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Earlham Institute Student Symposium 2024

Providing an opportunity for colleagues across the Norwich Research Park to engage with peers, and find out about the research that happens from PhD Students at the Earlham Institute.

Start date: 28 November 2024

End date: 28 November 2024

Time: 09.30 - 17.00

Venue: Earlham Institute (Norwich UK)

Enquiries:

esb@earlham.ac.uk

Registration deadline: 28 November 2024

Cost: Free

About the event

The symposium will feature a dynamic schedule of events to engage and inspire. We will hear from Professor Gideon Henderson, Chief Scientific Adviser from Defra, who will share his unique insights in the morning session.

The day will kick off with registration and a welcome talk, with presentations from 3rd and 4th-year students throughout the day. There will be flash poster talks from 2nd-year students and a poster session and scavenger hunt. Breaks for coffee, lunch, and networking will provide plenty of opportunities to connect with students and colleagues across EI and the NRP.

Please note: This symposium is only open to students and scientists at one of the Norwich Bioscience Institutes (NBI), including the Earlham Institute (EI), the John Innes Centre (JIC), the Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) and the Quadram Institute (QIB).

About the EI Student Body

The Student Body represents and supports to PhD Student community at the Earlham Institute. The representatives meet regularly with the NBI Graduate Schools Executive and EI PGR Director Dr Conrad Nieduszynski, for formal and informal conversations regarding student well-being and any possible concerns.

We also invite other teams and representatives from across the Earlham Institute to student meetings, to discuss and share information and opportunities available to students.

Staff and students networking at EI during a conference poster session

Organisers and trainers

Charles Dickinson

Chair, Earlham Student Body

Lukasz Sitko

Deputy Chair, Earlham Student Body

Başak Bahcivanci

Treasurer, Earlham Student Body

Jonathan Ashworth

Secretary, Earlham Student Body

Jade Van-Wijk

Activities Secretary, Earlham Student Body

Carolina Olave-Achury

Media Secretary and Third-Year Rep, Earlham Student Body

Francisco Cervilla Martinez

First-Year Rep, Earlham Student Body

Yash Bancil

Second-Year Rep, Earlham Student Body

Daria Golubova

Fourth-year Rep

Mia Berelson

IDEA Committee Rep

Guest Speakers

Prof Gideon Henderson

Director General for Science and Analysis and Defra Chief Scientific Adviser

Talk: Genomics at the science-policy interface

Programme

Day 1 - 28 November 2024

09.30 - 09.45

Arrival and registration

09.45 - 10.00

Welcome to the 2024 Earlham Student Symposium

Charles Dickinson, Chair of the Student Body

10.00 - 11.00

Talks from PhD Researchers

Jess Peers

Going extinct at 70 mph

Jonathan Ashworth

Market to Meadow: The genetic impact of commercial wildflower seeds on habitat restoration

Kate Denning-James

Kate and the Beans-Talk

11.00 - 11.20

Break

11.20 - 12.20

Guest Speaker: Prof Gideon Henderson

Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Talk: Genomics at the science-policy interface

12.20 - 13.10

Lunch

13.10 - 14.10

Talks from PhD Researchers

Yash Bancil

Using Single-cell Technologies to Explore Complex Microbiomes

Başak Bahcivanci

Investigating Remission Mechanisms in Crohn's Disease Patients: A Multi-Omics Approach via Dimension Reduction

Charles Dickinson

Genomic Tools to Accelerate Coriander Breeding

14.10 - 14.25

Poster Flash Talks

Charlotte Utting

Functional Analysis of RNA Binding Proteins in Haematopoiesis with Long-read Single-cell Perturb-seq

Jade Van-Wijk

Sequencing the air to identify cereal rust fungi before they decimate crops

Lukasz Sitko

Functional Impact of Short Tandem DNA Repeat Instability

Meha Patel

Defining The Single Cell Atlas of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

Meng-Ting Hseih

Mapping Introgressions in an Indica x Japonica Hybrid Rice Population in Vietnam

14.25 - 15.25

Poster Session, Scavenger Hunt and Coffee

15.25 - 16.25

Talks from PhD Researchers

Connor Reynolds

Assaying the Circadian Clock of Single Plant Cells

Georgina Alabone

Resolving the Impact of Low-Fibre Therapeutic Diets on the Human Microbiome Through Integrated 'Omics

Honghao Su

The evolution and engineering of Asteraceae pentacyclic triterpene synthase

16.25 - 17.00

Networking and Refreshments in the Atrium

Awards announced at 16.30

Register today.

Registration deadline: 28 November 2024

Participation: Open to all