Current Birkbeck PhD students are invited by the BBSRC-funded LIDo PhD programme to attend events in their multi-disciplinary Teaching Week in February 2020. The sessions are open to all University of London PhD students regardless of their subject area.
This year the week consists of a series of separate day-long workshops on themes of Drug Discovery, Software Development in Biology & Medicine, The Psychology of Wellbeing, Insects in Agriculture and Ethics in Health Sciences .
PhD students should express their interest in attending each event by clicking here and completing a short form, full details of locations (London – UCL) and speaker biographies will follow in the new year.
Places are limited so please let us know as soon as you can.
Drug Discovery: Monday 17 February 2020
- Translational Genomics in Drug Discovery
- Data-driven drug discovery
- AI and Drug Discovery
- Data mining in Drug Discovery
- Computer-Aided Drug Discovery
Software: Tuesday 18 February 2020
- Development and implementation of intelligent patient monitoring systems
- Information Management in Systems Biology
- Software Solutions for Research Communication
- Software Engineering for Research Computing
- Problems of uncertainty in Sensor System Software
Psychology: Wednesday 19 February 2020
- The Impact of Social Identity on Mental Health Outcomes
- Emotion Regulation and the Brain
- Psychological wellbeing following atypical prenatal hormone environments
- Big Data Psychology: measuring well-being in transactional data
- Impact on brain anatomy of allele risk for mental disorders
Entomology: Thursday 20 February 2020
- Applied Ecology: making fundamental research relevant to real-world problems
- Understanding and mitigating arthropod vectors and vector-borne diseases as ecosystem disservices
- The use of biocontrol as an alternative to pesticide
- Impact of climate change on vector-borne diseases
- The impacts of agrochemicals on bees
Ethics: Friday 21 February 2020
- Ethical Issues in Reproductive Technologies
- Vaccination Ethics
- Ethics and Gene Editing
- The Ethics of Antibiotic Resistance
- Ethical considerations of emerging technologies
