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Biomedical Physics Higgs Centre Workshop

Event description

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers doing interdisciplinary work between physics and medicine. Within the School of Physics and Astronomy, as well as within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, there are many people working on physics challenges for the medical domain and we would like to bring these people together to see where there may be more opportunity for collaboration and to coalesce some of the paths and ideas. There will be three main themes presented during the workshop, with presentations from SoPA and CMVM researchers:

  • medical imaging
  • molecular mechanisms of disease
  • biophysics of viruses and biofilms

We aim to have plenty of time for discussion as a group and between attendees to identify and develop new ideas in the space. It is hoped that this workshop will give better visibility of medical and biomedical physics across the colleges in the University of Edinburgh, so that the extent of it is understood by all participating.

The schedule of the workshop is given below.

Time

9:00

Tea/coffee on arrival

9:30

Welcome (Jim Dunlop)

9:45

Session 1: Molecular mechanisms of disease

Nick Gilbert (IGC, CMVM)

Understanding the link between genome organisation, chromatin structure and disease

Chris Brackley (SoPA, CSE)

Polymer simulations for predicting chromatin interactions after enhancer hijacking

Ava Khamseh (IGC, CMVM)

Using computational biology to understand disease

11:15

Break

11:45

Session 2: Physics of viruses and biofilms

Willem Vanderlinden (SoPA, CSE)

Genome topology in retroviral integration

Cait MacPhee (SoPA, CSE)

Understanding biofilm formation and structure

12:45

Lunch (Magnet Café)

14:00

Session 3: Physics and medical imaging

Hanna Borecka Bielska (SoPA, CSE)

Geant4 simulation of total-body PET scanners

Michael Thrippleton (Little France, CMVM)

Medical imaging research in CMVM

Adam Waldman (Little France, CMVM)

Medical imaging and physics: a clinical perspective

15:30

Break

16:00

Discussion (Davide Marenduzzo & Catriona Wimberley)

17:00

Drinks (Magnet Café)

Biomedical Physics Higgs Centre Workshop

Venues

Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB (Find us on campus maps)
The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy
James Clerk Maxwell Building, 4305
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FD
UK

Organisers

Key speakers

  • Hannah BORECKA BIELSKA
  • Chris BRACKLEY (Edinburgh)
  • Nick GILBERT
  • Ava KHAMSEH (Edinburgh)
  • Cait MACPHEE
  • Michael THRIPPLETON
  • Willem VANDERLINDEN (Edinburgh)
  • Adam WALDMAN

Resources