The Midlands Biophysical Network was set up to encourage collaboration in the midlands including equipment and knowledge sharing. This Network led to successful collaboration and partners securing funding for The Midlands Regional CryoEM Facility.
The Midlands Biophysical Network Meeting is an excellent opportunity for the community to get together and collaborate.
When: 17 September 2024
Where: Henry Wellcome Building, University of Leicester, UK
Registration: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=as2-rtQxAUuVzoJ0r-hT2anpfEIHIbREpQWZLfGN62NUMzlRRTFCVlVQTUpGVEtROU40WVZZWjFMMy4u (deadline 9 September 2024)
Programme
9.00 Coffee – atrium
9.25 Welcome – John Schwabe and Andrew Hudson (Leicester)
Session 1: Nuclear proteins
9.35 Emma Hesketh (Leicester): Technical short - The Midlands Reginal CryoEM Facility
9.50Andrew Bowman (Warwick): Visualisation of spatial dynamics in heterochromatin
10.10 Yolanda Markaki (Leicester): Mechanisms of gene silencing through RNA-guided biomolecular assemblies
10.30 David Grainger (Birmingham): Unexpected roles of histone-like nucleoid structuring protein in bacteria
10.50 Coffee – atrium
Session 2: Cytosolic proteins
11.15 Dave Scott (Nottingham): Technical short - Doing more with less: exploiting large scale facilities to get more results.
11.30 Ingrid Dreveny (Nottingham): Investigating the molecular basis of ubiquitin specific protease substrate recognition through protein engineering
11.50 Andrew Hudson (Leicester): Using the Circadian Clock to Uncover the Regulatory Role of Haem in Biology
12.10 Aneika Leney (Birmingham): Designing methods to unlock the PTM code
12.30 Lunch – atrium
Bingo
Session 3: Membranes
13.30 Phil Kitchen (Aston): Technical short – Using mass photometry to study membrane proteins
13.45 Abhinav KV (Leicester): Decoding Secretion Systems: Membrane Integrated Molecular Machines driving Pathogenicity and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Bacteria
14.05 Alice Rothnie (Aston): Applications of SMALP-encapsulated membrane proteins
14.25 Michael Tomlinson (Birmingham): Investigating therapeutic potential of tetraspanin membrane proteins
14.45 Coffee – atrium
Session 4: Pathogens and antimicrobials
15.15 Aditi Borkar (Nottingham): Technical short - OrbiSIMS – guided modelling of viral RNA structures
15.30 Cuifeng Ying (Nottingham Trent): Single-molecule, label-free insights into protein flexibility and conformational dynamics
15.50 Ivan Campeotto (Nottingham): Structural characterisation of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens for diagnostic and therapeutic applications
16.10 Mojgan Rabiey (Warwick): Phage therapy in agriculture: from discovery to field application
16.30 Meeting close
Contact
Organisers:
Emma Hesketh emma.hesketh@leicester.ac.uk
Tennie Videler hv33@leicester.ac.uk
Ivan Campeotto (Nottingham)
David Scott (Nottingham)
Phil Kitchen (Aston)
Sarah Smith (Warwick)
Simon Caulton (Birmingham)
