Annual IMS Away Days for IMS staff and students take place each Michaelmas term. The format varies: every other year, the day involves researchers and students from across the Institute of Metabolic Science, with postdoctoral fellows and students presenting talks and posters alongside established investigators; in alternate years the Away Day is devoted to MRL researchers, who present their work to members of our Scientific Advisory Board.
In December 2016 we gathered for a retreat, which included updates from our own admin and services staff, viewpoints from University and Biomedical campus services, an informative talk on pre-prints from Prof Alfonso Martinez-Arias and an amusing retrospective from Emeritus Prof Ken Siddle.
The 2015 Away Day took place on 25th November, involving researchers from across the whole Institute of Metabolic Science. The day was packed with outstanding science, with research presentations and posters from students, postdocs and some of our more recent PIs. The student poster prizes went to Nick Heeley (PhD student supervised by Clemence Blouet and Mark Evans) and David Bulger (PhD student in Rob Semple’s lab), and the post doc poster prize was awarded to Jurai Rievaj from the Gribble/Reimann lab. A day of outstanding science with impressive presentations from PIs and posters from students and postdocs was followed by a drinks reception at the College.
