IGC Cross-disciplinary day Staff and students attended a half-day event to celebrate the IGC's vibrant interdisciplinary research community. The event included short talks from a range of ECRs and a keynote talk from Dr Chris Foley, Managing Director of Optima Partners and Chief Data Scientist at BioXcelerate AI. The day started with an opening/welcome address by IGC Director Joris Veltman and was followed by short talks from five IGC speakers: Dr Catherine Naughton, Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Nick Gilbert’s group: ‘Transcription dependent propagation of DNA supercoiling’ Joshua Slaughter, third-year PhD student in the Khamseh and Ponting groups: 'Targeted Genomic Estimation to Uncover Genomic Risk Loci in ME/CFS in the UK Biobank'Dr Ines Mesa-Eguiagaray, Statistical Geneticist working with the Theodoratou and Dunlop research groups: ‘Genome-wide aggregated trans-effects (GATE) on CRC risk: a meta-analysis of SOCCS and UK Biobank’Rashi Krishna, second-year PhD student in Ailith Ewing’s lab: ‘Between biology and bytes: searching for drug response biomarkers in leiomyosarcoma’Dr Nathan Constantine-Cooke, Postdoctoral Researcher in health data science: ‘Longitudinal analysis of disease course in IBD: Inflammatory patterns across Scotland and Denmark’. In the afternoon Dr Martina Elias, a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in the Skin Research Group lead by Professor Sara Brown, gave a short talk on ‘Using skin cell and organoid models to understand atopic eczema genetics and drive therapeutic development’.The event finished with a keynote talk by Dr Foley on 'Weaving academic innovation into genetically-driven drug discovery: A view from the interface'.The sessions were chaired by Cross Disciplinary Fellows Andrii Iakovliev, Luciana Luque, Maria Delgado Ortet and Alina Kumukova, supported by Amaka Idigo. Mar 12 2025 10.00 - 14.00 IGC Cross-disciplinary day Staff and students attended a half-day event to celebrate the IGC's vibrant interdisciplinary research community. Institute of Genetics and Cancer Lecture Theatre
IGC Cross-disciplinary day Staff and students attended a half-day event to celebrate the IGC's vibrant interdisciplinary research community. The event included short talks from a range of ECRs and a keynote talk from Dr Chris Foley, Managing Director of Optima Partners and Chief Data Scientist at BioXcelerate AI. The day started with an opening/welcome address by IGC Director Joris Veltman and was followed by short talks from five IGC speakers: Dr Catherine Naughton, Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Nick Gilbert’s group: ‘Transcription dependent propagation of DNA supercoiling’ Joshua Slaughter, third-year PhD student in the Khamseh and Ponting groups: 'Targeted Genomic Estimation to Uncover Genomic Risk Loci in ME/CFS in the UK Biobank'Dr Ines Mesa-Eguiagaray, Statistical Geneticist working with the Theodoratou and Dunlop research groups: ‘Genome-wide aggregated trans-effects (GATE) on CRC risk: a meta-analysis of SOCCS and UK Biobank’Rashi Krishna, second-year PhD student in Ailith Ewing’s lab: ‘Between biology and bytes: searching for drug response biomarkers in leiomyosarcoma’Dr Nathan Constantine-Cooke, Postdoctoral Researcher in health data science: ‘Longitudinal analysis of disease course in IBD: Inflammatory patterns across Scotland and Denmark’. In the afternoon Dr Martina Elias, a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in the Skin Research Group lead by Professor Sara Brown, gave a short talk on ‘Using skin cell and organoid models to understand atopic eczema genetics and drive therapeutic development’.The event finished with a keynote talk by Dr Foley on 'Weaving academic innovation into genetically-driven drug discovery: A view from the interface'.The sessions were chaired by Cross Disciplinary Fellows Andrii Iakovliev, Luciana Luque, Maria Delgado Ortet and Alina Kumukova, supported by Amaka Idigo. Mar 12 2025 10.00 - 14.00 IGC Cross-disciplinary day Staff and students attended a half-day event to celebrate the IGC's vibrant interdisciplinary research community. Institute of Genetics and Cancer Lecture Theatre
Mar 12 2025 10.00 - 14.00 IGC Cross-disciplinary day Staff and students attended a half-day event to celebrate the IGC's vibrant interdisciplinary research community.
