Event Archive

2025

December

• Presynaptic protein changes and the effects of the protective Icelandic APPA673T mutation in models of amyloid-B and tau pathology

  18 December 2025, 10:00 - 11:00

  Pre-Viva Talk - Anne Anschuetz

• Exploring Novel Genetic Determinants of Skeletal Muscle Energy Metabolism in Obesity and Diabetes

  12 December 2025, 10:00 - 11:00

  Pre-Viva Talk - Rashmi Sivasengh

• A journey of the NMR relaxometry in tempera paint realm

  11 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Anne-Laure Rollet - Sorbonne University, Paris

• Combining non-invasive imaging & gene therapy to detect and treat metabolic disease

  08 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:00

  Pre-Viva Talk - Nadine Sommer

• Understanding CDC7 kinase biology: from replication origins to therapeutic potential

  05 December 2025, 10:30 - 11:30

  Prof Corrado Santocanale - University of Galway

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  Adrian Grant Lecture 2025 - 4th December 2025 at 1300-14:00

  04 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Professor Adrian Grant was the HSRU Director from 1994 to 2007 and an advocate and visionary within evidence-based health services research. During his 13 years’ tenure, the unit trebled in size, carrying out studies in areas such as incontinence, hernia repair, hip replacement and the role of vitamin D in...

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  Bridging the Gap: A How-to Guide for Academics looking to Collaborate with Aberdeen City Council

  03 December 2025, 10:00 - 11:00

  With Bea Dawkins and Fionnuala Cousins of the Health Determinants Research Collaboration Aberdeen (HDRC Aberdeen) IMS Level 7 and Microsoft Teams (link below)

• Isolation and characterisation of human antibodies targeting cell wall proteins as a novel immunotherapeutic approach to treat invasive fungal infections.

  01 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00

  Pre-Viva Talk - Yixin (Katherine) Zhao

November

• Skin appendage development: from molecules to mechanics

  27 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Dr Rory Cooper - University of Sheffield

• ACWHR Seminar with Dr Jackie Maybin - 'Translational science to improve menstrual bleeding'

  26 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Dr Jackie Maybin is a Reader and Honorary Consultant Gynaecologist at the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian. Currently she is the Program Director of the Missed Vital Sign Program at Wellcome Leap, a global advanced research project agency (ARPA) for health.  Jackie’s research aims to develop better preventative and therapeutic...