Seminars
Wednesday 16th January 2008
Programme:
- 5-5.20pm: "A vision of interdisciplinary research" By Prof Peter McOwan
- 5.20-5.30pm: Discussion
- 5.30-5.50pm: "Engineering molecules and stem cells for the treatment of chronic degenerative inflammatory diseases". By Prof. Yuti Chernajovsky
- 5.50-6pm: Discussion
- 6-7pm: Refreshments in ARTS Foyer
Speakers:
Professor Peter McOwan- Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science
Professor Peter McOwan is currently the Professor of Computer Science and Director of Teaching in the Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London. His research interests are in visual perception, mathematical models for visual processing, in particular motion, cognitive science and biologically inspired hardware and software and science outreach.
His vision research group is a joint collaboration between the Department of Psychology at University College London and the Department of Computing Science at Queen Mary, University of London. The group has been responsible for developing, testing and applying a novel model to account for the performance and biology of the human visual motion pathway. This model is based on the use of derivative operators to calculate the flow of image structure in the visual field, and has been able to resolve a number of fundamental problems associated with previous motion extraction schemes.
Email: pmco@dcs.qmul.ac.uk
Prof. Yuti Chernajovsky, ARC Chair of Rheumatology, William Harvey Research Institute
Yuti Chernajovsky graduated as a molecular biologist, at The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in 1983. His research activities have included the cloning of several interferons, interleukins and their receptors. He has also contributed to the cloning and development of interferon beta as a therapeutic agent and the use of suicidal genes for cancer gene therapy. He became Director of the Arthritis Research Campaign Bone and Joint Research Unit at the William Harvey in 1999.
Email:y.chernajovsky@qmul.ac.uk
