BBSRC WestBio DTP Event 6 November 2014 – Senate Room

BBSRC WestBio DTP Event
6 November 2014 – Senate Room, Main Building, University of Glasgow
09.00 – 10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.00 – 10.10 Prof Gwyn Gould, BBSRC WestBio DTP Chair
10.10 – 10.15 Ms Hazel Cadenhead, BBSRC WestBio DTP PIPS Coordinator
10.15 – 11.00 PIPS presentations
10.15 – Laura Richmond – Time-Tastical Productions
10.30 – Richard Clubbe – Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) / Society for
General Microbiology (SGM), London
10.45 – Josephine Fullerton – Edinburgh International Science Festival
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 12.15 WestBio DTP Training and Development Opportunities
Dr Alastair Gracie – MVLS Training Opportunities (11.15 – 11.30)
(School of Medicine)
Prof Geraint Thomas – SysMIC (11.30 – 11.45)
(Systems Training in Maths, Informatics and Computational Biology)
Mrs Katrina Gardner – Career Service Support (11.45 – 12.00)
(Careers Services PGR/CRS)
Dr David McAllister – Head of Skills and Careers (12.00 – 12.15)
(BBSRC)
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch and networking
13.15 – 14.15 Research within the WestBio DTP
PhD student presentations
Joseph Crisp (13.15 – 13.30)
‘The impact of contact structure on phylogenetic tree structure for Mycobacterium bovis in cattle and
badgers’
Rebecca Philp (13.30 – 13.45)
‘Dissecting the polyclonal antibody response to foot-and-mouth disease virus in cattle and buffalo’
Yulia Revina (13.45 – 14.00)
‘Brain imaging of cortical feedback’
Samantha White (14.00 – 14.15)
‘Immunomodulation of stem cells in the ischaemic brain’
14.15 – 14.30 Coffee
14.30 – 15.00 Dr Catherine Berry – ‘Career Progression’
(Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology)
15.00 – 15.30 Mr Tom Deas – ‘Engaging public with your research’
(Technology and Science Alliance)
15.30 – 16.00 Prof Kevin O’Dell – ‘Public Engagement: Zombies, Superheroes and Teenagers’
(Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology)
16.00 – 16.30 ‘Superhero Science: Agents of AWESOME’
16.30 – 17.00 Refreshments and networking