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Dr J Greenman attended an awards ceremony in Milan Italy on 24 January 2008 and jointly received a Knowledge Transfer Partnership Award on behalf of the University of Hull in conjunction with Professor Sara Mantero, Politecnico di Milano.PhD Studentships 2008
Applications are invited for 3 University of Hull PhD Studentships. Funding is available for 3 years to cover fees and stipend. To apply please send a maximum of 2 pages of A4 (smallest font size 11 allowed), to Dr Greenman, email to: mailto:r.e.green@hull.ac.uk
The application should address the following points:
- Must be inter-disciplinary, involving at least 3 Departments, or distinct groupings. The value of each party needs to be clearly stated.
- Must fit within one of the Clinical Bioscience Institutes themes
- There must be an explicit statement as to the source of consumable funds
Supervisory arrangements to be clear, as must the track-record of supervisors
Deadline 29 February 2008 (Notification of awards by end of March 2008)
Clinical Biosciences funded student wins departmental prize
Ms Amanda Sparke (from Dr S J Archibald's group) was awarded the Prize for the best talk at the Departmental Research Forum held on June 18-19, 2007. Ms Sparke's work, in the field of Lanthanide macrocylic complexes, MRI and optical contrast agents is a significant step-forward in Clinical Chemistry, funded via the Hull University Clinical Biosciences Institute.
Travel Bursary Information
Travel Bursaries awarded in 2005/6 enabled 17 students to present their research work at the following UK and International Conferences:
M Heng - Poster Presentation
Annual Scientific Meeting Vascular Society of GB & Ireland
Bournemouth, UK 23-25 November 2005
A Mekako - Oral Presentation
Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society
Utah, USA 27-29 January 2006
S Ipe - Poster Presentation
IRC Medical Imaging Analysis Spring School
Oxford, UK 19-26 March 2006
G. Desai - Poster Presentation
7th International Conference Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering
Nice, France 21-26 March 2006
J Collier - Oral Presentation
7th International Conference Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering
Nice, France 21-26 March 2006
G Khair - Poster Presentation
Annual Meeting of Society of Surgical Oncologists
San Diego, USA 22-27 March 2006
J Yogaratnum - Invited Speaker
11 Advanced Symposium on Hyperbaric Medicine
Columbia, USA 23-25 March 2006
L Josefsen - Invited Speaker
Particles 2006 Conference
Florida, USA 13-16 May 2006
T Thu - Oral Presentation
8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
Paphos, Cyprus 24-27 May 2006
A Akki - Poster Presentation
International Society for Heart Research
Manchester, UK 14-17 June 2006
G Frentzou - Poster Presentation
International Society for Heart Research
Manchester, UK 14-17 June 2006
C Walker - Poster Presentation
IPEM Biennial Radiotherapy
Norwich, UK 3-4 July 2006
S Pisharody - Oral Presentation
Vienna Morphofest 2006
Vienna, 11-22 July 2006
P H Loay - Poster Presentation
European Society of Cardiology World Congress
Barcelona, Spain 2-5 September 2006
A Torabi - Poster Presentation
European Society of Cardiology World Congress
Barcelona, Spain 2-5 September 2006
L Smith - Poster Presentations
7th Siena Meeting
Siena, Italy 3-7 September 2006
D Aksentijevic - Oral Presentation
4th Annual meeting Society for Heart and Vascular Metabolism
Semiahmoo, USA 6-9 September 2006
The first year of funding provided support to enable 14 students to present their research work at the following UK and International Conferences:
L Sadofsky and R Ramachandran - Poster Presentations
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
San Diego USA - 2-6 April 2005
J Sample - Poster Presentations
International Society of Heart Research Conference
Tromso, Norway 2—26 June 2005
C Staneloudi – Poster Presentation
10th World Congress of The International Photodynamic Association
Munich, Germany – 22-25 June 2005
A Akki - Oral Presentation
3rd Annual meeting of The Society for Heart and Vascular Metabolism
Oxford, UK - 26-30 June 2005
S O’Kane – Poster Presentation
11th World Conference on Lung Cancer
Barcelona, Spain – 3-6 July 2005
J Silversides - Poster Presentation
12th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry,
University of Michigan USA – 31 July-5 August 2005
C A Bristow - Oral Presentation and Poster Presentation
European Society of Photobiology Conference
Aix-les-Bains, France 3-8 September 2005
S Barrier - Oral Presentation
XIIIth Symposium on the Chemistry of Nucleic Acid Components
Pindleruv Mlýn, Czech Republic – 3-9 September 2005
R Lovell - Poster Presentation
British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Annual Conference
Loughborough University, UK - 4-7 September 2005
A Alexandropoulou – Oral Presentation
6th Meeting of the International Society for NeuroImmunoModulation
Athens, Greece – 25-28 September 2005
C Wood – Poster Presentation
3rd European Meeting on Vascular Biology and Medicine
Hamburg, Germany – 27-30 September 2005
C Li – Poster Presentation
British Society for Haemostasis and Thrombosis Annual meeting
Chester, UK – 28-30 September 2005
L Smith - Poster Presentation
National Canceer Research Institute
Birmingham, UK - 2-5 October 2005
J Collier - Oral Presentation
3rd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference
Prague, Czech Republic 20-25 November 2005
Staff News
CMET facility used to support Eden Project new education centre "The Core"
Dr Chris Langton – Metabolic Bone Disease research profile update on grant "Qualifying Bone Quantity, Quantifying Bone Quality" to view website see http://www.hull.ac.uk/qubqu
Small Grants Funded
Dr Klaus Ersfeld - Biological Sciences
"Development of a genome-wide RNA interference screen kinesins in the parasite Trypanosoma brucei" - £5000
Mark Watson - Division of Cell & Molecular Medicine
"Construction of an Oligonucleotide Microarray Slide Resource for Comparative Genomic Hybridisation (Array CGH) and Expression Analysis" - £5000
Dr Chris Langton - Metabolic Bone Disease
"Qualifying Bone Quantity, Quantifying Bone Quality" - £4756
Dr Steve Archibald - Dept of Chemistry
"Nanomedicine – targeted cellular uptake of carbon nanotubes" - £4150
Dr Leigh Madden – Division Cell & Molecular Medicine
"Characterisation of microparticles and serum heat-shock protein 70 in Healthy volunteers" - £3790
Dr Leigh Madden - Division Cell & Molecular Medicine
"The role of microparticles in decompression illness - £2700
Dr John Greenman – Division of Cell & Molecular Medicine
"Pilot phenotypic and proteomic analysis of a ‘new’ adult stem cell" - £1400
Opportunities
Commonwealth Scholarships 2007 - Nominations for split site Doctoral Scholarships are now being offered to potential overseas universities, see CSFP website at http://www.csfp-online.org/ for forms and details.
Research Councils Business Plan Competition
Enter this competition and gain the skills and knowledge to be able to prepare a high quality business plan to take your research into the market place. Plus the opportunity to win up to £25,000 of start-up funding! To apply just submit a one page outline of your business idea between 10 October 2005 and 31 December 2005. See website http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/innovation/bpc for further details.
Events
NMR Suite official opening on 14 May 2007 by the Vice-Chancellor Professor David Drewry. Plenary lecture was given by Professor Sir George Radda FRS ( Oxford University ). Full programme can be viewed here
2006 (ICBPE 2006) 11-14 December 2006, Singapore further details http://www.ntu.edu.sg/icbpe/
Society for Medicines Research 40th Anniversary Symposium in association with the London Biotechnology Network and UK Trade and Investment 11 December 2006 further details http://www.smr.org.uk/
Hull York Medical Fourth Annual Research Conference 8 March 2007 at York
For further information please go to http://www.research.hyms.ac.uk/
Postgraduate Research Conference 8 December 2006 The Lawns, Cottingham
Pharmaceutical & Biotech Outsourcing, Research & Development Expo & Conference 13-14 September 2006 for further details go to http://www.pabord.com/
BioDundee International Conference15th and16th June 2006 Dundee, Scotland further details http://www.biodundee.co.uk/
Yorkshire BioEnterprise Research Forum 24 May 2006 for further details http://www.syben.org.uk/events.htm
HYMS Research Conference 9 March 2006
5-8 September 2005 - European Radiation Research
Further details on the meeting and abstract submission can be found at http://www.gci.ac.uk/usr/arr/ERRannual-meeting.html
International Tetrapyrrolic Society Meeting 2005 at University of Hull 30 June & 1 July
17 June 2005 - University of Hull - Postgraduate Research Conference
| 10.00 | Registration and coffee |
| 10.45 | Welcome |
| 10.50 | A Swamy (Medical Engineering) Active laboratory lumbar spine. |
| 11.05 | A Green ( Institute of Rehabilitation ) An investigation of the factors which influence the degree of patient involvement in the physiotherapeutic consultation. |
| 11.20 | C Staneloudi (PGMI) Expression of bacteriophage derived scFv and their incorporation into third generation porphyrin immunoconjugates for targeted PDT. |
| 11.35 | S Pisharody (Computer Science) A simulation approach to test the sensitivity of Finite Element analysis of X-ray Images (FEXI) to variations in the proximal femur geometry. |
| 11.50 | M Watson (PGMI) Expression Microarray Analysis of a Chemotherapy-Resistant Breast Cancer Cell Line. |
| 12.05 | J Collier (CMET) Predicting the Growth and Rupture Potential of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms using Finite Element Analysis |
| 12.20 | Poster teasers D Aksentijevic K Bale L Blackwell A Botham J L Carr G Chami M Collier G A Frentzou R Henderson B Jones R Lovell G McRobbie TT Nguyen R Ramachandran L R Sadofsky J Sample A E Sparke P Velevan J Vilarino-Varela C A Walker C Wood Y Xiao |
| 12.40 | Lunch and poster session, poster judging |
| 13.40 | C Prest (Computer Science) A knowledge base for segmentation of concave anatomical structures in medical images. |
| 13.55 | G Desai (Engineering) Extracting the geometries of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms from CT data. |
| 14.10 | S Barrier (Chemistry) Attachment of proteins and nucleic acids and sporopollenin and drug delivery. |
| 14.25 | Q Hassan (Computer Science) Agent based snake: a novel active contour model |
| 14.40 | S O’Kane (PGMI) Cox-2 specific inhibitors demonstrate a cytotoxic affect on malignant pleural mesothelioma cells. |
| 14.55 | Coffee & poster session, poster finalist presentations to judges |
| 15.25 | A Akki (Biological Sciences) Cellular changes in Cardiac hypertrophy |
| 15.37 | B Maschio (Physics) A Pertubative Leaf Sequence algorithm for Adaptive Image Guided Therapy |
| 15.49 | A Khan (Chemistry) Binding Studies and Characterisation of Novel CXCR4 Chemokine receptor antagonists |
| 16.01 | A Alexandropoulou (PGMI) Modulation of the immune and endocrine systems by reflexology and massage in women with early breast cancer. |
| 16.13 | J Silversides (Chemistry) Novel use of rigidified tetraazamacrocycles as tumour targeted prochelators. |
| 16.25 | Award of prizes and closing remarks |
| 16.35 | Wine and nibbles reception |
| 17.45 | End of conference |
16 June 2005 -SMR The Society for Medicines Research National Heart & Lung Institute, Kensington, London Therapeutics Strategies for Tissue Regeneration - Please go to website for more information: http://www.smr.org.uk/
15 June 2005- CranfieldUniversity "From Bench to Bedside & Back"
Please go to website for more information: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/ibst/conferences/transmed/