Annual Research Event

for Postgraduate Research 2018

Thursday 15th March at Plymouth Guildhall

Draft Programme

From08:30Registration and networking

09:00 – 09:10Welcome and Introduction

by Prof Rob Sneyd, Dean of PUPSMD

09:10 – 09:20Welcome and Focus of the day

byDr Vehid Salih and Dr Elaine Green

09:20 – 09:50Keynote 1 –Getting creative in the battle against the anti-biotic resistance time bomb

by Dr Mat Upton and Prof Eduardo Miranda

09:50 – 10:15Refreshments, poster viewing and networking

From 10:15Oral Sessions

10:15 – 10:30 More than tea and cake: a realist evaluation of memory cafes in Cornwall by Lisa Burrows

10:30 – 10:45Endogenous Retroviral proteins as potential drug targets for Merlin-deficient tumours and their role in tumour development by Bora Agit

10:45 – 11:00The control of children's social work by Julie Brown

11:00 – 11:15Lactobacillus plantarum (C28) and Lactobacillus salivarius strain (MS13) induced production of IL-1β and IL-18 differentially from M1 and M2-like macrophages by Luma Al-Abdulwahid

11:15 – 11:30The clinical utility of The Parkinson's KinetiGraph™ (PKG) in disease management by Thea Dominey

11:30 – 11:45Differing mechanisms of ischemia-induced potassium release in grey and white matter by Christopher Bulman

11:45 – 12:45Lunch, poster viewing and networking

12:45 – 13:15Keynote 2 – Climate change, health and sustainability: taking research into teaching and practice in a way that has teeth

by Prof Janet Richardson and Prof David Moles

From 13:15Oral Sessions

13:15 – 13:30Standing Practice in Rehabilitation Early after Stroke (SPIRES): A feasibility randomised controlled trial to improve function, quality of life and reduce neuromuscular impairment in people with severe sub-acute stroke by Angie Logan

13:30 – 13:45Unravelling the mechanism by which dietary nitrate improves human skeletal muscle function by Rosie Donnell

13:45 – 14:00Negotiating information across service boundaries: The role of intergroup relations by Madeleine Tremblett

14:00 – 14:15Exploring associations between social relationships and trust on assessor selection for colleague feedback assessments within UK General Practice by Sebastian Stevens

14:15 – 14:30A systematic review of the qualitative literature to understand the meaning of confidence for older people living with frailty by Frazer Underwood

14:30 – 14:45Complete next-generation sequencing for Rh genes: establishment of reference RHD and RHCE alleles by WajnatTounsi

14:45 – 15:15Refreshments and networking

Poster vote closes

15:15– 16:00Prize presentation and closing remarks

by Prof Bridie Kent, Dean of the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences

Poster Presentations

Abdu Aldarhami - Novel Bacteria Producing Unusual Bacteriocin Antibiotic Leads Isolated from Deep Sea Sponges

Abdu Aldarhami - Public engagement in natural product screening to raise awareness of antimicrobial resistance

Suhailah Ali - Evidence based strategies to establish population-based cervical cancer screening in Kiruk, Iraq

RandaAlib - Polymorphic L1 variants: Genomic characterization and association with risk loci of brain related disorders

AnfalAlwadi -Diet or Dentistry?: Endocrine disrupting plasticiser concentrations in a UK paediatric dental population

Rebecca Baines - Patient and Public Involvement in the design, delivery and evaluation of patient feedback tools for practising psychiatrists, what’s the difference?

Paula Boeira - Investigation of mitochondrial function in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

Zoe Doran - Barriers and enablers to e-health innovation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

Roxane Dunbar - Role of active retrotransposons in susceptibility to Alzheimer’s Disease

Sharon Eustice - Women’s experiences of managing digitation: do we ask enough in primary care?

RaedGarout - New methods for detection of Down syndrome pregnancies and potential pathogenesis pathways in Down syndrome in neural cells

Christian Good - CD36 modulates murine macrophage cytokine production in response to E. coli lipopolysaccharide

Samantha Gould - Developing three dimensional oral mucosal models for denture stomatitis

Kevin Hambridge - The type, extent and impact of sharps injuries within a student nurse population

Ibrahim Halawani - Molecular Studies of Erythroid CD47

Heather Hopper - What approaches to peri-conception care for women with pre-existing medical conditions work, for whom, and in what circumstances? The development of a protocol for a realist review

Jack Kelly - Cross-talk between Parkinson and Alzheimer’s disease

Owen Kendall- Potassium driven mitosis in Drosophila midline cells and human schwannoma

Anna Kharko - Effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation on Temporal Summation in Fibromyalgia

Matthew Koch - Optimisation of deep-sea sponge bacterial recovery and their associated antimicrobial activity

LiyamLaraba - The Role of Hippo Signalling in Merlin Null Tumours of The Nervous System

InocencioMarambaThemes Emerging emerging from the Ehealth Productivity and Innovation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly project

Leanne Martin - Using Natural Environments to Reduce Craving: the Mediating Role of Negative Affect

Louise Mole - “How do you take your tea dear?” – An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the family carer experience of providing nutritional care to people living with dementia at home

Caterina Negroni - Differentially expressed miR-15 family members as novel diagnostic/prognostic tools for meningioma tumours

Laura Rodriguez Diaz - Neural Stem Cell Deregulation: A Single-Cell Screening Approach to Brain Tumour Initiation

Ollie Rupar - Universal Tumour Associated Antigens in Primary Liver Cancer

Nizar Saeedi - Metabolic Adaptation of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains in Causing Bacteraemia

Rachel Stanyer - An exploration of the incorporation of the newborn examination into the pre-registration midwifery curriculum based on the views of experienced midwifery neonatal examiners

Nicole Thomas - Investigation into Supporting Parental Self-efficacy For Child Oral Health

MashaelAlkhanbashiRecombinant Rh Blood Group Antigens

Conor Wood - A realist evaluation of appraisal of doctors

Patricia Woodley - Vasoactive intestinal peptide controls the inflammatory response after peripheral nerve damage.

Claire Wyatt - An exploration of how health and social care service users and students can enable sustained e-health innovation: System change as a way to promote the engagement of service users and students with e-health innovation