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Make sure you take advantage of this opportunity by attending as the talk won't be recorded.  

This is an in-person event only

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"From datasets to drug treatments, Investigating the role of skin ECM in health and disease"

Speaker: Dr Matthew Caley

Matthew received his PhD in Biological Sciences from Cardiff University in 2008 studying Chronic Wounds under the supervision of Prof. Phil Stephens. He then moved to Imperial College London joining the laboratory of Dr Justin Sturge and Prof. Jonathan Waxman to study prostate cancer metastasis and the role the extracellular matrix plays in controlling cell behaviour.In 2011, he moved to the Blizard Institute returning to skin research in the laboratory of Prof. Edel O’Toole where he started work on Epidermolysis Bullosa. In 2019 Matthew was appointed as a Lecturer in Cell Biology and established his own research group focusing on the skin basement membrane and laminin 332 in particular. His group investigates the varied roles of ECM in healthy and damaged skin, skin cancer and in epidermolysis bullosa. Matthew is a co-organiser of the London Skin Club, is the BSID communications officer, co-director of the Regenerative Medicine PGR programme and co-founder of Treat-EB an EB focused not for profit CRO. 

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“It Just Clicks: Biorthogonal Chemistry for Smart Biomaterials"

Speaker: Jonathan P. Wojciechowski

Dr. Jonathan P. Wojciechowski is a Senior Researcher and Theme Leader in the research group of Professor Dame Molly Stevens at the University of Oxford. He completed his PhD in Chemistry at the University of New South Wales (2018) under the supervision of Professor Pall Thordarson and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London (2018 - 2024). His research focuses on the development and characterisation of translational biomaterials. He has expertise in the synthesis of peptides and Raman vibrational probes, hydrogel design, 3D printing, and materials and chemical characterisation. He was previously involved in the UK Regenerative Medicine Program for Smart Materials and in 2020 was awarded a CAS Future Leaders Fellowship.