2022

2022 Oxford-MRC DTP Symposium took place online on 16th June 2022.

Time	Title
9:00	Registration & Tea/Coffee
9:30	Welcome – Professor Ester Hammond, Director of Oxford-MRC DTP
9:40	Student Talks – Session 1 Daan Paget - Comparative and Integrated Analysis of Plasma Extracellular Vesicles Isolations Methods in Healthy Volunteers and Patients Following Myocardial Infarction Emily Carroll - Impairment of mitochondrial respiration and glycolysis in an mESC-MN model of ALS Verena Sarrazin – Targeting negative affective biases in depression with non-invasive brain stimulation
10:40	Coffee Break
10:50	Student Talks – Session 2 Romain Guyon – Development of a single dose vaccine technology by delayed release using microfluidics Tomas Goncalves - Induction of the Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres pathway by trapping of proteins on DNA Isaac Grennan – The coactivation of neurons in the prefrontal corticobasal ganglia network distinguishes effort, reward and decision in a novel decision-making task
11:50	'3MRC' (3-Minute Research Competition) Wojciech Lason – Multiomic characterisation of changes to airway epithelium in SARS-CoV-2 infection and asthma Sophie Twigger – Design, synthesis, and validation of a reversible, fluorescent probe for measuring real time hypoxia Tehmina Bharucha - Deep proteomics analysis of human cerebrospinal fluid in Japanese encephalitis virus infection Alice Evans – Ex-vivo tumour slice culture for the optimisation of CAR-T cell therapy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma Ruofan Connie Han – Developing CRISPR-Cas9 gRNA delivery strategies for the treatment of inherited retinal disease Anežka Macey-Dare – Exploring the impact of patient-derived NMDAR NR1- specific IgG antibodies on the developing mouse striatum
12:15	Keynote Lecture: Sir Charles Godfray (Director of Oxford Martin School and Professor of Population Biology) Science and policy: building the evidence base for better decision making
13:00	Lunch & Poster Presentations
14:00	Careers Service Talk: Claire Chesworth (Careers Adviser, Oxford University Careers Service)
14:30	Panel Discussion: Insight into careers in biotech entrepreneurship and industry Dr Claire Shingler (the Oxford BioEscalator) Dr Loic Roux (Ochre Bio) Dr Helena Meyer-Berg (SIRION Biotech GmbH)
15:00	Coffee Break
15:15	Dr Tom Beattie (Programme Manager for Doctoral Training, Medical Research Council) From postdoc to programme manager: working for a research funder
15:45	Dr Fiona Suttle (Oxford Sparks Lead) Bringing science to you – an introduction to science communication and Oxford Sparks
16:15	Closing Remarks and Awards Ceremony
16:30	Drinks Reception