Neurogenetics Journal Club | UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
27/10/2026 | 11:30 - 12:30

👩‍🔬 Speaker: Dr Stephanie Efthymiou
📅 Date: 27 October 2026
⏰ Time: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
📍 Location: B05 Darwin Building
📑 Paper: Comparing the frequency of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) between ancestry groups in a paediatric epilepsy cohort https://jmg.bmj.com/content/61/7/645

Genetic testing is increasingly used to diagnose childhood epilepsy, but are all patients

Bacterial Genetics and Evolution Journal Club | Luria & Delbrück (1943)
24/11/2026 | 18:00 - 19:00

🧑‍🔬 Speakers: Professor Wenying Shou & Dr Kabir Husain
📅 Date: 24 November 2026
⏰ Time: 18:00-19:00
📍 Location: Room W3.05, IOE Bedford Way (20)
📑 Paper: Luria & Delbrück (1943), Mutations of Bacteria from Virus Sensitivity to Virus Resistance

Do bacteria become resistant because a virus forces them to adapt or do resistant mutations arise randomly before the virus ever