Academic Internships Event - Saturday 24th November 2018, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
13:00 - 13:30 Welcome
13:30 - 15:00 Session 1: Internships in Industry & Startups
13:30 - 13:55 Ravi Solanki 8th year clinical student, MBBS/PhD with Rick Livesey
Setting up a startup as a student - how it can be very related to research and how it doesn’t have to be!
13:55 - 14:10 Charles Newton MPhil, ISMM
2018 Summer (8wk) - Machine Learning SPINternship with GeoCento (with UK Space Agency)
2017 Summer (12wk) - Materials internship with Reaction Engines Ltd, on hypersonic propulsion
2015 - Exchange scheme with Huawei in China
2014 Summer (10wk) - Engineering at BAE Systems' Military Air Division
14:10 - 14:30 Dr Hannah Thompson Chief of Staff & Partnerships Manager at Cambridge Cancer Genomics
Cambridge Cancer Genomics (CCG) is a flourishing start up using liquid biopsies for the continuous
monitoring of response to cancer therapy. By tracking patient specific genomic markers in the blood
on a fortnightly basis, CCG feedback information to the clinician on how well their patient is responding
to therapy much earlier than an end of cycle scan. In April 2017 Hannah started with CCG as a part
time intern alongside her PhD. By August 2017 CCG had completed a successful seed fundraising
round and Hannah started as CCGs first permanent member of staff. Hannah will talk about CCG's
mission, her journey with them as well as opportunities at CCG.
14:30 - 14:45 Anastasia Ilina MPhil Industrial Systems, Manufacturing and Management
2018 Winner of Telegraph STEM Prize for Data
2018 Rolls Royce internship (led to a graduate job offer)
2017 RR Data Labs - deep learning on emergent trends in service data
2016 Airbus - developing new fastening systems for next-generation aircraft wings
14:40 - 15:00 Q&A with Ravi, Charles, Anastasia, Hannah
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 Session 2: Academic Internships in the UK
15:30 - 15:55 Chris Wan 2nd year PhD student with Phil Holliger at the LMB
2016 Caltech SURF on in vitro reconstitution
2015 MRC-LMB with Amgen Scholars programme on in vitro evolution
2014 Cambridge Institute of Medical Research (CIMR) programme on cancer biology
15:55 - 16:10 Pippa Stevens 3rd year Natural Sciences
2018 British Antarctic Survey: Investigating the relationship between the width of the tropics and
stratospheric circulation
16:10 - 16:25 Nikita Pajanok 3rd year Chemistry
2018 Hunter lab - Cambridge Department of Chemistry - synthetic information polymers
16:25 - 16:40 Charlene Tang 3rd year Biochemistry
2016 CIMR Marcinak lab (self-funded): cross talk in ER stress with Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts
2017 MRC-LMB Holliger lab (MRC Studentship): in vitro directed evolution of ribozymes
2018 Department of Pathology Firth lab (Wellcome Trust funded): literature based annotation of virus
genomes, computational identification of genomic motifs, molecular cloning of Equine Torovirus
16:40 - 17:00 Q&A with Chris, Pippa, Nikita, Charlene
17:00 - 17:30 Break
17:30 - 19:00 Session 3: Academic Internships Outside of the UK
17:30 - 17:55 Dan Mirea 4th year Systems Biology
2017 Arsenian-Henriksson lab, Amgen Scholars Programme: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Investigated the potential benefit of small molecule inhibitors of fatty acid synthesis in regression of
neuroblastoma tumours; induce neuronal differentiation of neuroblastoma cell cultures
2018 Colome-Tatche lab, Summer Internship Programme at Helmholtz Zentrum Munich
Developed a genome segmentation tool with histone modification ChIP-seq data based on a
convolutional neural network architecture
17:55 - 18:10 Stefan Stanko 4th year Materials Science
2017 ETH Zurich - funded by CaMPUS (Cambridge Materials Placement for Undergraduates in
Summer
2018 ETH Zurich - mechanical strengthening of new AI-based alloys
18:10 - 18:25 Artem Lomakin 3rd year Biochemistry
2017 Whitehead institute - Sabatini lab: Purification of components of mTORC2 - DEPTOR and RICTOR
2018 EMBL-EBI - Moritz lab: Cancer genomics, evolution of highly amplified fragments
18:25 - 18:40 Arin Wongprommoon 3rd year Biochemistry
2017 Amgen Scholar at LMU Munich - investigating role of splicing factor Aret in the development of
muscle fibres in fruit flies during the pupal phase and as adults
2018 Cambridge Systems Biology Centre - modifying and integrating information about stoichiometric
and kinetic models (mathematical models) for E. coli metabolism
18:40 - 19:00 Q&A with Dan, Stefan, Artem, Arin
19:00 - 19:30 Conclusion