| Sunday 22 December 2024 | |
| Events for day: Wednesday 28 August 2024 |
| 09:00 - 10:30 Weekly Seminar Early detection of diseases using rare molecular markers in liquid biopsy School BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Diagnostic tests that utilize molecular biomarkers in the blood have wide-spread clinical applications. However, early detection of cancer and other devastating diseases is challenging due to the requirement of accurate methods for distinguishing rare molecules carrying disease signals in the background of nondisease associated molecules. Next generation sequencing (NGS) combined with mathematical modelingbased data analysis have proven promising for high accuracy and high throughput diagnostics. Here, I give an overview of the state-of-the-art computational methods that integrate genetic and epigenetic NGS data to extract meaningful signal ... 11:00 - 12:00 Wednesday Weekly Seminar - Virtual Format Solar neutrinos and leptonic spin forces School PARTICLES AND ACCELERATORS Abstract: In this talk, I quantify the effects of light spin-zero particles with pseudoscalar couplings to leptons and scalar couplings to nucleons on the evolution of solar neutrinos. I show in this scenario the matter potential sourced by the nucleons in the Sun’s matter gives rise to spin precession of the relativistic neutrino ensemble. For Dirac neutrinos, the spin-flavour precession results in active-sterile oscillations, while for Majorana neutrinos it results in left-handed neutrino to right-handed antineutrino oscillations. In both cases, this leads to distortions in the solar neutrino spectrum which we use to derive c ... |