Conference Programme

Wednesday 15^th March 2017

Time	Event	Session Chair
10.00-10.30	Arrival and registration
10.30-10.40	Opening remarks Alastair Dent, Chair of ABG	Session chair: Lynne Dennany University of Strathclyde
10.40-11.25	Lisa Hall, University of Cambridge Bioinspired materials for Biosensors
11.25-11.40	Husain A Naqi, University of Bath Pharmaceutical analysis of seized ethylone–ecstasy mixtures using quantitative NMR spectroscopy and ESI-MS
11.40-11.55	Maria Lizio, University of Manchester Exploring peptide foldamer-membrane interactions using optical spectroscopic techniques
11.55-12.10	Break
12.10-12.55	Kirsty Penkman, University of York Through the looking glass, and what amino acids found there
12.55-13.10	Neus Jornet Martinez, University of Cambridge Zein as sustainable alternative of petroleum-based materials in biokits and biosensors for in situ analysis
13.10-14.00	Lunch and posters
14.00-14.45	Jonathan Aylott, University of Nottingham Fluorescent nanosensors for imaging and quantifying biological systems	Session chair: Frankie Rawson University of Nottingham
14.45-15.00	Robert Johnson, University of Utah Base Flipping within a Nanopores Reveals the Identity of DNA Bases at the Single Molecule Level
15.00-15.15	Break
15.15-16.00	Bronwyn Ormsby, Tate Britain Analytical investigation and cultural heritage: preserving modern and contemporary art at Tate.
16.00-16.15	Jerome Charmet, University of Warwick Practical considerations for micro/nanotechnology enabled biosensors
16.15-16.45	VRS Career Workshop Simon England, VRS Recruitment
16.45	Wine and posters
19.00	Conference Dinner Woodland Grange Hotel

Thursday 16^th March 2017

Time	Event	Session Chair
9.00-9.30	Arrival and coffee
9.30-10.15	Matt Baker, University of Strathclyde Developing Objective Spectroscopic Disease Diagnostics for the Clinical Environment	Session chair: Mark Seymour Syngenta
10.15-11.00	Christel Veyssier, MedImmune Higher Order Structure characterisation to support Biopharmaceutical R&D
11.00-11.15	Break
11.15-12.00	Mark Viant, University of Birmingham Exploiting the capabilities of non-targeted metabolomics to discover complex interactions between plants, animals and toxicants
12.00-12.15	Mark Platt, Loughborough University Multi-Pores. Controlling and measuring the flow of charged species through tunable nanopores producing a rapid, multiplex assay.
12.15-13.15	Lunch and posters
13.15-14.00	Gillian Greenway, University of Hull A comparison of detection approaches for selective and sensitive biosensing	Session chair: Kirsty High University of York
14.00-14.45	Helen Yu-Ting Hsu, Durham University Small molecule biosensor development and alternative sensing material
14.45-15.00	Break
15.00-15.45	Pete O'Connor, University of Warwick 2-Dimensional Mass Spectrometry: Proteomics in the Next Dimension
16.00	Closing remarks and the poster prize