Dr. Lisa Swanton Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester Monday 11th November, 4.00 p.m., Jennison Lecture Theatre Misfolded proteins represent a continuous threat to … Read more
Research Seminar: Exploiting protein evolution to predict protein functions and functional networks
Professor Christine Orengo Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, University College London Monday 4th November, 4.00 p.m., Ingram Lecture Theatre We have developed a classification … Read more
My year abroad: Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Harris is currently spending her Year Abroad at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I was so excited about going off on my year … Read more
Research Seminar: Cancer drug discovery in the academic setting: From concept to clinic with AKT.
Dr. Michelle Garrett Division of Cancer Therapeutics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton Monday 28th October, 4.00 p.m. in Stacey Lecture Theatre 1 The focus of … Read more
Research Seminar: Predicting antibody structure and docking antigens to antibodies.
Professor Charlotte Deane, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford Antibodies are a class of proteins indispensable for the vertebrate immune system. The general architecture of … Read more
Research Seminar: Protein and metal ion interactions with the Alzheimer’s Amyloid-beta Peptide
Dr. John Viles, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London The key hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease is the formation of amyloid-beta … Read more
Research seminar: Approaches to the discovery of small-molecule MDM2-p53 inhibitors
Dr. Ian Hardcastle, Newcastle Cancer Centre at the Northern Institute for Cancer Research, School of Chemistry, Newcastle University Monday 30th September, 4.00 p.m. in Jennison … Read more
New insights into what makes prions infectious
Prions are a remarkable type of disease-causing agent being entirely composed of protein. Nevertheless they are able to replicate themselves once in their host but … Read more
Postgraduate Symposium 2013
The 20th Annual School of Biosciences Postgraduate Symposium lecture will be held on Monday 8 July from 17:00-18:00 in Biosciences Lecture Theatre 1. The lecture … Read more
Filamentous influenza viruses infect cells by triggering macropinocytosis
Dr. Jeremy Rossman, Lecturer in Virology, comments on an article he and his collaborators published recently. The publication was selected by the Journal of Virology … Read more



