UCL Triple-Eye Symposium

I meant to write this post over the weekend, but unfortunately a dinner of all I could eat barbecue meant I spent most of the time sleeping and rubbing my stomach. Now I've recovered somewhat, I just thought I'd share a couple of highlights of Friday's symposium

It was the UCL Infection, Immunology & Inflammation Domain's third annual symposium, celebrating the work of this aggregation of UCL (and partner institution) academics' research.

There were a few highlights for me. The keynote speaker, Stephen Goff, gave an engaging account of his work into embryonic stem cell restriction of retroviral infection.

Another great talk came from one of our BiPR colleagues, Brenden Wren, who studies bacterial glycosylation, but moreover has developed a glyco-toolkit, allowing bacterial production of proteins-of-interest with desired sugar modifications.

However the best bit of the day was a bit more selfish, as two PhDs in our lab (myself and Lucy Bell) won first prize in our respective poster sessions, which was very warmly appreciated!

There had been a lot of interest in our TCR repertoire work throughout the poster sessions, particularly to a figure I'd presented of some of the difficulties inherent in deep-sequencing TCR repertoires. I think I might expand on this for a later blog post, so if that's interesting to you, watch this space.

UCL blog posts

In case anyone is so interested, here's a curated list of links to the aricles I write for my university's Events blog, detailing some of the fun and interesting stuff it's possible to get up to in and around UCL. So be warned, they just might not have anything to do with science - and almost certainly won't have anything to do with immunology, but by and large they're on a diverse range of interesting topics.

Most recent at the top:

Genomics and Medicine, with Aroon Hingorani

Gravity and Continuum, with Christian Böhmer

Sex work today: myths, morals and health

Can’t take, won’t take: why patients do not take their medicines, with Nick Barber

The Politics of Coalition

It Came From The Stores at the Grant Museum

A book by any other name would still smell as sweet

Beyond Social Exclusion: Emerging Logics of Expulsion with Saskia Sassen

‘The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms’ On the Big Screen

3D imaging: nanotechnology and the quest for better medical sensors

A Hands On History of Hands at the Grant Museum

‘Under the Caribbean’ On The Big Screen, Film Night at The Grant Museum

‘The Blob’ On The Big Screen, Film Night at The Grant Museum

The History of Collecting at the Petrie Museum

UCL 2011 Prize Lecture in Clinical Science with Roger Tsien

Goodbye Cheltenham

X-Men vs. Bionic Women

Biology Wednesday at the Fest

The Science of Cannabis

Chemistry and Architecture - Chemarchitecture?

Cheltenham, here we come