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The College of Life Sciences' “New Starter Seminar: Post-doctoral researchers” will take place on Thursday 22nd September 12-2pm as part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week (#NPAW2022) with Pint of Science and sponsored by Proteintech who will provide refreshments and goody bags!
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Effects of reading strategies on reading behaviour and comprehension
Dr Sarah Wu
(Postdoctoral researcher in the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences)
Our ESRC funded project uses eye-tracking techniques to reveal how reading strategies (reading vs. skimming) modulate the mechanisms involved in reading.
Introducing multi-component cardiovascular health screening into existing Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) screening programmes in the UK: A qualitative study of programme staff views
Dr Maria Zubair
(Research Associate in Health Sciences)
This paper from the NIHR PHAST programme looks at AAA screening staff’s views on introduction of multi-component cardiovascular health screening within their existing screening programmes.
Inequalities in the care of gestational diabetes
Elpida Vounzoulaki
(Postdoctoral Epidemiologist at the Leicester Real World Evidence Unit at the Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester)
Gestational diabetes increases the risk of developing long-term cardiometabolic conditions including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This talk discusses research investigating the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension, depression or recurrent gestational diabetes in a population of women previously diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Findings suggest that both ethnicity and level of deprivation are linked to the likelihood of developing these conditions- revealing health inequalities following a diagnosis of gestational diabetes.
Salmonella & bacteriophages: therapeutics, genomics, and machine-based learning
Dr Steve Hooton
(Postdoctoral Research Associate in Professor Martha Clokie's group, Department of Genetics & Genome Biology)
Bacteriophages have potential applications towards combating the global threat of antimicrobial resistance. We use bacteriophages to control multidrug-resistant Salmonella serovars prevalent in pigs. From both animal and human health perspectives we aim to reduce incidences of disease from farm-to-fork This research is developing highly effective bacteriophage cocktails to circumvent bacterial resistance to infection. Utilising traditional microbiology, high throughput phenotyping arrays, and whole genome sequencing we aim to improve phage cocktail formulations via machine-learning approaches.
Structure and function of centromeric cohesin protection by SGO1
Amrita Patel
(Postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester )
Cohesin mediates cohesion between sister chromatids, which is essential for their bi-orientation on mitotic spindles. The centromeric cohesin is protected by conserved protein, SGO1. We have determined the X-ray crystal structure of relevant segment of SGO1 bound to SA2-Scc1(RAD21). Centromeric cohesion is one of the hallmarks of mitotic chromosomes and our study shows that SGO1-cohesin binding is essential for faithful chromosome segregation and the maintenance of a stable karyotype.
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