The Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction was proud to host its second annual Away Day on the 14 October.
The virtual event featured presentations from staff across the Department and provided an opportunity to showcase some of the exciting research taking place in the Divisions and Sections. The morning included 16 talks and you can watch a recording of the full Away Day here and below.
Programme of speakers:
| Title of Presentation | Speaker |
| Welcome and Introduction by Professor Mark Thursz | |
| Ultrasound guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound for the treatment of early gestation twin-twin transfusion syndrome | Caroline Shaw |
| Accelerating functional gene discovery in osteoarthritis | Natalie Butterfield |
| Deep-learning on liver vascular ultrasound images to detect fibrosis and HCC | Elsa Angelini |
| Machine Learning for histological analysis in fatty liver disease | Roberta Forlano |
| Biased signalling in drug discovery: concept to application in metabolic disease | Ben Jones |
| Dietary monitoring using urinary metabolic profiling | Isabel Garcia Perez |
| Capturing the metabolic signature of proliferating hepatocytes | Zoe Hall |
| Control of pancreatic beta cell function by the mitofusins Mfn1 and Mfn2 | Eleni Georgiadou |
| Direct on-swab metabolic profiling for rapid assessment of vaginal microbiome: host interactions during pregnancy and pre-term birth | Pamela Pruski |
| Data on Paediatric presentations with type 1 diabetes during Covid-19 | Rebecca Unsworth |
| Exploiting complex G protein-coupled receptor signalling in pregnancy | Abigail Walker |
| Role for neurotensin in glucose regulation | Anna Roberts |
| Genetics of rare metabolic disease: finding the needle in the haystack with regulatory genomics | Ines Cebola |
| PD-1/PD-L1 pathway and macrophage modulation in Liver Failure | Evangelos Triantafyllou |
| From spectrum to metabolite – bridging analytics and biology through metabolome characterisation | Elena Chekmeneva |
| Colonisation resistance as a tool in MDRO management | Ben Mullish |
| Closing Remarks | Mark Thursz |