London Matrix Meetings Programme 2011
Date
Speaker and Title Venue
5th Jan 2011
Dr Yoshi Itoh (Kennedy Institute, London)
“MT1-MMP: A key cell surface proteinase for cellular invasion”
Imperial College
2nd February 2011

Dr John Dart (Moorfields Eye Hospital, University College London)
"Developing therapies for cicatrising conjunctivitis
"

UCL
2nd March 2011
Dr Chris Scotton (University College London) "Myofibroblasts, coagulation and integrins in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis"


Imperial College
6th April 2011

Professor Erhard Hohenester (Imperial College London)
"Structural insight into laminin network assembly at the cell surface"

UCL
13th April 2011

Professor Massimo Pinzani (University of Florence)

"FIBROGENIC DISORDERS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT: FROM BIOLOGY TO CLINICAL END-POINTS"

KIR
4th May 2011

Professor Molly Stevens (Imperial College London)

"Engineering Materials for Regenerative Medicine"

Imperial College
Ad hoc
18th May 2011

Henry Lopez (CEO of Murigenics)

"Development of model systems in biotechnology"

UCL
25th May 2011

Dr Frank Beier (University of Western Ontario)

Cancelled....Cancelled....Cancelled....Cancelled....
KIR
1st June 2011

Dr Erik Sahai  ( Cancer Research UK)

"Cancer Cell Invasion in Complex Environments"

UCL
Ad hoc
21st June 2011

Dr Shiro Suetsugu  ( University of Tokyo)

"Molecular assemblies of mesoscale membrane structures involved in cancer"

KIR
6th July 2011

Professor Bruce Caterson (Cardiff University)

"The dynamics of chondroitin/dermatan sulphate sulphation motif expression during tissue development and with the onset of musculoskeletal diseases"

KIR

Ad hoc

27th July 2011

Dr James Tomasek ( University of Oklahoma)

" MRTF-A: Transcriptional Regulator of the Myofibroblast's Smooth Muscle Contractile Phenotype? "

UCL
August

SUMMER BREAK

 

7th Sept 2011

Dr Francesco Dell’Accio (Barts and the London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine)

"Wnt signalling in the early injury response in the adult articular cartilage"

UCL
5th October 2011

Special Event- Student seminar from QMUL

Giovanna Nalesso ""Wnt-3A modulates articular chondrocyte phenotype by activating both canonical and non-canonical pathway"

Jo Sherwood "ELR+ CXC chemokine signalling in cartilage
homeostasis
"

Imperial College
2nd November 2011

Pedro Correa-DeSampaio (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge University)

"Developing a 3 dimensional model of tumour stroma-driven angiogenesis"

Imperial College

7th December 2011

Dr Vijay K. Yadav (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

"Serotonin Regulation of Bone Mass: Challenges, and Therapeutic Opportunities"

KIR

Seminars start at 5.15 p.m. with cheese and wine after the talk.

Venues: UCL Site
: Second Floor Seminar Room, Rayne Institute, 5 University Street, London WC1E 6JJ. Tubes: Warren St; Goodge St or Euston Sq

Imperial Site: Room 121, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ. Tubes: South Kensington or Gloucester Road.

KIR: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 65 Aspenlea Road london W6 8LH. Tubes: Barons Court or Hammersmith.

Enquiries: George Bou-Gharios (gharios@imperial.ac.uk.)

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