Event Archive

2025

March

• Diabetes and Metabolic dysfunction-associated diseases: understanding molecular pathways to treat and track them

  28 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Dr Nimesh Mody - Institute of Medical Sciences

• ECR Seminar Series

  14 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  “Novel imaging modalities for early detection of specific molecular phenotypes in neurodegenerative disease.” – Holly Spence   “Balancing clot breakdown: Endothelial cells, Inhibitors and Plasmin Generation” – Kieran Pocknell

• Alternative splicing regulation by snRNA modifications

  06 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Dr Alper Akay - University of East Anglia

February

• CTLA-4 - two pathways to anti-tumour immunity?

  28 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Dr Frank Ward - Institute Of Medical Sciences

• Developing advanced in vitro adipocyte models to define the pharmacology and function of the FFA4 free fatty acid receptor

  27 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00

  Dr Brian Hudson - University of Glasgow

• Keap(1)-ing Nrf2 in check to prevent brain ageing and Alzheimer's disease

  20 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Dr Fiona Kerr - Edinburgh Napier University

• ECR Seminar Series

  14 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  "Fundamental limits on pattern formation in Turing-like activator-inhibitor systems” – Daniel Muzatko   “Advanced qEEG analysis to discriminate between dementia subtypes” – Masha Burelo Segura

January

• How to make your own MRI scanner in 2702 (un)easy steps

  31 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Dr Lionel Broche - Institute of Medical Sciences

2024

May

• Cafe Med: Seminar 4: Spinal Muscular Atrophy - A treatable childhood motor neuron disease

  13 May 2024, 18:00 - 19:30

  10 years ago, Spinal Muscular Atrophy was the second most common inherited cause of infant mortality worldwide, but you may never have heard of it. Severely affected children had a life expectancy of less than 3 years, but now three novel and expensive therapies have emerged, which are providing new...

April

• Cafe Med - Seminar 3: Cutting back on the fat: The health effects of fat tissue and how bariatric surgery works

  15 April 2024, 18:00 - 19:30

  Being overweight or obese increases the risk of many health conditions including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancers. We will look at why increasing the amount of fat tissue we have in our bodies can lead to disease. We will also discuss bariatric surgery, which can be a highly...