Would you like to hear more about our world-leading research? Then this event is for you!
The Research Showcase will take place on the 26th September 2018, from 9:30am, in LT1 of the Blackett Laboratory, South Kensington Campus.
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Register for the Faculty of Natural Sciences Research Showcase here.
Schedule
Showcasing our innovative research from across the sciences, join us for a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with academics and prize-winning PhD students from the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
Welcome coffee – in the Blackett Laboratory foyer
Environment and sustainability – 10:00
- Professor Jo Haigh: Greening Imperial
- Juan Pablo Orjuela Mendoza: Modelling personal exposure and inhaled doses of air pollution: we can do better
- Paula Rowinska: Blowing in the Wind
- Robbie Parks: Climate change, extreme weather, and human mortality
11:05 – Coffee break
Synthetic biology and biotechnology – 11:20
- Dr Karen Polizzi: Synthetic Biology Biosensors for Bioprocess Development
- Natalie Scholes: The paradigm of Alan Turing’s pattern formation
- Ian Yunus: Sunlight-driven biocatalytic conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals
- Sahra St John-Campbell: Transient imine directing groups for the C(sp3)–H functionalisation of aldehydes and amines
12:30 – Lunch and poster session (Level 8 Common Room of the Blackett Laboratory)
Data-driven science – 13:30
- Dr Seth Flaxman: Predictor variable prioritization for genomics, or: understanding my black box model
- Max Eggl: How to Optimise your Mixing
- Rosalba Garcia-Millan: Disentangling DNA
- Erwin Luesink: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics with a pinch of SALT
- Scott Melville: Going Beyond Experiment, Guided by Theory
- Robbie Watt: Turning light into matter: Campaign to detect the Breit-Wheeler process
15:05 – Coffee break
Biomedicine – 15:20
- Dr Chris Dunsby: Sparks, Waves, Well-plates and 3D Tissue Culture: High Speed Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy in Space and Time
- Guled Osman: C. elegans innate immunity to a new natural oomycete pathogen
- Sonia Rebollo Ramirez: Metabolomic approaches reveal that CRP orchestrates the increase in intracellular levels of cAMP in response to osmotic stress in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Charlie Saunders: Developing a Peptide Probe for the Myosin-A : Myosin Tail Interacting Protein Interaction of Plasmodium Falciparum
Future and emerging technologies – 16:25
- Professor Josh Edel: Molecular tweezers for single-cell screening
- Alexander Paige: Quantum clocks are not ideal witnesses to proper time
- Danyal Magnus: Epidemiology of Civilian Blast Injuries Inflicted by Terrorist Bombings from 1970-2016
- Juan Olarte Plata: A bottom-up approach for modelling colloidal materials
Poster session and prizes – 17:30
A drinks reception and poster session will follow at 17:30 in the Physics Common Room on Level-8 of the Blackett Laboratory. 18:30 – poster prizes announced. Amazing prizes of £1000 for best talk and £500 for best poster will be awarded!
Download a PDF of the schedule here.
Register
Register for the Faculty of Natural Sciences Research Showcase here.