EBSI Conference 2015
Wednesday 1st July 2015
12.00-5.00pm
Lecture Hall, Postgraduate Medical Centre
Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Turner Road, Colchester
Programme
12.00pm
Networking lunch
12.55 pm
Welcome – Prof Jo Jackson (Dean of Health, UoE), Dr Tony Elston (EBSI Co-Director)
Session 1 - Chair: Dr Tony Elston
1.00pm
Keynote Address: Genomics and epigenomics as a source of novel biomarkers
of cancer therapeutics – Dr Timothy Crooks, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Southend
Hospital NHS Trust
1.50pm
Novel leukocyte based cancer biomarkers – Prof Elena Klenova, UoE
2.10pm
UoE Postgraduate Support Scheme Placements: New opportunities for
collaboration – Nigel Collins, Faculty of Science and Health Placements Officer, UoE
Are there similarities in the behaviour of the androgen receptor and estrogen
receptors in breast cancer? - Marisa Di Monaco
Development of North East Essex prostate cancer audit and database - Dragos
Mocanu
Assessment of the efficacy of BORIS as a prostate cancer biomarker - Alex Talbot
2.45pm
Coffee /networking
Session 2 - Chair: Prof Elena Klenova
3.15pm
How does a cell remember? Using epigenomics to find gene functions. – Prof Leo
Schalkwyk, UoE
3.45pm
What can the Eastern Academic Health Science Network do for you? – Dr Tennie
Videler, Director of Network and Communication, Eastern AHSN
4.00pm
The gait and mobility ageing study – Dr Matt Taylor, UoE
4.20pm
Accessing NIHR funding – Dr Jonathan Scales, East of England Research Design Service
4.40pm
NHS changes affecting research and development –Dr Tony Elston, Co-Director
EBSI, CHUFT
4.50pm
Closing Remarks
Open to all staff and students
To register for this free event please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/essex-biomedicalsciences-institute-conference-2015-tickets-16816514648
Registration will close on 16th June 2015.
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