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The annual Life Sciences research symposium This University of Sussex annual symposium will be themed this year as the Rosalind Franklin Symposium with speakers including Professor Jean Beggs CBE FRS giving the Maynard Smith Lecture and Professor Anne Dell CBE FRS giving the Cornforth Lecture. Thursday 10th September 2015 |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Coffee and Registration | |
| Morning chair: Professor Wendy Brown and Dr Paul Graham |
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| 9:30 – 9:40 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 9:40 – 10:10 | Talk | Professor Giovanna Mallucci‘Cooling synapses: insights into neurodegeneration’ |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Talk | Professor Polly Arnold FRSE FRSC‘A chemical imbalance’ |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Break | |
| 11:10 – 11:40 | Talk | Professor Sheena Radford FRS FMedSci‘Stopping the amyloid cascade: new molecular insights and some new opportunities‘ |
| 11:40 – 11:45 | Introduction to Cornforth Lecture by | |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Talk | Professor Anne Dell CBE FRS FMedSci‘The sweet things in life’
– The Cornforth Lecture |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Afternoon chair: Professor Guy Richardson and Professor Michelle West |
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| 13:30 – 14:00 | Talk | Professor Sue Hartley‘Pests, pathogens and unpredictable rainfall: tackling threats to sustainable food production’ |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Talk | Dr Dora Biro‘The hows and whys of living in groups: perspectives from birds and apes’ |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Break | |
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Introduction to Maynard Smith Lecture by Professor Tony Carr FMedSci | |
| 15:10 – 15:55 | Talk | Professor Jean Beggs CBE FRS‘RNA at the centre of gene expression’ – The Maynard Smith Lecture |
| 15:55 – 16:05 | Introduction to Keynote Lecture by Professor Laurence Pearl FRS FMedSci | |
| 16:05 – 16:50 | Talk | Dame Professor Julia Goodfellow FMedSci FInstP‘Women, leadership and careers in academia’
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| 16:50 – 17:00 | Thanks and Close by | |
| 17:00 | Wine reception | |
