The CEB Conference 2025 will be held in person at the department on the 19 and 20 June. It is a valuable opportunity for you to showcase your research, gain feedback from your peers, and enhance your presentation skills.

Schedule:

Thursday:

10:00am: Conference opens

10:10am: Session one: Chemical Engineering talks

• Leopold Kloyer, Characterisation of Electrochemical Systems from Periodic Chronoamperometry Signals Using Computational Tools.
• A.F.B. Abu Kasim, How can we predict the erratic propagation of the heat fronts during reactions with SrFeO3-δ for energy storage?
• Chi Ki Leung, Impact of particle size distribution on pharmaceutical tablet disintegration.
• Ruben Sharma, The Minimum Message Length Principle in Science.
• Mingrui Ma, Precise Tracking of Water Diffusion in Porous Media Using Terahertz Pulsed Imaging.

11:00am: Postdoc presentation: Chemical Engineering

11:30am: Coffee and networking

12:00pm: Session two: Sustainability talks

• Shenyu Nie, Perovskite nanocrystals for optical wireless communication.
• Jelena Brown, Hard Water Fouling at High Temperatures.
• Hayley L. Gilbert, Understanding Defects in Next-Generation Solar Panel Materials Using Lasers and X-rays.
• Raymond Chen, Determining the reaction enthalpy in pyrolysis and combustion at realistic process conditions.
• Luc Liedtke, Thermal Decomposition of Metal Halide Absorbents during Drying.
• Taeheon Kang, Incorporating thermal co-evaporation in current-matched all-perovskite triple-junction solar cells.

1:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm: Session three: Sustainability talks

• Thomas A. Selby, Linking Structure to Performance in Hybrid Perovskites Using Correlative Multimodal Microscopy.
• Aditi Rajpal, Pore-Scale Insights into Carbon Sequestration using Magnetic Resonance Methods.
• Joseph Gebers, Point-of-use production of ethylene oxide for medical sterilisation using a chemical looping approach.
• Yutong Han, Additive and Interface Engineering in Low-Bandgap Perovskite Absorbers for All-Perovskites Tandem Solar Cells.

2:40pm: Postdoc presentation: Sustainability

3:10pm: Conference day one closing

Friday:

10:00am: Day two opening

10:10am: Session one: Healthcare and Biotechnology talks

• Sofia Kapsiani, Deep learning for fluorescence lifetime predictions enables high-throughput in vivo imaging.
• Alexander L. Corbett, Augmenting Nucleic Acids with Novel Functionalities.

10:30am: Session two: MPhil in Biotechnology flash talks

11:00am: Coffee break and MPhil poster session

11:40am: Session three: Healthcare and Biotechnology talks

• Dina Haddad, Extraction of Urinary Cell-Free DNA using Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Liquid Biopsy.
• Mujar Minette Shalo, CRISPR AMR DX: an optimised CRISPR/Cas12a-based multiplex biosensor for rapid diagnosis of enteric fever and antimicrobial resistance.
• Juliana Nacita, Investigating Bacillus subtilis spore resistance through structural and mutational analysis of CotB.
• Rebecca M. McClelland, Development of a fibre-based platform for SIM imaging in unconventional environments.

12:20pm: Keynote speaker: Professor Petro Cicuta

1:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm: Session four: Healthcare and Biotechnology talks

• Jakob Träuble, Brain Age Modelling on Biomechanical Properties.
• Akthar Hussain Mougamadou Soultane, Expressing membraneless RNA organelles in lipid-based synthetic cells.
• Ben Wei
• Rebecca Caldbeck, Investigating electromagnetic field impact on bacterial spores.
• Rohan N. Krajeski, Development of human brain organoids to model infantile Huntington’s disease.

2:50pm: Coffee and networking

3:20pm: Postdoc presentation: Healthcare and biotech

4:00pm: PhD poster session and conference reception

5:40pm: Award ceremony

5:50pm: Conference day two closing

Participation
Participation in the conference is mandatory for all 2nd and 3rd year PhD students, and optional for 1st year PhD students, as set out below:
•     All 3rd- and final-year PhD students are required to give a talk/oral presentation.
(10 minutes – approximately 8 min. presentation with 2 min. for Q&A).
•    All 2nd year students (including students with starting date in Lent 2022) are required to present a poster.
(The poster should be A0 portrait and some options on printing posters can be found here and here).
•    All 1st year and visiting students are invited to present a poster.
•    Students who gave a talk last year are not required to present again.
Please note that abstracts are required for both the posters and talks (all 2nd & 3rd year students).
 
Participation
This conference is an in-person event and is mandatory for 2nd and 3rd year PhD students. If you are unable to attend the conference, you must let us know by sending an email to cebconference@ceb.cam.ac.uk, copying in your PhD supervisor.

If you have any questions about the conference or the abstract submission process, please do not hesitate to contact us at cebconference@ceb.cam.ac.uk.
 
We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you at the conference.