CIR research in progress September-December 2024

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.

DatesChairStudentsSupervisorPresentation Title
06.09.24Anu Fernando

Kelvin Cheng

Prasad Aradhye

Sole Lancerin

Adriano Rossi

Colin Campbell

Richard Sloan

The Role of Neutrophils and Macrophages in Microbial Keratitis

Utilizing SERS Redox Sensors to Evaluate CFTR Drug Efficacy in Ex-Vivo Cultures

From ponds to pharmacies: broad spectrum antivirals from Cyanobacteria

20.09.24Robert Whelan

Rocco Zheng

Kenneth Li

Hamza Khalid

Sofia Ferreira Gonzalez

Marc Vendrell

Jayne Hope

Unlocking the Mechanisms of Spiny Mouse Skin Regeneration using xenotransplantation and blood exchange models

Chemical fluorescent tags for in situ analysis of pharmacological function

Development of lateral flow assays for improved detection of TB in cattle

27.09.24Claire Adams

Ali Akbar Bugti

Man Chun Wong

Juergen Haas

Wei-Yu Lu

Host cellular innate immunity mechanisms against Picornaviruses

Defining the therapeutic potential of T regulatory cells in promoting bile duct regeneration

01.10.24Broc Drury

Ben Shimeld

Christiane Cladrowa

Man Sing Wong

Sarah Walmsley

Richard Sloan

Marc Vendrell

Understanding the regulation of neutrophil function in response to infection

Identifying the Antiviral Potential of Bat Antimicrobial Peptides

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

Ravinder Parhar

Calum Bain

Prakash Ramachandran

Investigating the importance of monocyte/macrophage immunometabolism in IBD

Investigating the kinetics of scar-associated macrophages during the progression and regression of liver fibrosis

22.10.24 

Marco Bertolini

Nancy Hui

Marc Vendrell

Carsten Hansen

Click & Fluoresce: dual gate activatable platform for the imaging of exhausted T cells

The ageing niche: Does the Hippo control it all?

01.11.24 

Anagha Chandran

Jaime Ricardo

Jimenez Salazar

Till Bachmann

 

 

Roberto Rabinovich

Aptamer-based biosensors for Label-Free detection of disease markers in Dermal Interstitial Fluid: Towards wearable real-time health monitoring

 

Interstitial Lung Diseases: Strategies to Improve the Effect of Pulmonary Rehabilitation

08.11.24Anagha Chandran

Navita Lal

Richard Cassidy

Kexin Kong

Beth Mills

Steve Jenkins

Prakash Ramachandran

Elucidating novel targets for microbial keratitis diagnosis and treatment

Determining Macrophage Function in Post-Operative Peritoneal Adhesions

Atlassing Human Liver Single-cell RNA-seq Data to Identify Novel Drug Targets for Liver Fibrosis’

15.11.24 

Zara Aiken

Simran Kapoor

Siyuan Xie

Neil Henderson

Rebecca Gentek

James Hopgood

Investigation of FAPI PET-MR for the study of fibrosis in chronic liver disease

Investigating the development and role of mast cells in the mammary gland

Enabling high-speed multimodal optical imaging via adaptive sampling and processing

22.11.24 

Jelimo Chepsat

Paula Lusarreta Parga

David Dockrell

Debby Bogaert

Evaluating Macrophage Interactions with Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) using a Comparative Approach

Microbiome-Host interactions explaining acute infections and exacerbations of COPD

29.11.24 

Chris Box

Ishita Dasgupta

Yanzi Zhou

Neil Henderson

Jenna Cash

Marc Vendrell

Novel imaging of fibrosis in MASLD

 

Fluorescence Lifetime Probes for Imaging Macrophage Function