Events

Seminar – Marco Rinaldo Oggioni, University of Leicester: “Intracellular replication of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae within tissue macrophages is the key event leading to hepatic abscess formation”

Open to: Norwich Research Park Abstract: Hypervirulent lineages of Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) are unique in their clinical presentation as they cause bacteraemic hepatic abscesses. In addition, K2 ST25 strains are responsible for invasive disease in pigs. We have recently shown that intracellular replication of Streptococcus...

Seminar – Dr Fiona Walsh, Maynooth University – Plasmid mediated resistance in the wild

Open to Norwich Research Park Abstract:  Antibiotic resistance is everywhere. Many clinically relevant antibiotic resistance mechanisms are mobile and have originated outside the pathogen. Where have these resistance mechanisms originated and which have travelled from outside the human to inside human pathogens? My research...

06 January 2017

Prof Jan Delcour

Host: Fred Warren Prebiotics are selectively fermented ingredients that allow specific changes, both in the composition and/or activity of the gastrointestinal microflora, that confer benefits upon host well-being and health. The most studied prebiotics are the fructans inulin and fructo-oligosaccharides. Over the past years,...

11 January 2017

Dr David Grainger

Host: Ian Charles Abstract: Work in my laboratory is focused on understanding bacterial gene regulation on a chromosome-wide scale. Since gene regulation underpins diverse biological processes application of genome-scale tools provides insight into diverse cellular processes. Our current research interests include understanding how bacteria...

23 January 2017

Dr Pedro Bouchon

  Host: Pete Wilde Speaker Background: Pedro heads the food structure design laboratory. His research is oriented to get a better understanding on the relationship between food (micro) structural changes during processing, and associated transport phenomena and changes in key food attributes, including digestibility....

09 February 2017

Dr Mark Webber

I have recently joined the IFR and work in my group will be focussing on the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance with particular interests in evolution within biofilms and the regulation of multidrug efflux pumps. We study real world isolates and use in vitro mutagenesis...

23 February 2017

Prof. Jack Satsangi

  Host: Ian Charles Abstract: Real progress has been made over the last decade in characterising the complex gene-environmental interactions involved in the pathogenesis of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis; in parallel the successful development of new therapies has exceeded expectation. The challenge for...

23 March 2017

Prof. Trevor Dale

IFR Seminar – Professor Trevor Dale The Wnt pathway is frequently described as either ON or OFF in text books, but in reality is regulated across a range of different levels via tissue and context-specific mechanisms. In this talk, I will discuss how the...