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At 1.30pm on 24^th February 2021, we will have the TALENT: Technician Led Equipment Sharing – Virtual Roadshow. Sign up is here.

This event will showcase some of the facilities available across Midlands Innovation institutions. It will also have a webinar by Andrea Mitchell Enabling Technologies: Alternative approaches to enabling access and training, followed by a panel discussion on overcoming hurdles related to equipment sharing. Attendees can also participate in discussions around Training During and Post Covid-19 and Human Participant Testing During and Post Covid-19. The event will provide an opportunity to discuss current issues, share best practice and of course learn more about how technicians are leading the sharing of equipment across MI.

Simultaneously, the Technician Led Equipment Sharing fund will be open for a second round, and the event provides the opportunity to book a short meeting with facilities across MI to see if it could help accelerate your research.

We hope to see you on the 24^th and a more detailed agenda is below!

1.30pm Welcome and introduction

1.40pm Webinar - Enabling Technologies: Alternative approaches to enabling access and training, Andrea Mitchell

The University of Birmingham has a range of facilities supporting our research staff, colleagues across the Midlands Innovation network and the wider academic community and commercial users.

Our facilities provide a range of access from bespoke services, through support for experimental planning and analysis, to training and support for user-led access on a wider range of instruments. With some critical research continuing through the recent national restrictions we have looked to alternative ways to interact with our users, old and new that, we would like to share and develop as part of the TALENT initiative.

2.00pm Panel Discussion: Technician Led Equipment Sharing - Overcoming Hurdles

2.20pm Break

2.30pm Facility presentation from each Midlands Innovation institution

3.20pm Break

3.30pm Your choice of the following parallel sessions:

Discussion group 1 - Training during and post Covid-19

Discussion group 2 - Challenges for human participant testing during and after the Covid-19 pandemic

Book your session with your chosen facility - 3.30pm, 3.40pm, 3.50pm

4.00pm Your choice of the following parallel sessions:

Discussion group 1 - Training during and post Covid-19

Discussion group 2 - Challenges for human participant testing during and after the Covid-19 pandemic

Book your session with your chosen facility - 4.00pm, 4.10pm, 4.20pm

You can book a session with the following facilities:

Advanced Bioimaging RTP - University of Warwick

Analytical Scanning Electron Microscopy and Automated Mineralogy - University of Leicester

Centre for Mathmetical Cognition - Loughborough University

Electron Microscope Facility - University of Leicester

Flow Cytomery Facility - University of Nottingham

Mitochondrial Profiling Centre - University of Birmingham

Polymer Characterisation RTP - University of Warwick

Proteomics Research Technology Platform - University of Warwick

SLIM – University of Nottingham

Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre (WISB) - University of Warwick

X-Ray Diffraction RTP - University of Warwick

XPS Facility - University of Warwick