SEMS Research Seminars
Institute of Bioengineering Seminars
| Wed 16 Jan 2019 15:00 - 16:00 | Multicellular aggregates of circulating tumour cells (CTC clusters) are potent initiators of distant organ metastases. Much is still unknown about their a) behaviour in the body, b) value as predictive/prognostic biomarkers and c) potential as therapeutic targets. The study of CTC clusters is hindered by challenges associated with isolating these rare aggregates from blood and observing their behaviour in physiological environments. Here I present microfluidic platforms designed to address both challenges. |  |
| Wed 30 Jan 2019 15:00 - 16:00 | “Correcting aberrations in tissue formation using materials: From scarring to pathological ossification” with Professor Liam Grover, from the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. | |
| Wed 13 Feb 2019 15:00 - 16:00 |  Abstract: | |
| Wed 27 Feb 2019 15:00 - 16:00 | Professor Dustin was trained in Tim Springer’s lab at Harvard Medical School and Stuart Kornfeld’s lab at Washington University in St Louis. He started his Lab at Washington University in St Louis using supported lipids bilayers to study dynamics of the immunological synapse. Work at NYU School of Medicine focused on in vivo analysis of immune cell function in multiple tissues with a focus on tolerance, cancer and infection models. In Oxford he has focused on the immune T cell immunological synapse and the formation of nanoscale extracellular vesicles. This is a unique form of communication that allows the T cell to send out particles with a combination of antigen specificity and effector function. The system is also amenable to analysis by nanofabrication methods. In work started at NYU and continued at Oxford. Professor Dustin has used 3D nano position of T cell receptor ligands to determine the role of phosphatase exclusion in control of T cell responses. | |
| Wed 20 Mar 2019 15:00 - 16:00 | Abstract: | |
| Wed 1 May 2019 15:00 - 16:00 | Light-based technologies such as florescence, multispectral and polarisation resolved imaging are opening up the possibility for in vivo tissue characterisation and image-guided surgery using live information feedback. | |
Materials Reseach Institute Seminars
| Fri 11 Jan 2019 | A lecture by Professor Peter McCormack, University of Strathclyde  | |
| Thu 31 Jan 2019 | Thomas Young Centre presents: Irene Burghardt (Frankfurt) / Fabien Bruneval (CEA Saclay) – Soiree: “Excitons in molecular materials” | |
| Mon 4 - Wed 6 Feb 2019 09:00 - 17:00 | ||
| Fri 15 Feb 2019 09:30 - 17:00 | | |
| Thu 7 Mar 2019 17:00 - 19:30 | Beñat Gurrutxaga-Lerma (University of Cambridge), TYC Soiree: “Structural Materials” | |
| Thu 2 May 2019 17:00 - 19:30 | | |