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Previous talks

2023

20 January​

• Dr Arjuna Ratnayaka: The effects of an unhealthy diet on the neuroretina: insights from a high-fat diet mouse model (consent not given for recording - contact  j.ratnayaka@soton.ac.uk for more information)

• Prof Helen Cullington: Optimising hearing for young people with bilateral cochlear implants using virtual reality

 

2022

2 December​

• Dr Adam Dale: Controlled human infection to understand meningococcal colonisation

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25 November​

• Dr Sam Thompson: Peptidomimetics to mediate protein-protein interactions and protein misfolding conditions

• Dr Tim Fenton: APOBEC3 enzymes as a source of somatic mutations in cancer. The enemy within?

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18 November​

• Dr Kesta Durkin and Dr Maclyn Augustine: The CANDO-3 Study

• Dr Charles Burson-Thomas: Quantifying Joint Congruence with an Elastic Foundation

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11 November​

• Prof Saul Faust, Prof Chris Kipps, Dr Ruth Challis, Mr David Stockley, Dr Kathy Potter & Prof Gareth Thomas: Clinical Samples for Research and Innovation for Patient Benefit

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4 November​

• Mr Zaed Hamady: Early detection of pancreatic cancer

• Dr Jennifer Williams: Speech Technologies That Can Help Improve Our Health and Wellbeing

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21 October​

• Prof Mahesan Niranjan: Challenges and Frontiers in Inference from Medical Images

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14 October​

• Prof Saul Faust: Lessons from the pandemic for clinical research

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8 July​

• Dr Stephen Lim: Developing novel interventions to promote healthy ageing in older adults

• Prof Mike Grocott: BRC award and plans going forward

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1 July

• Dr David J Rowe & Dr Dan Owens: Bedside measurement of antimicrobials for therapeutic drug monitoring using mid-infrared photonics

• Dr Adam Taylor: Targeting intracellular Burkholderia with an antibody-antibiotic conjugate

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24 June

• Prof Ian Wilson  (external speaker from The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla): Immune recognition of SARS-CoV-2: Implications for pan-coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics

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17 June

• Mr Nigel Hall: Evaluating non-operative treatment of appendicitis in children

• Dr Negusse Kitaba: Preconception paternal environment and offspring lung health

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10 June

• Prof Neil White: The capaciflector: A wearable, low-cost respiration sensor

• Steven Vidovic: Open Access – Funding and funder agreements

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​27 May

• Andrew Bates: Can trauma-focussed psychological therapy promote recovery from intensive care?

• Dr Jenny Lord: A systematic analysis of splicing variants identifies new diagnoses in the 100,000 Genomes Project

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​20 May

• Paula Sands & Gem Fitzsimmons: Research Outputs – Making the most of Pure and ORCiD

• Prof Ioannis Ieropoulos: Bioenergy for the Environment, Robotics and beyond

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13 May

• Prof Gareth Griffiths: The building of a national phase 1/2a COVID trials platform during the pandemic - AGILE

• Geoff Saunders: A description of the innovative Bayesian statistical designs used in AGILE

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6 May

• Dr Georges Limbert: A modelling-based mechanistic insight into skin biophysics

• Dr Jean Zhang: The Hertfordshire Cohort Study- Nutrition and Physical Activity Study (NAPA)

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25 March

• Prof Martin Kunc: Behavioural interventions using a systems perspective

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18 March

• Dr Nicholas Evans: Bubbles for bonding broken bones

• Dr Alejandra Recio-Saucedo: Developing and promoting a study registry and online community for Research on Research 

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11 March

• Preeti Dhuria: Mapping stakeholder views on food promotion and placement regulations 2022

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4 March

• Prof Nick Francis: Improving antimicrobial stewardship in primary care through point of care testing and clinical prediction tools

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18 February

• Dr Sarah El-Heis: Maternal influences on offspring eczema

• Prof Nick Harvey: Gestational vitamin D supplementation: observation, mechanism and intervention in the MAVIDOS Trial

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11 February

• Prof Toby King: Commercialising your research

• Patricia Goggin and Katie Dexter: The Biomedical Imaging Unit: introducing our new in vivo imaging capabilities!

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4 February

• Dr Izzy Norville: Enhanced therapeutics for the treatment of pathogens of concern to the defence community

• Dr Adam Whelan: Evaluation of lung delivered therapeutics in animal models of bacterial pneumonia

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28 January

• Dr Andrew Cumpstey: Oxygen therapy during anaesthesia for major surgery and the role of oxidative stress

• Dr Rebecca Cusack: Early physical rehabilitation of the critically ill

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21 January

• Dr Sofia Strommer: Health research with adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: challenges and triumphs

• Dr Kordo Saeed: The ill looking well and the well looking ill: biomarkers, clinical scoring and triaging

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14 January

• Prof Saul Faust: COV-BOOST results and update on new trial sub-studies​

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2021

​10 December 

• Prof Gary Connett: Asthma, classical conditioning and the autonomic nervous system​

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3 December 

• Prof M. C. Schraefel: Inbodied Interaction: Health Resilience Design to help #MakeNormalBetter for all, at scale

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26 November 

• Prof Graham Roberts: Impact of the pandemic on paediatric presentations and admissions

• Anna Rattu & Dr Ekaterina Khaleva: Development of a core outcome measures set for severe asthma

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19 November 

• Dr Aneurin Young: Preterm Growth and Nutrition

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12 November

• Prof Philip Calder: Obesity, immunity and COVID-19

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5 November

• Dr Angela Darekar: A brief overview of MRI and clinical imaging research in Southampton – current status and future aspirations

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22 October 

• Prof James Nicoll: Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease

15 October 

• Prof Diana Eccles: UoS Faculty of Medicine - Vision and Strategy

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​9 July

• Prof Rob Read: Lessons from the Human Challenge Programme

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2 July

• Prof Mike Grocott: BRC application update

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25 June

• Prof Reza Nouraei: THRIVE: A hearty breath

• Prof Ratko Djukanovic: Using multi-omics biomarkers to predict clinical responses in severe asthma

18 June

• Dr Richard Marigold: NIHR Hyperacute Stroke Research Centre at UHS

• Sarah Shaw: The interplay between adolescents’ physical food and social environments, and their role in food purchasing

11 June

• Dr Salah Mansour: Unconventional T cells in TB

• Dr Danielle Schoenaker: Characterising the state of preconception health in England

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28 May

• Prof Sam Cortese: Treatment of ADHD: looking back, looking forward

21 May

• Dr Michaela Reichmann: Discovery of new therapeutic targets in tuberculosis by integrating clinical sample and advanced cell culture analyses

• Elizabeth Taylor: Combined interventions in the inter-conception period and the risk of childhood obesity

14 May

• Prof Christopher Byrne: NAFLD, a common underdiagnosed 21st century disease: linking paediatric obesity and adult diabetes, CVD and cancers

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7 May

• Dr Natalie Cox: Exploring Influences on Appetite in Ageing

• Dilini Kothalawala: Predicting childhood asthma using machine learning and data integration approaches – developing clinical, polygenic and epigenetic risk scores

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30 April

• Imogen Stafford, Guo Cheng & Dr James Ashton: Big Data & Machine Learning in IBD

23 April

• Dr Claire Jackson & Dr Cornelia Blume: A novel ACE2 isoform is expressed in human respiratory epithelia and is upregulated in response to interferons and RNA respiratory virus infection

• Dr Faidra Laskou: Musculoskeletal health in older adults and impact of COVID-19 pandemic

26 March

• Prof Mary Barker: The value of conversation: why talking to people during the pandemic is every bit as important as surveying, testing and vaccinating them

• Prof Anneke Lucassen & Prof Dame Wendy Hall: Digital Health Research Theme
   

19 March

• Prof Graham Burdge: Harnessing transgenic technology to improve dietary intake of marine-type omega-3 fatty acids
   

12 March

• Prof Lucy Yardley & Prof Mary Barker: Supporting Behaviour Change Research Theme

• Prof Tom Wilkinson: Respiratory Research Theme

• Prof Keith Godfrey: Lifecourse Nutrition, Lifestyle and Health Research Themes
   

5 March

• Prof Rob Read: Infection Research Theme

• Prof Mike Grocott: Perioperative and Critical Care Research Theme
   

26 February

• Prof Adriane (Age) Chapman: Designing Data Science analytics for all stakeholders – a look into shortcomings, tools and research in building data science analysis for people

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12 February

• Prof Mike Grocott: Future BRC 2022-2027

• Prof Saul Faust: Future CRF 2022-2027
   

5 February

• Dr Chandni Maria Jacob: Preconception and the life course approach to health: implications for informing policy and practice

• Judit Varkonyi-Sepp: Taking a closer look at depression and anxiety in asthma
   

29 January

• Prof Nick Harvey: UK Biobank: a unique resource for musculoskeletal research
   

22 January

• Prof Sarah Ennis: Omics  in IBD

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15 January

• Prof Cyrus Cooper: Lifecourse epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorder

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2020

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11 December

• Prof Paul Elkington: Anti-PD-1 treatment reactivating TB 
   

4 December

• Prof Denny Levett: Inspire: reducing postoperative pulmonary complications?

• Dr Tim Wallis: Respiratory follow-up of patients with COVID-19
   

27 November

• Prof Sir Stephen Holgate: Air pollution - the environmental health challenge of our time!
   

20 November

• Ravita Taheem: How is political commitment to tackling childhood obesity demonstrated in local government (a public health workforce perspective)?

• Dr Mark Edwards: Improving Perioperative Care
   

13 November

• Dr Caroline Barker: Equitable research – how PPI can support inclusive research

• Amanda Blatch-Jones / Katie Meadmore: Peer review and decision-making in research funding allocation: generating evidence to maximise value and efficiency for funding organisations
   

6 November

• Dr Nathan Brendish: Point-of-care testing for COVID-19 in hospitalised patients

• Dr Elizabeth Payne: Developing and testing a Screen and Treat for Malnutrition (STREAM) intervention in primary care
   

30 October

• Prof Tom Wilkinson: COVID- 19 Therapeutics: Finding new treatments for a new disease
   

23 October

• Prof Jonathan Swann: Metabolites, microbiota, and the mammalian supra-organism
   

16 October

• Dr Chris McCormick: Immunodiagnostics, could it have a role in identifying COVID-19 infected individuals?

• Prof Gareth Griffith: Southampton Clinical Trials Unit – creating evidence today for the patient benefit of tomorrow 
   

17 July

• Prof Paul Little: The immune defence trial

• Dr Yihua Wang: Serum procalcitonin level is indicative of outcome in COVID-19 patients receiving invasive ventilation
   

10 July

• Dr Ruth Challis: NIHR Bioresource, Southampton Research Biorepository (SRB) and COVID-19
   

3 July

• Dr Hannah Burke: Point of care inflammatory phenotyping predicts clinical outcome in COVID-19

• Dr Matt Loxham: COVID-19 and air pollution – what do we know?
   

26 June

• Dr Elaine Williams: Wessex Institute’s support to NIHR COVID-19 response 

• Dr Chrissie Jones: A Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With SARS-CoV-2

• Prof Rob Read: The challenge of COVID Human Challenge
   

19 June

• Prof Christopher Byrne: Diabetes, obesity and COVID 19: what can we learn from global epidemiology?

• Prof Ratko Djukanovic: Immune profiling of COVID-19 patients In relation to disease severity: important clues for novel therapies?

• Dr Hang Phan: BRC Data Science Theme COVID-19 response in UHS/UoS
   

12 June

• Dr Jay Laver: A nasally-administered recombinant bacterial commensal to generate immunity to SARS-CoV-2

• Prof Ian Clarke: RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection

• Dr Ben Ainsworth: Germ Defence: a digital intervention to improve infection control behaviours in the home

5 June

• Prof Sandy Jack - SafeFit trial

• Dr David Cleary - Genome Sequencing of SARS-Cov-2

• Dr Vito Mennella - Discovery of a novel ACE2 isoform and potential role in​ Sars-Cov-2 infection
   

22 May

• Prof Salim Khakoo - NK cells: a therapeutic opportunity for COVID-19

• Prof Christian Ottensmeier - Examining T cell responses in virus infection (ExCel)

• Dr Max Crispin - SARS-CoV-2 viral spike glycoprotein and serological testing
   

15 May

• Ratko Djukanovic - Treatment of severe COVID-19 pneumonia with CM4620-IE, an IV formulation of a novel CRAC channel inhibitor

• Saul Faust - COVID-19 vaccine trials in Southampton

• Bill Keevil - Breaking the chain of infection with antimicrobial copper
   

7 May

• Mary Barker - COVID-19: exploring messaging and support for young people

• Philip Calder - Nutrition, immunity & COVID-19​

• Mike Grocott - COV-Surf (nebulized surfactant for severe COVID-19)
   

1 May

• Donna Davies - Modeling SARS-COV-2 infection in vitro - a translational perspective

• Tristan Clark - Point-of-care testing for COVID-19: what have we learned so far?~
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24 April 

• Chris McCormick - An overview of the human coronaviruses, how they replicate and early insights into culture adapted mutations​