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#LTAX25

20 & 21 March

10:00 - 16:00 | Senate Room, Gilbert Scott Building
(Main Building)

Day 1 - Thursday 20th March

Present Time	Speaker	Title
10:30	Dr James Rowe, Dr Mona O'Brien & Dr Aleix Tura Vecino	Let's Talk About [X]
10:40	Shantanu Kothamasi	Unraveling a Ghost Lineage: Exploring Big Cat Evolution's Impact on Conservation and Ecosystem Balance
11:00	Kavya Srinivasan	Bet on Tomorrow: Unveiling the Global Saga of Online Gambling
11:20	Hebatalla Kamaluddin Nurdin	Is the Danube Delta Experiencing Eutrophication? - Exploring Human and Natural Factors Impacting Nutrient Levels
11:40		BREAK
12:00	Ellen Hunt	The marriage between science and the arts: Analysis of culturally significant objects containing early synthetic dyes.
12:20	Danila Leonardi	The difference a diagnosis makes on student's perceptions of their female autistic peers
12:40		LUNCH
13:20	Iris Tsui	Law and Order in Utopian/Dystopian Fiction
13:40	Caroline Sharp	How to investigate our (dis)connection with the Natural World
14:00	Hasitha Senevirathne	Liver-on-a-chip: A Microfluidic Platform for Human Liver Slice Culture
14:20		BREAK

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Speaker	Title	Present Time
Dr Robyne Calvert, Dr Mona O'Brien, Dr Aleix Tura Vecino, Dr James Rowe	Let's Talk About [X]	10:00
Dr Andrew Struan, Dr Scott Ramsay	Keynote: X years of [X]	10:10
Gurnoor Puri	A Deal with the Devil? The Hidden Sacrifices of Plea Bargaining	10:50
Gerardo Mateo Guio Archila	The black sheep of the viral family: how common traits help scientists research risky pathogens	11:10
	BREAK	11:30
	[X]position	11:45
Abdullah Tamim Abdul Maleque	Can we guide light by making tiny tunnels? Creating optical light highways using ultrafast lasers.	12:05
Emmanuel Gebreyes	The Hidden Cost: How Adverse Childhood Experiences Impact Health and Prosperity	12:25
	LUNCH	12:45
Niall Brady	Corporations and inflation: neoliberalism, power and post-pandemic pressures in advanced economies	13:30
Thomas Tse	Dark Patterns: How Big Tech Companies Subtly Influence You Through Software Design	13:50
Shambhavi Sahay	Who Can Afford Sustainability? Examining the Socioeconomic Barriers to Green Practices	14:10
Aaron Patmore	Cystic Fibrosis: Does a disability’s history start with its first diagnosis?	14:30
	BREAK	14:50
Sara Ibgui	The gut, brain, and mind: Can we treat inflammatory bowel disease with antidepressants and psychedelics?	15:05
Michael Ellam	Dating Russian Manuscripts Based on Palaeographic Change	15:25
Sophie Calderwood	Cloudy with a Chance of Space Weather: Tracking Small-Scale Structures in Solar Flare Ribbons	15:45

Day 2 - Friday 21st March

Present Time	Speaker	Title
10:30	Dr James Rowe, Dr Mona O'Brien & Dr Aleix Tura Vecino	Let's Talk About [X]
10:40	Luka Avramovic	Reframing Rwandan Development: A Study of Culture and Ethnicity
11:00	Keziah Shaji	Getting Closer to Solving the Million-Dollar Question of the Solar Corona
11:20	Sanskar Ranglani	Using an Individual’s Genetic Architecture for Diabetes to Predict Whether They Will Develop Dementia
11:40		BREAK
12:00	Hannah Badr	Modelling the Relationship Between Intestinal Disease and Sleep in Fruit Flies
12:20	Ruby Summers	Looking to Nature: Designing and Manufacturing a Spider-inspired Stethoscope
12:40		LUNCH
13:20	Stephanie Mengoa-Fleming and Abbie Greenwood	Does Science back the benefits of ASMR? Exploring Affection vs Aversion through biological responses
13:40	Leah Clark	Mothers’ Negative Experiences of Childbirth from the 1950s to the Present Day
14:00	Masha Baidachna	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Automating Dental Smile Analysis with AI in Smart Mirrors
14:20		BREAK

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Speaker	Title	Present Time
Dr Robyne Calvert, Dr Mona O'Brien, Dr Aleix Tura Vecino, Dr James Rowe	Let's Talk About [X] (again!)	10:00
Taniya Jose	Passive Brain Computer Interface for Measuring Cognitive Engagement for Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Games	10:10
Catherine Fitzhugh Wilson	The ‘feminine imagination’ in postwar cinema	10:30
Laurna Sim	Playing the Game of Drones – How Evolving Unmanned Aerial Technologies are Transforming the Conduct of Modern Warfare	10:50
	BREAK	11:10
Andreia Moniz e Castro	Connecting Science to the Public Through Everyday Examples	11:25
Sai Gupte	Vlastníci: A horror disguised as a comedy. A deep dive into the Czech film The Owners (2019) and its commentary on modern democracy.	11:45
Gleb Korol	Becoming the Principal: Applying Selectorate Theory to University Governance	12:05
	LUNCH	12:25
Seben Akman	You came to this world, and you have to pay the price for it: A Cultural-Ecological Reading of Midsommar	13:15
Samiya Dash	The Art of Viral Warfare: Reprogramming Nature to Fight Cancer	13:35
Zola Rowlatt	Finding Freedom Between the Lines of Duality	13:55
	BREAK	14:15
Dhanial Mohammed	The Consequences of the Riemann Hypothesis	14:30
Daniz Alasgarova	From ‘becomings’ to ‘beings’: how childhood sciences challenge the legal construction of children’s rights	14:50
Maisie Henderson	The Life and Death of an Invasive Mosquito	15:10
Sophia Robinson	Let’s Talk About the Ancient Feminist	15:30

10:00

12:45

Event opens

Presentations

Lunch break

13:30

Presentations

Programme - Thursday

09:30

16:00

Wrap-up

10:00

12:25

Event opens

Presentations

Lunch break

13:15

Presentations

Programme - Friday

09:30

15:50

Wrap-up

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