WISBIC Opening Symposium Schedule
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