The Life Sciences Research Symposium is an annual event. The next edition will be held on 17 January 2023, to celebrate the research taking place in the School and commemorate the outstanding scientists who helped establish the University of Sussex.
John Maynard Smith Lecture
Professor Catherine Green OBE, Oxford University
Professor Green heads the Nuffield Department of Medicine's Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility (CBF). She is the Monsanto Senior Research Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford and an Associate Professor at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford. She was appointed as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), for services to Science and Public Health. Her team at the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility has been an integral part of the University’s development of a ChAdOx1 vectored vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in partnership with AstraZeneca.
Cornforth Lecture
Professor Frances Platt FRS FMedSci, Oxford University
Professor Platt is Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology and Head of the Department of Pharmacology, part of the University of Oxford's Medical Sciences Division. She is a biochemist and pharmacologist, and her work centres on the study of a group of rare genetic disorders called lysosomal storage diseases with a view to developing new drug therapies. In 2021, she was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society.
Registration
Register through Eventbrite to attend the event.
Programme
Tuesday 17 January 2023
| Time | Location | Content | |
| 9.30-10.00 | Chichester I Lecture Theatre | Welcome and refreshments | |
| 10.00-10.05 |
Research talks |
Introduction by Prof Sarah Guthrie | |
| 10.05-10.30 |
Prof Mika Peck Making the case for the Rights of Nature - Hope in face of the global biodiversity crisis |
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| 10.30-10.55 |
Prof Helfrid Hochegger Triggering Mitosis |
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| 10.55-11.20 |
Dr Andre Maia Chagas Open Science: A framework for innovative, cost effective, inclusive and impactful research Dr Murtala Bindawa, Biomedical Research and Training Centre (BioRTC), Yobe State University, Nigeria On setting up a high end research laboratory in Northeast Nigeria: The role of Open Science |
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| 11.20-11.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11.30-11.35 | PGR/ECR Talks | PGR/ECR Talks introduction by Prof Sarah Guthrie | |
| 11.35-11.55 | 11 PGR/ECR flash talks | ||
| 11.55-12.00 | John Maynard Smith Lecture | Introduction to Keynote Speaker by Prof Sarah Guthrie | |
| 12.00-12.50 |
Prof Catherine Green OBE, Oxford University One idea, two years, three billion doses |
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| 12.50-14.00 | Bridge Café | Lunch/Poster Exhibition/Trade Exhibits | |
| 14.00-14.05 | Chichester I Lecture Theatre | Cornforth Lecture | Introduction to Keynote Speaker by Prof Wendy Brown |
| 14.05-14.55 |
Prof Frances Platt FRS FMedSci, Oxford University The complexity of cellular lipid homeostasis: insights from Niemann-Pick disease type C |
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| 14.55-15.00 | Faculty Subject Overviews | Introduction by Prof Sarah Guthrie | |
| 15.00-15.10 | Prof John Spencer - Drug Discovery | ||
| 15.10-15.20 | Prof Wendy Brown - Chemistry | ||
| 15.20-15.30 | Prof Daniel Colaco Osorio - Evolution, Behaviour and Environment | ||
| 15.30-15.40 | Dr Jo Murray - Genome Damage and Stability | ||
| 15.40-15.50 | Prof Claudio Alonso - Neuroscience | ||
| 15.50-16.00 | Dr Leandro Castellano - Biochemistry | ||
| 16.00-16.15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16.15-16.30 | Prof Sarah Guthrie presents Awards Section | ||
| 16.30-16.45 | Closing Remarks by Prof Sarah Guthrie | ||
Sponsors
Many thanks to our sponsors for their support: Apollo Scientific, Custom Pharma, New England Biolabs, QIAGEN, Thistle Scientific, Haier Biomedical and PCR Biosystems.
