Life Sciences Conference
15 December 2014 – 16 December 2014
Venue: Education Academy, The Royal London Dental Hospital, Whitechapel, London
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is embarking on an exciting new interdisciplinary initiative in Life Sciences, and as part of this we shall be holding a two-day conference on the 15 and 16 December 2014 on ‘Population Health in a Post-Genomic Era’ at the new Royal London Dental Hospital Education Academy, in our Whitechapel campus, London.
About the Conference.
The ethos for the conference will be exploration of the capacity, constraints and utility of using the data which are becoming increasingly readily available on both an individual’s genome and now post-genomic information (proteome, metabolome etc), perhaps in combination with information about their physical and social environment, to make inferences about their susceptibility to diseases and disorders and/or their response to treatment regimes.
The Speakers
We have a series of high-profile plenary speakers at this event representing each of the four research domains that we have identified as being important in this endeavour (Society, Population and Environment; Computational Biology; Basic Biomedical Science and Translational Biomedical Science).
Confirmed external speakers include:
- Prof. Susan Lea – University of Oxford
- Prof. Tim Hubbard – Genomics England
- Prof. Anne Kerr – University of Leeds
- Dr. Philippe Sanseau – GSK
- Prof. Tim Spector – Kings College London
- Prof. Douglas Kell – University of Manchester
Call for Abstracts
We are currently accepting abstracts for both oral and poster presentations for the conference. Please note that accepted oral presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes in duration (with an additional 5 minutes for questions).
If you are selected for a poster presentation, please note that they should be printed in A1 Portrait.
To submit your abstract, please download and complete the abstract submission form.
Please send completed forms to [email protected]
The deadline for submission: No later than 5pm, 26 September 2014.
Fee
- £100 Academics (External/non-QMUL)
- £25 Students (External/non-QMUL)
- QMUL staff and students – Free
Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will take place in the nearby Whitechapel Gallery on Tuesday 16 December at 7pm. Tickets are priced at an additional £50.00 and must be selected at the same time as your conference booking via the Queen Mary e-Shop. Please note that the availability of the conference dinner is on a first come, first served basis.
We look forward to seeing you on the 15 and 16 December.
If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact us.
For media enquiries, please contact Emma Mason (tel: 020 7882 7703).