Posters and abstracts
All Abstracts Research Retreat (download file in order to view bookmarks)
Barbados Presentation room
(Ground Floor)
Judges: Dr Dallas Roulston (Education) & Dr Riccardo Ronzoni (Respiratory)
Time: Coffee Break AM: 10.45am-11.30am
Poster 1: Anastasia Z. Kalea (Education) 'The Effects of Cereal β-Glucans on Cardiovascular Risk Factors and the role of the gut microbiome'
Poster 2: Olivia Bracken (Experimental and Translational Medicine) 'IL-15 drives NKR mediated cytotoxicity in senescent CD8+ T cells'
Poster 3: Polina Deletic (Experimental and Translational Medicine) 'Senescence fibroblasts induce Tregs to inhibit immune response'
Poster 4: Shereen Nizari (Imaging) 'Using non-invasive MRI to inform therapy by characterising fluid movement in the diseased brain'
Judges: Dr Nish Arulkumaran (ETM) & Dr Richard Beatson (Respiratory)
Time: Lunch Session 2: 1.20pm-2.20pm
Poster 5: Lucie Gourmet (Imaging). 'The temporal evolution of cancer hallmarks'
Poster 6: Junjie Peng (Inflammation). 'Atherosclerosis Progression in the APPLE Trial Can Be Predicted in Young People With Juvenile-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Using a Novel Lipid Metabolomic Signature'
Poster 7: Hannah Peckham (Inflammation) - Cancelled. 'Complex interplay between sex chromosomes, sex hormones and class-switch recombination of B lymphocytes'
Poster 8: Ania Radziszewska (Inflammation). 'CD8+ T cell cytotoxic capacity is reduced in patients with juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus'
Judges: Dr Daniel Stuckey (Imaging) & Dr Jo-Anne Wilson (Respiratory)
Time: Lunch Session 1: 12.20pm-1.20pm
Poster 9: Amaani Ahmad (Inflammation). 'Investigating the Utility of SARC-F and Mini Sarcopenia Risk Assessment Questionnaires in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Pilot Survey of UCH Cohort'
Poster 10: Alexandra Oppong (Inflammation). 'Simple combined clinical and laboratory markers of hyperinflammation predict adverse outcomes in hospitalised COVID-19 patients and suggest dexamethasone therapy may not be suitable for all patients'.
Poster 11: Bethan Goulden (Inflammation). 'Pregnancy outcomes from a tertiary Obstetric Rheumatology clinic in the United Kingdom: A 10-year retrospective audit'.
Poster 12: Yuqing Tian (Inflammation). 'TTR’s fate: Unravelling TTR fibril formation & degradation'.
Judges: Professor Jill Norman (Renal) & Dr Jing Zhao (WIBR)
Time: Lunch Session 1: 12.20pm-1.20pm
Poster 13: Diana Matei (Inflammation) - Cancelled. 'Dietary arginine supplementation exacerbates experimental arthritis severity'
Poster 14: Tope Oyelade (ILDH). 'Prognostic value of physiological network mapping in critically ill patients with acute liver failure'
Poster 15: Supachaya Sriphoosanaphan (ILDH) - Cancelled. 'Hyperammonemia-induced mitochondrial dysfunction is abrogated by targeting toll-like receptor 4'
Poster 16: Maria Castanho Martins (ILDH). 'Sexual dimorphism in Small Intestinal NETS: Any association with development of mesenteric metastases?'
Trinidad Presentation Room
(Ground floor)
Judges: Dr Diana Canetti (Inflammation & Dr Jessica Orr (Respiratory)
Time: Coffee Break AM: 10.45am-11.30am
Poster 17: Yuchen Yang (ILDH). 'Advancing Early Cancer Diagnosis: The ADEPTS Study for Pancreatic cancer and other pancreaticobiliary disease'.
Poster 18: Daniel Parra (ILDH). 'Repurposing a p53 reactivator for the treatment of pancreatic cancer'
Poster 19: Mateusz Kaczynski (Neuroscience (WIBR). 'Integrative computational modelling of CNS disease targets and blood brain barrier dynamics'
Poster 20: Cynthia Wang (Neuroscience (WIBR). 'Towards the Discovery of potent PROTACs that Eliminate the EBNA1 Asian Variants'
Judges: Dr Jo Barnes (Respiratory) & Dr Guglielmo Verona (Inflammation)
Time: Lunch session 2: 1.20pm-2.20pm
Poster 21: Sai Puppala (Neuroscience (WIBR). 'Characterising Epitope-tagged Sodium Channel NaV1.8 Knock-in Mouse for Pain Study'
Poster 22: Vedant Hinduja (Neuroscience (WIBR) 'Design, synthesis and in-vitro testing of FAAH PROTACs for the treatment of chronic pain'
Poster 23: Catherine Chieng (Renal). 'Circulating neutrophils from patients with chronic urinary tract infection show an altered immune response towards bacterial stimulation'
Poster 24: Sherry Masoud (Renal). 'Clinical Predictors of Long-term Outcomes in C3 Glomerulopathy and Immune-Complex Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis within the UK RaDaR Registry'
Judges: Professor Rachel Chambers (Resp.) & Dr Voon Ong (Inflammation)
Time: Lunch session 1: 12.20pm-1.20pm
Poster 25: Jinhui Gao (Renal). 'Development of an in vitro human bladder cancer model within a healthy urothelial context to use as a testbed for novel treatments';
Poster 26: Nicholas Yuen (Renal). 'Utilisation of a human gut-bladder model to understand the role of the Gut Microbiome in Urinary tract infections.'
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Gallery Presentation Room
(Lower Ground Floor)
Judges: Professor Rachel Chambers (Resp.) & Dr Voon Ong (Inflammation)
Time: Lunch session 1: 12.20pm-1.20pm
Poster 27: Gabriel Doctor (Renal). 'Ancestry Matching for Genome Wide Association Studies'.
Poster 28:Long Yin Lavine Liu (Renal). 'The Complexity in Expressing the C terminal of Complement Factor H Related 5 Protein'.
Judges: Professor Markella Ponticos (Inflam) & Dr Kaylee Worlock (Respiratory)
Time: Lunch Session 2: 1.20pm-2.20pm
Poster 29: Konstantinos Tzoumkas (Renal). 'Quantifying Genetic Contributors to Haematuria in the UK Biobank'
Poster 30: Ramon Garcia Maset (Renal). 'The role of polymicrobial biofilms in urinary tract infections (UTIs) using a urine tolerant human urothelium organoid model (3D-UHU).'
Poster 31:Annabel Kunzemann Martinez (Respiratory). 'Development of a novel, chronic in vitro fibrotic model to investigate the role of DDR1 and DDR2 in lung fibrogenesis.'
Judges: Professor Stephen Pereira (ILDH) & Professor Liz Jury (Inflammation)
Time: Coffee break AM: 10.45am-11.30am
Poster 32: Jo-Anne Wilson (instead of Manu) (Respiratory). 'Critical role for the TGFβ1/mTORC1 signalling axis in defining the transcriptional identity of CTHRC1+ pathologic fibroblasts in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis'.
Poster 33: Greg Contento (Respiratory). 'Pyruvate metabolism dictates fibroblast sensitivity to GLS1 inhibition during fibrogenesis'.
Poster 34: Lama Alqahtani (Respiratory). 'Role of Microbi ome in the Outcome of the Pre-invasive Lung Cancer Lesions.'
Poster 35: David Osuna de la Pena (Respiratory)
'Modelling airway basal cell adaptation to chronic tobacco exposure and smoking cessation.'
Judges: Profesor Krista Rombouts (ILDH) & Dr George Robinson (Inflammation)
Time: Lunch session 1: 12.20pm-1.20pm
Poster 36: Sarah Lowen (Respiratory)- Cancelled. 'NMR fingerprinting reveals the pathological linkage in Z alpha-1-antitrypsin polymers from explant human liver'
Poster 37: Jessica Orr (Respiratory). 'A lentiviral toolkit to monitor airway epithelial cell differentiation using bioluminescence.'
Poster 38: Romina Arzili Moshtagh (Respiratory). 'Preparing for the First Breath: Delineating Late Foetal Human Lung Development and Maturation'
Judges: Professor David Abraham (Inflammation) & Dr Gautam Mehta (ILDH)
Time: Coffee Break AM: 10.45am-11.30am
Poster 39: Timothy Little (Respiratory Medicine). 'Shining a light on the developing foetal immune system with single-cell analysis.'
Poster 40: Eliz Kilich (Respiratory Medicine). PhD: 'Maternal and Foetal Immune Responses after vaccinations administered during pregnancy.'
Poster 41: Nina Heyer-Chauhan (Instead of Riccardo Ronzoni) (Respiratory Medicine). 'Use of monoclonal antibodies for the analysis and screening of conformers associated with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.'