Natural Sciences Research Showcase 2022, 29 September 2022, Sir Alexander Fleming Building G34 Lecture Theatre

Join a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with the academics and prize-winning PhD students in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and find out about our innovative work. Everybody is welcome! Please register as soon as possible (deadline: 18th September).

Natural Sciences Showcase

10:00 – 18:00, SAFB G34 LT

Welcome coffee from 9.30 in the concourse level 1

  • Departmental talks sessions: 10:00 -16:10 in SAFB G34 LT (coffee breaks in the concourse level 1)
  • PhD students poster competition: 12:30-13:40 in SAFB 120-122 (lunch will be provided) – Imperiastaff and students can VOTE for their favourite poster before the event – check this website!!
  • Panel session – Mitigating the climate catastrophe: 16:10 – 17:10 in SAFB 120-122
  • Awards from 17:15 with canapés & drinks reception in the concourse level 1

Don’t miss this great opportunity to engage with our academics and postgraduate students. Please see the full programme below:

Programme

(Coffee and tea will be available from 9:30 in the concourse level 1)

10:00-10:05 Welcome by the Dean Professor Richard Craster

10:05-10:35 Centre for Environmental Policy Showcase

  • 10:05 – 10:20 Dr Alex Collins – Title of talk: Transdisciplinary research on nature based solutions for sustainable, resilient and just cities?
  • 10:20 – 10:35 Elizabeth Fonseca – Title of talk: Biodiversity and air quality impacts of future agricultural scenarios in the UK:  how spatial                                                                    modelling can provide policy insights

10:35-11:20 Department of Mathematics Showcase

  • 10:35 – 10:50 Dr jack Jacquier – Title of talk: Mathematical Finance: From data to models and back?
  • 10:50 – 11:05 Sara Veneziale – Title of talk: Machine learning detects terminal singularities
  • 11:05 – 11:20 Bethany Clarke – Title of talk: Bifurcation Analysis in Active Filament Models

Coffee break (11:20-11:30)

11:30-12:30 Department of Life Sciences Showcase

  • 11:30 -11:45 Professor Tom Bell – Title of talk: Replaying the tape of ecology
  • 11:45 – 12:00 Alex Yip – Title of talk: Investigating colonisation resistance against carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae using artificial                                                                     gut models
  • 12:00 – 12:15 Theo Hembury – Title of talk: Generating electricity from bacteria
  • 12:15 – 12:30 Eleonora Moratto – Title of talk: Electric fields in plant pathogen interactions

12:30-13:40 Lunch & Poster session

13:40-14:40 Department of Chemistry Showcase

  • 13:40 – 13:55 Dr Andreas Kafizas – Title of talk: Can water fuel our future? Developing solar-driven water splitting prototypes for the                                                                                                     production of clean hydrogen fuel using scalable synthetic routes
  • 13:55 – 14:10 Nan Wu – Title of talk: Evolutionarily conserved protein allosteric pathways
  • 14:10 – 14:25 Tong Wang – Title of talk: Investigating the intermolecular charge transfer state in high efficient non-fullerene acceptors by                                                                               ultrafast spectroscopy
  • 14:25 – 14:40 Aatikah Majid – Title of talk: High-throughput synthesis and screening of optical probes for g-quadruplex DNA

Coffee break (14:40-14:50)

14:50- 15:50 Department of Physics Showcase

  • 14:50 – 15:05 Dr James Owen– Title of talk:  The Exoplanet Opportunity
  • 15:05 – 15:20 Sophia Zomerdijk-Russell- Title of talk: The Dynamic Magnetosphere of Mercury
  • 15:20 – 15:35 Anezka Klustova – Title of talk: Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions at MINERvA
  • 15:35 – 15:50 Jan Kożuszek – Title of talk: Hearing the echos of the cosmos: gravitational waves from a theorist’s perspective

15:50 -15:55 Closing remarks by the Dean Professor Richard Craster

Coffee break (15:55-16:10)

16:10 – 17:10 Mitigating the climate catastrophe

Panel discussion

Chair: Dr Vivienne Foster (Centre for Environmental Policy)

17:15 – 18:00 – Canapes reception and Prizes

  • Awards will be given at 17:30

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