Professional Development

School of Life Sciences Annual Research Symposium

University of Sussex Delegate

RNA Impact Day 2025

AMEX Stadium Oral presentation

UCL Queen Square MND Centre Sixth ALS/MND International Symposium

Virtual Delegate

Life Sciences Research Symposium

University of Sussex Delegate

RNA Impact Day 2024

AMEX Stadium Oral presentation

Sussex Neuroscience Day 2024

University of Sussex Delegate

ECR Symposium 2024

University of Sussex Delegate

MND EnCouRage UK 2024

Daventry Oral presentation

5th UCL Queen Square Motor Neuron Disease Centre International Symposium

Virtual Delegate

35th International Symposium on ALS/MND

Montréal, Canada Poster presentation

School of Life Sciences Research Symposium

University of Sussex Poster presentation

Festival of Genomics and Biodata

London Delegate

Master Neurosciences Seminar Series

University of Caen Normandy, France Invited oral presentation

XII Academic Conference of the Doctorate in Biomedical Sciences

University of Guadalajara, Mexico Invited oral presentation

34th International Symposium on ALS/MND

Online Delegate

European Network to Cure ALS

Edinburgh Poster presentation

Sussex Neuroscience Day

University of Sussex Delegate

Life Sciences Research Symposium

University of Sussex Delegate

Festival of Genomics and Biodata

Online Delegate

Life Sciences PhD Careers Symposium

University of Sussex Oral presentation

Neuroscience Postgraduate Welcome Poster Session

University of Sussex Poster presentation

32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND

Online Delegate

Sussex Neuroscience Day

University of Sussex Delegate

Vesicle trafficking & Pathways to Neurodegeneration Conference

Online Delegate

European Network to Cure ALS

Online Delegate

Life Sciences Research Symposium

University of Sussex Delegate

Life Sciences PhD Careers Symposium

University of Sussex Poster presentation

31st International Symposium on ALS/MND

Online Delegate

Cytokinetics Symposium

Online Delegate

Sussex RNA Network Mini Symposium

Brighton and Sussex Medical School Delegate

Sussex Neuroscience PhD Symposium

University of Sussex Delegate

Life Sciences Research Symposium

University of Sussex Delegate

Dementia Research Group Mini Symposium

Alzheimer's Society Doctoral Training Centre and University of Sussex Delegate

Life Sciences PhD Symposium

University of Sussex Delegate

Sussex Neuroscience Day

University of Sussex Delegate

Sussex Neuroscience PhD Symposium

University of Sussex Oral presentation

Neuroscience Postgraduate Welcome Poster Session

University of Sussex Poster presentation

Neuro-Careers Conference

Glasgow Delegate

5th EUNS Neuroscience to Neurology National Undergraduate Conference

University of Edinburgh Delegate

Undergraduate Honours Project Conference Day

University of Glasgow Oral presentation

MSci Conference Day

University of Glasgow Oral presentation

The 10th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

University of Glasgow Oral presentation

Let's Talk about [X]: An Undergraduate Research Conference

University of Glasgow Oral presentation

Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology Research Day

University of Glasgow Delegate

MSci Conference Day

University of Glasgow Delegate

6th Student Medical Conference: The Psychosomatic Health of Adolescents

Limassol, Cyprus Delegate

NanoOmics: Nanotechnology-enabled blood biomarker discovery

Dr Marilena Hadjidemetriou, University of Manchester

Epigenetics and alternative splicing in the treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Professor Alberto Kornblihtt, University of Buenos Aires

Structural biology gives mechanistic insight into RNA terminal nucleotidyltransferases

Prof Robert Gilbert, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford

Therapeutic opportunities presented by the modulation of cell senescence

Prof Richard Faragher, University of Brighton

Mouse frontal cortex learns to add evidence across modalities

Dr Pip Coen, University College London

Artificial Intelligence Applied to Psychiatry: Uses and Limitations of AI in Diagnosing Mental Disorders

Prof César Rennó-Costa, Digital Metropolis Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil

Unconventional cognition through the lens of cellular collective intelligence in morphogenesis

Prof Michael Levin, University of Sussex

Facilitating ethical publishing through collective action

Prof Fernando Racimo, University of Copenhagen

The astrocyte potassium channel Kir4.1 influences seizure and spreading depolarisation susceptibility

Dr Rob Wykes, University College London

The singular importance of microglia and endothelia cells in the genesis of Alzheimer’s disease

Prof. Paul Matthews, Imperial College London

RNA-targeting antisense oligonucleotide therapeutics for actionable disease-causing variants of rare genetic disorders

Dr Htoo Wai, University of Southampton

7 Day Directed Differentiation of hiPSC Derived Motor Neurons

Anatomic Incorporated

A Neurorobotic Approach to Modelling Mammalian Navigation

Tom Knowles, School of Engineering, UWE Bristol

Does misinformation have fingerprints?

Dr Dan Williams, University of Sussex

Interpretable Machine Learning for Biomedical Data Science

Dr Sophia Tsoka, King’s College London

Dysfunctional translation in disease

Emily Osterweil, Harvard Medical School; Gary Bassell, Emory University; Giovanna Mallucci; Altos Labs, Cambridge

Base editing rescue of spinal muscular atrophy in cells and mice

Mandana Arbab, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

The Expanding Gene Editing Toolbox

David Colognori, UC Berkeley; Martin Wegner, Vivlion GmbH; Andrew Anzalone; Prime Medicine

mRNA transport, trafficking, localization

Rob Singer, Einstein Medical College, USA; Florence Besse, Institut de Biologie Valrose, France; Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Janelia Farm Research Campus, USA

Mouse moustaches and walrus whiskers: why do mammals have whiskers?

Robyn Grant, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

A dynamic brain in a dynamic world

Dr Philippa Johnson, Leiden University, Netherlands

A new single molecule approach to study DNA repair protein dynamics: seeing is believing

Prof. Bennett van Houten, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Cell-matrix adhesion and the cell cycle

Dr Matt Jones, University of Plymouth, UK

Constraints on distinguishing imagination from reality

Dr Nadine Dijkstra, University College London, UK

The Brain Prize winner's webinar

Michael Greenberg, Harvard University; Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research; Christine Holt, University of Cambridge

The role of CNS microglia in health and disease

Vassiliki Kyrargyri, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece

Virtual Scientific Roundtable: Dynein Driven Cargo Transport in Neurons

Dr. Erika Holzbaur, DYNC1H1 Association

Protein synthesis: which RNAs? Which ribosomes?

Dr Julie Aspden, University of Leeds, UK

Drosophila circadian rhythms and models of neurodegenerative disease

James Hodge, Bristol University, UK

Understanding adaptive motor control through neural manifolds

Juan Alvaro Gallego, Imperial College London, UK

Architecture of synaptic input to leg and wing motor neurons in Drosophila

Tony Azevedo, University of Washington, US

Dysfunctional microglia in the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration

Rosa Paolicelli, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Spatial omics in deciphering biology and identifying novel drug targets

Front Line Genomics

Leveraging a new era of protein structure prediction to advance proteomic-driven drug discovery

Front Line Genomics

Microglial states and Nomenclature

Amanda Sierra, Ikerbasque and the Achucarro Basque Centre for Neuroscience

Microglia at the interface of chronic neurodegeneration and systemic inflammation

Colm Cunningham, Trinity College, Dublin

Membraneless organelles regulate intrinsically disordered proteins in neurophysiology and neuropathology

Lenzie Ford, Columbia University

Microglia shape neuro-vascular responses via compartment-specific mechanisms

Adam Denes, Hungary

Astroglia-microglia cross talk as part of the cellular response in Alzheimer's Disease

Bart De Strooper, University College London

Neuronal encoding of drug choices and preference in the orbitofrontal cortex

Karine Guillem, University of Bordeaux

Modelling neuroinflammation using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived microglia

Sally Cowley, University of Oxford

Graphene-based Nanomedicine: from Science Fiction to Real-World Solutions

Dr Tabish Tanveer, University College London

Health and Safety Essentials

Harassment and sexual misconduct

Disability Awareness

USICA information security awareness

Research Integrity

Supporting research students: practical tips

Data protection refresher

Fire awareness training

Roundtable on publication metrics and open access

Achievement and Development Reviews Overview

Display screen equipment training

Spill kits training (Oils and chemicals)

LEV training

Liquid nitrogen training

Centrifuges training

COSHH Awareness

Spill kits training (Body fluids)

Sharps training

Ladder safety

Emergency shower and eyewash

Purchasing goods and services

Introduction to Counter Fraud

Safeguarding essentials

Anti-Facilitation of Tax Evasion

Effective Online Meetings

Disabled adventures in work and recruitment

How to challenge

Building trust

Developing emotional intelligence