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Summer workshop, London

Participants standing in a room for a group photo at the London workshopWe enjoyed a summer workshop at Imperial College London from 23-24 August 2022!

The venue was at St Mary's Campus and the meeting was structured in two parts:

  • The first day was dedicated to career path talks from Sanofi and UK Health Security Agency, and public engagement - the ESRs were filmed explaining their research project/recent publication, what they have learned during the network, what they plan to do next, etc, and videos will be created for public engagement.
  • Scientific talks by speakers from London and Manchester took place on the second day.

Programme:

Tuesday 23 August
12:45 - 13:00 Arrival
13:00 - 15:00 Filming of videos
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:15 Emma Bennett, UK Health Security Agency, "Careers in public health"
16:30 - 17:45 Filming of videos
18:00 - 18:45 Danai Koftori, Sanofi, Industry career talk

Wednesday 24 August
08:50 - 09:00 Welcome
09:00 - 09:45 Andreas Mayer, University College London, "Making sense of sequencing data"
09:45 - 10:30 Francesca Scarabel, University of Manchester, "Introduction to structured models"
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:30 Ben Seddon, University College London, "Using mechanistic models to explore immune cell behaviour"
11:30 - 12:15 Guillem Hurault, Imperial College London, "Applications of machine learning in medical research"
12:15 - Finish