Biomedical Physics at Edinburgh

Europe/London
Larch Lecture Theatre

Larch Lecture Theatre

The Nucleus Building Kings Buildings Campus University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3FG
Description

This workshop is the second annual meeting of the Edinburgh Centre for Biomedical Physics, http://biomedical-physics.ed.ac.uk.  The aim of the Centre and this workshop is to bring together researchers working in the domain of physics for medicine.

Within the School of Physics and Astronomy and the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, there are many people working on physics-related challenges for the medical domain. This workshop will bring researchers together to foster opportunities for new collaborations.  There will be three main sessions presented during the workshop, which parallel the three main themes of the Edinburgh Centre for Biomedical Physics: (i) detectors, imaging and analysis; (ii) molecular mechanisms of disease; (iii) physics of infection. Each session will include 2-min flash talks to showcase the work going on across the colleges in each stream. 

Besides the talks for each theme, we aim to have plenty of time for discussion at the end of the workshop, to promote the Centre and discuss ways in which workshop participants and others can contribute to it in the future.  The workshop aims to initiate and support cross-institute and cross-college collaborations, which are an increasingly more obvious requirement of cutting-edge work in the field.  

Registration
Registration
    • 1
      Welcome and Introduction
    • Molecular Mechanisms of Diseases: Michael Boemo "Characterising DNA replication stress and its clinical association using long-read DNA sequencing"
    • Molecular Mechanisms of Diseases: Andrea Bonato "CpG islands: supercoiling control at highly active promoters"
    • Molecular Mechanisms of Diseases: Tijana Mitic "Interrogating the function of a novel locus in aortic disease"
    • Molecular Mechanisms of Diseases: Lightning Talks: Karla Suchacki, Rodrigo Rivas Barbosa, Levena Gascoigne, Scott Cockroft, Sara Buonomo, Letian Chen, Davide Michieletto
    • Coffee break
    • Physics of Infection: Ryan Morris "Probing structural and rheological transitions in C. albicans biofilms"
    • Physics of Infection: Andrea Weisse "Heterogeneity in responses to ribosome-targeting antibiotics mediated by bacterial RNA repair"
    • Physics of Infection: Eleanor Gaunt "How do nucleotide patterns regulate virus infection?"
    • Physics of Infection: Lightning Talks: Rowland Kao, Simon Titmuss, Gavin Melaugh, Linus Schumacher, Joseph Knight, Luke Davis
    • Lunch
    • Detectors, Imaging and Analysis: Carmel Moran "Ultrasound for lymph node detection in a colorectal cancer model"
    • Detectors, Imaging and Analysis: Mark Macmillan "Clinical opportunities using photon counting CT"
    • Detectors, Imaging and Analysis: Charles (Qi) Zhou "Microrobot-enabled Ultrafast Convective Drug Penetration for Bladder Cancer Therapy"
    • Detectors, Imaging and Analysis: Lightning Talks: Catriona Wimberley, Aparna Jayaraj, Jac Fearnley, Mariia Dvoriashyna, Laura Clark, Jan Kutos
    • Coffee break
    • Impact Discussion: Ben Panter
    • 2
      Conclusions / Q&A
    • Reception