2018 Imaging Festival

On Friday 28 September 2018, we held a one-day festival of imaging to share the breadth of the imaging expertise within the Oxford imaging community. Bringing together many of Oxford’s imaging scientists and clinicians, it showcased the broad range of scientific research being undertaken in Oxford.

Location

Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College

Organisers

Peter Jezzard, Christian Eggeling, Matthew Robson, Niki Sibson and Damian Tyler

Scientific Programme

08:50-09:20: Registration and poster set up 

09:20-09:25: Welcome and Introduction

09.25-11.00:  Platform Session 1: Genes Meet Imaging (Chair: Simon Hunt)

• 09.25-09.40: Ian Dobbie (Biochemistry) – Neurogenetic Development in Drosophila
• 09.45-10.00: Jill Brown (WIMM, RDM) – Three Dimensional Conformation of a Regulatory Chromatin Domain
• 10.05-10.20: Henrik Westerberg (MRC Harwell) – Automatic Detection of Anatomical Phenotypes in Mouse Embryos
• 10.25-10.40: Steve Smith (WIN, NDCN) – Linking Imaging with Genetics in the UK Biobank Imaging Project
• 10.45-11.00: Proffered Talk – Simon Lord (Oncology) – Integrated Pharmacodynamic Analysis Identifies Two Metabolic Adaption Pathways to Metformin in Breast Cancer

11.00-12.00:  Poster Session 1 + Tea/Coffee:  Odd numbered posters presented, and opportunity to network

12.00-13.00: Annual Guest Lecture: Gail McConnell, Dept of Physics, Strathclyde University: “Title: Go Big or Go Home: Making and Using an Optical Mesoscope for Biomedical Imaging” (introduced by Erdinc Sezgin)

13.00-13.45: Buffet Lunch

13.45-14.45:  Poster Session 2 + Tea/Coffee:  Even numbered posters presented, and opportunity to network

14:45-16:00: Platform Session 2: Connecting Industry with Academia (Chair: Katherine Vallis)

• 14.45-15.00: Achilles Kapanidis (Physics) – Oxford Nanoimaging – Super-Resolution goes Mainstream
• 15.05-15.20: Alfonso Bueno (Computer Science) – Cardiac Imaging and the Pharma Industry
• 15.25-15.40: Evangelos Oikonomou (Cardiovascular Medicine) – The Science and Commercialisation of CT-Based Atherosclerosis Measurement
• 15.45-16.00: Alison Noble (IBME) – Intelligent Ultrasound – Improving Diagnosis via Image Analysis

16:05: Close

Sponsors

We are grateful to a number of our industrial partners for their generous support of the 2018 Imaging Festival.

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors