STEM

FOR BRITAIN

Exhibition of Posters by early-career research scientists, engineers and mathematicians.

2024

BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES EXHIBITION 2023

Gold Sponsor: British In Vitro Diagnostics Association
Silver Sponsor: Institute of Biomedical Science
Bronze Sponsor: Biochemical Society
The Nutrition Society Prize
The Physiological Society Prize

Poster Presenters in Alphabetical Order

KEY:
Poster number – Name of Poster Presenter
Institution
TITLE OF POSTER
Presenters’ Westminster MPs (where provided) given in format: Work MP/ Home MP

B1 – Nada Abuknesha

London Metropolitan University
PLASMA FATTY ACIDS AND ANTIOXIDANT VITAMINS OF SUDANESE PATIENTS WITH DRUG-RESISTANT EPILEPSY: IMPLICATIONS FOR SEIZURE FREQUENCY?
Jeremy Corbyn/ Tulip Siddiq

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B2 – Rachel Bowsher

UK Health Security Agency
DEVELOPING A MODEL OF THE HUMAN AIRWAYS TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF SMOKING AND VAPING ON COVID-19 SUCEPTIBILITY
David Johnston/ Robert Buckland

B3 – Samuel Burden

Oxford Brookes University
THE CASE FOR VIGOROUS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN ADOLESCENTS – EVIDENCE FROM THE OXSOCRATES STUDY
Anneliese Dodds/ Ben Spencer

B4 – Michelle Clements

Ulster University
EFFECT OF COMBINED B-VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION ON BONE MINERAL DENSITY IN ADULTS: A 2-YEAR RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Gregory Campbell/ Michelle Gildernew

B5 – Olivia Conway

University of Cambridge
MAPPING THE SUBCELLULAR ADIPOCYTE PROTEOME IN RESPONSE TO FED AND FASTED STIMULI
Anthony Browne/ Daniel Zeichner

B6 – Devon Crouch

University of Liverpool
STOP THIEF! USING BIOMATERIALS TO TACKLE GLAUCOMA
Kim Johnson/ Paula Barker

B7 – Katherine Davis

Imperial College London
DOES PROVIDING UNIVERSAL TESTING AND TREATMENT FOR HIV AFFECT HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE?
Nickie Aiken/ Theresa May

B8 – Thomas Day

King College London
HOW CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IMPROVE FETAL SCREENING?
Florence Eshalomi/ David Lammy

B9 – Ruben de Dios Barranco

Brunel University London
THE ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER ACESULFAME-K INHIBITS MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT PATHOGENS AND POTENTIATES ANTIBIOTIC ACTIVITY
Boris Johnson/ Boris Johnson

B10 – Didier Devaurs

University of Edinburgh
MAKING DEEP MUTATIONAL SCANNING ACTIONABLE TO INTERPRET PROTEIN VARIANT EFFECTS
Deidre Brock/ Tommy Sheppard

B11 – Sarah Dickson

Newcastle University
NOVEL ACOUSTIC MONITORING SYSTEM TO INNOVATE DOLPHIN AND PORPOISE MONITORING AT OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS
Chi Onwurah/ Ian Lavery

B12 – Jose Antonio Duran-Mota

Imperial College London
DEVELOPMENT OF A HYDROGEL-BASED PLATFORM TO TREAT DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS CORRECTING THEIR DEFECTIVE MICRO-RNA EXPRESSION
Andy Slaughter/ Nickie Aiken

B13 – Isabel Esain

University of Cambridge
REGULATION OF CANCER GENES IN THE HUMAN GENOME BY ALTERING DNA STRUCTURE
CB1 2EP/ Daniel Zeichner

B14 – Rebecca Evans

University of Liverpool
FOOD AND NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE MARKETING VIA LEADING VIDEOGAME LIVESTREAMING PLATFORMS: WHAT IS THE EXTENT, NATURE AND IMPACT ON EATING BEHAVIOUR AND HEALTH IN UK ADOLESCENTS?
Kim Johnson/ Paula Barker

B15 – Dominic Farsi

Queen’s University Belfast
REPLACING RED AND PROCESSED MEAT WITH MYCOPROTEIN REDUCES GENOTOXICITY AND ENRICHES BENEFICIAL BACTERIAL GENERA IN THE HUMAN GUT
Paul Maskey/ Sharon Hodgson

B16 – Philippa Harding

Kings College London
RESTORING VISION THROUGH GENERATION OF TRANSPLANTABLE MACULA PATCHES FROM 3D RETINAL ORGANOIDS USING RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR SUPPRESSION
Neil Coyle/ Janet Daby

B17 – Yubing Hu

Imperial College London
WEARABLE MICRONEEDLE SENSORS FOR CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING
Nickie Aiken/ Barry Gardiner

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B18 – Matthew Kibble

University of Manchester
3D BIOPRINTING WHOLE INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS TO UNDERSTAND DEVELOPMENT & INFORM REGENERATIVE THERAPIES
Lucy Powell/ Lucy Powell

B19 – Alice Lapthorn

Anglia Ruskin University
HYDROXYPYRIDONE ANTI-FUNGALS AS A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC FOR HYPERTROPHIC SCAR PREVENTION
Vicky Ford/ Vicky Ford

B20 – Matthew Seah

University of Cambridge
WHEN STOCHASTICITY MEETS PRECISION: USING SINGLE CELL GENOMICS TO REFINE CELL THERAPIES IN BONE AND CARTILAGE REPAIR
Daniel Zeichner/ Anthony Browne

B21 – Tumisang Ntereke

University of Leicester
EXOSOMAL DNA AS A LIQUID BIOPSY ANALYTE FOR THE DETECTION AND MONITORING OF BREAST CANCER
Alberto Costa/ Jonathan Ashworth

B22 – Thomas Reed

Newcastle UIniversity
DEVELOPMENT OF A BIOLOGICAL CARBON CAPTURE SYSTEM IN ESCHERICHIA COLI.
Chi Onwurah/ Chi Onwurah

B23 – Martina Richeldi

The Francis Crick Institute
COHESIN EMBRACES SISTER CHROMATIDS AND RESISTS 20 PN FORCES
Keir Starmer/ Felicity Buchan

B24 – Natalie Ring

University of Edinburgh
RAPID DIAGNOSIS OF BACTERIAL INFECTIONS USING DNA SEQUENCING
Owen Thompson/ Ian Murray

B25 – Javier Sanchez Bautista

University College London
MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION IS INVOLVED IN PROGRANULIN-RELATED FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
Keir Starmer/ Vicky Foxcroft

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B26 – Katharine Seton

Quadram Institute Bioscience
IMMUNE RESPONSE TO GUT MICROBES IN MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS/CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
Richard Bacon/ Simon Fell

B27 – Berill Takacs

University College London
THE ENVIRONMENTAL, NUTRITIONAL AND COST IMPACTS OF VEGAN, VEGETARIAN AND MEAT-BASED MEALS
Keir Starmer

B28 – Olga Tiurikova

University College London
ASTROCYTIC-BASED GENE THERAPY: WILL IT WORK AGAINST EPILEPSY?
Keir Starmer/ Apsana Begum

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B29 – Eleftheria Trampari

Quadram Institute
ENGINEERING A PLANT PROTECTIVE MICROBIOME TO CONTROL FOODBORNE DISEASE
Richard Bacon/ Richard Bacon

B30 – Aspen Watts

Birkbeck, University of London
DISENTANGLING THE DRIVERS OF INSECT ARMAGEDDOM: DETERMINING THE IMPACT OF ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES ON MIDGE DIVERSITY IN THE UK
Jeremy Corbyn/ Jeremy Corbyn