Wednesday 29 April 2015

Talks on Chondrogenesis, Cartilage Breakdown and Rheumatoid Arthritis

The MRG Lab Meeting will be taking place on Friday 1st May 2015 at 9.00am in the Baddiley Clark Seminar Room.  Please note that the venue has changed as it was originally booked for the Dental Lecture Theatre D.

 

Chair

 

Dennis Lendrem (Project Manager)

 

Speakers

 

Kat Cheung (PhD Student - PIs David Young/Carole Proctor/Matt Barter) Title of Talk "Investigating histone modifications in chondrogenesis using chip-seq"

 

Laura Ridgley (PhD Student - PIs John Isaacs/Arthur Pratt) Title of Talk "Understanding aberrant IL-6 mediated CD4+ T-cell signalling in early rheumatoid arthritis"

 

David Hodgson (PhD Student – PIs Carole Proctor/Drew Rowan) Title of Talk "Assessing the utility of predictive computational modelling of cartilage breakdown"

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 15 April 2015

MRG Lab Meeting Talk 17.4.15

The MRG Lab Meeting will be taking place on Friday 17 April 2015 at 9.00 am in the Baddiley Clark Building Seminar Room. 

 

Chair

 

Madhu Ratnayake (Post Doc – PI John Loughlin)

 

Speakers

 

Nish Thalayasingam (ACF – PIs John Isaacs, Amy Anderson and Arthur Pratt) Title of Talk "Microarray analysis of the gene expression profile of peripheral blood B cells in early arthritis patients – Are there identifiable disease specific changes"?

 

Tasha West (nee Price) (MRes/PhD Student – PIs John Isaacs and Drew Rowan) Title of Talk  "Exploring the role of Bcl-3 as a regulator of CD4+ T-cell function in the pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis"

 

Matt Wood (PhD Student – PI Cat Hilkens) Title of Talk  "Do Synovial Dendritic Cells Contribute to the Pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis?"

  

Tuesday 14 April 2015

Institute of Neuroscience Talks

Thursday 16th April, 4-5pm, Colin Ingram Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Medical School

Bidirectional interactions between the brain and implantable computers

Prof Eberhard Fetz, University of Washington, Seattle US

 

Friday 17th April, 1-2pm, Colin Ingram Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Medical School

Value in vision: Valuable visual cues recruit extensive networks for anticipating reward

Dr Peter Kaskan, NIMH

 

Friday 17th April, 4-5pm, Colin Ingram Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Medical School

Art and the Brain

Prof Eberhard Fetz, University of Washington, Seattle US