Nessa Carson: My Activity

My Activity

Presentations

TBA (Invited conference talk)
Gordon Research Conference: High-throughput chemistry & chemical biology

Jul 2023

Our robotic future with chemistry data (Invited conference talk)
American Chemical Society Spring Meeting

Mar 2023

Chemistry with robots (Invited departmental talk)
University of Leicester

Nov 2022

TBA (Invited conference talk)
Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Small Molecule Drug Discovery and Synthesis Symposium

Sep 2022

Industrial electrochemistry: From screening to scaleup (Invited summer school lecture)
ESMEC European School of Medicinal Chemistry

Jul 2022

Forging New Pathways (Invited panel discussion)
CompChemURG: Forging New Pathways

Jun 2022

Automate your own HTE workflow (Invited conference talk)
High-Throughput Experimentation Summit

Jun 2022

Has the digital promise been met? (Invited panel discussion)
Future Labs Live

Jun 2022

Digital Needs of the Scientific Community (Invited panel discussion)
AI4SD AI 4 Scientific Discovery conference

Mar 2022

Scripting Chemistry Workflows for Automation Efficiency (Invited conference talk)
Emerging Technologies in Organic Chemistry ETOC Symposium

Feb 2022

ChemCareers 2022: Digital Skills for Chemists (Panel discussion)
RSC ChemCareers symposium series

Jan 2022

Robots and automation in chemical reaction optimization (Invited talk)
University College London Chemical & Physical Society

Jan 2022

Data management: At the root of high-throughput experimentation (Invited talk)
AI3SD Autumn Seminar Series

Dec 2021

Industrial Electrochemistry: From Screening to Scaleup (Invited conference talk)
Scientific Update: 7th Winter Process Chemistry Conference

Dec 2021

Data management: At the root of high-throughput experimentation (Invited departmental talk)
IBM

Dec 2021

Data management: At the root of high-throughput experimentation (Invited conference talk)
World's First Cloud Lab, HTE, and Lab Automation Oriented Virtual Conference, 20/15 Visioneers

Oct 2021

Sowing the seeds for discovery: Automated reaction optimization in agrochemistry (Invited conference talk)
CatSci 10 year celebration: The Next Decade of Drug Development

Oct 2021

Data management: at the root of high-throughput experimentation (Invited conference talk)
Applied Catalysis Hub & UK Catalysis Hub Meeting

Sep 2021

Automation and high-throughput experimentation careers (Invited departmental talk)
Imperial College London

Sep 2021

Data management for high-throughput chemistry (Invited conference talk)
VISTA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Data Science-assisted Synthesis

Jul 2021

Sowing the seeds of discovery: Automated reaction optimization in agrochemistry (Invited conference talk)
University of Sydney

Jun 2021

High-throughput chemical reaction optimization (Invited conference talk)
European Robotics Forum

Apr 2021

Optimization of a mechanistically-complex Stille reaction for agrochemical SAR exploration (Invited conference talk)
American Chemical Society Fall Meeting

Apr 2021

Networking: Keeping science connected (Invited breakout room host)
Nottingham Celebrating Women in Chemistry

Mar 2021

Making HTE easier & more accessible to scientists (Invited panelist)
20/15 Visioneers

Feb 2021

Data, Digitalization & Artificial Intelligence (Invited workshop host)
SCI

Feb 2021

Careers in chemistry research at Syngenta (Invited conference talk)
e-YCN @ EuChemS Chemistry Congress

Aug 2020

Chemistry and automation (Invited symposium talk)
Oxford University Pharmacology Society Pharma R&D Symposium

Feb 2020

Twitter and freelancing for chemists (Invited guest lecture)
MoSMed CDT, Durham University

Jan 2020

Organic Chemistry – but Faster (Invited research seminar)
University of Kent, UK

Oct 2019

Freelancing for chemists (Invited conference talk)
ICIQ PhD Day, Tarragona, Spain

Jun 2019

Digital media for careers in chemistry (Invited conference talk)
Nottingham Women in Chemistry Conference, University of Nottingham, UK

Mar 2019

High-Throughput Reaction Optimization (Invited career talk)
RSC Careers & Networking Event, Burlington House, London, UK

Dec 2018

WHY make unnatural amino acids?
Out Thinkers, London, UK

Feb 2018

Cotton & Wilkinson Student Seminar Series
UIUC, IL, USA

Organized the seminar series and gave four of the talks on the chemistries of the transition metal elements.
Jun–Aug 2016

Law and Narcotics
Oxford University, UK

Oct 2011

Event organization

A list of events I've organized or helped to organize.
OUSS = Oxford University Scientific Society

Date	Speaker/Title

Mar 2022	UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2022
(RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges.
Sep 2021	RSC HSG 36th Postgraduate Symposium
Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations
Mar 2021	UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2021
(RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges.
Oct 2020	SCI Automated Intelligent Chemistry conference
(SCI YCP) Conference over two afternoons, to bring together experts from industry and academics/students alike, interested in developing or using automation within organic and medicinal chemistry
Sep 2020	RSC HSG 35th Postgraduate Symposium
Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations
Jul 2020	2020 Retrosynthesis Competition Winners' Showcase
Virtual webinar from SCI YCP and FCG
Jul 2020	SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Scott Bagley, Pfizer, and Richard Horan, GSK
"Pd-catalysed preparation of cyclic alkenylsulfonyl fluorides: a new motif for sulfur-fluoride exchange" "Control in process development: Evolution of the manufacturing route to vestipitant"
Jul 2020	SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Stephen Thomas, University of Edinburgh, & Iustina Slabu, Johnson Matthey
"Modern approaches to reduction reactions" "Biocatalysed nitro reductions and main group catalysis for hydroboration reactions"
Jun 2020	SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Kevin Lam, University of Greenwich
"Electrons, cations, and radicals: An electrifying journey"
Jun 2020	SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Lars Baerfacker, Bayer Pharmaceuticals
"Discovery of finerenone: An MR antagonist for the treatment of cardiorenal disease"
Jun 2020	SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Matthew Burns & Jean-Marc Henry, AstraZeneca
"AZD5718: Route design to manufacture"
May 2020	SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Dave Lathbury, Astute Chemical Design
"Early CMC studies in drug development, medicinal chemistry-chemical development interface"
May 2020	SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Liza Dunn, Bayer Crop Sciences
"Pesticides are critical for public health"
May 2020	SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Vicky Steadman, Eurofins
"Discovery of a potent and orally-bioavailable macrocyclic cyclophilin inhibitor"
Mar 2020	#RSCPoster Twitter conference
Global Twitter-based poster conference run by the RSCA
Dec 2019	26th SCI Annual Review Meeting
"Catalysis and Enabling Technologies for Synthesis"
Sep 2019	RSC HSG 34th Postgraduate Symposium
Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations & poster session, held at AstraZeneca Macclesfield
May 2019	RSC HSG: 24th Grasmere Heterocyclic Symposium
Five-day RSC organic chemistry conference with international plenary speakers
Feb 2019	Dr Suzie Sheehy, Oxford University	Particle physics
(OUSS) Particle accelerators: from curiosity-driven research to life-changing technology
Jan 2019	Dr Katherine Wheelhouse, GSK	Chemistry
(OUSS) Don’t process chemists just make things bigger?
Nov 2018	Prof Varinder Aggarwal, Bristol University	Chemistry
(OUSS) Organic synthesis in the 21st century, and why fish is always served with a slice of lemon
Nov 2018	Prof Brad Gibson, University of Hull	Astrophysics
(OUSS) The death of planet Earth
Nov 2018	Dr Elsa Sotiriadis, the Biofuturist	Biology
(OUSS) How biology became the next great software revolution
Nov 2018	Prof Chris Fairburn, Oxford NHS Trust	Psychiatry
(OUSS) Developing effective psychological treatments
Oct 2018	Prof Richard Barker, New Medicine Partners	Biomedical sciences
(OUSS) Bioscience: lost in translation?
Oct 2018	Prof J Doyne Farmer, Oxford University	Economics
(OUSS) Prediction in economics and elsewhere
Oct 2018	Richard Dinan, Applied Fusion Systems	Engineering
(OUSS) Will fusion reactors power space rockets?
May 2018	Dr Josh Mouland, Manchester University	Biology
(OUSS) How light affects our internal body clocks
May 2018	Prof Steve Goldup, University of Southampton	Chemistry
(OUSS) Nanoscale machinery: from molecular machines to molecular asymmetry
Apr 2018	Liz Parrish, BioViva Sciences	Gerontology
(OUSS) The woman who wants to genetically engineer you: gene and cell therapies to cure ageing
Mar 2018	Prof Anders Sandberg, Oxford University	Physics
(OUSS) Physical eschatology: what can we say about the far future?
Feb 2018	Libby Jackson, UK Space Agency	Engineering
(OUSS) Humans in space: what’s next?
Feb 2018	Prof Jane McKeating, Oxford University	Biology
(OUSS) Oxygen tension regulates hepatitis virus replication & pathology
Feb 2018	Dr Richard Smith, British Medical Journal	Science
(OUSS) The many defects in how we publish science
Feb 2018	TOAD distillery
(OUSS) Field trip
Jan 2018	Dr Claire Patterson, AstraZeneca	Biopharmaceutics
(OUSS) A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down?
Jan 2018	Dr Fabrizio Schifano, University of Hertfordshire	Chemistry
(OUSS) Recent changes in drug scenarios and cognitive enhancers
Nov 2017	Dr Colin Wright, Solipsys Ltd	Mathematics
(OUSS) Juggling: theory and practice
Oct 2017	Prof Terezinha Nunes, Oxford University	Psychology
(OUSS) Using mathematics to understand the world
Oct 2017	Prof Wade Allison, Oxford University	Physics
(OUSS) Trust, energy, and the environment – nuclear, please, 24/7!
2016	Cotton & Wilkinson student seminar series	Chemistry
A series of 18 talks over 9 evenings, on the chemistry of transition metal elements
May 2013	Dr Eric Werner, Oxford University	Biology
(OUSS) Cancer Networks
May 2013	Prof Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey	Zoology
(OUSS) Life in the frozen state
May 2013	Dr June McCombie MBE, Nottingham University	Science
Women's Lecture: Making the invisible visible
May 2013	Prof Joe Sweeney, University of Huddersfield	Chemistry
(OUSS) Big bad pharma
Apr 2013	Prof Chris Cooper, University of Essex	Biochemistry
(OUSS) The science behind drugs and doping in sport
Feb 2013	Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas, Cambridge University	Science
(OUSS) Unpredictability and change in science and technology
Feb 2013	Prof Gero Miesenböck, Oxford University	Neuroscience
(OUSS) Optogenetics in neuroscience
Feb 2013	Gary Taubes (author), Prof Philip James, World Obesity Federation, Prof Sir Richard Peto, Oxford University	Biology
(OUSS) Sloth, gluttony, or hormones? This house believes that hormones, not calories, make us fat (debate)
Feb 2013	Prof Rob Stockman, Nottingham University	Chemistry
(OUSS) From chemical weapons to chemotherapy
Feb 2013	Prof Hugh Hunt, Cambridge University	Mathematics
(OUSS) Boomerangs, bouncing balls, and spinning things
Jan 2013	Neuroskeptic (blogger)	Neuroscience
(OUSS) Getting the brain wrong
Jan 2013	Prof Steve Jones, UCL	Biology
(OUSS) The joy of sects: rewriting the Bible as a scientific textbook
Jan 2013	Jessica Richman, uBiome	Genetics
(OUSS) uBiome: Sequencing the human microbiome through citizen science
Nov 2012	Prof Sir David Baulcombe, Cambridge University	Genetics
(OUSS) The dark matter of genetics
Nov 2012	Dr Harry Witchel, Brighton & Sussex Medical School	Psychology
(OUSS) Reading the body language of engagement
Nov 2012	Dr Mark Oxborrow, National Physical Laboratory	Physics
(OUSS) Maser (microwave laser) at room temperature for the first time
Oct 2012	Lord Ronald Oxburgh, House of Lords	Technology
(OUSS) Energy for all – but from where?
Oct 2012	Mark Henderson, Wellcome Trust George Monbiot, The Guardian Tracy Brown, Sense About Science	Physics
(OUSS) The Geek Manifesto (panel discussion)
Oct 2012	Prof Ian Fleming, Cambridge University	Chemistry
(OUSS) Short cuts: anecdotes from a research career
Oct 2012	Prof Kieran Clarke, Oxford University	Biochemistry
(OUSS) A new fuel source for a human body
Jun 2012	Chemistry at the Garden	Chemistry
Oxford Botanic Garden: audio trail and scientific poster session
Jun 2012	Manchester Girl Geeks @ MOSI	Mathematics
Mathematical origami
Jun 2012	Manchester Girl Geeks @ Manchester Mela	Mathematics
Mathematical origami
May 2012	Prof David Nutt, Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs	Pharmacology
(OUSS) How the current drug laws hold back science
May 2012	Andrew Hanson, National Physical Laboratory	Physics
(OUSS) Confounding colour curiosities: the science of seeing colour
May 2012	Prof Marian Dawkins, Oxford University	Zoology
(OUSS) Optical flow, collective behaviour, and animal welfare
May 2012	Dr Alison Foster, Oxford University	Botany/chemistry
(OUSS) The botanic garden: your modern medicine cabinet
Apr 2012	Dr Aubrey de Grey, SENS Prof Colin Blakemore, Oxford University Prof Sir Richard Peto, Oxford University	Gerontology
(OUSS) This house wants to defeat ageing entirely (debate)
Mar 2012	Dr Mark Briffa, Plymouth University	Zoology
(OUSS) Personality – and a bit of aggression – in marine invertebrates
Mar 2012	Oxfordshire Science Festival
One-day festival
Feb 2012	Prof Kevin Warwick, Reading University	Robotics
(OUSS) Human enhancement: a user’s guide
Feb 2012	Dr Susan Ozanne, Cambridge University	Biology
(OUSS) You are what your mother ate: the developmental origins of Type 2 diabetes
Feb 2012	Prof Alison Smith, Cambridge University	Bioengineering
(OUSS) Algal biofuels: prospects for green (and brown and red) energy
Feb 2012	Dr Susanne Shultz, Oxford University	Zoology
(OUSS) Primate social evolution: new perspectives on an old question
Feb 2012	Dr Peter Wothers, Cambridge University	Chemistry
(OUSS) Gods, devils, and alcohol: their influence in chemical nomenclature
Jan 2012	Dr Michael de Podesta, National Physical Laboratory	Metrology
(OUSS) How do you really know what the temperature is?
Jan 2012	Prof Steve Jones, UCL	Biology
(OUSS) Incest and folk dancing: two things to avoid
Jan 2012	Oxford Climate Forum
Two-day conference
Nov 2011	Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford University	Astrophysics
(OUSS) Will the world end in 2012? The astronomical evidence
Nov 2011	Royal Institution Science Societies' Dinner
Cross-society dinner, with guests of honour Prof Sir Paul Nurse, Sir Roland Jackson, Prof Kevin Warwick, and Prince Edward
Nov 2011	Mark Lynas	Science
(OUSS) Why scientists should take over the world
Nov 2011	Rev Ron Lancaster, Kimbolton Fireworks	Chemistry
(OUSS) Fireworks: Principles and Practice
Oct 2011	Laurie Winkless, National Physical Laboratory	Physics
(OUSS) Energy harvesting: raiders of the lost amp
Oct 2011	Dr Chris Faulkes, QMUL	Zoology
(OUSS) Biodiversity and sociality in African mole rats: an evolutionary perspective
Oct 2011	Dr Andrew Pontzen, Oxford University	Physics
(OUSS) What is cold dark matter? And is it heating up?
Mar 2010	Oxfordshire Science Festival
One-day festival

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Conferences Attended

A list of conferences I've attended, and those I've registered for soon.
= invited speaker/chair
= organizer

Conference title	Date	Location

Gordon Research Conference: High-Throughput Chemistry & Chemical Biology	Jul 2023	New London, NH, USA
Gordon Research Seminar: High-Throughput Chemistry & Chemical Biology	Jul 2023	New London, NH, USA
American Chemical Society Spring Meeting	Mar 2023	Indianapolis, IN, USA
Automated Synthesis Forum	Nov 2022	Macclesfield, UK
Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Small Molecule Drug Discovery and Synthesis Symposium	Sep 2022	Toledo, Spain
Leverhulme Research Centre Biennial Symposium	Sep 2022	Liverpool, UK
ESMEC European School of Medicinal Chemistry	Jul 2022	Urbino, Italy
CompChemURG: Forging New Pathways	Jun 2022	Online
EWOC Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry 2022	Jun 2022	Online
High-Throughput Experimentation Summit	Jun 2022	Basel, Switzerland
Future Labs Live	Jun 2022	Basel, Switzerland
Pharmaceutical Mobile Robotics	Apr 2022	London, UK
UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2022	Mar 2022	Online
AI 4 Scientific Discovery Conference	Mar 2022	Southampton, UK
1st Cambridge AI in Drug Discovery Conference	Feb 2022	Online
Emerging Technologies in Organic Synthesis ETOC	Feb 2022	Online
Scientific Update: 7th Winter Process Chemistry Conference	Dec 2021	Leeds, UK
SCI Annual Review Meeting: Hot topics in organic chemistry	Dec 2021	London, UK
5th SCS-Syngenta Symposium 2021	Nov 2021	Online
FROST8 conference on flow chemistry	Nov 2021	Budapest, Hungary
Automated Synthesis Meeting	Nov 2021	Online
20/15 Visioneers: World's first cloud lab, HTE and lab automation oriented virtual conference	Oct 2021	Online
CatSci 10-year celebration: The Next Decade of Drug Development	Oct 2021	Online
RSC HSG Postgraduate Symposium	Oct 2021	Online
4th BMCS-CICAG Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry	Sep 2021	Online
Applied Catalysis Group & UK Catalysis Hub Meeting 2021	Sep 2021	Online
VISTA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Data-Science-Assisted Synthesis	Jul 2021	Online
Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry: EWOC2021	Jun 2021	Online
Scientific Update: Catalysis in the Fine Chemical Industry	Jun 2021	Online
European Robotics Forum	Apr 2021	Online
American Chemical Society Spring Meeting	Apr 2021	Online
UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2021	Mar 2021	Online
Organic Process Research & Development: Scientific Update	Dec 2020	Online
SCI Automated Intelligent Chemistry	Oct 2020	Online
RSC HSG Postgraduate Symposium	Sep 2020	Online
Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry: EWOC2020	Aug 2020	Online
Solvents & solvent selection in continuous manufacturing training course: Scientific Update	Jul 2020	Online
Flow chemistry & continuous processing: Scientific Update	May 2020	Online
Oxford University Pharmacology Society Pharma R&D Symposium	Feb 2020	Oxford, UK
Chemical development & scaleup in the fine chemical & pharmaceutical industries training course: Scientific Update	Jan 2020	Pfizer, UK
RSC HSG January Meeting 2020	Jan 2020	London, UK
SCI Annual Review Meeting 2019	Dec 2019	London, UK
UKASF 2019	Nov 2019	Glasgow, UK
New Synthetic Methods II	Oct 2019	London, UK
RSC HSG Postgraduate Symposium	Sep 2019	Macclesfield, UK
International Symposium on Synthesis in Organic Chemistry	Jul 2019	Cambridge, UK
ICIQ PhD Day	Jun 2019	Tarragona, Spain
Grasmere Symposium 2019	May 2019	Grasmere, UK
Nottingham Women in Chemistry	Mar 2019	Nottingham, UK
RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January meeting	Jan 2019	London, UK
SCI Annual Review Meeting	Dec 2018	London, UK
Challenges in Catalysis VI	Nov 2018	London, UK
Young Chemist in Industry	Nov 2018	Stevenage, UK
BOSS XVI	Jul 2018	Brussels, Belgium
Oxford Synthesis Summer Conference	Jun 2018	Oxford, UK
RSC-CICAG Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry	Jun 2018	London, UK
Bristol Synthesis Meeting	Apr 2018	Bristol, UK
Dial-A-Molecule: Predicting Reaction Outcomes	Mar 2018	Cambridge, UK
RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January meeting	Jan 2018	London, UK
SCI Annual Review Meeting	Dec 2017	London, UK
Dial-A-Molecule: Exploring 3D Space	Nov 2017	York, UK
International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry	Jul 2017	Oxford, UK
Technology Ventures Conference: Impact of AI	Jun 2017	Cambridge, UK
OrgSyn 50	Feb 2017	Manchester, UK
UIUC Allerton Conference	Nov 2016	Champaign, IL, USA
UIUC Allerton Conference	Nov 2015	Champaign, IL, USA
ACS National Meeting	Aug 2015	Boston, MA, USA
International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry	Jul 2015	Cambridge, UK
Page Lectures	Jul 2015	Huddersfield, UK
OMCOS 18	Jun 2015	Sitges, Spain
RSC North West Organic Division Meeting	May 2015	Liverpool, UK
UIUC Allerton Conference	Nov 2014	Champaign, IL, USA
UIUC Allerton Conference	Nov 2013	Champaign, IL, USA
ACS National Meeting	Sep 2013	Indianapolis, IN, USA
Bristol Synthesis Meeting	Apr 2013	Bristol, UK
ASE Annual Conference	Jan 2012	Liverpool, UK