Day 1 – Thursday, 2nd of July 2026
8:45 – 9:30
Arrival, registration, and morning coffee
Atrium
9:30 – 9:40
Welcoming Remarks
MPLT
Speaker Session 1
9:40 – 10:15
Diana Arseni – The ABC of TDP-43
MPLT
10:15 – 10:35
Student Talk (TBD)
MPLT
10:35 – 10:55
Break
Atrium
10:55 – 11:30
Steve Jackson – Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and medical implications
MPLT
11:30 – 11:50
Student Talk (TBD)
MPLT
11:50 – 12:25
Alex Johnson – From land and sea: Clathrin-mediated cellular sensitivity in photosynthetic organisms
MPLT
12:25 – 13:15
Lunch + Poster Session
Atrium
13:15 – 14:15
Workshop – Storytelling for Science Communication
MPLT
14:15 – 15:00
3-Minute Thesis Competition
MPLT
15:00 – 15:20
Break
Atrium
Speaker Session 2
15:20 – 15:55
Stephan Gruber – From Folding to Fending: How a chromosome-organizing machine combats foreign DNA
MPLT
15:55 – 16:15
Student Talk (TBD)
MPLT
16:25 – 16:55
Morgan Beeby – Electron cryo-microscopy of bacterial flagellar motors in situ reveals clues to their evolution
MPLT
16:05 – 16:25
Break
Atrium
17:00 – 17:20
Student Talk (TBD)
MPLT
17:20 – 17:55
Giovanni D’Angelo – The lipidomic architecture of the mouse brain
MPLT
From 18:30
Pub Trip
TBD
Day 2 – Friday, 3rd of July 2026
8:45 – 9:15
Arrival and morning coffee
Atrium
9:15 – 9:20
Welcoming Remarks
MPLT
Speaker Session 3
9:20 – 9:40
Student Talk (TBD)
MPLT
9:40 – 10:15
Joergen Kornfeld – How Connectomics Is Slowly Revolutionising Neuroscience
MPLT
10:15 – 10:35
Student Talk (TBD)
MPLT
10:35 – 10:55
Break
Atrium
10:55 – 11:30
Fides Zenk – Reconstructing Human Neurodevelopment with Single-Cell Epigenomics
MPLT
11:30 – 11:50
Student Talk (TBD)
MPLT
11:50 – 12:25
Nicholas Dale – CO2–sensing via connexins: structural biology, physiology and evolution
MPLT
12:25 – 13:15
Lunch + Poster Session (extended until 15:35)
Atrium
14:00 – 15:30
Workshop – How to write your thesis 101 (limited attendance!)
MPLT
Speaker Session 4
15:35 – 16:10
Peijun Zhang
MPLT
16:10 – 16:30
Student Talk (TBD)
MPLT
16:30 – 17:05
Shannan Foylan
MPLT
17:05 – 17:30
Prizes and Closing Remarks
MPLT
From 19:00
Formal Hall Dinner at Clare College
