LeedsOmics Research Symposium 2018 Program
LeedsOmics Research Symposium 2018 Program
Woodhouse Suite, University House, University of Leeds
Monday 21st May 2018
9.00 - 9.30 Registration (coffee/tea)
Session 1 Chair: Julie Aspden
9.30 - 9.45 Julie Aspden
Specialisation of ribosomes in gonads
9.45 - 10.00 Mackenzie Lovegrove
Evolving Eusociality: Using Drosophila melanogaster to understand how queen pheromone inhibits reproduction in worker honeybees
10.00 - 10.15 Paul McKeegan
Patterns in ovine oocyte metabolism during preantral follicle development
10.15 - 10.30 Alysha Taylor
A Comparative Genomics Approach to Identify microRNAs Specific to Placental Mammals
10.30 - 11.20 Poster session/Coffee
Session 2 Chair: Niamh Forde
11.20 - 12.00 Keynote speaker: Mary O'Connell
On the malleability of protein coding sequences
Session 3 Chair: Caroline Chilton
12.00 - 12.15 Caroline Chilton
Towards a ‘multi-omics’ approach to investigate microbiota restoration therapies
12.15 - 12.30 Suparna Mitra
Longitudinal comparative metagenomics of gut microbiome following ridinilazole versus fidaxomicin treatment of Clostridium difficile infection
12.30 - 12.45 Laura Bravo
Omics biomarker identification pipeline using machine learning for translational medicine
12.45 - 1.00 Marilena Elpidorou
BioID proximity labelling and proteomic identification of protein interactions and disease pathways in autosomal recessive neurodevelopmental conditions
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch/posters
Session 4 Chair: Julie Aspden
2.00 - 3.00 Keynote speaker: Chris Ponting
Extraordinary RNAs in health and disease
3.00 - 3.30 Coffee/Posters
Session 5 Chair: Colin Johnson
3.30 - 3.45 Colin A Johnson
Splicing factor PRPF31 retinitis pigmentosa (RP11) is caused by disrupted alternative splicing programmes for genes implicated in pre-mRNA splicing, cellular adhesion and ciliogenesis
3.45 - 4.00 Belinda Baquero-Pérez
Identification of the Tudor domain Royal family as a reader family of m6A-modified RNA
4.00 - 4.15 Georgette Tanner
Simulation of Heterogeneous Tumour Genomes with HeteroGenesis and In Silico Whole Exome Sequencing
4.15 - 4.30 James Murphy
Does KSHV induce virus specific specialised ribosomes during infection?
4.30 - 5.00 Prize giving and close