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Forum for Innovation, Research and Enterprise in Biosciences (FIREBio)
FIREBio is an informal meeting for all members of the school (staff, postdocs, postgraduates) to get together for discussions on current research & enterprise issues. In most cases each weekly slot is allocated to a research group, but external speakers are also invited. The sessions are varied in format and can include, for example, an overview of current research by a group leader, 2 or 3 short (10 min) talks from members of one research group or a discussion of possible enterprise activities in a research lab or research area. The aim is to provoke discussion amongst the audience and thus a significant amount of the one hour session is made available for discussion time. FIREBio is intended to be quite distinct from the seminar programme, by providing a session at which postdocs and postgraduates can present their recent unpublished findings and at which open discussions on our current research can take place in a supportive environment.
FIREBio meets every week usually at 1:00 pm on Thursdays. The first meeting of every month has a slightly different ‘flavour’ in that it is held later in the day (i.e. starting at 4:00pm) and is followed by some form of ‘social event’ to which all attendees are invited.
Mick Tuite, Martin Warren, Najl Valeyev
(FIREBio organisers)
Programme: Automn Term 2011
October 20th - Tobias von der Haar and Claudia Solscheid
'Information processing during gene expression: vacuoles and the ballet of the ribosomes'
October 27th - Jill Shepherd
'Human pluripotent stem cells: examining transcriptomic and epigenomic regulation with deep-sequencing'
November 3th - Steve Irving (Cangenix)
'Design of Stapled Peptides Targeting Nuclear Hormone Receptors'
November 10th - Susanne Schroder from the Warren lab
'The many colours of CobJ- A methyltransferase involved in vitamin B12 biosynthesis'
November 17th - Lei Sun from the Blomfield lab
‘The regulation of fimB expression and FimB phase variation in Escherichia coli’
November 24th - Campbell Gourlay, Jane Leadsham and Emma Bastow from the Gourlay lab
‘Radical new theories of cell stress and toxicity’
December 1st - Prof. Chris Abell, University of Cambridge
'Fragments and Droplets'
December 8th - Howard lab
December 15th - Matt Johnson from the Mulvihill lab
Note: All sessions will be from 1-2 pm and will be held in BLT1 except where indicated otherwise.