Activities.

Krebs Institute Symposium:

"Research across the Boundaries"

Friday, 3rd February 2012, 9:30-15:20, Tapestry Room

Prof Simon Foster, Director of the Krebs Institute, invites you to attend the Krebs Institute Symposium entitled "Research across the Boundaries" on Friday 3rd February 2012.

The symposium will commence at 9.30am and will be held in the Tapestry room, Firth Court. See timetable below.

Please contact Ms Linda Harris (linda.harris@sheffield.ac.uk) now to secure your place.

Programme:

09.30 Introduction

09.40 Ewald Hettema (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)
Peroxisome formation and breakdown

10.00 Nigel Clarke (Physics and Astronomy)
Modelling structure and properties of soft and biological materials

10.20 Tim Chico (Medical School and CDBG)
Studying vascular development, remodelling and repair using the zebrafish

10.40 Julie Scholes (Animal and Plant Sciences)
Striga, the scourge of Africa: understanding resistance in cereals to the parasitic witchweeds Striga

11.00 Coffee in the Tapestry Room

11.30 Joe Harrity (Chemistry)
New strategies for ambient temperature aromatic ring synthesis

11.50 David James (Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Mammalian cell factories for biopharmaceutical production

12.10 Kathryn Ayscough (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)
Investigating the molecular mechanism of actin function in endocytosis

12.30 Jody Mason (Biological Sciences, University of Essex)
Design, selection and folding to engineer specific protein-protein interactions

12.50 Lunch in the Tapestry Room

13.40 Freek van Eeden (Biopmedical Science)
Towards a zebrafish model for Von Hippel Lindau disease and hypoxic signaling

14.00 Julie Gray (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)
Evolution of stomatal signalling

14.20 Magnus Rattray (Institute for Translational Neuroscience)
Modelling the dynamics of transcription using RNA-seq and pol-II ChIP-seq time-series data

14.40 Stephane Mesnage (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)
Cell surface display of bacterial proteins via the ubiquitous peptidoglycan-binding LysM domain

15.00 Discussion
Future perspectives and opportunities

15.20 End of Symposium

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Past Meetings:

4th November 2011

Kroto Research Institute &  Krebs Institute Joint Autumn
Symposium

'Imaging: Technology to applications (I bet you
didn't know we had one of those!)'

Click here for details and registration link.

7th June 2011:

Krebs Institute Symposium:

The "-omics" revolution

Tuesday 7th June, 9.30 a.m. – 3.10 p.m, Tapestry Room, Firth Court

Click here for details

3rd February 2011:

Infectious Diseases Symposium

Thursday 3rd February, 9.30 a.m. – 3.40 p.m, Tapestry Room, Firth Court

Click here for details

20th January 2011:

Krebs Institute Symposium

Research Across the Boundaries

Thursday 29th January, 9.30 a.m. – 3.40 p.m, Tapestry Room, Firth Court

Click here for details

2nd November 2010:

Krebs Institute and Kroto Institute Joint Symposium 2010

Mechanistic Biology - from single molecules to organisms

Tuesday 2nd November, 9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m, North Campus Conference
Centre

The full list of speakers can be found on http://www.shef.ac.uk/kroto/news/krotokrebs2010

16th-21st September 2010:

8th International Meeting on Recognition Studies in Nucleic Acids (NACON VIII)

The Edge, Sheffield University. Click here for details.

27th May 2010:

Krebs Institute Symposium: "The Role of Epigenetics in Health and Disease"

Tapestry Room, Firth Court, Click here for details

23rd March 2010:

Second Engineering, Medicine and Science Research Day

Monday 23rd March 2010, Firth Hall. Click here for details.

5th February 2010:

Krebs Institute Symposium: Infectious Disease in Sheffield

Friday 5th February 2010, Tapestry room. Click here for details.

12th October 2009:

Krebs Institute and Kroto Research Institute Symposium - Microscopy and Imaging

Monday 12th October 2009, 9am - 4pm, North Campus Conference Centre. Click here for details.

27th January 2009: Krebs Institute Symposium

"Institute Interface and Interdisciplinary Opportunities"

Tuesday 27th January 2009, 9:15am - 4pm, Tapestry Room, Firth Court. Click here for details

22nd April 2008: Krebs Institute Symposium

"The Physics / Physical Chemistry / Biology Interface"

Tuesday 22nd April 2009, 8:15am - 4pm, Tapestry Room, Firth Court. Click here for details.