Past Meeting.

Krebs Institute Symposium

Institute Interface and Interdisciplinary Opportunities
Tuesday 27th January 2009, Tapestry Room, Firth Court.

Institute Interface and Interdisciplinary Opportunities

09.15 Coffee (Tapestry Room)
09.40 Introduction - Professor Richard Jones FRS
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation

Session Chair: Chris Hunter (Chemistry)
Introducing the Institutes and Centres
09.50 Simon Foster Krebs Institute
10.00 Mark Meuth Institute of Cancer Studies
10.10 Steve Armes Polymer Centre
10.20 Steve Banwart Kroto Institute
10.30 Discussion

10.40 Coffee in the Tapestry Room

Session Chair: Ramin Golestanian (Physics and Astronomy)
11.00 Simon Jones (Chemistry)
Being selective in synthesis
11.20 Steve Renshaw (Medicine)
Modelling inflammation and infection in the zebrafish
11.40 Pat Eyers (YCR Institute for Cancer Studies)
Dissecting Protein Kinase Function with small molecule inhibitors.
12.00 Steve Rimmer (Chemistry)
Branched poly(N)-isopropyl acrylamide: synthesis, properties and applications
in the life sciences
12.20 Mark Geoghegan (Physics and Astronomy)
The interaction of extracellular molecules with different surfaces
12.40 Discussion

12.50 Lunch in the Tapestry Room

Session Chair: Jon Waltho (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)
13.40 Andy Furley (Biomedical Science)
Neural cell recognition molecules: Their role in regulating neural progenitors and brain connectivity
14.00 Sheila MacNeil (Tissue Engineering)
Polymers and bugs and skin -an interdisciplinary approach to developing antibacterial polymers for wound healing
14.20 Per Bullough (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)
Visualising protein complexes in a two dimensional world
14.40 Marysia Placzek (Biomedical Science)
Stem cells in the hypothalamus
15.00 Beppe Battaglia (Engineering Materials)
Nanoscopic trojan horses
15.20 Discussion
Future perspectives and opportunities

15.40 End of symposium and tea in the Tapestry Room