The CrickConnect team are delighted to be able to invite community members to join us for the institute's regular Crick Lecture.
Crick Lectures provide a broad insight into biomedical research from leading scientists. Not to be missed, the one-hour lectures are the event of the week for the Crick community to come together. The lectures aim to be accessible to scientists across different disciplines, while also offering something for the specialist.
There is also an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and friends over refreshments after Crick Lectures from 17:00. If you are able to join us in person at the Crick please let us know at connect@crick.ac.uk so we can arrange access.
Principal Group Leader Kate Bishop gives this week's Crick lecture. Kate leads the Retroviral Replication Lab here at the Crick.
The Bishop lab investigates how retroviruses such as HIV infect and multiply inside cells so that it can better understand them, and develop more effective antiviral treatments.
Kate Bishop received a first class (hon) BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Bath following two research placements; one at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and the other at Chiron Corporation in San Francisco, USA.
After completing her PhD studies with Jonathan Stoye working on the retroviral restriction factor, Fv1, she undertook postdoctoral training with Michael Malim at King's College London, investigating the APOBEC family of retroviral restriction factors. Kate was awarded a prestigious Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship in 2004 to continue her APOBEC research.
In 2008 she was simultaneously awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship and a group leader position at NIMR enabling her to broaden her research interests and investigate various aspects of the early stages of retroviral replication. Kate was awarded tenure at the Francis Crick Institute and promoted to senior group leader in 2017.
Alongside her research Kate is passionate about public engagement and is regularly involved in outreach activities.
Due to the pioneering and sensitive nature of some of the research discussed in these lectures, only Crick Lectures from selected speakers will be shared, and we ask all attendees to respect the private nature of these talks by refraining from making any type of recording, sharing access details or in any other way compromising the research that is discussed.
If you'd like to attend in person please let us know at connect@crick.ac.uk
