Big Ol' Nerdy Charity Symposium
Big Ol' Nerdy Charity Symposium
Fri 15 May 2026 10:00-17:00
15/05/2026, 10:00 - 15/05/2026, 17:00
Friday 15 May 2026,
10.00AM
- Friday 15 May 2026, 5.00PM
Oculus
BONCS is our NEW flagship charity event (move over WASD), where lecturers, PhD students and external speakers will be giving interesting talks on computational cancer research. This is REAL work with REAL impact!
Expect talks on modelling, imaging and machine learning. If any of those sound interesting to you, you're gonna LOVE this!
What's on:
Engaging talks from researchers all across the uni (and even from Oxford :0)
Lightning talks from students (short, chaotic talks on everything from computer architecture to trains to [REDACTED])
A touchscreen demo from the Tissue Image Analytics Centre (you'll be able to touch the research !!!)
And the best part, there's FOOD included with your ticket!! So not only will you be supporting charity, you'll also get a lunch out of it! And if you don't want food, you can still show up without paying for a ticket too!!
The important bit:
All ticket proceeds and donations go to Cancer Research UK!!!!
Timetable:
Main Lecture Theatre (OC1.05)
| Time |
Talk Topic |
Speaker |
| 10:00-10:30 |
How Cells Move |
Anne Straube |
| 10:30-11:00 |
The Role of Molecular Mimicry in the Immune System and Autoimmune Disorders |
Paul Brown |
| 11:00-11:30 |
The Pathologist's Second Eye: How AI Is Transforming What We See in Cancer Tissue |
Behnaz Elhaminia |
| 11:30-11:45 |
Industry Talk |
Histofy |
| 11:45-12:15 |
Break |
- |
| 12:15-12:45 |
Studying the Role of E-cadherin Mobility in Cell Behaviour |
Darius Koester |
| 12:45-13:15 |
AI for Predicting Malignant Transformation in Oral Epithelial Dysplasia |
Adam Shepard |
| 13:15-14:15 |
Lunch Break |
- |
| 14:15-14:45 |
Metal-based Drugs in Cancer Treatment |
Rianne Lord |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Skin Cancer Assessment using Terahertz Light |
Agrima Agarwal |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Industry Talk |
Histofy |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Break |
- |
| 16:00-16:30 |
(TBC) |
Badran Elshenawy |
| 16:30-17:00 |
What Can AI Discover About Colorectal Cancer? |
Piotr Keller |
Parallel Sessions (OC0.03)
| Time |
Talk Topic |
Speaker |
| 12:15-12:45 |
Can AI Predict Cancer Progression from a Microscopic Image? |
Noorul Wahab |
| 14:15-14:45 |
How Mathematics Can Be Used to Optimise Cancer Treatment |
Nigel Burroughs |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Can Cancer Tell Time? Biological Clocks, and How They Might Be Responsible For, But Also Help, to Fight Cancer |
Robert Dallmann |
| 16:00-17:00 |
How Computational Pathology Supports Cancer Research |
Jiaqi Lv |
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