Scientific VR Workshop
Friday February 22nd, 2019 at the Francis Crick Institute, St Pancras, London
A Crick and Goldsmiths Workshop on Scientific VR
VR is becoming an accessible tool for scientists outside of computing, and scientific data visualisation is gathering more interests from the VR industry as one potential "killer app". In this workshop we explore scientific spaces in Virtual Reality - from molecular and cellular visualisation and 3D interaction to science communication and outreach.
Led by scientists and technologists from the Crick and Goldsmiths, we invite bioscientists, VR and graphics experts, and scientific communicators to this multidisciplinary workshop.
Confirmed Speakers, panelists, and organisers
Programme
09:45 - 10:20 Registration
10:20 - 10:30 Steve Hindmarsh: Welcome from the Crick Scientific Computing STP
10:30 - 11:30 Session AM I
Lance Putnam (Computing, Goldsmiths) & Esther Wershof (Biomolecular Modelling Lab, Crick)
Mutator VR: Cell Flows for OutreachSteve Taylor (MRC WIMM Group Leader, Oxford) & Stephen Todd (Computing, Goldsmiths)
Biological visualisation at different scales using CSynth and Babel VRSylvia Pan & Marco Gillies (Computing, Goldsmiths)
How to use VR for Science?11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00 Session AM II
Carles Bosch (Neurophysiology of Behaviour Lab, Crick)
The subcellular architecture of the mammalian neural circuits for smell: correlative imaging with photons, X-rays and electronsWilliam Latham (Computing DC Labs, Goldsmiths)
Mutator VRPaul Bates (Group Leader Biomolecular Modelling Lab, Crick)
Deep learning from bio-movies: automating the characterisation of players13:00 - 14:15 Lunch and demos
14:15 - 15:15 Session PM I
Reidun Twarock (Department of Biology, University of York)
Visualising 3D Virus StructuresMike Sternberg (Director of Centre for Bioinformatics, Imperial College)
Protein Modelling Outreach: From Mobile to VRHelen Deeks (School of Chemistry, University of Bristol)
Molecular Tetris: Human-guided design of new medicines in VR15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Session PM II
Dario Bressan (Head, IMAXT Laboratory, CRUK Cambridge)
Developing and exploiting a virtual 3d atlas of Cancer to study tumour evolution and micro-environmentPanel discussion - VR: a new instrument for science?
Panel Chair: Sumit Paul-Choudhury
Panelist: Steve Taylor (Oxford), Frederic Fol Leymarie (Goldsmiths), Paul Bates (Crick), Reidun Twarock (York) , Sylvia Pan (Goldsmiths)
17:00 - 18:00 Wine Reception and demos
Demos