
Half Day Away
The Half Day Away is held annually, and organised by the NGFs and Loke CTR PhD students, covering the excellent research carried out across the Loke Centre.
The day is set up for Loke CTR Members only. Details and registration information will be shared over email.
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2025 Half Day Away
Friday, 16th May 2025, afternoon
The Postdoc Centre at Eddington, 105 Eddington Pl, Cambridge CB3 1AS
Organising Committee: Thomas Rawlings, Priscilla Day-Walsh, Andreea Cristian, Ana Elisa Ribeiro Orsi, Natasha Cavell, Isabel Marchand-Casas, and Julie Tang
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Travel and Accessibility
Eddington Accessibility & Travel Information | Postdoc Academy (cam.ac.uk)
Parking:
Madingley Road Park & Ride, Lansdowne Rd, off Madingley Road, CB3 0EZ. Free parking for drivers up to 18 hours. 5 min. walk from Eddington.
Limited parking on site. Parking charges apply 8am-6pm Monday to Friday. The majority of spaces have a maximum stay of 2 hours and no return within 1 hour. There is disabled parking on site for Blue Badge holders. (Eddington access and parking information: https://www.postdocacademy.cam.ac.uk/postdoc-centres/eddington-access-information
Programme:
1:00 – 2:40 |
Session 1: Chaired by Ana Ribeiro Orsi and Thomas Rawlings 1:00 – Kathy Niakan: Welcome and housekeeping 1:15 – Opening keynote, Wei Li: Does soluble endoglin play a role in pre-eclampsia? 1:45 – Miao Ruoyu: The Statistical Analysis of Maternal Serum Proteomics 2:00 – Ahmed Abdelbaki Abdelaal: Live imaging human embryos reveals late-stage de novo mitotic errors 2:15 – Adam Reid: Turning data into discovery: bioinformatics services for the School of Biological Sciences 2:20 – Networking Activity, Chaired by Priscilla Day-Walsh, Thomas Rawlings, Andreea Cristian and Julie Tang |
2:40 – 2:55 |
Tea and coffee break |
2:55 – 4:30 |
Session 2: Chaired by Natasha Cavell and Isabel Marchand-Casas 2:55 – Clara Munger and Amy Wilkinson: From birth to blastocyst: a SciArt exhibit 3:00 – Billy Yung: How does placental stress cause adverse pregnancy outcome? 3:15 – Chen Zhang: 3:30 – Geraldine Jowett: Membrane tension as a germ cell intrinsic contributor to gamete sex determination 3:45 – Anna Cochrane: Mechanisms of Increased Cardiovascular Risk in Offspring of Obese Women 4:00 – Emma Siragher: Dnmt3b and the placenta-heart axis 4:15 – Ariella Weinberg-Shukron: Balanced Gene Dosage Control rather than Parental Origin underpins Genomic Imprinting |
4:30 – 4:40 |
Refreshment break |
4:40 – 5:30 |
4:40 Closing Keynote - Miguel Branco: Roles and effects of transposable elements in pregnancy 5:15 Closing remarks |
5:30 |
Pizza and drinks |