Careers In Neuroscience

BNA Event - 10th Oct 2024

Careers Panel & Networking Event
Thursday 10th October, 6-8pm at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, London

Following our sold out Careers and Talent Fair in February 2024, we are delighted to offer BNA members another opportunity to explore career opportunities in neuroscience and network with like-minded individuals.

While in-person registration has now closed, we welcome you to join us virtually by registering using the link below.

Meet our panellists:

Dr Rebecca McKelvey
Education Partnership Lead at Google DeepMind, founder of In2Science

Rebecca holds a PhD in neuroscience, was a science teacher for four years through the TeachFirst program and founded and grew the social mobility charity In2scienceUK where she stayed for 10 years. Rebecca is now working at Google DeepMind to leverage their technology and the passion of employees to build AI education knowledge and skills that can drive innovation and solutions important to local communities.

 Dr Ruth Weir 
Head of Entrepreneurship, UCL

After her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry, Ruth pursued a PhD in Neuroscience at UCL. She then worked as a post-doc at the University of California, Davis, switching from neurobehavioural animal models of ADHD to human neuropathology of autism. She currently works in Enterprise Education and is the Head of Entrepreneurship at UCL. 

Dr Keri Tochiki
Accenture

Keri completed her undergraduate degree in the US, followed by a Masters and PhD in Neuroscience at UCL. She completed her PhD part-time while working full time as a Research Technician, after which she then joined Accenture’s Strategy & Consulting Practice in Health and Public Services.

Dr Sophie Morgan
Senior Science Editor in the Neuroscience team at Nature Communications

After obtaining her undergraduate in Neuroscience at UCL, Sophie received a PhD from the University of Cambridge where she studied α-synuclein aggregation and propagation. At the Oxford Drug Discovery Institute, her postdoctoral work investigated novel drug targets for Parkinson’s disease. Sophie handles submissions on neurodegeneration and neurological diseases and is based in the London office. Sophie is also an Advisory Editor for npj Parkinson’s disease.

Dr Sandrine Géranton
Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London

Sandrine is an Associate Professor in molecular neuroscience in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Sandrine studied organic chemistry and biochemistry at the "Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier" in France. After an MSc in biotechnology at the University of the West of England, she joined University College London where she carried out a PhD in the then Department of Pharmacology. She went on learning about pain mechanisms as a post-doctoral researcher with the London Pain Consortium in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at UCL, where she is now Associate Professor.

Programme 

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Catering

Evening drinks will be provided. 

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Venue information 

This event will take place at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG. The closest tube stations are Warren Street (Victoria Line) and Goodge Street (Northern Line).

See a map and further information of the venue. 

“At SWC, we are committed to creating future leaders in neuroscience. It is vital that we improve training and transitions between academia and industry to help us build a better research culture and achieve our scientific goals. That’s why we are delighted to be partnering with BNA on this careers and talent recruitment fair, the latest event in our Building Bridges Between: Industry & Academia (BBB) initiative.”

April Cashin-Garbutt, Head of Research Communications and Engagement at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

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Photography 

Photography will take place during the event. Please email louise.tratt@bna.org.uk if you have any concerns.

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Registration

This meeting is FREE to attend, but is limited to BNA members, SWC early career researchers and In2Research affiliates only. To join the BNA, please click here: Membership of the British Neuroscience Association | The British Neuroscience Association (bna.org.uk)
You can join us in-person or virtually online where the event will be live-streamed. Please select your ticket type when registering below.

Register here.