Sandpit on Understanding the Physics of Cancer

16-17 February 2016
Halifax Hall, Sheffield

Following our successful Focussed Workshop on the Physics of Cancer, we are organising a Sandpit event that is designed to provide an opportunity for researchers to come together and think in a very focussed way about opportunities for funding. The Sandpit is supported by EPSRC and Cancer Research UK, and our aim is to bring together physicists, clinicians and cancer biologists to form partnerships to develop cross-disciplinary research proposals. The Sandpit will run for slightly more and one day, beginning with lunch on February 16 and ending in mid-afternoon on February 17.

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Purpose

This is a networking event designed to stimulate the formation of new collaborative partnerships between physicists, clinicians and cancer biologists leading to the submission of research proposals to CRUK, EPSRC and other funders.

Who should attend?

We invite participation by academic staff as well as early and mid-career research fellows from clinical, physical and life science departments in the UK who are interested in the central goal of generating new collaborative research interactions at the physical/life sciences interface focussed on cancer.

Confirmed speakers and their talk titles

Prof Nicola Brown, University of Sheffield
‘Mechano-biology of the bone metastatic niche in breast cancer’
Dr Rhoda Hawkins, University of Sheffield
‘Modelling the mechanics of cell movement’
Dr John MacKenzie, University of Strathclyde
‘The Mechanisms Behind Cell Migration and Chemotaxis: Dissection using Computational Modelling’
Prof Josef Käs, Leipzig University
‘Why do rigid tumours contain soft cells?’
Dr Erik Sahai, The Francis Crick Institute
‘Physics of Cancer Invasion’

Programme

Day 1

12.30	Registration and Lunch
13.30	Plenary Presentation 1 Erik Sahai, Francis Crick Institute
14.15	Plenary Presentation 2 Rhoda Hawkins, University of Sheffield
14.45	Coffee break
15.00	Plenary Presentation 3 Nicola Brown, University of Sheffield
15.30	Flash talks (I)
16.45	Networking Posters
17.15	Discussion Session 1 (see p10 for details)
18.15	Reporting back
18.30	Dinner and cash bar

Day 2

9.00	Plenary Presentation 3 Josef Käs, Universität Leipzig
9.45	Plenary Presentation 4 John MacKenzie, Strathclyde University
10.15	Coffee Break
10.30	Flash talks (II)
11.15	Networking posters
11.45	Discussion session 2
12.45	Reporting back
13.00	Lunch and display of discussion topics from sessions 1 and 2; selection of discussion groups
14.00	Discussion session 3 – based on top topics put forward in earlier discussion sessions, with the remit to devise funding strategies
15.00	Reporting Back
15.15	Presentations from CRUK and EPSRC on opportunities and mechanisms for funding.
16.00	Close

Registration

This sandpit event is heavily subsidised by the Network, and the full registration fee of only £75 includes lunch on both days and dinner, bed and breakfast on 16 February. Registration for delegates is now closed.

The conference is due to start at 12.30pm for registration and lunch on the 16 February, and close at 4pm on 17 February.
If you have any further questions about this event, please do not hesitate to contact Christina Metcalfe, Network Coordinator at: c.metcalfe@sheffield.ac.uk

Directions

Please see map for full directions on accessing Halifax Hall.