Opening Symposium Photos
Our presentation prize winners!
WISBIC Opening Symposium Prizewinners
Congratulations (from left to right) to Sarah Sonnenberg, Ralf Naylor, Jairah Lubay and Megha Karanth for their excellent posters and talk!
Many thanks to Jay Champaneri (second from right) from our generous sponsors, Constant Systems, for presenting the prizes and to our judging panel led by Józef Lewandowski (first on right).
Emma Hesketh explaining cryo-EM
Our sponsors, Constant Systems
Lunch and posters
WISBIC Opening Symposium Schedule
IBRB Lecture Theatre, School of Life Sciences - 27th March 2025
9.45 Registration and coffee on arrival 10.20 - 10.30 Welcome and introduction to WISBIC – Corinne Smith
10.30 – 12.00 Session 1: Chair - David Roper
10.30 - 11.00 Matt Jenner – Warwick Chemistry Applications of mass spectrometry for studying biosynthetic systems
11.00 – 11.15 Benjamin Lane - Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence Structural insights into the gating dynamics of bacterial mechanosensitive channels
11.15 - 11.30 Ananya Singh - Warwick Physics Probing Fungal Cell Wall Composition using solid-state NMR spectroscopy: A Structural Journey through Glucan Layers and Mutant Variability
11.30 - 11.45 Peng Wang - Warwick Physics 4D-STEM Electron Ptychography for High Resolution Bioimaging
11.45 - 12.00 Melissa Webby, Biochemistry, Oxford Unlocking the Gate: Molecular Insights into Bacteriocin Translocation Through the Outer Membrane
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch and Posters
13.30 – 15.00Session 2: Chair – Wing Ying Chow
13.30 – 14.00 Emma Hesketh - Leicester Institute for Structural and Chemical Biology Midlands Regional CryoEM Facility
14.00 - 14.15 Munro Passmore - Warwick Chemistry Elucidating the structural role and bioengineering potential of docking domains in histone deacetylase inhibitor biosynthesis
14.15 – 14.30 Ivan Campeotto - School of Biosciences, Nottingham Structural characterisation of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens for diagnostic and therapeutic applications
14.30 - 14.45 Rosalie Thompson - Warwick Physics Using 2D solid-state NMR to understand the structure of native plant cellulose
14.45 - 15.00 SouvikNaskar - Imperial College, London Twisting Tale of Bacterial ESCRT-III-like Protein in Membrane Stress and Repair
15.00 -15.30 Tea/coffee break
15.30 – 17.00 Session 3: Chair – Lona Alkhalaf
15.00 – 15.30 Megha Karanth - Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Birmingham Specificity of intermodular recognition in a prototypical non-ribosomal peptide synthetase is driven by an adaptor domain
15.30 - 15.45 Vish Chandrasekaran – MRC LMB, Cambridge Structures and Mechanisms of Protein Translational Control
15.45 – 16.00 Alex Slater – Dept of Cardiovascular Sciences, Birmingham Using nanobodies to study platelet receptor glycoprotein VI structure: The road to developing novel antiplatelet agents
16.00 – 16.45 Phill Stansfeld - Warwick Life Sciences and Chemistry Building Bacterial Barriers
16.45 - 17.00 Closing comments and prize giving sponsored by Constant Systems Ltd