2024

22 March

• Dr Adriana Wilde: Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) at home: state of the art and future directions

• Dr Shiyang Tang: Liquid Metal Particles and Polymers: A Soft-Soft system with Exciting Properties

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15 March

• Prof Max Crispin: ‘Institute for Life Sciences: an update’ and ‘Exploiting bacterial immune evasion factors in therapeutics’

• Dr Joel Allen: Glycosylation in HIV vaccine design

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8 March

• Dr Nicholas Fuggle: Deploying Computer Vision in Fracture Discrimination

• Dr Beth Curtis: Screening for High Fracture Risk

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1 March

• Dr Frances Wensley: Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in perioperative medicine

• Dr Colleen Deane: Transcriptomic and proteomic features of muscle cell adaptation

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23 February

• Dr Rujie Sun: Bioinspired Fillable Microrobotic Systems for Targeted and On-Demand Drug Delivery (permission not given for recording)

• Dr Lei Li: AI Powered Personalized Virtual Heart Modelling

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9 February

• Dr Anna Selby: Can we prevent children presenting with severe exacerbations of asthma? The PARC study

• Prof Graham Roberts: Preventing food allergy - moving from efficacy to effectiveness

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2 February

• Dr Anastasia Theodosiou: Neisseria lactamica human challenge study in pregnant women (permission not given for recording)

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26 January

• Dr Dianna Smith: Exploring and tackling nutritional and health inequalities in Wessex - the Wessex FRIEND and Wessex DIET projects​

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19 January

• Prof Joanna Sofaer: Pathways to Health Through Cultures of Neighbourhoods

• Dr Sandy Jackson: CIPHER and the PneumoRator study: A platform for experimental medicine​

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12 January

• Prof Tom Wilkinson: Developing new approaches to understand and treat inflammatory respiratory disease - a drive for new technology

• Dr Tommaso Morelli: Respiratory viral infections in hospitalised adults - preliminary findings for the UNIVERSAL study

 

2023​

8 December

• Dr Chrissie Jones: Reducing the risk of cytomegalovirus infection in pregnancy

• Dr Laura Denney: Single-cell spatial analysis reveals inflammatory foci of immature neutrophil and CD8 T cells in COVID-19 lungs 

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1 December

• Prof Kate Ward & Dr Lucy Gates: An international perspective on nutrition and musculoskeletal health

• Dr Harnish Patel: Sarcopenia and frailty research in Southampton

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24 November

• Dr Mark Edwards: OPTIMISE II trial results - settling controversies in perioperative haemodynamic management? (permission not given for recording)

• Dr Cathrine McKenzie: The Critical illness project

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17 November

• Prof Nizar Jarjour: Asthma: a systemic disease with impact on the brain, metabolism and cardiovascular system

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10 November

• Dr Majid Zamani: Intellegent Computational Platforms in Biomedical Engineering

• Dr Chengchen Zhang: A CRISPR/Cas-powered biosensing platform (permission not given for recording)

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3 November

• Dr Zehor Belkhatir: Computational data-driven and mathematical-based modelling approaches for healthcare: Towards personalized therapeutic decision-making in cancer

• Dr Al Edwards: Can we shrink antibiotic susceptibility tests? Can antibiotic resistance be directly measured in urine? Lessons from low-cost high-throughput microfluidics

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20 October

• Dr Efstathios Margaritis: Sound mapping in the spotlight

• Dr Sam Wilding: iDx-Lung: Evaluating the performance of biomarker tests in lung cancer screening

 

13 October

• Prof Rohan Lewis: Insights into reproductive health from 3D nanoscale imaging

• Dr Jane Cleal: The role of the endometrium in fertility disorders

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6 October

• Dr Jay Laver: Controlled human infection with Neisseria lactamica: biological control and programmable prophylaxis against meningococcal disease​

• Dr Callum Highmore: Rapid and reagentless microbial identification using multi-excitation Raman spectroscopy

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7 July

• Dr Fatima Pereira: Reshaping the gut microbiome to fight infections​

• Dr Tracey Newman: Tissue-biomaterial interactions in outcomes with a neuroprosthetic; or does inflammatory state affect hearing with a cochlear implant?​

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30 June

• Dr Nathan Brendish: Molecular point-of-care testing for gastrointestinal pathogens​

• Prof Stephen Beers: The Impact of Body Composition on Breast Cancer and Treatment Response (permission not given for recording)

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23 June

• Dr Jane Cleal: Placental uptake and metabolism of 25(OH)vitamin D determine its activity within the fetoplacental unit

• Dr Guido Maiello: Grasping the visual world: the visuomotor processes that allow us to grasp objects

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16 June

• Dr Paul Conway: Does Pandemic Triage Undermine Trust in the Medical System? How Lay People and Medical Practitioners View COVID-19 Sacrificial Decisions

• Dr Alexander (Sandy) Jackson: The application of AI to risk evaluation in perioperative care

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9 June

• Dr Owen Rackham: The Data-Driven Cell Engineering Hub (DDCE)

• Prof Sarah Morris: Using digital forensics to increase the health data recovered from smart wearables

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​26 May

• Dr Loris Rizzello: Towards an evolutionary-driven universal therapy against (intracellular) pathogens

• Dr Edoardo Scarpa: Extracellular matrix and cellular senescence: possible targets of host directed therapies against mycobacteria

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19 May

• Prof Simon Hettrick: The role of software and digital skills in research

• Dr Peter Worsley: Mechanisms of skin and soft tissue adaptation to mechanical and thermal load: implications for tissue health and device design

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