SM@SH seminars

We meet up on the 3rd or 4th Thursday of the month @ ~12:30 pm, depending on what room bookings we can secure. We also notify people of upcoming meetings via emails and our Slack group. Please join our google group so you can get updates directly to your inbox.

External Speakers

We welcome nominations for speakers from across all areas of single molecule research. If you have a nomination for an external speaker, you can let us know using the external speaker nomination form.

Internal Speakers

We are always looking for speakers from within the University of Sheffield for our short ECR talks. ECR talks are a great chance to present your data to a friendly and interested audience. If you have a story that you'd like to present, or if you know someone who has a story that might be of interest, please suggest them using the internal speaker nomination form. 

Schedule for the Academic Year 2024/25

Our seminar series this year is sponsored by the Biochemical Society.

• Friday 25th of October 2024 - 3 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room. Followed by a social event to start the new academic year.

  • Matt Newton (Research fellow at the School of Biosciences) - Manipulating and imaging individual DNA molecules to directly observe protein activity at single-molecule resolution

  • Georgia Taylor-Vine (Craggs lab)  -  Advancing GPCR Drug Discovery: SMALP-Based FCS Screening for CGRP Receptors

• Friday 22nd of November 2024 - 12:30 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room.

  • Erin Cutts (Research fellow at the School of Biosciences) - Resolving DNA tangles

  • Katie Gelder (Bose lab)  -  Investigating the cooperative role of IDRs on the biological phase separation of CBP

• Thursday 20th February 2025 - 12:30 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room.

• Thursday 20th March 2025 - 12:30 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room.

• Thursday 17th April 2025 - 12:30 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room.

• Thursday 15th May 2025 - 12:30 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room.

• Thursday 19th June 2025 - 12:30 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room.

• Thursday 17th July 2025 - 12:30 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room.

Previous years events

Schedule for the Academic Year 2023/24

• 28 September 2023: Dylan Lewis (Johnson Lab), "Investigating the binding of cyanobacterial photosystem 1 and plastocyanin through single molecule force spectroscopy (PF-QNM)"  - 12:30-13:30, Alfred Denny Conference Room

• 26 October 2023:  Dr Laia Pasquina Lemonche, "Quantitative imaging of bacterial cell wall with AFM reaching unprecedented molecular resolution"  - 12:30-13:30, Alfred Denny Conference Room - 12:00-13:00, Alfred Denny Conference Room

• 16 November 2023: Max Gamill (Pyne group) "Tracking and Tracing DNA Topology with AFM" - 12:00-13:00, Alfred Denny Conference Room

• 15 February 2024: 12:30-13:30, Alfred Denny Conference Room

  • • Emma Turner (Twelvetrees lab) - Establishing an experimental pipeline to determine functional effects of neurodegenerative mutations in kinesin-1.

    • Sophie Fountain (Craggs lab) - DNA damage induces long range changes to duplex structure- a non-protein start to damage detection.

• 14 March 2024: 12:30-13:30, Alfred Denny Conference Room

  • • Carl Harrison (Strutt Lab)

    • Proteintech - Proteintech will be presenting some of their reagents for single molecule work.

• 25 April 2024: 12:30-13:30, Alfred Denny Conference Room

  • • Indrajit Lahiri - Single molecule structural biology using cryoEM

• 16 May 2024: 12:30-13:30, Alfred Denny Conference Room

  • • Suman De - Unravelling the Role of Inherited Genes in Risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease using single-molecule imaging

    • Raj Hossein - Molecular to cell scale modelling of planar polarity

• 20 June 2024: 12:30-13:30, Alfred Denny Conference Room

  • • Alexandra Moreno Mitchell (Toseland Lab) - Design and Implementation of Single-molecule Cancer Diagnostics

    • Ruaridh Lang (Shelkovnikova Lab) - Flow-induced dispersion analysis (FIDA) and it’s uses in single molecule characterization

• 18 July 2024: 12:30-13:30, Alfred Denny Conference Room

Schedule for the Academic Year 2022/23

• 17th of November 2022: Evie Smith (Twelvetrees Lab) - G14 of the Dainton Building

• 15th of December 2022: Christmas Social - Medical School Heritage Room

• 20th January 2023 - SMASH showcase event! - The Diamond Building, LT2

• 20th of April 2023: Ashleigh Davey (Twelvetrees Lab), “Determining the Dynamic Localisation of Ribosomes in Neurons” - 13:30-14:30, Conference room at ICOSS (first floor).

• 25th of May 2023: Katie Gelder (Bose Lab). "CBP: the story of a histone acetyltransferase that forms blobs" - 12:30-13:30, Alfred Denny Conference Room

• 20th July 2023: Danielle Lambert (Toseland Lab), "Developing techniques for rapid single molecule detection" - 12:30-13:30, Seminar Room 9, The Medical School.

2021/22

• January 13th 2022, 4 pm: Presentations from Evie Smith (Twelvetrees Lab) and Alice Rhind-Tutt (Craggs Lab), online.

• February 9th 2022, 4pm: Eddie Rollins (Pyne Lab), online

• March 10th 2022, 4pm: Chris Toseland and Ben Ambrose (Craggs Lab). Online and H5 of the Dainton building.

• April 14th 2022, 4pm: Carl Harrison (Strutt Lab) and Suman De. Online and H5 of the Dainton building.

• May 12th 2022, 4pm: Katie Gelder (Bose Lab). SITraN, room B02.

• June 9th 2022, 4pm: Tim Craggs. SITraN, room B02.

• July 14th 2022: cancelled due to unforseen circumstances