Big Ol' Nerdy Charity Symposium
Fri 15 May 2026 10:00-17:00
15/05/2026, 10:00 - 15/05/2026, 17:00
Friday 15 May 2026,
10.00AM
- Friday 15 May 2026, 5.00PM
Oculus
TICKETS CLOSE 14/05 AT 5PM!!
(you can still show up without a ticket though)
BONCS is our NEW flagship charity event (move over WASD), where lecturers, PhD students and external speakers will be giving interesting talks on computational cancer research. This is REAL work with REAL impact!
Expect talks on modelling, imaging and machine learning. If any of those sound interesting to you, you're gonna LOVE this!
BONCS is brought to you by Histofy!
Histofy is a spinout from the Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre at the department of Computer Science at Warwick. They are developing AI solutions to accelerate pathology/oncology workflows, combining cutting-edge AI/ML with deep domain expertise to transform how multimodal pathology data is interpreted, for better cancer diagnostics/treatment and faster drug development.
What's on:
Engaging talks from researchers all across the uni (and even from Oxford :0)
Lightning talks from students (short, chaotic talks on everything from computer architecture to trains to [REDACTED])
And the best part, there's FOOD included with your ticket!! So not only will you be supporting charity, you'll also get a lunch out of it! And if you don't want food, you can still show up without paying for a ticket too!!
The important bit:
All ticket proceeds and donations go to Cancer Research UK!!!!
**Plus**, for an extra £1 on your ticket, you can be entered into a prize draw to WIN one of FOUR £50 gift cards!!!!
Timetable:
Main Lecture Theatre (OC1.05)
| Time |
Talk Topic |
Speaker |
| 10:00-10:30 |
How Cells Move |
Anne Straube |
| 10:30-11:00 |
The Role of Molecular Mimicry in the Immune System and Autoimmune Disorders |
Paul Brown |
| 11:00-11:30 |
The Pathologist's Second Eye: How AI Is Transforming What We See in Cancer Tissue |
Behnaz Elhaminia |
| 11:30-11:45 |
Histofy Talk: Accelerating Drug Development with Beagle® |
Adnan Mujahid Khan (Histofy) |
| 11:45-12:15 |
Break |
- |
| 12:15-12:45 |
Using Mathematics to Help Understand the Body Clock's Role in Cancer |
David Rand |
| 12:45-13:15 |
AI for Predicting Malignant Transformation in Oral Epithelial Dysplasia |
Adam Shephard |
| 13:15-14:15 |
Lunch Break |
- |
| 14:15-14:45 |
Fighting Cancer With Metals: From Discovery to the Future of Treatment |
Rianne Lord |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Skin Cancer Assessment using Terahertz Light |
Agrima Agarwal |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Histofy Talk: Accelerating Precision Oncology with MitPro® |
Mostafa Jahanifar (Histofy) |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Break |
- |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Not All Hypoxic Cancer Cells Are Equal: How Low Oxygen Creates Specialised Subpopulations in Breast Cancer |
Badran Elshenawy |
| 16:30-17:00 |
What Can AI Discover About Colorectal Cancer? |
Piotr Keller |
Parallel Sessions (OC0.03)
| Time |
Talk Topic |
Speaker |
| 12:15-12:45 |
Can AI Predict Cancer Progression from a Microscopic Image? |
Noorul Wahab |
| 12:45-13:15 |
Studying the Role of E-cadherin Mobility in Cell Behaviour |
Darius Koester |
| 14:15-14:45 |
How Mathematics Can Be Used to Optimise Cancer Treatment |
Nigel Burroughs |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Can Cancer Tell Time? Biological Clocks, and How They Might Be Responsible For, But Also Help, to Fight Cancer |
Robert Dallmann |
| 16:00-17:00 |
From Cells to Tissue: Computational Pathology for Cancer Research |
Jiaqi Lv |
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