ECRs Networking Session 1: Accelerating Biosciences Discovery

Please REGISTER by the 29th June. Joining instructions (Microsoft Teams link) will be sent to you the day before the event.

The Accelerating Biosciences theme aims to bring together expertise from across College and external stakeholders to integrate automation, AI, biotechnology and molecular tools and technologies to systematically address fundamental questions in biology. Technological advances will both lead new biological discovery, rapidly identifying targets for biological intervention, as well as translating discovery into applied biotechnology applications (in drug discovery, food security, industrial biotechnology etc).

The FoNS theme champions  Professors Ramon Vilar and Geoff Baldwin have organiseda new series of showcasing/networking events for Early Career Academics in FoNS within the ‘Accelerating Biosciences’ cross-departmental theme. Please read below the schedule for this first session. [Note: we are having our second session on the 13th July, please check schedule and how to register in the College event’s website]

15:30 – 15:35 Welcome

15:35 – 15:50 Francesco Antonio Aprile (Chemistry) – Antibody Discovery to Understand Protein Aggregation in Dementia

15:50 – 16:05 Giovanni Sena (Life Sciences) – The biophysics of root morphogenesis and behaviour

16:05 – 16:20 Nazila Kamaly (Chemistry) – Targeted and stimuli-responsive anti-inflammatory nanomedicines for chronic inflammatory diseases

16:20 – 16:25Break

16:25 – 16:40 Marco Di Antonio (Chemistry) –Chemical modification of CRISPR-Cas9 proteins to unlock novel functional chemical-biology probes

16:40 – 16:55 Robbie Murray (Physics)  –Probing the molecular fingerprint region with next generation mid-infrared light sources

16:55 – 17:00 Closing remarks