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Themes and topics

This event will bring together physical scientists and life scientists to devise new approaches to vaccines that could have great impact on human and animal health. The symposium will be hosted in the beautiful and historic Queens’ College in the centre of Cambridge. Through talks and posters and discussions, we will consider some of the latest approaches to create effective vaccines, exchange ideas, and nucleate collaborations to overcome existing barriers. The latest vaccines have depended upon advances in areas including nanotechnology, lipid/carbohydrate/nucleic acid modification, genomics, computational design, analytical chemistry and atomic resolution structural analysis. We intend for the event to be welcoming to life scientists without a background in physical sciences, as well as to physical scientists with no background knowledge of the immune system or vaccines but who have an interest to explore possible applications of their research. The event is organised through RSC Biotechnology Group, in partnership with Cambridge University Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre.

Organisers

Mark Howarth (https://howarthgroup.org/) and Laurence Tiley (https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-laurence-tiley)

Speakers

Pietro Cicuta, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
Max Crispin, Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton
Dame Sarah Gilbert, Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford
Neil King, Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington
Anne Osbourn, John Innes Centre
Asel Sartbaeva, Department of ÉîÒ¹¸£Àû¹ú²ú¾«Æ·, University of Bath

Registration includes:

- Attendance at all scientific sessions
- Opportunity to submit a Poster abstract and be considered for the Poster prizes
- Opportunity for abstract to be considered for oral presentation, with particular consideration to early career researchers
- Refreshments throughout the meeting
- Lunch in Queens’ College

Deadline for registration, including abstract submission:

Registration and abstract submission are now complete. No further can be accepted.

Posters and oral presentations

5 submitted abstracts from early career researchers have been selected by the symposium panel for short talks.
Other submitted abstracts have been selected for poster presentation. We are delighted to have about 25 posters.
Poster boards will be 88 cm wide and 176 cm high. Adhesive pads or pins will be provided for attaching the posters.
We request that presenters pin up their posters in the first tea break (from 11:30am) in the bar outside the lecture theature.
After lunch, we will have the poster session and we would be grateful if presenters could be near their poster 1:40-2:10pm. At this point we expect that assessors for the Symposium poster prizes will come round to discuss. Please take posters down at the end of the lunch break or during the 3:20pm tea break. The college will dispose of any posters that are not collected by the meeting close.

Additional information

We regret that we are not able to assist with accommodation.
We do not have travel awards available.
There is very limited parking in Cambridge centre and attendees are encouraged to use public transport or the Park & Ride service (https://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/visiting-the-college/getting-to-queens/).