As part of the Advanced Drug Discovery, Pharmacology and Toxicology module, you will undertake a piece of coursework this semester. This is a conference report, worth 25% of the module marks.
The report will consist of approximately 3 sides of A4 (approx. 2000 words) summarising talks either from an online, hybrid or live scientific conference or webinars from anywhere around the world.
Summarise and discuss the topics of 5- 6 talks and bring them under a theme (as if you were attending a conference where they had all spoken) BUT the theme can be broad eg “Life Sciences” or narrow eg “Breast cancer”.
Details of Conference/Webinars
Due to COVID, there are some fantastic free conferences and webinars available online– spend some time searching online to choose whatever topics you’re interested in but here’s some to get you going and there are more in the formative submission guidance :
BPS Live: ClinPharmWeek Webinar series (12-15 Oct – register for free online)
https://meetings.bps.ac.uk/bpsevents/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=43452&ef_sel_menu=457&eventID=72
Drug Discovery 2021 (ELRIG): (19-20 October – register online) (Live, Liverpool) https://www.elrig.org/portfolio/drug-discovery-2021/
Global Immunotalks:
https://labs.biology.ucsd.edu/zuniga/global_immunotalks.htm
The Scripps Research Institute Front Row series:
https://frontrow.scripps.edu/
Science journal webinars:
https://www.sciencemag.org/custom-publishing/webinars
Biochemistry Focus webinar series:
https://www.biochemistry.org/webinars/
British Society for Immunology:
https://www.immunology.org/events
Look out for webinars across the Norwich Research Park, including in the Schools of Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biological Sciences and Medicine (keep an eye on the events site of their webpages).
There are also Inaugural lectures and other UEA events which may be suitable –
check out the UEA Events page
Norwich Cancer Research Network:
https://cancerresearchnorwich.org.uk/
You can even look at some recent ones but you must attend at least 3 live online
webinars Some conferences are free at the moment or student registration is very cheap if there’s anything you are really interested in.
What to include:
a) Brief Introduction setting the scene
b) Summary of 5-6 talks putting the topic into context. Look up the speaker and
find out more about their research and how it fits with the wider research topic.
c) Any other networking or other opportunities the”conference” gave you.
e) Figures to break up the text – can be photos or your own drawn figures etc
d) Concluding remarks
Pointers:
See given examples
Was the talk interesting?
Is the topic important?
Is it timely?
What is the impact of the research?
Include references where appropriate
Potentially include picture
