Research Area VI - Biological Systems

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src="/media/esto1vll/iru-dias.jpg?width=720&height=720&rnd=133324170817300000" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__about-container"> <div class="person-modal-full-view__job-details top-bottom-spacing container-lg"> <div class="person-modal-full-view__job-title subheading-one">Chair, RAVI</div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__location subheading-one">Aston University</div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__line"></div> </div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__rich-text-promo-container"> <div class="umb-block-list"> <div class="rich-text-block bottom-spacing "> <div class="container-sm rich-text "> <p>Irundika’s research interests are on redox biology related to chronic inflammatory diseases. She uses lipidomic tools to identify modified lipid biomarkers in ageing and disease. She graduated from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka with a BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She completed Immunology MSc in Brunel University, UK followed by a PhD from Aston University, UK. During her post-doctoral and Fellowship work at Aston University, she worked on metabolic pathways that leads to chronic inflammation and specialised on lipidomic studies and biomarker analysis. She is currently a lecturer at Aston medical school. She acts as the chair of Biochemical Society Theme Panel-Research Area VI.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Redox Biology, Lipidomics, Biomarkers</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="person-modal-partial"> <div class="person-modal-tile expandable"> <div class="person-modal__image-container"> <img class="person-modal__image" alt="Image of Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan" src="/media/2dapfhhi/generic-listing-orange.png?width=150&height=150&rnd=133147136678700000" /> </div> <div class="person-modal__details-container"> <div class="subheading-two"> Vice Chair / University of Liverpool </div> <h5 class="person-modal__name">Vanja Pekovic-Vaughan</h5> <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary person-modal__button stretched-link" data-bs-toggle="modal" data-bs-target="#person-modal-add9b50d-9f91-4348-b3de-96181e4ac92d"> <i class="fa-solid fa-arrow-right-long person-modal__icon" aria-hidden="true"></i> </button> </div> <div class="modal 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</div> <div class="person-modal-partial"> <div class="person-modal-tile expandable"> <div class="person-modal__image-container"> <img class="person-modal__image" alt="Image of Andrea Caporali" src="/media/sp4djcyn/caporali-profile-picture.jpg?width=150&height=150&rnd=133353646038970000" /> </div> <div class="person-modal__details-container"> <div class="subheading-two"> Committee Member / University of Edinburgh </div> <h5 class="person-modal__name">Andrea Caporali</h5> <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary person-modal__button stretched-link" data-bs-toggle="modal" data-bs-target="#person-modal-e31a299c-248c-494d-bb73-9777670f9b82"> <i class="fa-solid fa-arrow-right-long person-modal__icon" aria-hidden="true"></i> </button> </div> <div class="modal fade" id="person-modal-e31a299c-248c-494d-bb73-9777670f9b82" data-bs-backdrop="static" data-bs-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-scrollable 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src="/media/sp4djcyn/caporali-profile-picture.jpg?width=720&height=720&rnd=133353646038970000" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__about-container"> <div class="person-modal-full-view__job-details top-bottom-spacing container-lg"> <div class="person-modal-full-view__job-title subheading-one">Committee Member</div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__location subheading-one">University of Edinburgh</div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__line"></div> </div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__rich-text-promo-container"> <div class="umb-block-list"> <div class="rich-text-block bottom-spacing "> <div class="container-sm rich-text "> <p>Andrea Caporali obtained his PhD in the laboratory of Prof Costanza Emanueli at the University of Bristol in 2009, where he acquired expertise in cardiovascular and translational medicine research. At the University of Bristol, Dr Caporali has contributed to demonstrating the mechanisms driving endothelial impairment in diabetes. This has further inspired him to investigate the deregulation of microRNAs in vascular disease as a postdoctoral fellow in the Emanueli laboratory. In 2012, he was awarded the British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellowship at the University of Bristol. In 2013, he moved to the University of Edinburgh by securing the tenure track programme Chancellor’s Fellowship. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Cardiovascular Science at the University of Edinburgh. During the last years, Caporali lab adopted cellular and pre-clinical models to characterise vascular signalling behind ECs dysfunction and try to revert it by taking a drug or gene therapy approach.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> non-coding RNAs, cardiovascular disease, endothelial cells</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="person-modal-partial"> <div class="person-modal-tile expandable"> <div class="person-modal__image-container"> <img class="person-modal__image" alt="Image of Ayse Latif" src="/media/2dapfhhi/generic-listing-orange.png?width=150&height=150&rnd=133147136678700000" /> </div> <div class="person-modal__details-container"> <div class="subheading-two"> Early Career Representative / University of Manchester </div> <h5 class="person-modal__name">Ayse Latif</h5> <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary person-modal__button stretched-link" data-bs-toggle="modal" 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<div class="container-sm rich-text "> <p>John Noone attained both his BSc. and PhD from Dublin City University’s School of Health and Human Performance studying the role skeletal muscle mitochondrial function and fusion-fission dynamics play in the regulation of energy metabolism in human health and disease. He subsequently undertook his initial postdoctoral training Trinity College Dublin’s School of Biochemistry and Immunology. Here his research focused on the role drugs targeting the endocannabinoid system play in the mitigation of skeletal muscle cancer cachexia. At present John is continuing his training as a research fellow in the USA at AdventHealth’s Translational Research Institute, Orlando, Florida as part of the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) specializing in the skeletal muscle mitochondrial response to exercise, inactivity, aging, and its role in metabolic disease progression.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Mitochondria, metabolism, skeletal muscle, physical activity, aging</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="person-modal-partial"> <div class="person-modal-tile expandable"> <div class="person-modal__image-container"> <img class="person-modal__image" alt="Image of Kimia Witte" src="/media/t3fdlht0/kimia-witte.jpg?width=150&height=150&rnd=133341742752900000" /> </div> <div class="person-modal__details-container"> <div class="subheading-two"> Committee Member / University of Strathclyde </div> <h5 class="person-modal__name">Kimia Witte</h5> <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary person-modal__button stretched-link" data-bs-toggle="modal" data-bs-target="#person-modal-53f9d9a8-0386-4915-bae5-ee88490dad84"> <i class="fa-solid fa-arrow-right-long person-modal__icon" aria-hidden="true"></i> </button> </div> <div class="modal fade" id="person-modal-53f9d9a8-0386-4915-bae5-ee88490dad84" data-bs-backdrop="static" data-bs-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-scrollable modal-fullscreen"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="person-modal-full-view"> <button type="button" class="btn-close person-modal-full-view__close-button" data-bs-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <i class="fa-solid fa-2x fa-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i> </button> <div class="person-modal-full-view__flex-container"> <div class="person-modal-full-view__profile-container bg-person-modal-orange"> <div class="person-modal-full-view__profile-top-container"> <h1 class="person-modal-full-view__title">Kimia Witte</h1> <div class="person-modal-full-view__url-container"> <i class="fa-solid fa-globe" aria-hidden="true"></i> <a id="websiteurl" href="https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/wittekimiadr/">Staff page</a> </div> </div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__bottom-container"> <div class="person-modal-full-view__social-container"> <a class="fabs fabs--turquoise fabs--hover-transition social-buttons" href="https://twitter.com/KimiaWitte" target="_blank"> <i class="fa-brands fa-fw fa-x-twitter" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a> <a class="fabs fabs--turquoise fabs--hover-transition social-buttons" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimia-witte-182045181/" target="_blank"> <i class="fa-brands fa-fw fa-linkedin-in" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a> </div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__image-container"> <img class="person-modal-full-view__image avatar" alt="Image of Kimia Witte" src="/media/t3fdlht0/kimia-witte.jpg?width=720&height=720&rnd=133341742752900000" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__about-container"> <div class="person-modal-full-view__job-details top-bottom-spacing container-lg"> <div class="person-modal-full-view__job-title subheading-one">Committee Member</div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__location subheading-one">University of Strathclyde</div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__line"></div> </div> <div class="person-modal-full-view__rich-text-promo-container"> <div class="umb-block-list"> <div class="rich-text-block bottom-spacing "> <div class="container-sm rich-text "> <p>Kimia's research interests centre around understanding the mechanosensitivity of cells during the organogenesis of connective tissues, with a particular focus on the nervous system. They are also interested in engineering Blood-Brain Barrier organoid models using microfluidics in a high-throughput manner, capable of generating 1 to 10 organoids per second. This approach enables applications in disease modelling and drug discovery. Kimia is a Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Strathclyde, with an affiliation in the School of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Glasgow. They are also a Principal Investigator at the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment at the University of Glasgow. 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