Accelerating Biosciences discovery in FoNS – a series of events dedicated to Advanced Research Fellows and Lecturers to showcase their research to Imperial’s academic community
Please REGISTER by the 12th July 9:00 am. 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 organised a 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 second session. [Note you can see the speakers of the first session (1st July) in the College event’s website]
15:30 – 15:35 Welcome
15:35 – 15:50 Matthew Child (Life Sciences) – Fantastic beasts and how to kill them: Target prioritization for focused drug discovery
15:50 – 16:05 Anthea Monod (Mathematics) – Biology and Mathematics: Two Stories
16:05 – 16:20 Julie McDonald (Life Sciences) – The role of healthy gut microbiota in protection against intestinal pathogen colonisation
16:20 – 16:25 Break
16:25 – 16:40 Benjamin Schumann (Chemistry) – Chemical precision tools for cell-specific bioorthogonal protein and glycan labelling
16:40 – 16:55 Mateo Fumagalli (Life Sciences) – AI in population genomics: from evolution to disease prediction
16:55 – 17:00 Closing remarks