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School of Life and Medical Sciences Research Conference
Tuesday 4 April 2017Lindop Building, College Lane Campus
University of Hertfordshire
08.15 – 08.45 Tea and coffee in Lindop Foyer (poster set up New Chapman Lounge)
08.45 – 09.00 All convene in Room A154 Welcome – Prof. Quintin McKellar
09.00 – 09.40 Plenary Lecture 1: Sir Anthony Coates, St George’s, University of LondonWill highly resistant bacteria destroy modern Medicine?Chair: Dr David Griffiths, Principal Lecturer Chemistry
09.40 – 10.20 Plenary Lecture 2: Dr Angel Chater, University of Bedfordshire Behavioural Science in a Public Health Setting: Health, Wellbeing and Behaviour Change Chair: Dr Mike Page, Reader in Psychology, Head of CRiPSS Research Centre
10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break
10.40 – 11.20 Plenary Lecture 3: Dr Mandy Nevel, The Royal Veterinary CollegeLivestock production – challenges and opportunities
Chair: Dr Yongju Huang, Reader in Plant Pathology
11.20 – 12.00 Plenary Lecture 4: Mr Nikhil Vasdev, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Urological Cancer Centre, Lister Hospital, Stevenage UK Robotics in SurgeryChair: Dr Shori Thakur, Principal Lecturer in Pharmacology
12.00 – 13.30 Poster viewing and voting over lunch – New Chapman Lounge
Afternoon Parallel Session I: Disease Mechanisms, Drug Discovery and Delivery (A154)
13.30 – 14.00 Invited LectureDr Brett Cochrane, Science Director, The Dr Hadwen Trust,Funding the development and application of human models for human diseaseChair: Dr David Chau and Dr Stewart Kirton, Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry
Student sessionChairs: Noelia Perez Diaz, Daniel Baker and Pushpendra Goswami
14.00– 14.15 Gagan Maan: Signalling transduction mechanisms mediating stem cell differentiation into cardiomyocytes by lysophosphatidic acid
14.15 – 14.30
14.30 – 14.45
Deborah Ogbeni: Identifying Lead compounds that prevent S100P and RAGE binding as a novel therapy for pancreatic cancer
Abigail Martin: Design and validation of a lower airways In vitro model incorporating innate immune cells for toxicity screen
14.45 – 15.00 Druvnesh Patel: Synthesis and evaluation of novel antifungal agents targeted to the plasma membrane proton ATPase enzyme
15.00 – 15.15 Abu Shafi: The impact of novel psychoactive substances on acute mental health services
Health and Wellbeing Food Information and Security
For further information please contact Dr Shori Thakur on 01707285161 or at [email protected]
Afternoon Parallel Session II: Health and Wellbeing (Room A166)
13.30 – 14.00 Invited LectureDr Lettie Bishop, Loughborough UniversityExercise and reducing systemic inflammation in kidney disease – if only exercise was a pill…Chair: Dr Lindsay Bottoms, Senior Lecturer in Human Physiology
Student sessionChairs: Camilla Holland and Lynsey Northeast
14.00 – 14.15 Silvana Mengoni: Self-management of epilepsy in people with learning disabilities
14.15 – 14.30 Terun Desai: The effects of Montmorency tart cherry juice supplementation on health-related biomarkers in healthy human participants
14.30 – 14.45 Ben Plimpton: Keeping a diary of Intrusive Memories: Therapeutic Effects in a Non-Clinical Sample
14.45 – 15.00 Rebecca Hadley: Wrist- worn accelerometer measures of movement by people with Parkinson's during and following dance classes at the University of Hertfordshire
15.00 – 15.15 Sonia Ponzo: See it, feel it, own it: How vestibular stimulation enhances body ownership during the rubber hand illusion
Afternoon Parallel Session III: Biological Mechanisms in Pathogens and their Hosts (Room A161)
13.30 – 14.00 Invited LectureDr Cristina Barrero-Sicilia, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden
Germination in domesticated and wild Triticeae seeds: comparison between Brachypodium distachyon and Hordeum vulgare
Chair: Dr Georgia Mitrousia, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Student sessionChairs: Hershna Patel, Chinthani Karandeni Dewage and Unnati Shah
14.00 – 14.15 Charles Opoku Badu: Research into antimicrobial activity of some African (Ghanaian) plants used in traditional/folk medicine for tropical treatment of skin and wound infections
14.15 – 14.30
14.30 – 14.45
Ann Rees: To Investigate the ecology of the European catfish (S. glanis) in UK waters and the development of an ecological framework in relation to policy and management implications
Sudhir Tripathi: An investigation into the resilience and sustainability of Suranga irrigation in the Western Ghats of India
14.45 – 15.00 Jamie Neil Orr: The interaction between Pasteria spp. and its nematode hosts
15.00 – 15.15 Linda Iye Ameh: Characterisation of Clinical Clostridium difficile PCR robotype 002 isolates from different time lineages
15.15 – 15.35 Coffee Break - Lindop Foyer
15.35 – 16.15 All in Room A154 – Athena SWAN Lecture:Prof. Amrita Ahluwalia, William Harvey Research Institute, LondonPathway to Silver Chair: Dr Louise Mackenzie, LMS Athena SWAN Champion
16.15 –16.25 Poster Prizes – Facilitated by Dr Andreas Kukol and Dr Silvana Mengoni
16.25 – 16.30 Closing RemarksDr Shori Thakur
16.30 Networking with Wine and Cheese
