The eSSENCE call for proposals directed at associate senior lecturers in the autumn of 2022 resulted in six projects (out of 15 proposals) formally starting 1 January 2023. These new projects were presented in a series of two sessions held online over Zoom. The programme for the first session, on 24 March 2023, was:

• 10.15 Melvyn Davies: Introduction
• 10.15-10.45 Filip Szczepankiewicz: Establishing the link between prostate cancer microstructure and MRI (PDF, 2.7 MB, new tab)
• 10.45-11.15 Anna Gerdtsson: Integrative tools for spatial and multi-omics data (PDF, 4.0 MB, new tab)
• 11.15-11.45 Øystein Opedal: Pollination eScience: Extending latent-variable modelling of plant-pollinator interactions (PDF, 3.8 MB, new tab)
• 11.45-12.00 Mingle