Latest talks by staff and students in the CIR These talks take place in IRR Seminar Room at 10am and are not open to the general public. Dates Chair Students Supervisor Presentation Title 06.09.24 Anu Fernando Kelvin Cheng Adriano Rossi The Role of Neutrophils and Macrophages in Microbial Keratitis Prasad Aradhye Colin Campbell Utilizing SERS Redox Sensors to Evaluate CFTR Drug Efficacy in Ex-Vivo Cultures Sole Lancerin Richard Sloan From ponds to pharmacies: broad spectrum antivirals from Cyanobacteria 20.09.24 Robert Whelan Rocco Zheng Sofia Ferreira Gonzalez Unlocking the Mechanisms of Spiny Mouse Skin Regeneration using xenotransplantation and blood exchange models Kenneth Li Marc Vendrell Chemical fluorescent tags for in situ analysis of pharmacological function Hamza Khalid Jayne Hope Development of lateral flow assays for improved detection of TB in cattle 27.09.24 Claire Adams Ali Akbar Bugti Juergen Haas Host cellular innate immunity mechanisms against Picornaviruses Man Chun Wong Wei-Yu Lu Defining the therapeutic potential of T regulatory cells in promoting bile duct regeneration 01.10.24 Broc Drury Ben Shimeld Sarah Walmsley Understanding the regulation of neutrophil function in response to infection Christiane Cladrowa Richard Sloan Identifying the Antiviral Potential of Bat Antimicrobial Peptides Man Sing Wong Marc Vendrell Development of imaging probes for the labelling of PD-1 receptor of T cells as indicators of tumour progression and therapy outcome 08.10.24 Claire Adams Calum Bain Investigating the importance of monocyte/macrophage immunometabolism in IBD Ravinder Parhar Prakash Ramachandran Investigating the kinetics of scar-associated macrophages during the progression and regression of liver fibrosis 22.10.24 Marco Bertolini Marc Vendrell Click & Fluoresce: dual gate activatable platform for the imaging of exhausted T cells Nancy Hui Carsten Hansen The ageing niche: Does the Hippo control it all? 01.11.24 Anagha Chandran Till Bachmann Aptamer-based biosensors for Label-Free detection of disease markers in Dermal Interstitial Fluid: Towards wearable real-time health monitoring Jaime Ricardo Jimenez Salazar Roberto Rabinovich Interstitial Lung Diseases: Strategies to Improve the Effect of Pulmonary Rehabilitation 08.11.24 Anagha Chandran Navita Lal Beth Mills Elucidating novel targets for microbial keratitis diagnosis and treatment Richard Cassidy Steve Jenkins Determining Macrophage Function in Post-Operative Peritoneal Adhesions Kexin Kong Prakash Ramachandran Atlassing Human Liver Single-cell RNA-seq Data to Identify Novel Drug Targets for Liver Fibrosis’ 15.11.24 Zara Aiken Neil Henderson Investigation of FAPI PET-MR for the study of fibrosis in chronic liver disease Simran Kapoor Rebecca Gentek Investigating the development and role of mast cells in the mammary gland Siyuan Xie James Hopgood Enabling high-speed multimodal optical imaging via adaptive sampling and processing 22.11.24 Jelimo Chepsat David Dockrell Evaluating Macrophage Interactions with Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) using a Comparative Approach Paula Lusarreta Parga Debby Bogaert Microbiome-Host interactions explaining acute infections and exacerbations of COPD 29.11.24 Chris Box Neil Henderson Novel imaging of fibrosis in MASLD Ishita Dasgupta Jenna Cash Yanzi Zhou Marc Vendrell Fluorescence Lifetime Probes for Imaging Macrophage Function This article was published on 2024-09-10