Division of Biosciences Staff Meeting Tuesday 12 July 2016 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Division of Biosciences Staff Meeting Tuesday 12 July 2016 3.30-5.00pm Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre

Agenda ‘State of the Division’ Frances Brodsky, Director Education Stephen Davies, Deputy Director (Education) Professional Services Dan Sinclair, Interim Divisional Manager Staff Survey Action Plans Dan Sinclair Postdoc Activities Patricia Salinas, Postdoctoral liaison HR Support Terezia Clarke, Principal HR Business Partner Open Access Catherine Sharp, Head of Open Access Services Planning for change and UCL 2034 Tom Rowson, Director of Planning Director’s Q&A Frances Brodsky & Geraint Rees

“State of the Division” update Frances Brodsky, Director

Brexit Uncertainty, but prospects of negotiation Critical to be heard - Scientific leadership mobilized - Parliamentary call - Other avenues Importance of mobility, UCL supports 31% staff 10% students Impact on funding 10% Divisional funding ERC grants & Horizon 20/20 grants possible for now

Brexit pipeline through UCL leadership-keep us informed, please: Divisional - Frances Brodsky, Director FLS - Steve Wilson, Vice-dean for Research; Geraint Rees, Dean Central - David Price, Vice-Provost for Research

Brexit issues information Web site for EEA (QP) Use ‘form EEA(QP)’ if you are a citizen of the EEA or Switzerland and want to apply for a registration certificate as a ‘qualified person’ (worker, self- employed, self-sufficient, student or jobseeker). https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apply-for-a-registration- certificate-as-a-qualified-person-form-eea-qp Web site for UK citizenship https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-visa-forms#citizenship UCL website addressing EU referendum questions/concerns http://www.ucl.ac.uk/eu-referendum UCL helpline (email) eustaffqueries@ucl.ac.uk

Reminder of UCL Policy of Dignity at Work-follow up to Provost All employees are entitled to: -a workplace free from bullying, intimidation, harassment or victimisation -be treated with dignity, respect and courtesy -experience no form of unlawful discrimination - be valued for their skills and abilities http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/docs/dignity-at-work.php

Budget-Divisional/Discretionary Budget for 1 Aug 2016-31 July 2017 Discretionary spending-Provost response Working group established Bridging funds for up to 6 months automatically approved Studentship extensions for 3 months will be approved Approval for studentships & expenses remain within UCL policy 20% overhead on staff costs Notification of spending <£50K not required for planning Business case still needed for staff expenditure; if spending >£10K, <£50K on equipment, would appreciate being informed Reminder: Change to pFACT process; Respect deadlines

• Academic staffing- CDB HoRD & junior lecturers (farewell to Ralf Stanewsky & Andy Oates) GEE positions-UGI & others (Francois Balloux, Head UGI; Richard Mott, Deputy Head) • Professional services staffing New Divisional Manager-David Meech starts 26 September Dan Sinclair finishes as Interim DM at the end of August Finance Team, Teaching Team, IT Team, Operations Team changes under way-look out for updates • Estates projects Imaging Centre NMR facility • Awards, Promotions, Research Updates

Awards, Prizes and Honours • Georgina Mace (CBER, GEE) :  awarded DBE in New Years Honours List for services to science  2016 Heineken Prize for Environmental Science  Linnean Medal in Zoology for services to science  Appointed by Environment Secretary to the new Natural Capital Committee Maria Fitzgerald (NPP) – Fellow of the Royal Society • • David Attwell (NPP) :  2016 FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Mentoring Prize  4 th Lord Brain Memorial Medal in recognition of contribution to British neuroscience • Stephen Price (CDB) – Fellow of Royal Society of Biology • Christine Orengo (SMB) – Fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology • Steve Hunt (CDB) - Patrick D Wall Memorial lecture medal • Peter Rich (SMB) - Peter Mitchell Medal – 19 th European Bioenergetics Meeting in Italy

Awards, Prizes and Honours Anjali Goswami (GEE) - Linnean Society Bicentenary Medal for excellent work by a biologist • under 40 • Thomas Halliday (GEE) - Linnean Society John C Marsden Medal for best doctoral thesis in biology • Jan Janouskovec (GEE) – UCL Excellence Research Fellow • Matt Gold (NPP) - Early career prize from British Crystallographic Association Alex Gourine (NPP) – WTSRF renewal • • Kaila Srai (SMB) - Appointed Chair of ILSI Expert Group

UCL Awards • UCL Grand Challenges award to Francesca Cacucci and Tom Wills (NPP) for UCL/French Embassy Collaborative Science & Technology Workshops Scheme 2016 • Provost’s Strategic Development fund award to Frances Brodsky for initiating Metabolism & Society@UCL • “Sea and Currents” fund awards to: • Nazif Alic (GEE, Institute of Healthy Ageing) for research collaboration with Monash, Australia • Helen Chatterjee and Thomas Kador (GEE) to establish a network for object-based learning with Sweden

Promotions • Promotions to Professor o Anjali Goswami (GEE) o Talvinder Sihra (NPP) o Les Dale (CDB) o Guillaume Charras (CDB) • Re-banding promotions o Tim Arnett (CDB) o Geraint Thomas (CDB) o Judith Mank (GEE) o Christine Orengo (SMB) o Finn Werner (SMB)

Promotions, cont’d • Other promotions o Richard Poole (CDB) o Caswell Barry (CDB) o Chris Barnes (CDB) o Yoshi Yamamoto (CDB) o Paola Vergani (NPP) o Andrew Batchelor (NPP) o Vitor Pinheiro (SMB) o Ian Sillitoe (SMB)

New Grants • Francois Balloux (UGI) – UK-China Partnership Initiative (MRC/BBSRC/ESRC and NSFC) • Christine Orengo (SMB) – BBSRC 3 year grant – collaboration with InterPro and PDBe at EBI • Jason Rihel (CDB) – ARUK 2016 3 year Interdisciplinary Research grant • Max Telford (GEE) – 3 year HFSP grant for collaborative project with Lyon and Cold Spring Harbour • Vitor Pinheiro (SMB) – Two ERA SynBio Consortium grants • Judith Mank (GEE) – ERC Consolidator grant • David Jones (SMB) – ERC Advanced grant • Flemming Hansen (SMB) – Leverhulme Trust 3 year grant • Andrea Townsend-Nicholson (SMB) – BBSRC grant • Elizabeth Shephard (SMB) – Wellcome Trust Pathfinder grant • Bart Hoogenboom, Helen Saibil & Alan Lowe (SMB) – BBSRC grant for collaborative project • Snezana Djordjevic & David Selwood (SMB) – Part of team awarded new BHF translational research grant • And many others … CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

In the media Ancestors evolved faster End of grey hair in sight after dinosaur as scientists find gene extinction responsible Thomas Kaustubh Adhikari & Halliday (GEE) Andres Ruiz-Linares Scientists find genes (CDB & GEE) responsible for nose shape Predicting disease outbreaks Andres Ruiz-Linares using environmental changes and Kaustubh Adhikari David Redding and Kate Jones (CDB & GEE) (GEE) Blocking stress Brain caught ‘filing’ protein relieves memories during chronic pain rest Sandrine Caswell Barry and Geranton (CDB) Freyja Olafsdottir (CDB) Estrogens Fruit flies live alleviate longer on lithium hyperactivity in Linda Partridge, zebrafish with Biggest library of bat sounds Inst of Healthy autism gene compiled Ageing Jason Rihel (CDB) Kate Jones (GEE) (GEE)

Inaugural Divisional Lectures and Athena SWAN Celebration May 2016 PROFESSOR DAME ANNE McLAREN FRS, FRCOG 1927-2007 UCL Research Fellow 1950-52 & Director MRC Mammalian Development Unit-1974- 1992 Anne McLaren Lecture given by Professor Jennifer Stow, University of Queensland PROFESSOR PATRICIA HANNAH CLARKE, FRS 1919-2010 Dept of Biochemistry, UCL Patricia Clarke Lecture given by Professor Dame Linda Patridge Guest Lecture by Professor Nancy Lane, Cambridge University Founder of Athena SWAN

• Athena SWAN lectures will continue, highlighting international colleagues – Claudio Stern organizing • Divisional lectures will continue – 2016 featured David Atwell (NPP), Patricia Salinas (CDB); Mark Thomas (GEE), Liz Shephard (SMB) • Public lecture series to be launched – Semir Zeki organizing

Education Stephen Davies, Deputy Director (Education)

Education: New Roles Stephen Price, Associate Director (Education) Stephen Davies, Deputy Director (Education) Positions created to continue coordination of education activities across the Division following Liz Shephard stepping down from Vice Dean (Education) role. Both work closely with Director (Biosciences), HoRDs, HoTs and liaison roles for education to programmes outside the Division and Teaching and Learning Team

New Initiative

An overview of Education in the Division ,

We run a lot of modules!

Structure of UCL’s Education approvals and oversight

Clarity of roles and support We have redrafted roles documents for Programme leads, module organisers and personal tutors and the teaching support that can be expected. These roles documents will be circulated shortly. It has been agreed that “bench fees” for lab projects will be paid earlier in the Academic year than previously. We’ll still ask for people to claim this money though If there is anything related to education that staff would like to discuss- Please do not hesitate to contact either Stephen Price or Stephen Davies Thank you!

Professional Services Dan Sinclair, Interim Divisional Manager