WMS PGR Symposium

Come and join the WMS Postgraduate Research Symposium taking place on Wednesday 20th May 2020.

The WMS PGR Symposium is a monitoring point for ALL PGR students. The Symposium provides second and third year PGR students with an opportunity to present their research and gain feedback from an academic audience across the Medical School and beyond. All academic and research staff are encouraged to attend to support PGR students and learn about their research activity.

This year's guest speaker will be Dr Phil Hammond: https://www.drphilhammond.com/

Register to attend here: Registration Form

WMS Research Symposium Programme

	Wednesday 20th May 2020
Time	Event	Location
9.00am – 9.30am	Registration There will be time to browse the Poster Presentations, Marketing Stands and grab a tea or coffee.	MSB Foyer and GLT3
9.30am – 9.40am	Welcome and Introduction – Professor Jason Madan, Director of Postgraduate Research Programmes	GLT 1
Session 1 9.45am-10.30am	*Mental Health & Epigenetics* Chair - TBC 09.45: William Murcott (Health Sciences) - The experiences of people aged 16 to 25 admitted to mental health wards 10.00: Filipe Fernandes Duarte (Biomedical Sciences) - Probing the 4D genome 10.15: Tasneem Raja (Health Sciences) – Psychiatric hospital reform in low and middle income countries structured individualized intervention and recovery (SITAR); a two arm pragmatic randomized control trial-study protocol	GLT 1
Session 1 9.45am-10.30am	*Infection & Immunology* Chair – TBC 09.45: Adarsh Babu (Biomedical Sciences) - Complement activating anti-HLA antibodies are associated with poor renal allograft survival in a cohort of antibody incompatible renal transplantation. Expression of complement regulatory proteins CD46, CD55 and CD59 on human glomerular endothelial cells are not altered in the presence of anti-HLA antibodies. 10.00: Tommer Spence (Health Sciences) - What are the experiences of people who have accessed internet-based testing for sexually transmitted infections? 10.15: Kate Watkins (Biomedical Sciences) - Manipulating the macrophage: a role for the staphylococcal type VII secretion	MD0.01
10.30am-11.00am	Poster Presentations / Marketing Stands/ Refreshments	GLT 3
Session 2 11.00am-11.45am	*Mental Health & Epigenetics* Chair - TBC 11.00: Becky Appleton (Health Sciences) - “I’m just a long history of people rejecting referrals” Experiences of young people who fell through the gap between child and adult mental health services 11.15: Randa Elsayed (Biomedical Sciences) - Analysing the chromatin landscape during zebrafish endoderm formation 11.30: Frane Vusio (Health Sciences) - Improving Children and Young people’s mental health care in crisis: A new mental health 0-19 crisis service model for Children and Young people, and exploration of its appropriateness, accessibility, effectiveness and overall stakeholders’ satisfaction	GLT 1
Session 2 11.00am-11.45am	*Infection & Immunology* Chair - TBC 11.00: Haleema Masud (Health Sciences) - Political Economy of Tobacco Taxation in Pakistan 11.15: Iago Lopez Grobas (Biomedical Sciences) - Swarming Bacillussubtilistransits into a biofilm templated by active jamming in a gradient of antibiotics 11.30: Susan Zhao (Health Sciences) - Examining the Experiences of Chinese people Caring for People at End of Life in Community Settings in England	MD0.01
11.45am-12.45pm	Lunch Please browse the Poster Presentations and Marketing Stands	GLT 3
Session 3 12.45pm-1.30pm	*Reproduction & Nutrition* Chair - TBC 12.45: Komal Makwana (Biomedical Sciences) - Characterization of human endometrial glands in recurrent missed miscarriage 13.00: Julia Gauly (Health Sciences) - Pharmacy-based sexual and reproductive health services: A mixed methods evaluation 13.15: Karen Dhillon (Biomedical Sciences) - The control of food intake and energy balance	GLT 1
Session 3 12.45pm-1.30pm	Cardiovascular & Ethics *Chair - TBC* 12.45: Christopher Smith (Health Sciences) - The use of trained volunteers in the response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 13.00: Kirstie Shearman (Health Sciences) - Improving Information for Research Participation 13.15: Shukri Mohamed (Health Sciences) - Uncontrolled hypertension among patients with comorbidities in sub-Saharan Africa	MD0.01
1.30pm-2.00pm	Poster Presentations / Marketing Stands / Refreshments	GLT 3
Session 4 2.00pm-3.00pm	*Reproduction & Nutrition* Chair - TBC 14.00: Sharon Huish (Clinical Trials Unit) - 'Vitamin D supplementation corrects 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D deficiency and reduces erythropoietin requirement in haemodialysis patients' 14.15: Emma Ford (Biomedical Sciences) - Chromosome Segregation during the First Cleavage Divisions in Human Embryos 14.30: Daniel Mensah (Health Sciences) - Emerging adults' Attitudes and Perceptions towards Ultra-processed foods, Meat, Fruit and Vegetable consumption in a University food environment 14:45: Petra Hanson ( biomedical Sciences) – Metabolic effects and weight loss potential of Dapagliflozin combined with low carbohydrate diet in patients with type 2 DM and obesity	GLT 1
Session 4 2.00pm-2.45pm	Cellular Dynamics Chair - TBC 14.00: Alex Zwetsloot (Biomedical Sciences) - Cooperation of motor proteins for bidirectional intracellular transport 14.15: Lewis Mosby (Biomedical Sciences) - EB Protein Binding Dynamics and the Transport of Cargo Inside Cells 14.30: Laura Usselmann ( Biomedical Sciences) - Investigating circadian tumour dynamics	MD0.01
3.00pm-3.15pm	Voting Decisions made - Marketing Stands / Refreshments	GLT 3
3.15pm-4.00pm	Guest Speaker: Dr Phil Hammond: Talk title to be confirmed Introduction by Professor Lesley Roberts, Pro-Dean (Education)	GLT 1
4.00pm-4.30pm	Prize giving & close presented by Professor Sudhesh Kumar, Dean of Warwick Medical School	GLT 3

Poster Presentations (including abstracts)

1. Duha Alkhder (BS) - Dissecting the mechanism of action of 3,5-dihydroxy-4-isopropyl-trans-stilbene

2. Shathviga Manoharan (BS) - The role of the PlcR-PapR circuit in B. cereus G9241, the causative agent of anthrax-like illness.

3. Janak Bechar (BS) - The role of a novel hyaluronic acid hydrogel as an extracellular matrix in autologous fat transfer

4. Rebecca Evans (HS) - A comparative study of Menarche and Menstruation knowledge and experiences of girls age 10 -14 in low-resource settings of Pakistan, the Philippines and the UK.

5. Helen Smith (BS) - Reconstitution of a split C-methylating module from the gladiolin trans-AT polyketide synthase

6. Ryan Rego (HS) - Evaluation of Diarrhoea Surveillance Methods in Refugee Camps and Urban Informal Settlements

7. Jack Cooper (BS) - Collective migration and mechanosensing during embryonic macrophage migration

8. Ariana Kular (HS) - The Perceptions, Understanding and Help-Seeking of Psychotic Disorders amongst Service Users, Carer’s and Laypeople: A Sikh Perspective

9. Katherine Wood (BS) - Development of a Cryo-EM Clathrin Structure for Assessing Clathrin Adaptor Interactions

10. Angus Inman (BS) - The role of cell and tissue morphogenesis in shaping the anterior neural plate

11. Paulina Pokorska (BS) - Fine-tuning septate junction formation during fly embryonic development

12. Hei Hang Edmund Yui (CTU) - Derivation of a preference-based tariff for the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) to allow calculation of Mental Well-being Adjusted Life Years (MWALYs)

13. Maria Ababi (BS) - Bactericidal activity of the P2 bacteriophage tail

14. Mary Osuh (HS) - Prevalence and intervention urgency of oral diseases among adult residents in slum and non-slum urban settings of Ibadan, Nigeria: A comparative cross-sectional study

15. Ramon Garcia Maset (BS) - Cationic polymers show antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity against multidrug resistant S.auerus

16. Yean Ming Chew (BS) - Studying single tubulin isotypes and their binding mechanisms using unnatural amino acids (UNAAs)

17. Stephen Li (BS) - An interdisciplinary study highlights the challenges for investigating sRNAs in C. jejuni

18. Seun Anjorin (HS) - Financial Protection and its association with development and health expenditure indicators: an analysis of Low and Middle-Income Countries

19. Megan Sambrook (BS) - A molecular basis for enhanced cephalosporin resistance in vancomycin resistant Enterococci

20. Adam Callan-Sidat (BS) - Mechanism and function of liquid-liquid phase separation in transcription

21. Maxwell Larweh (HS) - Understanding the knowledge and attitudes to dementia in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review

22. Edgar Polovinkins (BS) - The binding mechanism of Ybx1 to target RNA

23. Sara Estecha Querol (HS) - Exploring undernutrition in Pakistani adolescents living in slums through photovoice

24. Benjamin Roberts (BS) - A Functional Circadian Clock within the Blood-Brain Barrier Controls Key Pharmacokinetic Properties

25. Jonaton Bennaroch (BS) - Probing the electrochemical dynamics of dormant and germinating Bacillus subtilis spores

26. Maryam Obaid (BS) - Nanoparticles cellular uptake: the role of protein coronae and circadian rhythm

27. Adam Campbell (BS) - Functional reorganisation of dorsal horn neurones in chronic neuropathic pain: new opportunities for new therapies.

28. Jack Petts-Lewis (BS) - Identifying Regulatory Genes in Shaping the Early Forebrain During Zebrafish Embryonic Development

29. Chinwe Oneugbu (HS) - Lay Consultations for Symptom Evaluation and Treatment-seeking Decision Making in Slums in Nigeria.

30. Sara Toral Perez (BS) - Regulation of zebrafish sex determination by a conserved RNA element

31. Vicki Fessey (HS) - Experiences and perspectives of healthcare staff and people with dementia in acute hospital wards: A systematic review.

32. Agnieszka Nagorska (BS) - Regulation of left-right patterning by a 3'UTR RNA element

33. Mustapha Abba (HS) - A Bird's Eye View of 100 years of research on Hypertension: Machine Learning Classifications of Topics

34. Alex Haigh (BS) - Multi-omic temporal exploration of endometrial dynamics underlying the human implantation window

35. Maartje Kletter (HS) - Outcomes, mechanisms and contextual factors of positive psychology interventions for health workers: a systematic review of global evidence.

36. Imran Ahmed (HS) - The MEniscal TeaR Outcome (METRO) Study: Understanding the disease process of young patients with a meniscal tear of the knee and response to treatment.

37. Ana Irache (HS) - The double burden of malnutrition among women, adolescent girls and their children living in low- and middle-income countries.

38. Zain Ahmed (HS) - First Trimester HbA1c as a predictor of GDM in High risk Women

Prizes

This year prizes will be decided by the votes of all those in attendance. Prizes will be awarded to PGR students in the following categories:

Best Oral Presentation (Biomedical Sciences)
Best Oral Presentation (Health Sciences/Clinical Trials Unit)
Best Poster Presentation (Biomedical Sciences)
Best Poster Presentation (Health Sciences/Clinical Trials Unit)
WMS "Blue Sky" Award

There will also be a raffle prize draw following the awards.

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