Under the pandemic, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre established a weekly online forum to continue sharing and discussion of the latest research. To gain access for the upcoming talks, please contact BRC@uhs.nhs.uk.

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All staff with a University of Southampton login to Microsoft Teams can access the recordings of these talks via the links below (made available after the talk), whilst  University Hospital Southampton staff can access these recordings on StaffNet (search 'BRC Science Forum').​

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​​​​​Previous talks

 

2022

Friday 8 July​

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

• Prof Mike Grocott: BRC award and plans going forward (link to be added once NIHR embargo lifts)

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Friday 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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Friday 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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Friday 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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Friday 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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​Friday 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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​Friday 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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Friday 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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Friday 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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Friday 25 March

• Prof Martin Kunc: Behavioural interventions using a systems perspective

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Friday 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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Friday 11 March

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

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Friday 4 March

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

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Friday 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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Friday 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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Friday 04 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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Friday 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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Friday 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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Friday 14 January

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

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2021

​Friday 10 December 

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

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Friday 3 December 

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

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Friday 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

 

Friday 19 November 

• Dr Aneurin Young: Preterm Growth and Nutrition

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Friday 12 November

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

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Friday 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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Friday 22 October 

• Prof James Nicoll: Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease

Friday 15 October 

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

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​Friday 9 July

• Prof Rob Read: Lessons from the Human Challenge Programme

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Friday 2 July

• Prof Mike Grocott: BRC application update

 

Friday 25 June

• Prof Reza Nouraei: THRIVE: A hearty breath

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

 

Friday 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

 

Friday 11 June

• Dr Salah Mansour: Unconventional T cells in TB

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

 

Friday 28 May

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

 

Friday 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

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Friday 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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Friday 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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Friday 30 April

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

Friday 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

Friday 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
   

Friday 19 March

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

Friday 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
   

Friday 5 March

• Prof Rob Read: Infection Research Theme

• Prof Mike Grocott: Perioperative and Critical Care Research Theme
   

Friday 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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Friday 12 February

• Prof Mike Grocott: Future BRC 2022-2027

• Prof Saul Faust: Future CRF 2022-2027
   

Friday 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
   

Friday 29 January

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

Friday 22 January

• Prof Sarah Ennis: Omics  in IBD

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Friday 15 January

• Prof Cyrus Cooper: Lifecourse epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorder

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2020

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Friday 11 December

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

Friday 4 December

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

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

Friday 27 November

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

Friday 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
   

Friday 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
   

Friday 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
   

Friday 30 October

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

Friday 23 October

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

Friday 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 
   

Friday 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
   

Friday 10 July

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

Friday 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?
   

Friday 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
   

Friday 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
   

Friday 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

Friday 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
   

Friday 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
   

Friday 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
   

Thursday 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)
   

Friday 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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Friday 24 April 

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

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