Schedule

Session One

09:30-11:00

Professor Robin Franklin, FRS

"Brain stem cells, regeneration and ageing"

Dr Euan Stronach

"What am I doing in Science?!"

Thea Fennell

"The single life: an identity crisis in RNA-seq"

Session Two

11:30-13:00

Dr Marcel Gehrung

Professor David Gems

"What causes ageing? Lessons from C.elegans"

Pok-Man Ho

"Dealing with poorly curated datasets"

Session Three

14:00-15:30

Dr Sophie Trefely

"Getting to know artefacts"

Dr Sjors Scheres, FRS

"Cryo-EM structures of amyloids from human brain"

Jake Cross

"The Role of Non-Canonical Autophagy (CASM) in the Lysosome Damage Response"

Session Four

16:00-17:30

Dr David Brown, FRSM, FRSC

"The challenges of inventing Viagra suggest new ways to invent medicines today"

Dr Luana Ferrara

Yizhou Yu

"Parp mutations in Alzheimer's disease"