Registration: Monica Partridge Atrium (building 62 on the campus map).

Checking-In: DeVere Orchard Hotel (building 61 on the campus map).

Society for Natural Sciences Meetings
(HoNS & Committee only, refreshments available)

15:15-15:30

15:30-16:30

How to Network Effectively

SNS Members Mixer (refreshments available)

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Monica Partridge Atrium

Poster Presentations

• Bethany McCusker - Lancaster - Physics Literature Search:Muography.
• Lucy Wright - Open University - Transcriptional diversity of two-pore domain (K2P) potassium channels in human atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes, and their potential application as novel therapeutic targets for atrial fibrillation.
• Georgina Bonney - Leeds - Harnessing Photochemistry to Produce 3D Scaffolds.
• Georgina Alabone - UEA - Metaproteomics Analysis to Determine the Effect of the Gut Microbiome on Ulcerative Colitis Severity.

Welcome & Conference Opening

New Directions -  Student Journal

Keynote Speaker: Peter Harvey

 Session One: Student Presentations

• Lucy Baker - Nottingham - Where are all the harvest mice?
• Cleo Stevens - UCL - Novel Therapeutic Strategies for the Treatment of Motor Neuron Disease.
• Millie Barnes - Loughborough - Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy as a Non-Destructive Techniques to Investigate Chemical Composition within an between Herbarium Specimen.
• Martha Neugarten - UCL - Developing Tools for Embedding Sustainability into Chemistry Degrees.

Session Two: Student Presentations

C14

• Libby Clark - York - Engineering a CRISPR/Cas9 Construct for HIF-1a Knockdown in Breast Cancer Cell Lines.
• Charlotte Knight - UCL - Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Protein CoAlation.
• Rachel Scott - UCL - Do the Liits of DNA Damage Signalling Confer a Therapeutic Vulnerability to Low Dose Radiotherapy.

C17

• Emma Bowley - Nottingham - Synthesis of Tetrazine Derivatives and Exploring their Potential in Metal Coordination Polymers.
• James Pierce - Nottingham - Metal Organic Frameworks: their Stability and Computational Modelling.
• Charlie Hall - Loughborough - The Effects of Surface chemistry on Retinal Organoid Outgrowth and Differentiation.

Keynote Speakers: Zack Peggs & Emily White

Session Three: Student Presentations

• Marcel Mordarski - UCL - The Theatre of Spin Glass: Advice from Quantum Neural Network Scientists based on Interdisciplinary Research.
• Poppy Bradley - Bath - Cancer Organoids as Translatable Models in Early Stage Drug Development.
• Lizzie Rider - Nottingham - A Proposed Mathematical Model for Vascular permeability and its Impact on Disease.
• Ella Scallan - Leeds - Machine Learning Applications in Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Decisions.

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