PhD Student Science Day 2026
A Day of Research Sharing, Discussion, and Collaboration.
Thursday, 18th of June at the CCDC office, Cambridge, UK
The PhD students sponsored by the CCDC, together with their supervisors, will gather in Cambridge on 18 June to share their research progress. The day will feature scientific presentations, open discussions, and plenty of opportunities to connect.
The meeting offers a friendly space for PhD students to present their work from the past year, receive feedback from peers, exchange ideas, and discuss science in an informal setting.
Agenda
9:25 – Welcome
9:30 – Utilising Crystallographic Phenomena for Chiral Control in Organic Synthesis, Alex D. Lee, Durham University
10:00 – A Computational Pipeline to Aid PROTAC Linker Design, William Midgley, Durham University
10:30 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Large Scale Data Analysis: The Highs and Lows, Aaron Horner, University of Southampton
11:30 – Lightning talks: 1st and 2nd-year students
– Sarah Madeira – University of Southampton
– Matthew Shaw – University of Leeds
– Paulo Nunes de Souza – University of São Paulo
12:00 – Lunch Break
13:30 – When Molecular Salts Hydrate, Think Positive… or Negative, Henry Holleb, Durham University
14:00 – Teaching Diffusion Models Physics: Reinforcement Learning for Physically Valid Diffusion-Based Docking, Henry James, University of Oxford
14:30 – Coffee Break
15:00 – Machine Learning Prediction of Powder Flow Behaviour Using Experimental and Computational Particle Properties, Omar El-Habbak, University of Strathclyde
15:30 – Introducing the ILESLA project, Matthew Raybould, Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford
Team 1: CSD Knowledge-Based 3D Shape Descriptor, Stanislavs Kuras
Team 2: Creating a drug-like CSD subset, Naomi Castello
16:00 – Farewell and refreshments