Seminars and Events

PhD students having fun playing beer pong

Fun and games with CMBI4 at the Flowers Christmas Party

Group photo of CMBI5 members at the Flowers Christmas party

CMBI5 smiling for the camera

PhD student and two postdocs smiling at the camera holding drinks

CMBI3 making the most of the drinks (far right)

Two PhD students smiling at the camera holding drinks

Amy (left) and Nancy (right)

Wine expert at CPG wine and cheese party

CPG Wine and Cheese Party 2018

CPG Wine and Cheese Party 2018

We hold seminars and socials frequently throughout the year, presenting work from our very own CPG members!

Upcoming events

1st May 2018 - CPG Careers (Guest Speaker: Philippa Skett)

6:30PM, MARY FLOWERS 7.20, CMBI

Talk from Philippa Skett (Communications manager at the Royal Society of Biology) about science communication as a career.

10th May 2018 - CPG Elections, Pizza and Beer

6:30PM, MARY FLOWERS 7.20, CMBI

Time to vote for a new CPG committee!

24th May 2018 - CPG Seminar (Ashleigh Cheyne and Sophie Howard)

5:30PM, MARY FLOWERS 7.20, CMBI

Ashleigh Cheyne (Larrouy-Maumus group)
Sophie Howard (Alain Filloux group)

Past events

23rd March 2018 - CPG Easter Egg Hunt

ALL DAY, MULTIPLE LOCATIONS, CMBI

26th April 2018 - CPG Seminar (Speakers TBC)

5:30PM, MARY FLOWERS 7.20, CMBI

1st March 2018 - CPG Seminar (Kam Pou Ha and Eve Hopkins)

5:30PM, MARY FLOWERS 7.20, CMBI

Kam Pou Ha (Edwards group) - Rex marks the spot: Promoting susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus to host defences
Eve Hopkins (Frankel group) - Navigating proteomic landscapes of intestinal epithelial cells during infection

15th February 2018 - CPG Cakes

1PM, ground floor foyer, CMBI

Join us for some cakes after lunch or eat your lunch with us!

1st February 2018 - CPG Seminar (Alexander Hall and Michael Thomson)

5:30PM, mary FLOWERS 7.20, CMBI

Alexander Hall (Helaine group) - Toxin-antitoxin systems in Salmonella
Michael Thomson (Larrouy-Maumus group) - Tuberculosis and cyclic AMP signalling: the hunt for the missing enzymes & why it matters

11th January 2018 - Wine and Cheese Party

6:30pm, FLOWERS, CMBI

We will have a guest wine expert for a wine tasting session accompanied with several types of cheese, crackers and grapes!

Room of people at CPG wine and cheese

8th December 2017 - CMBI Christmas Party

5PM ONWARDS, G47A&B FLOWERS, CMBI

2017

Thursday 16th November 2017 - CPG seminar (Speakers: Christine Jordan & Amy Switzer)

6PM, ROOM 7.20 MARY FLOWERS, CMBI

Friday 27th October 2017 - CMBI Halloween Party

3PM ONWARDS, G47A&B FLOWERS, CMBI

Thursday 19th October 2017 - CPG seminar (Speakers: Will Pearson & Nancy Mulvenna)

6PM, ROOM 7.20 MARY FLOWERS, CMBI

Thursday 12th October 2017 - Welcome to the CMBI

5:30PM, GROUND FLOOR FOYER, CMBI

Welcome event to meet new students joining the CMBI. There will be drinks and snacks in foyer – join us anytime from 5:30 pm!

Thursday 31st August 2017 - CPG Seminar

6PM, ROOM 7.20 MARY FLOWERS, CMBI

A farewell to the outgoing CPG President, Matt Eldridge, who is currently finishing up his three years as a PhD student at the CMBI. Matt will give a fun talk on his experiences as a PhD student, and reasons for staying in research.

Thursday 27th July 2017 - CPGreet and Treat

4PM, GROUND FLOOR FOYER, CMBI

Come and meet the new CPG committee - and see how well they can bake!

Tuesday 24th January 2017 - CPG Pictionary

6PM, ROOM 7.20 MARY FLOWERS, CMBI

Consider yourself a wordsmith? Show off your skills at our pictionary event. Minimal drawing skills required.

2016

Summary of the table's contents
Date	Seminar/Social event
2 Dec 2016	Flowers Building Christmas party
11 Nov 2016	Sonia Rebollo Ramirez (Larrouy-Maumus Group) 'Defining the role of cAMP-binding proteins in mycobacteria' and Becky Johnson (Frankel Group) 'Investigating the globally dominant Salmonella typhi haplotype H58 - an insight into the pathogenesis of typhoid fever'
5 Oct 2016	Welcome drinks for new students in the CMBI
4 Aug 2016	Jayne Watson (Clements Group) 'Differences in S. sonnei and S. flexneri pathogenesis' and Kam Pou Ha (Edwards Group) 'Staphylococcus aureus - what doesn't kill it makes it stronger (Determining how S. aureus survives the oxidative burst)'
2 June 2016	Alex Willis (Mostowy group) 'Therapeutic bacterial predator injections cure vertebrates of Gram-negative bacterial infection' and Miles Priestman (Robertson group) 'Drug Tolerance in Mycobacteria'
14 April 2016	Alexander Byrne (Frankel group) 'Characterisation of Salmonella typhi effectors' and Julia Sanchez-Garrido (Shenoy group) 'Caspase substrates and their role in cell death and inflammation'
15 March 2016	Elsevier Publishing Workshop
20 Jan 2016	Vera Pader (Edwards group) 'How S. aureus shoots itself in the foot' and Amy Switzer (Wigneshweraraj group) 'A bacterial response to dealing with stress'
11 Jan 2016	CPG Breakfast

2015

Summary of the table's contents
Date	Seminar/Social Event
14 Dec 2015	Ice Skating at Winter Wonderland, Hyde Park
27 Nov 2015	London Postgraduate Research Symposium on Bacterial Pathogenesis and Host Defence at University College London/Birkbeck
12 Nov 2015	CPG Pictionary
8 Oct 2015	MRes Student Welcome Drinks
10 Sept 2015	CPG End of Summer Party at Eastside
27 August 2015	Seminar series: Emma Richards (Fairweather group) and Chris Furniss (Clements group)
23 July 2015	Seminar Series: Alexander Byrne (Frankel group) and Panayiota Pissaridou (Filloux group)
11 June 2015	Seminar Series: Robbie Fisher (Helaine group) and Sina Krokowski (Mostowy group)
20 May 2015	CPG Pictionary