The CrickConnect team are delighted to announce the first CrickConnect Science Symposium will be taking place at the Crick on Monday 21st June 2021, 2:00pm - 7:00pm. 

This half day conference will be an opportunity for Crick alumni to showcase their research, demonstrate their progress and for everyone to reconnect. Talks will take place across the afternoon, starting at 13:00 and finishing at 17:00. This will be followed be a drinks reception and poster session from 17:00-19:00 in the Seminar Room breakout space. We invite all Crick staff and alumni to join us.

This event is open to all Crick alumni and staff. You can attend in person or remotely. We ask that all alumni attendees complete an at home Lateral Flow test on the day before attending. Free Lateral Flow test kits are available from the NHS at https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests).

Poster submissions are welcome. Please submit your poster to connect@crick.ac.uk no later than 5pm on Wednesday 16th June.

We hope you can join us and look forward to welcoming our alumni back to the Crick.

Programme

13:00 BST

Welcome and Introduction

Dr. John Diffley, Associate Research Director, Francis Crick Institute

13:15 BST

Keeping SOX2 and SOX9 up, in place and on time to ensure patterning and cell fate in the inner ear ​

Prof Kathryn Cheah, Jimmy and Emily Tang Professor in Molecular Genetics, The University of Hong Kong

13:45 BST

Inhibiting KMT2D, a lysine methyltransferase epigenetic complex.

Dr. Sarah Caswell, Protein Scientist, AstraZeneca

14:00 BST

Comfort Break

14:15 BST

Identification of the molecular switch regulating the transition from proliferation to differentiation during spinal cord regeneration

Dr. Karel Dorey, Lecturer, The University of Manchester

14:45 BST

Leveraging data to manufacture vaccines at warp speed

Dr. Chris Demers, Senior Data Scientist in Process Automation, Catalent Biogenics

15:00 BST

Multi-modal control of dendritic cell functions by nociceptors

Dr. Pavel Hanč, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School

15:15 BST

Ferroptosis response segregates small cell lung cancer subtypes

Prof. Silvia von Karstedt, Principal Investigator, CECAD Cologne

15:45 BST

Comfort Break

16:00 BST

The amount of transcriptional machinery scales biosynthesis in proportion to cell size  

Dr. Matthew Swaffer, LSRF & EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

16:15 BST

When DNA becomes its own enemy: Mechanism of DNA-induced replication stalling

Dr. Gideon Coster, Team Leader and Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, The Institute of Cancer Research

16:45 BST

Thanks and Close

George Pyrgos, Alumni Engagement Manager, Francis Crick Institute

17:00 – 19:00 BST

Seated Drinks Reception