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Earlham Institute Student Symposium 2023

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: 02 November 2023

End date: 02 November 2023

Time: 09.30 - 17.00

Venue: Earlham Institute (Norwich UK)

Enquiries:

esb@earlham.ac.uk

Registration deadline: 02 November 2023

Cost: Free

About the event

This student symposium provides a fantastic opportunity to learn more about the research taking place at the Earlham Institute by our PhD student community, and provides our postgraduates with the chance to discuss and present their work to peers and colleagues across the Norwich Research Park.

The full-day symposium will see Earlham Institute's PhD cohort present their work in short talks and posters; with a keynote talk from Tom Mustill a biologist turned filmmaker and writer, specialising in stories where people and nature meet.

Attendees are invited from across the Norwich Research Park Institutes, to engage with their peers, find out about the research that is taking place across different lab groups at EI and foster new connections.

There will be networking opportunities in addition to hot drinks on arrival, a buffet lunch, nibbles and wine.

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) the Quadram Institute (QIB) and University of East Anglia (UEA).

This event is kindly sponsored by PCR Biosystems

PhD researchers networking during the last Student Symposium

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.

Organisers and trainers

Mia Berelson

Chair, Earlham Student Body

Kate Denning-James

Deputy Chair, Earlham Student Body

Daria Golubova

Treasurer, Earlham Student Body

Sofia Kudasheva

Second-year Rep, Earlham Student Body

Carolina Olave-Achury

Activities Rep, Earlham Student Body

Jess Peers

Media Secretary, Earlham Student Body

Rebecca Shaw

Activities Rep, Earlham Student Body

Programme

09.30 - 09.45

Registration

09.45 - 10.00

Welcome to the 2023 Earlham Student Symposium

10.00 - 11.00

Talks from our PhD Researchers

Carolina Olave Achury
From phenotype to genotype: Response of Musa sp cultivars to Fusarium oxysporum Tropical Race 4

Daria Golubova
Calendula officinalis: Genetic Basis of Anti-Inflammatory Properties

Lucy Mahony
Decoding the regulatory regions in wheat

11.00 - 11.10

Break

11.10 - 12.30

Guest Speaker: Tom Mustill

Talk Title: TBA

12.30 - 13.30

Lunch

13.30 - 14.10

Talks from our PhD Researchers

Mia Berelson
Air-seq: Detecting Strawberry Pathogens from the Air

Rebecca Shaw
Uncovering extensive fixation of deleterious mutations in a severely endangered species

14.10 - 14.40

Poster Flash Talks

Basak Bahcivanci, Charles Dickinson, Connor Reynolds, Jonathan Ashworth, Yash Bancil, and Jessica Peers.

Please see further information for poster details.

14.40 - 15.15

Poster Session and Refreshments

15.15 - 15.35

Talks from our PhD Researchers

Sofia Kudasheva
Annotating full-length transcript isoforms in the human brain using long-read CaptureSeq

15.35 - 15.50

Networking and Refreshments in the Atrium

Awards announced at 15.50

Keynote Speaker

Tom Mustill is a biologist turned filmmaker and writer, specialising in stories where people and nature meet.

His first book How To Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication came out in September 2022 and was chosen as a New Yorker Best Book of 2022.

His film collaborations, many with Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough, have won two Webbys, a BAFTA, and an Emmy nomination and been played at the UN, in Times Square, and on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, shared by heads of state, and Guns N’ Roses.

He lives in London with his wife, Annie; daughters, Stella and Astrid; and the inhabitants of his small but surprisingly deep pond. He is an ambassador for the World Cetacean Alliance.

https://www.tommustill.com/

Image credit: Tom Mustill

Further Information

Poster Presentations:

There will be 10 research posters on display for the afternoon Poster Session (14.40) with six of those presenting Poster Flash Talks (14.10).

Basak Bahcivanci*

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

Charles Dickinson*

Accelerating Coriander Breeding: Next-Generation Genetics for Trait Discovery in Herb Crops

Connor Reynolds*

Interpreting ensemble models to dissect the circadian gene regulatory network

Jonathan Ashworth*

Characterising genetic diversity in UK wildflower seed mixes

Mumdooh Sabir

Cryptosporidium parvum dysbiosis of the faecal microbiome of bovine livestock: A computational metagenomic approach

Yash Bancil*

Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) and single-cell sequencing of bacteria from a microbial community

Kamil Hepak

Muex: a method to identify novel microexons from long-read RNA sequence data

Jessica Peers*

Novel gene pseudogenization in a species with long- term low Ne, the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)

Kate Denning-James

Photoperiod sensitivity in common beans

Georgina Alabone

Understanding the Effect of a Low-Fibre Therapeutic Diet on a Mock Gut Community

*Presenting Flash Talks in the afternoon

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Registration deadline: 02 November 2023

Register your interest in attending Earlham Institute Student Symposium 2023 today.

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