma Field (Lewis/Poore/Hanson) Why is there so much glutamate in the placenta? |
14:45 - 15:00 |
| Charlotte Lawrence (Townsend/Tavassoli) Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Tumour Hypoxia Response Network |
15:00 - 15:15 |
| Tea | 15:15 - 15:45 |
| Alison Donlevy (Packham/Coldwell) Inhibition of RNA translation by phenethyl isothiocyanate |
15:45 - 16:00 |
| Louise Fairless (Eigenbrod/Doncaster/ Kraaijeveld/Newland) Ecophysiology of two sympatric Vesper bats |
16:00 - 16:15 |
| Piia Keskivali (Torrens/Curzen/Clough) Statin withdrawal leads to increased constriction in the mesenteric arteries of adult rats |
16:15 - 16:30 |
| Nola Pickard (Townsend/Tavassoli) Cardioprotection mediated through green tea: Synthesis and biological evaluations of modified epicatechin and epicatechin-3-gallate analogues |
16:30 - 16:45 |
| Kirstin Williamson (Mudher/Parker/Kraaijeveld) Immune-related trade-offs in Drosophila melanogaster selected for parasitoid resistance |
16:45 - 17:00 |
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