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