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