NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre holds a weekly forum to discuss the latest research.

All staff with a University of Southampton login to Microsoft Teams can access the recordings of these talks via the links below (made available after the talk):

Upcoming talks

Friday 19 November 

• Dr Aneurin Young: Preterm Growth and Nutrition
• Patricia Goggin & Katie Dexter: The Biomedical Imaging Unit: introducing our new in vivo imaging capabilities!

Friday 26 November 

• Prof Graham Roberts: Impact of the pandemic on paediatric presentations and admissions
• Anna Rattu & Dr Ekaterina Khaleva: Development of a core outcome measures set for severe asthma

Friday 3 December 

• Prof M. C. Schraefel: Inbodied Interaction: Health Resilience Design to help #MakeNormalBetter for all, at scale

Friday 10 December 

• Prof Gary Connett: Asthma, classical conditioning and the autonomic nervous system 

Previous talks

2021

Friday 12 November 

• Prof Philip Calder: Obesity, immunity and COVID-19

Friday 5 November 

• Dr Angela Darekar: A brief overview of MRI and clinical imaging research in Southampton – current status and future aspirations

Friday 22 October 

• Prof James Nicoll: Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease

Friday 15 October 

• Prof Diana Eccles: UoS Faculty of Medicine - Vision and Strategy

Friday 9 July

• Prof Rob Read: Lessons from the Human Challenge Programme

Friday 2 July

• Prof Mike Grocott: BRC application update

Friday 25 June

• Prof Reza Nouraei: THRIVE: A hearty breath
• Prof Ratko Djukanovic: Using multi-omics biomarkers to predict clinical responses in severe asthma

Friday 18 June

• Dr Richard Marigold: NIHR Hyperacute Stroke Research Centre at UHS
• Sarah Shaw: The interplay between adolescents’ physical food and social environments, and their role in food purchasing

Friday 11 June

• Dr Salah Mansour: Unconventional T cells in TB
• Dr Danielle Schoenaker: Characterising the state of preconception health in England

Friday 28 May

• Prof Sam Cortese: Treatment of ADHD: looking back, looking forward

Friday 21 May

• Dr Michaela Reichmann: Discovery of new therapeutic targets in tuberculosis by integrating clinical sample and advanced cell culture analyses
• Elizabeth Taylor: Combined interventions in the inter-conception period and the risk of childhood obesity

Friday 14 May

• Prof Christopher Byrne: NAFLD, a common underdiagnosed 21st century disease: linking paediatric obesity and adult diabetes, CVD and cancers

Friday 7 May

• Dr Natalie Cox: Exploring Influences on Appetite in Ageing
• Dilini Kothalawala: Predicting childhood asthma using machine learning and data integration approaches – developing clinical, polygenic and epigenetic risk scores

Friday 30 April

• Imogen Stafford, Guo Cheng & Dr James Ashton: Big Data & Machine Learning in IBD

Friday 23 April

• Dr Claire Jackson & Dr Cornelia Blume: A novel ACE2 isoform is expressed in human respiratory epithelia and is upregulated in response to interferons and RNA respiratory virus infection (starts 00:00:50)
• Dr Faidra Laskou: Musculoskeletal health in older adults and impact of COVID-19 pandemic (starts 00:31:30)

Friday 26 March

• Prof Mary Barker: The value of conversation: why talking to people during the pandemic is every bit as important as surveying, testing and vaccinating them
• Prof Anneke Lucassen & Prof Dame Wendy Hall: Digital Health Research Theme

Friday 19 March

• Prof Graham Burdge: Harnessing transgenic technology to improve dietary intake of marine-type omega-3 fatty acids

Friday 12 March

• Prof Lucy Yardley & Prof Mary Barker: Supporting Behaviour Change Research Theme
• Prof Tom Wilkinson: Respiratory Research Theme
• Prof Keith Godfrey: Lifecourse Nutrition, Lifestyle and Health Research Themes

Friday 5 March

• Prof Rob Read: Infection Research Theme
• Prof Mike Grocott: Perioperative and Critical Care Research Theme

Friday 26 February

• Prof Adriane (Age) Chapman: Designing Data Science analytics for all stakeholders – a look into shortcomings, tools and research in building data science analysis for people

Friday 12 February

• Prof Mike Grocott: Future BRC 2022-2027
• Prof Saul Faust: Future CRF 2022-2027

Friday 5 February

• Dr Chandni Maria Jacob: Preconception and the life course approach to health: implications for informing policy and practice
• Judit Varkonyi-Sepp: Taking a closer look at depression and anxiety in asthma

Friday 29 January

• Prof Nick Harvey: UK Biobank: a unique resource for musculoskeletal research

Friday 22 January

• Prof Sarah Ennis: Omics  in IBD

Friday 15 January

• Prof Cyrus Cooper: Lifecourse epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders 

2020

Friday 11 December

• Prof Paul Elkington: Anti-PD-1 treatment reactivating TB 

Friday 4 December

• Prof Denny Levett: Inspire: reducing postoperative pulmonary complications?
• Dr Tim Wallis: Respiratory follow-up of patients with COVID-19

Friday 27 November

• Prof Sir Stephen Holgate: Air pollution - the environmental health challenge of our time!

Friday 20 November

• Ravita Taheem: How is political commitment to tackling childhood obesity demonstrated in local government (a public health workforce perspective)?
• Dr Mark Edwards: Improving Perioperative Care

Friday 13 November

• Dr Caroline Barker: Equitable research – how PPI can support inclusive research
• Amanda Blatch-Jones / Katie Meadmore: Peer review and decision-making in research funding allocation: generating evidence to maximise value and efficiency for funding organisations

Friday 6 November

• Dr Nathan Brendish: Point-of-care testing for COVID-19 in hospitalised patients
• Dr Elizabeth Payne: Developing and testing a Screen and Treat for Malnutrition (STREAM) intervention in primary care

Friday 30 October

• Prof Tom Wilkinson: COVID- 19 Therapeutics: Finding new treatments for a new disease

Friday 23 October

• Prof Jonathan Swann: Metabolites, microbiota, and the mammalian supra-organism

Friday 16 October

• Dr Chris McCormick: Immunodiagnostics, could it have a role in identifying COVID-19 infected individuals?
• Prof Gareth Griffith: Southampton Clinical Trials Unit – creating evidence today for the patient benefit of tomorrow 

Friday 17 July

• Prof Paul Little: The immune defence trial
• Dr Yihua Wang: Serum procalcitonin level is indicative of outcome in COVID-19 patients receiving invasive ventilation

Friday 10 July

• Dr Ruth Challis: NIHR Bioresource, Southampton Research Biorepository (SRB) and COVID-19

Friday 3 July

• Dr Hannah Burke: Point of care inflammatory phenotyping predicts clinical outcome in COVID-19
• Dr Matt Loxham: COVID-19 and air pollution – what do we know?

Friday 26 June

• Dr Elaine Williams: Wessex Institute’s support to NIHR COVID-19 response 

• Dr Chrissie Jones: A Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With SARS-CoV-2

• Prof Rob Read: The challenge of COVID Human Challenge

Friday 19 June

• Prof Christopher Byrne: Diabetes, obesity and COVID 19: what can we learn from global epidemiology?

• Prof Ratko Djukanovic: Immune profiling of COVID-19 patients In relation to disease severity: important clues for novel therapies?

• Dr Hang Phan: BRC Data Science Theme COVID-19 response in UHS/UoS

Friday 12 June

• Dr Jay Laver: A nasally-administered recombinant bacterial commensal to generate immunity to SARS-CoV-2

• Prof Ian Clarke: RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection

• Dr Ben Ainsworth: Germ Defence: a digital intervention to improve infection control behaviours in the home

Friday 5 June

• Prof Sandy Jack - SafeFit trial
• Dr David Cleary - Genome Sequencing of SARS-Cov-2
• Dr Vito Mennella - Discovery of a novel ACE2 isoform and potential role in​ Sars-Cov-2 infection

Friday 22 May

• Prof Salim Khakoo - NK cells: a therapeutic opportunity for COVID-19
• Prof Christian Ottensmeier - Examining T cell responses in virus infection (ExCel)
• Dr Max Crispin - SARS-CoV-2 viral spike glycoprotein and serological testing

Friday 15 May

• Ratko Djukanovic - Treatment of severe COVID-19 pneumonia with CM4620-IE, an IV formulation of a novel CRAC channel inhibitor

• Saul Faust - COVID-19 vaccine trials in Southampton
• Bill Keevil - Breaking the chain of infection with antimicrobial copper

Thursday 7 May

• Mary Barker - COVID-19: exploring messaging and support for young people
• Philip Calder - Nutrition, immunity & COVID-19​
• Mike Grocott - COV-Surf (nebulized surfactant for severe COVID-19)

Friday 1 May

• Donna Davies - Modeling SARS-COV-2 infection in vitro - a translational perspective
• Tristan Clark - Point-of-care testing for COVID-19: what have we learned so far?​

Friday 24 April 

• Chris McCormick - An overview of the human coronaviruses, how they replicate and early insights into culture adapted mutations​