The Training School will provide informative research seminars and hands-on training for trainees in a  state-of-the-art Physiological Oxygen Laboratory based in the King’s British Heart Foundation Centre  of Research Excellence, King’s College London, U.K. 

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/physiological-oxygen-laboratory 

This Training School is supported by an EU COST Action CA20121 ‘Bench to bedside transition for  pharmacological regulation of NRF2 in non-communicable diseases’ (https://benbedphar.org). The Training School aims to highlight the importance of the KEAP1/NRF2 defense pathway in cellular  redox signaling, focusing particularly on studies of NRF2 signaling in cells cultured under physiological  oxygen levels. Trainees will be able to attend an informative seminar programme in which established  researchers will provide up-to-date overviews of the importance of targeting NRF2 in health and  disease. We have also invited clinicians in the field of neurodegeneration to provide trainees with  insights into clinical treatment for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.  

Researchers from Baker, BMG Labtech, BioGenium Microsystems and Lucid Scientific will present  talks on the use of oxygen controlled Baker workstations, oxygen controlled CLARIOstar plate reader,  portable oxygen controlled Oxygenie and novel Recipher apparatus to measure oxygen consumption  rate in living cells. In afternoon sessions, trainees would be guided on the use of the facilities by  Training School Staff (see appended programme). 

TheTraining School has capacity for 10-12 trainees of which BenBedPhar will defray registration, the  cost of travel and provide an allowance (to cover accommodation, catering and short-distance travel)  for trainees. Trainees will be selected from PhD students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs)  participating in the BenBedPhar project, considering quality of their submitted abstract and gender and  geographical balance. Attending Trainees will present their research during 15-min presentations.  

Abstracts will be compiled in an Abstract Booklet together with the programme and speaker biography.  Prof Mann is liaising with Elsevier to enquire whether abstracts from the Training School can be  published in Free Radical Biology & Medicine.