Join us for a two-day celebration of Manchester's cancer postgraduate trainees with careers sessions & international keynotes at the Oglesby Cancer Research Building.
Attendees can register for one or both dates - Monday 3rd June and/or Tuesday 4th June - but must reserve their place in advance via EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mcrc-dcs-postgraduate-research-showcase-tickets-887635259957?aff=oddtdtcreator. Travel costs from UoM campus can be reclaimed.
Monday 3rd June
10.45 – 11:15: Registration and coffee
11.15 – 11.30: Introduction and event welcome
11.30 – 12.30: Careers workshop with Dr Lindsey Cauthen, Principal of the Careers Service at Baylor College of Medicine
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
13.30 – 14.30: Postgraduate researcher presentations
Charlotte Mellor; Kate Law; Victoria Fife; Walaa Abrurayan
14.30 – 15.30: Postgraduate researcher posters, with teas and coffees provided
Abigail Hemming, Adesewa Adebisi, Ann Tivey, Annet Nakkazi, Charlie Cunniffe, Chelmis Muthoni Thiong’o, Harry Barnes, Helena O’Flynn, Josephine Jones, Laura Guest, Mang Xu, Peter Sodde, Yu-Shan Chen, Zornitsa Vasileva Stoichkova, Amerah Alshamrani
15.30 – 16.30: Keynote lecture from Associate Professor David Kok, Radiation Oncologist and Medical Educator at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and The University of Melbourne: "How to hit a moving target – Attaining oncological and career outcomes in a changing environment"
16.30 – 17.30: Event networking with drinks and food provided
Tuesday 4th June
09:00-09:15: Registration and coffee
09:15-09:30: Event welcome
09:30-10:30: Postgraduate researcher presentations
Catarina Goncalves Guerra, Kirsten Tinsley, Mairead Daly, Yitao Chen
10:30-11.30: Postgraduate researcher posters, with teas and coffees provided
Alexia Strickson, Ammar Sharif, Ana Ortega-Franco, Danielle Smith, Eve Tipple, Faris Alanazi, Helen Morley, Kan Kar Mern, Kashmala Carys, Laura Woodhouse, Naomi Eastwood, Nicola Flaum, Oliver Bartley, Rebecca Ford, Siriwat Sukphokkit, Xiangxu Kong
11.30-12.30: Keynote presentation from Dr Simona Valletta, Tenure Track Group Leader/Lecturer in Cancer Biology (Haematological Cancer) at the Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
13.30 – 15.30: Careers, industry wellbeing workshops (TBC)
Dr John Davis, Research Fellow at the Division of Mollecular & Cellular Function, UoM and Dr Kerrie Marie, ISSF Fellow at the Division of Mollecular & Cellular Function, UoM, "From PhD to Postdoc, How to Navigate Academia as an ECR"
Dr Sacha Howell, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology, "Clinical Academic Careers"
15.30 – 16.30: Postgraduate research presentations
Eleanor Roberts, George Morrissey, Parsa Pirhady, Sotia Zenios
16.30 – 17.00: Event close and prizes
17.00 onwards: Social and networking
